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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- 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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Social Media: “Hot takes! Thinkpieces! Discourse! Propaganda!”
Fedi: “I have carbonated various soups with my sodastream and the results are as follows”
re: pondering 'open web' computer things
Historically, I've seen a lot of defenses of this sort of jargon by arguing "but the simple term isn't correct!"
And like, does it matter? Do you want something that is 'correct on paper' (by your understanding of language, that is!), or do you want something that is Good Enough and that people can *use*, that enjoys successful adoption?
re: pondering 'open web' computer things
And like, there are plenty of cool ideas in there, that *could* have worked, had they been made more broadly accessible.
The Wikipedia article about SPARQL kind of rubs salt in the wound here, with a great example; it describes "subject-predicate-object", and states that it is analogous to "document-key-value".
One of those is easy to understand and remember. The other is the canonical term for this concept in RDF-land.
pondering 'open web' computer things
Every time I read about stuff like RDF and other 'modern open web' things, I just get sad, because... I can see the dream, but it never had any real chance of the widespread success that it was going for.
Commercial developers wouldn't adopt it because it doesn't align with their incentives. Hobbyists wouldn't adopt it because the terminology is impenetrable to them.
It's not hard to see why it never became The Thing Everyone Uses, and I'm pretty sure it could've been avoidable.
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airline that plays sick electronic music during the flight
Air Trance
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Ransomware:
I have installed an unlicensed copy of Oracle Database somewhere on your network. Give me five Bitcoins by the end of the week or I will inform Oracle's legal department.
This video turned out to be unexpectedly fascinating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnLJnDTnSqc
RIP microtransaction.zone, apparently :(
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Dieting Myth: "if you diet too long your 'metabolism' will slow down"
Now it *is* true that if you go on a diet and lose 30lbs (and don't change your activity level) you'll find you burn fewer calories daily. But, I think people are overlooking the obvious reason why. Imagine carrying a 30 pound weight around all day. That'd be like... well extra exercise.
The main reason you need fewer calories after loosing weight is because you weigh less. There is another factor at play. 1/
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.
- 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
