Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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#AskFedi: what does your community need in terms of software, online services, or other 'digital tools' that isn't there yet? :boost_requested:
Is it just me who gets incredibly irritated by Axios' writing style of managerspeak like "zoom out"?
@nicole The return of "any color as long as it's black"
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Oh hey looks like pixelfed had a major post leak issue and the maintainer absolutely fucked up managing the security patch situation.
@xgranade (There were a few journalists which *did* understand the point of the job. Unsurprisingly, they were the ones who got the scoops. They're also the ones still getting the scoops today on more clueful publications like 404 Media...)
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I’ve taken to collecting antiquities. I’m starting my museum with this piece. I don’t have the money to acquire real artifacts so I’m inventing my own.
Actually, I put this clear box over our cordless phone out of frustration because the high pitched hum it emits drives me crazy. I intended it to be temporary, but I came to like the faux antiquity aspect of it.
I may start putting clear boxes over random objects just because.
One of my smaller fascinations is how nobody seems to know that PayPal is legally a bank under the regulatory authority of Luxembourg (and everyone thinks they're a PSP or so), even though they've been a bank for at least a decade
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@joepie91 Right, which gets back to stenography as journalism and access journalism. That will always privilege centralized ownership, as you say.
@xgranade Being involved in Anonymous - and encountering journalists' relentless pursuit to locate a non-existent 'leader', flat-out refusing to believe that one didn't exist - has taught me a lot about *why* the media coverage of federated and decentralized systems is always so utterly garbage.
The vast majority of 'journalists' is completely and hopelessly lost if there's no singular "press representative" with a phone number available during all business hours to talk to.
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@ijk "because it has things which are unreplicated and unreplicable elsewhere"
I'm especially curious about this part - what sort of things are you thinking of here?
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rambling
It's sort of counterintuitive, but hating yourself a lot can lead to accidentally very selfish and callous behavior. Like, okay, you're not a person who is actively trying to do things for yourself and not care about other people, but to be a consequentialist for a moment the intent doesn't entirely matter.
What I mean is, like, okay if you don't think you have any value or impact on the world it's really easy to not have it occur to you that self-destructive things you do to yourself do in fact hurt other people. People can be harmed by seeing you suffer because that's how caring about people works.
That's sort of an obvious example but it also ends up being the more subtle things: you don't think reaching out to people can make a difference because who the fuck are you, you don't think disappearing is going to affect anyone because who would notice you gone.
I think what it comes down to is that it's really easy to unintentionally harm others if you don't see yourself as an active member of the web of connections that links everyone in the social graph together
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Anybody know of any full-size keyboards that have the numpad on the left and the nav cluster and arrow keys on the right?
All the left-handed keyboards I see move them both to the left.
I'm a righty, and I think it'd be cool to have my mouse closer to me, with the alphanumeric block in the center of the keyboard instead of on one end or the other.
@ijk I'm pretty sure I know exactly what you mean, but I'd love to hear an example of the sort of frustration you run into - can be a description or an unfiltered rant or whatever else. Mostly trying to get a better idea of the sort of context in which other folks run into it.
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Questrial, designed by Joe Prince and Laura Meseguer
During colonial times, European colonial powers in Africa made their languages the official ones. Many African languages still lack typographic support, making it hard to write them correctly due to missing letters and diacritics in most fonts.
In post-colonial times and to address the lack of open source fonts for African languages, @googlefonts gave me the task of expanding Questrial for that purpose
@jacksonchen666 Yes*
* not really, they're operating under the banking license of a French bank, as far as I can tell they are mostly just selling an app claiming to be a bank
#AskFedi: what does your community need in terms of software, online services, or other 'digital tools' that isn't there yet? :boost_requested:
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My latest newsletter is about queer art and rising up against fascism. And why we need queer art that tells respectability politics to go fuck itself.
(And a few noodly thoughts about how this can go pretty wrong if we're not careful.)
https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/flaunt-and-flail-queer-art-in-the-age-of-techno/
Ran across an interview with some dude who started a bank to "give back to the planet". The guy previously sold disposable cat litter bins.
"Giving back to the planet" my greenwashing ass.
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
