Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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
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RIP AdventureGamers 1998 – 2025 https://virtualmoose.org/2025/06/13/rip-adventuregamers-1998-2025/
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There's these competing beliefs, "turn your hobby into a job and you'll never work a day in your life" vs. "turn your hobby into a job and you'll never enjoy it again"...
And I think I've finally worked out where the disconnect is: it's all about the agency you have in your work. Whether one or the other is true depends on whether you can make a living doing the thing you wanted to do anyway, or whether you're dragged along in a maelstrom of industry misery.
By this point I feel pretty safe concluding that for me and tech, it's mostly the latter, especially in more recent years.
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programmer culture lamenting, "jokes"
So there's that Wat talk by Gary Bernhardt. Pretty funny, I felt at the time it came out - not something to take seriously, of course, just something to blow off some steam.
And then I noticed people starting to take it seriously. It started coming up in discussions, as if it were a legitimate argument about a language being 'bad'. It started being used to attack programmers writing in those languages, and question their competence.
And then Gary Bernhardt himself, the speaker in that talk, turned out to be somewhat of a language-elitist ass.
Since then I've taken a rather more grim view of these kind of overly simplified 'jokes' about programming languages. Because it turns out, they mostly punch down, and quite often they're not really jokes at all, they're just someone looking for an excuse to talk down on others.
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The place I'm staying has a pond nearby so I went out this morning to check things out. Lots of wildlife out there.
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A couple of mushrooms I saw on a hike this morning for #FungiFriday
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Some cool mushrooms I saw this morning while #trailrunning
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Finally something good to report about Firefox: the new tab groups feature works well for me!
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the recursive post isn't real and can't hurt the reader.
the recursive post: https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@sophie/114677809053238109
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🇬🇧I can't recommend the EU-funded DNS service #DNS4EU because access is logged. When you override warnings to access "harmful websites" they even log your IP address. https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/the-eu-challenges-google-and-cloudflare-with-its-very-own-dns-resolver-that-can-filter-dangerous-traffic
There are government-free services that do not log: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/dns
Update: I understand now the IP address is kept for 24 hours to prevent the confirmation prompt from showing again.
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dripping with sarcasm
@joepie91 leadership with massive ambitions, underserved confidence, and an inability to listen to their community? wow, this is a completely unique situation and we could not have seen this coming
TIL dat iemand in de familie Buwalda ooit zelf een achtbaan heeft gebouwd, en dat die nu rondreist op de Belgische en Franse kermis
(De familie Buwalda runt al die identieke kermisbaantjes in Nederland)
And yeah I've definitely stopped being polite or friendly about this shit, the people in question have had plenty of opportunity and offers of assistance to turn things around, so now all you get is complaining
(To clarify, there were definitely people involved in Matrix years ago who *did* recognize these issues. But they weren't the ones with the power to change things)
Just fucking admit that you fucked up for once, cowards, and then we can start *actually honestly* talking about the reforms needed to keep this ship from sinking
What *really* pisses me off about the whole #Matrix situation isn't the problems that they have, it's not the funding model, it's not even them ignoring years of warnings from the community, really.
It's that they seem deathly afraid to ever honestly admit that they've made a serious error in judgment on project governance, and every single thing they put out is PR spin that tries to reframe the situation like circumstances forced them to do these things, like they've done the best they can - when they absolutely fucking didn't.
Like, the whole thing is on the verge of bankrupcy and collapse, and they are *still* spinning bullshit yarns about how that massive matrix.org homeserver was only ever meant as a starting point, when anyone who has looked at the evidence for five minutes would know differently and tons of people warned them of exactly this outcome.
I have had tens, if not hundreds of long discussions with old-guard core Matrix folks and *not once* have they shown willing to admit fault on *literally anything*, it is always someone or something else's fault and solutions are always just around the corner
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Just in case you didn't know... the ☮️ symbol now mostly called the "peace symbol" or similar was created specifically to be a symbol for nuclear disarmament.
The thing inside the decorative circle is a combination of two letters in the flag semaphores alphabet,
flags held in the positions Λ=N and │=D,
spelling "ND" short for "Nuclear Disarmament",
originally created for the organization "Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament" (CND, https://cnduk.org).
- 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
