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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
@quinn Honestly, I feel like it ultimately all comes down to "government organizations like the EU don't like seriously funding things that they don't control, and that makes it incompatible with the FOSS development model" - the money is there, the need is there, the skills are there, the motivation is there, but the avenue for power isn't
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The EU and honestly any other group of nations can fix the American IT hegemony problem, they can fund universally available FOSS tools that run as cloud services or locally for smaller orgs/businesses. It would not be that expensive, the work force to do it is global and very enthusiastic. Hosting is basically the same (though if you hosting was free your data was never yours) and many tools, already exist. We run infra on Next Cloud, and most of it works great (the email client is meh)
@pinkflameinthepan IMO it can be fine, but things to be careful about:
- Are they being normal about it or trying to hide it from eg. their partner
- Do they recognize the difference in life experience, and account for it
- Do they have a good understanding of consent (not just in words but also in actions)
Those aren't *really* specific to age differences, but they are a bit more critical with a big age gap because of the whole power differential thing
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Octopus Energy posted me a 321 A4 page electricity bill printed out on paper as a physical 5cm thick package (on their "Agile tariff" the rate changes every half hour, so there are 48 line items per day). I enquired as to why they'd done that?
Apparently they tried to email it first, but the 15 MB email exceeded my email server's size limit, so they posted a hard copy instead.
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Sure, #LetsEncrypt, you can say that using certificates with the ClientAuth UKE is a minor use case and that this functionality was never guaranteed to always be available and all of that. But the fact stays: you are removing a feature from your certificates that has been here for a very long time, just because Google demands this. Why Google wants this? I will ask them. But I am quite sure that this #oopsie side effect is not an oversight.
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Just at the time where all over the world discussions are happening to move mail servers back into organisations big and small instead of relying on the big email providers, due to risks associated with centralising email at (US) providers, you are willing to make life even more complicated for us postmasters. This is not what you should be doing. You should make it easier to use encryption instead of telling us postmasters find out ourselves where we can buy certificates in future.
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Dear #Letsencrypt, you helped secure millions and millions of servers, not just web servers. But your announcement at https://letsencrypt.org/2025/05/14/ending-tls-client-authentication/ about ending Ending TLS Client Authentication Certificate Support in 2026 because Google changes their requirements would result in your certificates becoming a possible risk for ensuring SMTP traffic. Please think again. Please.
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Het is eigenlijk best bizar dat de DigiD-integratie voor European Citizen Initiatives je alleen maar in laat loggen met de (iOS/Android-exclusieve) app... dat kan toch eigenlijk niet voor zo'n democratisch proces!
Er is nu nog een los formulier om in te vullen, maar met de push vanuit de EU naar meer en meer digitale authenticatie, is het nog maar de vraag hoe lang die optie blijft bestaan...
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I mean seriously, isn't it interesting how dominant ideas about good posture and movement come down to ideals of obedience, control, and uniformity? The good student, like the good worker, is someone who can at minimal sit still or make productive movements for designated amounts of time in a designated place until told otherwise. The freedom to work or rest at one's own pace free of micromanagement is afforded to a few, meted out in bits along the axis of social status, and such freedom is hotly contested ground as seen in the struggles over working from home/return to the office. Control begins at the level of the body, the movements of muscle and bone.
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RCS can't cope with a SIM changing number.
Mind-blowing that this is such a common issue with RCS that multiple mobile providers have articles about it.
I presume the USA doesn't have number porting?
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We desperately need to reset the terms of the conversation, because the tech media by and large is too cowardly (or too dependent on their corporate overlords receiving major ad revenue by the very peddlers of genAI) to frame the narrative accurately. To wit:
Extreme pro-AI: using and promoting genAI tools.
Moderate: choosing not to use genAI tools and warning others about it.
Extreme anti-AI: attacking the physical infrastructure of genAI companies.
@nico And the same holds here as what I said in my initial post: if you choose to focus on a handful of nominally legitimate uses, instead of the (intentional!) systemic dangers and harms perpetuated by the technology as a category, then you are not having a legitimate discussion - you are just looking for an excuse not to have to take a real position on the matter.
@nico Like, I want to be very clear about this: I *do not care* if people manage to find nominally legitimate uses, and I have zero interest in arguing about exactly how legitimate they are.
It changes exactly nothing about how the technology was created, for what purpose, and how that has influenced its design choices and externalized effects. And *that* is the problem here.
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If you look at LLMs - a technology created through exploitation, for the explicit purpose *of* exploitation - and you conclude "well there might be legitimate uses", then your judgment is frankly garbage and you're looking for excuses not to have to take a real position
@nico No, it does not remotely 'break my conclusion'. The technology was not created for VLC, and so it is irrelevant to my point.
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Let me be very clear. I do not advocate for violence. I am a pacifist at heart, and I believe we will accomplish more through peaceful yet “loud and proud” advocacy along with class solidarity.
Regardless, Generative AI is tied at the hip to fascism (do the research if you don’t believe me), and it pains me to see pointless arguments over what constitutes “vibe coding” overshadow the reality that all genAI usage is anti-craft and anti-humanist and in fact represents an extreme position.
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Centrale database met wie waar behandeld wordt, vult men nu al
zorgictzorgen.nl/centrale-database-met-wie-waar-behandeld-wordt-vult-men-nu-al
Centrale database, de verwijsindex, met wie waar behandeld wordt, vult men nu al. Zonder dat de Nederlander er iets van weet. The post Centrale database met wie waar behandeld wordt, vult men nu al appeared first on Zorg-ICT Zorgen.
Er wordt ons aangeleerd dat de regering en bedrijven "de wil van de bevolking" weerspiegelen, en dat ze alleen maar dienen om dingen efficienter en effectiever te maken.
Intussen zamelt de bevolking ruim een ton in om een Efteling-reisje voor asielzoekers te betalen, terwijl de overheid dat reisje probeert te saboteren.
En wordt Gert Regterschot financieel ondersteund door studenten en collega's voor zijn werk als docent, terwijl de TU Eindhoven hem compleet laat vallen.
En dat zijn nog maar twee voorbeelden uit een hele grote stapel.
Dus wat is er dan eigenlijk nog waar van dat sprookje over het nut van bedrijven en de regering?
@nico The point here is about the attitude towards the category, rather than about any specific applications
If you look at LLMs - a technology created through exploitation, for the explicit purpose *of* exploitation - and you conclude "well there might be legitimate uses", then your judgment is frankly garbage and you're looking for excuses not to have to take a real position
- 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
