Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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
CW-boost: LLMs, exploitation, research
Education opinions
@researchfairy My only criticism there would be that I don't trust "educational institutions" as a category to deliver useful and sufficiently inclusive implementations of this idea :(
This really shouldn't need to be said over and over again, but here we go...
CW your damn politics, genocide, etc. posts! And preferably don't boost un-CWed ones either, link to them in a CW'ed post of your own instead.
"But people need to see this!"
Yes, I'm sure they do. You know what actually happens? The people who don't want to hear about it, will unfollow you. The people who *do* try to follow the topic already see so much about it that it becomes overwhelming, and they will start detaching from it. You're achieving the literal opposite of what you want.
(To be clear, I'm not talking about personal experience posts here, but about the people boosting an endless stream of non-actionable doom articles from news outlets, political parties, etc.)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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If anyone was in any doubt as to where Hashicorp is going post-BSL...
https://opentofu.org/blog/our-response-to-hashicorps-cease-and-desist/
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Ffs. Not good. More international trains people. Not fewer!
subtoot of multiple things, actually
Like, I can understand this if you're a single person and you're unable to alt-text for eg. spoons reasons. But as a collective that proclaims to strive for inclusivity, you really do not have an excuse to not find someone to do this
subtoot of multiple things, actually
I have difficulty taking your 'revolutionary movement' seriously if you cannot even be bothered to alt-text the images in your campaign communications. Maybe start with that
"Taler is ethical because only the payer is anonymous but the payee is not"
Uh okay, very 'white cis dude' notion of "ethical" you have there
@astrid Only two levels?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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“No trees. Help.”
“Time travel to 2012.”
“That fixed it. Why?”
“Uh, don’t ask…”
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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politics, protests, bleak
Disclaimer before you read the rest: I'm in favour of protests and direct action.
But they're a part of the fascists' plans. It's how they lure out those who oppose their vile schemes and get them arrested, keep them occupied by means of the judicial system.
Do the dirt but don't get caught. Watch each others' back. Learn how to unarrest comrades. Try not to get killed.
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Vaguely political
Depressing to think that this economic system of ours has consigned so many of the most talented and knowledgeable people to have ever existed to nonsense like optimising for ad clicks.
No neutral allocations, every bright mind coerced into the cult of inane capitalist bullshit is an act of violence - a thousand harms which could've been prevented left unaddressed in favour of creating new ones.
@yahe@chaos.social Right. But that's not what was being demanded here, so I don't know why you're bringing that into the picture.
The recipient said "stop". The Kagi dude didn't stop. That is really the only part of the story here that matters, and in that context I'm not sure where the confusion around an upset response comes from, because that seems pretty clearly problematic.
@yahe@chaos.social @lori@hackers.town "He violated an explicit boundary that he was given" seems like a fairly obvious reason to be upset, no?
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The whole internet loves Kagi, a lovely paid search engine that can find things! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the CEO is an unhinged narcissist who will harangue you in email
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Every time I do tech support for my family I get very angry about people who whine about lacking "tech literacy".
90% of the stuff I have to teach them is how to navigate manipulative software and dark patterns. This has nothing to do with tech, but with capitalism. Tech is not complicated, it is just made maximally confusing on purpose to remove agency.
Better tech ed won't fix this.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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throw people more lifelines and less deadlines
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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CSS quick tip: if you're adding quotation characters use `open-quote` and `close-quote` as content because they consider the document language. 💪
https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/how-to-use-language-dependent-quotes-in-css/
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Posting “Here’s what ChatGPT has to say about your blog post” in a reply that mentions me is an automatic mute or, if I haven’t had my coffee, a block
That is all.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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It's so weird when I look up a thing and see a thread where one of the first replies is the simplest and most elegant solution that achieves the desired result perfectly... and then the thread continues and people start posting objectively worse solutions involving extra steps and software and then other people start posting asking for help with the convoluted methods instead of just going for the good one 💀
Especially when the good one is already marked as the solution
Anyway I'm talking about the Steam forums here, not some super techy stuff lol, I kinda made it sound like some programmer nonsense but it's just about getting old games to run better
- 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
