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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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Since it's that time of year where people everywhere start asking me whether I'm coming to #37c3, here's my answer:
No, it is not possible for me to come, because the orga has chosen not to implement any COVID safety precautions, forcing me to choose between "keeping my kidneys working" and "attending a hacker event".
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Why I do not like hanging around liberals anymore
Because they're like oppression lootboxes.
The liberal viewpoint is not one of intersectionality; they might sound very progressive and recognize one or more types of oppression, but do not (wish to) recognize the way these interact, or the structure and patterns that underlie all of them.
This means that it's only a matter of time before I hear them say some extremely shitty and/or bigoted stuff about a topic that they don't recognize as a form of oppression, but I can't know upfront which topic it will be, or when it'll happen.
With my intersectional friends, I could then just point out that it's a form of oppression, and they will take it seriously, introspect, and work (over time) to understand it. Mistakes happen, but they will try to learn. All I need to do, is remind them.
With liberals, however... they do not recognize it as another occurrence of the same thing, and so I am left having to "prove" from whole cloth that yes, it really is a form of oppression, before they are even willing to put in *any* effort to understand the problem.
Every time this happens, it takes hours of my time, and energy that I do not have to spare.
I am already running on fumes most of the time, and I honestly just don't really want to hang around people who put that sort of price on not being shitty.
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Why don't you just use XMPP?
(Leaving this here as a FAQ since I get this 'question' entirely too often.)
Because every single time I engage in a discussion with an XMPP proponent, it takes less than 5 minutes to get to "XMPP is fine, you just need to adjust your expectations/requirements", and this FOSSbro attitude is *exactly* why I jumped ship from the XMPP community years ago.
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A reminder that if you are on hackers.town, mstdn.party, or mstdn.social (and a couple other less common instances), I will not see your replies!
These servers are silenced here because while there are a fair amount of nice folks on there, they *also* have moderation issues or a set of policies that's just not compatible with that of pixie.town.
If you want to make sure that your replies arrive here, I would recommend moving to a smaller instance with better moderation and vibes :) Preferably one where you (can get to) know the people running it!
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I've actually been here for a while already, though mostly inactive! The Birdsite Situation prompted me to pop in here again. And I'm terrible at writing introductions, so I usually just say "I do stuff on the internet".
But uh, I do all sorts of activist-y stuff, work on radical FOSS (see http://cryto.net/~joepie91/manifesto.html), write (educational) stuff, am more or less a lonely polyamorous gender blob of indeterminate sexuality who likes both cuddles and kinky things, and I always have 10 times as many projects as I have time for, as is customary with ADHD brain :) Sometimes I even finish some of them!
While I'm an introvert and need plenty of time to myself, I *am* happy to meet like-minded people and spend time with them, and as long as you're not a bigot or apologist, you should feel free to interact with me and/or follow me!
Also, I live in Rosmalen (near Den Bosch) in the Netherlands, and honestly would like to get to know more local folks, and I also have some vague intention to start a queer hackerspace around here if I can find enough interested people. Eventually!
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Asking people to meet in the middle between actually mitigating risk and "being realistic" (i.e. doing fuck-all) is juvenile as hell and reveals a lot about how much you understand about SARS-COV-2 and how much emotional processing you've actually done with regard to an unavoidable permanent change to our lives.
Grow up.
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Somewhere in the space between Yahoo! and AOL., CompuServe dot com still exists somehow.
For my first project in #Factorio circuit networks, I ended up building a fully automated order-picking train station (that works with logistic trains), with a resettable counter of picked items, because that is totally a beginner project
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General announcement for #NixOS contributors and users: registration is now open for the governance proceedings! You can participate if you have at least one contribution (of any kind) to NixOS or its ecosystem. 
Instructions here if you use Github and that is where your contribution was: https://github.com/NixOS/foundation/issues/143
Or otherwise, instructions here (approval may take a bit longer): https://discourse.nixos.org/t/zulip-for-governance-discussions/44684
While I do not want to declare victory prematurely, the successful operation of the NixOS governance talks so far is an extremely big deal to me, for personal reasons that I don't quite want to go into *yet*
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The thing that surprises me the most about Timberborn is how many ways different mechanics interact. I'm16 hours into it now and I've multiple times discovered things that completely changed how I approach solving problems in the game.
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Nearly every time I see “Trust but verify” in a security context, it actually means “Don’t trust; verify instead”.
If you care about community governance topics, then you should probably be paying attention to the #NixOS governance talks right about now :)
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They are starting a student protest at the university of Lausanne, which asaik is the first one in Switzerland.
