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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Right, it's been A TIME, and it might be too late, but we have a fantastic website thanks to @natbuckley.
Anti-SXSW is vaguely go. We just need you to help make it happen.
If you'd like to run an FKFJ event, or get involved: https://fkfj.london
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I found a significantly misshelved book I need for a class tomorrow by knowing its height, approximate thickness, and binding material, and just looking at the shelves until it announced itself to me. BEHOLD I AM A LIBRARIAN WIZARD.
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The bit that jumps out at me about this thread is the Inevitable Forum Post Derail
Yaknow that thing, in any open-source project, where in any thread where someone posts a bug or requests a feature, That Guy turns up and goes "These people are working for free, code it yourself" and then there's like a ten-post pointless back-and-forth derail that everyone who got here with a search engine has gotta read through in case there's anything useful tucked in there, even though we've read the same conversation a hundred times?
Can we put that to bed? Like, can we just put a banner at the top of open source forums that links to the same conversation from like 2002 and say WE KNOW and then just delete those noiseposts, or move them to storage somewhere?
Like, as a guy who writes programs and uses programs but also occasionally has to search for a problem about a program, can we please just shorten those derails to "Standard Code-It-Yourself Derail was here, moved to Standard Derail containment subforum" for the sake of our future selves when we're searching to try to track down a bug, or for the sake of those who come after us, FOR THE SAKE OF OUR CHILDREN,
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for too many people "we need imperfect allies" means ditching people who want to be educated and helpful in favor of keeping people whose flavor of bigotry they think of as incidental background noise
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language opinions (2)
@joepie91 this is such an interesting thing because i feel its so hopelessly tied to the whole flemish/dutch cultural gap
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If any Mastodon instances are having trouble with their costs growing out of control, ping me and see if I can help lower your bill.
Apparently a recently closed instance was paying $300/month for hosting which is insane to read considering how small of an instance it was. When we had 40k monthly users I was paying about $120/month so an instance with less than 400 total users (not MAU) should be super cheap to run even with a few TB of storage and bandwidth.
It hurts my heart to read instances closing down over costs and finding out they’re paying more than instances 10x their size. 😢
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Dear nonprofits and political candidates, the only thing fundraising email subjects like "Please read before deleting" tell me is that your team is on A/B testing autopilot and utterly detached from the work you do.
language opinions (2)
Tangentially, Flemish seems a bit *more* emotionally expressive to me than Dutch, but I don't really speak it
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Kan iemand me stomtoevallig helpen aan dvd's van de Vlaamse serie Windkracht 10? Ik kan enkel de film vinden maar wil echt de serie. Vind wel ergens een dvd van seizoen 2 maar ga er geen € 100,- aan uitgeven.
language opinions
English is better at accurate technical descriptions (not just for computers) but Dutch is a lot more emotionally expressive, and I prefer using a mix of both depending on the context
Like, come on. If you're going to claim to be a threat detection company or somesuch, preventing false positives is *also* part of your job!
Another day, another "beware of North Korean workers" article that has a list of identification factors that strongly overlaps with "how autistic folks do work" but no guidance whatsoever on how to prevent false positives
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Another PSA to anyone following me from Fosstodon
In light of a new admin likely taking over, I will still be blocking the instance by the end of May.
I haven't seen much from the new admin, but they said they want to keep things "as is". That was the entire issue with the previous admin team. Another person doing the same old, same old, makes no difference.
People of Fosstodon: please find a place with decent moderators.
I know you all want to avoid drama - so do I! The way to do that is to take action when shit hits the fan, rather than turning the fan away so the shit hits someone else.
Was playing X4 Foundations, set ship to autopilot, it steers and faceplants directly into an asteroid... and immediately plays a voice line of the ship computer saying "Autopilot epically failed."
I have so many questions
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Dear software devs: either your installer installs the entire thing, or the installer should be a tiny download.
That’s a STRICT or.
No 2.7 GB installers that then proceed to download the remaining 4.3 GB of required data.
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So I 3D printed a design that I thought would make for a fun pin to put on a backpack or laptop case....but so far no one I've shown it to has recognized this logo instantly...feeling old today.
#3DPrinting #DOS #RetroComputing
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@smallcircles Yeah, in retrospect, "what if we based our economy and our information infrastructure on extractively manipulating everybody all the time" was maybe not a great foundation for society.
CW-boost: LLMs, mention of (decade ago) suicide
- 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
