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.
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- 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
glitch.com closure
When some company shuts down a hosted service just because they feel it is no longer serving its purpose, they'll give you a long time to move away; a year or more.
When they shut down with less than two months' notice, that means they're bleeding money. Doubly so when they don't actually have a plan defined for the future yet.
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I have said this a couple times, but I wish there was more anime about adults that look like adults. I don't mind the adults being sexy. Honestly it could be like Baywatch the anime, silver edition, featuring only old people, and I watch it, because I am sick of watching high school animes or childsoldier animes.
Give me like, a normal anime about a vampire butler who falls in love with another vampire butler, and then they both kill a king or something together and then they get to live a nice life in a castle with their vampire weaner dog or something. They both look like they're 40, because they are. The dog looks like a puppy though, because we need to comic relief. Just imagine it... it could be great. There's no children, no war, no school, just a solid working class rising up and then eating the rich.
It can take place in like 2025 too. Europe still has a bunch of castles and shit. A bunch of it still looks like its out of a story book. Artists... consider it... consider... adults with adults... eating the rich. And maybe they smooch.
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Just saw a house-hunting type show where a guy offhandedly mentioned his 40ish year old husband had a "massive stroke in 2022"... But hey, they sure were glad they were able to get on the properly ladder!
Watching "non fiction" TV (eg house hunting/renovation/travel, etc) these days is wild. Phrases on repeat:
"Is unable to attend due to illness..."
"While recovering from a sudden stroke..."
"After an unexpected health scare..."
"Having had some health challenges for the last few years..."
"After suffering a heart attack..."
"Due to the unexpected passing of their sister..."
"Unfortunately my father died suddenly in [insert year between 2020 and 2025]..."
"Was diagnosed with ME/CFS in 2022..."
"Has a rare form of cancer..."
"Has an aggressive form of cancer..."
"Had a nasty virus that I just couldn't shake for a few weeks..."
"Just getting over a nasty cold..."
"In memoriam" at the end of an episode..
People want to act like #COVID is over or it's no big deal but the tells, like a bad poker face, are everywhere.
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I am glad I never used nor recommended glitch dot com as it is now shutting down. It sure felt like a great project, but I am sick of the dependencies we feed when using those kinds of startup’s tools. Make your own tools or use free [software] ones.
If you are interested in an alternative to glitch, check out https://gitlab.com/raphaelbastide/stolon, it is community made, self-hostable and flat file.
#glitch #digitalLiability #selfhost #prototyping
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In general, I think there's a lot of places where software assumes a certainty that just isn't justified. I'd love to see more software handle uncertainty in a robust way.
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seeing a show from a streaming service that’s got like four seasons and still going is, like, how did you survive, little guy? did they not notice you?
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“Their response? A masterclass in liberal evasion.
Rather than engage the substance of my critique, SMA’s leadership sent back a polished, polite note thanking me for the “tone” of my letter while ignoring every single argument.They claimed “capacity constraints” as the reason they couldn’t continue the conversation.This, despite launching a book, fundraising, hiring teams, and expanding globally.
In other words:they had the capacity for power,but not for accountability.” https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/18/how-elites-rebrand-power-as-virtue/
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Vor ein paar Tagen gab es ja diesen Vorfall mit dem Containerschiff, was im Garten eines Norwegers eingeparkt wurde.
Jemand auf Bluesky postete den Link zu dem Livestream, in dem nix passierte und das ganze mehr ein entspanntes Stillleben war.
Daraufhin haben sich alle so sehr in diesem Thema hochgeschaukelt, dass ich gestern allen ernstes ein Fanart zu dem lustigen Boot gemalt habe.
Es ist random, ja, aber für solche Momente liebe ich das Internet. ❤️
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@joepie91 Komo isn’t a brand, but a standard. So, to forward the complaints to the correct manufacturer the body taking care of the standard came up with this system.
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@joepie91 https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOMO
They're made by several manufacturers, that are certified to use the brand name. When a manufacturer screws up, they can lose the accreditation.
Just learned that there's a trashbag brand in NL that has a whole dedicated 'complaints' website, with an extensive list of possible manufacturing errors: https://www.klachtenadreskomoafvalzakken.nl/
Can't tell whether they really care about quality, or they just have so many manufacturing issues that they needed to automate the complaint handling process this extensively
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mozilla, AI, questions, complaining, wei are so tired
@joepie91 ¿Wtf is 'smart search'? Doesn't FF just blob out their searching to google or duckduckgo or something?
The only good thing they mentioned in this is vertical tabs. A shame that tree style tabs are a few parsecs ahead in terms of features and usability.
Wei never used these removed features, and yet wei feel upset they are being removed [especially] for more effort into garbage llm [etc] stuff. It's amazing the culture of disposability in tech. Everything is only here for a few years, maintaining trusted apps, programs, etc not as cool as just pivoting to new slop. 
It's particularly odd because it's the comments where I explain some government procedure that get removed, and not the more irritated superficial comments.
Hmm. Lately I've noticed some of my comments on YouTube disappearing from view, especially those that mention government in some way; both in Dutch and in English.
In all cases, it's unlikely that they were removed by the channel owner, given the content of the comment, who operates the channel, and the rest of the comments around it.
Wonder what's up with that.
(This has been true for at least 7 years by this point, probably longer)
Since I realized that probably not a lot of people know this: Google does network-level (ie. TCP/IP-level) fingerprinting to detect automated requests, in addition to HTTP fingerprinting and more 'traditional' methods such as cookies and IP tracking.
I only know with *certainty* that this is used for scraping prevention on the search engine, but I would not be surprised if this were used for user tracking as well, given Google's history.
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If I'm going to spin up a new Fedi instance, I think I'm going to establish this rule:
Do not use the term NSFW in content warnings. When describing the subject matter of a post in a content warning, you must be specific (e.g. "explicit sex" or "nudity").
NSFW is a bad term to use for three reasons:
It's vague. It doesn't describe anything in the post to the viewer. They don't know what they're getting into when they open that CW. Adding "NSFW" is either cruft that could have been dispensed with entirely, or a catch-all that the poster uses to escape responsibility for adding more specific terms.
It's poorly defined. While there are some subjects that are pretty universally acknowledged as likely to get someone fired, policies vary from one employer to another. Using the term is therefore of little value to the viewer for the specific reason it's intended.
It's based on the value judgments of (generally) capitalist, hierarchical entities whose value judgments have been shown time and again to be detrimental to our society as a whole. Maintaining the kind of kink-friendly space that I want to have is antithetical to allowing such entities to define what is acceptable to express and communicate.
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Het was vandaag goed weer om zagen te slijpen en we hebben ook weer scherpe zagen nodig als we verder willen zagen.
We zetten de zagen voordat we ze slijpen. De machines die we erbij gebruiken zijn heel precies, maar het instellen ervan is nog steeds veel handwerk.
advice on developing libraries/frameworks (3)
There's a lot of common advice about things like API stability and upgrade paths and whatnot, but that sort of advice tends to be very "draw the rest of the fucking owl" - the recommendations above are how you actually *get to* those kinds of design properties without burning yourself out.
- 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
