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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- 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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It bears mentioning that Songtradr is a music licensing and digital rights management company. So the first thing users can expect to go out the window are DRM-free downloads, signaling a push towards platform lock-in.
They’ll probably keep #BandcampFriday for a time, but slightly increase their cut off the top the rest of the time, framing it as a compromise. That cut will continue to increase in a frog-boiling way. Eventually, downloads will only be available at a premium, requiring DRM and their proprietary player. They’ll pivot to being a Spotify competitor.
You’ll pay for the music, the artist will get less, and you won’t have agency over how you can play the music you paid for. They’ll start paying by the stream instead of just offering albums for sale.
And that’s when the ads will start.
18-24 months, roughly. And that’s assuming Songtradr cares about maintaining any good will with the #Bandcamp community.
Hopefully I’m dead wrong about this.
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An incomplete map of the surface parking lots in and around downtown St Paul
I can't believe it took me so many years of frustration to discover this, holy shit
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TIL that there's a very easy way to place signals in OpenTTD automatically along an entire track, corners included: https://www.reddit.com/r/openttd/comments/1wabcl/comment/cf03v97/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
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Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, the non-discrimination authority: The Tax Authority is guilty of indirect discrimination in the childcare benefits affair. This emerges from the first three cases of parents investigated by the Institute and tested against the General Equal Treatment Act. The verdict is three times: prohibited indirect discrimination on grounds of ethnicity. https://www.mensenrechten.nl/actueel/nieuws/2023/10/2/toeslagen-oordelen #discrimination #bias #law #politics #netherlands
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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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Reminder: when someone (eg. landlord, company, employer, whatever) tells you that a contract change or renewal is 'needed', always approach it critically and determine what exactly they mean with "needed".
Often what they actually mean is that *they* need the change, not that *you* need the change.
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[job interview voice] yes, I’m very personable. I work well with people, great communicator
The thing about aggressive cyclists is that they are absolutely a problem, but they become more of a problem the less bike infrastructure there is, because a) that's the only way to survive among cars, and b) the situation self-selects for those people, as non-aggressive cyclists would not last for very long.
So counterintuitively, to have less issues with aggressive cyclists, you need more cycling infrastructure -> more overall cyclists. Not even *less* of them, like people often claim.
(Inspired by, but *not* a subtoot of, a toot I ran across today)
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re: medical, weight loss
For reference, I used to be 110 - 115kg, and now I'm more like 90kg
medical, weight loss
The good: none of my pants are too small for me anymore
The bad: all of them are now too big
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One of my favourite (and oh so simple) hacker tricks is to abuse JSON support in APIs and pass TRUE instead of the actual API key. If the code does loose comparison, you don't need the key! 😎 😈 🍿
https://securinglaravel.com/p/security-tip-type-juggling #PHP #Laravel
re: grumbling, evergreen
(This is mostly a complaint about people elsewhere. Most of my interactions on here are quite good. But there's certain communities that are absolutely full of the strawman-constructing type.)
re: grumbling, evergreen
And yes, the people who show that they can deal with nuance, continue to get nuanced takes rather than absolute ones. So if you keep getting absolute takes from me, that should tell you something about the way you communicate and argue
re: grumbling, evergreen
And yes these are usually the same people even if they often believe that they're not
grumbling, evergreen
"Stop speaking in such absolute terms all the time!"
Maybe I wouldn't have to speak in absolute terms if people ever actually took the nuance seriously, instead of taking it as an invitation to construct a strawman
- 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
