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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- 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
I'm not sure if this is just my recommendations bubble, but I've been noticing a significant uptick on YouTube lately of non-Linux-nerds publishing "why I'm switching to <FOSS thing>" videos, with their motivation being mainly practical, political or ideological (rather than technical).
It's interesting to see and I'm not entirely sure where this pattern started.
Hi yes hello content warnings please for the awful shit that Trump and Musk do, also for boosts
To clarify: I'm talking about using the incremental node location mechanism to find the closest N nodes to a given key, except instead of the key being eg. a content hash, it's *also* a node ID.
And then each peer just maintains a session with the N closest publicly-connectable nodes to it, and someone wanting to connect *to* a firewalled/NATed peer finds those same N closest connectable nodes and asks one of them to relay traffic to the target peer for it.
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Hey y'all, if you want a cloud sync that doesn't involve you giving your files to a third party, then SyncThing is pretty great.
Free, open source, open protocol, Mac, Linux, Windows, Android, frequent updates, works well between version changes, etc.
If you're a bit nerdy you can have all your things sync to your own server, along with versioning in case you make an oops.
If you're less nerdy you can still get your phone+laptop+desktop all in sync, which is grand.
Okay, am I overlooking something or would it be really trivial to adapt a Kademlia DHT to be a relay/routing protocol (for connecting to unconnectable peers in a P2P network) instead? This seems like a really obvious thing to do, but I've never seen anyone mention it?
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We are back! After three years, Eth0 has been RESURRECTED!
Eth0:2025 Autumn will be in Someren, the Netherlands from Friday, 31 October 2025, 18:00 and last all weekend, until 2 November 17:00. Dinner and a bed are included, making it one of the most all-inclusive events around! Just bring your project, talk, and sleeping bag. And all of this for just €62.50, with budget options available.
Get your tickets now at https://tickets.eth0.nl !
More info at https://wiki.eth0.nl
See you there!
@eth0 I see. Regarding ventilation, have you considered Corsi-Rosenthal boxes, and/or adding an optional fundraising add-on to the ticket page along the lines of "sponsor active air filtering to make the event safe for everyone"?
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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- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- 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
