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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- 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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Reported to the landlord a while ago that there seemed to be birds nesting on the roof, under the solar panels. Contractor just showed up, and determined that I do not, in fact, have birds under the panels.
But every other house in the block does
community management, "self-organized moderation"
"Self-organized moderation", ie. trying to preferentially resolve moderation issues among peers rather than using power structures is a good thing to strive for, but...
You don't achieve that by telling people "we won't moderate, tell people yourself if you have an issue with them", you achieve that by codifying that boundaries of others must be respected and make it clear that you will step in if they're not.
If you just tell people to do it themselves, but you never actually provide the supporting infrastructure to do so, nor build the social culture necessary... then all you've done is declare open season on marginalized folks.
Reported to the landlord a while ago that there seemed to be birds nesting on the roof, under the solar panels. Contractor just showed up, and determined that I do not, in fact, have birds under the panels.
But every other house in the block does
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This toot is testing the above hashtag.
Please boost.
I'm seeing how many people will respond to it. Zero would of course be the ideal number.
@riley Wha. FiiO is making analog gear now?
I remember when they still just made budget portable speakers...
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@foone It always frustrates me that the modern design mantra of modern hardware/software appears to be “we’ll streamline it all and tell you what the experience is that you want” rather than “here are some parts and a good first guess at a good interface, have fun!”
Especially when folks making the locked down/vertically integrated pieces of tech all cut their teeth on open ecosystems that enabled or even encouraged mucking about in internals.
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My attitude to hacking proprietary software/protocols/hardware has always been:
this should be open/documented and it should be easy to produce software/hardware that interacts with it with no problem.
But it's not, so you can't blame me for getting out the crowbar and breaking in.
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@baldur Hm. I more or less agree with the article, but there's one sentence in particular that bothers me: "If only we knew how."
The answer to this has been known for a long time already, and lies precisely in the findings of those "critics on the left": mutual aid and grassroots organizing.
It's endlessly frustrating how people insist on reinventing this wheel when the answer to this problem was already known decades ago, but repeatedly buried due to being politically inconvenient.
(It's even the same mechanism that's already accepted at a smaller scale - it's fairly widely accepted that openly discussing salaries helps to reduce salary inequality, for example, and the mechanism is the same for escaping from these bubbles in general)
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ACAB
@joepie91 it's like that thing where bands go on a 'world tour' and the world tour in question is just america, canada, a handful of european cities, and australia
Like, if you genuinely want to "have a broader conversation with the community", maybe you should actually give three shits about accessibility, instead of pre-selecting for well-off white tech dudes by your choice of venue?
OpenSSF: "We encourage everyone to join in on the conversation in the next days and weeks around FOSS supply chain security!"
Also OpenSSF: "We will be having that conversation at a physical event in North America [that many people will not be able to travel to, particularly those who are already underfunded and therefore at risk of maintainer compromise]."
Fucking 'foundations', every fucking time.
@martijn @aral Also a venture capital backed startup, but a different one.
(With very much the same playbook of "present itself as a revolutionary change over Node.js while conveniently failing to mention that all of its supposed improvements could have been contributed to Node.js instead, but weren't")
long, UBI, tech
@ramsey This wasn't "trying to turn this into an argument". You asked for clarification; and I provided clarification, as requested...
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I guess the takeaway from the xz backdoor situation is:
If you’re an open-source project maintainer, and somebody starts getting on your case for not doing enough free work for them, you reply “big Jia Tan energy there” and then block them forever.
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Kan me nog steeds niet aan de indruk onttrekken dat SIDN de eisen gewoon zo opgesteld heeft dat AWS eigenlijk de enige optie is, en dat de komende 5-10 jaar ook gewoon blijft.
Met dan een mooi verhaaltje er naast over hoe, mocht het ooit mogelijk gaan zijn, ze altijd over kunnen stappen naar een andere partij. Want, ook al kiezen ze voor AWS omdat AWS de enige is die het kan leveren, ze zitten er niet aan vast hoor! 🤪
https://www.sidn.nl/nieuws-en-blogs/het-waarom-achter-onze-keuze-voor-public-cloud-en-aws
@mejofi Dit lijkt me nou typisch zo'n gevalletje van "dan pas je de requirements maar aan, want deze uitkomst is niet acceptabel"
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are there any microsd cards that are made for using as swap space?
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I'm willing to say no #IPv6 support could be considered a class issue.
Old and wealthy western ISPs don't care because they hold onto an /8 or something and can live like that for the next 2 decades with NAT and NAT444.
But new, small, local ISPs or ISPs in developing parts of the world struggle with IPv4 availability the most, barely having any to do NAT444 for their customers, hurting performance even further in regions that already suffer from not the best network access
- 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
