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.
- 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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recipe for melvor idle soup
put 2 potaotes in a pot
wait 7 seconds
you now have 4 soups
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Alt text meta + whinging
Seeing people bitch and moan about using alt text has made me want to use it more.
Like... maybe we decide as a group not to just fuck over people with seeing problems?
re: ableist behaviour patterns
(It is worth noting that this same dynamic, of course, exists along other axes of marginalization too. But right now I'm venting about my own experiences.)
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Waffle House workers are demanding fair pay. Marvel and Disney vfx workers each unanimously voted to unionize with IATSE. SAG-AFTRA has already forced the studios into talks. The SWG won their demands.
Collective action WORKS.
✊
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Anyone know why that unicode blog post making the rounds has that little trick with the mouse pointers sticking to the screen like flies to rotten fruit?
re: ableist behaviour patterns
The reason this especially frustrates me is because I go to rather *extreme* lengths to communicate with people on their own turf, to try and resolve conflicts, translate between neurotypical and neurospicy folks, and so on... this is a whole special interest for me.
And then I communicate in my own way once and I immediately get told off for it, with nobody in the process making even the most minimal effort to account for *my* needs or circumstances, not even bothering to acknowledge their understanding of what I have just had to spend energy to explain and 'defend' myself on *once again*
ableist behaviour patterns
It was the usual pattern again:
- Someone means X but says Y
- I interpret it as Y
- I get told off for not interpreting it as X
- I point out that people should say what they mean, and that I have to deal with masking all my life, and I draw the line at being told that it is *expected* from me
- Deathly silence, conversation moves onto another topic, no acknowledgment, no apologies, nothing
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I wonder if a solution exists for "I want to run my own MTA for receiving and just need someone's clean-reputation IP for sending"
That's basically the realm of spam cannon services and anything set up with the intent to not be one would become one through abuse.
Would be nice if neurotypical folks stopped expecting people to just magically infer their intent if they can't be bothered to say what they *mean*
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MFW someone decides the best way to reunite someone's lost driver's license is to post the whole thing completely uncensored onto a local Facebook page instead of, you know, travelling to the address on the fucking card or mailing it to them.
I reiterate, completely uncensored. 
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As my mom says, success brings many (fake) friends.
The added context is gold 😂
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I just whined about this elsewhere, but this makes a good post, so:
1. a very good feature of default Win32 message boxes is that they implement Ctrl-C to copy the error message and window title into the clipboard (formatted and everything)
2. way too few people know this, and accordingly, custom message boxes basically never implement this
3. if you work on custom UI libraries that have some message box facility, you should!
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🌶️ programming take
If you don't have enough time to do both the documentation and the code polishing/testing in your project, the code work is the work that you should drop and leave to the community, not the documentation.
You *can* properly implement something that is documented, but you *can't* properly document something that is implemented unless you are the creator with full context of why it works the way it does.
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Gastfahrt nach Hause oder wie ich es nenne: Swift on Rails
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The metaverse was a grift so obvious that even the techbros didn't fall for it
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You are in 'detached HEAD' state. 💀
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How do I keep not missing my stops, I get on tram, get distracted with ADHD, I remember I should look at what stop I need to get out, oh, this one!
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Anyways, this poll was inspired by a research drive earlier in the week into text rendering systems, because if it wasn't bad enough already that text rendering is an endless source of hell problems, they also all seem to have totally random licenses. I'm developing a deep deep hatred for licenses, especially the GPL and LGPL. It goes well with my deep deep general hatred of copyright and patents.
🌶️ programming take
If you don't have enough time to do both the documentation and the code polishing/testing in your project, the code work is the work that you should drop and leave to the community, not the documentation.
You *can* properly implement something that is documented, but you *can't* properly document something that is implemented unless you are the creator with full context of why it works the way it does.
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Let’s talk about a problem - software cannot be trusted anymore. In the past, if I allowed an app to send me notifications, I’d get alerted for things I wanted to hear about. Now every app uses spurious notifications as a way to artificially boost their daily active user count. I am one by one having to shut off notifications on apps that used to be reliable products. I’ve disabled notifications on linkedin because it keeps sending me ads and random unnecessary alerts.
- 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
