Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
reposting a vent I originally posted in the NixOS Matrix room
tangential, but I get kind of annoyed by comments along the lines of "let's migrate to <other platform>", as if that is a trivial thing to do with minimal consequences (which it isn't, and the constant floating of the idea does not help the sense of community stability either). doubly so when the current platform is one that we do actually have some degree of control over, like is the case with Matrix.
like, we can keep platform-hopping forever, tearing apart what's left of the community at every step, hoping that we'll eventually land on some platform from some company that somehow is prepared to do anything we need for us forever on a budget of "none"... or, more realistically, we could acknowledge that our community is ultimately ours to run and support, and that "everybody putting in their part to make it work" is the sustainable way forward, rather than expecting others to do it for us.
The entire 'recommended for you' box on the IKEA site for me is just different sizes and combinations of SAMLAs...
and they're not wrong
Please do not respond to this with some variant of "but Electron is resource-hungry!" unless you've actually done a deep dive into resource spend, because I can assure you that I've already evaluated all the common superficial arguments long ago and every single one of them is false
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“Not everybody in software dev is like that! Some coders genuinely care and put in the work needed to make good software”
True, but I feel confident in saying that next to none of those are leaning hard into “AI coding”
The target market for “AI” is SPECIFICALLY people who don’t care
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"Vibe coding is all AI coding" feels true to most. Not caring what happens after code is pushed to the final victim is already the norm. The only change from adopting "AI" is they now have the freedom to no longer care about what happens BEFORE as well.
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Code that does the job the end user wants it to do is already the exception and software is a product managed based on vibes throughout. Anybody who goes all huffy because the field OVERWHELMINGLY responds to "vibe coding is using AI to create code that you don't care about" with "ah, so all coding, gotcha!" has not been paying attention
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Laughing at "AI" boosters worrying "vibe coding" is becoming synonymous with "AI coding". Tech is vibes througout. Vibe management. Vibe strategy. Vibe design. Coding has been a garbage fire for decades and, yeah it's a vibe-based pop culture from top to bottom and has only been getting worse
It sure is interesting how Tauri doesn't get shit on anywhere near as much as Electron, even though there is very little technical difference between the two, and the 'arguments' against Electron are supposedly of a technical nature
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Het reliëfkaartje van Twente is ook fascinerend, ik wist niet dat Glanerbrug en Losser met een heuvelrug van de rest van Nederland zijn afgescheiden.
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I'm generally fascinated by this thing where people try to undo a fuckup by just reverting to the old situation and then expect 'business as usual', clearly not understanding that trust is a thing you build up on a social level, and not some deterministic outcome of a set of policies
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Redis: "we're doing AGPL again now!"
Proceeds to talk around the issue because they can't bring themselves to admit that they've a mistake, and somehow expects people to trust them again despite showing no evidence that they've learned anything
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Evening all.
I've just accidentally dropped a cup of seeds on the lawn and our local wood pigeons have possibly started worshiping me as a god, so that's nice.
Also got a snap of the robin posing, and am enjoying the WTF vibes I'm getting from the sheep.
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"People are going to have relationships with AI. How do we make sure these are healthy relationships?" You don't. Those relationships can't be healthy because they're premised on lies.
The single most effective thing AI companies could do to encourage healthy relationships with AI would be to stop presenting them as people, but they won't because doing so would make them less marketable.
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Just posted on Six Colors: The hammer falls on Apple’s malicious-compliance scheme
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/05/the-hammer-falls-on-apples-malicious-compliance-scheme/
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fascism, transphobia, science
if i was in biology i would be constantly pretty pissed off that fascists have turned my entire field into a catchphrase expositing bigotry with less actual knowledge of my field than you'd get in a single second grade science lesson
kermisongeluk (2)
Uit een ouder interview met Niek Moonen, de exploitant in kwestie:
"Moonen is het wel eens met de stelling dat er nog muziek in de sector zit, maar gemakkelijk is het niet altijd. ‘Het is gewoon keihard werken en het is vooral lastig dat je met zoveel administratieve zaken te maken hebt. Veiligheid is belangrijk, maar je kan ook overdrijven.’"
Eh. Tja. Wat moet ik daar nou eens over zeggen...
I'm generally fascinated by this thing where people try to undo a fuckup by just reverting to the old situation and then expect 'business as usual', clearly not understanding that trust is a thing you build up on a social level, and not some deterministic outcome of a set of policies
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
