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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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rollercoasters entries on #wikidata should have more information :fox_scream:
barely any seem to have basic rollercoaster things like:
height
track length
inversion count
max speed
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no I'm lying. I recall one German queer group that went out of its way to make newcomers feel like, cherished comrades in the struggle. who were generous about political differences and sensitive to the needs of immigrants.
Reader, it was a front organisation of the MLPD 💀
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in general Middle-Easterners have a certain dunno. warmth? a way of looking at you and acknowledging you as a person, that I often miss in Germany.
for example today at the Kurdish demo an elderly grandma asked me to take a selfie together and hugged me and was all smiles like, spas spas. this happens basically every time. this is because I look like some colourful white weirdo but I still wear Kurdish symbols, the kind of thing that for the white Left is "cultural appropriation" but for the Kurds means what I mean by it: "I am siding with you on this struggle, I choose to make your enemies mine too". Kurds offered to take care of my children "in case anything happens" within 1h of the first time I talked to an Apoist ever. in seven years of way too many German demos and plenums I don't recall a single occasion where I felt welcomed in this way, not once anyone offered to hug me or to use my presence for propaganda.
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on the insurance CEO murder
I'm probably one of the most violence-adverse creatures I know and even I'm over here sipping tea quietly and nodding to myself going "Yup. It is a true objective fact that the people inflicting pain and suffering on everyone for profit have names and addresses. Mmhmmm. Indisputable fact"
Course for all we know this was something even more base than we think like "A business competitor did this". But we're all thinking the same thing and thinking it quite loudly.
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back in college, i had a drawing prof who was really accommodating about accessibility options. he noticed me struggling to draw upright, and i explained sheepishly that i really need to brace myself against something when i'm holding up my hands/arms bc i tremble too much otherwise
i braced myself for getting chastised, but he just went "oh, just a sec", grabbed a long, wooden dowel out of a closet, propped it up against my easel and went "there, try leaning on that now". it was so much better
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Welcome to Mastodon! Here's a helpful legend to get you acquainted with all the icons:
✰ = Mark as read
🔖 = Mark as read and then forget about it
⇄ = Like
↰ = "Hated this post and need the OP to know it"
🧭 = No one knows what this is for, file a bug report with the upstream project if you figure it out
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Wisdom From A Friend: "success looks exactly the same as failure the first (random number between 100 and 100,000) times you try"
Well said! XD
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Oh hey my employer matches charitable donations to registered charities! So from now until the end of the year I will match up to $5,000 CAD (which my employer will then ALSO match) of donations to any:
- abortion fund providing direct support to abortion seekers
- trans rights org
- direct aid for Palestine
- bail fund
- housing justice org
- harm reduction org
I will 2x the match if it’s Canadian. DM me a receipt! If you donate more than $100 I’ll also send you a meme! My meme game is epic.
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Does anyone here on fedi work for a (preferably small) online retailer, and want to pull some strings internally to get me a price feed? I don't really care what format it is in, and country doesn't matter either. 
I'm trying to make a non-commercial product price comparison site (I'm absolutely sick of the affiliate spam everywhere and "just use Amazon" isn't good for society either) and it's extremely difficult to find public price feeds for anything.
The point here is to have a credible place to point people at when they ask "okay so where do I buy $thing then" that isn't itself a store, because monopolization is bad for everyone and 'ease of search in one place' is a big part of why people use Amazon. But writing price scrapers is taking forever!
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Networking!!!
I used to naively think networking would be a neat way to meet people with common experiences and interests and make friends! Yay!
Heh, silly fox 
“Networking” is either:
1) one of us wants to sell the other something
2) one of us wants a job at the other’s company
Like, that’s it. And you have to play this weird friendly chatty game pretending it’s neither of the above the whole time!
So weird and gross
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forever caught between “I wish I had more friends to talk to I’m lonely” and “I can’t possibly respond to everyone it’s too overwhelming”
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I found out the other day that "penguin" in Mandarin Chinese is literally "business goose" and I haven't been able to think about anything else
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Be careful booking hotels - when we got a room for my grandma's funeral, we called the number listed on the Google business page, Turns out Expedia had hijacked the page and pretended to be the hotel's front desk when I called. Charged us a higher rate than we would've paid had we reached the front desk.
I reported the charge as fraud and my bank is getting me a refund, and I've spoken to the actual hotel to pay them the correct amount directly.
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Okay so according to hCaptcha's support there is no way to get a different kind of puzzle. If you're confronted with this unintelligible AI-generated nonsense you're basically just not able to access whatever site you were trying to use.
I don't think it's possible to score lower in accessibility at this point.
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Anyone know any good cheap online computer hardware stores that do delivery to central London?
Bonus if they sell refurb Thinkpads.
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Question for my game developer friends out there (please also feel free to boost/share widely!): why do indie games still tend to be closed source, especially compared to indie app ecosystems where there are thriving open source communities?
That’s obviously a super broad question, but I’m open to broad perspectives. :) I’m especially interested in hearing from folks who have been actively involved in video game design, development, publishing, etc.
Inspired by another post, a lot of FOSS projects need to learn the difference between "this problem needs money to solve" and "my approach at solving this problem needs money to be possible".
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
