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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BREAKING: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to be cancelled, replaced with "high speed classic" option
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more AI nonsense from Microsoft
so I found out about LinkedIn's new AI bullshit fountain from… an unsolicited message from a community head which has replies disabled. their two "articles" they prompted me to "improve" were on the subjects of…
sigh.
"How do data structures and algorithms impact society?"
and
"How can you ensure your data structures and algorithms are reliable and robust?"
I added the following comment on the former out of frustration:
One way to ensure that your data structures and algorithms impact society is to send unsolicited messages to others. The best data structures and algorithms are developed entirely without having to pay people for their work.
and then shared the image on my LinkedIn feed to talk about the awful messages, only to find out that LinkedIn also doesn't support adding alt text to images. so much for Microsoft's commitment to accessibility.
it's just frustrating because, honestly, I would be less insulted if they just asked for articles to curate inside a list of topics, but that's not what they want. they want us to essentially add comments to an AI-generated high school essay made from automatically generated keyword salad.
quite frankly, the amount of energy required to explain why this is bad only contributes more to the problem. giving it any exposure at all is a net negative. it's effectively technofascism and I don't want any part in it.
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AI nonsense, bluesky screenshot, mild lewd, cartoon guns, uhh
Facebook Messenger has added ai-generated stickers and it's going exactly how you'd expect
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I'm so tired of teenagers being "the chosen ones" in fiction. please, let a middle-aged woman save the universe! she's seen some shit and dealt with it. she's tired of it all. she doesn't give a fuck. she's angry. she will get this shit done.
COVID policies, and how to make masking work at events 
I was reminded of this by another conversation, and figured that it might be helpful to share this with more folks.
In the Netherlands, some time ago, there was a housing protest. It was quite big and crowded, and most of the crowd - from diverse backgrounds, and without them having signed up before - was wearing a mask.
How we achieved that? By simply stationing a couple volunteers at the entrances to the park where the protest started, handing out masks from a big pile.
No further explanation, admonishments, requirements, questions, nothing. Just "here's a mask", one person after another, people didn't even have to stop walking to take it.
It really is that simple. Handing out the masks set a quiet expectation that people would wear them, and most people did. Some refused a mask because they brought their own; some people already put on their own mask as soon as they spotted the hand-outs from a distance.
I recall exactly two people actively refusing to wear a mask. Out of thousands.
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#Monktoberfest may not mandate masking, but they've been thoughtful about ventilation and vaccines ... and then there's this!
I feel good about one way masking as a high risk person given all the other work they've put in.
Of note, when GitHub Universe did the rug pull on COVID precautions last year, it was Monktoberfest's written promise to not relax protections after they're announced that inspired a key part of the @phpledge.
#PublicHealthPledge #HealthAndSafety #COVID #OpenSource #DevRel
Heads-up: 12ft is now advertising fucking ChatGPT shit
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imagine, if you will, that you're using some new editor software. you're working your way through it and picking up the pace. then suddenly, instead of clicking a button, you click on a panel's border, and in your mouse flick, you have dragged that border a dozen or so pixels. you didn't know you could do that, all the ui rearranged. the worst part, there's no undo, you can't eyeball the "exact" position it's was at, now you must live knowing your ui has been permanently tainted and can happen further at any point. it is only natural to despair
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almost ec (from an animation)
when i want asterisks:
me: asterisk
Calckey: italics
me: /backslash/ asterisk
Calckey: backslash asterisk
me: \*sighs and resigns self to mangled emotes\*
when i want italics:
me: asterisk
Calckey:
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Coming from Unity, baking lighting for the first time in Godot and having it automatically place light probes is mind blowing.
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POLITIE EN FASCISTEN: TWEE HANDEN OP EEN BUIK
Pijnlijke lessen uit de Queer Riot A12 blokkade van 1 oktober
https://jokekaviaar.nl/2023/10/03/politie-en-fascisten-twee-handen-op-een-buik/
"En zo hebben de gebeurtenissen van afgelopen zondag, waarbij de politie de fascisten als welkome hefboom konden gebruiken om sneller een eind aan de blokkade te kunnen maken, ertoe geleid dat voor komend weekend fascisten aankondigen: we gaan de politie weer helpen. Zowel op zaterdag als op zondag."
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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.
- 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
