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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- 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
@protodrew@merveilles.town And I will never forgive cryptobros for causing a decade-long gap in (discoverable) decentralized systems research because all the funding was being sucked out of the room by cryptoshit
@protodrew@merveilles.town Bingo, as well as when "decentralized" became redefined to implicitly mean "on a blockchain"...
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"believe victims"
Seeing people talking about "believe victims don't go looking for evidence before blocking".
This is an easily weaponised policy unfortunately and it is frequently unclear who is a victim.
Believing victims is important. When someone says they've been hurt, believe them.
Buy when implementing harm reduction, the rule should be:
TRUST, BUT VERIFY.
re: "believe victims"
@chican3ry Thanks, this resolves something I've been unable to put into words so far - the distinction between recognizing harm and implementing countermeasures.
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So I was checking my logs and people report me to me all the time, but I got a report from mas.to, who has defederated with me, which is fine, but what was said got my attention.
They called me racist and said I didn't use content warnings for my content, which we've discussed at length this week, and how entitled it is. We all know that's just white people shit.
But they say I attack people. This is a bald-faced lie. If you look at every single one of my contentious moments with other users on here, they come at me. I don't attack people. I defend myself. 100% of the time. I do not go after people. That's not my thing, and I have zero interest in the lives of bigots and people who just don't like me for whatever reason.
Earlier in the week, I talked about how much understanding there is for bigotry and hate on the fedi but that isn't extended to it's targets.
The situation is with mas.to is a perfect example of this.
I would urge caution for anyone who interacts with that instance as they've shown a tolerance for bigotry but none for people who are harassed and targeted by it.
@bright_helpings I suspect it's a kneejerk response - there seems to be something neurotype-related behind this accessibility need (for both light-on-dark and dark-on-light cases!), and for a *long* time, the light-on-dark folks weren't catered to at all.
So a culture developed around the stuff that *does* have dark mode, as did a community of folks *making* stuff dark mode... and some subset of that is where the vitriol seems to come from now.
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We need another sex positive, sex worker instance on the fedi.
We don't have enough smut. Smut levels are far too low.
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I, in the nicest possible way, do not care if people like/prefer/need dark mode. Or light mode! It's a real "difference of opinion" situation; your choice doesn't affect anyone else so do what you like!
I just think both should be options, both should be treated as equally important in development, and no one should be mean to the individual people using the other.
It's just weird that the failures to do this, that I see anyway, all seem to be on one side of this dark/light binary.
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death
Sir Alfred Mehran, the guy who lived at the CDG airport for many years, has apparently died :(
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choosing a Mastodon instance/server, special heads-up for mastodon.social users
Since so many people are joining mastodon.social right now, including some really unpleasant-to-deal-with people, and since mastodon.social doesn't have a lot of hands-on moderation to dissuade the unpleasant folks, some other instances are talking about "defederating" from mastodon.social. That would mean that, if your account is on mastodon.social, folks on other servers would be less likely to get/read your posts.
E-mailing me with a technical question is like playing the lottery; if the spoons align you'll get a comprehensive novel in return, but otherwise you'll probably get no response at all and it sits in my "to-respond-to" pile forever
@Are0h Happy to have you here :)
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Ah, Elon Musk. He tried to be the Henry Ford of space travel but instead became the Liz Truss of social media.
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weird, the type checker keeps rejecting my program and the error message just says "this ain't it chief" or "not the vibe"
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twitter fedi meta
thinking about all the time and effort that was wasted by people trying to "fix" twitter only for it to be bought by an impulsive billionaire who is setting it on fire, and how the real move was to build an alternative for people to come to following it's inevitable collapse. thinking about how this scales to other similarly doomed systems.
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Wild how conservative objections to things are either entirely unconnected to reality or are good things actually
@kim I mean, in fairness, this project has been spawning many other projects in further stages of completion!
The output on the screenshot is actually from a separate project I'm working on, a sort of GraphQL-inspired system API: https://git.cryto.net/joepie91/cvm/src/branch/feature/node-rewrite/src/views/hardware/storage-devices/list.jsx#L108
The idea basically being that you have one coherently-structured (but extensible) API to query everything from hardware to system configuration (and eventually also modify a good chunk of it).
This is the page rendered by that linked template for example, all data queried from that API:
- 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
