Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- 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
@killeveryhetero@jorts.horse Being a queer woman does not mean you cannot harm others, nor that your actions cannot contribute to harm being done *by* others, such as fascists. Queerness is not a get-out-of-jail-free card.
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There's nothing edgy about shitposting Black and Brown trying to protect themselves.
You're just racist.
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Me: You do understand what an Emergency Power Off is for, correct?
Them: But it could damage my system.
Me: If this button is getting pressed, your system is already gone from either fire or the sprinklers going off. This is so someone can save *YOU* in an *EMERGENCY*.
Them: [shakes head in confusion] But my laser...
Me: IS LIKELY THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE
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@killeveryhetero@jorts.horse @dubsteppenwolf@jorts.horse The same applies for you as for everybody else on here. If someone tells you that you are harming people, you sit the fuck down and listen, instead of making fun of it. You chose to instead make fun of it and trivialize people's concerns, and this is the result.
In fact, even after you were very explicitly told what the problem was, you *still* chose to respond dismissively without actually engaging on any of the concerns (see screenshot). What did you *think* the response was going to be?
Shitposting is not an excuse to ignore harm that you're doing, *especially* after it has been pointed out to you. The correct response here would have been to not only tell people to knock it off, but also communicate outwardly that this is not acceptable behaviour on your instance.
And as a final note: whether you "struggly to take seriously the sanctity of a hashtag" literally doesn't matter. It does not need to meet your approval, personally, to be useful or even crucial to others. Listen to others when they tell you things.
@soatok@furry.engineer WAFs are clearly the solution to all our security woes
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I've been struggling with this myself, so I thought I'd repeat it for other people that might be dealing with the same thing:
Not every hobby needs to be a project. Not everything needs to be a whole *thing* with a goal and an endpoint. It's okay to not finish something. It's okay to pick up something for a bit, explore it, start making something, and then drop it without making any "progress".
Productivity is capitalist bullshit that doesn't need to infect your free time too. Have some fun
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Researching mines in northern Spain I came across this curious object. It's a canary cage designed to keep the canary alive in the event of a gas leak. If a miner saw the canary laying at the bottom of the cage it was time to abandon everything and leave the mine, but not without first closing the latched glass door and opening the valve of the oxygen bottle to save the bird. A miner would do that on their way out and take the bird with them. It's a signifier of the miner's legendary sense of solidarity, no lives lost to the mine on a miners watch. A solidarity that was also crucial in the fight for workers rights, creating safer and more humane working conditions, achievements of unionization and solidarity that some of us still enjoy today.
Heads-up if you're using CircleCI: it got popped, and your stored credentials are compromised.
https://circleci.com/blog/january-4-2023-security-alert/
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Hi my jorts.horse friends. Your admin is being a complete and absolute shithead about other people on jorts abusing the fediblock hashtag. Please consider moving to another instance, as the admin and other people have a continued stance of not giving a shit about an actually useful and helpful aspect of Mastodon. Thanks.
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Let's be very clear.
What jorts[dot]horse is doing is straight-up white supremacy. They are attacking a tool, specifically, created to help make the fedi safer for Black and POC users because they feel it's bad and is laughing about it. That's unvarnished anti-blackness, and they are proud of it.
At this point, nothing separates them from any other racist instance like kiwi farms or gab.
They are actively working to make the fedi a less safe place and enjoying that effort.
#fediblock
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@DanaBlankenhorn @rosalux @HandgunYoga @aral
Achieving a higher seat at the table of a deliberately unjust system, is not progress, it is a bribe.
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@freakazoid @Viktor Their later response to someone *very explicitly explaining the problem to them* is even worse (though now deleted)
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@dexiheart Honestly, assuming this is referring to the jorts thing, I think you might even be giving them too much benefit of the doubt wrt "blindness" - considering how dismissively the admin responded (now deleted, receipts attached) to someone very explicitly explaining the problem to them. I can only really interpret this as "they know what they're doing".
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Do other Mastodon admins see weird behaviour regarding instance suspensions?
Take "example.org", and subdomains "social" and "social2".
If you first block the root domain and then the subdomain, the block for the root domain disappears here. Is that the case for you too?
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I admit it. I hate Britain. I hate America too. I hate every country. I hate the arbitrary geopolitical borders that violently carve up our planet into the worthy and unworthy. I hate the way they’re secured. I hate the way our cultures have been infested with nationalism.
I hate the way people can be forced to move from one arbitrarily defined piece of land to another because they don’t have the correct piece of paper.
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@smileodonicthys@jorts.horse @Shrigglepuss @KarenWyld That doesn't explain the shitposting of the instance more broadly. Why are *jorts users in general* putting the burden here on marginalized folks doing community safety work, and not on bad actors?
For a (critical) meta-review of dependency security, I'm looking for documented dependency security incidents!
Please reply with (a link to) any such incidents that you know of, in any language/ecosystem as long as it was from a public registry/source - I'm especially interested in the less well-known incidents.
The goal is not to write a sensationalist fearmongering article, but rather to place real-world attacks in perspective and talk about where the *real* dangers are, because almost everything people claim about dependency security today is wrong.
Boosts appreciated! 
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Added some new Mastodon monitoring infrastructure for discuss.systems.
Sure, every good #MastoAdmin has a cool Grafana dashboard, but we're going a bit more old school here...
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Ageing doesn't cause conservatism
(begin quote)
"Let's get something straight. Growing old doesn't make people #conservative. In fact the more marginalized identity statuses a person has, the LESS conservative they grow over time.
The reason we equate "old" with "conservative" is that #marginalization kills people off younger.
Some of the most radical people you know are old.
It's just a lot of others died before they could get there, so there's a diminishing proportion. (2/5)
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RT @fluffy@twitter.com
Am I doing this meme right?
- 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
