Sven Slootweg @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
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You know how we look back at CRT TVs and go "Really? A fucking particle accelerator being guided by a bunch of RF signals to point at different parts of a phosphor screen was the easiest way you could see to display information?"
The modern CPU is even more bonkers. "We took sand, melted it and regrew it into a crystal of pure silicon. We then sliced it into sheets thiner than a human hair and used chemicals so toxic they are not allowed to be kept in normal structures, to poison and etch patterns into them. Those patterns are so fine and delicate that we create them by shining UV light on to the silicon through a mask. We can't use normal light because we are working with sizes less than the wavelength of blue light, and even then we have to do clever tricks with refraction patterns to make the pattern small enough. That we can do this at a scale that averages out to more than one 'chip' in arms reach of every human on the planet is completely bonkers. That any of this works half as well as it does is frankly a miracle. Particle accelerator screens and vacuum tubes make more sense honestly"
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IMD
For me, IMD is an anti-capitalist and anti-war protest above all. It's an opportunity to raise our voices against a society that uses up men and throws us into the meat grinder in the interest of profits and imperialism.
In the words of Allen Ginsberg, a gay poet of the 20th century,
"It's true I don't want to join the Army or turn lathes in precision parts factories, I'm nearsighted and psychopathic anyway."
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Saw this & it's so true. I'm reposting with alt text.
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@njion @kescher That's how I feel about it as well - it's important to make sure that folks who fit into the culture can find the place and that there's some change in the "group" over time (not even growth necessarily!), but that doesn't mean that we need to appeal to *everybody*.
You don't actually need very many people to keep a social place alive, and the idea that you do is a very recent one from the "massive social network" era - it didn't really work like that before that either. The Myspace effect was mostly because Myspace didn't have a lot of redeeming features beyond "everybody is there"; if popularity is explicitly your selling point, then you *do* need that to survive, but that's a choice.
(This does mean that fedi as a whole needs to get its shit together and start focusing more on its unique features to survive, rather than trying to copycat and "win the popularity contest" that it cannot win, but that is a different discussion)
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Like, I'm not the only one who noticed the intellectual monopoly industry utterly panicking and practically falling over themselves to make it go away, right?
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Reminded of this by another (unrelated) toot: I feel like not enough tech people drew revolutionary inspiration and insights from Popcorn Time and the sheer panic around it
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I mean well done for being honest I guess, but I'd say anything less than 100% potato isn't exactly a selling point
@freakazoid That's a real problem, but it's only an issue in specific countries (the US most notably). Doesn't mean it's not worth solving for (stuff like Veilid is interesting for this) but it's not a requirement to get something out the door!
@freakazoid Same way stuff like SickGear and the *arrs already work, to be honest, plus you can always do the retrieval of torrent metadata over Tor/I2P and then do the actual data exchange over clearnet if needed
@silvermoon82 That's frustrating to me in a *really* specific way; because it generally *is* good to encode as much intention as possible into the code, but that doesn't mean that comments don't serve their own purpose of explaining *why* it is that way...
They got it *almost* right and then smacked into the ground face first on the landing 😐 Seemingly just to project a sense of superiority
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queer people posting their nudes on fedi is praxis and i'm not even kidding
@freakazoid If it worked out of the box for streaming with zero configuration, then yes. That's what made Popcorn Time work after all!
@freakazoid Right, but Stremio is far less dangerous to the copyright monopolists from a revolutionary perspective - it's a single company with an AFAIK proprietary system and so if they get too problematic, they can just sue them out of existence and that's the end of Stremio.
The lethal cocktail of Popcorn Time was that it was a super accessible way to pirate *and* could be trivially copied, replicated, and updated by anyone due to being open-source. It is an autonomous technology, whereas Stremio is not.
Like, I'm not the only one who noticed the intellectual monopoly industry utterly panicking and practically falling over themselves to make it go away, right?
Reminded of this by another (unrelated) toot: I feel like not enough tech people drew revolutionary inspiration and insights from Popcorn Time and the sheer panic around it
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It's obviously not as bad as some FOSS project names, but it's kind of sad that the most useful and functional video player is called "video LAN codec". What a joyless programmer-y nothing of a name. Popcorn Time isn't a thing anymore, right? They should donate their name to VLC
@luis_in_brief ... all without any kind of long-term stability of income, as far as I can tell
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Cool to see a company whose annual revenue is $250B announce a $1.25M open source security fund (that’s about three *minutes* of revenue), in a press release that without blinking or apparent irony (1) says maintainers need more time and (2) requires maintainers to take a multi-week, many-hour training program.
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/announcing-github-secure-open-source-fund/
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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
