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
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Not saying HEPA-grade air filtration isn’t deployed at all. But they’re not nearly deployed enough to prevent waves of airborne disease from spreading. Like, evidently so.
Just like with things like socialized healthcare, public transit, libraries, protected bike paths, and so on — clean indoor air seems like such an obviously good idea. A world without seasonal diseases is not just possible, it is practical!
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Regular reminder that effective, cheap, mass sterilization technology for just about every known and unknown airborne pathogen exists — we just choose not to deploy it.
HEPA-grade air filters are cheap, easy to install, effective, and severely underused. Unprecedented flu outbreak? SARS pandemic? N5H1? It can scrub the air of all of the above quickly, efficiently, and economically.
technische verklaring
@pascaline Ah, die kan ik wel uitleggen! Dat is waarschijnlijk door iets dat 'graylisting' heet. Heel kort samengevat:
1. Bij een 'nieuwe' afzender wordt de eerste e-mail geweigerd, met 'probeer het later nog eens'.
2. De verzendende e-mailserver probeert het na X tijd nog een keertje.
3. Nu is het niet meer de eerste e-mail, dus nu wordt hij wel geaccepteerd.
Het idee is dat spammers die tweede poging niet gaan doen want dat kost weer extra rekenkracht/stroom/enz., en dat is het op die schaal niet waard.
Maar in jouw geval is waarschijnlijk de oorspronkelijke e-mail eerst geweigerd, maar direct daarna was je een 'bekende afzender' dus de reactie erop werd wel geaccepteerd, en een halfuur later heeft 'ie dan nog een keer geprobeerd het origineel te verzenden en nu mocht het wel.
(Dat je zowel afzender als ontvanger bent maakt voor de logica in het systeem waarschijnlijk niets uit)
Something occurred to me. That idea of "not immediately punishing someone but instead discussing the problem with them and giving them room to learn from their mistakes and grow"?
There's exactly one demographic that already gets this treatment from government authorities today.
That demographic is 'corporations'.
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The fun part is that Tumblr is immediately going to turn it into a webm or avif.
Can I just cut out the middleman and upload a webm/avif?
No of course not. That would be Video, which has different rules. Gif isn't video, it's pictures! Animated pictures! Which we store in a video format!
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There is An Alternative!
Humans are not driven purely by materialism and self interest!
All of us are dependent on each other, no matter how hard we strive individually!
When people do shitty things to you or calamity befalls you, justice for you is a collective responsibility!
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Oh, rofl. I just locked myself out of my own forge's web UI for an entire hour.
How? I was curious whether my HackerNews griefing snippet works, so I searched for git.madhouse-project.org on HN, followed a link, got a nice HTTP 418 Teapot, and all was fine.
But then I wanted to toot about this, and mention caddy-matcher-persistent-referrer, a small module that remembers the IP of visitors from a particular referrer, and continues to match them for some time.
I made this #Caddy module to circumvent HNers just copy pasting links after seeing the initial 418, or simply hitting enter on the address bar. With this module, they're locked out for an hour.
...and so am I, because I tested it, with a visit referred from HN.
(Of course, I can ssh into my VPS, reload Caddy, and clear its in-memory cache, which I did. But nevertheless, it's funny!)
@EricChrSmit Ik denk dat ik wel begrijp waarom hij dat standpunt over DPG inneemt, ondanks dat ook ik het ermee oneens bent.
Er lijken grofweg twee gedachtengangen te zijn rondom het onderwerp van macht:
1) Je moet zoveel mogelijk macht verzamelen zodat je meer macht hebt dan de vijand, want als kleine speler kun je niet tegen ze opboksen.
2) Zoveel macht verzamelen maakt je juist kwetsbaar want nu ben je voor die vijand een interessant doelwit, en kunnen ze alles met 1 goed-gerichte aanval overnemen zonder dat je er wat tegen kunt doen.
Ik vermoed dat Joop van den Ende de eerste gedachtengang aanhangt, wat (helaas) vrij gebruikelijk is voor mensen die zelf in een machtige positie zitten.
