Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
@thelastpsion (Out of interest, was there a specific incident that led you to reconsider licensing? Wondering if I missed something)
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Very few people add content warnings to their politics posts now (or any kind of post, while I'm grumbling). Super disappointed.
Should I start flooding the timeline with UK politics hot takes that make 0 sense to anyone outside of the UK all day? Apparently that's a reasonable and enjoyable thing to do
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Hey so I decided to make a website documenting a bunch of the common fedi content warnings! It’s definitely not perfect but it’s very open to contribution, and I’ve seen a good handful of posts listing content warnings for newcomers so hopefully this can be a helpful single resource!
Update! Namecheap acknowledged that I’m real so I have the actual domain now!:
Since originally posting, It now looks much better on mobile, it has a light theme, I’ve added a handful of entries, and I’ve fixed a few typos
Also boosts would be very much appreciated on this one
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One of the answers to the question, "Why are there so few Black people on the fediverse?" And no, it's not just that there are racist users.
Every once in awhile, I see a white person ask the question of why there aren't more Black folks on the fediverse. I don't see this that often, as I go out of my way to follow white folks who are a little more clued in, but occasionally it comes up.
There are a lot of reasons, which any Black person who has been here for more than 5 minutes could easily explain to you, but for the moment let me take you on a short journey to examine one of the primary reasons.
Imagine, if you will, that I am a random Black person interested in joining the fediverse. Now assuming I don't just go straight for mastodon.social (different scenario, but similar outcome for the most part) I'm curious to see what server I should join.
If I'm coming from any other major social network I've probably heard something, accurate or not, about the fediverse and choosing a server. Maybe that idea has turned me off before, but the Muskrat or Zuck or whoever has just done another egregious thing and I'm getting fed up with their shit. I'm stubborn, too, so I look into an option that's going to take some work.
So I do some poking around Mastodon since that's the service I've heard about. joinmastodon.org has an easy to peruse list of hundreds of servers (419 last I checked). This seems overwhelming, but they are sorted by language and region and topic, which helps.
Now keep in mind, I'm coming from another social network, so very likely I've heard how white the fediverse is. So, I start browsing through the servers on joinmastodon.org to find other Black folks because if I'm gonna try this new thing, I'm not looking to deal with users who may just be hostile by default for no good reason.
If I am especially thorough, I will find two servers for South Africans, a server for folks from Madagascar, and/or a server for Nigerians. If I am not from one of those three countries, guess what happens? I don't find anyone like me. I leave and I don't come back again.
Okay, story over. And here comes the moral of the tale: It's not that non-regional Black-centered servers don't exist. They're simply not included in the directory. And for the record, it's not as if none of us have asked.
Therefore, the next time you see someone asking the question of why there aren't more Black folks on the fedi, you can now feel free to tell them: we aren't wanted here.
Go look for yourself if you don't believe me.
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Reminder today, a joke isn’t funny unless both people feel it is harmless and funny. If only one person finds it funny, congratulations. It’s no longer a fun joke, it's rude and upsetting. Keep this in mind and do your best to keep things harmless, because others may not find things as funny as you do
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Jewish mourning customs
I was at the pub with friends today and mentioned that I was not buying clothes for a year because I'm in mourning for my dad.
(See Chabad's explainer on this: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/281616/jewish/The-Twelve-Months-of-Aveilus-in-Judaism.htm )
They were shocked. What if my underwear all suddenly met with disaster? Would I just go without (under)pants?
I'm reform, so I could just buy new pants, but what I would probably do is get somebody else to buy pants and "borrow" them.
What then, they wanted to know if the point? Why do this at all?
To which I say: it's custom and it's how I'm mourning and if it doesn't sound like Christianity, then baruch Hashem because Christianity fucking sucks at death, grief and mourning.
But also, yes, there's a loophole. But it's not a mindless get out clause. If I take a loophole, I need to have a conversation with somebody I care about that's going to involve acknowledgement of grief.
The technicalities can be dealt with, but this requires some amount of thought. Of being aware. Of being mindful. Of acknowledging that although it's been several months, this loss is still new.
Of having a year where I don't have to pretend things are normal and everything is fine. Of being in some ways stuck in a moment of catastrophe, several months ago. This weird singularity in my life, at the end of his.
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the lesson *I'm* choosing to take from xz, as an oss maintainer, is that anyone trying to pressure or guilt me into doing something should immediately be told no, for security reasons
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I would like to thank Jia Tan for authoring the best CTF challenge of the past decade.
@ramsey While I agree in principle, let's make sure not to forget all of the unpaid community work that many people were doing long before 'open-source' was even a thing. We've always had good arguments for implementing UBI, and a lack of arguments was never really the problem...
Just did a week's worth of gardening chores in an afternoon, whee
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tech companies donate their april fools’ day joke budget to open source maintainers challenge 2024
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My favorite Ren Faire story:
I knew a guy who kept a Starfleet insignia pinned to the inside of his garb. A few times per season, some folks would come to the Faire cosplaying as a Star Trek landing party, investigating a “primitive” world.
He would take them aside, show his insignia, and identify himself as a Starfleet officer on a cultural research mission. He’d call them out for breaking the Prime Directive and ruining his research. Then he’d demand to know what ship they’re from, and threaten to get them court martialed if they didn’t change into something less conspicuous.
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i don’t blame google or social media i blame walking talking context collapse machines making it impossible to say anything ever because someone Famous might see it and share it with a million random people
@mjg59 I feel like "sufficiently paying and supporting maintainers such that they are not so vulnerable to manipulation and/or bribes to begin with" is missing from that list (with the understanding that that, too, is not a magical solution and 'merely' a mitigation)
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autism, reference to abuse
@mdstevens0612 I suspect that a lot of it has to do with residual trauma of April Fool's often being used as a cover for abuse towards autistic folks
subtoot, bigoted "jokes"
And to be more explicit about this: if you do not have something supportive to contribute to the victim of the joke, then SHUT. UP. Your arbitration of merit is not required nor wanted.
subtoot, bigoted "jokes"
So here's a rule of thumb: if someone gets called out on a bigoted "joke", and your response is either "it's just a joke" or "don't make such a big deal out of it", then you are basically *guaranteed* to be on the wrong side of the argument, regardless of what the joke was.
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Something I tweeted a few years ago:
April Fool’s Day can be saved with ONE SIMPLE TWEAK: instead of fooling people, make it about playing the fool. Actually do silly things rather than pretending you’re doing a silly thing
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We should adopt this nixpkgs RFC as soon as possible!
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
