Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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.
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- 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
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In the fediverse, many of us appreciate #RSS to follow blogs and podcasts and such, but I never see anyone talking about using #iCalendar for following event calendars. An open standard of similar age to RSS, it works well and is widely supported by #calendar software—even Google still supports it, unlike RSS. I'd like to see more meetups publishing their event schedules, more apps doing interesting things with calendars, and more investment in the open calendar ecosystem. Wouldn't you?
@pascaline Ik weet het ook niet precies. Ik weet wel dat het oorspronkelijk uit de VS komt, en daar wordt het veel gebruikt om over te komen als een soort non-profit zonder daadwerkelijk een non-profit te zijn, want 'zakendoen' zit daar nogal sterk in de cultuur verweven...
@pascaline Ik vermoed dat je gewoon gelijk hebt, hoor :)
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A reminder to academics that might think you need to “engage” in “good faith” with blatantly immoral actions taken by hateful people: you super don’t.
Really.
Nothing happens if you don’t take up the role as devil’s advocate. No one is clamoring for that.
You won’t reach the end of your existence and regret having dismissed out of hand the positions of folks that would deprive others of their humanity.
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Normalize bullying individuals and corporations for using AI slop of any kind (imagery, video, voice, LLM).
If the thing you're making or doing can't exist without scraping the internet and stealing everything you see while burning drinkable water and coal like crazy - this thing shouldn't exist, and you should exist in jail after ecocide trial
If the thing you're making or doing can't exist without scraping the internet and stealing everything you see while burning drinkable water and coal like crazy - this thing shouldn't exist, and you should exist in jail after ecocide trial
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Normal queer household activities such as a discussion about linked lists and UTF-16
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My friend asks: "I wonder if there are art historians, curators and educators around" fedi. What instances should I point her at?
@alyx fedi plays car?
#AskFedi: Does anyone know of one of those awesome-whatever lists, but for "software (of any kind) that is easy to set up and learn to use"?
@pascaline Mja, die certificering is nogal twijfelachtig, het betekent niet zo veel in de praktijk. De AH heeft naar mijn weten dan ook nog steeds gewoon het "mensen ontslaan als ze te oud worden en nieuwe scholieren inhuren want dat is goedkoper"-beleid.
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27 years of building web apps and watching my peers build authoritarian surveillance and propaganda systems to support facists and grifters.
politics, nazis, actionable
Something to remember is that nazis and other fascists are, generally, not very courageous. They use fear to oppress others, but they don't usually know how to deal with someone who isn't scared.
One of the most effective things you can do against nazi rhetoric personally, is to openly defy it. To make it clear that you are not intimidated, that their fear isn't working on you. This will leave most fascists with a lack of strategies.
This is not *entirely* zero-risk, of course. But they have way, *way* less bite than their rhetoric would imply.
@polyfloyd FWIW you can use Nix on Debian too. You won't get the declarative system configuration, but nix-shell will work
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looking at two socks, trying to determine if they’re from the same pair, like a biologist trying to figure out if two similar specimens are from the same species
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MIVB/STIB is taking a good step to solve the issue of homeless people on their network. Instead of policing them out like the rest of the world... they hired a whole team to provide social support, and have a bus built out as a safe place and a gateway to support 
info https://mivbstories.be/includo-helpt-daklozen-en-druggebruikers-op-het-mivb-net/ https://stibstories.be/includo-aide-sans-abris-toxicomanes-stib-bruxelles/
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Using LLM is denial of service on humans and I will not waste my time on the receiving end of it
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A complement to “don’t feed the trolls” is “what we pay attention to grows,” which I first encountered while reading adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy.
In turning attention away from trolls, we can turn it toward the practices of care through which we build resilient communities able to guide change.
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The WINE 10.0 change list looks amazing:
- ARM support
- Many graphics pipeline and touch input improvements, could be worth trying this with programs like Paint tool SAI and CSP
- Better high DPI and scaling support
- Native Wayland support
- Improved COM/RPC proxies and calling
- Moving from GStreamer to FFmpeg for decoding things should improve many things, also things like game intro videos etc.
- and much more
- 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
