Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
followup, re: meta, "you"
Actually, to make the question you should be asking more explicit:
Do you really want to get people out of poverty, or do you just want poverty to get out of your view?
meta, "you"
If it upsets you more that a bunch of desperate and upset poor folks are begging you for help than that they are, y'know, starving - that seems like a thing you should be reflecting on for a while. #MastodonForHarris
@blkstarseed From what I can tell the people encouraging Harris to create an account, are broadly the same demographic who are kind of side-eyeing radical action and buying into "the only legitimate change is electoral change" narratives, so... I don't think we should be expecting very much consideration for other people's safety from those corners, I'm afraid
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also i really hope that people aren't seriously jockeying for Harris to create a mastodon profile
cause if folks refuse to understand what an epic risk that would be to so many people here from an op-sec standpoint?
whheeeewww buddy!
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Genius. Barcode scanners act as keyboard devices, so you can use them to enter eg Bitlocker keys much faster and without error than typing them manually:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/25/crowdstrike_remediation_with_barcode_scanner/
(Also pairs nicely with the TikTok I saw of a barcode scanner hooked up as a midi controller)
@baldur Ah, I'd missed that bit. Yeah, then your explanation seems like the more credible one.
@sindarina Ah, I wasn't aware that this was in reference to a specific case, sorry.
@baldur Hm. Doesn't Upwork stand to gain from discouraging LLM use, because their business model is "commissions on outsourced human labour"?
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⚠️ crowdfunding PSA ⚠️
FUN FACT: you can post your #MutualAid requests in the #MastodonForHarris hashtag to make sure they'll be seen by people who, apparently, have ludicrous oodles of money to burn. also it's praxis
EDIT: they have now moved to #Mastodon4Harris like with the number 4 instead of "for"
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@sindarina Honestly I feel like a big part of the problem here is that you often *can't* actually assume that, particularly if you're not neurotypical, because of the issues around passive aggressive communication and how it can be hard to tell the difference between "<group> sucks" and "<group> sucks, I really am talking about you but it's rude to say so directly" (if you don't know the speaker and their usual style of communication, that is).
This most likely doesn't explain all such cases, but I've definitely seen a lot of cases where this is exactly what happened (confirmed with the people involved afterwards).
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] Fanged Menace 
meta, abelism, uspol
So you got cash leftover that you wish to give to a good cause, yeah? Money leftover you don't actually have an intermediate need for, and doesn't affect your own essentials and well being?
Then support folks on #MutualAid, support campaigns that give aid to #Palestine, use your money support #Rojava, to #IndigenousResistance, to resistance fighters in #Myanmar, to help #Armenia, to help #Ukraine. Heck, use your money to support you local community initiatives to help everyone close around you. Send money to that one family member you do know struggles financially.
But for crying out loud, don't donate your cash to the already well off and thriving. The rich don't need your money. #MastodonForHarris is like throwing money into an Scrooge McDucks money vault, already filled to the brim.
There's people on this platform that genuinely are crying out for help. Don't ignore their voices. Help us.
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Modern science relies on (open source) software and hardware, but whereas creating tools (writing code) can be turned into academic currency (papers), there is currently no incentive for researchers to provide feedback and improvement suggestions for tools despite how valuable these contributions are to the scientific community as a whole. One possible way forward would be to treat "issue creation" and other Git-based activity as an acceptable form of peer review.
This is an issue and idea I’ve been thinking about for a while. I’d love to flesh it out into an actual set of actionable proposals/suggestions, as well as figuring out which (technological) hurdles would need to be overcome, in a opinion-styled paper - could anyone be interested in working on this together with me?
Please share!
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PSA: UK immigration, indefinite leave to remain
We recently learned about the UK's new eVisa system; since official communications on the topic seem kinda non-existent, I wanted to raise awareness.
If you're in the UK on indefinite leave to remain, but *don't* already have a biometric residence permit, you'll need a BRP before you can be transitioned over to the new eVisa system in early 2025.
They recommend applying for a BRP *as soon as possible*, since it can take up to 6 months to process.
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meta, ableism, uspol
#MastodonForHarris be like: "Let's support one of the most well funded and richest people in the world, while ignoring all the folks who genuinely need help on this platform, and doesn't get help they need from a country that social welfare is basically non-existent. They're just 'lazy' and 'attention seekers!'"
Fucking clowns 🤡 Show some goddamn solidarity with your fellow human beings
Ah, I see that Secure Boot has been widely broken again. Must be a Tuesday.
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Δ-44203 
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modifying a seven segment display clock such that it blinks " :3 " when no time is set.
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#CommunityCare #MutualAid #anarchism
[comments not open to white cis men]
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
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If bars can declare that “happy hour” is from 5pm to 8pm with a straight face, then we can have 90 days of pride month (as a treat)
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When you are a Wikipedia editor, sometimes you have to help out your fellow contributors who struggle to maintain an encyclopedic tone
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
