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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they overbooked my flight and they are BEGGING for someone to not go, offering 250 EUR cash rn lol
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Het is te bizar voor woorden (en redelijk eng...) dat er tijdens de informatiefase gesproken moet worden over de grondwet en onze grondrechten, omdat één van de betrokken partijen al jaren dingen roept die tegen beiden in gaan.
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Btw the Netherlands recorded the highest number of viral covid particles in sewershed ever this week and things aren't going much better in the US, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Denmark. And that's just the ones I personally know of. And we haven't even hit Christmas and NYE yet
So this winter may just become the literal worst one on record for covid since the pandemic began, just in case you still think covid is over, or even just believe the covid situation is overall improving
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I was just listening to some commentary about how Adobe couldn't acquire Figma, because EU regulators said it was monopolistic. I don't think I agree with the regulators exactly but I thought it was still an interesting situation. The commentator was saying it's really unfortunate because 'if you build an amazing product but you can't sell the company, what are you supposed to do?' and 'what does this mean for exits in the tech world moving forward?'
This just highlights the whole problem with this industry and capitalism more widely, this is why everything reduces to enshittification some day. The people who are trying to get their 'exit' are not the people who built it, they are the investors and executives. The people who built it are already profiting, they have good jobs working on an interesting problem. If your product is maybe worth $20 billion to Adobe then maybe it's worth something on its own, you could keep selling it like you have been?? Getting acquired by a huge company should not be the goal and it frustrates me that it's the only answer that investors are satisfied with. They want their cash back immediately and they credit themselves with having built the company.
This just highlights the whole problem with this industry and capitalism more widely, this is why everything reduces to enshittification some day. The people who are trying to get their 'exit' are not the people who built it, they are the investors and executives. The people who built it are already profiting, they have good jobs working on an interesting problem. If your product is maybe worth $20 billion to Adobe then maybe it's worth something on its own, you could keep selling it like you have been?? Getting acquired by a huge company should not be the goal and it frustrates me that it's the only answer that investors are satisfied with. They want their cash back immediately and they credit themselves with having built the company.
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British Gas's programmers don't believe that a surname can be only a single character.
Their customer service agents worked around this by adding a parenthetical note to my record.
The result is hilarious postal mail that tries to reassure me that my surname really is what it is:
EDIT: Well this blew up. FAQ etc. at https://danq.me/it-is-only-q
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Screenshot from my old account
I guess I've been banging this drum for the last five years huh
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i get the "newsletters are just blogs with extra complication" argument in my heart, i really do, but i so understand why you'd want to retreat from What All This Has Become
Like, I can see why this might not happen for cryptocurrency companies, despite how many people they've screwed - it's usually a chain of shell companies run by barely-identified people with highly-paid security, which is difficult
But like, I don't think LLM companies have any of that?
It's kind of surprising that none of the LLM company HQs have burned down yet, to be honest
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putting interesting stuff on the internet is on its way out
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Just realized that I missed my "cops stole my shit" anniversary, which is now over 10 years ago
meta and also politics, sort of directed at reader
There are some very uncomfortable parallels between "citizens scapegoat other powerless citizens because the actual politicians in power refuse to address problems head-on", and "Mastodon users scapegoat other powerless Mastodon users because the actual developer in power refuses to address problems head-on"
I hope that you can fill in the gaps yourself on what this means for the social dynamics on fedi
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my advice on coming out is simple: don't feel like you owe anyone anything at all
coming out is by definition a consequence of cisnormativity
do not give the fuckers an iota of your power
do whatever you want.
be happy.
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open registration servers are a menace and should be limited. hope this helps #mastoadmin
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There should be a way for instance admins to automatically limit other instances with open registrations. It would discourage instances from having open registrations for the sake of "reach"/"growth" imo
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🇨🇦 Canada politics; Yes I'm still on about this
To sum up:
Justin Trudeau cancelled Public Domain Day in Canada for the next 20 years
2023-2042, nothing enters the Public Domain in Canada
Thanks, The Liberal Party of Canada
who needs a polycule nextcloud when you can have a polycule syncthing
- 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
