Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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.
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- 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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The Verge title: “Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from its unpopular API pricing changes”
My alternative title: “Reddit doesn't want to spend their own money on making their site accessible and wants others to do it, but only if they do it for free.”
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/7/23752804/reddit-exempt-accessibility-apps-api-pricing-changes
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Person: aren't posts called toots on there
Me: well... it's complicated
Them: how could it possibly be complicated
train shitpost
The default train liveries of a few countries:
- Netherlands: blue/yellow, or blue/white with yellow accents
- Germany: red with white accents, or white with red accents
- Belgium: graffiti
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
yesterday I paused this live set and it's on the funniest freeze frame of someone in the crowd looking shocked dressed in what I can only describe as Minion-core
reddit implosion, rant about privilege, call-out
I *really* hope that people will draw lessons from the current Reddit implosion, particularly those who are privileged enough to be able to build their own alternatives.
I'm so, so tired of this endless cycle of "people build marginalized communities on VC-funded platforms because there's no other viable options, then the mods burn out because of bad support from the platform, and eventually the platform hangs them out to dry and destroys the communities".
And this isn't to blame *only* on the VC-funded platforms themselves, either. I can think of quite a few well-off people who certainly have the means to build something better, but chose not to, because using Reddit or whatever was easier.
If you're a well-paid software developer who spends most of their time being excited about new tech, rather than spending it being concerned about their own safety or health, then I am talking about you. Yes, also if you're queer.
Solidarity also means putting in the work that you are able to, to help others who can't. Not just going "uwu I'm so queer" and pulling up the ladder behind you just because *you* are comfortable.
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Truly in spirit of @jon's amazing D-Ticket flow chart:
Is SNCB Unlimited valid: the flow chart! For all owners of a subscription as expensive as BC100 but for 1/12th the size and nowhere known to exist...
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transphobic scam update
possible ID on the person running this scam. they left their Real Name on the paypal for the site, like an absolute fool, and it lines up with a member of the Patriot Front that people have been keeping tabs on.
Name is Kevin Lowy. connected to addresses in the Bronx, White Plains, and Mahopac. apparently he recruits using a GMod server he runs named Prometheus Networks (prometheusnet.works)
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why am i so tired. no way it has anything to do with it being 26.5°C at my desk
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Idk dude we all collectively produce so much more than can be consumed that we we need to invent new forms of labor and consumption to justify it, maybe if we all just worked for each other instead we could chill a little more I'm just saying
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capitalism is when i have to do 10 hours of research if i want to buy fucking sunglasses to find out which one won't crumble apart in my hands the moment i buy it, carefully avoiding advertisements and reviews that are secretly from the manufacturer
but like freedom and choice right
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So what's people's read on kbin? I'm aware of the issues with Lemmy, but kbin seems uncomfortably close to a lot of cryptocurrency stuff, which is not really any better...
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And this is exactly what free speech lunatics advocate for in the fedi.
It's not about open communication. It's about bigots being able to flood our channels with so much nonsense we stop communicating.
This is one of the primary reasons #TheBadSpace exists. These people are not acting in good faith.
RE: https://mastodon.social/users/tzimmer_history/statuses/110509612716685313
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Anne C.A. Baanen
people who watch videos out loud on the train WILL be launched into the sun. except this one guy who is currently watching Buurman&Buurman with the most serious expression I have ever seen.
I have found a hidden mode on my kettle, somehow
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I'm trying to find the name of a flash game that was very popular for a while, where it was an editor of wireframe lines and it had gravity, and wind settings, and you could make some of these lines work like pistons, and make little walking machines or bridges. Does that ring a bell for anyone?
Doing a loose, non-committal survey: if you're a software developer, would you be interested in collaborating on FOSS projects that are:
1. Uncompromisingly open-source (no "open-core" or "enterprise edition" nonsense)
2. Explicitly anti-fascist and anti-capitalist
3. Trying to solve some sort of unsolved/structural technical problem(s) in an unconventional way, even if it means going against 'common wisdom' and 'programming culture' on a lot of points?
I have a bunch of these projects and it's getting pretty lonely, so I'm trying to gauge whether it's worth putting out a call for collaborators. Most (but not all) of these are in JS.
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This blog is just wow. Beautiful interactive illustrations of physics and mechanics.
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PSA: recognizing drowning
> The Instinctive Drowning Response—so named by Francesco A. Pia, Ph.D., is what people do to avoid actual or perceived suffocation in the water. And it does not look like most people expect. There is very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind.
Refresher for anyone who might spend time near water this year.
- 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
