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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- 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
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Seems to suggest a disconnect between the dev team and the user community, but what do I know?
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It's amusing how, after each Masto update, my feed turns into a chorus of "suck it, website boy!" as admins sort out how to override and undo this version's nasty UX surprises and questionable choices.
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in this essay, i won't
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fediverse CW field curb cut effect
yes, you can use the CW tool to give content warnings for material that requires content warnings, like news stories about ongoing atrocities or unsolicited suggestions to strangers
...but now that the technology exists, you can also use it for literally any information you want to offer to contextualize the post for those reading it
we love using the CW field to say when we're novice-blogging (talking about something we're not very knowledgeable about), as a kind of tone-indicator thing when we're posting brain nonsense, when we just feel self-conscious about taking up space ... it's handy
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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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Companies that let you do everything from their web site *except* unsubscribe, and then take several days to respond to the unsubscribe request can get in the bin 🚮
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I'm taking bets for the next 20 seconds as to whether this ~ 16 years old blank CD will burn without errors.
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today's insignificant pet peeve: companies should quit marketing their organizer solutions as "stackable" when they're only stackable if they don't have stuff in them. that defeats the entire purpose. i want to use my fuckin vertical space
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in romulan culture, it is customary for websites to include a false frontend that doesn’t actually work
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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.
- 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
