Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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.
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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
hellsite vs fediverse follow expectations
@thufie I feel like the problem here might be that there's no clear distinction between 'mark as friend' and 'subscribe to feed' (and I also see that sentiment reflected in the other replies). Both of those are often expressed as a 'follow', but with very different motivations!
@maralorn@chaos.social I don't think it's that simple. He's a pretty high-profile person, and that comes with a certain responsibility not to do undeserved damage to others through one's fame.
I think he's shirking that responsibility here, and actively doing damage to the federated development ecosystem, with claims that don't really hold any water (which he's been told many times, and refuses to do anything with).
I understand the deletion-after-the-fact on the part of the CCC, if the intent was never to record it. But I don't think Moxie should be immune from criticism for this decision, at all. The rules are different when you have a lot of public influence.
@maralorn@chaos.social @ikonoklast@chaos.social Also, the recording should still be available at https://berlin-ak.ftp.media.ccc.de/congress/2019/h264-hd/36c3-11086-eng-The_ecosystem_is_moving.mp4 (and maybe other mirrors).
@maralorn@chaos.social @ikonoklast@chaos.social Not a very plausible argument, considering that his blog post (containing, AFAIK, basically the same arguments) is still up, without any discussion facilities.
@f2k1de@chaos.social I'm so annoyed that they don't allow people with Supersparpreis-tickets anymore :(
@Bobo_PK@chaos.social Heh, nice.
@f0x Narrator: The internet did not cut out a lot.
@Bobo_PK@chaos.social Coincidentally, or did they finally figure out what's going on? :P
@f0x That's probably a much more comfortable datacenter than the average commercial one, though.
Datacenter tourism is interesting, but ultimately commercial datacenters are hot, loud places, and not in the good sense :)
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
having to go to the datacenter for maintenence always sounds cool to me. My "going to the datacenter" is just walking downstairs to the utility closet and giving my laptop-server a boop
@tari_alfaro@mastodon.technology Usually, as a badly-thought-out "security measure", to try and prevent things like shell injection on the server side (when the correct way to solve this would have been either a better process API, or at least escaping).
It's worth noting that minds.com definitely falls into the "clueless about security" bracket. They have quite some... history (also in the area of sketchy business practices), and are hilariously incompetent.
Sources:
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pga9xz/that-social-network-app-backed-by-anonymous-uses-weak-encryption
- https://medium.com/your-anon-central/anonymous-does-not-support-minds-minds-com-3248a3d46ba7
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like it could just be you put one in your profile name like
🔵 / ✅ doin good ayyyyyy
⚫ /⚪ hanging in there but maybe say a nice thing if you have the energy
⛔ /🚫 /🔴 doin real bad please be nice and give me space if i ask
⚠️ / 🆘 having a crash please be nice and/or assist if you're up for it
like that way all the triggering detail stuff is still under an mh(-) CW but also you can still safely share your status and know what's up with friends
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@GreenandBlack in New York most folks have an unlimited metrocard, and people who are too poor to afford one will often ask to be swiped in by people on their way out. it's generally polite New York etiquette to swipe these people in.
the city government has tried to crack down on it claiming that it's costing the city money (lol), but the response to that from the resounding majority of New Yorkers has been "fuck you"
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regarding the whole fedibooks drama
the FSE admin is still mad about what happened and he's talking about how i abused my power
i know i abused my power, but i believe that abuse was justified. the amount of harassment i've experienced from FSE is unreal. i found it entertaining at first because of how easy it was to mess with the harassers, but as time went on it began to grate on me, so i just blocked FSE. easy as that.
as the admin of a community, you hold responsibility for what your users do. i had even asked p (the admin) to ban one of the particularly shitty people once (i'm pretty sure this person was the guy who went on to make that wages of sin death site) and he refused. if you allow abuse to happen when you're fully aware and able to stop it, you're being a bad person. i'm sure you learned about being a "bully bystander" in primary school.
so this community of shits decides they want to use my service for free. i could have just banned their bot, but that wouldn't have sent the right message. they almost certainly would have recreated it on a different instance in an attempt to hide it from me. so i decided to really show them that they weren't welcome by posting the oauth token, allowing anyone to post from this bot.
sure enough, i've seen a few other shitty people saying that they're revoking fedibooks' access to their bots. this is exactly what i wanted - nazis know they aren't welcome now.
the rise of the far right is a very real thing, and it won't be pushed back by peaceful protests and letters to congressmen. stonewall was a violent demonstration. we need to play outside the rules to show these people that they aren't welcome, and this whole pbooks drama is a perfect example of that. i could have just banned the bot, but i took it a step further, and now nazis are afraid to use my service.
i'm not saying that my actions are comparable to stonewall or anything. i'm saying that every act of resistance, no matter how small, matters. given how angry and upset the FSE community is about this, and how other alt-right types are leaving fedibooks, i'd say i've won.
i don't plan on doing this again, but i will if things get bad and nazis start to think they're welcome again.
@f0x Firefox is doing something a little like this, like with the 'pinned tab' suggestion.
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Wired, 1993: Rebels with a Cause - Your Privacy. "On the cover were Eric Hughes, Tim May, John Gilmore, holding up an American flag, faces hidden behind white mask, their PGP fingerprints written on the foreheads. Gilmore even sporting an newly-founded EFF T-shirt. (from Thomas Rid, CS Monitor)"
Wired, 2019: YOU'RE IN PRIVATE MODE. To continue using a private window, sign in or subscribe. The title of the article being denied reads "It's Time to Switch to a Privacy Browser. Ad trackers are out of control".
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I know that e-scooters can be annoying and all but may we not be distracted from the real enemy: cars
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New LED thingie, again from recycling diffusers of boring white lights
I'm livestreaming my 3D printer (via Jitsi Meet because easy, just deny mic/cam access):
https://meet.jit.si/BlueDogsSteerRuthlessly
re: My programmin language is better than yours
@Wolf480pl@niu.moe @cjd "Copy-pasting" essentially just means an unmanaged dependency, which is not at all a desirable thing.
The real problem to be solved here isn't the size of libraries (those should be as granular as reasonably possible!), but the lacking (collaborative) review tooling and curation mechanisms for discovering the good vs. bad ones.
- 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
