Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @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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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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mobile world congress is around the corner, so last night the cops began to kick out the homeless people who lived inside the barcelona airport
with no alternative solution
acab
@raito I'm not sure that can be solved with hiring? To my knowledge, these investigatory bodies are typically restricted by their mandate from the government they operate under, and that AFAIK usually includes a certain 'minimum societal impact' before they have any jurisdiction.
@raito I'm not sure that's quite what I'm thinking of.
The problem is that a lot of procedures and policy in society were de facto delegated to software (and the people building it), and in doing so they became significantly more distributed. Often, bureaucratic procedures are now the product of interactions between different software systems, instead of deliberately specified.
This also means that each individual system no longer meets what I'll call the 'significance requirement' to be of interest to traditional investigatory bodies; each individual fuckup is too small to register. It becomes a problem of a thousand cuts, none of which *by themselves* warrant investigation.
This is why I feel there should be an investigatory body that accounts for this phenomenon and that has the necessary procedures to deal with it from a practical perspective.
Also it was clicking and making an intermittent 'sad beeping' noise so I'm pretty sure it's fucked 🙃
Seems one of the HDDs in my NAS died. First time I've seen this particular failure mode - the total drive size is supposedly 0 bytes but it has a 16T partition...
@raito Tell me more?
... did I just get transported a decade back in time? http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/
"De historisch hoge prijs voor koffie stuwt de winst van koffiebedrijf JDE Peets op. Het moederbedrijf van onder andere Douwe Egberts en Senseo heeft afgelopen jaar bijna de helft meer winst behaald dan in het jaar daarvoor. [...] Volgens JDE Peets overstijgen de resultaten de verwachtingen, onder andere door een zeer sterke stijging van de koffieprijs. De prijzen zijn hier meer dan verdubbeld."
Duidelijk. Die 'hoge koffieprijzen' zijn dus voornamelijk het gevolg van winstbejag van Westerse tussenhandelaren zoals JDE Peets, en hebben weinig te maken met het meer (moeten) betalen bij de bron, de boeren die het daadwerkelijk verbouwen.
Een verrassing is het niet, droevig is het wel.
@fogti@chaos.social I would indeed say it doesn't count; there's no structural root cause investigation (that looks at the organizational and social factors, not just the technical ones) at all.
Actually, why isn't there an accident investigation board for software failures?
@remcopijpers Dan vraag ik me nu wel af welke persoonsgegevens er allemaal al aan Microsoft doorgestuurd zijn, en van wie. Want als het gebruikt werd om dingen te doorzoeken, dan moet er dus een index van de gegevens zijn, en staan alle doorzoekbare gegevens dus bij Microsoft in het systeem.
Dit lijkt me dan toch eigenlijk gewoon een (meldbaar) datalek, of niet?
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hospital/doctor advice for neurospicy folks
If you get some uselessly vague advice like "don't eat/do things like <list of hyperspecific examples and nothing else>", keep talking and asking (and mentioning your understanding so far out loud repeatedly, even if it's probably wrong!) until they tell you the underlying mechanism.
Example:
"Avoid intensive exercise."
"Okay, what qualifies as 'intensive'?"
"Well, try to avoid sports like football or tennis, for example."
"Okay, but what about VR then? It's virtual so you can't get hit by anything, but I don't know if that's safe enough."
"Ah, well, you should avoid any kind of exercise that causes shocks to your body, like when jumping a lot."
And just like that, you learn the underlying mechanism that the advice originates from (which might be "shocks to your body can cause issues with healing" like in this case), and now you can reason for yourself about whether something is or isn't safe to do, instead of being limited to a (usually heavily neurotypical) set of 'common' things.
(Sometimes you can also just ask point blank what the underlying mechanism is, but it's pretty much luck of the draw whether you get a doctor who trusts you enough to actually engage with that.)
@ethorsoe I'm not actually sure.
hospital/doctor advice for neurospicy folks
@heatherhorns_lite I also tend to ask them to write it down for me, just the things that they told me but on paper, for the same reason
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
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I was looking up something else I recalled that cloudflare had and found the exact user agent in tech info page for cloudflare always online thing
the thing that uses the internet archive when the website is down
I—
@riley The most obvious example: a P2P system without any kind of moderation or authority delegation mechanism, just direct peer-to-peer interactions, is certainly decentralized.
But it is not autonomous - it does not give people reasonable control over their experience, and the only plausible outcome is widespread abuse targeted at the most vulnerable, because it is a highly individualist design.
@riley The problem is that that isn't really what 'decentralized' means to people - it's not the opposite of 'centralized', but instead is used to describe a *spectrum* of both technical and social properties of a system, which often occur together, but not all of which are necessary (or even desirable!) in an autonomous system.
It also tends to draw the conversation to technical analysis exclusively, which isn't the important part of autonomy.
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
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hospital/doctor advice for neurospicy folks
@joepie91 oh yeah! if i can add, one thing I find really helpful with this kind of thing is, even if it seems clear, ending with a reiteration of your full takeaway for confirmation, and tossing in another example if you can
like "okay, so I'm avoiding shocking my body from jumping, maybe running around, that kind of thing?"
this could just be me, but i always find it SUPER helpful when the conversation ends with a "yes, that's correct"
It's kind of darkly funny to watch people defend Framework's soldered RAM in desktops by going "well it's necessary for high-bandwidth memory" given that that's literally the exact excuse that competing laptop manufacturers used for years
- Website
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- @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
