Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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- 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
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laptop of the magi: an annoyed iMessage antitrust anecdote: https://maya.land/monologues/2023/12/26/laptop-of-the-magi-apple-antitrust.html
software development, negative
It's kind of depressing how it's just not widely understood among programmers that "people are going to lie to you to try and sell you things", and so entire organizations get built on shit tech with slick salespeople out of sheer naivete
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A PSA, do you have an old hard drive? Was that hard drive used at some point to play #RuneScape? A project needs your help. Help them find old versions and preserve it https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/18p6ufp/comment/keni57j/ #retrocomputing (Idk if you have images or hard drives that old) #videogames
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Guess what? 
Neocat v1.1 now available
➡️ https://volpeon.ink/emojis/neocat/
This release introduces the same variants as Neofox v1.3.
There are 3 downloads: The regular one, an archive for use with the Mastodon Admin CLI, and a high-res one for printing or inclusion in other graphics.
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I got a letter from the Origami Association this morning. I don't know what to make of it.
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@amberage @FediPact but so many people will see gargron being referred to as the creator of mastodon, so he's basically the ceo right? and therefore all credit goes to him, because great man theory
we're facing the waves of capiralist/neoliberal thought, which is unsurprising, given its all in service of a giant corp. the people wanting to come in bring their neolib values in. those who invite them aspire to be the neoliberal elite
fuck that. the fediverse is about the users and developers
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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
- 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
