Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- 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
@rail_ I'm reminded of the way AliExpress handles order update e-mails.
Your order was received. Your order was paid. Your order was processed. Your order is being shipped. Your order is in transit. Your order has crossed the border. Your order has arrived in your country. Your order is at your local distribution center. Your order is being delivered. Your order has been delivered. Did you like your order? You might also like this. You might also like that. *inbox collapses under the weight of AliExpress e-mails*
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"I want you to imagine someone for me. Her name is Jessica and she is 17 years old...."
For years, "A Story About Jessica" (a computer security parable @SwiftOnSecurity wrote, published on their Tumblr in 2014) was pretty hard to find.
Per the CC BY license, I've now republished it so it's easier to discover and reference.
http://harihareswara.net/posts/2024/a-story-about-jessica-by-swiftonsecurity/
My comments in the post include pointers to relevant work by Mark Pilgrim, @sprblm , @luis_in_brief , @jacob , and @evacide .
activism meta
The problem in activism that I find the most challenging is not how to convince people or make things better, but how to make sure that those improvements persist without needing a Dear Leader and how to avoid the usual cycles of improvement followed by inaction and regression
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“Nike’s $25B blunder shows us the limits of “data-driven” | by Pavel Samsonov | Jul, 2024 | Medium”
https://spavel.medium.com/nikes-25b-blunder-shows-us-the-limits-of-data-driven-ad30b6e3d938
> For those of us who don’t think that’s what he meant to do, it bears reflecting on where he went wrong.
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I am on a bus. The bus has tables!!
When did this happen?!
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"this game runs at 60 frames per second using a technique called 'lying'"
@geraineon I've never had to deal with them but I appreciate it when people do this for companies being persistently shitty :)
@zkat AIUI the idea is that the system-wide validation is meant to arise emergently from all clients individually applying the same set of validation rules (which may themselves be informed by state from that same CRDT, recursively, though that's trickier to get right in a way that reliably converges). Don't know if there's a better or more general answer.
@schratze (Can also be used more strongly to imply that you're not going to allow it)
@schratze "hold on a second", but more informal, perhaps more like "hol' up there"
Has anyone figured out a reasonable technical solution to thread splitting in federated forum/chat systems yet?
CW-boost: hamas, caps, assassination
@scanlime I bet that's gonna be Palantir or some shit
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Today's video is all about shitposting! What's the difference between a shitpost and misinformation? What do researchers have to say about shitposting? Is shitposting just for fascists, or can the Left play, too? And finally, DID JD Vance fuck a couch? https://skepchick.org/2024/07/jd-vance-the-couch-the-ethics-of-sposting/
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@jonny hot new idea: in order to pass your PhD, you need to write a Simple Wikipedia entry version of your thesis and run it by an actual layperson.
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eupol, petition, Stop Destroying Videogames
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Instead of going on holidays, I am going to teach myself #medieval woodturning. As a first step, I finished the chisel.
You often see medieval woodturners at festivals, but they all use modern gouches and a tool rest.
Medieval lathes do not have tool rests, and the chisels are shaped totally different from modern ones. That tells me that the whole manner of wood turning was totally different from today.
The chisel was forged by Smederij Zwolle, and I made the grip myself from spalted beech.
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hawright y'all, it is time for me to testify about my existence and experiences on the fediverse as a queer person of color in the almost 2 years i've been here.
i am finna put up this request right up front and at the end of my thread: if you white and you're reading this, please do me a favor and keep the groveling/apologizing to yourselves. i've seen and heard enough of that shit here on other POC's posts/threads about this very subject. just please hush and listen, like we been telling y'all for eons now. you can learn a lot by simply listening to others and their experiences without putting in yr two cents, even if yr intentions are meant to be good.
we good? good.
okay, here i go~ 🧵👇🏾
- 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
