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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Het openbaar vervoer is momenteel voor veel mensen te duur, en de kwaliteit van de dienstverlening laat erg te wensen over. Lijnen worden ingekort of geschrapt, er is te weinig personeel, en meldkamers blijven onbemand. Juist voor rolstoelgebruikers is deze aanwezigheid van personeel cruciaal.
BIJ1 is van mening dat het goedkoper maken van het openbaar vervoer voor de 'armere bevolking' niet voldoende is. De bureaucratie rondom het bewijzen van armoede houdt de ontoegankelijkheid in stand. Vooral voor mensen die ongedocumenteerd zijn. Wij pleiten voor een breuk met winst boven mensen en roepen op om het openbaar vervoer gratis te maken.
#BreekMetWinstBovenMensen #BreekDeKetens #BekenKleur #StemBIJ1
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the fedi paradox: the weirder you are, the more likely you are to find someone on the same wavelength
however, the atlantic ocean
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Don’t know what happened yet, but the tricourant FLIRT-trainsets used by VIAS 
for the train Arnhem - Düsseldorf (temporarily) lost their certificate for the Netherlands. All trains Arnhem - Emmerich are cancelled for this weekend.
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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers
https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-ad-block-installs-3382289/
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Twitter/X has a grand total of 12 content moderators who speak Arabic, and 2 who speak Hebrew. (https://transparency.twitter.com/dsa-transparency-report.html)
Are people still really wondering why the site is a haven for horrific hate speech and misinformation, particularly in the context of the war in Gaza?
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"“Basically you have a laboratory, an artificial laboratory, that you can play with on your PC in ways that you could never do ethically, certainly, in the real world.”"
I don't even know what to say. Tech solutionism at its finest because people can't NOT be racist.
I think people massively underestimate the role of the advertising industry in many of society's largest problems. The problem isn't limited to ads being annoying.
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never have i wished for the wholesale, irrevocable destruction of an entire industry as long and as hard as i wish for the advertising industry to be utterly immolated, the earth it was on salted, and signs placed around the site reading "this is not a place of honour"
@kepstin The rumour on the grapevine is that their entire network coordination happens from the PDX datacenter that went down, and when that goes down, nothing gets updates anymore and everything eventually starts breaking
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I just spend 20mins to find a passage from a book by a Norwegian author that I read as a child JUST to make a point about the international fixed calendar AND decks of cards on another platform.
This probably is the most obscure little tidbit of knowledge I will have shared this year.
I think since I've already put in the time, you should also suffer this knowledge.
You're welcome.
("Solitaire Mystery" by Jostein Gaarder, 1990)
#books #JokerDay #calendar #PlayingCards
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Police nabbed a graffiti artist attempting to flee the scene of committing this (picture) adorable art in the harbor of Visby, Gotland, the large island just outside southeastern mainland Sweden.
The 27-year-old was prosecuted for vandalism, with the prosecutor demanding a fine.
Police's interrogation records said e.g. that "His intention is to offer free art to passersby." and... the District Court of Gotland... agreed.
The court's ruling states that no harm has been proven and that the artist "on a gray and cracked concrete façade which is the short end of a loading dock, has depicted a lamb.", that "The way in which X has illustrated the lamb testifies to an artistic work carried out with a certain amount of artistic and technical skill." then finally "According to the District Court's opinion, the beauty value of the cracked concrete façade - in purely objective terms - has increased through X's painting." so the 27-year old artist was acquitted by the court, which also ruled that the police had must return the spray cans they had confiscated.
Damn hippies. ;-D
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If you are running a #Tor relay you should upgrade as soon as reasonably practical. There is a crash bug that appears to be remotely exploitable.
We believe clients are not affected.
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2023-November/021373.html
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fyi there's a browser extension called "Indie Wiki Buddy" that will link you to community-owned wikis when you're on a commercialized wiki with a community alternative.
it's really nice to see communal wikis sprouting up, it reminds me of the early internet days.
also, fuck fandom.
long, lessons from the early web (in the Netherlands)
@oluOnline Kind of related to my other comment about Clubs.nl, one thing I noticed very early on was that social interaction started getting worse as soon as everything started revolving around *individuals*.
Early 'mass social media' here in NL (Clubs, Partyflock, etc.) were primarily based around communities, events, and so on - you'd have a profile, but it was more a technicality than anything, and didn't contain much more than a display name and maybe an avatar and "things you've posted to".
Once what I'll call "ego-oriented" social media started catching on (that started with Hyves here, Facebook only came later and MySpace was a small player), there was a noticeable shift of the online social vibe towards bragging, making yourself look good, and generally individualism.
I learned an important lesson from that; for social media to be genuinely social, it should revolve around community, and not around individuals.
In the two decades since, I've only seen evidence for that piling up higher and higher, and thankfully the more community-oriented approach is starting to come back a little in places like fedi.
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In case there are any obvious conclusions I'm missing:
What do people think the biggest lessons from the history of the web are? What do you hope "comes back", what are you hoping stays dead, and what do you hope is to come?
I'd appreciate RTs (and long detailed replies lol)!
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I needed to put a bare SBC away so I went into the Tech Room at work to look for anti-static bags.
I didn't find any, technically... but there's what looks like them in a box labeled "static bags".
clearly this is the exact opposite of what I need!
re: how we found stuff before Google:
@elilla @oluOnline Back then, I found so many things (from NL) as well through *specialized* web directories - sites that collected all sorts of weird/experimental/artful links (like Leejoo), or sites that had categorized links on specific knowledge topics (Startpagina and a couple others were entire platforms for this), and so on.
There was also very early social media here like Clubs.nl, which let people create communities around certain topics, and they were often full of external links to sites on their respective topic(s) as well.
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Klarna has caved to the threat of a worker strike and signed a collective bargaining agreement with the unions.
It’s the first big tech unicorn in Sweden to do so. Workers have been organising elsewhere too. Very curious and excited to see what happens next.
https://www.dn.se/ekonomi/strejkvarsel-avblast-klarna-tecknar-kollektivavtal/
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"A Short History of Traffic Engineering"
submitted by u/bimbyris
https://redd.it/17mp2bx
#fuckcars
- 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
