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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- 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
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I don’t know why taking photos of shit like this is so irresistible to me but it is
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Everything catastrophically wrong with the world was done to make some billionaire even richer.
Every town that had to evacuate due to a chemical spill, strip mining, or a never-ending underground fire was done to make some billionaire even richer
Every news article that pits white people against minorities and immigrants is written to distract us from billionaires destroying democracy, human rights and the planet to make themselves even richer.
The billionaires are the problem.
dealing with tech fascists
@th (I feel like "fascists are chronically unable to shut their mouths" is generally an underutilized strategy for this sort of thing, to be honest)
dealing with tech fascists
@th Personally: "Dude. What the fuck is wrong with you?", and then in response to the likely "what do you mean?", start challenging them on why on earth they want to have anything to do with that, and drive the conversation with clear disapproval until it eventually ends up at pointing out that they're associating with fascists.
Basically: make the social disapproval abundantly clear, and give them *just* enough room to blurt out enough details that they can't retroactively claim they had no idea (which usually happens if you jump straight to the 'fascists' claim).
Applies more generally, too; be just hostile enough that someone feels challenged, but not so much that bystanders will dismiss you as the aggressor. The fascist will out themselves and their beliefs to onlookers soon enough, if you just keep them talking for long enough.
vent, pissed
@mynameistillian (How this translates into organizing strategy is unfortunately something I do not yet have an answer to)
vent, pissed
@mynameistillian I'm reminded of some comments I've run across many times over the years, how the people who always show up to help, are rarely the people speaking loudly about it.
They are not entirely distinct groups either, but the core message here is that most solidarity is not found in discourse, nor those engaging in it.
meta, racism, question
I've seen a couple of comments now from various non-white folks saying that they get proportionally *more* racist abuse hurled at them here than on Twitter.
I'd like to better understand why that is - "equally much" makes sense to me, with the culture not being less racist here, but I don't quite understand how it can result in *more* abuse than a functionally unmoderated place like Twitter.
Does anyone have any insights for me about what is causing this to happen? What protection is missing, what misfeature is amplifying the problem, or what else about the environment *or* system here plays a role in this?
(If you're white, please only respond if your understanding is based on what non-white folks have said on the matter; I'm not looking for guesses here from people who aren't themselves on the receiving end, because you're very unlikely to have the right answer.)
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means testing doesn't stop determined fraudsters,
but they're an insignificant minority of applicants to government aid programs to begin with.
what means testing does do is convince people who need help that asking the government for help isn't worth the time or effort, and then provide an excuse to cut funding to said means-tested programs due to an artificially depressed number of applicants.
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@mynameistillian @Rusty@cubhub.social And once again, a white person with "BLM" in profile arguing that "people should be free to spend their money how they want, and not be made to feel guilty / be criticized for it".
It's not really surprising anymore by this point, but. Yeah.
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There is a huge discrepancy between PokéDex entries and like, every canon depiction of the Pokémon world. Shit's way too idyllic for some of those entries to be true.
Either the PokéDex is as faulty as our current day "AI" is, or Professor Oak already knows plenty about Pokémon and he's just sending kids out with their version of a copy of Grimm's Fairytales to teach them some kind of moral lesson.
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the iss, a space station run by joint efforts by nasa, roscosmos, esa and jaxa solely for scientific purposes, being scrapped and "replaced" with corporate projects commissioned by individual national governments is a very sad reflection of everything else happening in the world
If you have views on how a better society would work:
Do you also constantly pick out situations you see (in real life, stories, movies, whatever) where something went badly, and then evaluate in your head how your ideal society would have dealt with it, warts and all? Or is that just me?
And if you do, what's your goal with it? (I do this specifically to find gaps/flaws in my ideals)
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It's #DisabilityPrideMonth 
Time for my annual PSA for #Video Creators:
*Subtitles Are Vital*
Also, plan on them going Over your video
When you put important info at the bottom of the screen I have to pause, turn off subtitles, rewind, play it to see the info, pause, & turn subtitles back on- unless I miss it entirely because the subtitles hide it!
#Inclusion #Disability #Subtitles #Deaf #HoH #HardOfHearing #Processing #Accessibility
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Today is a single serotonin molecule bouncing 'round like a DVD screensaver day.
Let's see how long it takes to bounce perfectly into the corner, and that'll be the one cognitively productive event of the day.
#AskFedi: has any country ever done a comprehensive study on the cost of public transport ticketing (machines, materials, staff, checking, gates, fare management software, transaction fees, etc.), vs. the revenue that it actually brings in?
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Free public transport now. Everywhere and for everyone. Dismantle the entire industry of ticketing and checking tickets.
You need to travel? Just hop on the train/subway/bus/ferry! Just goooo!
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Can anyone recommend a good write-up - either their own, or one that they’ve used - for self-hosting a Firefox sync server and a Firefox account server?
Not just the sync server, please.
Alternatively, personal recommendations for keeping Firefox settings, including add-ons, custom shortcuts, bookmarks etc., in sync across multiple devices without storing data on someone else’s computers are also welcome.
I’m pretty sure I’ve tried to sync the whole profile before and ran into problems when I had instances of Firefox open on multiple machines simultaneously.
Thanks!
Edit: sorry, I should have said that I’m looking for solutions which run on Linux!
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OPINION: stop studying cybersecurity because of me
im trying to get u into activism, not college
https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/please/
im trying to get u into activism, not college
https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/please/
@chengdulittlea https://repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/3d-gaussian-splatting/ may be of relevance? High in 'janky academic code', I assume, but seems to be close enough to what you're looking for (found it through this shitpost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GInps7ViawA)
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Is there any open source solution that could take a input of a dozen pictures (or better, videos) and then create a spherical panorama? Or even to generate a 3d scene with a reasonable precision?
- 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
