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.
- 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
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work, weird society rules
neurotypical adults be like:
be serious at work! follow the dress code! no silly, just work!
also neurotypical adults:
let's build up a team by engaging in childlike activities! you are now forced to enjoy this!
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Is there any Static Site Generator which will make pages based on SQL queries? I have a database with 70k rows, and I want to make a webpage for each one?
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I've been thinking a lot about what a friend pointed out - that mixed gendered spaces often quickly become male-exclusive because men tend to have much higher tolerance for arsehole behaviour than women, so it only takes one dodgy person to destroy a community as all the women basically leave. Once such a community has heavy male bias it can hardly recover, and its lack of representation means it can hardly succeed in any social, cultural or technical aims. Rings true for the extraordinarily bad gender balance in free/open source software in the context of the Stallman report.
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Weird programmer thing I've noticed: as the years go by I find myself more and more likely to create an infinite loop and use break to exit it than to use the conditional part of a while (or do while) loop
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Perhaps the most insidious crime of capitalism is that it has deprived generations of their ability to dream in public; a horde of pencil-pushing busybodies perpetually waiting in the shadows to tell you that "that would never work"
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@joepie91 Look like they are hacking what's left of XulRunner out of Firefox.
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/main/app/build.sh is `interesting`
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/main/app/build.sh is `interesting`
me: Hmm, Zotero is apparently written in JS, but it doesn't seem to be Electron. I wonder what runtime it uses 🤔
"Zotero is built on Firefox"
I'm sorry, it what
venting, XMPP
Reading the XMPP RFC and being very quickly reminded why I don't like implementing this thing (the fucking streaming XML parsing required)
I'm sure nobody cloned it in the several weeks it was up
Oh hey, the rotting NFT-ized corpse of Winamp finally figured out how to delete their company-internal shit off Github?
The section that describes "IQ stanzas" in the RFC immediately explains it in terms of "request/response" so it's not like those terms weren't already in use
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... why are query stanzas in XMPP called "IQ" again?
(I know what it stands for, that is not the question)
Suggesting Gemini or Gopher to someone looking for a Chrome alternative, or suggesting Markdown and Git to someone looking for a Wordpress alternative, is like suggesting a bicycle to someone looking for a car alternative.
Yes, it's technically possible that it will solve their problem - but more likely than not, it is completely the wrong thing to recommend because it isn't even the same *kind* of thing.
Please, when recommending 'alternatives' to people, don't just assume that because you personally like something, it's a good recommendation - actually make the effort to understand what someone is asking for, which may not even be something you've ever needed!
(And I say this as someone without a car, with a bicycle, and who uses Git and Markdown for their blog, so don't bother with the "you just don't understand how much better it is" please.)
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As I'm doing a lot of accessibility testing these days I feel like I need to re-share this 5 year old blog post. :)
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So I've learned that RedBox has gone bankrupt and is shutting down. Apparently property owners are getting quotes as high as $1000 from companies who will contract to haul the machines away. I know several hackers interested in them, however, and would be willing to take one or two for free. If you are in central Florida and have a RedBox machine you no longer want on your property, you can reach out to me and I'll put you in touch with someone who will take care of it for you and re-home it.
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more games should have full color support for names. per-character.
xonotic has that and it's really nice to be able to put pride flags just in your name. (xonotic's impl is only 4 bits per channel but that's enough generally speaking)
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cw boost: fucking neonazis pretending they aren't
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we have any USA-based tax/lawyer types here on the fedi? i need some basic guidance.
For some reason this hadn't occurred to me before, but I guess that basically every messaging and chat platform nowadays is just a HTTP or WebSocket API? Instead of a custom protocol?
- 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
