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.
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- 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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uspol: trans rights, book burning
The white house website has finished purging all mention of trans and nonbinary people (aside from the EOs themselves), e.g. from the travel guidance page, which now warns LGB travelers that some other countries don't recognize same-sex marriage.
They've moved on to NIH, CDC and similar. The entire CDC database of 1.4k datasets is temporarily offline while they "bring it into compliance" with the EO declaring trans people aren't real.
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US Pol: pronouns again
I've noticed that some of the people I'm in contact with via. email have removed the pronouns from their signatures. More than I would have liked to think. No one has TOLD them to do this.
There are some cases where people are being told. But, this isn't that. It's fear at best and something much more ugly at worst.
This is exactly the kind of craven compliance that will lead to all the worst places. No one told you to do that. WHY are you so eager to help?
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ACAB
uspol, PSA to librarians and archivists
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Microsoft's OS API documentation has deteriorated to the point where the documentation contains links to the Wayback Machine of the documentation.
If you are in the US, threatened by the current administration, and need some kind of help with something, send me a DM and I'll see what I can do.
(For reference, I am in the Netherlands)
uspol meta, angry
Also, if you were one of those people and are now suddenly panicking about all the fascist orders being enacted, as if you couldn't have seen this coming: a hearty "fuck you" to you in particular. Maybe fucking listen to marginalized folks for once.
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uspol, what to do if you are trans in the united states
uspol meta, angry
I cannot adequately express in words how angry I am at all the people who have spent the past several years insisting that "it won't be that bad" and doing absolutely fuck-all in terms of resistance (and yes, this includes the people who considered "donating to Harris and doing nothing else" as "sufficient resistance").
You have an openly fascist regime now and the concentration camps are already being established. Congratulations, fuckheads. You had the opportunity to stop this and you did fucking nothing because it threatened your sense of comfort to acknowledge the reality of the situation.
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uspol: immigration, conc camps
The president caught his own top level staff by surprise calling for mass detainment of immigrants at Guantánamo Bay. That's a concentration camp, folks. We already have them at the southern border (have for years) and they're inhumane as fuck. Those typically hold people attempting to cross the border (including those seeking asylum). This escalation means rounding up people already living in the country and packing them in an external high security location. It can't get any plainer.
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request for information. extremely mild uspol, data archival and scraping
Is there a hashtag, group, chatroom, forum, etc. For data scraping/archival re: US data purge? Specifically talking about raw data like data.gov rather than website crawling which seems to be handled by archiveteam and end of term archive. Like #USDataPurge or something
Edit: #SafeguardingResearch looks like another https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113921816307826784
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Does anyone have any explainers on #MaliciousCompliance, obstruction, and weaponised incompetence as acts of #resistance? I'm looking for (non-paywalled) articles on how and when to employ such methods against injustice. I want to share them with my readers.
@chkdsk We got them from Degros, specifically the Romed brand. No complaints about the purchasing/delivery process, but we did get a batch of questionable (slightly bent) needles at one point. Haven't gotten around to returning it yet, so no data on the returns process unfortunately.
As a more general note though, any online shop that's been around for a while in NL is likely to be trustworthy (and for consumer-focused shops, the Thuiswinkel Waarborg is helpful). The online shop ecosystem here is relatively healthy.
politics and activism meta, "working with imperfect people"
There's this common advice for activism in particular, but also politics in general, that goes something like: "people are imperfect, so you should learn to work with people even if you don't completely align with them".
And in a vacuum, that is true.
But what gets missed here is the *context* in which this advice often gets used. That context is very often "some marginalized person frequently calls out bigoted behaviour from their supposed allies, and now nobody wants to work with them".
In that context, the advice *technically* still works. The marginalized person *could* decide to let it slide, and work on the common interest instead.
But consider the implications of that, and what is actually being asked of whom. A marginalized person, who already gets the short stick most of the time, is expected to let bigotry slide... while zero expectations are placed on the *other* allies, particularly the privileged ones, who *could* take off some of the load by calling out their peers every once in a while at basically no risk to themselves. But nobody is expecting them to.
And just like that, all the emotional work and responsibility are pawned off on the people who can least afford it.
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If your website is so slow that I have time to take a screenshot of the loading spinner after noticing, from a fast machine and network, there are whole layers of management that have explaining to do.
Next step is to have a separate 'shading' layer and 'surface' layer for each component, so that instead of a fixed white-based gradient of gray, it uses a partially-opaque-gradient black overlay to apply the depth illusion to *any* color choice (or even texture!)
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#protip If you're looking for a squat, get on seeclickfix and look for overgrown weeds reports. Get some kind of uniform even if just a safety vest, clean it up, put stuff in trash bags or lawn bags and put that at the curb, then take a walk around back with a crowbar.
https://seeclickfix.com/web_portal/fthfYtKcha4PpMuyvr6M153z/issues/17908073
Today, I'm practicing with mesh gradients in Inkscape. Which are cool but damn, Inkscape doesn't exactly make them easy...
(Original silhouette by Andreas 06 on Wikimedia Commons; the cutting up into parts and 'texturing' is my work)
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NFC#844
★ New blog post: Otherkin-friendly CAPTCHAs, revisited.
Some folks have asked me how I make CAPTCHAs respect my non-human identity. The short answer is I copied code from @mavica_again. The longer-ish answer is this.
https://beeps.website/blog/2023-04-27-otherkin-friendly-captchas-revisited/
- 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
