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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hey if any of you work on phone alarm clocks, i have exactly one feature request
if i set a one-time alarm, ie i did not actively schedule it to repeat and it will not repeat, give me the option to have it auto-delete so i dont have to clean them all up every few weeks
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Hello! ✨🎲✨
I'm new to handmade.social and I'm a dicemaker, here are some dice I've made in the past:
Time for my periodic question: is anyone working yet on a serious, long-term Qt integration for Node.js? In other words, something that doesn't get abandoned in 6 months because the maintainer lost interest?
(For the amount of complaining by developers about Electron, there sure seem to be very few people willing to do literally anything to provide an alternative option in the JS ecosystem...)
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some opinions about academic conferences:
- i think talking to each other in person is good and important.
- the ideal of the "inclusive international conference" doesn't exist. one can only make intentional decisions about what kinds of inclusion to prioritize.
- it's a problem that junior folks are expected to attend big international conferences regularly in order to advance their careers, especially when their circumstances are by default *not* prioritized as inclusivity criteria
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The problem with democracy is that beyond voting the only approved citizen actions are the two things I dread the most: phone calls and emails
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If I post a blog URL to Mastodon, it immediately gets hits from hundreds or thousands of Mastodon servers worldwide.
You know what doesn't get hits? robots.txt .
That seems like an oversight.
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@mjd perhaps we need a modern variant of the trn warning before you hit Post
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Was thinking this morning about LGBT folks who made a real impact - ones who inspire people. Immediately came to mind people like Alan Turing and Wendy Carlos - but I know there are many, many more.
Who inspires you? 
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Kacey
uspol and pets
Can you imagine taking a photo of your dog, it becoming famous worldwide, then an overused meme, then a joke cryptocoin, then a pump and dump scheme, then sadly your dog passes away just before it becomes the face of a fascist arm of government
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@KFvMalssen absoluut! Daarom zijn we ook op zoek naar actieve (!) mensen om te volgen. De mensen die we al gevonden hadden, blijken hier nauwelijks nog actief helaas. Terwijl mastodon een waardevolle bron van informatie kan worden voor ons. @EdwinvMeerkerk @amberwalraven @redegelde @fonolog @SharonnekeU @teacher_rick @thebandb
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Given the bad weather,
if some of you want to avoid US based internet services, a developer from Vienna has just issued a list of usable such services (web search, mail, web servers, cloud services, etc...) :
https://european-alternatives.eu/
(Thanks @clemlatz for correcting me)
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Hiep hiep hoera!
De Nationale Bibliotheek is van Xwitter!
Vanaf nu ook Mastodon!
Geef ze een warm welkom aub
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being poly is a superpower because you literally can make a badass heist crew out of your love interests
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I want to see more statements like this from open-source project leaders, please.
It doesn’t go without saying, not today.
https://hachyderm.io/@mattdm/113936362658944850
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Since the sourcing of this fantastic 1979 IBM training slide is buried in various Twitter threads (and linking to Twitter sucks now because logged out users can't navigate conversations) I put together some notes on its origin: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a-computer-can-never-be-held-accountable/
Someone built an accurate scale model of Lumbridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4mXwpN-890&list=PL4yFqbssun3svPK_ZVhdvWhaAZQT9QjRm
politics, personal PSA (2)
(If you do not engage with US politics at all, then that is fine too of course. But then you're also not going to align with Trump or Musk so it becomes a moot point.)
politics, personal PSA
Just a personal heads-up for everyone I interact with: we've reached a point where if I see you in *any* way aligning with Trump or Musk, you are immediately going on my mental 'fascist' list with no further discussion and I will not speak to you anymore.
I don't care if you "didn't know how bad it is". The time for learning that is well past, so if you still "don't know", then I'm going to conclude that you didn't *want* to know and decide accordingly.
- 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
