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
Are there any game-agnostic(!) mod managers for Linux that are compatible with the Steam Workshop and ideally also other mod sources, and that are not complete garbage?
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i'm not citing shit and i'm not bringing receipts but we have the best in-character bot-like-but-not-bot accounts in the fediverse who will absolutely break character to share love and comfort when times are particularly hard. that's community shit right there. fuckin love it. hell yeah, y'all anonymous folk runnin those accounts. much love.
I wonder how many solutions to scientific or technical problems got dismissed and "lost" because they didn't quite have the right set of tradeoffs for the problem that someone was trying to solve at the time, even though they could've solved many other people's problems
@shoofle Well, that's a familiar feeling for sure...
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I was doing two activities yesterday when I noticed I was getting tired of doing them. I exercised self control and stopped doing them even though that was very difficult. Today I am trying not to do them until I'm sure I want to do them and I'm not just trying to fill time.
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i sent this devon price piece to a friend who has expressed stuff like this (i think archive .is is back up if you don't substack)
Dr. Devon Price - How Do I Become Less Obedient?
https://substack.com/@drdevonprice/p-137545860
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talking about resistance but you're too embarrassed even wear a mask in public
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I know that for anarchists and sociologists society gets in everywhere, but the tow lot is a very interesting study.
Nearly everyone there is mad as hell because they have to pay for a service they didn't want. Is the tow lot's clerk, who has to tell people about their fines and fees, and who grants or refuses access to the vehicle, a cop? Or is it just a necessary function to make sure the tow workers are paid for clearing private property left in the public way?
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@welshpixie @FediThing 🤦♂️
Mastodon moment, I suppose.
@welshpixie @FediThing Yeah, that seems like a close-to-ideal solution to me - just making it something like "Don't worry too much about what you enter here, we just want to make sure you're not an automated signup", I expect that'll address most of the issue
@antiaall3s@chaos.social Yep, widespread issue at the moment, originating from instances with open sign-ups (again). Lots of instance moderators are trying to deal with it at the moment, probably the chaos.social folks too.
@FediThing I think that would mostly resolve the problem for users, though I suspect that this would be difficult for instance moderators to deal with, due to the lack of data on which to make a decision; at least in my personal experience even a short message helps a lot in determining legitimacy.
It could still work as a way to *delay* spammers, but I'd be hesitant to recommend it as The Solution(tm), so to say.
@FediThing It can be, depending on the circumstances. I'm especially thinking of folks with social anxiety, RSD, etc. here, for whom it can already be very difficult to take the step of joining any kind of social community.
@FediThing I guess it mostly boils down to "people have become accustomed to a lack of stable social environment and so you need to make a point of subverting that expectation"
@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.
- 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
