Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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@IIVQ Nee. Maar de haat is dat ik zelf mijn eigen tempo bepaal waarin ik informatie tot mij neem, en meestal is dat sneller dan in een podcast, waar 50% van de tijd nutteloos geouwehoer of een xylofoon is.
pet peeve
"Locks only keep out honest people"
Like, what the fuck is that even supposed to *mean*
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Did you know the fascist ass two hole screw things they use to put on anti-homeless bench bars and such are called pig nose? Anyway, they are and bits that fit them are readily available
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it'd be cool if more dudes realized the reason they're made to feel inadequate about their bodies, their sexualities, their behavior, etc. is bc of sexism
guys don't have it worse, of course, but a fanatical emphasis on gender roles hurts everyone. None of us can live up to that shit all the time.
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And I caught Microsoft at doing this nasty thing again.
First time I noticed Microsoft doing this on Microsoft Designer website: https://collar.place/@Sominemo/110275107838229822
"We'll be as evil as your local laws allow us"
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Ah, De Volkskrant knows:
> TEA2 is in Nederland geheim verklaard.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/cs-b8f7034a
"Geheim" is the second highest classification level in Dutch law: https://wetten.overheid.nl/jci1.3:c:BWBR0033507&artikel=4&z=2013-06-01&g=2013-06-01
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elon, birdsite, funny but sad
https://twitter.com/tweetsbyparker/status/1683571984754704384?s=20
tl;dr: Elon blocked what looks to me like the bike lane on Market St to take the ‘Twitter' sign off of the building he's squatting the business in, probably to rebrand, but he, little fucking autocrat that he is, didn't get work permits and the police shut him down lol
advice for understanding FediBlock conflicts
Like all rules of thumb, this is not universal, but it ends up being accurate *very* often: if two parties are accusing each other around a FediBlock listing, look at who is answering questions and providing explanations, and who is not.
All too often one party is being very cagey and vague in their claims and accusations, making claims that are broader than the available evidence would support. This is a red flag - it often means that there *is* no evidence, and that they know it.
(Them launching into some narrative about how "everybody is conspiring against me", "someone is trying to ruin me", etc. without a credible motivation is extra suspicious - you may be dealing with an abuser.)
Conversely, if someone is being very open about what happened, and can provide an explanation that doesn't leave any gaps and isn't suspiciously *slightly* different from what they were asked, that's often a sign that they're in the right.
Do be aware that there are circumstances where this doesn't apply, and this doesn't transfer as well to other kinds of conflicts - particularly for interpersonal abuse, evidence is not always available or possible to share. Those are messier to sort out.
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It would be nice if there was like a universal language for physical USB connector types. Example:
+c:micro+
-c:90ccw:micro+
+c:6ftcable:micro+
Then you could search for them more effectively.
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Being a pacifist leads to a lot of tedious conversations because I'll say something like "man I feel like we'd have fewer problems if there was less violence", and then a violent person will immediately reply with a contrived hypothetical situation that they think is a witty takedown that proves the necessity of violence, and it's just like, an example of yet another problem that was caused by violence. Or something like that. Like, cool beans man.
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>accidentally do something masculine
>"oh no people will think I'm boy, I can't do that"
>day ruined
Fix your bad thought patterns
>accidentally do something masculine
>"hehe I'm non biney"
>no bad days
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thunderbird allows an expedient solution for solving the debate of whether the week starts on monday or on sunday
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Zouden jullie willen helpen om ons account wat zichtbaarheid te geven? De telescoop is heel leuk, en de 5000 volgers op platform X waren vast niet alleen maar bots, en 5 hier is echt te weinig. Boost dit bericht, dan schrijven wij vanuit Dwingeloo over al het moois aan de radiosterrenhemel.
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I'm trying to print something, but it's not sized for letter-paper, which is in my printer. So if I let it get natively scaled, it ends up printing too close to the edge of the paper and cropping off some vital info.
so I have to resize the paper (but not the contents). The only tool I have that seems to be able to do this has to split it into 3 separate files, since it's 3 pages. Fine.
so I print them seprately.
my printer rejects page 2
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re: Twitter, X.com rebrand, backstory
@joepie91 [citation provided]
I dug the articles up yesterday
https://www.inverse.com/article/33987-elon-musk-paypal-x-com-domain
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61323401
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63141272
He’s just trying to make fetch happen.
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i’m sighted, and i find alt text helpful. sometimes it’s nice to have an explanation of what i’m even looking at.
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Why doesn't ADHD have identity first language like autism does?
Also can we get a new name for ADHD because four syllables is annoying
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Het Monster van VIRMenstein is een VIRM van de derde generatie. Bij de revisie heeft deze ook het interieur van de derde generatie gekregen, met zwarte stoelframes en USB-poorten. Van buiten heeft het echter de kleurstelling van de revisie van de eerste en tweede generatie VIRM gekregen, in plaats van NS Flow, omdat dit stel voor de seriematige revisie als proefmodel werd gebruikt.
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Seriously considering putting a user agent check on my website that warns users that they're using a bad browser if they're using Chrome (or any popular chromium browser) and they should switch to Firefox for maximum compatibility
Twitter, X.com rebrand, backstory
Some backstory (retold from memory, haven't checked for accuracy):
Musk was also involved in early PayPal, called X.com at the time. IIRC, there was a falling out between Thiel and Musk because Musk wanted it to be an "everything app" even back then, and Thiel didn't.
Far as I can tell, this 'rebrand' is just Musk trying to revive a 20 year old hobby horse, but this time with Twitter instead of PayPal.
Speaking of which, Wikipedia editors sure have a ship-of-Theseus to deal with now, regarding the X.com wiki page...
- 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
