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.
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- 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
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Damn, so many links are going to break when .io is gone.
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school, intergenerational bullshit, counter
“Well, i never! What /are/ they teaching the youths in school these days?”
Um, the same things they've always taught in school—the only things they've /ever/ taught in school? Obedience, deference to authority, yielding to social hierarchy, and accepting overwork without complaint?
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@joepie91 i hope that at least the "cool" overpriced TLD that the UK leeched off of will die
or that at very least it will be more widely known why it was a problem
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o, .io cTLD will go fuck itself
good 
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how to focus a dog's digging inclination into snow removal
health, body
It's moments like these that are just so baffling I can only really respond with amusement; I do way too little exercise, and I'm suffering from kidney failure and am a few weeks away from a transplantation; and due to some mysterious property of my body that nobody's been able to figure out yet, I just... accidentally bent a fork. What. 😂
food mention
Okay I know that I have a lot of physical strength, but "accidentally bending a fork while trying to eat a pancake" wasn't *quite* on my bingo card either...
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not to be a leftist on main but the entire concept of immigration is one firmly rooted in the unbelievably fascistic idea that the state has a right to determine its racial composition
some plans for accessibility testing
For a social media project I'm working on (no, not another Twitter clone, don't worry), I have some improved accessibility testing plans, on top of the 'obvious' (Firefox accessibility issue tester, WAVE evaluation):
1. Enable Firefox devtools' color-blind mode during normal usage of the site myself; switching between different simulation modes every few days or so. Then see if anything annoys me.
2. Do the same thing but with JS disabled. See if everything keeps working as expected (some things may not work because they actually cannot be made to work without JS, like real-time chat things).
3. Probably eventually doing the same thing but with a screenreader. This is a bigger endeavour due to my own auditory processing issues and the somewhat flaky state of screenreaders on Linux, so I may not *actually* be able to do this one myself.
If you have other ideas or feedback, feel free to suggest them! Support for mobile (or more accurately, small-screen) devices is out of scope to begin with, but that will change over time and I *am* doing my best not to paint myself into a corner on that.
Heads-up: I see quite a few folks complaining that the latest #Mastodon update significantly worsens readability and/or contrast. Please consider and test carefully before choosing to upgrade!
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Pour le festin du dragon, j'ai voulu évoquer les points rouges que l'on retrouve souvent sur les enluminures qui servent à décorer. J'ai donc tout brodé au fil vert foncé sauf les petites croix rouges. Le résultat est plus diffus et inquiétant
2/4
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🎵 This is a poor game with a great soundtrack
I'm 48 hours in
I'll never get that time back 🎶
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– Kuwasi Balagoon, anarchist, member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, and proud bisexual.
Great, I had a phone appointment but for some reason my phone never rang even though I did get called??? So now I need to schedule in *another* fucking appointment. Another day gone.
Why does nothing ever just work
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I dislike the increasing prevalence of automatic AI transcription tools.
They all have really shitty privacy policies, and force you to either consent to shipping off your voice for use doing whatever, or not being able to do your job by not joining meetings if anyone wants to use them (bc the general attitude towards this stuff means that nobody cares about consent or privacy).
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I hate discord so much, it’s an user-hostile for-profit company, with terrible software, which can ban you for any or no reason, and there’s nothing you can do about it. It’s like building entire communities on top of an active volcano. But the volcano isn’t just indifferent, it is sucking your blood AND hates you.
"AI"
One might almost think that the Stack Overflow people are a little bit obsessed with "AI"
Kwam deze tegen in het Duits: https://todon.nl/@anarchiv/113271300327034109
Vertaling: "Ik ben van mening dat men in het Duits de term 'werkgever' zou moeten vermijden, omdat het een ideologisch gekleurde term is die de indruk wekt dat de 'werkgever' zo aardig is om de 'werknemer' (dat heet een arbeider, verdomme) een baan aan te bieden, en daarmee geheel voorbij gaat aan de uitbuiting en dwang die aan het kapitalisme ten grondslag liggen.
Tegenvoorstel: 'arbeidskoper', afkomstig uit het taalgebruik van de Zweedse arbeidersbeweging (Duits: 'Arbeitskäufer', Zweeds: 'arbedsköpare')."
Prima punt eigenlijk, en ook van toepassing op het Nederlands.
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Bin der Meinung, dass man im Deutschen den Begriff "Arbeitgeber" umgehen sollte, da er ideologisch gefärbt ist und den Eindruck erweckt, der "Arbeitgeber" sei so gnädig, dem "Arbeitnehmer" (das heißt Arbeiter, verdammt) einen Arbeitsplatz zu gewähren, und damit die Ausbeutung und den Zwang, die kennzeichnend für das kapitalistische System sind, einfach ausblendet.
Gegenvorschlag: "Arbeitskäufer", entlehnt aus dem Sprachgebrauch der schwedischen Arbeiterbewegung (SV: arbedsköpare)
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LB (https://piaille.fr/@TofuTheSquirrel/113270480573673799)
> Things not working is becoming the new normal for a lot of people.
I think that's it. It's the logical terminus of the last 30 years of computing, with everything getting worse all the time, and setting expectations lower and lower.
The technology doesn't work, doesn't do anything useful, but MS spent $6B to acquire it (and untold billions more to feed it) so by gawd it's going into everything and people are going to accept it until there is no alternative
- 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
