Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
sharing own post on the topic
@pjf I wrote this post a while ago in response to exactly that kind of behaviour, around privacy: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/6a5f50b27965c711436f5b566f97960d
(Linking it because I've found it useful to stop that kind of behaviour without having to explain the whole thing every time, and perhaps it will be useful to you too)
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Both of these are dangerous.
If we shame others for compromising then they're never going to ask for help. They're going to associate the people pushing back against the culture of scamming as being insufferable jerks.
If we proudly declare we always use the defaults and accept all, then that sends a strong signal that our culture of constant scamming is acceptable. It works even more to ostracise those who may push back against it.
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With that in mind, I have two requests for you all. They're hard requests, and I struggle with them both.
One is don't shame people for compromising. Nobody wanted to supply their email address, or click the giant "accept all". They're tired and just wanted to get on with their day.
The other is don't take pride in your complicity. "*I* never have those problems because *I* don't block ads." Great, good for you, but that doesn't help the people who want to preserve their privacy.
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I want a game where I can just wander around and find things. do you know one?
@schratze In cases like this, where I think there's a reasonable chance that they don't know about it but they might want to, I usually just ask if they're interested in advice on getting rid of ads completely, for example. And if they say 'no', leave the topic be.
(From experience, a lot of people *don't* know about adblocking, and are happy to learn about it, as long as you don't *assume* they don't know and/or are interested, and aren't pushy about it. And asking "do you want advice" allows them to say "no" without having to provide a reason, which seems to be the main thing that matters to people.)
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Apparently the Razr doesn't charge batteries while stuck in bootloader mode. That's okay, I have this modded PSP battery charger that works just fine
CW-boost: racisme, wilders, fascisme, enz.
RIP Batflyer-station in Duinrell, die bovenverdieping waarvan ik me als kind altijd afvroeg wat daar nou precies in zat, want het leek op een plek voor een attractie maar je kon er met geen mogelijkheid komen...
Toch best bizar dat ik nu, zo'n 20 jaar later, eigenlijk voor het eerst foto's zie van wat er nou precies te vinden was, en alleen maar omdat het nu gesloopt wordt
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@marlies I don't immediately remember your posts as being a problem here (though you're one of the rare few in NL) and honestly I don't actually mind if people slip up sometimes... it's just that some people very obviously just don't care about doing it and/or don't want to bother because they *consistently* do it, those are the folks I'm thinking of mainly.
Will (try to) remember your post though, and let you know if I notice you missing one, thanks :)
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My dear lefty accounts: "cabal" is an antisemitic word, and "idiot" is an ableist slur used for eugenics.
I'm sure we won't fight fascism with more White supremacy.
Maybe get more creative and to the point when describing malicious and deathmaking, greedy capitalists?
#ableism #antifascism #antisemitism #slurs #capitalism #anticapitalism
@rail_ (Of particular note is that the ~30 EUR units you can get at cheap stores tend to produce crappy results)
@rail_ I believe there are still places that will do this for you for a reasonable fee, usually advertised as 'digitization', we even have a photography shop in the town here that'll do it (and basically any other analog media).
Buying equipment yourself is probably not worth it unless you want to do it as a hobby and have a fair amount of rolls to work with, because AFAIK it gets pretty pricey if you want *good* equipment
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There was a very good article some years ago, about "manager view" versus "implementor view".
A manager needs a very broad view of the whole project; they need to know superficially what's going in everywhere.
An implementor needs a deep view of specifically what they are doing, and they must be able to trust their manager to hold the big picture.
Anybody remember it? Have a link?
@thibaultmol I don't seem to have that ability, though it may be a Mastodon version issue
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Just held a talk at NixCon 2024 about an exploit that allowed full takeover of nixpkgs :3
Heads-up: I'm likely going to be unfollowing quite a few people in the next week or so. The reason for (almost) all of them is going to be the same: continuous posting of negative/doom-ish/inciting/etc. things without CWs.
I'm finding it increasingly difficult to keep my feed from becoming a depressing hellscape, and it's apparently not possible to keep these follows in a list without also having them show up in my main feed.
Note that I'm mainly talking here about people tooting 'news' articles and such, calls to action, and so on. I understand that these are meant to 'make people aware' of a topic, but I am exceedingly aware of these things by this point and it does not help anyone to overload my emotional system with it constantly, least of all the people affected by the tragedy being described.
It is simply Too Much, and it is actively keeping me from actually being able to *do* anything about any of it. It paralyzes through depression.
So I've decided, for both my own mental health and my ability to actually work towards effective change, to start unfollowing the people I mainly see this from. This will, unfortunately, include almost every Dutch person I follow too, since CWs do not seem to have caught on on Dutch fedi.
It is not a personal thing but it also sort of is; if this stuff would be behind CWs consistently, or even just most of the time, it wouldn't have been an issue. So it's not about who you are personally, but it *is* the result of a choice you have made to not CW things. I will occassionally check in (there is a reason I followed you in the first place!) and reevaluate if that changes.
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@vicorva Ah yeah adblockers don't really filter comments, they usually don't need to because comments can't contain links (anymore) on most sites. The Internet Archive is a bit weird in that it's still possible to post links there. So that's probably why nothing caught it!
On archive.org you're going to be mostly fine as long as you stick to the download links in the format list in the sidebar; it's still technically possible to get something sketchy (because it's all user uploads) but they do scan uploads for malware where possible.
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
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- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
