Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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The freedom to let others make my decisions for me is nearly as vital as the freedom to make important decisions myself.
Some people see "empowerment" as helping people to do everything themselves but that's an overly individualist approach. What empowers me is systems/cultures of transparency, accountability, and flexible delegation that help me rely on my community.
"AI" companies are why you can't buy a graphics card.
@q This is not what we meant when we said "cross-operator rail ticketing should work like cross-operator plane ticketing"
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mutual aid post, FINAL UPDATE
hi.
i am tillian. you probably have boosted this fundraiser post in the past, wondering where i went.
well, i moved!
i finally made the jump and collected enough money to last me for months on my own. i have my own apartment, and i am now living away from my abusive parents.
i am so, so, so thankful to all of you. this plan would have never left the ground without all of your undying support.
i owe you. all of you.
thank you.
love. so much love.
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NAACP lists companies that dump #DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans - I love the idea of a ‘tactical spending guide’. #NoBuy #Boycott #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackMastodon #BLM https://apnews.com/article/black-consumers-dei-buying-guide-naacp-34664d8af92e2dc1ba787a498348b7a4
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grateful to everyone who contributes to https://gaza.memorial/, it means so much to log into the moderation and find new voices there 🙏
@q Plane replacement train?
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Turns out, Hash Tables are good...?
(wait. they always were!)
Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture
... searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible ...
https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210
The actual Paper is here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.02305
(the article erroneously refers to the older Tiny Pointers paper 2111.12800, which is just mentioned in a footnote but also really cool for game devs)
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you never get credit for all the weird shit you manage to NOT say 😔
@raphaelmorgan Yep, there's an ongoing scam campaign around this, I've seen it reported by a few people 😕
Looking for recommendations! 
Please recommend me software for note-taking that is:
- Local on my own system
- Open-source
- Community-run (ie. no LLC or whatever behind it, also not an LLC that claims to be 'non-profit')
- Non-commercial - I don't just mean 'free', I mean that the maintainers clearly oppose commercial exploitation
The project asking for money is fine, as long as the above requirements are met. Likewise, it doesn't have to be well-known or 'at scale' - small projects with a small community are fine too!
Please don't suggest things like "plaintext files", I'm looking for something that is actually designed for note-taking specifically.
subtooting many people, politics (2)
And yes, there are specific issues that are *blockers*, in that it is likely impossible to solve the problem of fascism if you don't address those blocking issues.
That does not make them *causes*, and treating them as causes anyway means you're likely going to overlook *other* blocking issues.
subtooting many people, politics
I'm very, very tired of all the "this is why fascism is on the rise" political takes, which invariably try to flatten the whole issue down to a singular cause (a different one in each post), despite that being incredibly implausible with how complex people and societies are.
Like, it's okay to say "it's complicated" and start addressing the issues one by one, you know. You do not actually need to pretend that there's a simple answer, and doing so certainly isn't going to solve the problem.
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TIL This exists - looking to ID (and get/buy) #fonts from video games?
security, programming
The problem with thinking in terms of "security-critical" and "non-security-critical" to determine where security is 'important', is that adversaries know this too and so what actually happens is that they hack into your "non-security-critical" system and then use that to gain access to the super-secure security-critical one
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#spoonieTown has boring things like reliable and convenient public transportation.
Thx! @KimSJ
https://mastodon.social/@KimSJ/114007743121058862
@ytvwld@chaos.social It's difficult to summarize, as a lot of claims started popping up around the same time, and it's been long enough ago that I don't fully trust my memory anymore either.
I believe the initial criticism was about them not opening a physical office in the US.
@Scmbradley Honestly I'm not convinced that it's so inevitable. There seem to be a few specific conditions that causes this to happen (not all deliberate), and there are also plenty of cases and circumstances where it goes fine but those don't tend to stick in people's minds.
I think the view that "internet discussions will inevitably turn bad" is kind of dangerous, actually, because it's a demotivator for improving our collective social spaces, essentially the equivalent of political nihilism.
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There are two kinds of people.
There are those who don't believe in miracles, and those who repair electronic devices and have witnessed a tiny screw fall off a table and miraculously undergo a complete existence failure between there and the floor.
- 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
