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.
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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
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matrix moderation
I feel like moderation for Matrix would be in a much better place if there were a bot framework specifically for moderation tasks, with a very simple API and one-call methods for all common moderation actions, so that you can actually quickly respond to developing attack strategies
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Some years ago, I got the impression that a certain team in a very well known European university was multiplying papers unnecessarily.
Basically, the same idea was spread across several papers, and some obfuscation was used to make the ideas seem more complex than they were.
A senior colleague got this answer from one of the students: "that's what our advisor asks us to do".
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OpenAI snark
lol at ChatGPT discussing a price hike up to $2k monthly
Tell me the bubble is bursting without telling me it's bursting
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A lesson I wish I could put on a thumb drive for most humans:
When you're seeking community, shared identifiers and interests will never yield the same results that shared values and praxis does.
Someone being queer, or liking the things you like does not guarantee that they will value you adequately or treat you well.
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I want an app called "Who to Boycott".
When I download it I am asked 30 questions about how I feel about issues and there is a sliding 1 to 5 scale going from support for to 100% against. It has things like use of fossils fuels, unions, a minimum wage, reproductive rights.
Then everyday it sends me a list of 5 products to boycott and why based on company or ownership stands on my specific issues, and 1 new question.
Based on several institutes that track policy stances and legislation.
matrix moderation
I feel like moderation for Matrix would be in a much better place if there were a bot framework specifically for moderation tasks, with a very simple API and one-call methods for all common moderation actions, so that you can actually quickly respond to developing attack strategies
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Honestly don’t understand how people can dislike pigeons. I mean, look at them, they are so cool! We need more pigeon portraits.
#Photography #Birds #BirdPhotography #Pigeons #PigeonPortrait
Type of ADHD brain mode where brain is constantly oscillating between two different tasks at high speed, being interested in both but not *quite* interested enough to make any serious headway or commit to either of them
What do you call a 'sneakernet' but for physical stuff, transporting stuff (potentially over multiple hops) through people who are going somewhere anyway?
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We've deactivated our Twitter/X account.
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Today's realization:
I am not doing "nothing."
I am calm and comfortable, abiding in this quiet space so my brain can rest and heal.
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@Em0nM4stodon
That EU law does not require a #CookieBanner unless the web site wants to track your clicks or sell your data.
Because people do not understand this, they think "stupid EU law" instead of...
- "website owner has no respect for consumer rights"
- "website owner has no solid business plan and just hopes for a few bucks from the advertisement industry"
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You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.
idle thoughts on open-source 'enterprise' software
When comparing proprietary versus open-source options for enterprise software, what stands out to me most is that the open-source versions are usually 'simpler' - not in the sense of being easy to use, but in the sense of being really close to an original "in a vacuum" design, with very few accommodations or avenues for organization-specific changes and needs.
More interestingly, many of the newer, startup-y proprietary options look just like the open-source options!
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I saw this screenshot posted on a Star Trek Discord server today and really liked it. A little digging turned up the original post and reply on Tumblr: https://roach-works.tumblr.com/post/739090278705774592/it-used-to-bother-me-that-all-the-art-in-star-trek
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@modulux Ads in mobile phones. Two practical examples: An ad shows up, you have to close the app to dismiss it. Two, you read an article in the web, an ad shows up. And then you hear this. "Close. Close. Close. Close." Insert like a 3 second pause between each "close", bonus points if like me you have no idea how to close that shit.
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With Firefox having AI added in the recent update. Here's how you can disable it.
Open about:config in your browser.
Accept the Warning it gives.
Search browser.ml and blank all values and set false where necessary as shown in the screenshot, anything that requires a numerical string can be set as 0 .
Once you restart you should no longer see the Grey-ed out checkbox checked, and the AI chatbot disabled from ever functioning.
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From a selfish #accessibility viewpoint, things I would like to stop existing:
Discord.
PDFs.
statista.com
Powerpoint/Impress.
What are your "my life would be better if abled users didn't inexplicably choose X" preferences?
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- 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
