Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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Language drift is an interesting thing. It used to be, twenty to thirty years ago, that "media" was just the plural form of "medium". Now "media" is its own (uncountable) thing and the plural of "medium" is "mediums".
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heatposting
1. hydrate yourself and others!
2. spend as much time as possible in the (indoor) shade!
3. give money to people who are unhoused!
4. try to account for your body experiencing heat stress when talking to other people or making decisions!
ARTE Concert is such a goldmine of music: https://www.youtube.com/@arteconcert
(Some of the channels affected aren't even really urban planning channels, just channels that happen to have done one video about urban planning)
I've been noticing a very specific new pattern on YouTube lately: commenters under urban planning videos that talk about the Netherlands, saying that such-and-such is actually hated by Dutch people, or considered a mistake, or a waste of tax money, or whatever... only to be immediately contradicted by a bunch of other Dutch folks and then the original commenter either starts arguing some fallacious bullshit or just disappears.
Now it's not like Dutch people can't be making bullshit claims, but I find it suspicious how this is suddenly starting to happen across *multiple* urban planning channels, and none of the suspicious commenters seem to have any of the linguistic tells of a natively-Dutch English speaker.
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why is it that every time I go to a protest, I see the same faces?
is it because they are the only people rich enough to skip work? the only people white enough to avoid police violence? the only people cis enough to risk jail? the only people who can afford to post bail?
no, they are poor people, people of color, trans people.
so where is everyone else?
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google, firefox, browser development, and comments of mild impending doom
There is a realistic chance that Google's funding of Firefox/Mozilla through default search engine deals will be struck down by a court in the current antitrust case.
If that happens, I do not think Mozilla can survive financially on their own, at least not at the scale they are operating at right now, despite their half-assed attempts at "creating other revenue streams" over the years. I also question the maintainability of their existing browser codebase.
So. If you've been contemplating whether to start building a new browser engine... now's the time to start. This is your advance warning. Make sure it's one you don't need millions of dollars for to maintain.
It's going to take a while, most likely, for all of this stuff to go through the courts, so there's time. But building a browser engine is a big task, too, and ideally it should be started *before* things implode over at Mozilla.
I've changed my mind on "a large scale is the problem" (eg. running large fediverse instances, but also many other things in the world) - sort of. It's generally not *wrong*, it's just not the root of the issue.
I think the actual root of the issue is high *stakes*. Building something at a large scale is a common way to increase the stakes of something, but it's not the only one - depending on what you're doing, doing it at a small scale can *still* be high stakes, and therefore still be a bad idea.
We'd all probably be a lot better off if people stopped building high-stakes things, and thought about low-stakes alternatives instead. It should be possible for things to go wrong or even very wrong without the impact being so immeasurably big.
Is het taalonderwijs inmiddels trouwens al wat gemoderniseerd, of gaan Nederlands-lessen nog steeds alleen over ABN terwijl docenten doen alsof dialecten en straattaal (oftewel de taal die mensen daadwerkelijk spreken) niet bestaan?
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chat i request the following from you:
information about dutch folklore/tales/myths/legends whatever, especially characters/entities from such stories (regardless of the region of NL it comes from)
i shall cook
information about dutch folklore/tales/myths/legends whatever, especially characters/entities from such stories (regardless of the region of NL it comes from)
i shall cook
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I don't get why more news sites haven't adopted the LWN model of time-limited paywalls on major articles
It's a clear reason to subscribe, you can see what you're getting, the articles remain publicly accessible and useful as a reference once they're no longer newsworthy
it seems like such an obvious business model
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"Noah Lyles' collapse underscores our collective COVID denial"
"The 2024 Olympic Games are serving up some less-than-subtle metaphors for how poorly we handle public health. "
https://www.salon.com/2024/08/10/noah-lyles-collapse-underscores-our-collective-denial/
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Is there a term for “digital anachronisms” like this: in 2010 I used an iOS app named Elements to edit text notes on my iOS devices. It stored the notes in a folder called “Elements” on my Dropbox, and now 14 years later my notes folder is still named “Elements” even though I have not used that software in at least 10 years.
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google, firefox, browser development, and comments of mild impending doom
@joepie91 while I think the codebase/engine will take a long time to go from idea to a working product, I think the sooner that project starts building a community is the key factor in surviving. Right now the level of uncertainty with Firefox has people looking for alternatives so starting to build that community now will probably be easier than after people have been forced to settle for a Chromium based browser.
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It is actually wild that the Steam Deck has probably been the first "full fat desktop Linux" device for over a million people. I've heard many stories of people using the KDE environment on it, being happy with it, and eventually moving their main desktop away from Windows. Thank god the Deck cuts a good first impression.
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Masks keep you safe.
Vaccines work.
Never Again means Never Again, no matter who does it.
Global Warming is real.
Billionaires are an existential threat to society.
This is just your periodic reminder that you are sane and the gaslighting isn't working on you.
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uspol, sorta, broadly anti-state ranting
I think part of why this gets to me is that there's a mindset that, and I'm not trying to be mean, feels like it comes down to being so incapable of imagining people Breaking Rules that it reduces the spectrum of possible governance down to "bad people who smile while enforcing unjust rules" and "good people who frown while enforcing unjust rules"
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uspol, sorta, broadly anti-state ranting
Okay I'd written an entire thing about how golly tim walz is nice, wholesome, loves kids and cats, feeds the hungry, is a gis nerd, and supports the trans youth
and has shown that he's willing to use the force of the state to crush dissent
because, y'know, the point is that no matter how nice a professional politician is, no matter how much they "sympathize with the protestors", they protect the state's legitimacy and the interests of capital first
and I included this whole bit about "well what was he supposed to do??" that I felt was basically beating on a helpless scarecrow so I trashed the post
then I flipping saw a thing making the rounds literally pulling a "well what was he supposed to do?? the mayor of minneapolis called for aid???" and
great
love that
love treating people entrusted with governance and power like they're helpless cogs in the machine of state, good people just following orders
- 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
