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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- 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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Parents arguing for smartphone bans always feels like an admission of impotence to me, a cop-out that releases them from having to deal with the actual problems involved, such as the addictive design and dark patterns they are also subject to themselves.
It delays having to deal with the unhealthy work habits that demand that they are always connected, and 'productive'.
It certainly does not do anything about the fact that a large percentage of adults has simply no critical internal review of what kind of information they consume, where it comes from, and so forth, as evidenced by how deeply mis- and disinformed they are.
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By and large, free and open source software projects don't compete with FOSS projects. If your project has more users than mine, than we both win.
Even if a project is developed and "owned" by for-profit companies, that doesn't necessarily hurt other projects.
Non-free software is the competition. Possibly even the enemy.
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@kdj8 KDE Plasma 6.4 officially released, here's what's new:
- Improved performance with wobbly windows (they are wobblier)
- Improved HDR support
- Button in a single application that's only visible when a specific feature is enabled is now a rounded button. This has been a pending feature request for 7 years. Millions rejoice
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«It showed that, when there is non-promotable work to be done, women volunteer to do it 48% more often than men.
But they also found that men volunteered less because if they waited, they knew that a woman would volunteer. In all male groups, they had no trouble getting volunteers. If there were no women there, men volunteered just fine.
The even more interesting part was that, when managers were asked to choose someone to do thankless work, they asked women 44% more than they asked men.»
Now I’m pissed https://www.noidea.dog/glue
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This is my favorite piece of mis-design.
It's basically saying "Don't throw it on the floor! DO throw it into the ocean, let it swim with the turtles!"
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Tobi Haslitt, writing in n+1 magazine in 2021. Resistance is NOT futile.
Full article:
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-40/politics/magic-actions-2/
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Free/discounted for food, PDFs, furniture, etc. Words to look for in your local community: Buy nothing, really really free market, free <blank> exchange/swap, gift economy, garage/estate sale. Comment in the thread to make an addition.
INTL
[Federated, host it yourself too] https://wedistribute.org/2024/08/flohmarkt-federated-market
https://trashnothing.com
https://lasagnalove.org
https://craigslist.org
https://foodnotbombs.net
https://inventaire.io
https://freecycle.org
https://repaircafe.org
[App] https://toogoodtogo.com
[App] https://buynothingproject.org
[App] https://olioapp.com
[App] https://flashfood.com
UK
https://ilovefreegle.org
https://gumtree.com
DE
https://kleinanzeigen.de
US
https://offerup.com
https://therooster.com
https://gsalr.com
CA
https://kijiji.ca
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Kingfisher appreciation post.
These birds are one of my favourites found here on Vancouver Island. They are feisty, active, and can be challenging to photograph up close without disturbing them making it that much more rewarding when they pose for you.
#birds #birding #birdwatching #wildlife #wildlifephotography #vancouverisland
These birds are one of my favourites found here on Vancouver Island. They are feisty, active, and can be challenging to photograph up close without disturbing them making it that much more rewarding when they pose for you.
#birds #birding #birdwatching #wildlife #wildlifephotography #vancouverisland
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Any #neurodivergent folks have tips for rebuilding after recovering from burnout?
I've given up on getting a proper assessment or even being heard by my so-called primary care provider, so ADHD meds are a pipe dream.
So I need to figure out how to earn a living without crashing again, which means 40-hour weeks and commuting are a no-go.
I do not feel particularly confident at this point tbh.
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ACAB
and then popcorn munchers are like "why is art is so corpo and so shit nowadays waaaaahhh" my sibling in christ because all the artists that are worth it are barely making ends meet you fuckos. do you think i dream of living like this? fuck no. give me a house that i won't lose and a stable supply of food and meds so i don't die and then we'll talk
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💻🔌 Spendenaufruf: Wir haben rund 150 Dell-Laptops ohne Netzteil gespendet bekommen – und möchten sie möglichst bald wieder einsatzbereit machen! Dafür brauchen wir Dell-Netzteile (z. B. 65 W oder 90 W, runder Stecker mit Pin). Über USB-C-PD Netzteile freuen wir uns auch immer!
Falls ihr welche übrig habt: Bitte spenden! 🙏
Mehr Infos & Kontakt: Hier oder via computertruhe.de
#Spenden #ITSpende #Computertruhe #DigitalSolidarität #nachhaltigkeit
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Anyone got a favorite C, C++, or python drawing API that at minimum provides rendering polygons and lines of text? I'm looking for something that is fast to set up and sketch things out without having to fuss with lots of custom boilerplate. Basically looking for alternatives to Cairo and PyGame. My priorities are fast, easy to set up, reasonably simple API, and a permissive license.
EDIT: leading candidates are openframeworks, allegro5, and thorvg or lvgl. honorable mention: godot turduckin
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i should as probably clarify that i'm of the disinterested opinion that android and steam should not be aspirational for linux developers, simply because android and steam already exist and maybe we shouldn't waste our efforts giving people a half hearted alternative to something that already works well for them. i don't think linux "should" be any one thing. i think it's at its best when it can be a lot of different things, but that means people developing for it often work cross purposes
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i wrote some plain safe rust code today that’s faster than the vectorized c++ version or the plain c++ version
this is funny every time
grapheneos (2)
It's just an absolute torrent of "this person is lying about us! they're trying to attack us!" and constantly repeating that to anyone expressing their dissatisfaction while the suggestions on how to resolve this problem go entirely unreplied
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now obviously there's distros that don't do that, but they pull from the same pool of software, so that mentality still bleeds through in lots of ways. android and steam deck both notably go out of their way to give you something else as the frontend and default software ecosystem, and let (to varying degrees) the bold and the technically inclined peel it back if they want to. i think that's interesting
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In past conflicts surrounding GrapheneOS I've generally avoided drawing conclusions about who's at fault (despite being asked to!) because of not having the details of the situation, and not wanting to jump to conclusions.
But let's just say that the GrapheneOS folks are very quickly changing my mind about that, and not in a good way, by continuing to post endless aggressive accusations of "attacks" and "falsehoods", often multiple of them in quick succession, without any sort of concrete detail, or seemingly even responding to people trying to start a conversation.
Like, this is throwing up *so many* red flags for me it's not even funny.
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there's ample proof that linux can be distributed in ways that are non-hostile enough that every day people can use it without a significant investment into learning technical and philosophical minutiae (android, steam deck). given that many major distros still gate having a working computer on understanding the "non-free" shibboleth, I think it's reasonable to conclude the main thing holding back widespread adoption is the community is still largely not willing to meet people where they're at
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(forgetting the word "euler") greaser angles
- 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
