Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
Firefox Inspector's Accessibility tab is showing me 0 issues on my page design and now I can't tell whether the issue detector is broken or I just somehow got all of it right on the first try 
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this is a 
De Lijn appreciation post
✅ good tracking, with app that actually works
✅ nicely designed bus stop flags
✅ cool bluetooth feature to find the bus you're on
✅ contactless payment, with >1 person per card even
✅ timetable sensibly connects to mainline trains
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public health idea: increase vaccination rates by referring to new seasonal vaccines as "limited edition drops"
If you want a practical example, here's one: a lot of edge cases are simply not supported in "digitalized" versions of government processes, because it would be prohibitively expensive to develop support for those few edge cases; things that could previously be handled on a case-by-case basis by a government employee just fine. And now they just can't, because the 'offline' infrastructure is no longer there.
Every once in a while I am reminded of how fucked it is that we're almost forcibly moving all social and bureaucratic processes 'online', without ever recognizing that all those things that "nobody wants to host" and "nobody wants to be responsible for" are now just outright impossible, even though they were widespread and perfectly fine things to do 'offline' before.
(This may sound like it's referencing a specific thing but it's not - there are *so many* things that this applies to)
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I think more applications should have the search menu that blender has. It's so good. If you can't remember where something is in the menu tree you just hit f3 (or space... depends on your bindings) and then type what you want to do. It's amazing.
(All of these are obviously subject to change as culture and expectations change, they're just the best summary that I can give of my current approach)
My protest photo boosting policy, broadly:
- I will not boost photos that do not include descriptive text in either alt text, post body, or somewhere in the replies.
- I will not generally boost protest photos without CW; I sometimes make a case-by-base exception when the focus of the post is clearly on the solidarity and coming together, and not the world's misery.
- For photos that show faces, I will try to make a best guess on their context and consequences to decide whether to boost them. Depends on where they come from, pose, topic, and some other things.
- I am slightly (but only slightly) more lenient for photos from Dutch protests, as current protest and photography culture here are different.
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Vandaag was er een sit-in protest op Nijmegen CS. Om iedereen eraan te herinneren dat de bezetting en onderdrukking van het Palestina al vele decennia duurt. En niet pas begon op 7 oktober. Foto-impressie in de post.
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Okay, after reading this email, I can shut down my computer and change jobs:
'Dear colleague, the fact that our software does not function after 24 hours is perfectly expected. It depends on many dependencies, and we do not have complete control over all of them. For this reason, we suggest, as a standard practice, a service restart every 12 hours. This will ensure everything functions correctly.
And as a general recommendation, we always suggest restarting all services (if you are using Docker) or the entire server (if you are using a traditional setup) every 3 days, as systems tend to get bogged down over time and need to be optimized.'
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CW-boost: description of psychological domestic abuse, reference to other types
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really it's less that i "believe in open source" and more that, like open, not-paywalled access to scientific knowledge, i find the alternative kinda unconscionable
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Every time someone on fedi explains that lots of small instances "just doesn't scale" I smile and go "GOOD 
" in my head.
Is it a cool feature of fedi if it's expensive to have thousands and thousands of followers? Yep
Are there scaling problems for normal people who interact with a normal amount of people? Nope
Should we care? Nah
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A comment I made to a friend about the value of learning to use nonproprietary tools:
"Having a box I'm told not to open makes me uneasy. I'd rather learn than worry."
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ranting, 'frontend', web development
And to make this explicit, though I suspect it'd be implicitly understood by most: that means I want to learn more new things from women, non-binary creatures, Black folks, disabled folks, plural collectives, and so on, and so forth, everybody who tends to get drowned out of the Tech Discourse(tm).
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ranting, 'frontend', web development
When I was younger, I used to enjoy reading articles about web development. About new CSS or browser features, novel ways of solving issues, browser compatibility things, and so on. Most of the sites and blogs with these articles were maintained by enthusiasts. There was so much cool stuff to discover and learn!
Now the whole "frontend" (what happened to "web development"? Not everything is a damn app) world has been taken over by fancy VC-funded startups so hard that you almost can't read an article about anything "frontend" without it trying to goad you into some proprietary service or "pattern" that's tailored around a specific company's offerings - and I can't even link most resources to others without implicitly advertising some tech company with a higher body count than some governments.
And if you manage to avoid *those*, you then end up on the Deep Philosophical Thoughts of Very Smart Men who have never in their lives looked at anything from the perspective of anyone besides themselves. And they probably are working for those *same fucking companies*, too.
This fucking sucks. I want to learn new things from other folks with nothing up their sleeves again. From enthusiasts who tinker and discover. Who might have a different perspective. And who actually enjoy the process.
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Yeah uh I don't think I'll be buying a Yubikey again, if this is the grade of support to expect, what the fuck
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Man, the Yubikey software is some absolute hot garbage.
"Oh yeah to scan QR codes under Wayland you need to have gnome-screenshot installed [which doesn't work on anything other than GNOME] [because we couldn't be bothered to implement the screen capture protocol correctly]"
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
