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.
- 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
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To explain this policy of mine:
The fediblock tag is a flawed tool.
But it is still an incredibly useful one and has been for years.
Spamming the tag with nonsense in "protest" of the flawed tool is not the slam dunk you think it is.
Ditto for using the tag for overwhelmingly unfunny "jokes".
You are contributing nothing.
You are making a tool that a lot of admins/moderators use worse.
You are wasting their time.
If you have nothing useful to contribute to improving the fediverse moderation situation, at least shut the fuck up and stay out of the way.
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good use of statistical machine bullshit: free humans from drudgery that they're barely paid for, if at all, and doesn't involve the need for interpretation or creativity (example: OCR for digitizing aging texts, translating individual words, pronunciation help)
horrible use of statistical machine bullshit: literally anything where people's livelihoods in our current capitalist society would get taken away; literally anything that involves human interpretation and creativity (examples: art, full translation)
Automation was supposed to free us from drudgery. I still support automation freeing us from drudgery. But when automation is used just to free Capitalists from having to *pay* for drudgery, while pocketing the change, that's not something that we can do until we free ourselves from the system-as-it-is.
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Going forward I am considering continued abuse of the fediblock tag grounds for defederation of individual accounts and instances.
Stop wasting my time.
@dch Happy to help, feel free to ask if you have any further questions :)
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https://biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2021/08/02/children-as-an-oppressed-class/
Children are an oppressed group. The normalized treatment of children in our society undermines their autonomy and personhood.
Most common parenting methods aim to control and coerce children to behave in a way that that is pleasing to the adult. This is, in my opinion, one of the reasons ABA therapy is so popular amoung parents.
Heres a reminder that behavior communicates need, and that if your child is acting out that does not make them bad or broken.
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What you see on this photo is not from the Empire Strikes Back.
No, it is German police protecting a coal mine excavator in #Lützerath - a village planned to be demolished by the energy company RWE to extract coal that is not even needed for the energy security of Germany.
#Klimaschande
#EndCoal #EndFossilFuels #LütziBleibt
Picture: @mariusmichusch
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I love the part of adhd where you get fixated on something for a few months and then it suddenly doesn't hold your interest or appeal to you at all. Really great and definitely doesn't cost a lot of money and make you feel like it's pointless to have any interests
re: fedi drama?
@lambda @ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt It honestly doesn't really matter whether it "doesn't anymore".
When someone decides to implement something like this without talking about it to anyone first to understand the potential consequences, and then becomes incredibly defensive when criticized, it clearly signals that they cannot be trusted to account for the safety of marginalized folks, and so it gets defederated.
The problem here is not the specific decision, but all the factors that went *into* that decision, and what it says about all the other decisions they might make.
The "apology" page just reinforces this further - it throws in the good old abuser justification of "if I didn't do this, someone else would have, therefore you shouldn't complain about it so much".
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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being annoyed about how people talk about fediblock
'fediblock will be used the same way as automated blocklists that silenced people' is a statement that is really easy to make if you don't actually pay attention to how a lot of moderators use and follow up on the hashtag
posting 'i'm blocking this person' and giving links and screenshots and offering a *choice* for other admins you federate with, on a platform where you can easily migrate if your admins make a bad call or aren't transparent?
it's pretty different to 'one person solo has control of who thousands of people block, has no expectations of transparency and community responsibility, and the people blocked are affected without the ability to move somewhere where they won't be blocked based on someone else's asshole decisions'
different things are different and you may wanna pay attention to the demographics actively telling you they use the tag when you go 'but marginalized users will be hurt!' because like. mostly until the past few weeks, it's been free speech assholes that are like, *the* vocal opposition to everyone having a network that says 'block these assholes'
re: fedi drama?
@lambda The problem is not technical, the problem is that it is a consent violation on multiple levels. It enables anonymous following (a significant harassment vector), and also replicates follower-only posts. It is essentially deliberately bypassing the visibility/privacy controls placed on posts by their authors.
This is one of those "just because you *can* build it, doesn't mean you should" things.
