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
@FediThing It does create more friction in signing up, especially for people who have no existing connections in or familiarity with the fedi culture, because it's often not clear what to expect from an approval process (do you need to have a good reason? is it just a spot check? etc.) and it can feel like a job application or something fragile, as if you could get thrown out at any moment.
I don't think these are necessarily good reasons to not have an approval process, and I think a lot of improvements are possible there to mitigate these issues (including eg. invite systems), but this does seem to be something a fair amount of people run into (undoubtedly due to cultural expectations built up by big tech platforms).
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When I tell people to try Linux I literally never mean "go all linux everything"
What I DO mean is dig an old laptop out of the cupboard that runs slow because it's on Windows 7 and spend a saturday putting linux on there so that you can actually use it again. A lot of the value of Linux is that it runs REAL fast on old hardware and can be a really great tool to cutting down on e-waste because it gives things that are long past their commercial viability a second life
(Most of their furniture is now cardboard honeycomb structure internally. The same is true for much of their in-box padding)
It occurs to me that there's increasingly little difference between the internals of IKEA furniture, and the padding with which it gets packaged
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En montant un meuble Ikéa j'ai empilé trois morceaux de carton et accidentellement créé une maquette de sous-prefecture des années 60.
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The dream of a p2p web is not just a technical one, or a political one, but an ecological and aesthetic dream where the thicket of digital reality can grow deep and live long and mutate and create and break without eternal catastrophe of capture by financial tyrants. Where there can truly be a digital reality where people and objects can tangle together and degrade and be renewed
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The most beautiful lost digital culture I know of is the archival scene on what cd. Where people had constructed a society of preserving individual digitizations of physical records in full fidelity, the living membrane between people, sounds, objects, and culture
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Designing beautiful degradation into a file format, not mimicking analog glitches but representing true digital glitches as a memory of an object. No format has dared having an aesthetic history of use
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Concept: a lawsuit for damages from anyone who has ever had a private jet and then directing those funds into high-speed rail and local public transit projects
@futurebird This is a really complicated one to me. On the one hand I don't think "capitalism" is broad enough, for exactly the "missing other cases" reasons you describe. Kyriarchy and terms like it are unfortunately even less widely understood, it seems.
On the other hand, a lot of people don't really seem to have an internal mental 'boundary' between the lemonade stand interpretation and the system-of-control interpretation, frequently accepting the latter under the assumption that it's a necessary counterpart of the former, and I'm not sure how else to communicate the problem with that...
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Forbidden thoughts you can't say
@ramonita Part of me wonders if this is a social convention that exists specifically for the purpose of not having the more stressful alternative you describe from latinomérica. A sort of unspoken mutual "this is better for everybody" agreement.
And yeah, I've noticed the same pattern, also in how some activists sign up as volunteers for the riot squad trainings here (on the pretend-rioters side), almost as a sort of 'practice match'.
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Forbidden thoughts you can't say
The conflicts between cops and antifas here feel a bit like a game. A type of rugby, I suppose. If nothing happens until late into the protest someone will probably start something just because. I mean you went all the way up there, put on riot gear / black block, brought even an abused police horse / pyros, are you going to what, just go home quietly and not use any of your toys?
I mean it's not like the cop is going to grab me under a bridge, put me in a car trunk, bring me to a cemetery with other cops, draw their guns movie-like and tell me: "run". It's not like I am going to track the name and address of the cop, stalk his routine, get up to his car in a traffic jam at 9am in broad daylight with a shotgun and blow his brains on the spot. That's how they played cops and robbers back in latinomérica. Who wants to live like that?
I remember Lützerath moments before the eviction, everybody was so utterly terrified that somebody else was going to throw stones at cops. Nobody was planning to throw stones at cops, but some people wanted to philosophically defend the validity of throwing stones at cops. Others debated hotly on escalation to all without consent. This seemed to be the #1 topic of the emergency plenums. The fear that shit gets real.
The first time I was kesseled and kept on a sidewalk for 12 hours straight, I was let go past midnight and when the final bureaucracy cop filed the papers and declared me banned from the city for the rest of the weekend--there was some undertone of, how can I say this? Actors saying goodbye after a play? I kept having this intrusive thought of that Looney Tunes cartoon, the one with the wolf and the sheepdog. You know that one? Ralph and Sam? They spend the entire episode with the wolf trying to steal sheep, and the sheepdog beating him up for it. Suddenly a factory horn signals the end of the workday. They stop mid-beating, dust off their fur, and calmly head to an old-fashioned punching clock. "See you tomorrow, Ralph." "Goodbye, Sam." They get into their cars, drive to their homes. Fade out. Cheery tune. "That's all, folks."
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Please, USAmericans, when you refer to this org or that org as being a 501(c)(whatever) please could you also give us the plain English version of what that means? There seem to be a lot of different designations and to those of us not familiar with the details of the Internal Revenue Code, they all look the same.
@hugh Do they mean 'support' as in 'works on the network', or as in 'will help you debug it'? As companies often mean the latter
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Hey #neuroscience folks, for some reason my university thought it was a wise idea to be put me in charge as director of our neuroscience institute for a little while. Those of you working in the trenches at all levels (e.g. students, RAs, postdocs, faculty) I'd like to hear from you.
What are specific things that a department/institute can do to either inject more joy in the work or make the process of research easier?
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reddit apparently has a .onion domain, but if you go to it, it will tell you it’s seeing too many requests from your IP (the IP belongs to AWS) 🙃
@millihertz Oh, missed a step: and I have a few SAMLAs of various sizes to store the spooled cables in, roughly sorted by category and labelled and stacked in a storage rack.
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politics
We should make a law where if a piece of media becomes popular enough, it gets seized into public domain, including any potential source code.
- 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
