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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I'd live in a lighthouse if it wasn't like, obviously haunted, but if have the irresistible urge to retrofit the big lamp into an addressable rgb led setup, like I've done in many smaller projects already
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Decades of research prove that the best way to end homelessness is...
Give people a home. Seriously. That's it. No strings, no prerequisites, no faith-based, holistic, means-tested, yoga-cebtric meditation parole. Just a home.
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Jaco: what irony, when a dentist gets their own office they also get a plaque
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youtubers are like:
watch this video ad-free on nebula
my friend. I'm just gonna watch your video ad-free on youtube
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We gaan vrolijk door met opruien. Ga je mee zaterdag 4 februari? Gaan we een kolentrein blokkeren. tegen de fossiele industrie, voor het klimaat!
https://kappenmetkolen.squarespace.com/
Toot! En doe mee!
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Morning mograph. Just a silly morning exercise, while trying to remember what I was gonna build last night. This came about because I was thinking about some of my tools, and realized that if I took a flat plane of particles and ran the circular bend twice, I'd get a spherical pattern.
#Blender3D #B3D #Mograph #MotionGraphics
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Unlearning How White People Ask Personal Questions
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2014/05/05/unlearning-how-white-people-ask-personal-questions/
tech, rant, techbros
Honestly, techbros have kind of ruined tech for me... 😐
As a hobby, I can barely even enjoy it anymore - I have to constantly be on the lookout for people trying to squeeze a buck out of me, platforming fascists, or generally being shitty asshats to other people with zero accountability.
Even worse when I'm trying to build on existing work by someone who turns out to be like that - it feels like I'm perpetually building on quicksand, and good-faith collaboration is almost impossible.
And even a lot of supposedly leftist tech spaces have adopted (parts of) this kind of toxic culture... like the "contempt culture" shit (https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture)
Relatedly: with every passing day, I more and more understand why some people just don't bother explaining their judgments/conclusions anymore as soon as any nuanced understanding is required
I beg of people to learn to recognize dogwhistles
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Does anyone have a link to a guide for interacting with autistics, because I'm becoming more and more confident that's what I've been doing my entire life, and maybe I should stop winging it.
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It's very sad seeing people on fediblock posting from big 'known' instances that should have a core blocklist of the known bad actors in place already, getting harassed and attacked by accounts from very well known 'just fucking block these, they're gross' instances.
Preventing people from being the victims of targeted harassment is *always* better than waiting until they get harassed then dealing with it. There are so many block lists out there with these known bad actors on - use them.
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protip: those tuna meals (usually with pasta, couscous, bulgur wheat, etc.) that come in foil packaging have a shelf life of like 3+ years *unrefrigerated* and are relatively cheap, so you can buy a heap of them and have instant acceptable-tasting meals if you hyperfocused / time-blindnessed yourself into feeling hypo, plus something to fall back on if there's another rush on the shops.
I bought some during the pandemic and they've all still got at least 2 years left on their sell-by date.
programming discourse, personal, rant, "native" languages/libraries 
Something that really really stresses me out whenever I run across it, is people going on about wanting "native binaries", "native UI", and so on.
One part of this frustration is technical; "native" is an extremely ill-defined term, and in basically 100% of cases I've seen, the comment was based on some extremely wrong underlying assumption, and valid options are being discarded for no reason.
But of course, that *in and of itself* isn't really enough reason to be so bothered by it. People make wrong assumptions all the time. So what makes it so bad?
It's that it's such a widespread and *intangible* misconception.
There is no escaping it - people constantly complain about "non-native" things everywhere, often to the point of shitting on other people's work. Every day, in every community, everywhere, all based on wrong assumptions.
And it's intangible; everybody who does this has a *slightly* different set of wrong assumptions underlying it. There is no one catch-all answer that quickly corrects the assumption and helps people understand. It is always a long process of drawing out the exact wrong assumption.
The end result is a situation where it feels like I'm constantly assaulted with this stuff, often to the point of people being quite nasty to me or other people in the process, but if I ever say anything about it, I automatically sign up for an hour-long debate session.
An hour-long debate session. Every time. Frequently while getting harassed by every onlooker pelting me with every problem they've ever had with JS, Python, Lua, React, Electron, whatever else, even though it has nothing to do with even their inaccurate concept of 'native'.
And the alternative option is to shut up and have it grate on me every day, all day, every time it is brought up, with half the (solicited) suggestions I give to people while trying to help them, getting dismissed out of hand (sometimes aggressively so) because it's "not native", whatever that means.
This really sucks. I wish people stopped doing this.
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Dat de politie enerzijds blokkadeacties van boeren faciliteert en anderzijds honderden klimaatactivisten oppakt wanneer zij precies hetzelfde doen, is alles behalve hypocriet of inconsistent.
Integendeel: het suggereert juist dat politie en justitie zéér consequent zijn in het behartigen van gevestigde belangen en het uitvoeren van een bepaalde politieke agenda.
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Sometimes perseverance is constructive, but at other times, it’s maladaptive and harmful.
I wish we didn’t teach young people that grinding away at a pursuit that isn’t a good fit for you (or isn’t anymore) is a character-defining virtue.
There is joy in quitting, peace in knowing when to move on, dignity in valuing your work and your time on earth enough not to spend it in ways that don’t fulfill you.
(When you can. When it’s safe. When you have the choice. Sometimes you don’t.)
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When you see hypocrisy, most of the time what you're really seeing is the exercise of power.
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uspol, police murder
do all cops want to beat people to death? No. But, like, if you were a nurse and you found out that one of your coworkers was murdering their patients for fun, and you DIDNT STOP THEM or DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT?
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
