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
nix governance, politics-ish
Important context here is that the process where this was brought up, was very explicitly a consensus-seeking process, and "raising concerns" was explicitly a core part of sorting things out. Even despite that explicit model, some people still felt no sense of obligation.
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political hot take, not safe for centrists
passively approving of injustice is participating in it
nix governance, politics-ish
During the Nix governance talks, a number of participants objected to things like marginalized seats - but crucially, they didn't seem to feel any obligation whatsoever to raise specific concerns.
I don't mean that they were just evading the question, or being shitty; I mean that they seemed genuinely unprepared for the question of "okay, but why?", and just did not consider or expect "raising a specific concern" to be a part of the process of objection.
I feel like there are some lessons to be drawn from this about what people's everyday decisionmaking processes look like, and how that ties into the political landscape we have today.
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Never ceases to stump me that we have the technology to kill 99.95% of airborne viruses, proven to work, non-invasive, cheap to deploy and install, and is produced at scale already and we just like - collectively - kind of just don't really use it.
HEPA-grade air filtration is proven, cheap, and makes everyone's lives strictly better. It, like, makes zero fiscal sense for governments not to mandate its use in all covered public spaces ASAP.
I hate contact forms that delete newlines - I'm adding paragraphs for a reason!
@pixelistik@chaos.social @baldur Honestly I feel like the primary lesson here is that the license didn't prevent this (nor does it make it trivial to move), and that it's worth asking why that is
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One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.
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Sufficiently Advanced Bodging™ is indistinguishable from having used the correct pinout.
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Er zijn nog steeds mensen die geloven dat je nooit klappen krijgt van de ME als je zelf geweldloos bent, met andere woorden, klappen krijgen = eigen schuld.
Die mensen moeten eens wat vaker buiten komen.
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Here's a reminder, EVs are not here to save the environment, they are here to save the car industry.
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De universiteit Leiden adverteert vandaag met mij op Facebook. De werkelijkheid is dat ik al 8 jaar geen voet meer in die universiteit heb gezet (en voor het maken van bijv. dit filmpje hebben ze me nooit enige steun gegeven).
nix, lix
@necrophcodr It is not the job of the project to prove to random dudebros on Hacker News that there is work happening; the responsibility to figure this out lies on the part of the party who insists on opining about someone or something else's legitimacy, and if they do not wish to do that work, then they can simply... not opine, instead of making baseless claims based on gut feelings
nix, lix
@necrophcodr If those users insist on opining about the legitimacy of the fork, then yes, I do actually expect that bare minimum of effort
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A two-year study with over half a million children aged 0-5 finds nigh-irrefutable evidence that COVID-19 was behind the 2022 surge of RSV infections and hospitalizations.
It's not immunity debt, it's immunity theft. COVID-19 damages the immune and respiratory symptoms, leaving the body less capable of fending off other pathogens and resulting in more severe downstream infections.
"Immunity debt" is disinformation.
nix, lix
It sure is remarkable how people are claiming "Lix doesn't seem to have done anything yet except rebrand Nix", when there's literally patches submitted to Nix that originate from Lix development... like, have you actually looked at anything at all or are you just looking for excuses to dismiss the fork?
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Tokyo: where your gps is a magic eight ball and your watch always thinks you’re on an indoor walk
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@eniko I will forever stand 100% by what my favorite professor once said:
“The more symbols I see on your paper, the less interested I am in reading what you have to say. If you can’t express your idea in plain simple words, reevaluate what you’re trying to say. Ideas are meant to be conveyed, not deciphered” (paraphrased a bit because this was like 4 years ago)
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people always tell me "mathematical notation is just like jargon, its just more efficient." no, mathematical notation is not like jargon
1. jargon are words. anyone can put a word into a search engine and find a glossary of terms explaining what that jargon word means in some context. you can't do that with math notation unless you already know math notation
2. jargon is almost never overloaded like mathematical notation is. the same letter or piece of punctuation can mean wildly different things in wildly different context or even can vary based on the *font the symbol is displayed in*
imagine if someone in software engineering used the symbol ⍼ instead of "garbage collector", except it only maps to "garbage collector" if it's written in sans serif. if it's written with serif, it means "compute shader" instead. but if its in comic sans it means "SIMD divide"
and also 98% of the time they used the ⍼ symbol it was inserted as a picture, not a copy/pastable unicode glyph. *that's* math notation
- 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
