Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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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- 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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Not knowing that you're using AAVE is fine, if you've picked it up from some white person on TikTok or wherever, and nobody has told you otherwise.
You can't know something if you've never encountered it before. But once you HAVE that knowledge - and Dan has been called out many, many times on his use of AAVE - that's your cue to cut it out. If you don't, and continue with behaviour that you've been told is cultural appropriation, then you're being deliberately racist.
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- suffered by Black folk, makes light of a culturally important and significant part of Black history.
If your argument is 'but language evolves! English is full of words borrowed from all kinds of different languages!', work on getting rid of that colonial, white, mindset. We do not own everything and have no inherent claim to everything, and that includes other peoples' cultures, including when part of that culture is a specific language or dialect.
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Since *many* people are unfamiliar with what AAVE is (African-American Vernacular English, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Vernacular_English), and thus could not identify it in Dansup's posts that I linked to yesterday, here are the snippets of AAVE he used in each post;
From https://h-i.social/@poisonous/113742817594490441 , quoted at the top:
'they in my mentions', 'it be kinda' . Note the missing 'are' in the first example, and 'it be' instead of 'it is'. These are strong examples of AAVE.
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So to answer the question can you CNAME¹ the apex of a zone is yes²
¹actually cname, not aliasing, or fake cnames that services like cloudflare provide
²if you don't care about RFCs, write your own dns server and your clients are ok with weird things happening, cache poisoning and some resolvers exploding.
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All of the drama around Wordpress is poster child #1 for why Open Source is not adequate to assure good governance -- forking is expensive and hard, and allows a lot of sins to be swept under the carpet.
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“A capitalist ethos of independence & productivity, & the pervasive colonial perception of nature as commodity, would have us see abandonment as natural, even inevitable. An ethics of abandonment is, what leads massive amounts of money & energy to be poured into fantasies of escape like Elon Musk’s rocket ship or billionaire bunker estates, or the politically mercurial fantasy of the rugged ablebodied survivalist living off the land post–climate apocalypse.”
Sunaura Taylor - Disabled Ecologies
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After transitioning was the first time in my life where the puzzle that was myself, my life, my future, actually fit together. Before transition I couldn't image my future. Not because I though I wouldn't live to see it, but because I couldn't image it. I could not image myself being a middle aged man one day. But now I can imagine a future for myself. One that fits, that feels right.
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Its a weird antisemitic trope that's long running. There's never any logic in antisemitic tropes, so it doesn't make sense. It just is.
Zuckerberg will never see your federated posts using this trope, but Jews will, so please don't. I know its a meme, but not everybody making memes is a comrade.
health update, transplantation
Transplantation day today! Here's to hoping it all goes well.
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Love it when journalists provide context when reporting news.
"Mastodon’s announcement comes at a time when the WordPress open-source project and its cofounder have been embroiled in a months-long legal feud, and Meta’s Zuckerberg has made headlines for stripping back Facebook and Instagram’s fact-checking and content moderation before lying about it to Joe Rogan."
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342603/mastodon-non-profit-ownership-ceo-eugen-rochko
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As I was lazily contemplating the yellow enamelled kettle, which was boiling water, I noticed its bottom was darker yellow, it was more orange. It was actually clearly orange, one could even call it red. A dark red, bordering on purple. In fact, the entire kettle was more orange than I had realised.
Only then did it dawn on me that yes, I had put the kettle on, but forgot to fill it with water.
"smart" hospital adventures
Also the TV runs an Android(?) TV app but has Windows scrollbars
"smart" hospital adventures
My IoT app crashed when I tried to close the curtains and @Peetz0r's room tablet seems to be a hand-me-down from an entirely different hospital - coincidentally, the hospital I normally go to
health update, transplantation
As things are looking right now, I will be getting a new kidney tomorrow!
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The picture vs how it was created, part 2
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Ugh, I'm not a fan of this current wave of genai proponents positioning people who see through the hype as trying to keep the rest of the team from being successful, and themselves as the Reasonable Adults who don't want your Negative Energy 🙄
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beseeching small businesses to post their hours on their websites. not their facebooks. you have a website. please. use it
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“Why Agile Is Losing Steam - by Charles Lambdin”
https://thelaterallens.substack.com/p/why-agile-is-losing-steam
> Clients do not want you to maximize value as much as they want you to make them look successful—and those are often two completely different things.
I say 'inspiring' but really I am just looking for literally anything at all
Does anyone have any inspiring menu bar designs for UI toolkits that are *not* flat design?
- 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
