Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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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
I'm not sure I can say this much more clearly: I work in the tech industry and you should absolutely not trust the tech industry with anything, including tech.
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There’s still thousands of CS undergrads who have no idea their complicated feelings about gender they feel super alone in are so common in their field of study it’s become a cliche
Sven Slootweg
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"buy a gun"
If you buy a gun, find or make a group to train with asap. A gun you don't know how to use safely and effectively is worse than useless.
@jon That is an excellent article.
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Talking about polarisation today at Friends of Europe
It reminds me of friends’ reaction when I went to Seifhennersdorf. And polite German friends of mine said “why would you ever go to Seifhennersdorf? And will you be safe?” https://jonworth.eu/the-personal-is-political-have-you-ever-been-to-seifhennersdorf-zgorzelec-or-ormenio/
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“The tech industry is about to get a lot worse | Go Make Things”
https://gomakethings.com/the-tech-industry-is-about-to-get-a-lot-worse/
This.
@Tak "Feeling like it's pretty reasonable to..." is irrelevant - it's still DRM, whichever way you slice it. You cannot play the game in full without going through Steam's authentication system. This is particularly relevant since this system usually is *instead of* local multiplayer connectivity. Whether it's 'reasonable' simply isn't a factor here, 'reasonable' DRM (by your standards anyway) is still DRM.
And I honestly have no idea what you're going on about re: updates. I'm not suggesting to provide an offline installer *instead of* the current system. I am suggesting that they should be *also* providing an offline installer. Not doing so is a deliberate choice and a form of DRM, counting on most people not knowing how to extract game files, ie. obscurity.
@Tak Developers can toggle mod access so that you don't have access to the workshop without having the game in your account, and to my knowledge can apply the same restriction for multiplayer matchmaking. These are all forms of DRM, as is "not giving you a stand-alone installer that can work offline and requiring you to do an undocumented file copy instead".
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Pirate everything. Who gives a fuck anymore? Steal some joy from the abyss.
@Tak Steam absolutely is DRM, and that has nothing to do with CDPR. DRM with a smiley face painted on it is still DRM (mod access restrictions, workarounds needed to get an offline copy, multiplayer service gating, etc. - these are all features provided by Steam as a platform).
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Good article on the @internetarchive and "library" in the 21st century.
nlpol, media
Niet dat ik hoge verwachtingen had van de journalistiek in Nederland, maar toch.
nlpol, palestina
Ik ben hier echt wel behoorlijk klaar mee intussen. "De Joodse gemeenschap" dit, "de Joodse gemeenschap" dat, en intussen worden de Joodse gemeenschappen die zich wel uitspreken tegen de genocide in Palestina straal genegeerd en weggestreept uit het publieke debat, en heeft men het alleen maar over de meningen van pro-Israel partijen.
nlpol
En daar gaan we weer, de media lijkt weer eens te doen alsof "kritiek op Israel" automatisch gelijk staat aan "jodenhaat" zonder dat daar enige aanwijzing voor is. Zo werkt dat niet.
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nlpol
Y’all the party leading our government was founded on hatred against muslims. Consider this before you believe media reports based solely on information from authorities claiming
* the violence against Israeli football fans came almost exclusively from muslims
* the Israeli football fans themselves behaved exemplary and didn’t start any of the fights
Not saying what happened is right in any way, just beware the system is PVV now and you shouldn’t trust it as much as perhaps you used to.
@Tak I think it's unwise to put any corporation on a pedestal like that, and like so many things Valve has their good and their bad things (eg. the increasing creep of DRM).
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But then I read @can (who I’ve never met, but on Mastodon seems like a super person) met a friend of mine Arian who is a train manager on the Berlin-Stockholm night train, on board the train, and that makes me happy. I know so many super people - just pretty much none of them are close to any levers of political power.
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@AnarchoNinaWrites you're spot on.
You may already know it, but back in the 40s the US Army circulated a Simple Sabotage Field Manual which is quite an interesting historical artifact with absolutely no possible relevance or application to modern times.
Just wanted to mention it for historical purposes.
https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf
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ACAB
uspol
as someone who lives in a country that was once a part of the ussr, the californians voting against the imprisoned being enslaved really disappoints me. besides the obvious reasons, if imprisoned can be forced to labor for any crime, that will inevitably include crimes of resisting against the trump regime or expressing dissent. that's literally fucking gulag! that's what they did in the fucking soviet union to our activists!
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I hate how many games' achievements are just "what if you played the game, but in a less fun way"
- 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
