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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- 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
re: "no politics in tech" commentary, slightly doom-y
@polyfloyd While true, the type of DIY practiced by the crowd in question is often of a more off-the-shelf nature; it relies on the availability of ATX computer components (motherboards, CPUs, etc.), for example, which is entirely dependent on the continued interest of manufacturers to produce those things.
That's not necessarily a *bad* thing, but it means that it's extremely vulnerable to capitalism; if manufacturers decide that it's more profitable to only manufacture integrated systems (which is where things are headed), that's just the end of it.
This is distinct from more punk-like DIY, where the point is to find novel (not manufacturer-approved) ways to use things that might otherwise be considered useless.
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Okay for real tho I live in a student town and it’s SO extremely obviously all the girls in their early twenties are dressing like trans girls did 10-15 years ago. I had no idea I was so ahead of the curve back then lol
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noclipping into MP4 files
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GInps7ViawA
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NOU SCHREEF IK TOEVALLIG EENS EEN STUKJE over de kwetsbaarheid van onze samenleving nav onze afhankelijkheid van computers. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/publicspaces-digitale-autonomie-7-juni-2024/
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Does anyone have a physical copy of Edge #398 (July, Hades 2 cover) that can do me a solid?
I'm after a scan of page 14, first page of the As Dusk Falls article, around 1200 x 1500 in size. The digital PDF is missing it 😤
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quickly writing a script that halts the system, setting up a systemd timer that runs it after 20 minutes, and deploying to all my NixOS machines in solidarity
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@ryanc UA strings are like Game of Thrones lineages:
“Mozilla, fifth of their name, born to MSIE and Windows NT in the 6.2nd year of their reign; of fair complexion and compatible rendering. Parent to two children, their names being Gecko and Webkit. Died in their 24th year of wounds sustained in a corporate merger.”
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Now's a good time to do that risky IT maintenance or downtime requiring work. You can just blame it on of many other outages going on
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@babe Well... shitposting is the "band playing while titanic sinks" of our time, no?
@JennyFluff "Antivirus software used by big corps" and "very little, because said corps' servers are now all broken"
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Everybody: 😱 theoretical supply chain attacks in Open Source 🙀
Crowdstrike: Hold my beer, let's deploy on Friday 😎
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I would just like to confirm to everyone that I absolutely DID NOT mishear #CrowdStrike as #CloudStrike this morning.
Definitely not.
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You know something bad is happening when all of the most steadfastly serious infosec people on here start shitposting
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To be fair to Crowdstrike, they've probably stopped a lot of cyber attacks happening today
"human nature", optimistic spin
@toffy Kind of a related thing is that it's always fascinating to me when people talk about how nobody can be trusted, because people are fundamentally selfish and if they were trusted then they would ruin it for everyone etc. etc.
And then I look at things like this, where as you say every important system in the world is relying on multiple practically unmonitored points of failure and would be trivial to fuck up if people really were untrustworthy... and yet they keep running without issues for decades at a time.
In a weird way, it's a source of optimism for me.
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it's very funny that like, every critical service in the world has multiple single points of failure that could explode at any moment
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My current employer is imposing sexist clothing rules as a reaction to me wearing gender non-conforming clothes so now I am looking for potential new employers in the Netherlands or remote. I prefer smaller non-corporate organisations and working with free open-source software. I studied computer science and have about ten years experience in software development and system administration. I am familiar with many different technologies and can pick up new things quickly. #FediHire #GetFediHired
the Crowdstrike outage, politics
The news in NL: "the ATMs are still working, so it is still possible to withdraw money and pay in cash."
Yes, we've been trying to tell you this. But you insisted that digital payments were the future and anyone using cash is suspicious, remember?
- 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
