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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Raising 30 million dollars to host 20 thousand GoToSocial instances for 30 years
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk @onepict@chaos.social Right, and I agree with the intent, I just think that trying to shoehorn this specifically into the license will end up doing more harm than good, it's a much better fit for eg. community moderation rules
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk @onepict@chaos.social The problem I keep coming back to with these licenses is that the likelihood of practical enforcability seems close to nil, while it *does* make it much more complicated to juggle licenses when building on other people's work, especially without a dedicated legal team (ie. it harms small developers more).
I'm not convinced that the license is the correct place for these restrictions in the first place, it seems that "exclusion from support and community" would be far more effective with less collateral damage.
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If these nerds weren't so hell-bent on becoming the God Emperors of My Twitter Alternative and instead actually considered people's social and safety needs and their technically ability while building decentralised social media platforms the whole thing becomes a non-issue very quickly
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The ad read 'Five days for £5!'. It didn't say what for. The website, Aeternitas Solutions, had no more info; just a purchase form.
Curiosity itched. Probably a scam but for a fiver, they'd risk it. They filled in the form, hit 'Buy'.
The confirmation was just as vague; 'Thank you for your purchase. Your order will be dispatched.'
They'd forgotten all about it by the next morning until, crossing out a day on the calendar, noticed the new five blank days shoved into the middle.
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oh cool, Gnome has no automatic dark mode anymore because Mozilla (the advertisement and AI company) thought it was financially not worthwhile to keep their daytime and location API alive https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/2959#note_2053491
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And since my Vestibular Neuronitis is playing up today, I'd like to remind everyone -- no matter how much a #TTRPG game, night out, trip or whatever means to you, if you're sick, stay in.
Getting on for 10 years ago, someone came out to a game session with a very bad cold. Not flu, but a bad cold.
They decided to come anyway and spent 5 hours coughing on me.
That cold, just a cold, permanently damaged my vestibular system, affected my hearing, and still affects me today.
Stay. The Fuck. Home
Bambu's latest firmware update apparently locks down printers to their own software.
And this is why I didn't buy a Bambu, and got a Sovol instead.
dream
Tonight's dream: I was trying out some highly immersive VR thing that included touch and taste and all that. It was like a 10-20 minute walk through various landscapes and environments in really high detail, with glass-pane fences that really *felt* like glass panes.
For some reason there were pallets of free samples for various instant meals and foods/shakes dotted throughout the walking path (some of them quite nice!), and at the end was a large area with promotional booths and buildings.
The 'highlight' was an absolute shitpost of a promo booth, called 'Easyjet GoGo' and dressed up and advertised to imply that it was some kind of flight simulator experience, but when you queued for it and it was your turn, you would eventually discover that it was... a highly overengineered portable toilet building 😂
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@janamarie @cmb hey I did something similarly cursed a while ago :D
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cool thing I noticed: when hetzner generates root passwords for servers, they never include "y" or "z", and also no "O" or "0"
@0x6e6174 I have heard of this phenomenon mostly in the context of plurality, where system/collective members do not necessarily have access to each other's memories.
health update, transplantation (9)
It's now day 3 after the surgery. I can get out of bed and walk independently, albeit slowly. I've showered again, and can do that mostly independently too; just not bending over. I might walk around the hallways a bit later today.
Blood pressure is high and still a point of concern, blood sugar is a question mark (rising a little but still okay). Otherwise seemingly no side-effects from the immunosuppressive medication, and I also don't feel like I have a permanent cold anymore. Catheter is still a huge pain, as is the wound drain.
Overall very optimistic!
health update, very positive, transplantation (7)
@pascaline Dankjewel :)
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There are just over three days left to apply to #fluConf2025
@ben Yes please!
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proposal: a game that is just a creative management game engine and you can download mods that additively combine prisons, theme parks, hospitals, factories, restaurants, cities, beaver cities, etc.
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Asking for advice re: innoculating against elder-targeted scams
Does anyone have any tips for talking to their parents about elder-targeted scams? My mom is on Facebook and I think she is usually pretty canny, but I want to encourage her to reach out to me if she ever starts talking to someone new online that could be a romance scam or similar. I don't want to insult her or invade her privacy if she is talking to someone real, and I'm just not really sure of the best way to start that conversation.
One of my grandmothers was poisoned and robbed by mail-order medication scams, thankfully we saw the mailers once when we were visiting before it got ruinously or dangerously far, but she never thought to reach out and ask because she was very proud and didnt think it was anyone else's business. That was 15-20 years ago and the scams seem supercharged compared to then, and I'd like to avoid that if possible.
- 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
