Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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#CommunityCare #MutualAid #anarchism
[comments not open to white cis men]
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If bars can declare that “happy hour” is from 5pm to 8pm with a straight face, then we can have 90 days of pride month (as a treat)
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When you are a Wikipedia editor, sometimes you have to help out your fellow contributors who struggle to maintain an encyclopedic tone
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SAG-AFTRA is going on strike again.
[SAG-AFTRA] is calling a work stoppage against the major video game companies after nearly two years of trying to renegotiate its Interactive Media Agreement. The strike goes into effect July 26.
https://deadline.com/2024/07/sag-aftra-strike-video-game-companies-1236020355/
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Your occasional reminder that “this tool frees you from performing mundane tasks” is just code for “we’re not going to pay you for that kind of work any more.”
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“Nearly half (47%) of employees using AI say they have no idea how to achieve the productivity gains their employers expect, and 77% say these tools have actually decreased their productivity and added to their workload.” — https://www.upwork.com/research/ai-enhanced-work-models
the first three bullets in that executive summary certainly paint a picture
(the picture is on fire, to be clear)
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btw the current tallest buinding in Budapest is the incredibly silly looking headquarters of MOL Group, a Hungarian multinational oil and gas company
it has yet to attract any macros
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military mention, talking about bags, caps, making things queer looking, long-ish
Ok. I just stumbled upon the details of those webbing strips that are on military and paramilitary gear.
It looks super functional for organizing gear.. but the only way to get it is to get icky looking bags that have all been made in "tactical" colours.
THIS SHIT COULD BE IN RAINBOWS, EASY.
I'm officially putting this style of bag on my to-make list, but I know that it'll be a while before I can even start.
If you like making bags, particularly if you make/sell bags, I'm handing this idea off to anyone who wants to run with it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pouch_Attachment_Ladder_System
It's just webbing on a bag in particular spacing! You can get webbing in practically any damned colour you like, and I think that it'd be fun to have "Queer P.A.L.S" gear. (other related search terms- MOLLE, which stands for Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment)
Can someone make this stuff gay and flashy, instead of mean and fashy the way all the existing stuff looks? Anyone who wants a practical modular bag system can't even get it in a decently bright colour as of now.
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what an incredible reason to have to remove your game from sale
honestly respect to the developers for admitting that and pulling it
tangent, re: adventures in game development
I do wonder if I'm gonna be the first one to ship a game that runs in Node.js (as opposed to a browser), though. This doesn't seem to be something that anyone has really explored?
adventures in game development
Some things done today: implemented rudimentary resource loader, added automatic texture packing, hot-reloader now shows an error screen when the game throws an error very quickly after restart, added a better GLSL validator that actually gives me helpful error messages, animated my test triangle to test rendering correctness, various bugfixes. Now working on actually rendering sprites on the screen.
Honestly, once you find reasonable OpenGL bindings, there's some pretty damn good game development tooling available in JS.
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meta uspol thingy that inspired these posts
i think $250,000 would actually literally meet every single goal in the mutual aid hashtag going back like multiple years
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i think fundraising for politicians on fedi is a bit gauche when there are so many people in the #MutualAid hashtag who really need help
if you have money to burn on pointless political bullshit you have money to give to your struggling digital neighbors
Perhaps the most insidious crime of capitalism is that it has deprived generations of their ability to dream in public; a horde of pencil-pushing busybodies perpetually waiting in the shadows to tell you that "that would never work"
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proprietary systems cannot be innovative, long-ish
There are lots of *practical* reasons why proprietary and commercial environments aren't really capable of producing innovation, but those are not the ones I want to focus on here.
The bigger reason why proprietary systems cannot be innovative is more philosophical. "Innovation", to me, is a very specific thing: it is the collective process of discovering and iterating on new techniques and technologies, to make society a little better for everyone every time.
The "iterating on" is important there; innovation is about *collective knowledge building*, about improving humanity's collective understanding of the world in a durable and sustainable way, and ensuring that those who come after us can build on our work to improve a little further.
Proprietary systems, by their very nature, cannot do this. "Innovations" in proprietary systems will live and die with the organizations in which they are built; the knowledge of their workings is secret and deliberately obscured, practically guaranteeing a loss of knowledge when the organization eventually folds - as every organization does sooner or later.
Proprietary organizations simply do not participate in the process of innovation at all; they *emulate* it, as a cheap party trick to impress investors and accumulate more power, economic or otherwise.
For something to be truly innovative, it *must* happen in the open, no exceptions. If others outside of your control cannot iterate on it, it is not truly innovation, no matter how clever it sounds.
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what does a julia need to do to find a job that is completely async and doesn't force a neurotypical sleep schedule
I really appreciate it when library developers specify upfront in the documentation what their design goals and non-goals are.
Even when they don't match what I'm looking for, it immediately tells me whether it's what I need, and saves me a lot of time and frustration!
#DuckDuckFedi: what would be a good, concise term for "grassroots initiatives to build alternative social structures founded on radical principles, focusing on the 'building up' and mutual social support part rather than the 'tearing down' part?"
I'm looking for something less specific than 'mutual aid', also encompassing the somewhat more abstract and semi-centralized movements, but not including institutional efforts.
(If they give you some evasive non-answer about how it 'depends' and they've never talked about mutual aid before, the answer is most likely "zero", by the way)
Normalize asking your well-off friends at prestigious tech companies what their mutual aid budget is
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
