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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- 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
re: meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
@jtolio@hachyderm.io Yeah, no, that's not how it works. Many people here (again, the people who have built the place to be a safe refuge) have absolutely no interest in a 'town square', and it is frankly quite privileged and rude to say "the town square is coming anyway" - it's an extremely colonialist attitude, "thanks for building this, it's ours now".
And instances are likely to respond appropriately by defederating from instances and folks who hold that view. Which means you don't have your town square anyway.
re: meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
@jtolio@hachyderm.io That's precisely *why* we're pushing back on these changes.
re: meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
@jtolio@hachyderm.io That vibe is very much deliberate. This is a community built by marginalized folks who were basically not welcome anywhere else, and we've made our home here, and there are certain house rules. There is no desire to turn this into a "public town square" or a "Twitter replacement".
See also https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/ for more background on that
re: meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
@jtolio@hachyderm.io No, they don't. Despite widespread belief otherwise (in tech circles in particular). *Particularly* not on fedi, which was basically built by marginalized folks to be a place of empathy.
re: meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
@stonehead I've explained the reasons a bit more here: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/109360136040004274
And more fundamentally, fedi doesn't need to "reflect society" at all, it's a community platform run by volunteers for their own community building and social lives. There are entire swathes of society that we'd much rather not have here at all.
The whole "must reflect society" thing is basically just Twitter's "global town square" thing, but that doesn't apply here
re: meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
@jtolio@hachyderm.io The problem that many folks have with corporations isn't that they're "not playing by the rules", though. It's that they *exist*, particularly in a community environment. There is no set of rules that can solve that problem.
Corporations will always, *always* act in their own best interest first, no matter how nice and hacker-y their outward communications may be, and no matter who runs the place. It is their reason for existence, part of the fundamental fabric of what makes a corporation a corporation.
In other words: they can never be genuine community participants, because they are always there for selfish reasons, not for the sake of the community. "Playing nice" just means that those reasons are more carefully disguised.
Thus: many people just don't want them here, regardless of the circumstances.
@Matoxina@mstdn.party Huh?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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luring all the corporations onto a mastodon instance and then throwing the server down a well, thereby killing all the corporations instantly, the curse is lifted
re: meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
@jtolio@hachyderm.io That is your choice, of course - half the point of a federated network is that people can make that choice for themselves, so that's completely fine.
This is just a heads-up to let people know that that sort of policy is generally not appreciated in much of the fediverse (this is certainly not just about pixie.town), and so it is a likely reason for future defederation.
NGOs stop using "anarchy" as an ignorant insult challenge (impossible)
@adnan @Shrigglepuss (Also the real problem with Mozilla is their leadership anyway, not their income)
@adnan @Shrigglepuss Yeah so here's the thing. Mozilla is supposedly an idealist project, that has a commercial arm for fundraising purposes.
That means it cannot just act like any other company, nor that it can be defended with "well they have to make money somehow". I expect them to find a way to do so that *doesn't* compromise on their stated values.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Mozilla please stop trying to make Firefox into an "experience" I just want to look at stuff online
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Inventing a new type of person in my head, they’re in their late 30s, devopsy and they fucking love capitalism and also think mastodon is a brand new toy just for them, that nobody else had discovered til November 2022
re: meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
@hazel It's truly depressing.
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meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
@joepie91 some people have truly learned absolutely nothing about inviting corporations into open source projects
@Min75 If it's meant as an 'educational' account, I'd make it a separate account - not just because people can then separately follow it, but also because you can mark it as "archiving/scraping allowed" (as this is very useful for educational content!) without catching your personal posts in the crossfire.
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meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
Heads-up for any folks on hachyderm.io: I would recommend picking a different instance, as it seems likely that it'll get defederated from quite a few places at some point.
They seem to not only be happy with corporate accounts[1], but also apparently seek to "introduce trust with corporations" [and draw them to fedi?], which uhhhh yeah no.
This is a space for people, not for corporations. Let's not repeat the errors of the FOSS community (that eventually led to near-total corporate capture of FOSS) by inviting corporations into our spaces, not even "as long as they play nice".
[1] https://github.com/hachyderm/community/blob/main/accounts/corporate-accounts.md
re: systemd
@rallias Worth noting that it's probably not worth doing this with anything Chromium or Electron based, since AFAIK those automatically offer themselves up to the OOM killer
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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systemd
Want something to be the sacrificial lamb in the event you run out of memory?
OOMScoreAdjust=1000 makes Linux think of your process first when it brings out the OOM killer.
- 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
