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.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
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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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Everyone who distrusted Free Our Feeds was 100% right but in a more hilarious way than anyone anticipated: what if we take the bluesky firehose.... and put it on a blockchain
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/who-owns-the-future-of-social-media-a-giant-leap-to-decentralize-core-components-of-blueskys-at-protocol-ecosystem-302387397.html
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us politics
@joepie91 journalists cover overt fascism critically challenge (impossible)
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they're shutting skype down
that makes this no longer relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYbvjoXx2EU
that makes this no longer relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYbvjoXx2EU
us politics
Honestly anyone who has ever been bullied would immediately recognize what's going on in that meeting between Trump and Zelensky, and it's not an "argument"
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“There’s a mole in the organization!”
No like there’s an actual mole running around again can you please help them find their way back outside
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browser development meta
@joepie91 hmm.. yes kind of.
The thing is, if we had a wel chosen subset of browser features which would allow for 99% of all use cases and that got branded and the spec frozen, then people could design for it and an ecosystem that supported it could grow and normal browsers would be able to show the results too, because its a subset of the web.
without that, everyone makes their own subset and half of links/pages you open are broken because they use unsupported stuff
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rotating* a sphere** in my mind***
* spinning
** a dvd****
*** in my dvd player
**** it's a dvd of Sphere (1998, dir. Barry Levinson)
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As the saying goes, it’s not the journalist’s job to blindly parrot the politician who says it’s raining, it’s their job to look out the window and tell the public the actual weather.
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Interesting how “journalists shouldn’t be activists” is weaponised by those who desire wishy-washy bothsidesing licking of autocratic boots.
A journalist ought to tell the truth. Doesn’t get much more activist than that.
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TIL: there is an escape sequence that makes a line wide (\e#6), which Konsole apparently understands
food (vegan) (3)
Also I'm pretty happy to see various supermarkets in NL finally starting to stock somewhat more creative/unusual vegan substitutes that aren't just Burger, Copy of Burger, Copy of Burger(1)
food (vegan)
Doesn't have quite the same texture, though the flavour is pretty good. Also seems to not be a promo, but rather a permanent addition.
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I cannot unread TP-Link as Toilet Paper Link
food (vegan)
Okay, so Lidl recently added vegan 'beef strips' to their collection and what the actual fuck, these look *identical* to actual beef strips, I had to double-check that we didn't accidentally buy meat
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mozilla announces that firefox will not operate without a blood sample submitted weekly. but don't worry, the submission process is completely FOSS and was created to combat the proliferation of proprietary blood collection services
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Your reverse engineering of the 2 extensions is perfect
ahaha, amazing emails to receive
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mozilla, browsers, actionable :boost_requested:
@joepie91 Thanks for the heads up on this project! Setting up a monthly donation now.
On a side note, I wish more project would do this! It takes the guess work out of how to make the most effective donation! https://servo.org/sponsorship/#donation-fees
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&
🦊checking out our steam wishlists and this "Lesbian Toggle" post has caused them to go *way* higher than being in Steam Next Fest has
the logical conclusion is that every game should have some kind of toggle like this, and also lesbians
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Things can be complicated and uncomfortable and still worth doing.
personal, discussions
One of my least favourite interaction patterns is when I try to subtly/non-adversarially communicate that someone holds a problematic belief, reference a word they used in the process, and then the response is "well no that's not what I meant with that word, I meant <non-problematic thing> instead".
Except that everything else they've said and demonstrated is consistent with the interpretation I'd used, and not with what they claim the word was meant as.
By that point there just don't seem to be any non-adversarial responses left...
- 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
