Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I'm bored of all the songs on the (broadcast) radio with people being possessive and jealous.

Where are the songs about a boy telling his girlfriend that he's met someone else and they form a polycule?

What about a girl telling her boyfriend she's trans and him being supportive and questioning his own sexual identify?

I think we need more @powderpaint on the radio...

Mastodon tip: you can customize a column to list multiple hashtags (and block-list some of them too). It's a good way to discover all the posts gravitating around the topics you like (eg. for art, #mastoart is a popular one). That's really a feature I love here and wanted to share it to newcomers.

I feel like there's two groups in tech, and sadly the one I am in is way smaller. There's the silicon valley tech cowboys who love new tech and make things to see how they break things, impact be damned. And the people like me who think tech is cool, but maybe we should think about the ramifications of what we create before making it? And not make things that enforce capitalist norms on society etc.

I'm glad to work in a place where I don't need to juggle these concepts, and am free to create free and open software and data. And that mastodon is a place filled with more of my people than the other (though the others are here too to my dismay). I just really wish the field of tech contained more ethics and philosophy instead of just being treated as a purely scientific or mechanical endeavor, all engineering is highly political and we need to consider how it is and what impact we have.

@cassolotl it drives me batshit the way people treat "normal" as good no matter what the situation is. It's subjective, but even if it wasn't it wouldn't be about being normal. Sociopaths are hated on for having less empathy and being more selfish than NTs, but then when it turns out autistics are more moral, they get hated on too. Double standards.

Any recommendations for cosy #scifi or #fantasy novels (or short story collections!) to sink my nose into? I'm thinking along the lines of Elizabeth Bear's white space novels, or basically anything by Becky Chambers.

Something to consider when posting hashtags:

For people using screen readers, they know when to separate words either by spaces, or uppercase letters. 'mastoart' will try to be pronounced as one word, whereas 'MastoArt' will be pronounced as 'Masto Art'. It just makes life a little bit easier for those who rely on screen readers to interact with the fediverse

i absolutely love deleting code.

replacing things that are complicated and difficult with things that are simple and maintainable is such a nice way to spend time.

fuck de koning etc

anyway #welcome and make more alts, join more instances, don't tell anyone about them, start from scratch. try different programs. also check out matrix, diaspora, etc. the internet is bigger than 5 websites <3

Tips for when you're requesting technical help:

Don't just say "I'm having trouble with this." tThat is 100% unhelpful. Provide /as much/ information as you can. Screenshots, error messages, everything. Be absolutely specific.

(Yes I am banging my head against a wall right now trying desperately to help someone with a problem but gosh I am not having an easy time of it, which sucks because I want them to not have a problem as I'm sure it's frustrating for them too :( )