Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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
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Bij “arts” of “adviseur” denk je misschien dat iemand je beter gaat maken of advies gaat geven, maar als er “arbo” voor staat betekent het dat ze formulieren invullen en je zieker maken. Als je pech hebt, zoals de huisgenoot. https://nescia.nl/anna/2025/06/13/zwanger/
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@bright_helpings looks at discord and its borderline unuseable light theme
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anyway, it is indeed down to developers almost exclusively using dark themes, and forgetting light ones exist because they've never interacted with anything besides like, the discord one or something which is half-arsed garbage
although i feel like the Gaming (derogatory) space is also partly to blame, particularly for the whole ableism thing around light themes; i see that way more on like, gaming-centric places and such
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i can understand only having a dark (or light) theme if your software exclusively has one theme and you don't want to implement a theming feature; although you'll fuck up accessibility for one group or another no matter which you choose there
but like, half the time a theming thing is there, and then it only properly handles dark themes anyway because fuck anyone who prefers light for whatever reason i guess
it's not like it's that hard to do a light theme properly either if you implement themes in a remotely reasonable way; hell, Android for example provides theming support on system level iirc which you can use
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i feel like the accessibility side of theming in general is forgotten a lot actually
like, there's software that lets you change fonts and such, but then for some goddessforsaken reason does not include a dyslexia-friendly one or a monospaced one, both of which are pretty damn useful accessibility features
and the same pattern can be seen in so many other places too; theming features existing but all of them using colours that don't work with colour blindness and not giving an option to change that, or not letting you change font size, etc.
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also, mostly unrelated but this reminds me that i should do some fixes to my Blender theme, since i use a partial light theme there
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*sadly goes to reset the counter to 0 on the "days since I saw someone shit on the existence of light themes" sign*
I think on average I see this like once a week.
I cannot see dark themes at all. And it's a hell of a thing to see this hostility not just to a software option but to my own existence and qualities as a person who uses this option. Like I've seen people say you have to be a psychopath to use light theme, which is an awesome way to double up on the ableism!
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The internet is specifically designed in such a way parts of it can be down without taking the whole network down.
But we use this inherently decentralised infrastructure to route all traffic through a handful of services, making the whole setup futile.
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For some people asking about aave. Its not "internet slang", and you know that. If you're white, you are not allowed to do this.
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Voor als je niets ziet in de liberalisering en verrechtsing van GroenLinks door de fusie met PvdA:
https://doemee.bij1.org
Als ik zo het recente onderzoek van Buro Jansen&Janssen eens lees, dan lijkt de scene nog steeds niet zoveel geleerd te hebben over hoe je gezonde gemeenschappen opbouwt... 😕
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Back up your 2fa keys, or add a second method.
Do it now, before your phone dies/breaks/is stolen.
That's it that's the post.
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“Bird of Pray”
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/bird-of-pray/
> Lots of people are spending lots of time coming up with potential use cases for products that, quite literally, threaten to destroy everything. Lots of people are extending more intellectual generosity to some of the most well-funded companies in history than they are to their own colleagues whose jobs and funding have been eliminated.
Audrey speaks the truth
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Who wants a cassette of the noises of different mail servers?
I'm creating a mxtape.
"Ah well but the way FOSS projects work doesn't fit into the tendering and purchasing procedures of the government, so they have to hire consultancies"
I literally do not care. It is the job of the government to adapt itself to the needs of society, not the other way around. This is not an excuse. Go fucking fix it.
Instead, we mostly just get governments paying consultancies to deploy and manage these things under the assumption that this "builds a local economy" and helps keep things running, completely failing to understand the underlying dynamics and economics of FOSS projects and what their role in them should be
Like, there's all this talk about 'digital sovereignty' and yet they constantly miss the most important part of actually achieving that: you need to figure out who your 'community' is, and *help to make it stronger*, not just take from it
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@joepie91 The past decades, any organisation screaming "Let's go FOSS", seems to get approached by a MS salesperson that offers them cheap shiny licences for 5 years and then the decisionmakers quickly budge.
So, any time I hear some org say it, I'll won't hold my breath. I'll cheer when I see they actually /do/ successfully do the entire transition.
This is not subtooting a specific government by the way, it seems applicable to almost every "let's go use FOSS!" move from the past decade
"Government wants to move to LibreOffice from Microsoft"
Okay great but are they also going to contribute toward its improvement, or are they just going to expect an off-the-shelf perfect equivalent again and give up in 6 months because "employees had trouble getting used to the new software"
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computers are actually good
what i hate is the tech industry, the evil men behind it, and the apologists
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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
