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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- 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
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dreams, trains
My dreaming brain just phrased compatibility with train traveller schedules as "aligned with the needs of the bahncreatures"
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https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/why-i-will-always-be-angry-about-software-engineering/
I think everyone touching computers under capitalism should read this. It is a cathartic read, both in its positivity and its nuance. (It's not the shortest text, so bookmark it for later if you're in a hurry)
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It's telling that both nostr and bluesky fans have adopted cryptobros' dismissive "go do your research" defense to any criticism
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Omdat in NL wordt vergaderd over 'wat te doen'. Omdat men wil afwachten. Omdat er vooral OVER de mensen wordt gepraat en niet MET die mensen. Er wordt geen contact gelegd. Daarom. En ondertussen zakken mensen door hun eigen vermogens en sterven in huis 'terwijl iedereen wel doorhad dat er iets was' en er naderhand met veel 'goh had jij dat verwacht' et cetera wordt gerebbeld. "Ja ik zag wel dat het fout ging maar ja." En "Ik wist niet dat het zo erg was."
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This is the most real thing I’ve read today: I, too, don’t want the cursed knowledge of the various idiocies of company and startup founders in my brain.
via @phire at https://phirephoenix.com/blog/2024-11-05/modernity, who speaks nothing but the truth, and I say that as somebody who, yes, actually does self-host a bunch of stuff (and the later paragraph about self-hosting-as-a-hobby is true in all respects), and just, ugh. No. Ugh.
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Both things can be true:
• "I don't care, I use Linux" doesn't address the systemic encroachment in privacy caused by the OS duopoly.
• There's no solution to those systemic issues that doesn't at least in some small part pass through more individuals using Linux.
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System problems do not generally have individual solutions, but that doesn't mean that individual action isn't part of larger systemic solutions.
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insisting on generating parcel locker unlock qr codes myself, and then occasionally trying to work out why they didn't work
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Every biome has an animal that fills the garbage can niche and it’s usually the most terrifying animal on the continent
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Being too tired to... reminds me: young peeps, in your primes, never accept shaming. You are at the height of your powers. Anything you can do, feel NO imposter bs. It is NOT easy. You DO have a skill. That skill is NOT easy for the client or boss to just do themselves or replace.
Age teaches you how abused you were. So just believe me and demand respect now!
medication, funny
Apparently my new medication is called Resonium and I feel like I've just been prescribed ores from a Minecraft modpack
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"Choosing to excuse racism is choosing the comfort of cooperation with white supremacist social norms over the wellbeing of our comrades. Don’t let that be you. I am working on not letting it be me."
https://sandraduffy.blog/2024/11/25/white-trans-comrades-fix-your-hearts/
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I regularly pop into the garden to see if I convince any of the local birds to pose for me. The observant amongst you will realise that the large number of feathers, fungi, flowers & clouds on my timeline means they quite frequently refuse. Today I went out deliberately to take a photo of a cloud & BOOM. Bird action.
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For all you OSHW folks: EasyEDA, a service/company run by JLCPCB has a huge, Chinese Open Source Hardware portal named OSHWhub (https://oshwhub.com/explore) that is just filled with fantastic projects like this Type-C soldering iron utilizing JBC tips! https://oshwhub.com/dingcheng/jbc-c210-welding-pen
A project I tried to do in 2018 but failed (it resulted in the Otter-Iron though! :3).
It's all in Chinese of course, but still, browsing it might be fun :3 (不过，说一些中文还是有帮助的呀🙈)
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and it's cool if the new thing doesn't ever extend beyond your circle and the fedi servers y'all run because it's still doing its thing for y'all and interop is doing its thing overall and it can be fun, please start having more fun, Model UN-style has gotten tiresome and boring as fuck.
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the fediverse is the kind of place where we could say "it'd be cool if we could build social playlists together here" and then create a new activitypub type and add handling for it to our server platforms and boom have shared social playlist support across the fediverse if we weren't always busy building big unwieldy copies of corporate attention farms.
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Nerds, please learn that "doesn't work for my needs" and "is fundamentally broken" are two different things!
@KuJoe How about asking people to write something creatively? The bar doesn't have to be high, just enough room to make it difficult to automate submissions without it being easy to spot.
I remember brands in NL historically doing this with "complete the slogan" prompts for very similar reasons.
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transphobia, standing up to transphobia
@evangreer speaks up about why she confronted Rep Nancy Mace about her transphobia at the Project Liberty summit (to which @evangreer was the one thrown out of the conference, as Nancy Mace went on to hurl a volume of transphobic slurs about her and to speculate about @evangreer's genitals loudly and unnecessarily from the stage) https://touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/p/8322f531-b5dd-42f9-acaa-41c5fa3045ef/
- 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
