Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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.
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- 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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moderately cursed
a microSD card is *technically* a cartridge
re: dependencies, capitalism
(You can actually see this in practice in the JS ecosystem, where it's the shiny half-broken reinvented kitchensinks that have glossy websites stuffed full of sponsors... but all the crucial underlying single-purpose libraries have gone unfunded, as have all the modular Just Works alternatives to the high-level glossy stuff)
dependencies, capitalism
I frequently talk about how the ideal dependency is one that does precisely one well-defined thing, rarely needs any maintenance, has no room for scope creep (because it only does exactly one thing), and that is so straightforward and unremarkable that you almost forget you're using it.
Explaining this to people is already exhausting, because this is a topic with a lot of misinformation and wrong assumptions floating around it.
But what *really* worries me is that even if everybody were to accept this on an 'intellectual level' overnight, it likely still isn't going to happen - because capitalist incentives work against it.
Why? Because you won't get millions of VC or acquisition money for something unremarkable that Just Works and needs no marketing copy.
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"We have VC funding" is like the best reason to not use something, when you're on the fediverse
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How on earth is someone getting 5 million dollars (Five. Million. Dollars.) in VC money for a *validation library*
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What's your favourite distro
re: meta question
Conclusion: yes, they can! Thanks for the tests everybody :p
meta question
If you mention someone who is not a follower in a followers-only post, can they see the post?
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number of days since I was forced to fill in a binary title for a contact form where it's completely irrelevant: 0
There's a long-running problem where more smaller dependencies is actually better but it intuitively *feels* worse to a lot of people, and I wonder whether anyone is working on resolving that UX problem
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Each and every grain of sand laments its seeming insignificance, forgetting that without them the vast Sahara would not be.
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You: *a compliment*
My internal monologue: "If I say thanks or smile or accept the compliment they might think I'm agreeing with it which is arrogant and prideful, but if I say nothing they might think I'm rejecting it which is rude and ungrateful, and and"
Me: *runs away*
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I had one of those dreams where I was back in school and about to fail something and now I'm upset thinking about how education systems make upsetting and stressful situations like that common enough that having dreams like that for the rest of your life is a common experience among people
I wonder if energy drink is statistically over-represented in 'drinks that people spill over electronics'
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If you want to help trans people, and you work in tech: think about how your product handles names and genders. Can users change them? Is it a self-service? Do traces of the old name remain?
Then, fix it. Push back against resistance. Advocate for us.
It won't fix bigotry, or healthcare access, or w/e. But updating our details is a process full of hurdles that we have to go through at a really vulnerable point in our lives, and you can make a small improvement for a large number of us.
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"Can you explain this gap in your resume?"
Yes. Life is about more than constant and meaningless toil for 40-50 years and a desolate twilight of failed ambitions. The social contract is broken and the system is a lie. You and I are both trapped in the same Sisyphean hell, where no amount of working harder or longer will ever truly grant the rewards we were promised. The real question is, why are there no gaps in YOUR resume?
“…”
Errr, freelancing. I was freelancing.
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#ChatGPT and its ilk are effectively a large-scale DDoS attack on not only specific tasks (such as teaching, software maintenance and fiction editing) but on human creative inspiration, sense of self and ability to make meaning of the universe.
notice how they are
- creating work for us rather than saving us work
- automating inherently energizing and rewarding tasks such as making art rather than tiring and tedious tasks such as filing taxes
- flooding social networks with generated content that makes it harder to connect with real humans and build community
- distracting us with questions like “what if this machine is sentient?” which keep us from noticing and acting to prevent the suffering of actual humans
that thing where all search engines have become basically unusable because they’re stuffed full of AI garbage? i fear that’s about to happen to everything.
i don’t believe this is necessarily intentional, but no machine that learns under capitalism can imagine another world.
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are there any itch.io curators who will tell me what horror games there are good and don't have jump scares?
- 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
