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.
- 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
privacy bad
@polychromata Or to phrase it differently: the motivation behind that policy was "fuck companies who keep individuals from saving their own stuff from mass deletion", not "fuck people who try to keep others from taking their stuff"
privacy bad
@polychromata (That's not to say that there aren't sometimes people who get involved in Archive Team with dubious ideas about morals, but that's basically unconnected to that particular article or the policy behind it)
privacy bad
@polychromata Mmm. There's a bit of important context there - that page is *very* old, and it was written under very different circumstances; when the main problem was shitty companies shutting down and deleting people's stuff with very little notice, frequently using robots.txt as a way to hoard data and prevent others from getting at it (much like companies are now doing with weird AI scraping company access deals).
So that page was written with malicious corporate robots.txt files in mind, not personal sites let alone stuff like fedi instances, which were pretty much entirely irrelevant to ArchiveTeam at the time of writing.
sexism, description of injury
So in a park in Austria named Area 47 there's a water slide that is "men-only". According to the park, the reason has nothing to do with sexism, it's because it has a history of causing vaginal injuries, and so people with a vagina (or, in their words, "women"), cannot slide down it safely, and therefore they are not allowed to.
While I'm sure that this was legitimately their reasoning, here's the thing - that actually *is* an issue of sexism. Because why wasn't the design safety-tested against this when it was built? They're almost certainly using a testing methodology that doesn't take into account anatomy differences. That's *exactly* the sort of problem you get from systemic sexism (and it mirrors how eg. medical testing procedures often work).
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@PacificNic I think covid lockdowns were a vivid illustration of this. Most people who lost their jobs or were furloughed immediately started offering free art, shopping for their neighbours, sewing PPE or organising food shares
@elilla Are there any radical housing support organizations in the area maybe?
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@0xabad1dea Ethan Zuckerman (@ethanz on here) noted this way back in the 20th century when he worked at Tripod. In 2008 he wrote "Porn is a weak test for the success of participatory media — it’s like tapping a mike and asking, “Is it on?” If you’re not getting porn in your system, it doesn’t work. Activism is a stronger test — if activists are using your tools, it’s a pretty good indication that your tools are useful and usable."
Links/cites/context at: https://www.erosblog.com/2013/05/01/the-pornocalypse-comes-for-us-all/
medication reference
@njion @nyankat Huh, I think I might actually have the same thing occasionally. Shame I wasn't aware of this before, would've been interesting to track whether it was affected by my taking nifedipine (since that's mentioned in the Wikipedia article as a potential remedy). Wonder if amlodipine has a similar effect.
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@tillshadeisgone if anyone is "looking" and "cant find" people who could actually use that money to live, here's a list of Black and Indigenous friends who really need it:
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So I see that in one day, folks organizing through a hashtag on Mastodon have successfully collected almost $100,000 in donations for Kamala Harris' campaign. This is pretty impressive, in my opinion.
Now, I'm not going to discourage you from voting or from participating in electoral politics. But I am going to just point out that Black queer and trans folks' mutual aid fundraisers on this platform routinely go underfunded and even the boosts are sparse.
When considering donating money, I want us to ask ourselves: whose needs are centered? Who benefits? Why donate to a politician but ignore a poor person? What are my politics really and how do they show up in my spending habits?
These are just suggestions, but I think the implications are pretty important.
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has anyone made a formula for how much thread a seam would take?
i imagine it would be something like
seam length • (fabric thickness • a + stitch stride • b)
where a and b depend on the stitch pattern used (obviously a backstitch will use more thread than a single stitch)
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i have once again fallen to my vices: trying to explain some small technical thing and having it spiral way out of control until i'm conflating release engineering with Doing A Gender and decide to announce another transition via my work's developer comms
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if you have a savings and a steady income
you should be giving to mutual aid asks regularly
help people for fucks sake
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if you have money for new tech regularly
you have money to give to mutual aid asks
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if you have money to donate to the democratic campaign
you have money to be giving to mutual aid asks
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The side of the black panthers most of us white kids were never taught
re: privacy bad, request for information
@polychromata (What'd I miss?)
@jmason I'd be inclined to call it negligence rather than ineptitude. I find it difficult to believe that nobody at this sort of company knows about staggered rollouts, so most likely it was rejected by some management layer for being "too expensive/complex".
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This is CrowdStrike admitting they haven't used staggered rollouts or canaries -- techniques to limit outage blast radius, both of which are now well over a decade old. Total ineptitude!
- 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
