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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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We're slowly working on an NETV special report about digital reputation management in politics and law enforcement.
Do you have any examples of a police force or politician holding a strange press conference, making an arrest, giving a press release, or generally behaving oddly in a way that might have been designed to burry another story?
Borris Johnson made the news a few years ago for ranting about model busses. Many news outfits dutifully ran the Borris Johnson crazy model bus man story, effectively temporarily burring the story about his brexit busses, which had transformed from politically expedient to politically harmful.
But this kind of thing happens all the time! SEO hacks and reputation management are a huge industry, and its easy to make a big important thing disappear behind a small insignificant thing if you understand a bit about the algorithms and about human psychology.
But, by its very nature, this is a difficult phenomenon to track, so I'm looking for crowd sourced examples.
mozilla meta, subtoot
"This is the wrong reason to get mad at Mozilla for"
Okay so like, what are you proposing? That people can only get angry with an increasingly shitty organization for the one exact reason you personally think is the important one?
That you would prefer "Mozilla can do whatever the fuck they want with no consequences" over "people getting mad at them for a suboptimal reason"? Because that's the practical outcome of that.
Like, what outcome are you hoping for here? How do you believe that criticizing people's specific reasons is going to contribute to positive change?
Also it's carnaval so there's zero chance of getting any kind of help from the library right now 🙃 The whole city is currently nonfunctional
There are three different organizations (local library, national library, OCLC) involved in this registration flow and I have no idea which of them did the oopsie
So I finally got around to getting a library card for the local library
... or so I thought, but it turns out that their entire online registration thing is just... broken? Most of the links point to the wrong URL and the one correct one redirects me to a "Forbidden" page with no further information
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cis people tell me it's weird behavior to want to make a queer/ally focused guild for a game or something, but then act confused when i leave theirs because it's full of people lamenting all "these purple haired game developers ruining the industry" 
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I’m Dutch and I cannot live without Hema. But how can you explain Hema to people not used to it. “Yeah, I buy soup and bed linen and nail polish and bicycle bells and underwear from the same brand in the same store” 😅
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Note to self: having test tickets open on your phone when the conductor comes round to scan tickets results in many questions if they scan a ticket you didn’t intend to show them
world politics
This seems like it would be a good moment for a global demilitarization campaign to take off, before we automatically get the exact opposite
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Help wanted!
Have you worked with the glitch-soc frontend code before? Do you want to do it again, because you just love fiddling with JS + React + Redux projects? Do you also like GoToSocial?
Well, good news for you then! The GtS fork of the Iceshrimp fork of the Glitch-Soc fork of the Mastodon frontend (which is deployed here: https://masto-fe.superseriousbusiness.org) needs people to help add GtS-specific features, and adapt existing glitch-soc frontend features to work with the GtS API.
There's three issues open right now that need some attention:
Only 4 pictures displayed per post -- Since GtS by default has a limit of being able to upload 6 attachments (and this limit is tweakable in the settings file), it would be very useful if the client could display more than 4 attachments!
Local-only statuses not actually local -- Glitch-soc indicates local only posts by appending an eye emoji to the post. But GtS has a specific local_only boolean that can be set to true when submitting statuses. So to make local-only posts submittable via the client, it needs to be tweaked to use the boolean rather than the eyeball (what a sentence).
Nicer index.html page, with cute styling + link to source code -- Currently the landing page of the frontend is just a super barebones HTML page, it would be lovely if this was a bit nicer and more welcoming, and had links to the source etc.
Interested in volunteering? For no money?? For some reason??? You can just comment on one of the issues that you're gonna work on it, and get poking. Then everyone who uses the masto-fe can enjoy the fruits of your labors (including me, I use it every day). That's it :) Thanks for reading!
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One of my friends forgot what Protogen were called at the pub the other day so now they're "Beep Boop Foxes"
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@joepie91 interesting to hear about that focus on local tradition, someone I know brought up how the local tradition for them was to all wear a special farming overall as a costume, not 'slutty maid' 'banana in HiViz' 'off-brand superhero' etc. and how this is still a major generational divide. As for indoor ticketed events, who would have thought capitalism tries to monetize tradition and religion? (Looking at 'Easter' chocolates that have been in the supermarket since the week after Christmas.
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skyscrapers at sunset (Kodak Vision3 500T @ ISO 320 + 85B filter)
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clock tower (Kodak Vision3 500T (second image @ ISO 320 with a 85B filter))
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train at brussels noord! (Kodak Vision3 500T @ ISO 320 + 85B filter)
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We often look at international borders to discuss cultural differences, but seeing a bunch of young folks in brightly coloured costumes, making a ruckus and getting drunk on the train reminds me of the cultural divide between North and South in the Netherlands. A divide between Protestant and Catholic, a divide that hasn't been a national border for more than 400 years, but that is still visible during Carnival, a tradition I did not grow up with, but people 25km away did.
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- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
