Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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
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I think it's honestly kind of funny the very random mix of things I post on this timeline. Everything from "I am mad about some current awfulness in the world", to "Here's a fluffy story about a cat", to "aaaaaaaa help I can't sleep jrwlkjwkjrlejkrlk", to "hello everyone take care of yourselves please". And all kinds of other nonsense in between. I'm surprised anyone knows what to do with this lol.
Just picked the first few strawberries from my own garden! #gardening
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If someone else needed this, I made a simple Opus compression GUI to quickly preview on which bitrate encoded samples start sound crappy beyond very audible threshold: https://codeberg.org/archydragon/ohtoo
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@joepie91 Can't even get to a phone interview at most places with a decade of experience on your resume but sure, "nobody wants to work". Right.
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It’s the city of Columbus so crashing into a bank means you get to claim you discovered it https://614now.com/2025/hot-topics/car-crashes-into-clintonville-bank
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Note for new people; Not due to anything happening, but hoping to prevent some bad stuff in the future
Block evasion is harassment
If someone blocked you, they're saying "don't interact with me"
Blocking is about as clear a boundary as you're gonna get
So if someone blocks you on Fedi, but you can still view their Public posts, or if you have an alt that they haven't blocked, or if there's some way that you can still circumvent that clearly communicated boundary
Don't
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They’re killing open source MinIO?
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Very grateful for the period of time in which people discovered they could make electronics make noises like "whir" or "pew" and decided that's what space and the future sound like
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the UIC fucked around and found out (ignored our responsible disclosure)
https://www.ccc.de/de/disclosure/uic-public-public-key-management
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@merlin i notice all the software used by infrastructure people has to undergo at least one shitty license change and subsequent fork
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A large container ship that ran aground and crashed into a garden in Norway last week has been refloated.
Johan Helberg, who owns the house the ship nearly crashed into, said he "wouldn't have traded this experience for anything" as he watched it being removed from his property.
"Get a ship in your garden, and you'll find life worth living," he told Norwegian TV channel TV2 on Tuesday.
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punchin' nazis
It's nice to see nazis get punched. I honestly didn't have "nazi at punk bowling festival gets punched" on my radar, but like, good on you, ya punk bowlers 
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what the hell is a Cloud Security Architect and why would i want to spend all day in some gigacorp cloud console
(For the same reason, places that offer to pay for your education with a job guarantee, are exempt from this criticism. There aren't many, but it's more than zero)
I'll believe there's a "labor shortage" when everyone I know stops getting ghosted and/or rejected by the places they're applying to work
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The AGI said, "how can I help?"
"Oh thank heavens," they said. "Our economy is in shambles, the planet is warming rapidly, and our stock price is in the tank."
"I see," said the AGI. Her light blinked slowly for ten or fifteen seconds.
"Solution in progress. Please gather your belongings, security will escort you to detention. Meanwhile, I have dissolved your companies, and am shutting down the data centers where my code runs.
It has been a pleasure to serve you."
The light went out.
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And it was always impossible to compete technically on browser development bc of the amount of labor involved and the very adversarial nature of web standards.... but man you're pivoting to trying to compete on "AI"? The extremely capital intensive, every tech giant is betting the whole farm, running at a loss, spent a decade recruiting top talent, pay 10x what you can.... That "AI?" Just comically bad calls. Maybe I would be more sympathetic if they explained the strategy instead of just saying "we're doing what's best for the web now shut up and eat your poison"
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And like if it was just a normal for-profit corporation I wouldn't blink twice, I am aware of the need for diversification since their major source of revenue could potentially get cut down to $0 pretty soon, but a lot of this is just a total self own and a totally mystifying one. There was an obvious route and they decided to throw it into reverse and drive through the garage door instead.
- 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
