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.
- 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
@kristinHenry I feel like "if only Mastodon had done <small thing>" applies to awfully many sources of community conflict over the years... 😕
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Seriously, if Mastodon would rename 'CW' to 'Subject' or 'Subject/CW', it would alleviate so many hassles and conflicts while helping folks adjust to Mastodon norms.
As an Admin of a Topic Based community instance, in the years since the Twitter takeover, the biggest challenge our moderation team has faced has been to get dudes (yes, it's almost always dudes), to add CWs to certain topics.
Simply calling it 'Subject' would have helped in maybe 50% of conflicts over our asking for CWs.
Showing me a paywall for an article, but only below the fold once I've already started reading, is a very good way to ensure that I will never visit or link to your site again.
CW-boost: sexual assault
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US politics and clinical trial regulation
The STAT news podcast hosts wonder why the medical device regulators were cut more harshly than the drug development regulators
And not to state the obvious but
Musk owns Neuralink
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ropol, probably good
Lmao the neo-nazi presidential candidate got arrested
Not for the nazi shit, for "ties with the Russian state" (🙄) but still probably a good thing that it happened lmao
grumbling, noise
A leafblower is not a tool for cleaning your goddamn vehicle! Fuck off!
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"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.
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“What radicalized you? Nothing. Not wanting people to starve and suffer is not radical, it’s normal. Stop saying it’s radical to be base level empathetic, and start asking what made people into sadists. Call out sick behavior, because I’m tired of people thinking kindness shouldn’t be the default.”
—credit Tara Belle Enoch
political assassinations (2)
I don't talk about this kind of topic often, because it's very easy for people to steamroll the nuance and misconstrue or misrepresent what I said.
Don't make me regret this.
political assassinations
Something I think isn't talked about enough, is that political assassinations are neither fundamentally effective nor ineffective; it all depends on the context.
Broadly speaking, assassinating someone to stop them from causing damage doesn't work. In relation to my last boost; it's the underlying systems where the harm comes from, the individuals in charge are 'just' their avatars. Shooting Trump would not stop things in the US from falling apart.
But that doesn't mean that there's no purpose to assassinations either. A good example would be the UnitedHealthcare shooting; it didn't directly stop UnitedHealthcare from causing harm, but it sure did spook the hell out of the entire healthcare insurance industry.
Less claims got rejected for a while; harmful policy changes got cancelled; executives of various insurance providers suddenly felt threatened and were more careful with what they did or said publicly. These were indirect but useful effects.
It wasn't removing a CEO that made the change; it was connecting very visceral consequences for the perpetrator, to the harm being caused, making other executives afraid of exercising their power. The public and sensational nature of the shooting contributed to this effect.
Should a whole society be run on this concept? Absolutely the fuck not. Can political assassinations be an effective political tool for dealing with gross power imbalances where other solutions have proved ineffective? Certainly, as long as you have the right expectations.
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There are numerous times where I think "if that person simply had better aim, the world would be so very different".
But then I remember that where we are right now globally is not down to one or two evil people - but the result of rot in many social, economic, and governmental systems. The people we think are making evil choices are avatars for the system, more than individuals.
We have to fix the systems.
EDIT: They're still evil assholes. I just mean they're replacable, not unique.
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Can anyone (possibly at a French university) get me a copy of Afnor XP P99-405-6? “Billettique appliquée aux transports - Règles de codage et d'interopérabilité pour la billettique (INTERCODE) - Partie 6 : logement des données dans un code-barres”
re: Massive thread of JS/browser ecosystem thoughts
@baldur I feel like the sort-of missing component in this analysis is who we're actually building for. Less "what do companies do/want today" and more "what do we actually need as a society and what do we need from browsers to support that".
If we take the current featureset of major browsers as a given, then that kind of preemptively removes any possibility of a solution, as that featureset is (often seemingly deliberately) far bigger than would plausibly be needed to support real-world needs of people. At a certain scale, there simply are no sustainable solutions anymore.
So I think that if we want to find a solution to this situation, we should start thinking about "what can we afford to remove from the picture?". Define our own playing field, instead of playing by the rules of the industry.
And I don't mean in terms of exhorting people to stop using particular features, but more in terms of "if a competing browser were to be built, what does it actually strictly need to support to be pragmatically useful, and is that a small enough set to be able to do it sustainably?".
(This also means explicitly shifting the framing from "what do companies want" to "what do *people* want". The industry is functionally a malicious actor here, not the target audience.)
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classism
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...
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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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
