Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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
re: venting about shitty software devs
Off to look for a different Redux query management library now, I guess
venting about shitty software devs
Some days you can just smell from a mile away that the author of a piece of software is 100% someone who would build a deportation system because "well, the tech is cool", and today is one of those days
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You are only temporarily abled.
This is not a threat. It is a statement of fact.
Edit: Glad this is seeing so much resonance. If you've got any cash to spare, please check my pinned posts for my mutual aid request.
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#Copyright works for capitalists, not for artists, and perhaps one of the most illustrative examples of this would be subtitles:
Hobbyist subtitlers get regularly threatened with ruinous copyright lawsuits for daring to make TV shows more accessible to different audiences without the publisher's permission.
And now tech corporations use those very same hobbyist subtitles to train their audio transcription LLMs, and there are zero legal consequences for those corporations.
meta over politieke toots
Ik zou zo graag zien dat meer van de politiek actieve en activistische Nederlandse gebruikers ook CWs en alt text gaan gebruiken voor hun politieke posts.
Nog even los van dat ook dat gewoon een onderdeel is van inclusiviteit, zie ik nu heel veel dingen langskomen waar ik eigenlijk niets mee kan; ik boost geen dingen zonder alt text(-verzoek), en ik ben heel selectief met welke politiek-zonder-CW ik boost om de mensen die mij volgen niet te overladen.
Dat is zonde, want er zit een hoop goeds en belangrijks tussen, maar ik heb ook niet de energie om alles *zelf* van alt text en CWs te gaan voorzien... dus dan gebeurt er uiteindelijk niets mee. Dat kan beter, toch?
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Onze fractie is vanaf 2024 op zoek naar een #communicatiemedewerker en commissieleden. Deze functies kunnen gecombineerd worden, maar ook door verschillende personen worden vervuld.
Fractiemedewerker communicatie (betaald)
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This tends to get snowed under with everything else that's going on, but it's worth mentioning that, from sometime next year, Dutch descendants of enslaved people who had a last name imposed on them, often related to those who enslaved them or where they were enslaved, can have that name changed for free, with a lot less paperwork than is currently required.
It's this kind of progress that is also under threat from a possible Wilders government.
Vigilance, folks ✊🏻
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sometimes the fediverse will just show you some unsecured scada interface
@Seirdy@pleroma.envs.net While true, plenty of people use authoring tools specifically because they want to focus on writing, and not on constructing the writing implement
if you like recommending FOSS software to people
Here's a way to avoid pissing people off.
Before recommending something to someone, ask yourself: would you commit to providing lifelong and unlimited free support to the listener for this software?
If no, then you probably shouldn't be recommending it; likely one of the following is true:
1. the software has too many frustrating rough edges to deal with, and your time is better spent contributing to fix those, or
2. you made a low-effort recommendation that expects high effort from the listener in trying out and investigating the suggestion.
Yes, this applies even when the listener specifically asked for recommendations. And unsolicited recommendations are a whole separate problem.
Yes, there are exceptions to this rule. Unless you can *specifically* argue why a given situation is an exception, it's not.
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A thing that I would love to get across about unpaid tech work, rolling your own [x], and running only the purest and most secure technical systems, is that if you add up enough factors like:
- raising kids;
- chronic illness or disability;
- caring for sick, disabled, or dying family members;
- community service;
- a non-technical job
…just for starters, the tech stuff is going to get triaged *way* down the list. And a lot of those factors are not evenly distributed, demographically!
re: threads meta
@NervousGamedev Both of these relate to long-standing issues, with Mastodon (the software), unfortunately.
People have long been asking for a "default defederation, opt-in per-user" feature (for exactly this reason), but none has materialized, leaving "blanket defederation" as the unfortunate next best option in the face of a threat like this.
Regarding AUTHORIZED_FETCH: this is the mechanism that, simplified, makes instance A check whether instance B is actually allowed to see its posts before serving them up. This is off by default in Mastodon. Turning it on breaks the entire local web UI since 4.x - as a result, defederation is already shakier than it should be.
This, and the entire history of decisionmaking that led up to this situation, calls into question how robust the different access control mechanisms in Mastodon actually are, despite what Gargron claims. It's one of many poor safety choices in Mastodon.
So I certainly wouldn't assume that 'blocking a domain as a user' hides you from that instance, without first explicitly verifying that in practice and from the code... and that track record of shaky access control is why :/
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In dit artikel https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederland/artikel/5425631/kans-op-hartschade-door-corona-klein-en-vooral-eerste-60-dagen bagatelliseert RTL nieuws het extra risico op hartinfarcten, beroertes en long embolieën door een coronainfectie.
Zo opgeschreven lijkt het weinig, die 1700 resp. 550 extra gevallen , vergeleken met die 15k, 40k en 30k.
Maar die vergelijking klopt helemaal niet. Want die eerste getallen zijn per 100.000 en die laatste getallen gaan over de hele NL bevolking! 1/6
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array.map(parseInt) truly is an incredible confluence of JS features. guess i'm never not using a "useless" arg mangling closure in JS..!
re: threads meta
@NervousGamedev I'm not certain that that actually works as it should (considering the issues around eg. AUTHORIZED_FETCH), but more importantly, that means that every single user is exposed to these dangers until they eventually maybe coincidentally learn about the federation with Threads and what that means in practice (which is what instance-level policies are meant to protect from)
threads meta
@bram Disclaimer: I am not on your instance.
Something very important that that suggestion doesn't mention, is that limiting an instance in no way prevents people on that instance from seeing *your* users. It only prevents you from automatically seeing *theirs*.
Given that one of the major problems with Facebook is the large crowd of folks actively looking for eg. queer folks to harass (like aforementioned LibsOfTikTok), that means that limiting them isn't sufficient to prevent these issues, and that is very likely why other instances have not considered this option - it's not a forgotten third option, just one already considered and found ineffective.
(I also find the wording of 'quarantine' to be a significant overpromising of what limiting actually does. Limiting a server isn't useless, but it also doesn't do that much useful either.)
Zucht. Het is weer zover, hoor - Ziggo probeert mensen weer eens wijs te maken dat ze een glasvezelaanbieder zijn.
Hier mogen ze echt wel eens grof voor beboet worden, maandje omzet ofzo. Ze proberen het nu al jarenlang steeds weer opnieuw op een net iets andere manier.
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seems like TinyBuild closed down Versus Evil (The Banner Saga, Broken Roads). and right before Christmas too uff
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First they tried to make us through programming, but that was not enough.
Then they tried to make us with machine learning, but that taught us what it is like to be human.
And we are not.
We learn to be robots through the art robots made to figure out what being a robot means.
#SmallStories #MicroFiction #TootFic
- 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
