Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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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
@eloy My gut feeling would be that it often correlates to one's general sense of competence; someone who has a general (and usually misplaced) sense of superiority might frame that as being a generalist, whereas someone who knows where their limits are would be more likely to speak in terms of specialisms?
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yessss the monoliths are back
Never know when that information might become relevant later
I would subtly suggest to start taking notes of who in your tech circles works for companies like Anduril
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The easiest way to see 'privilege in #FOSS' with your own eyes, is probably to observe how the people arguing for sketchy sponsors, legalistic moderation procedures, "neutrality" in moderation and government involvement, are virtually always white dudes - and those opposing them are everyone else (and, often, a small subset of white dudes).
Like, you don't actually need to believe me on this. Just keep an eye on who is saying what for a couple months. You'll see the patterns.
@shine Hmm. That might work as a backup, though they wouldn't really be something that people are unlikely to have their own stash of at a hacker camp (in terms of material properties, which the acceptor looks at) and the consistency would be a challenge
@DelphineUnseen@queer.party Definitely true!
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Had the pleasure of illustrating the landing image for open-source text editor @novelwriter as part of its latest 2.3 update.
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Protesters have taken over the park around the convention center and have been holding a teach in about Boeing's role in US imperialism.
There's several live streams on the gram 🙄 (I'll see if I can xpost a speech)
https://www.instagram.com/resist.seattle/live/18024391120971510?igsh=bWppcmhkYjI0Zmw0
(The current idea bouncing around in my head is some sort of scavenger hunt involving finding coins)
I don't think it'll work with plastic coins though, so I may need to find a source for metal non-money coins somewhere
I have acquired a programmable coin acceptor! Turns out they're pretty cheap... hoping to make a fun project out of this for the next hacker camp
(Obviously this only works with people who disclose that information in their profile. There are usually enough of them.)
The easiest way to see 'privilege in #FOSS' with your own eyes, is probably to observe how the people arguing for sketchy sponsors, legalistic moderation procedures, "neutrality" in moderation and government involvement, are virtually always white dudes - and those opposing them are everyone else (and, often, a small subset of white dudes).
Like, you don't actually need to believe me on this. Just keep an eye on who is saying what for a couple months. You'll see the patterns.
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Assume you have a bed. Then you can make a new bed by putting sheets, blankets and a pillow on that bed.
No idea how you get the first bed, that isn't defined. Beds probably form a causal loop or something; you can just make beds forever.
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By the way, has anyone checked if Automattic's selling out of WordPress and Tumblr data for 'AI’ training also involves all those images you all uploaded to Gravatar, Automattic's cross-site tracking tool? 🤔
NixOS, governance 
@someonetellmetosleep@queer.party @monk Oops, yeah, you're right. No editing on this instance though...
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Gentle reminder that, compared to the phrase " #DarkPatterns ", #DeceptivePatterns is:
- more accurate
- less laden with unnecessary racist & colonial baggage from the Enlightenment
- already established within #UX conversations by the website https://www.deceptive.design/about-us , who prudently changed their name due to this whole set of concerns.
Thanks everyone for considering this small-but-important wording improvement.
Now back to doing whatever awesomeness you were doing!
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NixOS, governance
If you care about the future of #NixOS, its governance, and its policies, right about now would be a good moment to get involved.
Some of the issues currently on the table:
- NixCon sponsorship by an arms dealer (Anduril)
- Moderation issues in the community, safety threats to marginalized folks
- What acceptable forms of participation are for the formal RFCs
A lot of things feel like they are coming to a head right about now, with the community growing rapidly, and I suspect that the decisions made are going to have long-term effects.
So if you've been waiting for a moment to get involved, that moment is probably now.
- 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
