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.
- 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
"De 6-jarige jongen die vanmorgen vermoedelijk door een wolf werd aangevallen in de Utrechtse bossen, is weer thuis."
En, zou het weer eens een hond zijn, zoals gebruikelijk?
Also, more generally... if you see me subtooting someone and are wondering if it's about you: it's probably not.
I make a point of telling people when I have a problem with their behaviour, because I can't expect them to change it if I never tell them what's wrong.
If I subtoot about it, either it's *in addition to* doing so (and if it were about you, you'd already know *with certainty*) or it's about someone I've never spoken to personally (and so it's almost certainly some public figure and not you).
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You know how so often in 80s and 90s “Tech nightmare” movies there was the trope of the old woman who started it all and is now living in some small town in the mountains tending flowers?
And she would say shit like “they took our beautiful creation and turned in into something monstrous, so now I create beauty here. Flowers that can’t be twisted for money and power.”
Yeah I never really realized how much I identified with that trope until I left software. I have the garden in a small mountain town and everything.
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Just had an interesting interaction with my children where it became clear that “transition” was a word that they did not understand.
Using simplified language, I tried to explain that it was the word for what I did because I was a boy and became a girl.
They were literally confused, because in their mind, I was always a girl.
“Why do you need a word for changing clothes or taking medicine? That’s just things people do!”
Their perspective sort of blows my mind. I always thought my transition was a huge deal. But it’s like a non-event to them. They didn’t even see it.
😭🙀
subtoot, venting (2)
(Also, for the RSD folks: if you are reading this, then this is not about you, because you're not blocked.)
subtoot, venting
I truly cannot stand people who try to make others responsible for their personal guilt.
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:ms_deminonbinary_flag: (mastodon)
@awoo more entities should defy societal norms when possible. for fun
"Please don't litter XKCDs on my floor" and other completely normal things to say in this house
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some people are desperate to be kind to their enemies because having enemies sucks, which is why you must transform them rather than applaud them. nothing but death or a profound reeducation will place love in fascist hearts and neither of those things goes “i gotta hand it to race scientists”
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Δ-44203.1 'Carbon' 
please note that the talk Building a Robot Visor: How and Why has been rescheduled to 14:00 - 14:25 on Saturday, 2025-08-09. see those ones there! 
please also make sure to check the other talks one is planning to attend, in case their schedule changed too.
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Heya, is anybody driving from Munich to WHY who's willing to take some of my stuff with them?
The people who were going to drive my camping supplies to WHY cancelled. Last time I tried to carry the supplies myself, I got sick from overexertion.
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journo adjacent people, I am currently looking for a place where I can publish a piece on how journalism was wrecked and and get som eyes on it.
Anyway, if you have any ideas, lmk
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I was just floored and fully impressed that a website correctly detected that I have address protection and offered a simple human readable error message explaining I have to use the alternative login option
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Goo Truther 
@joepie91 If they setup an 'migrate to SteamOS.exe' the same way Ubuntu used to offer an installer from Windows, but better, that would be huge for Linux adoption. Suddenly everybody would know what the KDE Plasma desktop is, etc...
And in particular, because it doesn't *look* like it's that hard
This practice has been obsoleted, by the way, because people consistently kept fucking them up because it turns out that process synchronization is Very Hard To Get Right
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Een virusziekte die álle systemen in je lichaam beschadigt: is het te genezen door gewoon een beetje beter je best te doen? Overheid, verzekeringsartsen denken van wel - lees meer op pagina 31
... wait a moment. Those 'wait groups' in Golang, is that literally just their equivalent of async-callback-counting in JS?! A practice which has been obsolete for like a decade by now?
I really struggle to take this language seriously...
- 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
