Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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.
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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
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Fedimeta, pol, defederation
I think the news are already out for some time, so I won’t repeat it here, but fosstodon.org got infected with an active fascist among their mod team and they openly state they’re happy with it.
#fediblock will commence in 24h if the action isn’t taken and public apology isn’t provided.
I recommend #fediadmin-s to look into that and make a decision as well. This is a dangerous precedent and how fedi reacts is important.
Upd:
https://fosstodon.org/@mike/114394345053697948 - thread is located here
#fediblock will commence in 24h if the action isn’t taken and public apology isn’t provided.
I recommend #fediadmin-s to look into that and make a decision as well. This is a dangerous precedent and how fedi reacts is important.
Upd:
https://fosstodon.org/@mike/114394345053697948 - thread is located here
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got up and ran into my cat in the hallway, who looked at me wide eyed, screamed, then ran away
good morning to you too, cat
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Mijn dochter is geen kostenpost. Het pgb is geen speeltuin voor oplichters.
Uw uitzending zaait wantrouwen, stigmatiseert ouders, en mist elke nuance.
Ik schreef u een brief. Als vader.
Lees hem hier:
#pgb #wederhoor #menselijkheid #zorg
https://kanteldenker.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/ik-ben-woedend/
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Why does everything in tech have the UX of stepping on a sea urchin?
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like I don't know man. even if what someone said was inane, or obvious, or missing the point, they still *said* something. they reached out—used their divine spark of will to try to make a connection. I think it's fine to point out the inanity or the obviousness, but I don't think it's fine to say the person was wrong to try to reach out.
reading that back though, I realize this is a bit of a rosy picture. everything with nuance, I try to say. I suppose if you're getting a lot of unwanted attention, and there's no tools to reduce that attention, something's got to give.
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I think the introduction of the *concept* of a "reply guy" has had a chilling effect on people's willingness to reach out and engage
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So Lipton is now claiming on their tea boxes "no plastic film around the box" and "the teabags are plant-based, made from paper and cornstarch". Clearly trying to imply that the product is plastic-free, but not quite *saying* it.
So you might think, why is there cornstarch in the bags?
Well, from cornstarch you can make... PLA! A type of plastic. And indeed, the other side of the box talks about composting the bags, but specifically mentions "industrial compost" - because that's the only type of composting that can process PLA.
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You know, maybe we should all just start saying "bribes" instead of "lobbying". It's functionally the same thing anyway, and removes the cloak of respectability.
Has anyone written some sort of comprehensive analysis of how protocols were designed to be used, how people ended up using them instead, and what lessons can be drawn from it?
Across multiple different case studies, ideally, not just one protocol.
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Reminder that your hilarious Ai prompts and resulting garbage are burning up the planet and wasting a shit load of water
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It is kinda funny. Terminal applications are always seen as too clunky and unwieldy for average non-nerds to use but that's exactly what chatbots are: Command line apps with unspecified parameters and outcomes.
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Good interfaces derive their structure from the task the user is trying to solve and the expected knowledge and domain model that user has. This is not how most "AI" solutions' interfaces are built.
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genuinely the median IT product has never been more broken than it is right now and no one has any plans to fix that
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Trying to explain to someone in 2010 that the entire IT industry has stopped focusing on making their products work and instead pivoted to putting cleverbot into a live chat window wherever possible
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The scoop we use to put detergent in the washing machine fell behind the machine. While trying to get it out, I almost invented a new variant of the *stuck inside the washing machine" trope by getting stuck behind the washing machine
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greenwashing
apparently linkedin updated their app icon to a globe for earth day
microsoft supports several earth-friendly endeavours such as their pledge to only drain half the earth's water supply by 2030, instead of all of it
You know, maybe we should all just start saying "bribes" instead of "lobbying". It's functionally the same thing anyway, and removes the cloak of respectability.
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As someone who has been employed as a janitor I’m always struck by how the handwringing over the sanctity of gendered toilets never seems to consider the men who clean women’s loos and women who clean men’s loos. I suspect because cleaners are not considered real people.
[Muting as this has spread way out of my zone, but happy that it's resonating.]
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@schratze Docs 🤝 Governments
“Please click here to see more about how to do this.”
(clicks)
“We assume you have already done this. If not, click here to see how to do it.”
(clicks)
“Please click here to see more about how to do this.”
(Throws computer out of window)
- 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
