Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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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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Disentangling colonial thought patterns, whiteness is a death cult (reading links on extinction, genocide, colonialism)
When you wish extinction on *everyone*, you're wishing violence on the people we forced to be complicit in our sins; through slavery, through colonialism, through domination and subjugation, through abusively wielding global power.
The human race is not the problem. White people and white supremacy are the problem.
I find it slightly ironic that I found out that my suspicion of robots.txt matching in my crawler being broken was correct, by noticing it trying to crawl a Twitter page, a site which famously disallows any and all robots.
Time to fix that I suppose, and figure out why on earth it's not working...
bitwarden, enshittification, etc., personal frustration (2)
So like, consider this your early warning for Tailscale and all the other currently-hip "open-source-friendly" things that are rapidly buying goodwill with neat technical blogposts. We'll see where they are in a year or five.
(And this one isn't exactly an 'early' warning anymore, but Microsoft "embracing open-source" is absolutely one of these as well.)
bitwarden, enshittification, etc., personal frustration
And once again, a "FOSS" thing that people *assured* me was legitimate FOSS when I refused to use it because of its commercial VC-y setup... is starting to lock down their project after increased VC funding.
How many times does this need to happen before people stop trying to argue about this shit with me and just accept that there is a very good reason I will not touch anything that looks VC-y, no matter how "we're FOSS, honest, promise" it claims to be?
When will people learn that corporate FOSS with an unclear business model *will* end up backstabbing them, and it's just a matter of 'when', not a matter of 'if'?
"But this one is different!" No it's fucking not, and I fucking *told* you that this would happen and why, but you didn't want to listen did you?
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#AskFedi: What would the most sensible way to implement robots.txt for a search engine project? The intended behaviour is to be reasonably conservative; ideally it should tolerate some weirdness in the robots.txt and default to "do not crawl" in cases of doubt as to the author's intention, but still have good coverage of sites that clearly did not intend to block crawlers (and default to "crawl" if there is no robots.txt or equivalent at all).
(Asking because there's not one robots.txt standard, and perhaps people here have preferences on what variant is the best choice to support here)
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Ik probeer mijn leerlingen steeds weer bij te brengen dat ze altijd kritisch moeten blijven nadenken en volledig zelfstandig moeten durven zijn, maar vervelend genoeg is er dan altijd wel ééntje die daar niet zomaar in mee wil gaan. 🙄
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The ADHD experience of coming back in the morning to one's browser with a couple hundred open tabs: "did I already read this article, or did I just skim it and leave it for later?" 😓
health, positive, transplantation
Sodium levels have recovered to healthy levels, potassium levels are decreasing to healthy range (will arrive at healthy range in about 3 days at current diet). Provisional approval for transplantation from local kidney doctor!
Still needs to be confirmed by transplantation hospital but everything seems good 🙂
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a payments acquirer has named their system the CCC and this is causing A Number of brain glitches as I try to work out what the chaos computer club is doing building financial systems
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work, weird society rules
neurotypical adults be like:
be serious at work! follow the dress code! no silly, just work!
also neurotypical adults:
let's build up a team by engaging in childlike activities! you are now forced to enjoy this!
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Is there any Static Site Generator which will make pages based on SQL queries? I have a database with 70k rows, and I want to make a webpage for each one?
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I've been thinking a lot about what a friend pointed out - that mixed gendered spaces often quickly become male-exclusive because men tend to have much higher tolerance for arsehole behaviour than women, so it only takes one dodgy person to destroy a community as all the women basically leave. Once such a community has heavy male bias it can hardly recover, and its lack of representation means it can hardly succeed in any social, cultural or technical aims. Rings true for the extraordinarily bad gender balance in free/open source software in the context of the Stallman report.
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Weird programmer thing I've noticed: as the years go by I find myself more and more likely to create an infinite loop and use break to exit it than to use the conditional part of a while (or do while) loop
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Perhaps the most insidious crime of capitalism is that it has deprived generations of their ability to dream in public; a horde of pencil-pushing busybodies perpetually waiting in the shadows to tell you that "that would never work"
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@joepie91 Look like they are hacking what's left of XulRunner out of Firefox.
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/main/app/build.sh is `interesting`
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/main/app/build.sh is `interesting`
me: Hmm, Zotero is apparently written in JS, but it doesn't seem to be Electron. I wonder what runtime it uses 🤔
"Zotero is built on Firefox"
I'm sorry, it what
venting, XMPP
Reading the XMPP RFC and being very quickly reminded why I don't like implementing this thing (the fucking streaming XML parsing required)
I'm sure nobody cloned it in the several weeks it was up
- 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