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so I just realized I did a sizable project and never posted about it publically
last year I spent a few months on and off reverse engineering Pinball Fantasies (a 1992 video game; originally for Amiga, though I was reversing the more polished DOS port) with the intent of doing a game engine recreation, and then rewrote the logic as a Rust program
you can grab the result here: https://github.com/wanda-phi/pfr/ ; if you're interested in the internals of a 1992 DOS game written by demoscene people, I wrote down some (rather incomplete) notes here: https://github.com/wanda-phi/pfr/blob/main/TECH.md
I'd also like to thank @domi for porting this thing to browser environment with WASM, and hosting the result: https://pfr.sakamoto.pl/
enjoy!
last year I spent a few months on and off reverse engineering Pinball Fantasies (a 1992 video game; originally for Amiga, though I was reversing the more polished DOS port) with the intent of doing a game engine recreation, and then rewrote the logic as a Rust program
you can grab the result here: https://github.com/wanda-phi/pfr/ ; if you're interested in the internals of a 1992 DOS game written by demoscene people, I wrote down some (rather incomplete) notes here: https://github.com/wanda-phi/pfr/blob/main/TECH.md
I'd also like to thank @domi for porting this thing to browser environment with WASM, and hosting the result: https://pfr.sakamoto.pl/
enjoy!
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a short trans person doing things, call that a microtransaction
General announcement for #NixOS contributors and users: registration is now open for the governance proceedings! You can participate if you have at least one contribution (of any kind) to NixOS or its ecosystem.
Instructions here if you use Github and that is where your contribution was: https://github.com/NixOS/foundation/issues/143
Or otherwise, instructions here (approval may take a bit longer): https://discourse.nixos.org/t/zulip-for-governance-discussions/44684
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a couple people have sent them to me so just a psa that the songs on that "ObscurestVinyl" channel are ai-generated. the person writes the lyrics and then has ai generate the music. (the "my arms are just fucking stuck like this" song etc)
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Okay... I want to say this. Right here and right now. When you're around disabled people, you should do the following:
1. Don't speak to someone else who is with the disabled person as if the person can't speak for themself. This is incredibly rude and harmful. There's nothing wrong with communicating with a disabled person. Ever. There isn't a problem. There. Is. Not. A. Problem. With any of it. Talk directly to us.
2. Don't ignore disabled people. Talk to us. Ask us questions. We are people just like anyone else living in this world. Asking questions and having conversations with disabled people is not wrong, rude, disrespectful or harmful. It's okay. Seriously. It's fine.
3. If a disabled person tells you to stop doing something, even if you think it's somehow helpful to them or you think they need you to do it for them, stop. Seriously. Just stop doing it. They're telling you to stop for a reason. Society has this common need to overdo it when it comes to helping disabled people. If they're asking you to stop, then stop.
4. Respect us. There is not a single person, and that includes disabled people, in this world who doesn't deserve basic human respect.
5. Don't look down on us. We have disabilities, but we can still live our lives. We just do things differently than people without disabilities do. It isn't something to be ashamed of. I also hate the societal stereotype that disabled people going about their lives are an inspiration. Stop thinking that too. We're people. We live. We exist. We have just adapted in our own ways, and as such, we may live a little differently. And that's okay.
Once again. Ableism needs to stop existing. Please, please do not participate in it. It's a real problem that hurts so many people
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Do you ever just vibe and feel perfectly awake and then suddenly, out of nowhere: eepy
It's really still kind of surreal to me how we're here now. It may not look like much, and it isn't much in terms of immediate impact, but *so much* time and effort went into making this seemingly impossible thing happen, and it will make the actual governance work so much easier.
This has taken easily hundreds of hours for me alone...
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Somebody please stop me, or tell me this already exists, before I go and register a domain name, but it would be pretty neat to have a coding blog that casually injects leftist ideas.
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gender euphoria, cis, anecdote
my laser hair removal technician is cisgender and has been doing this line of work for decades with a tremendous amount of passion and empathy
how did she get started? in her 20s, she had awful dysphoria because of her facial hair. she had laser hair removal herself and it was such an impactful experience she changed her career entirely so she could help others find the same relief and comfort
goes to show this is a very human experience, regardless of your gender
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Anyone here knows some zines about polyamory
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Stop normalizing that you need to go find an alternative to a FOSS project the very hecking moment it goes into maintenance mode/read-only/archival.
Good gods people are already going "Neofetch is dead what's the alternative". It still works fine!
Normalize the idea that software can be "finished" and not be updated until a major feature shortfall or security issue arises, then someone can fork it. Or fork it now, I'm not your mom, but the original is still okay.
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
