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
@eloy I'd disagree with that; the rationale behind "it's not Mastodon, it's the fediverse" is very different.
It's not about 'credit', but about making it clear that there's a lot of options *beyond* Mastodon, which is important particularly with the questionable governance model behind the Mastodon project itself.
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If anyone sees this bus – it's just been stolen in Vienna, and is important infrastructure to a lot of people, including a few times to me myself, but most importantly to @bus_klaus@twitter.com who lives in it. Details and more pictures: http://salon.leobard.net/2022/12/10/our-burner-bus-has-been-stolen-share-immediately/
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1. Crows are super smart.
2. Crows can remember faces.
3. Crows have regional dialects.
4. Crows investigate the cause of death of the deceased.
5. Crows make & use tools.
6. Crows hide their food.
7. Crows have the largest brain to body ratio of any bird. Their brain to body ratio is bigger than humans.
8. A group of crows is called 'a murder of crows'.
Picture taken at Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh.
#BirdPhotography #corvids #Crow #WildlifePhotography #WildlifePhotographer #ScottishWildlife
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An important reminder at this time of year:
You are under no obligation to maintain a tradition that you do not enjoy or cannot afford.
Guess I'll spend my crappy eSun filament on Gridfinity bins...
politics, intellectual property
@structuralimage@kolektiva.social While I agree with all of that *in principle*, I think you're missing something very important: "I want control over how my work is used" is the equivalent of an XY question.
Control over the work (generally) isn't the *goal*; it's just what someone believes is the solution to some other unspoken concern(s) they have. And some of those concerns are legitimate!
Some that come to mind:
- Not wanting one's work to be misrepresented, harming their reputation as an individual
- Not wanting third parties to landlord over their work, or otherwise exploit it while they themselves are struggling to survive
- Not wanting one's work to be used for malicious purposes (think fascists)
While I don't believe that "intellectual property" is the solution to any of these, I *do* think they are legitimate concerns - and that you cannot address artists' pro-copyright stances without also clarifying that there are better solutions for these concerns.
Basically, just saying "tough luck, all work is derivative" will be perceived as dismissive of their concerns, because they assume that rejecting copyright also means rejecting the reasons why they *want* copyright. Which is an understandable assumption, considering pro-copyright propaganda.
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Found this in my images and thought it would be useful to someone else/ they might also find this interesting.
#nature #bird #feather #wings #wingmakeup #reference #artreference
@hazelnot Scan Tailor Advanced seems to be the most recently updated fork, but realistically even the original unmaintained one will be fine if it's packaged for your system. Even 6 years ago this thing felt like future tech :p
@schratze It's still up on Tor, I think? Also https://annas-archive.org/
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people keep spending too much time thinking about what a technology *is* and not enough about *who owns it and how they profit from it.*
and even less time thinking about *how they can destroy that property relation and liberate the underlying technology* if it's useful
@hazelnot Scan Tailor (or one of the forks) is very very good at this sort of thing
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Just learned of this giant adorable fox sculpture in Rotterdam and now I must share it with everyone.
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@joepie91 This is not an answer, but I really hope there *is* a good answer.
I'd love to have an "internet" VM that simulates a (small scale) global internet, with packet losses, variable latency, etc., in a configurable way, along with a way to hook up individual client VMs to the fake-internet (with simulated NAT etc. like you mention). A turn-key solution really ought to be possible, but I'm not sure one exists.
I'd love to have an "internet" VM that simulates a (small scale) global internet, with packet losses, variable latency, etc., in a configurable way, along with a way to hook up individual client VMs to the fake-internet (with simulated NAT etc. like you mention). A turn-key solution really ought to be possible, but I'm not sure one exists.
What's the easiest way to set up a simulated network with ISP-style NAT? Preferably without buying dedicated hardware for the purpose, and preferably reproducible for other developers.
Usecase: I am developing a P2P system, and need a reasonably representative environment to test my software in, and how well it deals with shitty residential networking configurations.
I'm a developer, not a network engineer, so my knowledge of networks is limited to a developer perspective and I don't have the spoons to learn it in-depth.
Boosts appreciated 
What. KDE's SFTP integration just broke, and frustration-F5ing my file browser actually worked to fix it???
subtoot
Imagine being a journalist with a million followers and tweeting "SCOOP: SERVERS COST MONEY"
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if you're a journalist and you're writing whole-ass articles about fediverse drama
stop
go home
rethink your life
re: rant, hair stuff vs cis people
@akai@queer.party I hated this *so, so* much growing up
re: shitty reasons for defederation
@schratze I mean, to be fair, that's probably the least bad defed reason of the lot
- 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
