Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @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.
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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
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I wish we could rely on governments or companies or other institutions to be there for us. But increasingly we will not be able to. *We have to do it ourselves.*
Housing, community safety, cyclist/pedestrian infrastructure, local journalism, education, preventing drug overdoses, running social media…It is all up to us. There is no one else.
It's a dizzying realization. It's terrifying…but also incredibly empowering.
Does anyone else feel this way?
🐦
Relatedly: I wish Objection.js actually had meaningful error feedback instead of just throwing a meaningless stacktrace nested 10 levels deep
@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt Right, am not using the built-in console though
TIL: in VS Code's file switcher 'command bar', you can just enter a path:line:char stacktrace entry and it'll jump directly to the correct location
re: infosec meta
@Kye@tech.lgbt Yeahhhh
re: infosec meta
@Kye@tech.lgbt Basically absolutely zero attempt to understand the reasons for defed, or even acknowledge that hey, maybe these marginalized folks might actually understand a thing or two about threats to their safety
re: infosec meta
@Kye@tech.lgbt The replies to Jerry's original post about it are basically almost entirely "they clearly don't understand threat models" and/or "they're overreacting", with a significant dose of "they should unblock us so that we, the experts, can teach them proper risk modelling"
infosec meta
The thing that gets me about the infosec.exchange thing is that at least Jerry seems to understand and respect the choice to defederate...
... which is something that cannot be said for seemingly its entire usebase
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I blocked infosec.exchange, in line with Scholar's no-cops policy (I know, strictly speaking not cops, but DHS is close enough for us)
A user on Scholar wanted to migrate there, asked me to un-suspend them while they did that
It took ~ 35 mins for users on infosec.exchange to start sending us harassing messages
Not cool
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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if the ear resonates with sound waves for your brain to interpret as sound, does that mean when I put a square wave in Famitracker my ear drum is doing binary
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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@ifixcoinops I'm trying to find #theowlhouse people
PLEASE!
No one seems to have moved from the bird app. I don't think they learnt how to fly yet....or they're all penguins in which case i'm in big trouble because I was only on there for the artists 😭
@scanlime Why do you have a graph of the objects around my house
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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For other instance admins
It's okay to say "we don't allow police on our instance"
Scholar has had that in our About for at least a year:
We also had a "no institutions, only individuals" policy for even longer
This has done us well
I just want to remind you that you don't have to provide volunteer tech support and hosting for agents of the government, for-profit companies, or other institutions
You can just, not
And it's bad for your community if you do
@berge @ruby This really doesn't address the concerns, and it's not really raising any points I haven't heard a hundred times before, but honestly it's not a discussion I really feel like continuing right now.
It's an extremely exhausting one because I always end up having to deconstruct a ton of assumptions not just about how government oppression works, but also about how government infosec organizations work internally.
I've had to have it too often already, and I just don't really see any reason to have it again here.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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operator precedence parsing was solved 100 years ago, y'all just cowards
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Everything *else* aside, having a government account hosted on a community server seems an awful lot like having a government website hosted at something like
bobspersonalpage.com/users/~InternalRevenueService
- 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
