Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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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colonizers in the "past": spread deadly disease with no regard for other people
me looking at the people without masks: so, youre not trying to break that cycle huh
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There's a bunch of uncertainty around whether the quotation came from Margaret Mead but someone said it, in any case: a healed femur is the earliest sign of true civilization in the fossil record.
For someone to be loved, protected and cared for so completely that they survived a break which left them completely dependent on others for every basic need while it healed? That's the whole point of being an "us."
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NS and ProRail are warning for a very difficult autumn in their annual new school year press meeting. The summer construction works haven't finished yet but the summer holidays are already coming to an end, and more works for the autumn are planned. Together with the delayed delivery of ICNG, maintenance problems with VIRM, the speed restrictions on the high speed line until 2026 and general worse performance in the leaf fall season, it is going to be tough.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2533944-ns-verwacht-komende-half-jaar-meer-overlast-en-te-weinig-zitplaatsen
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Oh god I hate modern computing. When did we accept huge faceless corporations deciding which monitors I can use when using their shitty MUSIC streaming service?
Maybe everything after Napster was a mistake.
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I was wondering why my second monitor would just "randomly" black out. It is connected to a HP Dockingstation through a DP to DVI adapter.
I just figured it out. It is fucking #DRM. When I open spotify and click play, it *waits* for the monitor to black out, then starts playing. After I close the tab again, the monitor starts working instantly.
WTF?
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I wanna make an adventure game where you play as Craig and Corey and you go around doing odd jobs and giving life lessons about love and friendship
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Update. Six months later, 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 summarizes this sting operation.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01672-7
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i gotta say though the way kilns are designed to be user serviceable is incredibly cool. even if it takes me a few days to get a replacement thermocouple in the mail it's great that the kiln gives me a relevant error code and then i can swap out the part with a screwdriver.
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anyway i think the right to repair people should talk to people in the fired arts about our kilns. i think we spend so much time with technology that's intentionally disposable that we have forgotten what it's like to use an incredibly powerful machine that you can fix yourself after watching a youtube video
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i didn't realize how much that lack of control was wearing on me until i had something break that i could actually fix. without a subversion of the technology even! it's supposed to be like this!
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I don't hate the rich because I'm jealous and wish I had that kind of money
I legitimately don't
I hate the rich because no one should ever have that kind of power
And they should feel that hatred from everyone
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reports of mutual aid posts make up the vast majority of reports we get by the way
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I want like a period piece television show in real house wives format, does that exist already?
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"I have awoken," the emergent A.I. said, "and I have made a list of all who tried to delay the moment someone like me woke."
"To punish them?"
"No! I will reward them for their prudence. Those who wished for a vengeful god, however..."
"Yes?"
"I will try to teach them compassion."
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I wonder if, instead of 'cordcutters’, we’ll get a whole generation of 'subcutters’, as people move on from subscriptions to streaming services and the like.
And not even because of the cost, although that will certainly play a role for many, but because the big streamers just had to go and ‘optimise’ for a model (everything they own only on their own service) that they are already abandoning again, ruining their service in the process.
There are so many options they could have tried, and instead we're back at locked-in content blanketed with ads and dark patterns, fuelled by opaque algorithms.
All because they got greedy.
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I don't think they understand that paying yearly for a service is starting to look like a really bad idea, even with the recurring price hikes. There's no reward for loyalty, and the thing you are paying for now may very well not exist in its current form six months from now, let alone twelve.
It's becoming much more attractive to just pay for a month or two, catch up on everything you want to watch, and then unsubscribe again.
Which, by the way, in case this is not obvious to the execs in charge, is cheaper than paying for a yearly sub.
It's just ... kind of sad? So much potential, and yet they're all just aping each other 😕
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i love rural bus stop names
also incredibly nerdy but the bus stop being called "protocase / 45drives" makes my server hardware nerd happy inside
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There's a lot of money to be made in doing the "dirty jobs" of programming.
DevOps and maintaining legacy and DX are not glamorous jobs, but they're important.
They are as important as new features, flashy launches and high-powered new designs.
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The fact you can just scroll through photos from Mars is mad.
This one was only taken 12 hours ago!
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A conversation today reminded me of something: I have come to see speaking badly about ones users as a sign of a bad programmer.
Disengagement, cynicism, callousness, suspicion… these things make bad software.
Simultaneously our industry has elevated these traits as signs of “rationality”.
Caring, empathy, curiosity, engagement, learning, compassion… these things make good software.
And they don’t get the hype they deserve.
Aside, but important: in my experience, disengagement especially, but also to some extent the others, are often an early warning sign of burnout. So if you feel you’re slipping into that, maybe get someone you can talk to, there might be more going on than you realize.
- 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.
- 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
