Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
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📌 extremely urgent! 
here's my (updated) list of folks who need to be prioritized: trans, queer & disabled people in increased danger due to fascism etc. please help by pasting their links into your search bar & boosting their posts directly or by giving any small amount. thank you so much! 💗
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I'm building something which could uncharitably be described as "an open proxy providing attack amplification as a service", but which I'd rather describe as "a core part of tools like RSS feed readers": ask it to monitor a URL, and it'll check periodically to see if it has changed and tell you so. I'd like to make it a publicly available service so people can more easily build new tools for noticing when web pages change. What are some ways I can encourage good applications and discourage abuse?
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fun fact you can just be trans. like just do it. try it. woke up feeling kinda girl today? yeah try it out who cares. more boy another day? cool do that too. nobody can stop you
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For the next two days, you can unlock 13 amazing adult games for free as part of GOG's Freedom To Buy campaign. Included in the lineup is House Party, a game I star in!
I am incredibly honored to stand alongside GOG, Eek Games, and so many other bold, creative voices in adult gaming fighting for free expression.
Participate in this campaign, boost this post, and help push back against the threat MasterCard and Visa pose to our civil liberties.
Credit card content cops can't control culture. Not now, not ever.
#FreedomToBuy #GOG #CollectiveShout #HouseParty #EekGames #MasterCard #Visa #AdultGames #GameDev #Gaming #IndieDev #IndieGames #Itchio #Steam #VideoGames #VideoGaming
The boosts will continue until responses cease
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So, who else is going to #WHY2025 and wants to meet up?
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I lost the original source, but a historian on Bluesky pointed out that, over time, cities are more real and durable than countries.
That's been rattling around my head for weeks. Not sure what to do with it yet -- abandoning folks who live elsewhere certainly ain't it -- but it feels significant.
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the early lenovo T14/P14s keyboard, trackpoint and trackpad combo seems to be the right size and depth to make an input cover for the Framework 13; going any older than that would add height
later this week I'll sketch up a full schematic~
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Ok wait, there is an active Vectrex Homebrew scene?! Why did I not know about this? Really thinking about getting one now 👀
Someone into that going to #why2025 by chance?
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If everything works out I will have BTTT (BGP to the tent) at #why2025 thanks to the on-site IXP 😄
If you have a ASN too and are at the WHY, maybe this is of interest to you: https://wiki.why2025.org/IXP
(Disclaimer: This is organized by others, I'm only a user, but wanted to spread the word)
Working on the last few todo items that I need to deal with before #WHY2025, and then maybe I can *finally* actually take a break for a few days before the chaos starts
... hey PayPal, what is the point of sending me 2FA codes by SMS for transactions, if I can login to my account without a 2FA code and set a new primary phone number *also* without a 2FA code?
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GOG is giving away a bunch of free "banned" games and taking a stance against the payment processors who caved.
https://items.gog.com/freedomtobuy/index.html
Go grab your free games and show some support.
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🕯On 2 August 1944, around 4,300 Roma and Sinti were murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau, ending of the so-called ‘Gypsy family camp’.
This was part of the Roma Holocaust, which took over 500,000 lives.
Today we honour the memory of victims & stand against prejudice of Romani people.
👨🏼🏫With the Council of Europe, we're working to bring Roma Holocaust history in school curricula across Europe, so young people can grow up embracing inclusion.
📷 ©Adobe Stock @Hikmet
programming, negative
The JS ecosystem has died and I don't think very many people have realized this yet
Also about that Acer laptop, I ended up having to install fire-resistant EVA foam pads on *both* sides of the drive to have it not flap around inside of the bay, and because the design is absurd and the 'drive caddy' (bit of flexible plastic with some screw holes on the side...) is missing, I also had to tape some reused packaging plastic over the underside of the drive because otherwise it would risk touching the metal shielding that is directly next to it.
I don't think I've ever had to do so much trashgoblining to install a drive into a laptop before, what the hell.
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not sure if everyone got this surprise (to me) update to firefox but:
had to go under Settings to General to Tabs to click off ""Use AI to suggest tabs and a name for tab groups"
had to go to Privacy and Security to uncheck everything under "Firefox Data Collection and Use"
currently unable to add back noai.duckduckgo to my preferred search engine (it won't let me type nor copy/paste)
ive changed my settings to check for updates instead of automatically install them (not sure if i had that originally but im gonna go ahead and believe i did)
i wish firefox would stop trying to be like the Big Five or whatever and just.....ask if people want to opt into shit
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"I vibe coded enterprise grade software in four days"
I'm gonnae go out on a limb and say naw, ye didnae
The primary reason such software normally takes longer than this isn't because the programmers can't type fast enough ffs
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
