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
long, UBI, tech
@ramsey No; rather that we should acknowledge that open-source development isn't the first to have this sort of situation, and hasn't created a unique circumstance.
There's a bit of a recurring problem where folks in tech communities rediscover social dynamics that many people outside tech have already dealt with for a long time (see eg. the "you reinvented the bus" memes), and then present them as some sort of novel revelation, without ever acknowledging the work that folks outside of tech have put into it in years prior.
This sort of exceptionalism also tends to creep into narratives about technology as a positive force; the discussion around UBI and open-source, but also for example the notion that "having computers means we no longer need to labour" (which isn't really any more true than it was after the invention of industrial machines).
That exceptionalism has a tendency of not just ignoring the lessons from history (like how there have always been good reasons for UBI, and plenty of data to support it, and it was buried for political reasons instead), but also of creating a further divide between "tech people" and "non-tech people"; where the progressive systems that take advantage of these 'novel' insights only really cater for the tech folks.
For UBI, this has already sort of been happening with some privately-run collective UBI-like schemes where only folks in tech are eligible. Sometimes to the detriment of solidarity and collective action towards introducing a true UBI for *everyone*, because tech folks then end up pulling up the ladder behind them.
So all I'm saying here, basically, is: yes, open-source development *is* a good argument for UBI, but it is not an exceptional one - and we should not treat it as such, lest we end up with a watered-down system that only really benefits the relatively-powerful few in tech.
Instead, we should see open-source development as just one of many forms of community work, all of which *as a category* are a very good reason for UBI, and should be presented *as a category* for the purpose of solidarity.
It's a good thing to always question social norms, but... that involves more than just being contrarian - you actually need to do the work of understanding why they are what they are, and go from there.
If you're ignoring people's requests to behave in a certain way, and at the same time you claim you "don't care" to learn the reason that people are asking that, you are not being critical of social norms - you're just being a self-serving asshole.
If you've done the work, proactively looked into it, *really* understood the reason, and concluded that the reason is just a bad one (eg. upholding oppressive norms) - then by all means, ignore those social norms. But show that you've done the work first.
(This is aimed not just at outright bigots, but also at eg. activists who argue for accelerationism, those who uphold one type of oppression and justify it by claiming to fight another, etc.)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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idk how many people fall for the holistic psychologists grift
but like
she is a grifter. she is a fake. she is a white supremacist with a pretty mask.
please dont follow her
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autistic people will really get bored one day and end up finding a vulnerability with a CVE score of 9.3
Does anyone know of an Omnivore-like read-later app, but explicitly non-commercial (and FOSS), while still having a similar featureset? #AskFedi
I'm specifically looking to avoid anything that has a business attached to it now or in the future, or anything that follows tech hypes (like "AI integration").
CW-boost: transmisia, nazis, historical
@mynameistillian Like, it's better than many other games to be clear, but I still wouldn't consider it a good example of the mechanic :p
@mynameistillian (Assuming this was about the 'make your ship your home' thing) yes, but only to a very limited degree; using only the items/furniture you collect pretty much, and it's all pretty space-constrained and doesn't provide a lot of flexibility in practice
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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so many space games seem completely opposed to letting you use your ship as housing and i wonder how much of it can be attributed to anti-traveller bias.
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Pre-internet: only know people who are generally around you
Early internet: finding your rare little slice of culture all over the globe!!
Social internet: oh no this machine exists for starting fights
Now internet: using every tool available to go narrow, narrow, narrow, back to huddling amongst the people who are “generally around you”, but, like, spiritually. And from anywhere in the whole world.
@eloy I don't think that captures it fully either - there were also a lot of known mitigations against known threats that simply weren't implemented for business-related reasons, even though they *could* have been (capability security would be one example).
alt-right rhetoric, youtube
"So rather than being a soy JS dev pretending to know stuff about security..."
Well, at least it's helpful when video creators on YouTube signal how shitty they are within the first minute or so. Saved me a watch, I guess.
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Quote of the day (from the Fedora devel list):
We have no mechanism to flag when J. Random Packager adds "Supplements: glibc" to their random leaf node package. As a reminder, *we are a project that allows 1,601 minimally-vetted people to deliver arbitrary code executed as root on hundreds of thousands of systems*, and this mechanism allows any one of those people to cause the package they have complete control over to be automatically pulled in as a dependency on virtually every single one of those systems.
— Adam Williamson
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april fools has just become a day where every company does an elaborate joke about making a change nobody wants, as if they don't do that unironically the other 364 days of the year
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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just a PSA to anyone going to watch the eclipse, The American Astronomical Society says under no circumstances should you buy glasses from Amazon https://aas.org/press/american-astronomical-society-warns-counterfeit-fake-eclipse-glasses
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Every time I say generative AI is bad at everything, software engineers crawl out of the woodwork to "well actually" me about how great it is for writing code.
So, about that ...
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/
*evaluates Omnivore as a read-later tool*
"We're planning to add AI integration in the future as a paid option"
"Self-hosting currently requires the use of Google Cloud, we are working on making it more portable"
*closes tab*
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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This is your annual reminder that many autistic people consider groups seeking to prevent or cure autism to be eugenicist hate groups and would strongly prefer that any donations you make go to groups that seek to improve the lives of autistic people instead
@thelastpsion Ah right, that makes sense - possibly inspired by the xz maintainer getting hounded for updates on the mailing list?
Personally I decided some time ago that I don't think licenses are the right tool for this sort of thing, deciding to use an effectively public domain license so as to minimally interfere with legitimate uses; and instead just making corporations and other demanding folks unwelcome on a social and sometimes technical level.
The premise here being that you don't realistically have any recourse if a corporation decides to ignore your licensing constraints (because lawyers cost money) but something becomes uninteresting to people and especially companies very quickly if they are told that they are unwelcome and all their bug reports are unceremoniously closed.
@jacksonchen666 Turns out someone did think of the domain name: the registry scalpers :(
- 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
