Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- 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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Beware of companies promising to make sites completely accessible, compliant, and immune from lawsuits with just a few lines of code. This just isn't possible. Disabled users have long said these tools don't actually help them, and can often make things worse.
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looks like Songtradr made a point of laying off 100% of the Bandcamp United negotiators https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2023/10/every-member-of-bandcamp-united-union-bargaining-team-was-laid-off.html Paul Wiltshire, we can see you.
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a16z manifesto thing
this is really quite excellent
https://bengrosser.com/files/Techno-Optimist-Manifesto-Andreessen-redacted-by-Grosser.pdf
I get too much e-mail.
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One of the reasons I want Xenia the Fox to replace Tux the Penguin as the Linux mascot is so the bigots in the Linux community get outraged enough at queer symbolism that they basically see themselves out and save us the work of booting them out.
(This is not about any one specific site, I've seen this happen a couple of times now from different online bookstores)
What is it with "free e-books" on activist/leftist topics and mandatory sign-up forms demanding personal information including address details?
Like, do you *want* to build a database with the names and addresses of people reading material that is potentially illegal where they are? Because that's what you're doing...
Meh. Hospital is changing their check-in procedure - they used to print you a patient card, and you'd use that same card to check in for every appointment.
Now you have to check in with your ID card or online, and they print you a QR code that's only valid for a day - which is much harder to store without losing or damaging it than the old card :/
I really preferred the old system, despite the janky check-in machines...
An excellent video about so-called "micro-transit" and the "just buy everyone a car instead of funding transit" argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK5r4dtFXGA
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If you have a library card (Canada, UK, and US; maybe more), you may be able to log into kanopy.com at no extra cost, giving you access to a broad library of films, completely ad-free. ^_^
Works in a browser, or their app (as far as Apple devices go, it's available for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV).
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When Unity lit itself on fire a month ago, I asked myself the same questions as many other devs:
"Which engine should I chose?"
"Which will compliment my workflow?"
"Which can do what I want to do?"
and so on.
In the end, I realized most of these questions were details. For me just one remained important:
"How much ownership do I want over my own game?"
That answer was simple and ruled out quite a lot of the contenders.
Idly wondering whether 'extra content' in video captions (in *addition* to actual captions, not instead of) might have indirectly contributed to more people turning on captions and appreciating them for their intended purpose as well
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what's the retro punk DIY way of doing a podcast
i know it's not spotify
is it... using RSS somehow? or something?
health-
Spent a night in hospital after I fainted from taking medication, welp
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"We think you're the most gullible mark in the whole county fair"
But make it techbro
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#GamedevProtip: Your game needs a pause button, and the sooner you add it the better, otherwise you'll struggle with which code should and should not run.
This is the real world: the phone rings, there is a knock at the door, a child needs help, a bathroom break, etc. Games are entertainment and need to take a backseat to life.
If the player is not actively engaged in online PvP, the pause button needs to work.
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politics, climate catastrophe
I wish it was forbidden to use the words “carbon neutral” on things that have had any contact whatsoever with carbon credits.
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To protect your privacy and shield yourself against 0-days and malicious advertisers, an adblocker is an important part of your security stance.
The FBI, NSA, CISA, and UK National Cyber Security Centre all recommend adblocking as a protective measure.
You'd never disable your firewall or antivirus because a site asked you to. NEVER DO THIS WITH YOUR ADBLOCKER.
That's the only pertinent point here. Everything else is noise.
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-Fanatikerin 
#Loktober Tag 15 - die Hälfte ist fast rum. Dafür gibts heute so ziemlich das absurdeste und zugleich beeindruckendste an Lok, was mir bislang so untergekommen ist...
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...I just heard a kid outside go "ca-caw!" and then two small dogs started incessantly barking
- 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
