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
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Here is a fun piece of computing history I just became aware of: in 2007 the Bush administration changed when DST started, and because Exchange stored event times converted to UTC Microsoft had to release an "Exchange Calendar Update Tool" to help try and fix everyone's calendars https://web.archive.org/web/20070302224145/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930879
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Hello World :)
I am pleased to present you a small project that I have been working on these last weeks:
MARL (Mastodon Archive Reader Lite) is a small web app that allows you to explore in detail the content of your Mastodon posts archive, including attached files (images, videos, sounds), and with different search options.
🙏 Boosts welcome! 🙏
(More info in the post below 👇)
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Het geinige is dat ik hierachter kwam toen ik een paar jaar geleden echt ziek werd. En twee jaar geleden werd ik zomaar geconfronteerd met het verzoek van een videomeeting via Google Meet, die ik geweigerd heb. Ze zochten het maar uit. Dat konden ze niet (alles 'in Google') dus ik heb wat dingen voorgesteld, en die gebruikt. De gemakzucht waarmee voor Google wordt gekozen is verbijsterend en de beslissingen worden vaak door iemand genomen die er zelf geen verstand van heeft. Helaas.
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… have to route your traffic through a black box (which now gets deep insights into the users of your service, can block traffic according to their priorities or darker interests) then something breaks in me. This is not the internet of people. This feels more like mafia. „You don’t want your service to burn down in a fire of traffic, do you? We have an offer you cannot refuse!“ (2/3)
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So @Codeberg suffered from high traffic [1], bringing the site almost down. They managed to fix it by blocking access to one repo that attracted all this traffic for reasons (as of now) unknown to us.
What worries me are the comments under their post pointing at various proprietary, commercial services like Cloudflare, Amazon as the obvious way to mitigate. If we really are at the stage where the internet is so broken that you … (1/3)
Today I am learning WebRTC
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I have determined that the object in the "risk of explosion" safety symbol does not obey conservation of area.
I will not be taking questions at this time.
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Hey! Do you have a story about being kicked out of somewhere for doing something rad? Class? Store? Workplace? Abandoned warehouse? Not-abandoned warehouse? I wanna hear it!
I'm making a zine (working title "You're Outta Here!") with short true stories of getting kicked out, and this is an invitation for you to submit. Stories should be 150-350 words and the tentative deadline is December 31. I'll mail a copy to everyone who submits and also make the zine available in print and pdf.
Read the full guidelines and find the submission form here: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/b2JUBZxxdFy9Cp+aj3WxoxR96Dek5BHTtYNHP4IlHbo/
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θΔ ⋐ & ∞
someone had written a piece of css that allowed mobile users to see html <abbr> elements. does anyone know where it is? i saved it but can't find it
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#fluConf2025 now has a very basic, work-in-progress website:
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A grumpy old couple showed up seconds before departure in Arnhem, so I decided I hadn’t seen Ede’s new station yet.
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things that will never stop amazing me
other places: oh yeah to watch pirated movies we need to torrent them, use some weird niche websites that will give us 5 different types of malware, etc
Poland: just watch full movies on YouTube mate
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this is not an isolated case either lol
there are many instances of movies and shows you can watch in full on YouTube as long as it's a PL dub version that's been up for months and years, have hundreds of thousands of views etc
i don't know if it's the YT copyright infringement detection algorithm choking on PL content (very doubt it) or if publishers in Poland don't give a fuck
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https://hyfin.org/2024/11/29/could-blacksky-emerge-as-black-twitters-spiritual-successor-on-bluesky/
Good overview of the man behind Blacksky and what he believes and how he's building. Really cool stuff, but I kept having the same thought when reading this article: "This should have been the fediverse."
Too bad.
Edit: if you're going to respond to my post and talk about how Bluesky is centralized and the users will eventually have to leave, please make sure you actually read the article. There is an entire section at the end that explicitly discusses how to escape the cycle of venture capitalist funding and goals of community portability between different platforms. If another SmartGuy tries to explain decentralization to me, someone who runs multiple servers, I'm gonna crash out
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Home care workers unionize, immediately negotiate a $3/hour raise
software development, not venting this time
In a healthier world this problem might be sidestepped by having mutual recommendations from trusted peers, but due to the sheer amount of capital involved in software, that mechanism is completely broken in our world
software development, not venting this time
I feel like almost the entire problem of framework churn and technical debt can be understood by a single explanation: framework design is closer to language design than it is to programming, and just like it's hard to design a good language without experience with the process involved, it's also hard to recognize whether someone else (a framework author) has done a good job if you don't have the skill yourself.
And so most frameworks are designed like software projects rather than language projects, do not work well as a result, and most users would not recognize this until it's too late because they're not used to the abstract modelling process that's needed to spot it early
government bullshit
Was just reading the court press release for the prosecution of the Tornado Cash developer, and aside from how I feel about Tornado Cash itself, the framing in that press release is infuriating; instead of focusing on actual harms done, it mentions them almost as a sidenote, and instead goes hard om emphasizing how the "serious lack of mechanisms for identification and prosecution" (so you know, anonymity) is the real problem and how that makes it a tool for criminals.
Once again, a government seems more concerned with its own unquestionable power than with the actual harms done to people.
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It has just come to my attention that there is only one developer of Friendica. It's a truly wonderful site, with a lot of potential, particularly for those of us coming from Facebook. It allows for extremely long posts, local posting, and you can follow and interact with people from various sites in the Fediverse. But there are a few issues regarding screen reader accessibility, and perhaps some things that I'm not aware of. I have therefore decided to create a Friendica development tag, in order to find people who are willing and able to help resolve these issues.
#accessibility #accessibilitytesting #Android #blind #blindness #Facebook #Fediverse #Friendica #FriendicaDevelopment #html #NVDA #screenreaders #Talkback #websites #Windows
- 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
