Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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
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@joepie91 13:29 This didn't age well
meds
This is the *second* time that the vet has something useful for my medication that the pharmacy didn't. This time it was a pill cutter that can do more than just halves. 10/10 stock management
It's 13/12/2022 13:22
This Gridfinity thing is pretty cool
*looks at printer whose waking hours are beginning to compete with mine*
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the hardest problem in computer science is gender dysphoria
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
making playlists is just wear-levelling for getting bored of songs
@mjohanning It's not theft, it's recycling!
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computer
@schratze it honestly feels like Plasma is the only desktop environment (across all OSes) that is made by the same people that use all its features regularly.
@schratze 
what is spatial awareness
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Je vecht het beste terug tegen Complotdenkers, wappies, fascisten en QAnonisten, door geen content meer aan te leveren aan Twitter. Door nog een redelijk geluid te laten horen, lijkt het alsof dat medium nog enige waarde heeft. Dat is waarom ik ben gestopt met posten daaro.
re: computer
@schratze What really surprised me is that it actually manages decently well to restore different Firefox windows on the correct workspace/"activity" after a reboot. Not 100% perfect, but it at least *tries*
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Yeah, sex is great, but have you ever had huge chunks of supports and rafts come off cleanly, in a single solid unit?
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FOR THE LAST FERSTINKIN' TIME! SAYING THAT YOU HAVE PRIVILEGE DOES NOT MEAN YOU SHOULD FEEL GUILTY, IT MEANS YOU SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SOCIETY IS UNJUST IN WAYS THAT FAVOR YOU AND THAT YOU HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO FIGHT FOR IT TO BE JUST FOR EVERYBODY
GROW UP AND GET TO WORK
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Huh? Oh, no reason.
[Edit: Comic from https://webcomicname.com/ by Alex Norris.]
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Oh, that was a new one.
Got an email from PayPal about a suspicious payment request. I verified the email came from PayPal, but went into PayPal itself to check. Sure enough, suspicious request, and the note indicated it had been flagged, with a number to call.
I called.
And while I was on the call, went to the PayPal "Contact" link... and realized it was a different number.
The attacker was using the INVOICE NOTE to phish for details.
Hoping I didn't expose to much before I figured it out.
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My most controversial #cybersecurity opinion is that giving #security bugs human-recognizable names (aka branding them) was one of the more important advances in the field in the last decade 😋
re: meta, inherent power imbalance associated with technology
@forestjohnson I'm not sure I'd agree that we've ever actually reached that point with literacy either. Two things that immediately come to mind:
- Your writing implements are going to be manufactured by someone else, and very few people know how to manufacture writing implements that are equivalently practical/durable. And that practicality matters, because...
- Just because "everybody is literate" it doesn't mean that everybody is *equally* literate. Even if you ignore the practical factors like writing implement quality, in today's society there are *vast* differences between eg. people's ability to convincingly argue, their access to publishing, and so on.
I would say that there absolutely is still a significant power imbalance on matters of writing and literacy; the baseline is just high enough that it's less obvious.
meta, power imbalance, addendum
(This *should* go without saying, but none of this is meant to imply that fedi culture is perfect as it is, or that there aren't real eg. racism issues. It just means that those are social issues, not technical issues.)
- 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
