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politics, personal PSA 

Just a personal heads-up for everyone I interact with: we've reached a point where if I see you in *any* way aligning with Trump or Musk, you are immediately going on my mental 'fascist' list with no further discussion and I will not speak to you anymore.

I don't care if you "didn't know how bad it is". The time for learning that is well past, so if you still "don't know", then I'm going to conclude that you didn't *want* to know and decide accordingly.

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Time for the - I guess yearly by this point... - toot again:

No, I will not be at . I *could* have squeezed it into my schedule despite an upcoming transplantation, but they have *once again* failed to implement any COVID safety measures.

A few days of Congress is not worth the risk of brain damage or (in my case) severe illness or death.

If you want to see me at your event, push for appropriate safety precautions like sufficient ventilation/filtering and (particularly where that is not possible) mask distribution and ideally masking requirements.

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PSA: personal health, surgery and risks, availability 

If all goes to plan, I will be receiving a kidney transplantation on November 12 (2024), followed by an unknown recovery period. What to expect:

After the transplantation, I will not be around online for a while; this could be anywhere from a few days to a few months depending on how well (or not) the surgery goes. Even after I return, I will likely be avoiding stress for a while, which also means I may drop out of things unannounced.

In the time leading up to the transplantation, I will become less and less consistently available, and you may see me around less, as I deal with the preparations for the surgery.

I'm receiving a kidney from a living donor, under pretty much best-case circumstances (no dialysis), so the chance of success is high, and the chance of complications is low, but it is not zero. Likewise, survival chance is high but not 100%.

If the transplantation succeeds, I will be able to live a mostly normal life, but I will be on immunosuppressive medicine for the rest of my life. Among other things, this means that you're probably only going to see me at (hacker) events that take sufficient precautions against COVID and the like.

So if you want me and other immunocompromised folks around at those events, ask organizers to take those precautions! Ventilation/filtering and CO2 measurement is a good baseline.

If you have any questions about all this, feel free to ask, but I may or may not have the spoons to answer them.

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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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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 cryto.net/~joepie91/manifesto.), 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!

Do any *ethical* residential proxy services exist? So with full, informed consent from everyone whose connection is used, and without shady separation between the buying and the selling side.

I learned something. Tent pegs are named after fish in Western Europe, but a different fish in every language.

Dutch: haring (herring)
French: sardine (sardines)
German: aal (eel)

Budapest :drgn_flag_rainbow:

Another angle; some sources say there were between 100 and 200 thousand attendees!

Save future videogames from planned obsolescence!

There is an initiative asking the EU to regulate or at least clarify video games being made inaccessible remotely by publishers.

The initiative is on an official channel provided by the EU itself, if it reaches one million signatures the European Commission will have to look into the matter and provide a response, there is still a month until 31 July.

eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/

#stopdestroyinggames
#stopkillinggames #retrogaming #gaming

@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)

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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

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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.

@holly @joepie91 leveling up both ADHD and autism is a requirement for unlocking the Weirdo With 37 Cats prestige class

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.

assemblag.es/@theluddite/11473

@schratze @joepie91 And rejection sensitivity likely means you’re dual-wielding autism, and that branch gives you access to info dumping, stimming, and the special interest multiplier

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.

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