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.
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- 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
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@maia That doesn't even make sense in Dutch
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y’all where is the safest place for lgbtqia people in the carribbean
@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev And of course "stranger danger" itself has historically mostly been a conservative political hobbyhorse rather than a genuine significant risk...
@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev The bigger problem with that 'education' IMO is that "who" was always defined as fellow humans, not exploitative corporations, who it was apparently totes fine to send your blood sample to
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lol my fucking (stock AT&T) router ran a whole scan of my network and tried to log into my NAS repeatedly until I got an email from my NAS saying it had blocked a local IP address 😅
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Things autism research could be about:
- How does autism radar work?
- Do we have an easier time communucating with other autistics because our ways of communication are similar, or because we've all had to learn to accomodate the people we're talking to?
- What can be done to prevent and treat autistic burnout?
- What even *is* autistic burnout exactly?
- What effects does masking have on your mental health?
- What autistic traits are actually traits of autism, and which ones are trauma responses?
- How is a non-traumatized autistic brain work?
- How can we better accomodate autistic people?
What autism research is about:
- How do we make the autistic people stop existing?
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Anne C.A. Baanen
I keep thinking of the reddit post along the lines of "wait, in the US you can actually punch a hole in a wall? i thought when that happened on a tv show, it was like a meta joke on how everything was filmed on a set made of cheap materials, but actually all their walls are like that?"
@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev In fact, it's so interesting that a (rare) second-hand unit nowadays can easily sell for more than it used to cost brand new back then!
@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev (The Dingoo A320 was generally very interesting in a lot of different ways, defying a lot of assumptions at the time, like how they actively worked together with homebrew developers and encouraged Dingux, a Linux distro for the device - all of this from what was ultimately a cheap off-brand Chinese handheld/mediaplayer. It's also a big but largely unknown part of the heritage of many handheld emulators and "tiny laptops" that exist today.)
@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev For context, this was back when ~every "MP4 player" on the market in Europe still required using weird proprietary apps to convert videos to a custom player-compatible format, and smartphones were in their infancy - having an affordable device with such a wide range of natively(!) supported video formats requiring zero transcoding upfront was nothing short of revolutionary
@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev It was apparently a standard feature of the OS it used, and also appeared in a number of other PMPs at the time, but the A320 was the only one that gained any real notoriety. I think they treated it as just another video/animation format
@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev Did you know that the Dingoo A320, an obscure 60 EUR Chinese retro handheld from 2009, *also* shipped with a (very limited) Flash player?
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I got a lovely reminder today that projects I worked on in the past may seem like ancient memories to me, but will be new discoveries for people when they find them later.
As a person who's most familiar with making live performances, asynchronous creativity at times still feels like a magical new idea.
Keep making stuff.
Keep sharing stuff.
@f0x A lot, at least for me with my noise sensitivity. ANC allows me to play music at low volume instead of having to drown out environmental noise, which is overall much nicer; and I can also turn on *just* the ANC with no sound if I just want silence!
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Rapport d’enquête du BEA-RI sur l’incendie du data center SBG2 OVH de Strasbourg du 10 mars 2021
BEA-RI investigation report on the fire at the SBG2 OVH data center in Strasbourg on March 10, 2021
https://lafibre.info/ovh-datacenter/incendie-ovh-strabourg/
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Heads up to anyone trying to get estradiol valerate (estrogen injections): insurance won't cover a supply of any medicine that lasts you more than 90 days - I guess because they don't want you to get TOO secure or independent from the doctors and insurance people - but estradiol vials don't come in anything less than 5mg, so if you're on a 0.25mg dose per week like me, that adds up to a 140 day supply at minimum. To get around that, you need to ask your pharmacist to put it in as 90 days anyway.
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@calcifer @malte The thing I always point out about preventing hierarchies from re-emerging in anarchist thins is that it has to be a conscious, ongoing effort. Every egalitarian society I know of which has survived for substantial amounts of time had purposeful levelling mechanisms to ensure that no one developed outsized authority, and any time I try to envision any kind of anarchist future I always include how decentralized organization can balance power and thereby eliminate hierarchy.
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It's cool that people want to make more egalitarian structures. It's amazing that people want to eliminate hierarchies of power. But it's frustrating to watch such attempts fail because a certain brand of idealism prevents people from understanding that the absence of a plan for keeping power distributed and accountable will in every case produce unaccountable power structures, which is usually a worse outcome than what they're trying to avoid or replace
it's exhausting to watch people make the same mistakes over and over.
- 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
