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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Is JSON-LD worth looking into or are there other, simpler standards I should look at first or instead? I don't need RDF compatibility, for example. At the same time, I'm not quite able to name my requirements just yet, either. Any pointers are appreciated.
So here's a problem in computers that has been fascinaing me for a long time: "all that a computer can do" is obviously not generalizable into something that avoids the need for custom "low-level" programming work.
But the vast majority of real-world usecases - which basically boil down to a digital filing cabinet - *do* seem to be generalizable that way, to a limited set of high-level operations. So why do all attempts to do this, so far, suck?
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I discovered today that if you use an IKEA family card from the wrong country it’ll error with “profile not found” but apply the discounts anyway
So far, I am unimpressed by the way Wayland clients handle compositor crashes...
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we won’t emerge from the threat of modern authoritarianism by becoming little authoritarians ourselves, yelling at anyone who crosses our political trip lines or confuses us with their disagreement.
the opposite of fascism isn’t perfect liberal conformity. the opposite of fascism is art, imagination, the ability to play with the unknown, comfort with what is new and different, the desire to try ideas on like costumery, the ability to laugh at the absurdity of small differences
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politics are not just sets of decisions or treatises along a spectrum. ideology is a way of approaching the world, as well as sets of ideas arising from those approaches.
this is not about selecting the correct figurehead and issues — we are emotional mammals easily duped by group think and propaganda and always have been.
it is about how we relate to one another, how we relate to our own imaginations, and how we relate to what is new or frightening or foreign
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A conversation no-one had with me when I was young that I hope those of you with young friends and family are having with them is about wearing hearing protection at loud concerts, raves and events. If they struggle to know what counts as too loud and have a smart watch that will track noise exposure, help them set that up. Maybe even buy them quality earplugs if you can (I recommend the Loop Experience ones). I did not use hearing protection when I was younger and some of the concerts I likely did hearing damage at were absolutely not worth the risk.
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#AskFedi: Does anyone have any interesting conceptual articles to recommend on vector/SVG rendering in OpenGL?
They may contain code, but should not require knowing any one particular programming language or library to understand.
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Idle Fedi musing
Me in 2017: 🦝 oh thank goodness, social media that feels like the old internet before social media bollocksed everything up
Me in 2024: 🦝 maybe this particular form of social media was not so much a destination but more of a stepping stone on the way to not having social media anymore
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a lot rests on our ability to start connecting the dots between the things most people want (billionaires should obey laws etc) and the reason we cannot have them (politicians who we may love are funded by billionaires)
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I don't think this is getting the coverage it needs. Scottish government to require passivhaus standard for all new build homes. This is big. Really big. Growing out of lessons from the 70's oil crisis. Passivhaus buildings use very little energy to heat, or to cool. We've known how to do this for decades. It's gross negligence from all western governments that the same is not true of all new builds in the developed world.
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Zo ontzettend herkenbaar. Een groot deel ook voor vrouwen buiten tech, denk ik.
Ik ben een keer zo hard afgestraft omdat ik mijn gevoelens boven die van een collega plaatste (ze niet opzij zette om de ander een plezier te doen) dat ik ergens nog steeds denk dat ik fout zat, ondanks dat iedereen van buiten de organisatie met wie ik het erover had het op het moment zelf compleet belachelijk vond. Maar ja, dat waren allemaal vrouwen. https://infosec.exchange/@mle/113096597897272967
Yes, there are definitely people who are assholes in response to paywalled links.
But do also please be mindful that paywalls, at sufficient scale (which they are reaching), significantly contribute to the wealth divide - those who can afford to access information, versus those who cannot.
(Paywall bypasses do not work reliably and are not *really* a solution to this.)
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I love living in a society where ever single thing, place, activity, or interaction has to cost money, including stuff you need to live, but acquiring money is made to be as annoying and soul crushing as possible
"Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library [...]. It is used by video playback software, emulators, and popular games including Valve's award winning catalog and many Humble Bundle games."
Love how you can date this introduction text just from its choice of 'popular games'
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A year after this post, the headline Firefox Now Also Draws Blood Every Time You Log On appears, with the subtitle Only half compared to Chromium
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Designing tube slides in Aqua Mundo is now much easier thanks to these construction lines that tell you where in the world you are building 🙂
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegames #tycoon
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Implemented a "wide slide" in Aqua Mundo.
You can choose between individual lanes or one big wide slide, and enable race mode. Still a lot of work to do but I'm happy with the progress so far 😀
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #tycoon
- 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
