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.
- 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
Something I'll never understand is people defending companies that terminate lifetime licenses, because "well they can't keep providing services forever, it's not sustainable".
Okay? Then they shouldn't have sold 'lifetime' licenses in the first place? The company's bad business decisions are not the customer's problem. You sell a lifetime license, you will have to honor it, end of. Actions have consequences.
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hot take that shouldnt be hot at all: "expat" is an inherently classist and racist term used by rich white immigrants who want to distance themselves from the "poor and dirty" immigrants who are often also poc
like no james, you're an immigrant too, whether you like it or not
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In de herhaling voor leden van mastonederland.nl:
Met pijn in mijn hart moet ik jullie laten weten dat ik binnenkort deze Mastodon instance zal sluiten.
Het is niet langer houdbaar om praktische en persoonlijke redenen. Ik kan er niet de tijd, de aandacht en het geld insteken dat het nodig heeft. Ik wil iedereen bedanken die hier actief is geweest.
De instance blijft nog even (ongeveer een maand) online zodat de vaste gebruikers tijd hebben om hun account te verhuizen.
Dank voor alles!
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Quick, if the production endpoint is https://documentapi.prod.fedex.com/documents/v1/etds/upload, what should the sandbox endpoint be?
If you answered https://documentapitest.prod.fedex.com/sandbox/documents/v1/etds/upload, why.
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I see a lot of Mastodon activity around @creativecommons ill-guided #CreativeCommons #CCSignals attempt to introduce "Ai" (sic!) compatible opt-in-only licenses.
I see very little feedback on https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-signals/discussions/categories/open-feedback-suggestions-and-ideas or https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-signals/issues
I have created https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-signals/issues/15 with my own thoughts. Feel free to add your support and/or your own thoughts.
Retoots of something actually actionable appreciated.
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https://dragonscave.space/@fireborn/114748601542434856 has us thinking about the whole weird concept of "protecting" something by attacking anyone with legitimate criticisms of it. It's something we see a lot from cops, I think - claims that, in order to uphold the law, we need to bury its victims, so anyone attempting to make the criminal justice system more just is actually making it *worse* somehow.
I think it might be an authoritarian thing? If you think of this kind of conduct in terms of people up the ladder retaliating against resistance from those below - even if the resistance takes the form of saying "can you take this boot off our necks?" - then it makes sense that it would happen. It's profoundly toxic, but it's part of a pattern.
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Noble yarrow, in full bloom all over my balcony, and my beloved Stachys recta, just starting to flower literally today
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Pol: nukes
Many "scary" nations that don't like the US have horrible weapons. So what?
You will die because they close the dialysis clinic in your small town, not because of Iran.
These guys will cheerfully kill tens if not 100k civilians just to have the edge in negotiations about who makes money off the tankers and who gets the plumb trade deals.
The ideological battles are a smoke screen to make Americans scared enough to let them play risk with our lives.
Ik ben dat gezeur over 'eigenrichting' inmiddels wel een beetje zat, eigenlijk. Er is helemaal niets mis met eigenrichting an sich; het betekent alleen maar dat je aan zelfbestuur doet en problemen in je omgeving zelf (gezamenlijk) aanpakt i.p.v. het uit te besteden aan een grootmacht die totaal onbekend is met de lokale context.
Waar het daadwerkelijke probleem ligt is wanneer iemand een ander onnodig schade toebrengt. Of dat nou de politie is die dat doet, of iemand anders. Maar dáár gaat het nou nooit over. Want dat zou lastige vragen oproepen over of dat geweldsmonopolie nu eigenlijk wel zo'n goed idee is.
Folks using a screenreader: how does your preferred screenreader pronounce the following text? T E S T I N G
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Some indie devs have really bad takes on the Stop Killing Games thing, sheesh
"How am I going to comply if I make an MMO as a solo indie??"
Well 1. I have bad news for your odds of making an MMO lmao and 2. why are you so concerned that dropping the non 3rd party proprietary parts of your source code into a repository somewhere with a no-warranty license would bankrupt you? 🙄
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Hate to say it but running a live service game already requires putting on the big boy pants and if you're not ready for something as mild as "please have a sunsetting plan" then you're definitely not ready for the realities of running a live service game
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Plurality; silly
The plural urge to refer to your own system as "[hostname] et al".
Somebody studied A2-level psychology, and now it's EVERYBODY'S PROBLEM 🤣
(The last bit is referencing this, if you don't recognise it.)
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@elilla My favourite thing when I visit another area is listen to the fauna (and rarely some flora sounds too!) I love the unique sounds different areas make and how they differ and match over geographic spreads. I would love to hear cicadas in real life, never had the privilege to. I love it when the crickets make noise outside my window in late summer early autumn though.
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Are there any Android distributions that work on cheap, easily-available smartphones, and that still try to do the best they can to protect the user's privacy and security, without being absolutist about it?
("Cheap" here means "$100 or under", to be clear)
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#AskFedi: I'm looking for games with similarly satisfying building and management mechanics to Project Hospital and Airport CEO. :boost_requested:
Please only reply if you've actually played either of these games; this is not a genre question, it's about the *feel* of the games!
Anyone is welcome to boost, though - and it's much appreciated, these are obscure games and so it'll probably be difficult to find folks who have played them!
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"CC signals" is so out of touch its embarrassing
context: https://creativecommons.org/ai-and-the-commons/cc-signals/
POINT OF CLARITY EDIT: the CC licenses are the same as they always have been. The "signals" thing is an unrelated proposed alternative to robots.txt for scrapists to continue to ignore.
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@luckytran Also normalize wearing a mask when YOU are sick. I first had this explained to me in Japan in the early 90s when I was traveling there on business frequently. This is such a sensible and prosocial practice.
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@davidrevoy @creativecommons from the 4 proposed signals (credit, direct contribution, ecosystem contribution and open), none of them is about forbidding the usage of the assets to train AI😬
https://creativecommons.org/ai-and-the-commons/cc-signals/implementation/
- 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
