Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
the fruit juice: "never ever from concentrate"
yeah me neither i have adhd
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
In response to mounting consternation, GtS developers release a brief press statement: 'told you so'
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
So there’s a global economic slowdown, various countries in recession, an ongoing cost of living crisis, a global energy crisis, and a pandemic that the governments are now trying to ignore. Not to mention the ever-present climate crisis. But corporations are STILL reporting record profits? What will it take to make people admit that capitalism is ruining us? Is all of this somehow not enough?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
The Gardeners of the Galaxy Mission Report is a free weekly newsletter covering topics related to growing plants in space.
You can read online or subscribe to have it delivered directly to your inbox.
#SpacePlants #astrobotany #gardening #botany #ethnonotany
The latest edition went out yesterday, and you can find it here:
https://us6.campaign-archive.com/?u=6ef2923276841a1396dca55bb&id=e5cf6c167b
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
🇳🇿
The fact you're looking at this on an ActivityPub-enabled Fediverse app demonstrates that a community of focused individuals can create a global-scale network around an open standard that rivals (or, frankly, beats) pretty much anything capitalism could create, even at its 'best'.
And these communities create without profit motive - just because they share a vision and think it'd be a good thing. All they require is sustainability, not exploitative profit.
I think that's worth celebrating.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
If I have to prove I'm not a computer by identifying traffic lights and busses, perhaps we're not quite ready for self-driving cars.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
@alex@tech.lgbt @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @dean @soatok@furry.engineer Correct. This is the same reason that a "can we set cookies" dialog is a red flag telling you that a site is trying to do sketchy shit - because asking that question isn't necessary for actually providing the service you *asked* for, but only for additional data gathering and such.
(Printable STL for the drive rack is here: https://git.cryto.net/joepie91/modular-hdd-rack)
After two days of badblocks and two hours of heavy random read/write operations across all four disks, I think I'm gonna conclude that my new drive array passed its temperature stresstest!
I did have to add some cooling, the drives were getting uncomfortably hot on the R/W tests without some sort of active cooling
re: rambling, kind of politics
@loren @artcollisions @nu I feel like this is the same sort of thing as the "news" vs. "journalism" distinction.
News: reporting of a thing that is currently or has recently happened. Not contextualized, not actionable. Basically useless, just sensationalist and anxiety-inducing. It sells newspapers, pretty much.
Journalism: investigating and explaining some sort of long-term trend or phenomenon, drawing from many different events and contextualizing them into a bigger narrative. Often actionable, low on sensationalism, and not necessarily related to any very recent event.
I kind of apply this same principle to 'global thinking' around activism; there is not really any value in me being aware of every little thing that has happened anywhere around the world, because it is not actionable.
It *is* useful, however, to understand the shared problems and long-term patterns that exist in many places, and how they come into existence and can be fought. That is much less anxiety-inducing, and provides a concrete starting point for understanding how to apply it locally, even if the events don't look the exact same.
I guess this is probably where the phrase "think global, act local" comes from, too.
(In the same vein, I would love for people to toot less about the crisis-of-the-day, and more about their ideas and/or projects for addressing long-term concerns...)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
Gesprekje gisteren.
"Ik ben hier met de trein gekomen", en jij dan?"
Ik: "met de auto, ik mijd het OV sinds 2020."
"Ach ja, vervelend he dat gedoe met die mondkapjes?"
Ik: "Integendeel, waren die nog maar verplicht, want dan was ik nu wel met de trein gekomen".
Wat een bizar land zijn we, dat als iemand het OV mijdt de 'logische' aanname is dat dat is vanwege verplichte mondkapjes, in plaats van om te voorkomen dat je ziek wordt bij gebrek daaraan.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
and can someone from pleroma or akkoma report this status so I can test if federated reports from those instance types work? thank you!
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
Yes, surveillance capitalism gives us some material things that are useful.
There are also about a billion things we have never even tried out because rich people believe there's no money in it! Maybe some of those things will also be useful and we should try those instead. Just sayin!!!!
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
🇵🇸 
Kijk nou, de staat heeft toch nog wat gevonden om te privatiseren
"De staat onderhandelt over de verkoop van een deel van stroomnetbeheerder Tennet. Die deal kan vele miljarden opleveren, maar ligt politiek gevoelig. Volgens een vorig jaar verschenen rapport is „een geïntegreerd Tennet van groot strategisch belang” voor Nederland."
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/01/24/kabinet-negeert-verzet-tennet-en-wil-duitse-tak-verkopen-a4155219
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
@terry @soatok My hypothesis? It's not about the money. It's about securing the employee. If the employee is dependent on the employer's wages to continue living after a major (possibly interstate, sometimes international) move to an area with a higher cost of living, then the employee is highly disincentivized to look for other work - they're in a new place with no contacts outside of work, and they need their current job to stay housed, fed, and possibly medicated due to the increased cost of living from their move, so they're starting any job hunt at an extreme disadvantage.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
Zet maar vast in je agenda! Woonprotest in Zaanstad. 25 maart. 15 uur vanaf het Stadhuis (=uitgang station centrum kant)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
I occasionally see trans people wondering when their family will come around, and I don't mean to be pessimistic but in my experience, if they don't take to it quickly and naturally then they probably never will without you forcing the issue.
It sucks. I know.
@ChlorideCull Huh. That's actually... kinda of makes sense.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
Customer: BRITISH EXPRESSION, SHORT FOR: WHAT DO YOU MEAN MY FRIEND? WILL BE GOING ON AN ELECTRIC CAR - HENCE THE WATT PUN. WATT IS THE SI UNIT FOR POWER.
DMV: YOU WAIT A MINUTE
Verdict: ACCEPTED
- 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
