Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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
Instead, we mostly just get governments paying consultancies to deploy and manage these things under the assumption that this "builds a local economy" and helps keep things running, completely failing to understand the underlying dynamics and economics of FOSS projects and what their role in them should be
Like, there's all this talk about 'digital sovereignty' and yet they constantly miss the most important part of actually achieving that: you need to figure out who your 'community' is, and *help to make it stronger*, not just take from it
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@joepie91 The past decades, any organisation screaming "Let's go FOSS", seems to get approached by a MS salesperson that offers them cheap shiny licences for 5 years and then the decisionmakers quickly budge.
So, any time I hear some org say it, I'll won't hold my breath. I'll cheer when I see they actually /do/ successfully do the entire transition.
This is not subtooting a specific government by the way, it seems applicable to almost every "let's go use FOSS!" move from the past decade
"Government wants to move to LibreOffice from Microsoft"
Okay great but are they also going to contribute toward its improvement, or are they just going to expect an off-the-shelf perfect equivalent again and give up in 6 months because "employees had trouble getting used to the new software"
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computers are actually good
what i hate is the tech industry, the evil men behind it, and the apologists
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Reposting the Stand Down campaign ideas so that it's boostable!
Slide into my DMs if you want the whole campaign framework.
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the fediverse is like the world's worst cutlery store
so many forks and no spoons
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What gender do you identify with?
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guide to new fedi users: this is what those funny buttons under my posts do
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Via unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/RxQ_WYkdRS4/ (Freezer)
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Proposal: arguing that any sort of technological change is 'inevitable' automatically disqualifies one from commenting on technology
spicy take, programming
The biggest technical hurdle in programming today is that it's way too difficult to deal with any sort of persistent data, and both conventional data management systems and the 'magic' persistence systems we have today are woefully inadequate for the job
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Things I have learned at work today: Firefox (or one of the extensions I have installed) gets VERY sad if I open a webpage that has 3.5k forms on it and then try to use one of them
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google cloud, cloudflare and aws down? no worries, the only internet i hang out in is hosted by a bunch of nerds on their closets
networking shitpost
Last version of BGP was BGP4 from 1994, the developer has abandoned this project, do not buy, thumbs down
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Dat "tijd voor solidariteit"-documentje van GL-PvdA zou een stuk geloofwaardiger zijn als ze niet steeds met de staart tussen de benen weg zouden rennen bij demonstraties zodra de politie losgaat om vervolgens de schuld af te schuiven op 'relschoppers'
Happy downtime day everyone!
- 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
