Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
Thinking about the issue of Micky Maus, ostensibly a German children's magazine whose name is self-explanatory, that came with a little plastic roulette game toy as a promo trinket
Just discovered that there's essentially GPL houses: https://www.wikihouse.cc/
*Of course* Action sells off-brand Mod Podge...
Apparently there's now off-brand technical lego? Has a patent expired recently, or something?
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e-mail is a failed federated service. anyone can become a provider, but only a handful can even dream about actually delivering a message to an inbox hosted by Microsoft, a major provider used by lots of entire companies.
stop comparing e-mail to the fediverse.
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The progress bar GUI widget was created so that a program could show its progress to users in a nice, linear, and moderately predictable way.
But now the progress bar is used primarily to show a complete lack of progress, moving back and forth in the progress tray like the light on a Cylon's face, as reassurance to the user that, no, the program hasn't frozen, only that the company behind it couldn't care less about its users.
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@BestGirlGrace start dating your girlfriend's girlfriend, call that quantity of wife improvements
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@schratze based on childhood video games, i thought quicksand would be a more frequent hazard
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gonna assume the cheese truck that's been parked halfway in a no-parking area across the street for the last couple of hours is actually cops doing surveillance
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Babe are you ok? You’ve barely touched your new domain name.
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It's the last day of #AceWeek! I hope all my fellow Aces have had a good week - you are all wonderful and valid! 
Also will toss it out there if anyone has any questions or wants to discuss the subject of asexuality, I'm always open to share my thoughts and experiences! *hugs* <3
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Does this book exist?
"How Universities Lost the Internet"
or has someone done research on this topic? That is, the fact that many North American universities have ceded all technical capacity to Microsoft, Google, etc?
It used to be students could get web hosting, email, and even some cool experimental online stuff through their schools. Now every online communication channel is locked down.
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I went to my optometrist this morning. They don't require customers to mask anymore, but were happy to have all their staff wear masks, including receptionists.
After my appointment finished, I noticed that all the waiting patients had masks as well, which I originally thought was just good luck. However, the receptionist told me that every customer had entered without a mask, and within a few minutes they all either put on their own mask or asked for one from the receptionist, noticing that they were the odd one out.
This experience powerfully showed me that for many, the decision to mask or not is heavily influenced by peer pressure.
This is especially true if you've concluded that the article is trustworthy because some of the claims "look right", which is much easier to achieve than actually *being* right.
Your periodic reminder that just because one claim in an article is true, that doesn't mean that *all* claims in that article are true.
That is literally how propaganda works - stacking lies on top of truths, so that the lies look more believable.
You really do actually have to verify each claim separately.
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Subtoot of everyone who writes "screenshot" for their alt text.
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Looking at scale model building, and I'm very quickly coming to two conclusions:
- This looks like a pretty fun hobby
- I'm pretty sure I don't want to interact with the community around it if at all possible
- 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
