Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
@daughterofrao@weirder.earth (The inspiration for this is StayFocusd's "nuclear mode" which hard-blocks a configured list of sites as well as its own settings panel, and you can only get past it by typing out a long string with special characters that's shown on the screen)
@daughterofrao@weirder.earth I would lock it behind something that takes a lot of effort to get past. Whether physical (eg. a deposit box in a city far away) or virtual (eg. a difficult math puzzle, or arduous string to type out by hand). Enough effort that it's not worth it impulsively.
Pet peeve: FOSS projects which depend on closed/proprietary/hosted systems for their development process because "we do not have the capacity to maintain all this stuff ourselves".
Ever heard of the concept of 'solidarity' and cross-project collaboration? Why are you assuming that you, as a sole project, must fix these issues on your own? Why haven't you sought collaboration with others who have the same problem, and distributed the workload?
@quincy Externalizing responsibility, basically
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i wonder what trans/enby creatures were obsessed with before we invented a concept of robot. faes? golems? trebuchets?
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game where you can play multiple animal species but when you're a bird windows don't get rendered
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You don't need a blog, despite what a lot of Mastodon posts would have you believe.
It's okay to feel like you don't have something the world needs to read. It's okay to save your stories up for when you encounter people in real life. It's okay to write things down in a private diary.
What's not okay is recording important information in closed-off spaces like Discord or Facebook. If you have knowledge that could benefit others, please do get a blog.
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It’s always fun to find a fiber optic cable in an unexpected place. Today’s find: my Canon EOS 600D has one running from somewhere to its mainboard. I suspect it being used for light-metering!
@StroomAfwaarts Hoe maak je die?
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health, meds
@StroomAfwaarts It will reduce over time, most likely, but I may still end up with quite a lot for the rest of my life
@mattgrayyes I believe this is (part of) the intention for GoToSocial as well, to serve as a general-purpose ActivityPub implementation, where clients can then deal with varying content
@robinsyl The problem is not you. They have fallen for the computer version of a psychic scam, basically.
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“Amazon's AI crawler is making my git server unstable - Xe Iaso”
https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/amazon-crawler/
Training data crawlers are abusing the open web.
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Januari is onderhoudsmaand op molen De Salamander.
Buiten is alles bevroren, dus smeren we vandaag de dingen waarvoor de molen in dezelfde stand kan blijven staan.
We zijn begonnen met het bovenlager van de centrale as, en hebben daarna de buitenrand van de kap gesmeerd.
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Succubard's Library
AI, Psychology, quote-boost
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and you really aren't supposed to not have a mailing address in your home country. or spend like over a month outside it. the world isn't made to handle people who do.
health, meds
So this is what my post-transplantation morning medication looks like now (which is one of four medication moments, though it is the biggest pile)
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One of the themes for #FluConf2025 is "open licensing and business models".
A lot of people on the fediverse will probably take that to mean *software licensing*, but we're interested in a much broader range of topics.
We want to hear about open licenses for scientific publications, data, art, games, text, and whatever else we haven't thought of.
Share why you think it's important. Write about how overly permissive commons are being enclosed by corporations. Tell the world how you choose licenses for your own creations, and how others licensing choices influence your perception of their projects.
#freeCulture #FOSS #law #publishing #science #games #art #data #openScience #openData #openGardening #open #openCulture #openSource #freeSoftware #openAccess
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@onepict I think this is a very relevant and interesting session:
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6721-organizing-sponsor-free-conferences-bof/
At NixCon 2024, we took the bold step of going completely sponsor-free—and it turned out to be a great success, with 400 attendees, making it the largest NixCon to date.
In this BOF session, I’ll share my experiences as a core organizer, including the challenges, lessons learned, and tips for anyone looking to organize their own sponsor-free events without breaking the bank.
- 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
