Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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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- 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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As I keep trying to gently point out: successful, useful software spends most of its time being maintained. Maintaining something you don't understand is really hard to do well.
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I am struggling to be kind when tech folks are speaking positively of vibe coding something and planning to put it into production but neither they nor any of the people expected to support it know anything about how the code is structured or works.
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1873
hoezo 1873
Als een van de laatste Europese landen schafte Nederland in 1863 de slavernij alsnog officieel af. Het staatstoezicht’ dat daarop volgde duurde tot 1873 en gold voor vrijwel alle tot slaaf gemaakten. Hoewel op papier ze vrij waren moest er nog 10 jaar gedwongen onbetaald op de plantages doorgewerkt worden. De tien jaar regel gold overigens alleen voor Suriname.
Perez Loy Apakanaike 1954-2019
Is de bedenker van deze button, hij heeft er zijn levenswerk van gemaakt om het jaar 1873 bekendheid te geven!
#1873 #Perezloy #afschaffingslavernij #anticommercieleactiebeweging #button #acab #brandalism #ketikoti #diadiabolishom #emancipationday
Glad to see that the cup deposit scheme in Lisbon also supports payment cards, and not just (proprietary-OS-only) smartphone apps like a bunch of other such schemes I've seen...
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Deposit, drink, return: Lisbon is the first European capital with a citywide reusable cup scheme
https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/07/03/deposit-drink-return-lisbon-is-the-first-european-capital-with-a-citywide-reusable-cup-sch?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Green news @green-news-euronewsgreen
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Het park ligt naast het nieuwe migratiemuseum. De stakers gaan proberen het museum een spandoek aan te bieden waarop ze hun namen hebben geschreven. Want met deze staking schrijven ze geschiedenis, en over een tijdje zal dat spandoek een museumwaardig stuk zijn. https://www.doorbraak.eu/4-juli-rotterdam-rotterdam-actie-van-stakende-poolse-uitzenders-van-ah-distributiecentra/
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scam attempt email
Well, seems like one of my email aliases got leaked from a gaming website, and thus in my spam folder I found a funny email:
"You might be curious about how I know these things. Rest assured, it's not luck. A malware infection on one of your devices granted me аccess to аll of them, including your home Wi-Fi. This allowed me to remotely monitor your screen activities.
I've been observing your behavior for some time, collecting sensitive data like messages and emails, and even taking photos of your surroundings. Additionally, I recorded a video (with audio) of you engaging in intimate activities while watching a controversial adult movie.
It's likely you wouldn't want your family, colleagues, or contacts to see these videos, especially if they're your favorite genre."
Oh nooooo please don't leak on the internets nude videos of me masturbating 
what would trans/enby friends think of me~
"Voor het opbouwen van rasterwerk voor wanden en plafonds, maar ook voor het maken van meubels, heb je kwalitatief hout nodig. Kies daarom voor lat hardhout geschaafd 12x68mm 210cm. Deze lat is gemaakt van hardhout, een sterke en harde houtsoort met een donkere en warme uitstraling."
Pff, Gamma, je kunt toch op z'n minst iets beter je best doen om te verhullen dat je tekst automatisch gegenereerd is...
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You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify the type of image: hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.
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is there something like lagen.nu (this is the GDPR) for EU regulations?
something that shows consolidated texts, but with forward/backlinks between ones that reference each other?
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so cool: https://icespy.org/
"Evil is built on the back of people in boring jobs "just following orders""
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what we have now on the "fediverse" is a good spot to take a breath and relax a bit every now and then, in between bouts of doing work "in the real world" to bring capitalism to its knees and ultimately behead the monster that immiserates us all; the "fediverse" can't be the end goal of this project because it's not enough on its own and it's still full of reactionary, regressive thinking, and it capitulates too much to the patterns and structures of corpo socials, which are all deeply embedded in capitalism
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if you want better social media you must begin by building communism
by which I mean: it's not enough to make [xyz corpo platform but it's foss]; capitalism must be destroyed utterly at the root -- then "good" social media might begin to become a possibility
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@eniko yeah unfortunately it feels like being an indie dev is one of the last bastions of the tech industry that might be viable as a full time job
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Sometimes I think being an indie dev is too unstable an existence
Then I look around me and see some of the most talented software engineers I know struggling to find jobs and oh what's that? Microsoft's laid off another 9000 people?
And then I think, well, would it be any better elsewhere
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Historical question: why do we do an oral thesis/dissertation defense at the end of a PhD?
Similarly, I can't seem to find a claimed 'first' time a defense was given for a degree. What was the problem being solved?
- 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
