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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Also a random thing re: accessibility, being able to do things like look at menus ahead of time or see pictures of a space can be REALLY helpful for disabled folks.
Maybe you're now sure ahead of time that you can eat there.
Or you're autistic/have ADHD and need to prepare so you're not overwhelmed when looking at the menu in the environment.
Knowing what to expect in various ways can lower stress of new spaces. #c4l23
re: Automattic criticism
Also if you're thinking of responding to this with something along the lines of "they're just providing a service", then you can fuck right off, I am not interested in abuse apologia
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ME: How's it look?
MECHANIC LOOKING UNDER MY IMAGINATION'S HOOD: *wiping hands on a rag* I see your problem. You've been filling this thing up with despair when it's supposed to run on joy.
Ah yes, and of course there's already a couple Tech Dudes who now believe that this problem should be solved with a decentralized network (seemingly without understanding that availability is a thing)
Anything to avoid solving problems on a social level, I guess
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Making a downstream patch to golang so you must assign new variables by typing :=)
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Sorry everyone, today is canceled. Please go back to bed. Thanks.
capitalism
A particularly frustrating type of capitalism apologia is when you try to explain how it's negatively affecting something, and the other person doesn't understand the finer details/mechanisms, and instead of trying to better understand, they declare that you must be 'naive' and their high-school understanding of capitalism must be right instead
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Tech is Bad
I have lost my ability to be excited or happy about new tech developments or projects and I want people up against the fucking wall for stealing my innocent joy in the hope of revolutionary inventions making the world better
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Tech is Bad
The four stages of new technological development under Capitalism:
1. This is a neat toy!
2. This can be used to get rich quick!
3. This can be used to scam people by promising them that they can get rich quick!
4. This can be used to further solidify the unbending domination of our society by a handful of wealth-hoarding idiots who suck our every living moment free of joy so they can fucking sell that joy back to us for a profit
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Automation is fun. It's always worth to put some extra hours in doing something automatically. Thanks to that when you need to do it again 3 years later, you will need to automate it again, cause so many things changed, that your automation stopped working.
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I need a browser extension to detect news articles that are just "[other publication] reports that..." and automatically take me to the original breaking article so I can see the original quotes and not a rephrase.
The problem with society/political simulation games is that games are difficult to make fun without balancing, and the real world generally isn't balanced
Automattic criticism
A lot of people seem to have a positive view of Automattic (the owners of Wordpress and Tumblr), but uh...
Are you aware that they use predatory business models, and have been doing so for years?
Like how when you want to move your 'free' blog from wordpress.com to somewhere else, they will charge you somewhere in the range of $10-$25 a year for *just a redirect*.
If you don't pay, then you'll essentially lose your entire existing audience when moving, and they'll SEO-drown your new blog in search results unless you shut it down.
None of which you are told in advance.
FOSS projects learn to organize non-commercial communal infrastructure challenge 2023 (impossible)
re: Docker, rant
I particularly "love" how people write angrily about Docker's changes and then... suggest moving to *another* free service from a for-profit corporation
I can see no problem with this whatsoever
Docker, rant
To put it bluntly, y'all got suckered, *again*, particularly the "Docker Captains" who did volunteer marketing work for a for-profit corporation.
How often does it need to be repeated? Corporations are not your friend, corporations are not communities, and doing free work for them means you're getting exploited.
"Free" shit from corporations is never truly free. It only exists for as long as necessary to have you do free marketing and grow their company for them. A corporation will 100% leave you for dead once that's been accomplished and they no longer need you.
When will people finally learn from this, and the thousands of similar failures before it, and stop defending corporations or buying into their "free for open-source" marketing?
I would be a lot less salty about this if I didn't get an absurd amount of backlash from weirdly defensive nerds every time I tried to warn people against predatory marketing schemes. Y'all are *part of the problem*.
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Docker Inc would like to thank the open source community for making registry successful.
As a token of appreciation open source organizations are invited to subscribe to the paid version in the next month, or their data will be deleted.
- 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