Mijn kritiek daarop zou zijn dat die gedachtengang een valse tegenstelling creeert, omdat de aanname gemaakt wordt dat je alleen staat (dus "je wint in je eentje" of "je verliest in je eentje" als de enige opties), en de derde optie van doelgerichte samenwerking tussen kleinere partijen volledig genegeerd wordt, terwijl die juist het beste van beide werelden biedt.
politics, activism, Anonymous (3)
(The reason this kind of grift works is pretty much exclusively because of journalists who desperately insist that there MUST be a leader *somewhere* and who simply will not accept "no, there isn't one" and so end up publishing whatever is claimed by the first person who brands themselves as a leader)
politics, activism, Anonymous
For a bit of context for those who aren't very familiar with what Anonymous actually is: this is like someone creating a bunch of accounts named "Anarchists Official", claiming to be the spokesperson of all anarchists worldwide, and then posting a bunch of fascist garbage.
politics, activism, Anonymous
Oh look, the "Anonymous Official" shithead who has been falsely claiming the credit for other people's work within Anonymous (and conning journalists) for over a decade, is posting fascist propaganda now.
Completely unsurprised.
Also, this doesn't mean that you can't extrapolate from a study if you have a plausible reasoning behind it, but *you do actually need to do that part out loud* and draw the distinction between what the study says and what you think!
I really dislike claims like "studies show that X doesn't work that way" where the X in the study is only a small subset of the X in the claim.
That's not how science works!
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nearly all fiction classified as a power fantasy tends to fall into one of four buckets in my experience
1: bullied kid gets their turn to be the bully
2: just outright awful garbage, to the point that being a fan of the story is a massive red flag
3: horrible, awful, terrible, no good, very bad, waste of oxygen, excuse for a human being (allegedly), gets a miraculous second chance and gets to experience a self-serving life at the top of whatever type of hierarchy the author likes most (this one is almost always isekai, and almost always follows the exact same structure)
4: the power of friendship
but you know what kind of power fantasy I've never seen before? a selfless one
yes yes, there are plenty of power fantasies where the protagonist is ostensibly a good person with good intentions, and they try to do good things, but all the ones I've seen still fall into buckets 3 and 4. even when the protagonist does good things supposedly in the name of others, the spotlight is always on them, and they are always rewarded for it. no matter how selfless their actions are supposed to be, the story remains selfish with the protagonist at the center of it
I want to see a power fantasy where the protagonist actually acts selflessly. show me a protagonist that does thankless work, a protagonist that doesn't expect or even desire reward, a protagonist that uses their power to actually change the world around them for the better without any incentive separate from the goal. show me a power fantasy where the world itself is in the spotlight, and the protagonist works to ensure that it stays that way. I want to see a power fantasy where the fantasy doesn't end at having power, give me the fantasy of successfully building a better world in short order, where even though the protagonist is the only one capable of setting things in motion, everyone else is just as important
does this exist
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Back online after a week of being treated like a mushroom by my VPS provider as they troubleshoot an outage. I don't appreciate being kept in the dark and fed sh!t.
#mushroommonday #nature #naturephotography
needles
@steph Often-overlooked addendum: as with all things needles, if the problem is pain, then you can just ask your doctor for lidocaine/prilocaine (also known as 'emla'), it's a local anesthetic with basically no risks that is very easily prescribed and super effective at *completely* suppressing the pain, even for someone with super high pain sensitivity like me.
@eloy This is what I decided many years ago, though for a different reason: the typical OAuth setup basically means that my continued access to a ton of services hinges on some tech company that might wipe out my account with no explanation or recourse overnight (as they tend to do).
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looking for a flat share in Hamburg; reposts welcome
Hi there, a friend of mine is urgently looking for a flat share (or very cheap flat) in Hamburg.
If you have any leads, please let me know.
Reposts are welcome!
@pinkflameinthepan IMO is dat niet iets om je voor te schamen, als het niet gaat dan gaat het niet, soms zijn de lepels gewoon op.
Het kan zijn dat je docent dat niet ziet/weet, en dus verwachtingen heeft die gebaseerd zijn op de (foute) aanname dat je wel de energie en tijd ervoor hebt?
re: tech discourse question
@tauon I think it's mostly to do with the motivation for explaining - in tech, there's a problem with people uselessly/patronizingly 'explaining' things to look superior rather than to actually help someone understand it. That problem does happen elsewhere too, but it seems way more prominent in tech.
And so the people who are on the receiving end of this (disproportionately women, in particular) eventually get tired of dealing with that and start setting boundaries on unsolicited explanations.
- Future new account
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- 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
