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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Auf in ein glückliches 2025! 🥂🎊
Während Berlin noch feierte, haben wir in aller Frühe begonnen, die Reste der #Silverster-Party zu beseitigen. 670 Kubikmeter wurden eingesammelt - leider 50 mehr als 2024 😕Da lag die Menge des Mülls noch bei 620, i2023 sogar nur bei 520 Kubikmetern.
Natürlich können wir nicht überall sein: Daher wird der restliche Silvester-Müll innerhalb der regulären #Straßenreinigung 🧹 beseitigt. Wir geben wie immer unsere Bestes, dass #Berlin schnell wieder glänzt! ✨
@baldur I've definitely had to resort to showmanship and other trickery to get through to people in some of the "hype debunking" stuff I've done, unfortunately.
The silver lining is that once the point of "there are counterarguments" is established through showmanship, people tend to be more willing to engage with the in-depth analysis around the topic - but really the showmanship shouldn't be necessary, and it's immensely frustrating that it is.
(I also don't think this is a new problem; it has existed since *at least* 2013, and probably earlier)
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There's no convincing or reasoning with people if they think your facts have a bad vibe. Explaining things, with references, has no impact because the references are gauged based on vibes and not how well the studies were structured or how well the paper is argued. There is no difference today between decision-makers in tech and the antivaccination crowd. They both operate on the same epistemology and worldview
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One of my realisations I've come to during my newsletter/blogging pause is that the vibes crowd has thoroughly won, both in tech specifically and in general. Facts don't matter. Research doesn't matter. If it has research aesthetics and has the vibes you like, people treat it as truth. Motion and churn with the right vibes count as progress. Revenue is treated as evidence of inevitable future profit, no matter how irrational the underlying economics are.
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The Treachery of Images now in the (US) public domain, for all your not-a-pipe needs
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Kafka monitor #5 (antifascistische onderzoeksgroep)
Antifascistische onderzoeksgroep Kafka "is een antifascistische groep die onderzoeksjournalistiek bedrijft naar extreemrechtse stromingen in Nederland. De resultaten van dit onderzoek publiceren wij op deze website en in bladen. Met onze publicaties willen wij bijdragen aan een goed inzicht in de handel en wandel van rechtsextremisten en hun organisaties. Ons doel is om op deze manier bij te dragen aan de bestrijding van rechtsextremisme.
http://afanederland.org/2025/01/01/kafka-monitor-5-antifascistische-onderzoeksgroep/
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for the younger ones, an mp3 file is like a spotify track that you can listen to offline and don't have to pay for each month and it doesn't run ads.
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An #ITU study https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2024/11/10/ff24-internet-traffic/ reports that we transferred over 7 zettabytes of #Internet traffic in 2024. However, the authors do not describe what all those data actually were.
Therefore, I have performed extensive research to classify every byte, and I can now share this summary of the purposes of all the year's traffic.
Happy New Year!
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@bert_hubert @SandraDeHaan omdat we een overheid hebben die extreem goed geworden is in geen enkele verantwoordelijkheid nemen voor de fouten die ze zelf gemaakt hebben.
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Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.
Learn more about the creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 that have moved into the public domain in the US in 2025: https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025/
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A more detailed writeup of how the FSF is not only wrong about TPMs being involved in hardware-based DRM, they missed the actual user-hostile hardware DRM implementation: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70954.html
Moderately confused at NixOS showing up in a blogpost about the COSMIC desktop from System76: https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-the-road-to-alpha
@hugh @daughterofrao@weirder.earth A factor that shouldn't be forgotten is that phones, *especially* cheap phones, are significantly more locked down and less future-proof than eg. second-hand laptops.
You get updates for maybe a year or two if you're lucky, you can't install a different OS/version/variant/whatever so you're shit out of luck after that, and everything is trying to get at your personal data while giving you no controls to prevent that.
Sure, cheap smartphones nominally exist. But in practice the point of accessibility is a lot more complicated than just the purchase price. Paying 150 EUR for a device you cannot trust and that's often barely usable performance-wise, is not actually better than paying 200 EUR for a trustworthy laptop that performs fine.
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have you backed up your DNS records?
@avali Neat. I know of 'reverse captchas' (CSS-hidden form field, if filled in then it's a spambot) but this is a variant I hadn't seen before!
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I am here to announce that I have decreased #spam on my web contact form from 1 message every 15 minutes (for months straight) to 0 messages in the last week by adding a "I am a spam bot" radio button.
I am not joking.
No I am not using something like ReCaptcha, I literally just added a radio button to the list.
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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
