Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @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
TIL about the Kodak Disc Transporter, which seems to have been a peripheral you could connect to your computer back in the day to automatically load and unload CD-Rs from your computer as you were burning them?
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Also, more generally, consider that institutional organizations are *much* more vulnerable to hostile action than chaotic local collectives which do not have clear operators or representatives.
It pays to store a copy in some obscure organization that's difficult to figure out as an outsider, even if they don't have professional infrastructure to support it. Deliberate censorship is the bigger risk right now, not accidental data loss.
warning regarding uspol and data archiving
Hey, so uh, please keep in mind that the Internet Archive is located in the US. While they are an independent organization in principle, that sure isn't going to stop a fascist like Trump or Musk, who definitely has physical access to their facilities and the impunity to go with it.
All of which is to say: make sure to also back up the data you're archiving in a place that is *not* in the US or its direct sphere of influence! There is only so much the Internet Archive can do to insulate themselves from fascist actions.
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US politics, the coup, and data scrubbing
Apologies for not CWing the original post. Consider boosting this here toot so that people can choose to engage or not.
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For Global Switch Day, I'll recommend my blog post about switching to Linux. I wrote it for academics, but other professionals might benefit from it:
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Your sexuality and your gender are not matters of government decision. They are what you yourself decide they are.
You are the truth. Resist authoritarianism.
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NSFW-friendly Mastodon servers
https://Erotica.social
https://kinkycats.org
https://kinkyelephant.com
https://romancelandia.club
https://spookygirl.boo
https://swmastodon.com
What else do you recommend?
*Romance is often viewed as smut's distant respectable cousin, but sex scenes are sex scenes, & we all have common cause in a puritanical world with growing censorship & deplatforming.
#NSFW #Mastodon #MastodonTips #Kink #MastodonMigration @smutstodon
@hazelnot @tobi Also, I'm more generally frustrated with such loud 'criticisms' of Wayland, about it 'not supporting' things. It is still being developed, of course it's missing stuff! Software doesn't just emerge fully formed from the aether, people have to build it first and that takes time!
That could have been communicated better by distros who adopted it, sure, but if you're going to issue loud technical criticisms at least make sure you have done the most cursory look into the subject matter!
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I don't know who needs to hear this but Gilette Venus Smooth and Gilette Mach 3 blades and handles are interchangeable 🪄
Mach 3 blades are anywhere between 50c and €1 cheaper per blade than even most basic Venus blades and they are WAY sharper and give a smoother shave with a little extra care.
Venus handles are WAY more comfortable to hold, especially when wet.
Do with this information what you will.
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something that bluesky does that I think other platforms should adopt is not leaving alt text in a tooltip. if you click on an image with alt text in bluesky, it puts the text in a box below the image. this is extremely handy if you want to do things like copy alt text easily for, say, translation purposes
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Vandaag zijn we begonnen op molen "de Vlieger", een poldermolen in de buurt. Één van onze molenaars is in de Vlieger geboren en heeft er in gewoond.
Het smeren van de kaprollen is een klusje wat je het best met meerdere personen kunt doen, dus helpen we elkaar.
Het was zonnig winterweer, dus dat leverde ook nog een mooie #weerfoto op.
@voorstad Blij verrast dat ze Bluesky als gecentraliseerd omschrijven! Een hoop andere journalisten zijn in de misleidende beloftes over decentralisatie getrapt...
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It's weird seeing how people in online communities eventually develop this near-hostile copy-pasta way of answering questions. It often stems from an advice being correct in some cases, but becomes insanely frustrating when it's offered as a solution to something that sounds bit like the original problem but isn't and now the original poster gets ridiculed for not taking the obvious right answer.
People from IT may recognise this as "It's always DNS" or "sfc /scannow".
Pinball people might recognise "Replace BR2 and C5".
Debugging mysterious problems and just talking about it online in the hopes of fresh perspectives seems to just cause a flood of this copy-pasta, with people getting offended when told this wasn't it.
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My former housemate in #Amsterdam got the extension of her #visa refused. She needs a renewal every year and has to prove her contribution to the Dutch art community. Her contribution and renown has grown in the past year, and she still didn't get a new visa.
It's the different interpretation of the same rules under the new, right wing government. Something most Dutch people seemed sure wouldn't happen.
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Een straatgenoot van mij is altijd al vroeg met de honden onderweg, en maakt dan dit soort foto's. Te mooi om niet te delen, vind ik.
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‘If a billionaire disappears, does the world lose a scientist? No.
An artist? No.
A healer? No.
A teacher? No.
A farmer a horticulturist? No
The world loses nothing of value.
Because #billionaires produce nothing.
They consume.
They extract.
They pollute.
They destroy #nature
They build empires on suffering.
Their existence is not a triumph of the system.
It is proof of its failure.’ of Economic Growth (GDP)
There’s a vital alternative system it’s called a #WellbeingEconomy
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So if you are at #FOSDEM, we hope you're vaccinated, wearing an appropriate mask, opting not to enter rooms that are simply too crowded, and taking the range of other precautions that are necessary to avoid catching any number of infections that circulate in Europe this time of year.
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The aim of #fluConf is to provide an on alternative for the many people who are already disabled by #covid, or are immune-compromised, or living with those who are vulnerable, or just hold the reasonable position of not wanting to be infected with a potentially deadly or debilitating illness.
So, if you're reading this, welcome to #fluConf2025 !
- 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
