Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @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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A grumpy old couple showed up seconds before departure in Arnhem, so I decided I hadn’t seen Ede’s new station yet.
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things that will never stop amazing me
other places: oh yeah to watch pirated movies we need to torrent them, use some weird niche websites that will give us 5 different types of malware, etc
Poland: just watch full movies on YouTube mate
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this is not an isolated case either lol
there are many instances of movies and shows you can watch in full on YouTube as long as it's a PL dub version that's been up for months and years, have hundreds of thousands of views etc
i don't know if it's the YT copyright infringement detection algorithm choking on PL content (very doubt it) or if publishers in Poland don't give a fuck
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https://hyfin.org/2024/11/29/could-blacksky-emerge-as-black-twitters-spiritual-successor-on-bluesky/
Good overview of the man behind Blacksky and what he believes and how he's building. Really cool stuff, but I kept having the same thought when reading this article: "This should have been the fediverse."
Too bad.
Edit: if you're going to respond to my post and talk about how Bluesky is centralized and the users will eventually have to leave, please make sure you actually read the article. There is an entire section at the end that explicitly discusses how to escape the cycle of venture capitalist funding and goals of community portability between different platforms. If another SmartGuy tries to explain decentralization to me, someone who runs multiple servers, I'm gonna crash out
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Home care workers unionize, immediately negotiate a $3/hour raise
software development, not venting this time
In a healthier world this problem might be sidestepped by having mutual recommendations from trusted peers, but due to the sheer amount of capital involved in software, that mechanism is completely broken in our world
software development, not venting this time
I feel like almost the entire problem of framework churn and technical debt can be understood by a single explanation: framework design is closer to language design than it is to programming, and just like it's hard to design a good language without experience with the process involved, it's also hard to recognize whether someone else (a framework author) has done a good job if you don't have the skill yourself.
And so most frameworks are designed like software projects rather than language projects, do not work well as a result, and most users would not recognize this until it's too late because they're not used to the abstract modelling process that's needed to spot it early
government bullshit
Was just reading the court press release for the prosecution of the Tornado Cash developer, and aside from how I feel about Tornado Cash itself, the framing in that press release is infuriating; instead of focusing on actual harms done, it mentions them almost as a sidenote, and instead goes hard om emphasizing how the "serious lack of mechanisms for identification and prosecution" (so you know, anonymity) is the real problem and how that makes it a tool for criminals.
Once again, a government seems more concerned with its own unquestionable power than with the actual harms done to people.
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It has just come to my attention that there is only one developer of Friendica. It's a truly wonderful site, with a lot of potential, particularly for those of us coming from Facebook. It allows for extremely long posts, local posting, and you can follow and interact with people from various sites in the Fediverse. But there are a few issues regarding screen reader accessibility, and perhaps some things that I'm not aware of. I have therefore decided to create a Friendica development tag, in order to find people who are willing and able to help resolve these issues.
#accessibility #accessibilitytesting #Android #blind #blindness #Facebook #Fediverse #Friendica #FriendicaDevelopment #html #NVDA #screenreaders #Talkback #websites #Windows
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someone's firefox is making bursts of up to 50 requests every 5 seconds. logs show 185k requests in a 12 hour period. that's like half of all requests the server has received over the past week - in 12 hours!! from a single client!! cannot make this up
if you happen to be in poland and use linux with beacondb configured, could you double check if you're running firefox v132? is your isp play.pl? if so, something is very wrong lmao please reach out 🙏
software development
Someone calling a language like JS or Python "untyped" immediately tells me a lot about their beliefs regarding typing
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the fact that we never elevated the discussion from "a better way to post about our papers" to "a better way to govern collective information" is our failure, forever.
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train wifi things
Today I found out that considerably more of https://iceportal.de/api1/rs/tripInfo/trip and https://iceportal.de/api1/rs/status can be null than I thought. This train knows practically nothing, the only thing it knows is that it is an ICE, it thinks that the internet is offline (which I am using to post this with) and it also thinks it is in the literal center of Germany.
At least it still knows the time!
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Basically if the work you do isn't somehow threatened by explicit fascism you should probably ask yourself why not https://mastodon.social/@matrig/113570867078894912
venting, web dev, web components
Over the years there's been a couple of folks pushing Web Components very hard, and making one particular argument that has been grating on me: "tools like React are bad tools because they don't support Web Components".
The exact phrasing is usually different, but the implication is always there; Web Components are, well, The Standard(tm) and so anything that doesn't use them is reinventing the wheel and doing so badly.
And it seems like none of these people have ever asked themselves: *why* does it not use WC? WC have been around for a while now, and frameworks have not transitioned to them. Why not? Usually the answer is "because their model is not compatible with them".
And *this* is where things go sour. Because then the answer of WC proponents is usually "well they are badly designed then". And I'm sorry, what? Who made you emperor of design techniques?
If WC are supposedly a neutral standard, yet it cannot support existing widespread usage patterns, *that makes it a bad standard*. It means that your design is too opinionated, and that it's more like a framework than a primitive!
This particular line of reasoning is pretty much the #1 I do not like interacting with WC folks, because sooner or later it always turns into "laundering an opinionated framework design as a standard", and this is what kills agency. We need better building blocks, not an opinion cast down onto us from the heavens.
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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
