Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
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- 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.
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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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Ok this caught me off guard...
I was having an internet search for "adult tinker toys" and came across this online shop. Ah! Pro tinker toys. Cool. I look around, and it's not what I want - mostly memorabilia.
And then there's the **FAKE MASKS** section.
Ummm, what? This is something people are doing? They're PAYING for a pretend mask?
Just... what?
https://protinkertoys.com/en-ca/collections/fake-masks
#covid19 #covidIsReal #germsAreReal #covidDenial #whatTheFuckHaveWeBecome
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Sentences should have two punctuation marks at the end. One for grammar and one for intent. Like how when you put on a hat and look towards your friend saying "This one fits.?" as an expression but with a questioning tone to incite a response. If both puntuation marks are the same only one is provided, so it's minimally invasive and fits right in between language norms!.
re: project stuff
(dlayer, my GraphQL-like-that-doesn't-suck abstraction, now has a thing for auto-generating a schema from a relational database with foreign keys)
project stuff
Who needs an ORM when you already have a graph API with a database source mapping
re: bad sleep
Hello from "have slept maybe 2 hours last night if I'm lucky, and then spent several hours in bed trying to fall asleep again to no avail"
bad sleep
Status update: sleep still fucked
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Remember, before getting into a frustrated debate with that relative, if their absurd points which defy any sense of reason count as valid arguments then so does "counterpoint: no."
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I find it outrageous and incredibly offensive how often subtitles are censored.
I've experienced it on broadcast TV. On Amazon. On YouTube. And elsewhere.
Deaf people do not need swear words hidden. Those of us with hearing loss don't suddenly decide, "Ah, yes, because I can't hear fully, I don't want to experience swearing anymore."
Stop censoring our content!
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Every time you redesign your app, you vaporize all the experience built up by everyone who's been using the current version. It better be fucking worth it.
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@cda I'm just amazed that this guy running this antarctic research station thought "Huh I'm changing the timezone I should email the internet to let them know" and found the right people to tell and the first reply is basically "Are you fucking drunk"
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https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2023-December/033317.html really feels like Old Internet (read the entire thread, it's amazing)
hackernews, sort of meta
HN commenters are very busy deliberating over how weird it is that all of the alternative social networks are just Twitter clones, and nobody is doing more experimental UX stuff
In the same thread where people are complaining about how fedi stuff and federation and all that is just so *difficult*
Gee I wonder why you're only finding Twitter clones
Heads-up: I will likely be gone from fedi and Matrix for a few days, as I try to unfuck my sleep schedule.
Redux, bonus hot take
Composability that only works with first-party code is not really composability
Redux, hot take
Redux is very composable in theory but extremely poorly composable in practice; it is very difficult to combine the subtrees of different third-party utilities in a way where the utilities are aware of their location in the tree, without resorting to a variety of different hacks (that are different for each utility)
And they do *need* to know their location in the tree, if you want those utilities to be mountable at arbitrary positions and able to manage their own state, and then you still need to figure out how to isolate the utility-specific action types too
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nilered liveposting
"I wanted a ring made of purple gold"
(picture of purple ring on screen, with caption AI-generated with DALL-E 3)
nigel, my fellow sibling in science, have you ever heard of blender. did you know you can grow your own cylinders in the same amount of time you can commit stealing
re: venting about shitty software devs
Off to look for a different Redux query management library now, I guess
venting about shitty software devs
Some days you can just smell from a mile away that the author of a piece of software is 100% someone who would build a deportation system because "well, the tech is cool", and today is one of those days
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You are only temporarily abled.
This is not a threat. It is a statement of fact.
Edit: Glad this is seeing so much resonance. If you've got any cash to spare, please check my pinned posts for my mutual aid request.
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#Copyright works for capitalists, not for artists, and perhaps one of the most illustrative examples of this would be subtitles:
Hobbyist subtitlers get regularly threatened with ruinous copyright lawsuits for daring to make TV shows more accessible to different audiences without the publisher's permission.
And now tech corporations use those very same hobbyist subtitles to train their audio transcription LLMs, and there are zero legal consequences for those corporations.
- 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
