Sven Slootweg @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.
- 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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discord is a walled garden and is making a run to become the next facebook #hottake
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@aral oh my sweet summer child 🙃
Meanwhile at TCL:
Forced Sign In on a freakin TV without a SKIP option at all. Until you enter a cheat code:
> To bypass this option perform the following from the TCL remote:
> Press the Up arrow button 5 times.
> Press the Down arrow button 5 times
> The skip option should appear.
And they call it an OPTION to create an account:
> https://support.tcl.com/ca-gtv-setup-configuration/how-to-bypass-tcl-account-creation
I got this from a review and the screenshots speak for themselves. Guess what TV is out 😠
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Dear so-called “UX” designers, the opposite of “yes” isn’t “not now”, it’s “no.”
What the hell, an extremely panicked neighbourhood cat somehow sneaked into my house through the roof window, how did it even get up there
software dev, pol
(This toot prompted by me investigating whether anyone else has figured out yet how to do modular mutations in a graph API, and predictably discovering that nobody cares because that's not seen as useful in a corporate setting - guess I'll be solving the problem myself again...)
software dev, pol
So here's a good example of how conventional 'best practices' in software development implicitly optimize for corporate usage rather than community projects: https://www.apollographql.com/blog/graphql/basics/designing-graphql-mutations/
"Don’t be afraid of super specific mutations that correspond exactly to an update that your UI can make. Specific mutations that correspond to semantic user actions are more powerful than general mutations. This is because specific mutations are easier for a UI developer to write, they can be optimized by a backend developer, and only providing a specific subset of mutations makes it much harder for an attacker to exploit your API."
This makes sense - *if* you're developing corporate software, where you control the entire stack! But if you're building a community project, then this design approach actively makes it harder for third parties to adapt and experiment with your thing, and ultimately centralizes control over how the software works, which is the opposite of what you want.
By itself, this is of course a relatively small thing - but implicit "corporate optimizations" like this are *everywhere* in software development, both in how tools are designed and in what people believe to be 'best practices', and they add up - and that puts grassroots projects at a serious disadvantage.
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The environmental impacts of a car by Andy Singer
#autokorrektur
@fedibikes
kf
I don't pay attention for a few days and now there's leftists repeating KF talking points, what the actual fuck
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"In theory, nobody has a problem with anti-racism. In practice, as soon as people start /doing/ anti-racist things, there is no end to the slew of commentators who are convinced anti-racists are doing it wrong. It even happens among people who consider themselves to be progressive"
- Reni Eddo-Lodge (Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race)
ableism, eugenics
CW'ed repost of https://mastodon.lol/@alexispurslane/108986248558881508:
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"A team of scientists in Texas used CRISPR to edit out genes associated with autism traits in mice and observed clear results: The animals stopped digging obsessively, their erratic jumping around the cages slowed to a halt and they became more calm."
This sounds like a fucking lobotmy. They're just editing out all the behaviors except placid "normal" ones.
The article also refers to autism as a "developmental disorder" that autistic people "suffer from."
https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-edit-autism-genes-traits-texas-crispr-research-mice-997948
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reminder that the NaN != NaN thing often cited as a funny idiosyncrasy in languages people don't like (PHP, JavaScript, and Ruby to name a few common victims) is actually mandated by the IEEE floating point spec, and for good reason
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🌬️
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Hello everyone
Need to get moving, literally, back overseas to finish studies, and could really use the help. Crossposting, boosting, donating, sharing, all the ways help.
Im so grateful to everyone who has done so already, thank you, you've kept me from losing it!
There's lots of fedi tools that I've helped create,(fediblock) so if you use them pls consider a donation
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Are You Deconstructing Your Idea Of Gender, Gender Identity And Gender Presentation Or Are You Just Memorizing Pronouns?
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the world if papers were released as epub's instead of pdf's
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to be clear, from a political perspective blockchain is how people who used to do money laundering via art sales are now doing money laundering
but from a technical perspective blockchain is a great example of what happens when people in charge of designing a system misunderstand nearly every part of it
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“The crimes of her ancestors”
I’m just going to link to this little… event… that happened one decade and a half into HER reign.
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Keep in mind the hopelessness you feel at times is the desired result of the capitalist society we exist in, so we don't fight it.
Every act we do, from calling it out to housing unhoused people and creating sustainable methods to how we feed each other, matters.
We are limiting ourselves if we fight how bigots fight.
And there are more of us than them.
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if you have headaches and you haven't gone to the dentist in a while, go to the dentist and get any root canal they advise. this has solved headaches for me and for a friend. no they did not feel like toothaches. yes it is horrendously expensive, but also, you can then sleep again
- 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