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You might be a fan of the liquid crystals, or maybe you like that new OLED stuff.
But my favorite display technology has got to be high voltage neon dot matrix
fediblock, meta
@schratze Additionally boosting a comment that tries to justify consent violations by arguing that the spec allows it, to get an idea of the general amount of respect they have for personal boundaries
subtoot
"Violating consent is fine because the spec says you can do this" sure is a hell of a privileged techbro take
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Salesmen going door to door selling competitive afterlife packages
Instead of eternal utopian paradises, they're having to sell you on the concept of like, haunting a 50s diner that probably won't close any time soon, or a river, or a post office
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If the brain named itself then so can trans people
long, NixOS, cluster management
@dch So it kind of depends on what you want, exactly. One common property among Nix-based deployment tools is that they all implement some variant of "declare your network structure as Nix code" (which comes with possibilities like parameterization), but the exact way it does so varies from tool to tool.
NixOps and morph, for example, are primarily designed around having discrete identifiable servers that have their own jobs. You certainly *can* generate lots of the same machine - after all, you're just generating a data structure using a full-fledged programming language - but it's not the core usecase that they are tailored to.
Then there are tools like Disnix that, to my knowledge, are more tailored to the usecase of "100 of these, 250 of that one", and fleet-style orchestration. I have not used Disnix myself however.
Many other tools also exist - because Nix itself is 90% of a deployment system, there are quite a few projects that implement the remaining 10% in different ways for different network designs! But the system configuration component is the same for all of them (just the NixOS stuff), the only difference lies in the network orchestration features.
Probably the closest thing to the concrete case you're asking about, that I know of, would be my tinc setup: https://git.cryto.net/joepie91/morph-rc/src/branch/master/configuration/default.nix#L118
If you follow the references from there, you'll find a centralized 'metadata file' that specifies all of the tinc nodes and their assigned IPs and such, and each individual server configuration uses `tincConfiguration` with that metadata as an argument to set up a local instance that's fully-configured to connect to other nodes.
In this setup, each node is aware of every other node at all times - because the node specification is just an input to the build, changing it will trigger a rebuild of all participating nodes, with the new node specification being deployed to all affected systems just like any other package/config change.
I don't know if there are OOTB tools for integrating this with an autodiscovery mechanism, but it would certainly be possible to eg. build an autodiscovery layer that just generates a node file and triggers a network re-evaluation whenever the nodes change!
What it boils down to, is that node interconnectivity can be made a part of the 'system configuration' just like anything else, and Nix (and your Nix-based deployment tooling) will manage it accordingly. But most Nix-y deployment tools do not come with an autodiscovery layer OOTB.
Does that answer your question sufficiently?
@welshpixie Same to you, honestly, you've posted a lot of insightful moderation-related things :)
meta, subtoot, activism/leftism
The way that the jorts.horse admin is posting right now, that's how abusers behave.
- Reducing a combination of problems/factors to a single event, pretending that that's the only thing that happened, and complaining about how unreasonable the response would be to that strawman
- Strategically not mentioning (or responding to) the very legitimate criticisms that they've received, cherrypicking only the emotionally-charged comments that they feel they can ridicule and trivialize
- Treating the whole thing as a joke, and painting "people getting upset" as a justification of why they were right all along not to take it seriously
- Using their marginalized status as a shield from criticism about an entirely unrelated thing
- Setting themselves up as the gatekeeper, declaring that they do not *personally* see the value in something and therefore nobody should be expected to treat it respectfully
- Making a non-apology, claiming they've told them to knock it off, but never *actually* condemning the problematic behaviour in question
Again, this is abuser behaviour, disguised as shitposting. And this is far from an isolated incident - this sort of thing is uncomfortably widespread in leftist and activist circles. Learn to recognize the patterns and act against them.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Although cis people pretend it's an open, democratic discussion of current events, "the transgender debate" is actually cis people discussing with themselves where they will draw the line between permitting trans people to exist and putting us into prisons and killing us.
The transgender debate is the oppressor's discourse regarding what level of genocide is acceptable to them.
- 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
