Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Cities: Spending money on public transit? Hmm I don't know, why can't public transit be more like the private sector. They don't need handouts!
Private sector: That's right, now don't forget you need to spend a million million bucks on maintaining free roads for cars, free parking spaces for cars, free bridges for cars, the traffic lights, signs, and cops for speed limit enforcement
@raito This gives me more output but ultimately still just seems to be JSON-wrapped strings... based on an evaluation of a bunch of different "Nix GUI" codebases, it seems the answer is basically just "use regex to parse the output"?
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The grapevine is saying that Matt Mullenweg has just announced to his automattic employees that starting today, any resignation will be effective immediately to try to prevent leaks.
I'm sure this will prevent the leaks and no one will tell anyone what it's internally announced anymore.
Masterful gambit, pardner.
RE: fedi meta (Social Web Foundation)
@hazelnoot Yeah... this looks like a step towards corporate cooptation
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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telegram
Can't help but notice that the reason for the Telegram CEO being arrested in France seems to have shifted from "failure to moderate the platform" (in the original reporting) to "failure to hand over user identities to cops" (Telegram updated their T&C to hand over data).
Those are two VERY different things.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Here’s my blog post about Macedonia’s phantom rail lines https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/north-macedonias-phantom-rail-line-and-why-i-am-worried-theyre-repeating-the-error-at-the-other-end-of-the-country/ #Innotrans
idle historical musings, cryptocurrency
@serapath (You can see this reflected in how basically every single thing that cryptocurrency touches, immediately goes to shit and becomes miserable)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I feel like people are generally not good at telling apart emotions and the actions that arise from those emotions
Emotions cannot be moral or immoral. You cannot be guilty for feeling a certain way. And you cannot be proud of it, either
How you choose to act on your emotions is a different thing altogether. You have control over that. An emotion may explain a certain type of action, but it cannot justify it
idle historical musings, cryptocurrency
@serapath Exploitation, especially labour exploitation, same as with any other kind of money. "Printing money" isn't how billionaires get rich.
idle historical musings, cryptocurrency
@serapath The problem is that that is not how it would actually work in practice, as has been demonstrated by basically every single "earn money by posting" platform in existence.
What will actually happen is that you make "earning money" the core metric in your system, and therefore people will start hyper-optimizing for that, and in a matter of months your entire platform will just be profit-optimized slop of no authentic value to try and maximize income.
Quite literally the worst thing you can do to *anything* is to make money the primary objective. It should only ever exist as an auxiliary thing, at most, and "you can tip anything trivially" is the opposite of that. The friction is necessary to not create a capitalist hellscape.
idle historical musings, cryptocurrency
@serapath The problem is that you can't. The existing capitalist power relations have long been replicated in the Bitcoin ecosystem, just in a slightly different form.
You just fundamentally cannot fix a political problem with technology.
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police
tldr do not talk to the cops, not as a witness, not for background, not for anything. They’re allowed to lie about that if they think you did it and especially if you haven’t done anything you might not realize they could think you did.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I hate the term ‘commuter rail’ cause it implies anyone using it for something other than getting to/from work is an afterthought at best
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Fuck you wikipedia. I donate with my name but then you take the name from my credit card and deadname me in every fuckin email since.
idle historical musings, cryptocurrency
@serapath Flattr failed due to a combination of low interest (it wasn't worth it for people for tiny amounts), and the operation of the service itself not being sustainable with the low revenue.
And yes, supporting people's work is a good thing, but that is crucially something *very* different from "attaching monetary value to social interactions", and you don't need tiny microtransactions for that. Entirely different problem space.
While donation systems as they exist today certainly are not perfect, the funding issues people have broadly aren't technical in nature. They're a mix of political, cultural, and most of all "if a bunch of capitalists are hoarding all the money, there's simply not a lot of money to go around". Those are the real problems that need to be addressed, and you can't do that with an app.
(A big part of the cultural issue is actually that people think of donations as a special case of payments, in terms of "you need to distribute donations across everyone whose work you enjoy"; in reality that model doesn't make sense for donations at all, it just needs to work out on the whole and it doesn't actually matter who sends money to who.)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Daydream: a lawsuit against publishers to recover the money that we all would have gotten from the lawful resale of our video games, books, movies, etc except that now everything's digital and so publishers just collect rent now
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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"I agree that we should oppose fascism but there was a small amount of litter left after the protests so it's impossible to say who's in the right"
idle historical musings, cryptocurrency
@serapath No, literally, it's just a terrible idea. Attaching monetary value to social interactions makes things worse for everybody. It shouldn't be done.
(Flattr did try something similar in the past and it was a failure)
- 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
