Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
CW-boost: politiek (VS en NL)
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As an autistic person, I sound like I'm just an AI pretty frequently with how I write texts. However, unlike AI, I am perfectly willing to discuss pipe bombs.
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@clarfonthey This reminds me of the widespread adage that "users lie, so asking them what they need will not get you useful answers".
The people repeating this line invariably have never considered that maybe they're just asking it wrong. Which they are, because they usually ask "what would you do" (ie. a technical question) and not "what frustrates you" (ie. a needs question).
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A/B testing is kinda a good representation of the lack of trust and consent in modern tech
it's basically gaslighting your users because either you don't trust them to know what they want, or because you want something that's counter to their needs
@sandradejong @waag Ik heb met lesgeven in het verleden geen problemen gehad met Jitsi in Firefox, maar dat was wel 1-op-1. Enige probleem was haperend beeld maar dat leek te zijn omdat de verbinding aan de andere kant belabberd slecht was, en daar kan Jitsi denk ik weinig aan doen.
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Als je een en waterfles met je meeneemt naar de Efteling, let dan op dat er geen "Free Palestine" op staat. Je komt er niet mee binnen. Eerder werd een bezoeker om die reden toegang tot het park geweigerd, en nu zet Efteling het ook in hun voorwaarden. https://www.bd.nl/loon-op-zand/efteling-is-demonstranten-zat-en-scherpt-regels-aan-maar-mogen-beveiligers-ze-wel-weigeren-of-fouilleren~a40a3c97/ #Efteling #FreePalestine
@eth0 What is the public health policy going to be?
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You can extinguish tear gas canisters!
Wearing heat-proof gloves, submerge the canister in a wide-mouthed water jug containing baking soda, dish soap, and/or vegetable oil—3 tablespoons of each per liter of water.
Cover the top with one hand, just enough to keep the gas from getting out, and shake the jug.
Never seal a bottle containing an active tear gas canister—you don't want it to explode.
One role you could play at demonstrations is to show up prepared to protect your fellow human beings from toxic gas, in case the mercenaries deploy it.
You can learn more here:
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Privacy is intrinsically intertwined with politics. Each change in governance can have serious effects on privacy rights and privacy tools, for better or for worse. Let's examine with concrete examples how politics affect legislation that can have an immense impact on the privacy tools and features we use.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/03/the-future-of-privacy/
@Remittancegirl @corbden@defcon.social I suspect you may be running into the (widespread) problem of historical revisionism here.
I've been involved in some non-hierarchical movements, and absolutely without exception, any reporting about it (by eg. journalists) tried to declare someone a leader even though they weren't, with journalists frequently insisting that there *must* be a leader somewhere when we talked to them.
I think it's reasonable to expect that this has happened to historical movements too, and so decentralized movements would have been incorrectly reported as having a hierarchy, eventually making it into the historical record that way, and creating a false impression of every successful movement having been hierarchical.
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Note also that the linked bug implies that the NixOS Foundation hadn't actually submitted their tax documents to the authorities for at least 3 years. The NixOS Foundation pays every year 1000€ for a part time admin assistant as well as 1600€ for a tax consultancy. Good use of sponsor and donation money if you ask me!
(source: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-financial-summary-a-transparent-look-into-2023/43640)
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More than 6 months ago I was posting here about the fact that the #nixos leadership transition was a complete joke, illustrated by the fact that the board announced they were replacing edolstra (board chair at the time) but clearly didn't: https://mastodon.delroth.net/@delroth/112487150789866814
You'll be happy to hear that as of today, edolstra is still board member, both "on paper" (officially) and also in practice, as proven by e.g. https://github.com/NixOS/foundation/issues/182
Nothing changed since May 2024 and the board lied as usual.
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Railroad Tycoon's Western US map, at full zoom.
(This image is 4064x3040)
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@catsalad best synergy of Thinkpad lid led, and sticker I've found so far
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Hey euroqueers, do any of you know someone in NL who’s good people and looking for a quiet, respectful and queer trans roommate? Putting out feelers for my friend who’s escaping the US and looking for a place to land. He’s an IF writer and doesn’t need a lot of space but would like to be around decent people.
Please boost!
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I said a while back:
I've been on HRT for a couple years now so I've seen a lot of changes when looking into mirrors, but the most important one is that the person on the other side seems to be smiling more.
re: warning regarding uspol and data archiving
@leo That does help, but then you need to also back up the torrent files themselves, because if the item gets hidden from IA, so do the hosted torrent files
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this is connected to a deeper cultural thing i've been reflecting on which is the western(/global north?) expectation that we can just show up in any country w/o knowing their language, laws, and customs and expect to be treated graciously. a conference essentially attempts to install a miniature version of the (supposedly) "international" academic culture in a little bubble where its interaction w/local culture amounts to the equivalent of tourism, creating similar class tensions
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I’d just like to point out that “removing all references to gender identity from official materials” sounds a lot like a mandate to use singular they at every occasion from a malicious compliance standpoint.
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
