Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @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.
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- 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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another "here's what's wrong with everything" post
STRONGLY believe the current living batch of humanity (or at least northwestern nations + internet) desperately needs to learn a life lesson:
suffering and trauma is not an inherent virtue. it is an affliction. Wisdom can be gained from pain, but it is not interchangeable.
Despair makes moral laziness more tempting. You have to actually think about what you're doing. Forever. There's no way around this
Danse Macabre, the new ride at Efteling, has apparently been running for its entire opening week without *any* major outages, despite being a first-of-its-kind prototype ride from a manufacturer whose new ideas are often plagued with issues.
The secret? They did test runs for months to iron out the issues, before opening it. Who'd have thunk!
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If you need a little ray of light today, just a reminder that after years and years of struggle with health expenses, releasing Dwarf Fortress on Steam completely changed the devs’ lives, massively upgraded the game that so many people love, and Tarn just recently managed to get married to his long time sweetheart. And he’s only gotten kinder even though he’s gotten a bunch of bags of money dropped on his head, reinvesting a lot of that money back into the game itself.
@serapath @joelving @powersource Why do we "need to collectively reach consensus"? Why can we not simply gradually change over to another currency, exchanging between the two in the process during the transition period?
I want you to really *think* about this question.
@serapath @joelving @powersource And why are they not stopping? Why have attempts at alternative currencies failed? Why do people not gradually transition?
"but butcoin is the oldest and just now reached again, consistently a new all time high.'
This is evidence that things with it are going *badly*, given that adoption is not actually growing (and has actually shrunk over the years).
Honestly it feels like you're being dazzled by the exchange rate, in the "number go up" sense. I'm not going to have a discussion about cryptocurrency on that basis.
@serapath @joelving @powersource And why is it hard?
@serapath @joelving @powersource ... no, that is not how it works, and that is not where the power dynamics are. If it were that simple, you could simply decide not to use their money and the problem would be solved. The fact that that hasn't happened should tell you that there's more going on here.
@serapath @powersource Yes, but this is precisely the point I am trying to make. Those systems *did* break down, and I do not see a reason to believe that cryptocurrency will be magically immune from this (and I would argue that it has reached this state in record time, looking at the state of the cryptocurrency world).
Point being, cryptocurrency and its vision of "P2P money" will not fix any of these problems. It simply cannot. The problem isn't with the choice of currency or issuance in the first place.
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Friendly reminder that if you're designing any kind of personal information form and you decide to:
1. Validate names for "bad words"
2. Put a minimum characters limit on names
3. Have two separate fields for "first" and "last" name
Then you're doing it wrong with a shitload of very western-minded assumptions that are not universal and will cause issues
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When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation. 🧵
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uspol - requesting opsec resources
Okay, I'm starting to get questions from friends about resources for protecting the vulnerable. Before I start sharing those, who's got current opsec resources on how we protect those lists from becoming free guides telling fascists who to target?
I ordered empty teabags and I seem to have accidentally ordered cup-sized ones, oops.
I don't mean "teabags for a cup", I mean "teabags that literally have the volume of a cup"
re: digging up some old meta frustrations that still bother me
@whreq Right. But that is a very small minority of people in practice, and that is Their Problem, to put it bluntly. It does not create an obligation on anyone else's part to accept that goal.
And in practice, most people just are not *that* growth-obsessed, and are more just operating on assumptions about what 'success' looks like, and are entirely capable of finding a middle ground. Including many of the people who are loud about it.
@TechConnectify That is definitely a major problem, though it's unfortunately not the *full* problem either. I always make a point of explaining to people that "capitalism" is an ideology rather than an economic system (and therefore different from "markets"), though in more words - and then very often run into people simply not wanting to believe that a) this distinction even exists, or that b) capitalism is ideological in nature, no matter how much evidence you can provide.
This doesn't happen with everyone, and explaining what I mean with 'capitalism' is definitely an improvement over not doing so, but it's unfortunately not a miracle solution either, even if I do agree that it's a *prerequisite*.
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uspol, message to recently hatched eggs in the US
Hey, if by some chance there's anyone who is going to put off starting to transition because of Trump being in office, my advice is don't do that.
It's scary, I know. I started transitioning during his previous regime, and its scary even if things are slightly more politically stable. But I made it. So did a lot of other people. You will too.
Lean on other trans people. I know we're messy af, and trying to build community is often a hard endeavor. But when it comes to getting you what you need for this, I'm confident we can come through for you.
Don't let these fucking weird Nazi cowards stop you from being you.
re: digging up some old meta frustrations that still bother me
@whreq I do not believe that there are circumstances where there is no middle ground. I do agree that there will be a non-zero amount of people who will not compromise on anything under any circumstances, regardless of whether there are any concrete concerns. I do not think that that would have done anywhere near the damage that has occurred now (and I am also talking about damage to the *existing* community, not just "scaring away newcomers").
re: digging up some old meta frustrations that still bother me
@whreq I was there when people were trying to have that conversation and got paved over.
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At Friends of Europe event here „we need to…“ is a phrase I hear over and over
But who are WE?
If you can’t answer who should act (and name them!) and say how to act (legally, procedurally) then you’re going to get nothing done
And I mean literally "with JS", including the package definitions, ie. not just a Nix language parser in JS
- 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
