Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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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 🙃
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
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Vegan food
Starting today a vegan version of Nutella exists, but for now is only available in Belgium, France and Italy. It is made with chick peas.
political hot take
Inspired by another thread, possibly my hottest take regarding politics: politicians are the least qualified to be making societal decisions, and a literal random selection from the population would yield better outcomes.
This is because the publicly-perceived power of any such job position selects for those with the most hunger for power and the least interest in maintaining a healthy society where everyone thrives.
So far, so anarchist - but crucially, I think that *any* political model that is built with this in mind could work, even if it is not strictly anarchist. Notably, this includes an elected executive branch where actual policymaking is done by a randomly selected set of citizens, and politicians do not have any power over *what* gets implemented.
That is, "politician" becomes a bureaucratic government job, a type of clerk and potentially advisor, rather than a position of power.
re: poll, political parties, fascism
@sofia@chaos.social (Sidenote: these numbers would only apply when talking specifically about *politicians in mainstream parties*, as the poll described - for 'general population' I would estimate much much lower, simply because political positions tend to select for power-seeking traits)
re: poll, political parties, fascism
@sofia@chaos.social I think it depends a lot on how it's framed. If it's 'disguised' and framed in a way that benefits those politicians (and the social class they exist in), I suspect it would be on the lower end of 75%-100, which is what I selected in the poll.
If it's more overt, and there's no immediate benefit being presented to said politicians, I suspect it'd be in the 25%-50% range.
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“The Secret Inside One Million Checkboxes” is a cool story https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/
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As someone dealing with renovating a late-soviet era apartment right now... Low-Budget Repairs game trailer is very spot on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efMgfRTalT8
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anyone have good tool-agnostic resources for learning mixing and mastering principles? books, articles, videos, whatever
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someone over on bsky asked me if anyone knows of any active Brazilian-focused instances that are good (active and well moderated)
if you know any please reply and i'll make sure your suggestion gets passed along
(If you're not familiar with the history of this, try looking up their old "why no Rust in Chromium" docs page in the Wayback Machine, which said something to the effect of "Rust is too difficult to integrate, and we don't need memory safety anyway, we can do it safely with C++")
(This is strongly reminding me of the zeal with which people defended the Chromium sandbox as a replacement for memory safety, even in the face of significant evidence against their security strategy)
FYI: jumping into my mentions being weirdly defensive about Yubico and proprietary security keys without even engaging with what I said, is more likely to make me *distrust* security claims about proprietary keys than anything else, it's certainly not going to convince me that you've made a well-reasoned analysis
the yubikey thing
@astraluma @clarfonthey Look, if you want to be weirdly defensive of Yubico without actually engaging with the points made, that's your prerogative, but please do it somewhere that isn't my mentions, thanks
@Geoffberner Ah, just noticed that a particular bit of information isn't on that page, that was on the page that linked *to* it:
"We’re going to have maximise ventilation, monitor air quality, require masks indoors, and the place will be wheelchair accessible."
(Which I presume is meant specifically to deal with that)
the yubikey thing
@astraluma What are you even arguing about? I already explicitly acknowledged this in the very first post, and none of my post is about this
Despite my issues with the Matrix Foundation as an organization, their on-site COVID/health guidelines for the conference are looking excellent: https://2024.matrix.org/attend/#health-and-safety
the yubikey thing
@astraluma But... it didn't? The whole point here is that those Yubikeys were successfully exploited, and did not resist that attack
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Can you boost this please? I'm sort of load-testing / trying to reproduce a bug, and I think I need a bit more traffic to do so. Thank you!
the yubikey thing
Sure, sure, most people are unlikely to be affected by the Yubikey vulnerability in practice. But this attack raises two serious questions:
1. How, exactly, was a failure to implement constant time overlooked for 14 years despite many rounds of certification? This should have been caught.
2. I've frequently hear people claim that Yubikeys are safer than FOSS security keys, because the FOSS keys are not resistant against physical tampering. And sure, to some degree they're not, that's the point - but *is* a Yubikey actually any better, if we're treating this vulnerability as "not a big deal" anyway?
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Remember when we thought browser toolbars were the worst problem to deal with?
- 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
