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
Ah yes, Matrix. Taking over a minute to clear a client-side notification counter for a message that has already been seen. Completely normal and functioning messaging protocol.
Who on earth came up with the idea to have the server exclusively track notification counts?!?
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ACAB
politics
a lot of people myself included are afraid, but i believe we must not let it overtake us.
fear puts you into an inherently defensive, disarming, passive position. unchecked, it allows the enemy to dictate you the terms on which you fight. it kills your spirit, it throws you off balance, it makes you pliable and malleable.
it is a completely normal, healthy emotion we must not resent, but like with all emotions, we must not let it override our agency.
recast your fear into resilience.
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health update, post-transplantation
Day 9 after transplantation.
Continuing to become more mobile and agile every day, I can make almost all of my normal movements again, and most of the time I can bend over too! Walking speed seems to have restored to my usual "nobody can keep up with me" levels.
Had some issues with leg cramps keeping me awake, that seemed to be a side-effect of the fluvastatine; discussed with doctor, temporarily paused those meds for a bit to see if that was indeed the cause. If so, they may get replaced by other medication.
Weirdly, sitting in a chair is still one of the most tiring things for me, and I usually need to lay down on the couch for a bit near the end of the day.
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Wir haben Kaltgerätekabel gegen Versand abzugeben. Gerne auch komplette Pakete. 
UPDATE: @Exellent nimmt bis Dienstag Wünsche entgegen
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unexpectedly wholesome name change conversation
I was doing ID checks over the phone. When the man on the other end of the line realised I'd changed my full name, he said brightly, 'Veo Corva is a cool name!'
I replied, 'Thank you! I picked it out myself.'
People can be weird about it sometimes, but people can be kind, too. ^_^
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Een politiestaat in drie eenvoudige stappen
https://www.doorbraak.eu/een-politiestaat-in-drie-eenvoudige-stappen/
"Als deze drie wetsvoorstellen worden aangenomen, betekent dat in feite dat het recht op privacy is opgeheven. Allerlei organisaties mogen dan in het geniep je persoonsgegevens verzamelen en delen."
@GLaDTheresCake @welshpixie FWIW, the 'representative' task can be outsourced to companies that specialize in this sort of stuff (for a fee), AFAIK it doesn't strictly need to be a representative *in* your company.
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If you work with a database and are asked to alter the table structure to comply in advance for citizenship or gender categorizations it's really important to NOT do it.
"The governor is concerned about all this stuff they want us to update our record keeping so we store both gender AND biological sex."
"We need fields to store the country of origin of people's parents."
If you don't have the power to rebuff this yourself, ask for help. At minimum ask for help online anonymously.
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It's kinda the wrong way around but:
Any group interested in organising a new hacker camp. I have a location, and infrastructure for anything between 10 and 500 people.
What i don't have are skills or people for organising, design and the other actually complicated things.
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“Tech is more political than ever | Go Make Things”
https://gomakethings.com/tech-is-more-political-than-ever/
> Sorry in advance for my international readers, but the US being what it is, this probably affects you, too.
Yup. What happens in the US affects all of tech which affects all of us who work in it.
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Elon Musk nazi salute
Can we all stop spreading that fucking photo everywhere? We may think it's an own but to everyone on the right, this is a projection of power
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"but what if they made a typo"
"but what if it's so unhinged that it's funny"
"but what if I have a really funny reply"
no
stop
don't spread nazi propaganda
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don't spread nazi propaganda
don't platform nazi propaganda
don't reply to nazi propaganda
don't quote retweet nazi propaganda
don't screenshot dunk on nazi propaganda
don't spread nazi propaganda
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Fascist propaganda, fascist terminology
"but people have to be aware of fascist propaganda!"
Yes, share info on it, talk about it, keep people informed. Fascist propaganda isn't all racial slurs and swastikas. People have to be made aware that even words like "cuck", "degenerate" or "asocial" are fascist propaganda. They have to know about the fascist background of many popular memes.
However,
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UK politics / US politics / Facebook / Activism
Facebook has removed the Stand Up to Racism page for being "against community standards".
A few points:
1) Now is absolutely the time to move your organising away from commercial social media platforms, we've been telling you for literally years. It's better late than never, just do it!
[continued]
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world news to cleanse your timeline (/pos and /srs)
thailand legalized same sex marriage
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Fascist propaganda, caps
DON'T SPREAD FASCIST PROPAGANDA
DON'T SHOW IT TO PEOPLE
ONLY EVER SHOW IT TO PEOPLE WITH PROPER AND THOROUGH CONTEXTUALIZATION
DON'T SHOW IT AT ALL IF YOU CAN AVOID IT
YOU CAN JUST EXPLAIN IT. YOU DON'T HAVE TO SPREAD IT
THAT'S HOW PROPAGANDA WORKS
THAT'S HOW MEMES WORK
THAT'S HOW IDEAS AND IMAGES GO VIRAL
DON'T
SPREAD
FASCIST
PROPAGANDA
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But many historic museums have a clutter room, or clutter wing, or clutter floor, and if you ever spot one you should definitely give it your time, because there you’ll find the odd little knickknacks, contraptions, whatsits & doohickeys that capture the creativity and materiality of past eras 10/?
- 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
