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.
- 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
Sven Slootweg
boosted
We're here
We're queer
Connection reset by peer
Sven Slootweg
boosted
the can opener bridge delivers when we are in our moment of need
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ4tpEhQ86g
Sven Slootweg
boosted
@joepie91 and sometimes it'll decide to show me a language I don't even speak and never chosen before like what's going on at Google???
Also didn't we invent this entire web standard to indicate which languages we speak? Can companies please respect it??
Part of me wonders if big tech happened in Europe instead of the US, we'd have better multi language support for things
spicy take, FOSS, standards processes
(Because if you actually cared about the criticism, you would be asking yourself "what support does this person need to have their problem solved" and then you'd immediately discover that "file a PR/proposal" is completely outside the realm of the viable for most people)
spicy take, FOSS, standards processes
This is basically the standards equivalent of the equally-exclusionary practice in FOSS to respond to criticisms with "well just make a PR to change it" or "well just fork the project then", all of these are just responses that try to dismiss the criticism without making it sound like they are
Sven Slootweg
boosted
probably a hot take, birdsite
One thing I kinda miss from twitter is the notification when someone liked something I boosted.
On here, boosts feel like they end up in the void, unseen, on twitter I could see that others appreciated the things I boosted, which made me more likely to do it.
Thoughts like "oh $person would really like this post" don't really occur to me much anymore.
Sven Slootweg
boosted
spicy take, standards processes
A standards process that responds to complaints about the spec/tech/system with something like "file a formal spec change proposal if you'd like to see it changed" will only ever produce specifications that benefit the privileged
I can't get over how swathes of academic research into misinformation, as well as a lot of public sources on 'media bias' (including the heavily-advertised ground.news that sponsors all those Youtubers), are all just based on the opinions of A Guy Called Dave.
No, that's not a metaphor or a joke. The guy is literally called Dave.
Sven Slootweg
boosted
Sven Slootweg
boosted
I wish you could submit a suggested edit for alt text, so that when I do ALT4you labor, the original poster gets a notification and they could just approve it to automatically add it to their images.
Sven Slootweg
boosted
Most political unrest caused by soaring inequality
https://volewica.blogspot.com/2020/01/most-political-unrest-caused-by-soaring.html
Sven Slootweg
boosted
Oh you have ADHD? So which skill trees are you speccing into?
-time blindness
-dyslexia
-dyspraxia
-emotional instability
-rejection sensitivity
-no object permanence
-financial inaccountability
-constantly paying the ADHD tax
Sven Slootweg
boosted
What if i cast a magic spell witch suddenly gave you two extra ears.
Would that be a.... "fast four-ear transform"?
I'm Jellyfriend
You watch a Dutch video, it tries to auto-translate the subtitles to English, so you tell it "no show me the original Dutch"
and then on the next English video it tries to auto-translate the subtitles to Dutch... fucks sake
Jesus christ Youtube, people can speak more than one language you know?
Garbage software can't even understand that I don't want it to translate subtitles, I just want to see whatever the original is unless chosen otherwise
Sven Slootweg
boosted
https://annaymone.com/mindkiller
"Fear compounds fear. Fear enables our enemies to make advances that we are unprepared to defend. Fear now makes fear in the future all the more inevitable. Fear is a tool of the enemy. By succumbing to it, we succumb to those who wish to destroy us."
Sven Slootweg
boosted
- 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
