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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- 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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Every time I read articles about infiltration on the left, I really have to wonder why the constant take-away is "trust no one" when the actual lesson should just be "listen to people pointing out abuse, harassment, and bigotry."
We'd get rid of a good chunk of infiltrators (and, more generally and more commonly, bad actors) if we'd actually give a single solitary fuck about any of *that*.
meta, eightpoint, rape
@Leiracal@tech.lgbt There is some additional context here: https://mastodon.art/@Curator/109862017103310949
But please understand that the situation with eightpoint is an anomaly, not a common occurrence; it involves someone with a long, *long* history of abusive behaviour, across a ton of different communities.
That "path to healing" includes the abuser in question acknowledging and taking responsibility for their abuse, and working to repair it. That has not occurred. Until it does, healing is not possible.
This same person has, in many of those communities, long been shielded by precisely these sorts of "calls for unity". It has only led to more abuse, not to any actual solutions for the - repeatedly reoccurring - problem.
This is not something you can capture in a simple set of community rules. This is the sort of case where you need to identify who is responsible for repeated abusive behaviour (up to and including rape), and who are enabling them to do so and shielding them from consequences.
That is going to be fundamentally messy, and it extends beyond just a defederation. This whole situation has caused a lot of people a lot of pain already. The defederation is just one step of many to try and protect a community from a known abuser and their enablers.
TL;DR: this is not just some kneejerk defederation, there is a decade+ of history and abuse behind this. It's fine if you're not familiar with all of it, but please don't assume that this sort of decision is arbitrary.
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Microsoft: lol yeah this thing lies or makes stuff up all the damn time but we decided to go live with it anyway, don't trust it, it's a trickster when it's not a dumbass
Right there in the faq, that's... certainly a decision
@ifixcoinops I mean, it's not like there's any accountability culture in tech anyway, so
@hannah @ifixcoinops It was only a logical consequence that they would eventually come up with a solution to "I can see that your index is full of SEO junk instead of real results"
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dyke dragon 💜
i prefer polyamory because love triangles are more structurally strong than love lines
@gsuberland@chaos.social @th @AliMirjamali@mastodon.social At least they left you a note :p
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If you cannot see bigotry or discrimination without slurs then you do not have enough understanding to participate in the conversation. You are not safe to be around.
You need to go and learn about how this stuff manifests because otherwise you will continue to enact it.
The people going "no that's not a problem! I don't see the issue!" are a large part of the problem and why it persists.
meta, eightpoint, tech.lgbt
Once again: "restorative justice" does not mean "unbanning someone and letting them say sorry". Restorative justice starts with *the victims of the harm* and what they need.
Likewise, "reintegration" does not mean "letting someone run free in the community and hoping they don't reoffend". It means taking active precautions to prevent harm from reoccurring, and focusing on restorative justice (see above).
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If anyone wants more context on tech.lgbt and eightpoint.app, or is condemning tech.lgbt's decision without being clear on the history of eightpoint >
https://mastodon.art/@Curator/109862017103310949
Here.
@welshpixie Wow, those comments are a shitshow. People should really learn more about the history and context of this whole thing first, instead of immediately calling 'cancel culture'...
@welshpixie Ahh, thanks. Wasn't tagged FediBlock, guess that's why I didn't see it.
@welshpixie I think I missed some context - how does tech.lgbt fit into this picture? I know the history with 8p.
@joenepraat Even door de zure glasvezel heen bijten
@crashglasshouses@tsukihi.me To this day, many of the "shop from China" sites artificially show zero results when you search for Nintendo-related terms... even though the products are there if you know what euphemisms to search for.
@teivel @luna@tech.lgbt @fasterthanlime@octodon.social I'm reminded of that bug in XFCE where it would segfault when certain non-latin characters appeared in a window title (and it tried to render it in the taskbar).
The fun part was, the exact range of characters which would cause a crash, varied from system to system.
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"An appeals court on Tuesday prohibited the Netherlands’ military police from using racial profiling as a way of selecting people for identity checks at borders, marking a victory for two citizens and rights groups who sued the government."
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Hello people of the Fediverse. I generally don't like talking about my problems online but I've been struggling with my #gender identity for almost 3 years now and i just can't ignore it anymore.
Does anyone know some good scientific sources of information for potentially #transgender people and/or accounts to follow here on the Fediverse?
By scientific i mean studies and/or articles that explain what happens #biologically to trans people causing their mind to be disconnected from their body.
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Let this be your periodic reminder that your local library has more free fantastic entertainment in the form of books, movies, music, and more than any subscription service you can pay for, especially when you count interlibrary loans.
re: long, retro handheld history
An interesting take from someone on Reddit:
"I would go so far as to say there would be not steamdeck without the dingoo"
While it's of course hard to predict how history would have turned out otherwise, I think that's not actually such an absurd take!
There's a pretty clear line running from the A320 -> several kickstarted retro handhelds -> the explosion of cheap retro handhelds from China -> the AYA NEO and such -> the Steamdeck.
It didn't *start* with the A320 - notably, Game Park got there first with eg. the GP32 - but the A320 was the first internationally successful *affordable* retro handheld that I know of.
- 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
