Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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
Is it just me who feels very uncomfortable about the terms "pro-woke" and "anti-woke", in the sense that it seems to completely miss the point of what the term means?
@mkoek @roelgrif @vosje62 @locuta Nou, daar valt ook nog wel wat nuance op te tekenen. Hier heb ik toevallig pas geleden nog wat (in het Engels) over geschreven: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/113928039674088237
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ACAB
@clarfonthey Well I wouldn't say it's entirely empty, but it's certainly a lot smaller than it's often made out to be, and I do often see maintainers misattributing "people get fed up with a lack of maintainer response and leave" as "this user never intended to clarify anything".
More crucially, a stalebot cannot reliably distinguish between the two cases of "user does not follow up" vs. "maintainer has not gotten around to it" and that's what makes it a terrible non-solution to an otherwise legitimate problem.
warning regarding uspol and data archiving
@silvermoon82 To my knowledge there are two backups outside of the US (one of them is in NL, actually) but both are only partial backups, and while they are *physically* elsewhere that's not likely to protect from much if it's the organization itself that gets targeted by fascists
Holy shit the opt-in parallel scanning mode in ncdu is *fast*. Scanned my 700-800GB home dir in under 10 seconds, despite the many small files in various node_modules folders?
Instructions are on the website, but TL;DR run it with the -t8 flag for 8 threads.
Not unsurprisingly, in my experience this mindset also strongly correlates with "not recognizing *any* non-code work as a type of contribution", as applied to documentation, design/graphics fixes, community management, and so on.
Reading up on the comments to that complaint about stalebots, and once again finding that there is a significant amount of people who do not recognize carefully-filed and detailed issues as a type of contribution, because it's not a code patch.
I have Opinions about this mindset and none of them are positive.
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I brought my CO2 sensor prototype to #FOSDEM!
In K.3.401 (a tightly-packed dev room with closed windows), I measured a CO2 concentration of over 3000 ppm.
For reference: Outside air is currently ~420 ppm, and a common suggestion is to ventilate rooms to <= 1000 ppm.
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If things feel hopeless, please visit the FedNews subreddit for some reassurance. These folks are not rolling over, they’re not resigning, they’re standing together. Here’s just one thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1ifdcp7/from_your_genderqueer_coworker_dont_quit_over_the/
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Valuable lessons for those in #FOSS who tinker for fun and have a vast collection of gadgets
> Repairing stuff, however, is neither new nor that radical concept for me. In developing countries, repair is just a way to extend an object’s life. Repair is not necessarily seen as a political act, although it can and has been; it is another service that someone might offer as a non-expensive alternative to buying new. Here, technicians for all kinds of tech are abundant, at least in major city centers; and so having one’s broken stuff repaired will not break bank.
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Hi everybody! We've been inactive for a while, so it's maybe time for a reintroduction. HUP is a fully #openaccess university press. We publish high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly literature, particularly in the #humanities and #socialsciences. All our publications are freely available on our website at: https://hup.fi/site/
We are looking forward to learning more about the #Fediverse!
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I call this piece "trying to take a picture of my cat in the dark"
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Might switch back to saying LGBTQ instead of queer just to make sure everyone knows where I stand on the inclusion of the T
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For the past 5 years it's felt a little like being in a glass coffin. Stuff was happening all around me as my community moved on. It was if we were dead. We were still there, we could see, we are still alive. But no one was listening to us behind the glass. No-one cared to break me out.
But there was no Prince to rescue me as he was locked in there too.
In a way what Fluconf did was show us the weak spot where we could break out of the glass coffin.
You're not shoving me back in there.
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@fluconf gives us a third way, with a freedom of expression and access. There's a freedom of presentation and the subjects provided in the call for papers enabled the soul of the conference.
#fluconf feels radical in a way that the other two aren't. The other two can't provide a space because their organisational memory is fixed now. It's as much attitude as technology.
Whereas fluconf is beginning and has flexibility so it can adjust and change. It's open in a way the others aren't.
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In the meantime there's a breadth of art and tech happening at #fluconf .
Blog articles and videos. Hypermedia commentary introducing us to new folks, new tech.
The kind of presentations we don't see anymore at other conferences, but are in our hackspaces and art spaces.
Tech and art have a long history together, and Fluconf helps to remind me of that.
Thank you @ansuz and @manisha and the others at @fluconf team and contributors alike.
I am looking forward to next year.
- 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
