Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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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WordPress meta and safety
Boosting with cw. Includes themes of harassment.
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lmfaooo turns out the "software terminated" phone number from the ps1 modchip detection still works and while they do take a bit to find the info they actually still tell you to remove the modchip when calling them
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“Separate the art from the artist” is an idea from literary criticism: it’s about giving you permission to talk about what the art _does_ without having to argue about whether the artist _intended_ that effect.
It’s not a moral framework! It doesn’t say anything about how to feel about buying a product, art or otherwise, that supports creators with odious opinions.
It’s not incongruent to be totally subscribed to the Death of the Author and also not want to buy any Harry Potter stuff.
hot take, social media
I think social-media-as-a-service has done far more damage to society than even public commentators recognize; because it has deprived an entire generation of learning both how to build community yourself, and why that is an important and necessary thing to know.
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END OF 10
"Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025.
Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer.
But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?
If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out. By just installing an up-to-date GNU/Linux operating system you can keep using it for years to come.
Installing an OS may sound difficult, but you don't have to go it alone! With any luck, there are people in your area ready to help!"
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Something that keeps bothering me is how there's seemingly no good answers in UI design.
There's high variation in whether people find light or dark themes easier to read. Familiar UI is easier to adopt, but restricts the ability to experiment with new UI mechanisms that could exceed familiarity's benefit in how much easier something becomes to use.
And so the logical conclusion of those sorts of things would be that "UIs should be swappable" but then you just end up at a different version of the problem: having a generic high-level API restricts the experimentation you can do with a UI, yet allowing direct access to internals interferes with long-term maintenance and reliability.
It's immensely frustrating. There's just two evils to pick from at every turn.
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wireless earbuds evolved dark colors in order to avoid predators locating them if they’re ever accidentally dropped on the floor
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i think instead of machine algorithms controlled by corpos we should go back to using tags or creating things like playlists but for people you want to follow
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Op zondag 27 april geven we weer demonstraties van de radiotelescoop Dwingeloo. Op het programma staat altijd live-signaal van onze 'huispulsar' B0329+54, meestal een ver sterrenstelsel, een supernovarestant of gewoon de zon. De ruimte is beperkt, dus reserveren is nodig, via https://www.camras.nl
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If anyone had a 90s HD Camera/Camcorder lying around, please let me know, I'm looking for one (something like a Sony HDW-700A).
HDW-730 and up are already released in the 2000s as far as I can see.
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Hollywood finally solved the piracy problem by making movies so bad that most people don't even pirate them.
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I sometimes forget the new coffee maker has a steamer wand, then partner makes a fancy coffee and a horrible noise and I fear for their safety.
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i’m not saying that urban zoning policy isn’t important and interesting per se, but i am also grateful that it acts as a nice pressure release valve for engineer-minded sorts turning their gaze to the Public World
if you ever find your eyes glazing over a little at yet another paean to upzoning around transit corridors, remind yourself that the individual in front of you might very well otherwise have fixed on Nutrition, or worse, The Family
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people who make art or music or other creative stuff: do you think your younger self would like what you make?
CW-boost: uspol, ableism, autism, actionable-ish
I complain a lot about Matrix and Element (and for good reason) but one thing I do have to say is that I *really* like Element Web's emoji picker, both the as-you-type one and the reaction one, and prefer it over just about every other emoji picker that I've used
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The #Servo TSC has decided not to go ahead with the proposed changes to their AI policy, due to community pushback: https://github.com/servo/servo/discussions/36379#discussioncomment-12898169
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
