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.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
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- 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
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@runevision A friend and former coworker of mine has a compelling theory that AAA teams build open world games like this because it allows for a lot of parallelism in their production, and the reason why it always feels like they filled the game with incoherent disconnected Content sprinkled around the map with a poisson distribution is because that's literally how their production was structured.
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Pro tip: Every time you see the word “inflation” in the news, just replace it with “record-breaking corporate profits”. #CorporateGreed #notInflation
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@hyphen don't forget the final paragraph
"Anyway, everyone should have access to good public transportation because freedom of movement is a human right and meeting a broad spectrum of humanity is good for your mental health and spiritual welfare."
@dthacker9 @rail_ This is both-sides-ism. We don't do that here.
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there is no sign that says "you must be this androgynous" to be nonbinary. you can be nonbinary right now, as you are.
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We gotta bring back the word "whelmed" for when you're not quite overwhelmed but also you've got enough going on that you don't really know what to do with yourself and yet you're still managing even if just barely.
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So I know you’ve all seen that “tired Oompa-Loompa” photo from that #WillysChocolateExperience disaster. Please know that there is a human being behind that meme, and she is not enjoying the attention.
These are actors, and they showed up for a job. They got screwed along with the ticket-buyers.
https://www.tiktok.com/@kirstypaterson3/video/7340997397910211873
(It's still under warranty so hopefully should be someone else's problem)
I think the motor in our plant shredder just burned out
Am I missing something or is the "Bluetooth mesh" specification really actually just "abuse BLE advertising packets by broadcasting/floodfilling all your traffic in them, but Officially Sanctioned"?
In summary, I guess, the critiques of Walkaway reveal a lot of interesting things, but more about the readers than about the book
Another frequent observation is people complaining about the characters being "too perfect" even though the book goes into quite some detail about their imperfections - and I'm wondering if there's some misperception going on here, in the sense that the reader kind of missed the imperfections because the overall tone is focused on "that doesn't make them awful people" rather than the "did something weird or wrong once and is now irredeemably tainted" narrative that you'd find in most stories
Loosely related, I can't help but notice that a lot of critiques of the story basically boil down to "it's unrealistic because it's not full of horrible people".
And like, nobody making that critique seems to have caught onto the part where the culture selects for people who aren't horrible, and gives people in general reasons to be supportive and collaborative... instead just assuming today's cultural norms and the hierarchy expected from that, even though that hierarchy is specifically what the story contradicts
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Listen, I'm so friggin disgusted over what is probably happening over at Automattic (Tumblr, WordPress dot com) so, if you have a blog over at WordPress dot com, I will help you migrate to a self-hosted WordPress install. Yes, for free. From a professional web dev.
Email me: aimee@foundationwebdev.com or send a contact form submission at www.foundationwebdev.com/contact/
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Not to mention this is also bad for video game preservation. Years from now, the servers meant to handle your account creation will probably cease to be, and the games will be unplayable unless someone cracks them. The shortsightedness of this industry never fails to amaze me.
@robinsyl I would be very tempted to start dumping unsolicited trash through the relevant business' mailbox in response (and I mean literal trash)
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Any Dutch person tried to report unaddressed advertising before? The stichting reclame code requires me to contact the sender first before reporting it. Which is bullshit because they're just gonna say they won't do it again, and nothing changes.
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enabling secure boot, kernel lockdown, etc only for a security researcher to discover a hardware vulnerability in the intel Binkleforden subsystem that lets anybody telepathically gain ring -3 access to your system by perceiving its existence
I'm reading a post by someone about Walkaway, the novel by Cory Doctorow, basically expressing skepticism about society's ability to work that way, and remarking that the story fails to explain how such-and-such mechanism would function in practice.
And I just realized: that someone is *expecting* such detail from what is explicitly a work of fiction, suggests that it is already a credible enough view of the future that it doesn't require suspension of disbelief to engage with it, and that it doesn't register as "obviously fiction".
That is in and of itself quite hopeful, actually.
- 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
