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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An immigrant was the hero yesterday stopping the horrific attack in Dublin.
Not to mention the many immigrants working in our hospitals saving the lives of those attacked.
Don't let the far-right turn a tragedy into hateful racist scaremongering of immigrants.
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@joenepraat @TheDutchChief @MathijsvdSande
Liberalen, en ander salonfähig rechts, zullen het misschien niet toegeven, maar zijn banger voor links dan voor fascisme. Altijd zo geweest.
Links is een bedreiging voor hoe zij de macht en het geld graag verdeeld zien. Fascisme, ook al zeggen ze 100 keer boe en bah, is dat niet.
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Fascisme parkeer je niet en je werkt er
niet mee samen – je bestrijdt het met alles
wat je in je hebt https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/fascisme-parkeer-je-niet-en-je-werkt-er-niet-mee-samen-je-bestrijdt-het-met-alles-wat-je-in-je-hebt~be518f07/
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De politici spreken over hypothetische coalities met de PVV erin als "centrumrechts", de media nemen dat klakkeloos over.
De PVV is, volgens elke definitie van die term, *extreem* rechts.
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Quick lesson in GDPR
Example of a legitimate interest:
If a customer orders something from a retailer, to be delivered to the customer's home, the retailer has a legitimate interest in storing and processing the customer's home address so that they can carry out the terms of the contract.
Example of an illegitimate interest:
The website is funded through ad revenue. To maximise revenue, the advertisers collect information about what other websites you visit so that they can tailor adverts to your interests and get more click-throughs.
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It is an enormous disservice to the public to report on this as if it were a "debate" rather than a disruption of science by billionaires throwing money at the hope of bringing about the speculative fiction stories they grew up reading---and philosophers and others feeling important by dressing these same silly ideas up in fancy words. 20, 21/
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Deliveroo did leave the Netherlands in 2022, after a huge fight with unions about employment laws. Deliveroo lost the fight earlier this year.
Today, Deliveroo was hit again by the highest court. Deliveroo denied participation in the pension fund for road transportation, which is required by law. They now have to pay € 650.000 to the pension fund.
You can leave, but you can’t hide from the consequences of being a shitty company.
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On our date night last night, Shae introduced me to a new game that any* two people online can play, and it turns out to be really fun!
You go to Wikipedia, and one of you (take turns doing this) names something off the top of their head that they're pretty sure a Wikipedia page exists for. (If you're not sure, you can use the search without submitting it just to see if a page turns up.)
After you both acknowledge that you understand the target, you simultaneously (we did a 3-2-1 on the voice chat) click "Random Page".
The goal is then to see who can reach the target page first ONLY BY CLICKING INTERNAL LINKS. No external links or typing allowed. We did eventually allow the back button so you could get yourself out of dead ends, but tried to use it in only that way.
It's surprisingly fun!
(* If you use a screen reader or other access technologies, or if, like me, you read VERY slowly, you might not be very competitive if your opponent does not also.)
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Hey, fellow #Mastodon (and #fediverse) #admins:
I am working on my book about the fedi and would like to get a sense of what it costs to run your server per month.
Anyone willing to share numbers? (Feel free to do it via DM if you don't want it public). Please let me know your instance and how much it costs.
Boosts welcome!
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When creating PDFs, avoid using "Print to PDF." A screen reader user may still be able to access the text of PDFs created this way, but heading structure, alternative text, and any other tag structure will be lost. Using "Save As" or "Export" can preserve these tags.
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@researchfairy thus it is imperative that we clear it at any and all opportunity
to rub it in, until the marketing people catch wind of it
long, the web
I have complicated feelings about the web. Do I think it's perfect? No, absolutely not. Do I think it could've gone differently, better, and end up with the same *positive* traits? I'm not so sure.
There's a lot of takes like "apps don't belong on the web" and "separation of concerns is bullshit" or conversely "separation of concerns is holy", but I think all of these are grossly oversimplified, and it is really a lot more complicated.
In practice, the web is essentially the only application development target that truly works cross-platform, almost regardless of what you use - and it didn't even try to be that originally! It just kind of grew that way.
Because as it turns out, there are very good practical reasons why people like putting apps on the web - the ability to seamlessly link between content-in-apps and content-on-sites being a good (but rarely mentioned) example.
Likewise, separation of concerns makes a lot of sense as a concept. The exact boundaries between the concerns might not be the ideal ones, but... are there better ones? And can those better ones universally stand the test of time better than the current ones?
Because it's easy to find a sensible separation of concerns for a particular application, but finding a sensible separation of concerns *for every project by anyone forever* is a whole lot more difficult! It's not without reason that many UI toolkits are adopting design choices from web-land.
Or consider HTML. Is it a bit annoying to work with? Sure. Is it optimal for sending over a network? Absolutely not.
But... would we ever have arrived at a 'participatory web' to begin with if thousands of teens weren't able to use their browser to look at and tinker with the completely human-readable source code of existing websites?
Was there ever a way we could have gotten to where we are today, other than through flawed-but-easily-accessible technology?
These are just some of the reasons that I think the many widespread "web is horrible" and "web is amazing" takes do a disservice to what the web has become, and the people involved in making it so.
Yes, I think there's plenty to criticize. But I don't think it's possible to capture all of this into a binary judgment of quality, and people trying to do so anyway makes it very difficult to discuss the topic with any nuance.
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Wanneer je de #PVV hoort praten over hoe ze dingen beter gaan maken "voor alle Nederlanders", hou dan in je achterhoofd hoe racistische framing werkt:
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Palestinian poet, scholar, and librarian Mosab Abu Toha was beaten up by the Israeli army, his passports (including the American one) and all his documents taken away.
Mosab is the founder of the Edward Said library in Gaza. He's a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist & Palestine Book Award Winner.
The army of thugs with access to billions of $ of Western money beat up a librarian.
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@HannahCelsius typisch vind ik het ook dat mensen allerlei minderheden opnoemen en de gehandicapten daar niet tussen staan. Zag ik ook de laatste weken in veel verkiezingsprogramma's, en nu weer in veel van die solidariteitsoproepen. We bestaan nog steeds niet in het bewustzijn van veel mensen.
-Fanatikerin 
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Zeg alsjeblieft niet de komende tijd: "Ach, het zal wel meevallen." Want het valt niet mee, het is de laatste jaren alleen maar erger geworden.
Alarm is nu. Nu is de tijd om arm in arm tegen de fascisten in te gaan.
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meme shitpost, kink
I've had this in my mind for ages.
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OpenAI Board: "You're fired!"
Altman: "Are you sure about that?"
OpenAI Board: "I apologize for the confusion in my previous answer. You are hired. We are fired."
... why does my NAS keep finding new ways to break constantly
- 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
