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
Factory tour of an LED factory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwpbDuHWXjs (CW: flashing lights at some points)
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thank you people who write alt texts for their screenshots that explain what the interesting thing in the screenshot is
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Came across "ethically sourced Lena image" recently https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/ and found an excuse to make use of it in a test today 😁
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dental hygiene, advice wanted
I'm looking for a couple things
1. A good place to get unflavored charcoal toothpaste, both with and without fluoride
2. Something to help me brush under and floss around the retainers that are permanently bonded to the back of my front bottom teeth
Can someone point me in the right direction?
This is *particularly* useful for catching cases where a company does something that could *technically* be defended as accomplishing the stated purpose, but it is deliberately inefficient to serve an ulterior motive.
It catches it because even a defensible action would be very far from the optimal solution, but that only becomes visible if you start reasoning from the optimal solution instead of the other way around.
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Handy way to determine if some behaviour from a company is deliberately malicious or not, while minimizing personal bias:
Think of what they would optimally do if they *were* malicious, and of what they would do if they *weren't* malicious and genuinely had the claimed intentions.
Whatever they are actually doing, which of the two answers is it closer to?
@eythian Yeah, it's Lunenburg, the one in Nuland/Rosmalen (I named them elsewhere in the thread but it's easy to overlook probably 🙂) - do keep in mind I don't know their exact service area, they're a local chain and they do at least seem to ship webshop orders for appliances NL-wide, but I don't know what their service setup is like for that.
So they might provide service outside the local area or they might not!
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My anxiety is really strong curse at times, but sometimes I look at people's decisions and wish I could gift them some of my anxiety.
re: just stop oil, court case
@riley Oh, absolutely
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Datalek bij de politie, je weet wel, die organisatie waar straks miljoenen false positives met privé foto's naar toe gaan, want kinderporno. ofzo.
@bumblebeedc@strangeobject.space Yeah! It does handily prove that it's entirely possible to run a financially healthy company with excellent service, and that when companies provide shit service, that's a choice...
just stop oil, court case
"The pair of you came within the thickness of a pane of glass of irreparably damaging or even destroying this priceless treasure"
So what you're saying, Mr. Judge, if I am getting this correctly, is that... there was no damage, as was expected? Yes?
Funny how a bit of framing changes the implied meaning, isn't it?
re: mutual aid post, please help, mention of homophobia
@mynameistillian If it's what you need, then it's what you should ask for. People can decide whether they are okay with giving it to you!
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Wow. Got a letter from the landlord; they are doing the scheduled window frame repainting in the block now, but they've received complaints from some residents that the new color is unpleasant. So they're changing the color to a more neutral color in the middle of the painting round, and repainting them in gray instead???
What is this, a landlord listening to feedback?!
@bumblebeedc@strangeobject.space They provide *some* sort of service nation-wide but I don't know how much. They definitely seem to ship appliances bought from their online shop to anywhere in NL?
Presumably at least their warranty handling (done by the same repair team) would extend to all of NL as well then, though I'm not sure if that also goes for repairs of third-party machines (and they were pretty booked full already when I called for this appointment).
Hi can every electronics company be like this please, thank you
re: Things that "everybody knows" that are wrong 
(has references to crimes)
@3TomatoesShort That is pretty much what happens in reality, yeah, and I'd say that that would be a much more fitting meaning for the term! It's also something that can be prevented with collective commons management.
But usually when people use the term, they're trying to make the assertion that central and hierarchical control and domination is needed because if left to their own devices, people will be unable to manage the commons without someone taking more than they are entitled to.
Basically, it tries to frame it as some fundamental inability of individuals to collective manage things to justify appropriation.
One really cool thing that they told me, was that apparently "repair over replacement" is their standard policy; they do sell new machines, but only if they can't repair the old one within a reasonable cost.
I assume that's also why they have the trade-in policy where if you try a repair, and it ends up unfixable, they will apply the repair costs as a discount if you buy a new machine from them. As that makes repairs low-risk for the customer, and presumably helps them with customer retention at the same time.
- 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
