Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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.
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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
@thomas A lot of people seem to be scavenging 'disposable' vapes (which often contain rechargeable li-ion).
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Neighborhood assemblies, not one-day marches.
Durable networks, not ephemeral signals.
Governable spaces, not viral moments.
So here's a weird question maybe, but is there anyone on here running a company who's interested in a tech employee sourcing service with a focus on marginalized folks? 
The service would be free (though best-effort) and include an initial screening of candidates through a custom process, but in exchange your company will have to pass a sniff test on work environment safety, and allow fully remote work.
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btw if you are looking for a hysterectomy in new mexico and want the name of the doctor who didn't give me any shit for mine feel free to DM
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the karlsruhe tram display firefox is having a moment
@bananas I pretty much had that phrase running in the back of my mind while reading the article about it
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another "here's what's wrong with everything" post
this is an extremely hard lesson to learn, i realize. A cultural community of mutual support is really good for processing trauma and directing your pain to more productive places
also privilege becomes a lot more corrupting!! You see some truly ugly attitudes from people who are convinced it's hopeless, but at least they have SOME leg up on others.
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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"
- 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
