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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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ACAB
an ability to choose does not necessarily imply agency or a difference in outcomes
subtoot, Matrix and alternatives
If you respond to the situation with Matrix and Element by saying "well, IRC and XMPP are still there!", then you have extremely not understood the assignment
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i like it when medicine comes in little plastic containers with screw-caps, very convenient to have those around for storing small amounts of little stuff 
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One feature Mastodon does better than virtually every other platform is the edit button. It's free, has unlimited edits, is not time limited, has edit history, edit notifications, real-time updates, and is generally just awesome. As someone who does a LOT of typos, and constantly forgets alt text etc, I am eternally grateful to the Mastodon Devs for such a flawless implementation.
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Omgggg!! I just discovered that Project Gutenberg has an automated feed on #Mastodon where they post new books they add!
Go follow them: @gutenberg_new
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A quick financial update as we finish up our accounting:
EMF 2024 cost £575k to organise, and despite some unexpected costs due to the wet weather, we made a surplus of about £20k. We're a non-profit, so all the surplus goes towards making it easier to run future events.
The swap shop collected £3,220.95 in donations, which we've rounded up to £3.5k and split equally between Medical Aid for Palestinians and Gendered Intelligence.
We're planning to publish the full financial details on our website soon.
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Seriously though, WHERE do all the smudges on my glasses come from? You'd swear if I didn't wear glasses I wouldn't have any eyes left from poking them so much
@goetz The whole claim that "no EU cloud provider is able or can compete" is nonsense to begin with, and has been debunked many times. The 'requirements' were crafted to exclude them a priori.
Hosting a database of domain/registrant associations (which is what a registry is) is absolute table stakes for any halfway competent hosting provider.
(Also, the report that SIDN cites as confirming their decision was produced by KPMG, which will infamously produce basically whatever conclusion you pay them to produce.)
Bambu DRM, harsh
I have to admit I don't have much sympathy for the folks who have gotten screwed by Bambu introducing DRM on their printers. What did you *think* was going to happen?
It would be different if this were a consumer product. But tinkerers and hackers really have no excuse, IMO - you are all sufficiently equipped to recognize when a company is gearing up for vendor-locking and DRM, and the writing was on the wall from the start with Bambu. Remember the filament spool RFID tags?
You chose to disregard the obvious warning signs and widespread cautions about their business practices, and gave them your money, free publicity, and free labour. You fucked around, and now you are finding out.
(And good luck "convincing Bambu to roll it back" or "working around the DRM", by the way. If you hadn't noticed, their business was structured to enshittify from the start, so you will be tilting at windmills forever. You'd be better off disavowing them right now and moving your work to an open ecosystem instead.)
Like, if you insist that you know better than people with years of experience in the field, at least acknowledge your own fucking role in your problems if it doesn't work out, fucks sake
Growing very tired of Element's passive voice when responding to criticisms, as if their hand was somehow forced and their current predicament isn't entirely a consequence of their own decisions which people have cautioned them about for years
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love articles like this https://insurancenewsnet.com/innarticle/disability-claims-skyrocket-raising-new-puzzle-alongside-excess-mortality
"Along with a baffling rise in post-pandemic mortality rates that has insurers stymied, the number of Americans claiming disabilities has skyrocketed since 2020"
oh my god, what could have caused public health to go in the shitter? i know there was this plague in 2020 that we just started ignoring cause it was too hard in 2022, but that can't be it. what a mystery!
also, the actuaries know. they've known for half a fucking decade. they've published articles about it for gods sake. of course insurers fucking know why
"Mental health disorders also surge"
boy do i have news for you about some of the large array of disorders covid, the brain damaging disease, causes!
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Posting things to fedi that have been living in my head rent free as an attempt to evict them
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There are no leaf blowers allowed in #spoonieTown instead we sit in Adirondack chairs in the shade and watch the scythers silently scythe the lawn.
Job posting: scythers wanted. Outdoor work on sunny days, must have good swing.
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How do I undo all that? 😥
#LateDiagnosedAutistic #Masking #AutisticBurnout #ActuallyAutistic
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health update, transplantation, very positive
@joepie91 Drains are super annoying, congratulations on being free of it ^_^
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urinary health, schools, genital ment
@joepie91 and there's also a fun patriarchal dimension of this issue affecting the part of the population that doesn't have a penis even more.
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urinary health, schools
@joepie91 But seriously, it's a power trip. There is literally no reason to force kids to hold it. "You will miss part of the class" Oh please, do you really think that a child that desperately needs to pee will be able to concentrate on whatever you are teaching? If you are so concerned, put the class on hold and do a short quiz of something.
I really wonder how is this not classified as child abuse.
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
