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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It annoys me how people talk about using social media like it's a vice. And a female-coded one at that.
"Spend less time on social media" is trotted out a virtuous in the same way that "not eating a pint of ice cream" is.
Imagine if in the early days of movable type, there were people going around saying "don't read pamphlets, they are full of misinformation"
Social media is the primary way news is disseminated. It is superseding newspapers and TV as the primary vector of mass media. 1/
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@KuJoe Oh sure, that is a real problem - but I consider that a cultural and collective one, for which societal awareness needs to exist, rather than something to address on an individual level. The 'actual learning how to deal with it' part doesn't require professional help, once you are aware that it is needed and why, is what I mean.
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@KuJoe (It also does not require any professional training, it does require a willingness to figure it out)
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@KuJoe I know why the discomfort happens. It is still a difference between "unfamiliar but could figure it out" and "literally unable to".
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@KuJoe This is not a learnable skill for many ND folks, that is the problem. It's expecting them to do something they literally cannot.
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@KuJoe And so the straightforward, direct form of communication is at least nominally possible to understand for everyone involved, whereas the passive-aggressive unspoken-implication form is not.
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@KuJoe The one point I would tend to disagree with is "they are both correct", because there's one significant difference: neurotypical folks are often uncomfortable with neurodivergent communication, whereas neurodivergent folks are often *actually unable* to understand neurotypical communication.
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@passenger @dalfen @noondlyt The world doesn’t need Mozilla. The world needs an organisation that actually does what Mozilla says it does.
@kescher @n0toose@chaos.social I don't know what the 'correct' pronunciation is, but I usually say it as 'fordjo' and nobody seems to have been bothered by that so far
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lewd, autism
people will literally treat queer autistic people likes dogs our entire life and then get shocked and upset when we start doing it to get each other off
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ACAB
@designthinkingcomic capitalists, centrists, apoliticals, rightwingers and neoliberals whenever there is a systemic problem, every time:
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I feel powerless in the face of the rampant adoption of A.I. with little to no societal safeguarding or legal protection, so I make jokes while the driverless steamroller slowly crushes us all to death.
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"With the decision to become a hard fork, [being a drop-in replacement for Gitea] will no longer be guaranteed. It will remain possible to upgrade from the latest #Gitea version released at the time of the hard fork, but versions past that will not have such a guarantee.
As such, if you were considering upgrading to #Forgejo, we encourage you to do that sooner rather than later"
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Dear writers: Delete your Findaway Voices account NOW
#writing #FindawayVoices
Massive license grab that will irrevocably destroy your career.
[edit to add: update below, but stay on alert]
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You know who are awesome? Librarians. I put in a request 5 weeks ago to see if we can get a scanned copy of a library book so that I can run it through text-to-speech software and read it for a paper I'm writing. Accessibility, right? My wrists hurt (a lot), and this helps.
The librarians got pushback from the publisher on scanning 4 chapters b/c that's more than 20% of the book. Potential violation of copyright. Needed for access.
So they bought the fucking ebook for me. #accessibility #ally
legality
@mwl For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure that those new terms are illegal pretty much everywhere. You can't just claim additional license like that on existing works without a renegotiation. It would only be possible to apply this to newly-added works (and even then I expect the 'no moral rights' to be illegal in most places).
(Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, even though I've dealt with various licensing topics over the years)
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Whats the author's motivation? No message to push, it cost them a few grand to publish so no immediate profit. They saw an opening created by the system that values scholarly output by the number of citations and publications you put out, rather than what you write and took it.
Why didnt the reviewer review harder? Easy, why would you waste your time working for free for a company with >1B in annual revenue where you have no connection with the journal, the people, or the work it publishes?
Why did the journal publish the paper? Super easy, money. Reputational risk doesnt seem to put a dent in the profit.
The bigger publishers entire marketing schtick of late is that they are the last bastions of Truth, and Truth aint cheap. We are only playing into that narrative by saying Frontiers is the cause of the problem. If our first reaction is to head for higher ground in the prestige landscape and reify the myth of trustworthy elite journals, we've learned nothing but the rules of the game that made this happen in the first place.
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frustration, tech industry and academia
So fucking typical. I am so sick of this happening over and over again to what could have been interesting resilient/community tech.
"Roofnet, a real mesh network deployment [...] Open participation without central planning [...] No central control over topology [...] Roofnet's technology formed the basis for Meraki, a mesh networking startup founded by members of MIT's Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group. Meraki was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2012. [...] Since then, Meraki discontinued this public service, though many access points remain active, but with no connection to the Internet. [...] Cisco Meraki is a cloud-managed IT company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Their products include wireless, switching, security, enterprise mobility management (EMM) and security cameras, all centrally managed from the web."
- 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
