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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Petition to rename follow requests from empty profiles as hollow requests
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minimalism is a scam invented by big small to sell more less
I think the #NixOS community should be a hell of a lot more hostile towards #LLM shit creeping into the community, actually.
This is just the next iteration of the tech hype grift, after NFTs and blockchains fell through (it's the same goddamn people!), and it's not something we should be legitimizing as a community.
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"Cringe" is the reaction from others wanting to impose their level of acceptability on others for being too weird, too loud, too enthusiastic, too honest with what they are into.
"Cringe" is sad sack pieces of shit trying to make you as sad as they are.
Why do you want THEIR acceptance?
Who made them the arbiter of socially acceptable expression?
As for how to "embrace cringe"
I stepped away from communities where enthusiasm and authenticity were seen as weakeness, where any enjoyment had to be cradled in layers of irony and sarcasm because actually *caring* about something was seen as a weakness, a vulnerability, caring was being a loser.
Also I became a furry.
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De coöptatie van XR
https://www.doorbraak.eu/de-cooptatie-van-xr/
"Een radicale groep wordt in de geschiedschrijving neergezet als gematigd, omdat de door hun nagestreefde doelen (door hun radicale actie!) gemeengoed is geworden. Vervolgens wordt het als voorbeeld gebruikt waarom je juist géén radicale actie moet voeren."
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"It doesn't matter who started it" is only true if the only thing you care about is having peace and quiet
Which is why, if you're a certain kind of disappointing centrist
You still believe it
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Remember when you were a kid and they told you "It doesn't matter who started it" and you accepted that as Deep Moral Wisdom
They were wrong
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Aka "this description of my gender exists for the purpose of cishets not asking confused follow up questions. It does not accurately represent my identity."
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Netflix and chill, more like Plex server and hold on a sec I just need to fix this, gimme a second
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Just be really REALLY careful when you read anything from or a domain with Chrome or Google in the name about exciting new standard web APIs. Much too often what they are promoting is effectively a proprietary API that other browser vendors have serious concerns about.
Edited so as to not tar web.dev with the same brush as the rest, as I genuinely think they are trying to do the right thing. You still need to be careful reading it, though, as they don't always succeed.
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Can leaf blowers just be banned please
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Please, for the love of god, if you're doing something worldwide and there's a deadline, _post the time in UTC_. FFS, why do I need to say this again?
Sigh. Leafblower season has started.
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Alexandre Garel presenting @openfoodfacts, the Wikipedia or Open Street Map of nutrition facts.
This is quite expensive data to license from commercial vendors. Great to have thousands of people contributing to open data freely available as an alternative.
Recently added environmental impact score of foods. Working on improving search capabilities.
New project: Open *Product* Facts for documenting components of any type of product.
Today's interesting archive.org find: a collection of uncommon Encarta releases! https://archive.org/details/@encartaarchiver
We should probably normalize people calling out *which* company fired them. It should be an action that has social consequences for the company doing the firing.
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It's absolutely wild how huge swathes of 60s Doctor Who are completely gone, but the unbroadcast pilot that they didn't like survived to be watched today.
- 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
