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.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
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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
meta, 'sub club'
Policy proposal: before you are even allowed to *talk* about 'monetizing' the fediverse, you must prove that you have a long track record of giving selflessly to mutual aid requests.
Because if you don't, then quite frankly I do not believe you that "funding the fediverse" is your true goal here.
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I don't mind a good gripe. But I always cringe when people land on "why isn't this automatic". I think one of the reasons we can't have nice things is that everybody assumes human systems are easy and wondering why someone else isn't magically making it happen for them.
This shit is not magic. You just wanna take the work involved for granted. And it ends up making you sounding very different than the high horse you started out on.
https://todon.eu/@fenneladon/113051769907560593
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meta, sub club, sarcasm-doused, I'm just so tired of techbros you know?
Re: "sub club" as described here https://indiepocalypse.social/@tamitha/113051148012795548
I am pleased to announce an alternative, whereby we can all continue to make our premium content available to ALL through the use of ongoing sponsorship. Instead of a walled garden, you'll be helping to release those posts into a sort of freely-accessible "commons" where they maintain copyright but will make their posts and media available entirely outside commercial means!
It's simple! You identify users in need relevant to your own personal interests and community via context clues (for example, your friends discussing low supplies of vital medication such as HRT, or writing about substandard living conditions or abusive family members, couch-hopping, those in a caregiving role or ill instead of drawing a salary, or someone you know is on a fixed income insufficient to meet their needs)
And then you just give them money regularly based on what you have that you don't need and in exchange, the wolf no longer at their door, they'll post their thoughts and dreams and participate in the community, learning and making and sharing and caring! It will actually improve the content of their posts, replacing negative sentiment with positive and unlocking an entire category of extra posts about relief, security and improving health and wellbeing!
Best of all, you'll find they'll automatically redistribute whatever they can do without from your sponsorship to other members of that community and you don't even have to do anything, those networks all already exist!
What would you pay, to keep the dream of an open community alive?
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I wish there was something like Patreon, but for wellness checks. Like, I don’t need your coffee money, but sometimes I’d like to hear a surprise voice on the phone saying, “Hey, this is your friend GlupShitto943 from Mastodon. How’s it going? Need to vent for a bit while I’m baking?” and then I don’t feel like I’m inconveniencing anyone when I do.
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“The blockades of the IJmuiden sea lock by Extinction Rebellion which prevent cruise ships from docking in Amsterdam are causing financial damage of between €600,000 and €800,000 per ship, Amsterdam port authority has said.
On Monday, the Disney Cruise Line announced that cruise ship Disney Dream, which carries 4,000 passengers and was supposed to arrive on September 6, would skip the capital because of a potential blockade.”
Great work, XR! Hit 'em where it hurts, in their wallets ✊🏻
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/08/cruise-control-dock-blockades-cost-up-to-e800000-per-ship/
Looks like Thunderbird has finally gained tray icon support on Linux!
... 25 years after the ticket was opened.
Related gripe: it continues to baffle me how controversial "ask people what they need and do that" is in a lot of places that really should know better
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Alex Gaynor on the intersection of memory safety and sandboxing: https://alexgaynor.net/2024/aug/30/impact-of-memory-safety-on-sandboxing/
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There is something I will never understand from people working in global companies - not taking other people's time zones into account:
- not prioritizing asking and answering people who's day starts before yours by end of your day so they can work on it or be unblocked at the start of their day
- not prioritizing asking and answering people whose day finishes before yours earlier in your day so they can be unblocked or you can discuss it while they are still there
- not planning meetings during times when all parties are awake and working
I will never understand how this is not just automatic. 🕐🙄
possibly hot take, low-code development tools
As a professional programmer, I think that low-code development tools are actually a good thing - the problem is just that they are usually designed/adopted with the mindset of "saving money and time", rather than the much more healthy mindset of "giving people agency over the tools they rely on", and the result is that they end up being bad at both
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#annaWilGraagWeten Wat is het ergste? Een vreemde die naast je op een bankje ploft en
spacebar heating
The thing with 'spacebar heating' (https://xkcd.com/1172/) is that sure, it wasn't designed to work that way, and it's kind of weird to rely on it to do that, but...
... apparently your users have a need that is not being met by your current software design, and maybe instead of complaining about how horrifying spacebar heating is, your time is better spent trying to understand how to make your software better for them?
Terminology question: I'm looking for a concise term to describe "the vast majority of computer users, who do not particularly care about or are interested in computers, beyond how they can serve as a tool for their needs."
"Non-technical users" isn't quite right, because it's not necessarily a competence issue, and there's more tech than computers anyway. "Average users" also isn't quite right, since I'm specifically looking to include those who have above-average difficulty in dealing with computers. "Normal users" also doesn't quite work, because it implies abnormality on the other side.
Are there any better terms to use?
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Weet iemand waar de #Paralympics te volgen zijn? In vorige jaren volgde ik het live op het officiële YouTube kanaal van de Paralympics, maar daar krijg ik nu helaas te zien dat het "in mijn land niet beschikbaar is"... HBO Max had veel van de Olympics, dus toen ging ik daar checken... Maar ook daar geen Paralympics.
Does anybody know where to follow the Paralympics? In previous years, I followed it live on the Paralympics' official YouTube channel, but when I go to the live feeds there now, it says it's not available in my country... HBO Max had a lot of the Olympics, so I checked there next... But there too, no Paralympics.
I wish e-mail had an "authenticated receipt" feature, where you'd have to authorize a sender in your e-mail client (with eg. OAuth-style flow) to let them send you e-mail, and they can only do so with the negotiated key, and e-mails received from authenticated senders would be specially marked with the key-associated name of the sender.
I feel like that would address a lot of phishing issues, because all "account updates" and other messages from regular contacts could be visually and unfalsifiably authenticated. While still allowing for sending unauthenticated messages, they just don't get the marker.
Seems a lot more reliable for the average user than "check whether the URL starts with..."
Huh. Apparently there's now a sporting program here specifically for autistic teenage girls (with physical contact accommodations, and presumably other things), funded by the municipality. Just spotted a poster for it at the local (boxing) gym.
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“we demonstrate that language models embody covert racism in the form of dialect prejudice, exhibiting raciolinguistic stereotypes about speakers of African American English (AAE) that are more negative than any human stereotypes about African Americans ever experimentally recorded”
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How to fix homelessness: free housing.
How to beat bus fare evasion: free buses.
Both methods cost less than punishing the poor by criminalizing and jailing them.
If you don't like the idea of being taxed to implement those solutions: I don't care - it would make our society objectively better so your annoyance is a small price to pay.
- 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
