Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @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
"We need to provide a better FOSS alternative to <corporate service> to make software free" is exactly the kind of individualist, 'free market' thinking that got us proprietary tech monopolists in the first place. You're not going to beat them on their game.
Instead, try thinking not just about what you can provide that the big tech vendors cannot, but more importantly about what needs to change politically.
Maybe "improving efficiency" shouldn't be the goal, and instead it should be "caring less about efficiency and more about social sustainability", for example.
fragment of history, google wave
"On August 4, 2010, Google announced the suspension of stand-alone Wave development and the intent of maintaining the web site at least for the remainder of the year; on November 22, 2011, they announced that existing Waves would become read-only in January 2012, and all Waves would be deleted in April 2012. Development was handed over to the Apache Software Foundation which started to develop a server-based product called Wave in a Box. Apache Wave never reached a full release and was discontinued on January 15, 2018."
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I want a laptop-sized mono dot-matrix lcd display, is there such a thing?
You know like the ones on nokia phones but bigger.
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Every day I'm a little more glad I got out of the tech industry and into doing things with technology, rather than technology for it's own sake.
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
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I don't work "in tech"! I work in television broadcasting and production. I work in toy making. I work in publishing.
I use technology to do those things. I write some code. I operate lasers and 3d printers and other 3d printers and 3d scanners. I run infrastructure and build websites and generally Make Things with technology.
I work with tech.
I'm so grateful I no longer work In Tech.
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@joepie91 Oooof, yes that hurts.
I'm usually not sensitive to these things. But with that effect applied to soo much of the text it feels like my eyes aren't focusing on my monitor even though I know they are.
And then there's the rest. Very little actual normal text, insane font sizes for the headings Lots of visual stuff, but none that actually applies to the content.
What a mess.
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I doubt Ed Hawkins of the University of Reading meant the climate stripes to be a #knitting pattern, but it is totally feasible to use them as such.
Just choose the nearest city on their website (https://showyourstripes.info/c) and extend the lines of the vertical axis, so you get 8 sections of 0.5⁰. Then find some yarn in matching colours.
Due to all the colour changes, the scarf still took some 3 hours to make it on a #circularknittingmachine .
Wait. Google did a Microsoft Bob??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Lively
Also this absolute scorcher:
"Wave seems to answer the problem of organizing where to go for lunch best."
Reading these old articles about Google Wave sure is throwing up some fascinating fragments of history
fragment of history, complexity
"Cognitive science professor and author Donald Norman used to give students the Kobayashi Maru of design homework, asking his students to squish a CD player, tape player, clock radio, telephone and answering machine all together in an usable doodad.
The point was to fail, but also learn along the way that too much functionality defies a good interface."
(So, basically all things that smartphones can do today, minus the physical media)
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i have a new theory called alive internet theory where i propose that the internet is full of real people and you can befriend some of them even and maybe actually kiss them and more
fragment of history, cloud computing
"In cloud computing, companies are supposed to save money by using distant computers owned by others to run programs, store data and manage networks."
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I have a standing quarterly donation to #kde, because it is my desktop environment of choice and it absolutely rocks. Use it daily and it doesn't get in the way. I've donated some things here and there to individual developers because their things made my life so much easier.
Please, donate to the free and opensource software you use. If you switch away from a paid thing, consider donating some of the money you saved.
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
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uspol
fedi people (including myself) like to meme with Sun Microsystems but the founders are still typical Big Tech people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McNealy#Opinions
> In 2017, McNealy praised the 45th U.S. President, Donald Trump, for his free-market economic policies.[36] On September 17, 2019, McNealy hosted a fundraiser for Donald Trump's re-election campaign.[37][38]
Like, I'm evaluating P2P things again and GUN is basically instantly off the list of candidates because I cannot navigate their fucking website without being overwhelmed!
The website for GUN (the decentralization thing) is the absolute fucking worst. What's wrong with the people who built this horrible thing???
(Don't go there if you are in any way photosensitive.)
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If you live in NC and voted.
Please check if your vote was just tossed out and challenge it.
You have until Friday April 18 ... so check now and let your friends know so they can check too.
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
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uspol
Google Cloud is hosting https://professorwatchlist.org.
Cloudflare is providing DNS and DDoS protection.
Guess Google and Cloudflare enjoy being in bed with fascists now...
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
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just discovered something really obvious about software you've been using for ages and feel bad about it? don't! it happens to the best - and it doesn't unduly hold them up either...
- 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
