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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- 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
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I think the problem with having a shitty software job is the fact that programming is one of my favorite things to do, to the point that I have devoted my entire life to becoming an engineer since elementary school, and they're having me write ten lines of powershell scripts, and then five hundred google docs
VS politiek
@venite Tja. Het is niet alsof er repercussies zijn geweest in het verleden wanneer 'ie dit soort dingen hardop zegt. Hij komt er duidelijk mee weg (en een hoop mensen in die doelgroep vinden dit best een prima idee, lijkt het), dus waarom zou hij het niet doen?
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longpost on old NES speedrun drama
Every now and then I think about this old drama chestnut in the NES speedrunning community that more or less entirely jaded vee on the idea of any leaderboard being entirely trustworthy and representative of the game's entire speedrun history.
The short of it is a few people got together and tried to make a list of "NES console-wide rules". Then started going around speedrun.com asking board mods to adopt them in addition to game-specific rules.
This got real weird when that group landed on Battletoads & Double Dragon, a game that allowed turbo/autofire. A couple of representatives from "The NES speedrunning community", as if there could only be one, showed up and started demanding turbo be banned and the board purged because you couldn't tell who did or didn't use turbo. The mods didn't really respond, so those people went to SRDC staff and had the game's moderation removed and replaced with people who don't even run the game, in order to "fix the board"
As I understand it, one of the people calling for the board purge was friends with the site's core developer, not even a site moderator, and the dev just took him at his word and made the moderation change.
Anyway the new mods blanked the board, citing "we don't know any of these runners and can't tell who did or didn't use turbo"; because after all, they didn't know the game they were taking over.
The reason the mods didn't respond to the demand initially? The entire speedrun scene of BTDD NES was Russian. Russians, by the by, primarily experienced NES in the era via a NES clone called the Dendy.
This is a Dendy. Notice the turbo buttons?
This is why I have zero faith in some one-size-fits-all pure view of speedrunning. That community more or less died because the people who took the board over didn't actually care about the game, they just wanted turbo out of their pure NES world.
It's also why I stopped trusting SRDC. Goes double now and days considering dotabuff owns them now.
At least, as I understand, the person who caused this mess chilled out in later years. That shameful-ass post of "If you can't do the mashing go find a different game" spat into a community of people who all agreed to allow turbo is still there though.
It's funny because I was reminded of this because I went and found Callum's old Toto World 3 run and found they said "Oops I had turbo on for a small segment, I penalized myself several seconds for that" and I'm cool with that. A lot of people wouldn't be.
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the rise of alt text has taught me that people who post reaction gifs dont know what theyre from either
@alltherum Speaking as someone who has been frustrated with the lack of folks giving to mutual aid requests: that seems like a good idea to me.
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mastodon for harris, death
but this system would not have survived had it not been upheld by people LIKE YOU.
people who call us bums. crackheads. beggars. people who spit on the very idea of having to believe us. people who put up spikes on benches or passcodes on restroom doors. people who arrest activists for handing out food for the poor. people who believe in capitalism that kills them. people on this very platform, who would rather see a person suffer than not donate to a richie
(9/?)
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mastodon for harris, death
simone de beauvoir once said that "the oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed", and that this is exactly what is destroying us all. your willingness to suck up to the oppression you yourself are a victim of, and indulging in the "fuck you got mine" mentality.
was CK's death "trauma porn slop" to you, as well?
is his suicide a "bury your gays" trope, perhaps?
how absolutely monstrous are you willing to be?
(11/?)
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mastodon for harris, death
one of the reasons i hate you fuckers to the bone is because you never know what it's like to watch your best friend die because someone wanted to snatch more money off of his cold dead hands.
i used to have a friend. Nicholas "Chairkicker" Leo, but i will call him CK because that's what he wanted.
guy was a poor queer indigenous disabled guy. an activist, a writer, a protector. someone who i trusted.
more than half a year ago, he died. (1/?)
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Starting a music streaming service that only implements SSL with 40-bit RC4 because it sounds warmer than modern TLS
@strypey I actually think it is entirely reasonable for people who have been left for dead by others, to personally attack those who have left them for dead.
I'd say this qualifies, in some cases almost literally.
@strypey Why would this even matter? See also https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/112855092008052476
And if we're talking about grifters, hoo boy, a very long conversation could be had about political fundraising. A conversation that notably wasn't had in this case.
I simply do not believe that a legitimate concern about grifts is the explanation here. *Distrust of poor people*, sure, that very likely has something to do with it, but that is very different from legitimate concern and precisely part of the problem.
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discussion re: mutual aid
@katanova Honestly, I feel like this description really only applies to a particular kind of giver; someone who does it for a motivation that lies somewhere between "social expectation" and "personal feeling of doing good" (with the exact point varying by person).
But that is not the only way to approach this; it can also be approached from a perspective of "there is an ill in the world, and everyone including me has the inherent obligation to do their part in resolving it", ie. a moral motivation.
I've seen the behaviour you're describing from the former group, but not so much from the latter group. And crucially, that is part of the complaint here by many poor folks - you cannot rely on someone who's only there to support you when they get something out of it themselves, because you never know when some circumstance you do not control changes the math for them and you are left behind.
The underlying desire here is not to pressure people into sending some money, that's just the immediate ask; the actual underlying desire is for people to show *actual solidarity*, to act out of a *moral* framework instead of a "what do I get out of this" perspective.
Or to phrase it more concisely: people aren't asking for kindness, they're asking for solidarity. You cannot build a better world on opportunistic kindness alone.
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@smveerman „Halve Snelheijdslijn Zuid“?
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so about that "twitter api leak" yesterday that i also saw people talk about on here and taking at face value. it was fake, i analyzed it (and the circumstances surrounding it) in a twitter thread at the time and have since helped snopes report on the story as well.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fake-twitter-api-leak/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fake-twitter-api-leak/
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@Qyriad@chaos.social @helle A sentiment I've seen a fair amount is that there is an 'optimal' formatting style (which somehow always happens to equal the author's preference, and is presented without evidence or rationale), and in that light, this unfortunately makes a lot of sense.
(I am... not a fan of code formatters. Formatting is a communication channel! Deviations can convey very important information about what something means.)
@helle @Qyriad@chaos.social Tangentially: I've encountered an interesting pattern in discussing about tabs vs. spaces with people for probably close to a decade.
It turns out that when prodding someone for a *reason* for their spaces preference, even in light of the accessibility factor, is virtually always just one reason: "because then the code looks how I intended it to look".
This applies even for people who *don't* do weird spacing tricks that require exact indentation control. It seems to actually be the sense of control over how something is presented to the reader, that lies at the root of people using spaces. Nothing else.
In some cases, people have explicitly valued their control over the presentation as being more important than the accessibility to readers. (These were usually people with rather a few more... problematic views about programming.)
@helle @Qyriad@chaos.social This is exactly my reason for insisting on using tabs everywhere (to the point I will not consider languages that mandate spaces); it's an accessibility aid.
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I really wish people would be more conscious of the language they use. A nude body, a discussion of kink, or a conversation about genitals is not inherently “lewd.” I don’t think it’s a good idea to socialize the idea that it is.
- 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
