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
re: fosstodon
@adam FWIW, I believe the third guy was saying that people have fallen victim to right-wing propaganda and that militant left-wing places are too confrontational to convince them otherwise (an argument I've heard many times), rather than claiming that the 'bad propaganda' is on the left side. It's a bit unclearly worded.
mh-, re: paranoid, llms
@elsie It's definitely less severe for me, but I do very much recognize the "make me feel like I'm losing it whenever I'm trying to look something up" part... 😕
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mh-, re: paranoid, llms
honestly impressive just how badly my mental health is affected by the fact they exist
they make me paranoid about sending photos I take, they make me feel like I'm losing it whenever I'm trying to look something up, the slop they write is so unsettling in some way I can't explain, that I can't read it without risking going schizo for an hour, I am paranoid about data about me ending up in a model and staying there
they make me paranoid about sending photos I take, they make me feel like I'm losing it whenever I'm trying to look something up, the slop they write is so unsettling in some way I can't explain, that I can't read it without risking going schizo for an hour, I am paranoid about data about me ending up in a model and staying there
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Why I'm never going to be cool with Crowdstrike https://medium.com/quinn-norton/how-antisec-died-654abf6aeff7
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Signal (and many other messengers) stores push tokens in their database in plain text. Which allows law enforcement to subpoena them (though signal has never publicly admitted this happening) and then law enforcement uses these push tokens to subpoena apple to get personal information associated with it like your full name, address, phone number etc.
This way Law Enforcement can correlate your personal information with your signal account which means participants in conversations are deanonimzed. (Though content is still encrypted).
If you organize in large signal groups (or any Messaging app using push notifications) there is a high chance law enforcement and intelligence agencies can tell that you're part of a group or not.
I don't understand why nobody is talking about this more. It's extremely problematic.
Apple started publishing stats on how often this happens now. They were gag ordered to not speak about it before but they have changed course (https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments-spying-apple-google-users-through-push-notifications-us-senator-2023-12-06/)
You can find the stats here:
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"As Gaza faces over three months of Israeli blockade, a group of 12 activists is sailing to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid. The Madleen ship was launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and initially planned to sail from Malta last month, but the group’s ship was damaged in a drone attack. The new mission includes the renowned Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who speaks with Democracy Now! live from the Madleen."
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/4/greta_thunberg_gaza_aid_flotilla
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my kid: mimsy help, i cant fit my lunchbox into my backpack.
me: what else is in there, taking up space?
kid: my schoolwork, and a bunch of ducks
me: im sorry, what?
~kid proceeds to scoop 30-40 small rubber ducks out of the bottom of his backpack~
north korea, sarcastic joke
"North Korean smartphone takes automatic screenshots for government every 5 minutes"
Oh look, the NK government made their own alternative to Windows Recall!
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As someone who works in higher-ed and also has taught middle school and high school aged kids, my opinion is not that LLM use is exploding among students because they're lazy or stupid or anything else
it's because our educational system has prioritized a very transactional "do this bullshit, and you get the credentials you need to have a life" approach for
well
maybe forever, really
and no one should be surprised that adversarial approaches by teachers and administrators are being met with an adversarial approach by students
(The dropped off thing was recently delivered and had somehow gotten banged up *so badly* in shipping that it had dents everywhere despite being made of sheet metal)
✅ Parcel dropped off and other parcels picked up
OPROEP: Ik ben op zoek naar onderzoeken, opiniepeilingen, en gegevensbronnen over de politieke meningen van Nederlanders! 
Daarmee bedoel ik dan meningen over specifieke beleidspunten (en in mindere mate onderwerpen), dus géén peilingen over politici of partijen.
Stuur me alle linkjes die je hebt! Liefst de oorspronkelijke bronnen, maar bijvoorbeeld nieuwsartikelen van waaruit ik de oorspronkelijke bron kan vinden, zijn ook goed.
@rune I'm not *immediately* concerned about it, but I would like to know why it's happening so much all of a sudden
CW-boost: nlpol, Wilders
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The post about Bell labs that this thread is a reply to is already gold, but this long read thread about Google is arguably even better. Sit down, take your time, read it attentively. Awesome content!
RE: https://transmom.love/users/elilla/statuses/114621457284876722
I've been noticing a lot of manufacturing defects in food products in the Netherlands lately, both in brand-name and store-brand products alike, and across many different product categories.
Seems like ingredient ratios are wrong, insufficiently mixed, and so on. I wonder what's up with that...
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A message for cis women who fall for the line that their trans sistas, who you have shared bathrooms with forever, are suddenly a danger
You have put all women at risk. More cis women are now being challenged and assaulted by vigilante transphobes than trans women. If any woman is a little tall, a little hairy, has a slightly larger jawline, a slightly deep voice, or slightly masculine features, they are now at risk
You are not a feminist. You are the danger to women
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📣 ✍️ Lees en teken hier
https://www.doorbraak.eu/steun-de-stakingsacties-bij-de-ns-en-teken-de-petitie-van-wij-reizen-samen/
(Bord uit het archief)
#solidairmetstaking #wijreizensamen #acab #anticommercieleactiebeweging #1312 #NS #trein #stakers #staken #eerlijkloon #voor20
- 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
