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.
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- 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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If your open source project uses “stale bots” to close issues after a period of inactivity, I am not going to participate in your project.
These bots do nothing to help issues be fixed. What they do is put undue pressure on the author of an issue to come up with a fix themselves, or to discount issues raised by people who are not familiar with the language or toolset used by the project.
I can report a bug, well, without writing a single line of code. If your stale bot closes it, you didn’t want the bug report. Happy to oblige.
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IMHO: #BlueSky isn't decentralised or federated. The outage on 2024-11-14 is obvious proof. It may *look* decentralised and they definitely love to outsource traffic/storage costs by claiming that running your own PDS (Personal Data Server) is somehow something federated, but that's all smoke and mirrors. You have to go deep on [1] to find "networking through Relays instead of server-to-server" as their current implementation choice. THEY run the relays. No one else.
[1] https://bsky.social/about/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture
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Doing my best techbro impression
Don't like the way this software works? Fork it.
Potholes in your street for months, ignored by the council? Obviously you should abandon your career, become a road worker and fix them yourself!
Local store manager shitty to their employees? Clearly you should open your own store and run it your way!
Resident calligrapher writing 'butts' too much for your liking? Learn to Blackletter, n00b!
What, you don't have time? Don't have the energy? Sucks to be youuuu
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Anyway the cold weather and *gestures around* has gotten me wanting to do ~tangible~ things with real impact. Not too many of them translate super well to online spaces so I am dreaming of outdoor spaces where knowledge can be transferred
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I mean I also know a bit about permaculture, farming, construction, raising chickens, composting, fire building, shelter building, navigation, etc but not necessarily enough to confidently teach all of them haha
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I’m just about ready to start my own summer camp for adults so I can teach everyone ceramics, welding, archery, canoeing, kayaking, and birding.
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Like why do I know all these weird things if I’m not sharing the knowledge, seems selfish tbh. Like if I was living in a proper healthy community I could just teach whoever was around and wanted to learn but I don’t really have that right now
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Literally never bother using any software product which uses CLA's or which has full ownership over open source code. It's always just open source "for now".
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🎧 You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free
｢ The MP3 format, once the gold standard for digital audio files, is now free. The licensing and patents on MP3 encoders have expired, meaning you can now include them in your applications without paying royalties. For software developers and audio enthusiasts, this might seem like a big deal ｣
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politics nazis ww2 ref
accurate record keeping made it way too easy to establish who relates to who and what religion they were during the nazi occupation of the netherlands in ww2
yeah, uh, we have opinions on keeping too much information in government records, like uh, just don't please, kthnx
in ww2 several actions of resistance and military had to be specifically aimed at destroying the records that shouldn't exist to begin with.....
thought people had learned this, but here we are
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A lot of CSS hackery later, and I've managed to construct a popover dialog using a <details> element that doesn't disrupt the button order and also doesn't require any JS to work!
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when will websites discover than you can set session cookies for longer than a week so users don't get logged out all the fucking time
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folks on the fedi like to make a big deal out of how we're better than google, better than facebook, etc, but in terms of the basic act of respecting consent by looking at things like robots.txt we're far worse
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https://www.fediral.com/bot claims to respect robots.txt, but after fetching robots.txt it goes to .well-known/nodeinfo and nodeinfo/2.0 anyway, even though it's not permitted to do so
and what the hell is 'fediral' you ask? who fucking knows, the website is empty: https://fediral.com/
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Apparently people are being made to do Game Jams as part of marked assignments at university now, which just seems 100% counter to the point of game jams to me.
IMO, you are typically supposed to whip together something quick and scrappy and experimental in a game jam, maybe you'll build it into something bigger afterwards, but the point is to get used to producing finished works and to network/exchange critique with your peers.
Also, the stakes are typically very low during a game jam. Sometimes there are prizes but it's not like making a bad jam game will affect the rest of your life (unless you choose to make something morally repugnant).
If you are being marked on it for an assignment you are just doing coursework. This isn't a game jam. You are just doing project work. Call it that instead. If the rest of your life could be negatively impacted by poor performance in this activity, this is not a Game Jam! Stop trying to make work *sound* fun!
IMO, you are typically supposed to whip together something quick and scrappy and experimental in a game jam, maybe you'll build it into something bigger afterwards, but the point is to get used to producing finished works and to network/exchange critique with your peers.
Also, the stakes are typically very low during a game jam. Sometimes there are prizes but it's not like making a bad jam game will affect the rest of your life (unless you choose to make something morally repugnant).
If you are being marked on it for an assignment you are just doing coursework. This isn't a game jam. You are just doing project work. Call it that instead. If the rest of your life could be negatively impacted by poor performance in this activity, this is not a Game Jam! Stop trying to make work *sound* fun!
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Today for #blackhistorymonth , let us honor Jerry Lawson, video game hardware innovator and inventor of the video game cartridge.
Jerry, gamers everywhere salute you 🫡
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It looks like the #50501protests mostly went well and were a positive experience for everyone, despite my misgivings. I’m glad to be wrong about this one!
Hopefully this engages new people in the work going on around them. And these folks start using Signal groups instead of Discord to organize LOL.
- 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
