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
It occurs to me that there are some very clear parallels between "energy efficiency comparisons of programming languages" and ""EV proponents".
People are constantly talking about how EVs will be so much more energy-efficient, rather than questioning whether maybe we shouldn't have so much private car usage in the first place.
Likewise, people talk about the efficiency of different programming languages, rather than questioning whether maybe 80% of what we do with them (particularly advertising/analytics-related) maybe shouldn't be done in the first place.
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@joepie91 I've yet to see an energy consumption comparison that shows any context at all.
Doing software no one needs, endlessly duplicated to get the 9s nobody needs and low latency for all the world that no one needs, but it's written in Rust and thus at least those thousand servers take 40% less energy.
Hey uh, I'm starting to see "accusing some tech you don't like of being environmentally wasteful despite not having done the work to analyze or contextualize its actual environmental impact" becoming a trend, particularly with things where the impact is not actually obvious.
Can we all collectively nip that in the bud before it becomes a widespread thing please? It's just a different form of greenwashing; misusing climate rhetoric to shit on something you just don't *like* (and frequently upholding some personal favourite in its stead).
(To state the obvious: this isn't about cryptocurrency. PoW is obviously bad. I'm talking about shit like "language X is bad for the environment, use C instead", "Mastodon is bad for the environment because of the many instances", etc.)
abusive academia, trans, surveillance tech
Reposting from @kubikpixel@chaos.social with CW
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Facial Recognition Researcher:
Left a Trans Database Exposed for Years After Using Images Without Permission.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina Wilmington scraped videos of trans people from YouTube without permission to create a dataset aimed at stopping hypothetical terrorists.
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Some people consider (or perhaps misremember) the "goto fail" bug as an example of why goto is dangerous, but really it's an example of why if-statements without braces are dangerous.
-Wmisleading-indentation exists now, but I don't think it solves the problem entirely - especially if you have auto-indent tooling in your IDE, or if you happen to be cursed with the requirement of using an ancient toolchain.
This write-up covers it well https://dwheeler.com/essays/apple-goto-fail.html
-Wmisleading-indentation exists now, but I don't think it solves the problem entirely - especially if you have auto-indent tooling in your IDE, or if you happen to be cursed with the requirement of using an ancient toolchain.
This write-up covers it well https://dwheeler.com/essays/apple-goto-fail.html
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At some point a desire to minimize "drama" acquires all of the repressive and intrinsically conservative qualities of calls to "leave politics out of it" --
Not a fan of "drama" myself, but ignoring politics isn't a luxury I can afford. And what is drama is often at root political and what is political is nearly always ... dramatic.
subtoot
The first step of restorative justice is for the perpetrator to acknowledge the harm they have done.
If they don't, then it's not restorative justice, it's just sparkling accountability avoidance.
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algorithmic timeline where you shake your phone and then tap it against the desk to get the posts to settle in a new order
@hvangalen I don't know why this keeps getting brought up as a JS joke, honestly. This is just how IEEE floating point works in every language?
eightpoint, meta
Even aside from LB, something else about eightpoint really doesn't sit well with me.
Specifically: everybody involved in running it seems to be far too familiar with fedi culture, discourse, conventions etc. for an instance that's this apparently new. They function like they're a well-established part of the fedi fabric, like the instance has been around for years.
Now I should say that I don't know much about the history of eightpoint or the people behind it (except LB that is), so it's very possible that I'm seeing ghosts here.
But I don't know, something about it just feels... off, to me. I can't quite put my finger on it.
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Eightpoint.app defederation notice, abuse discussion
Having watched the eightpoint.app situation for a while, rage.love will be defederating in a week because of the admins' decision to bring back Slaanesh despite her deceit about her identity and without any indication that she is no longer a danger to trans women. ( https://eightpoint.app/@Smutty_Tiefling/109506532416662564 , also see attached screenshot) Mods coming right out and saying they don't care about Slaanesh/Laurelai's victims they don't know is extremely alarming to say the least, among other expressions we won't use on the admin account. This is how abuser-enabling cliques form and we want no part in it.
Black/Indigenous users who are looking to leave eightpoint and think rage.love would be a good fit should feel free to DM or email this account for an invitation. #FediBlock
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fediblock eightpoint dot app
details here https://kolektiva.social/@AuriBlackCat/109507426502181295
tl;dr the administration is still supporting LB
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Batman but he finally gets therapy to deal with his parent's loss and realizes dressing up in a suit to beat up petty criminals is a trauma response and begins to invest billions into healthcare, police abolishment, fair housing, and drug treatment which drastically reduces crime to the point capitalists plot to eliminate him and when the succeed, this prompts the Justice Leauge to go after the industrialists responsible for his death, which give the general populace a chance to seize the means of production and the military is afraid to act because Superman has promised to destroy one military base for every civilian life they take.
That would be a pretty cool story.
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"Ben je nog steeds bang voor corona?" Ik ben niet bang, ik ben goed op de hoogte. Ik ben ook niet bang voor krokodillen maar ik weet dat het niet gezond is als ik te dichtbij kom.
re: meta, power imbalance
@miifox See the parenthesized note at the end of my post, this kind of "solution" is precisely why I put that there
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Tesla/Electric Cars
In the weird space that is the brains of many (though not all) writers on the website Electrek, the solution to this problem is for
*** the rest of the car industry to agree that the back left is the best location for the charge port ***
And that, folks, is how you know that Tesla-worship make brain go wonky.
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https://genders.wtf from @effy is extremely good, please submit more bad forms asap
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so now I'm wondering: if you have created and/or run both a Minecraft *and* a mastodon (fediverse) server, which did you find easier to do? (if you haven't done *both* please just choose "Spiderman" to see poll results, and please boost for maximum reach!)
People who claim "browser is slower than native" have probably never compared Fusion 360 to OnShape
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Stlex 
The best thing I've ever done as an IT professional is install adblockers for elderly and non-computer-literate clients. Everyone should use them. It's not even just an aesthetics thing, it's an "ads are responsible for serving tons of malicious scripts that trick people into calling numbers or clicking links that lead to scammy shit" thing.
Fuck ads.
- 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
