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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- 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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if the fact that they're making sitting on ledges illegal or impossible to stop homeless people from sitting or sleeping on them hasn't radicalized you you should wake the fuck up, frankly
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"Accessibility on a Shoestring": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiCsvZZh5-k
A great, fairly short talk providing lots of practical advice and examples on how to make games more accessible with little time and monetary investment, so this one's particularly interesting for indie devs.
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When you empty your vacuum cleaner you become a vacuum cleaner.
Good morning.
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ACAB
i wonder if raising a kid in a polycule is going to end up more mentally healthy for the child because the housework and the chores can be split between different partners evenly without overloading them and thus giving everybody time to spend with the kid
(Dat zijn dus die dingen met die ronde karretjes waarin je altijd verschrikkelijk door elkaar geschud wordt)
Wow. De 'nieuwe' achtbaan van Hellendoorn is blijkbaar zo'n tweedehands Reverchon-kermisbaantje. Ik kan maar moeilijk begrijpen dat ze daar in deze tijd nog geld aan uit durven te geven...
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the pytest package checks whether your code is pyte. only if your code is pytest, will it pass; otherwise, it will tell you to make it pyter.
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why aren't there open source gambling simulators that let you win fake money to help folks who need that stimuli for harm reduction
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Language toolchains with a perceptible compilation step are challenging for the neurodivergent brain...
It's far too easy to start compiling, get distracted while waiting, then tons of time flies by before you remember to switch back to what you were working on. 😅
As a bit more background: the reason that I think it's important for people to learn to identify the more subtle variants is not just because of the harm caused by those variants directly; but because they can serve as fertile ground for the more problematic variants to persist and crop up again later. Kind of similar to how racism often starts with racist "jokes", not with overt rhetoric.
I continue to find it very difficult to point out the similarity and apparent shared roots between different oppressive behaviours, without implying that the circumstances are of equal badness.
A case that just came up was how anti-vegan rhetoric often functions similarly to bigoted rhetoric (eg. transmisia, racism, etc.), trying to frame everything as things "being taken away" from the privileged group.
Another example from a while ago would be the similarity in assumptions and behaviours between actual colonialism, and the way that (especially white liberal) Twitter users felt entitled to the entire fedi adjusting to their cultural expectations.
In both cases, the two things are obviously not of the same impact; but I do feel that calling out the similarity helps people to identify problematic patterns (and subtler forms of them) more broadly. But how do you communicate that without implying they are equally bad?
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Developers, I'm *begging* you. If your app or site runs in an environment where there's a detectable user preference for a light or dark system theme, *please use it* instead of just going "hey I think dark mode looks cool" and making me hunt around in a bunch of menus I can barely read to find where you've hidden a dropdown list to let me change it.
This is basic #accessibility stuff, folks. These settings exist at a system level for a reason.
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inventing a programming language where all keywords have diacritics and watching americans struggle to understand where all the syntax errors come from
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I cannot accept being robbed by someone richer and more powerful than me.
Same goes for my peers.
#Landlords are some of the worst, I keep hearing stories about their tricks to not give back the security deposit (is this the proper name? I'm from Italy).
I have yet to meet a landlord who couldn't afford a meal because of a tenant missing payments, typically is the other way around, and even if it happened, being a landlord is not a job and guaranteeing a living to a landlord is not the tenant's job! [I support universal basic income, in general]
In Italy by law the landlord must give back the security deposit and then sue the tenant so that the judge can verify the cost of any damage; one can keep the security deposit if and only if the damage is unpaid rent, other costs don't apply.
Yet I hear about hundreds of euros kept and months of delay for things such as "stains caused by adhesive plastilins for wall posters" and "cleaning".
Because the tenant to should sue and risk losing (and paying) the lawsuit, just to have her money.
This is one of the most common and institutionalized instances of class abuse that comes to my mind, at least for Italy.
The housing problem here is big and bigger, especially for students and young workers, who are treated very poorly compared to countries of similar GDP etc.
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This is from a FEMA earthquake preparedness doc and I gotta say, these are good rules to live by
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@FirstProgenitor "you think too much" is such a weird thing to tell someone. my friend, i am a brain. what else am i going to do
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<- it is now considering how setting a slice of life story in a fundamentally different world can be a strongly revolutionary act, since the notion of slice of life implies that these can be ordinary circumstances. if the elimination of suffering, destruction of capitalism, abolition of normativity can become a mundane backdrop, we have freed our minds.
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Diagnostic log: library-robot[0x0001]
After 43 days, 4 hours, 12 minutes and 13 seconds of performing its tasks, the robot encountered an issue: its goal sector was unreachable due to an obstacle. It resolved this issue in the default manner: destroy the obstacle of least operational value. Crate 0x3f30 represented a small amount of easily-manufactured material and therefore could be replaced easily. However, the robot had not been able to initialize its weapons platform upon boot due to missing hardware. Since its own tactical planning had failed, it relayed the situation to its officer, ?m_37 Test Test. It could not establish a secure handshake with ?m_37 Test Test, and therefore had concluded its officer was captured or deceased. It therefore resorted to audio communication: "library-robot[0x0001] requesting assistance in task: remove object Crate 0x3f30. Goal: insert object Diseases Of The Sheep into variable sector Charlie." Listening carefully for an order in response, it repeated this message every 30 seconds, and during the third repetition a mobile object collided with Crate 0x3f30, causing it to unblock the goal sector path. It received one audio snippet that it could not parse, saving it for further analysis: "Oops, sorry about blocking you in. I'll put this back where it belongs." Since the obstacle location had been updated, the robot recomputed its goals and continued its tasks.
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@storm There's precedent for libcs calling perl: https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libc/blob/2ca2ae74647714acfc18674c3114b1a5d3325d7d/gen/wordexp.c#L192
- 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
