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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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
Are there any anti-capitalist tech collectives that don't have a toxic culture, and that don't throw accessibility, reliability or the public commons under the bus? 
@aeva (This seems to have its roots in PHP's CGI-esque model that doesn't allow for long-running processes, therefore needing an external service for cross-request coordination? And that somehow got ported over to ecosystems that don't actually have that problem to begin with)
@aeva You'd (unfortunately) be surprised how often Redis is recommended as a task queue solution even in technical stacks where that would be solvable with a variable in global-ish scope (like JS)
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Amsterdam verhoogt leeftijd gratis bibliotheeklidmaatschap en bouwt nieuwe ‘toekomstbestendige’ bibliotheek https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/03/21/amsterdam-verhoogt-leeftijd-gratis-bibliotheeklidmaatschap-en-bouwt-nieuwe-toekomstbestendige-bibliotheek-a4193783?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_term=20240321
facebook threads, fedi (actionable)
https://todon.eu/@queue/112130436372737490
To very little surprise, Facebook's Threads platform (the one that was supposedly so enthusiastic about the Fediverse) is now hiding all mentions of Pixelfed - the Fediverse software that's competing with their Instagram platform. Hopefully this makes it clear that they were never going to federate in good faith.
Things you can do:
1. Sign the Fedipact (if you run your own instance) or ask your admin to do so (if you don't) to commit to defederating from Threads: https://fedipact.online/
2. Support the creator of the Fedipact, vantablack, who is in financial and housing trouble: https://cyberpunk.lol/@vantablack/112080004580673240
palestine and holocaust comparisons
I guess it's time to repeat my comment from a while ago: how someone responds to a comparison between the Holocaust and what Israel is doing to Palestine, tells you a lot about their underlying beliefs.
Because if someone responds by accusing you of "trivializing the Holocaust", then the unspoken premise they're operating on is that the situation in Palestine is "not that bad"; that's the only way the accusation makes sense.
Someone who holds both things to be genocidal, would not interpret a comparison as "trivializing" to begin with.
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Just heard this during meeting:
"feeding two birds with one scone"
Beautiful alternative to this shared linguistic violence:
https://jakubmarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/kill-two-birds-with-one-stone-europe.jpg
@aw I think that can definitely be a problem, but I also think it overestimates the relative importance of the engineering side of software development.
Ultimately I would say that the deciding factor in how software gets developed is less the circumstances of the engineers, and more the interests of those funding it - developers build 'global platforms' because investors demand that they do, because that is how you monopolize a market and claim back the 'investment' tenfold. The relative social isolation of engineers, to me, seems more consequence than cause.
There are certainly tech companies, for instance, that work mostly/entirely remote, but that are still closely engaged with the needs of their communities. But... they are small companies, not VC-funded, not trying to make billions, and they don't come up in global headlines.
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Hmm, just realised that Debian Bullseye (and older) doesn’t include the ISRG Root X2 certificate by default, and apparently Debian doesn’t update the ‘ca-certificates’ package for older releases.
Can’t seem to find a built-in way to update this easily, but perhaps I am missing something; is there a built-in way to deploy an updated Mozilla root certificate bundle without building custom packages, manually pulling a package from testing or unstable, adding the newer ones as local certificates and whatnot?
I know how to do the latter, am aware of the documented options, just wondering if I’m overlooking something obvious.
Thanks!
@sabogato I've seen it used by governments and government-adjacent nonprofits in the context of 'digital sovereignty' - where it seems to mostly refer to not being dependent on other nations for digital infrastructure.
I wouldn't consider that directly right-wing, though it is definitely often (but not always) statist or nationalist in nature.
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My wife has joined a Facebook group, specifically for people all pretending to be ants. What a weird, but utterly harmless, corner of the internet.
CW meta, personal pondering
Feedback on this is welcome, btw, as long as you don't try to trivialize the concern
CW meta, personal pondering
Considering a new personal policy where I explicitly CW-tag any 'bad world stuff' as "non-actionable" unless there's an actionable thing included with it, though I'm concerned about that demotivating people from trying to find actionable solutions themselves
frustration, programming, package management
There's this really frustrating dynamic where "lots of single-purpose libraries" is very clearly the optimal model once you do a full technical analysis, but it doesn't *feel* that way.
Because what people remember of this model is "having to wade through hundreds of packages to find what I need and getting list".
Which wouldn't be a problem in a correct implementation of this model (where you provide a pre-bundled/pre-configured collection for the common case and clear documentation on what you need) - but in a correct implementation, most people would never interact with the underlying hundred libraries, and so they will never perceive it as an example of the "many small libraries" model to begin with!
Do it wrong and it'll be a bad example of the model, do it right and it won't be seen as an example of the model at all. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
(See: npm, OpenStack, ...)
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yo
now that #FediPact is (justifyingly) returning to the conversation
consider giving some money to @vantablack who helped coordinate all of this
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TIL: The vCard standard (RFC 6350) supports a free-form field for gender identity: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6350#section-6.2.7
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generative AI is exciting to business because it's a way to blend up the commons and get something that generates profit while deferring responsibility
it can be exciting to you for other reasons but i really need you all to be clear-headed about why it's being hyped up and funded so much
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thinking about Copilot again, for reasons
and like. i've heard a lot of arguments back and forth about whether or not it's actually a breach of GPL to include GPL'd code in the training set of an inference model; I think it is, Microsoft thinks it isn't, i'm not going to sue them about it
but it seems very hard for me to see how people don't see the creation of Copilot as a tremendous breach of developer goodwill and the social contract of open source
- 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
