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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Hot take: "HTML is a programming language" is gatekeeping in effect, if not in intent.
That is, something need not be a programming language to be a the subject of highly useful and important technical skills — viewing all of computing through the lens of programming languages is inherently limiting.
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One of the better ways I found to solve programming problems is writing the high level code as if I have all the other parts already in place.
It is a bit like TDD or Tracer Bullet dev, but I don't write any runing code until I feel fine with the phantasy-code I have written (but then I can continue with tests and tracer bullet mocks)
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wait, so they rearchitected the whole thing to not suck and rewrote it in rust to reduce overhead and instead of letting everyone benefit from this, they're designating it "Synapse Pro" and will continue to maintain *two* codebases now just to have a product they can sell?
all while even small Synapse deployments can be slow and rickety?
what the fuck
all while even small Synapse deployments can be slow and rickety?
what the fuck
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I was a keynote speaker at FOSDEM last year; it was my first time at the conference. I’m blind and I use a white cane. I found it very difficult to orient myself there—some rooms were so crowded it was impossible to not use my cane with a very defensive stance (i.e. using it to try to block people from hitting me); I had to rely on human guides most of the time. Some paths to specific rooms had really rough terrain too, and some rooms are difficult to access (e.g. access through stairs only).
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I say that because several of the considerations I’ve seen floating around the fediverse are 100% important, and we need to acknowledge them all. We can’t move forward if we keep focused on just working on improving the parts of that whole and never address the whole; and we can’t do anything different if we keep limiting ourselves to dream mediocre dreams. Dare to dream way beyond what you currently see.
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Oh, and addressing Jack Dorsey’s presence at FOSDEM: I invite you all to think about it as a symptom of something bigger happening at FOSDEM, not as an issue in and of itself. The mobility issues, the grim logistics of watching talks in person, the difficulty in connecting with others in crowded spaces, the “let it rip” attitude when talking about flu or COVID—those are a part of a whole that tells a story, and this is an invitation to think about how we can do better as a community in general.
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someone has got to create a polyglot filesystem. a filesystem that can be read by two completely different filesystem drivers
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One of my favourite hashtags here, highly recommend: #CarryShitOlympics. It's people carrying loads of stuff on their bikes. I hope to participate some day.
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How can I get a skirt with a custom printed pattern?
Imagine I have an image, and I want that on a skirt. Is there any company where I can order that?
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Raising 30 million dollars to host 20 thousand GoToSocial instances for 30 years
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If these nerds weren't so hell-bent on becoming the God Emperors of My Twitter Alternative and instead actually considered people's social and safety needs and their technically ability while building decentralised social media platforms the whole thing becomes a non-issue very quickly
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The ad read 'Five days for £5!'. It didn't say what for. The website, Aeternitas Solutions, had no more info; just a purchase form.
Curiosity itched. Probably a scam but for a fiver, they'd risk it. They filled in the form, hit 'Buy'.
The confirmation was just as vague; 'Thank you for your purchase. Your order will be dispatched.'
They'd forgotten all about it by the next morning until, crossing out a day on the calendar, noticed the new five blank days shoved into the middle.
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oh cool, Gnome has no automatic dark mode anymore because Mozilla (the advertisement and AI company) thought it was financially not worthwhile to keep their daytime and location API alive https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/2959#note_2053491
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Hang on, why is FOSDEM worried about Dorsey's talk being disrupted?
Dorsey is from the generation of tech disruption.
Surely he'd welcome some disruption to the marketplace of free speech?
Like ours to not have a billionaire at a FOSS event.
Surely Davos is more his speed. The man's looking for a smaller pond as all his mates are at the Trump party.
If you're that worried about FOSDEM breaking maybe don't invite one of the "move fast and break things" allumini?
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And since my Vestibular Neuronitis is playing up today, I'd like to remind everyone -- no matter how much a #TTRPG game, night out, trip or whatever means to you, if you're sick, stay in.
Getting on for 10 years ago, someone came out to a game session with a very bad cold. Not flu, but a bad cold.
They decided to come anyway and spent 5 hours coughing on me.
That cold, just a cold, permanently damaged my vestibular system, affected my hearing, and still affects me today.
Stay. The Fuck. Home
Bambu's latest firmware update apparently locks down printers to their own software.
And this is why I didn't buy a Bambu, and got a Sovol instead.
dream
Tonight's dream: I was trying out some highly immersive VR thing that included touch and taste and all that. It was like a 10-20 minute walk through various landscapes and environments in really high detail, with glass-pane fences that really *felt* like glass panes.
For some reason there were pallets of free samples for various instant meals and foods/shakes dotted throughout the walking path (some of them quite nice!), and at the end was a large area with promotional booths and buildings.
The 'highlight' was an absolute shitpost of a promo booth, called 'Easyjet GoGo' and dressed up and advertised to imply that it was some kind of flight simulator experience, but when you queued for it and it was your turn, you would eventually discover that it was... a highly overengineered portable toilet building 😂
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@janamarie @cmb hey I did something similarly cursed a while ago :D
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blockchain billionaire at FOSS community event
Heh, Drew is organizing a sit-in to protest against Jack Dorsey (former CEO of Twitter, billionaire, Bitcoin and blockchain enthusiast) holding a keynote at #fosdem2025.
https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html
- 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
