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.
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- 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
The world if policing were actually research-driven instead of based on gut feelings
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Playing the world’s smallest, glassiest violin to honour the death of iOS 7 flat design, where everything looks the same and you can’t distinguish a button from a label
Affordance’s are back baby. They’re good again. Awoouu (wolf Howl)
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So, there's a toot, supposedly from an employee of a company, recommending that folk delete that company's phone apps before going to protest.
First, that company is not the only source of software on your phone that is being used to surveil your participation in civil disobedience. Toot gives impression that by uninstalling that company's products your phone is somehow safe.
Second, that company, in particular, has hooks in the Web pages you visit, and thus tracking you even if you don't have an account (let alone apps) on any of their platforms.
Third, if folk are using apps from that company, they very likely learned of the protest through one of those apps, which means the company already knows they are likely enough "people who want to protest".
You want to avoid being surveilled by your phone at a protest? None of the answers are easy.
But any advice that suggests uninstalling a handful of apps (which may be bloat that can't be removed without tech knowledge) is misleading.
@argumento Serious question: what, exactly, would "stopping their activity to post about this" have achieved? What is the actual goal of expecting everyone to do so?
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If your idea of liberation doesn’t include rest, joy, dumb jokes, shitty movies, and community care, then it’s just another boot with a new logo
People deserve to feel joy, not just survive. #Monsterdon is part of that.
No apologies
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Hong Kong protestors say:
"Do Not Split."
Do not condemn the people on your side who embrace tactics you disagree with.
Do. Not. Split.
#doNotSplit
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And in 1994 I read this:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1994/nov/14/poland.europe
And finally today in 2025 I went to Hel!
And I got back 😀
@marlies Something like this maybe? https://www.reddit.com/r/SodaStream/comments/1cbd4vf/comment/l0xnequ/
(I was trying to find that post I saw a while ago about carbonating water with baking soda but I ran across this instead)
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For a while after the Ottawa occupation a few years back, i carried an airhorn.
I only got to use it twice.
Each time, one of those dipshits started ranting about masking and vaccines and trudeau... whipped it outof my toolbox, pressed the button.... put the fucking horn RIGHT in their stupid faces until they fucked off.
It was quite effective.
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IQ is fake. Being "smart" is fake. It's not an identity.
@UntaggedTransmitter Do you know of any particularly good switch options?
@UntaggedTransmitter I mean, I can do the soldering part, but I dread accidentally breaking something in the process of opening it up, given how aggressively anti-repair a lot of hardware is nowadays
Love having to do maintenance on my portable airco, and finding that the only place with any kind of helpful disassembly guidance is a Youtube channel named "Clueless Guy"
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isreal, eupol, piracy
I look forward to the EU declaring piracy legal now that they have to defend israel doing it
@raine (But then that would've required FOSS folks as a category to understand that there's a broader ethical component to the whole FOSS thing and well, we've seen how well that went)
@raine Yeah it does, public licenses were a neat little legal hack in their time but they're *really* not a very good tool for the long term, and the FOSS world really should've worked to build better structures and tools for this sort of stuff over the years 😕
@raine I'm not sure this would be possible; the GPL, like any public license, can only impose restrictions on usages that are normally prevented by copyright, so either "AI" training is a derivative work under copyright (and then the license already covers it) or it isn't (and then there's no way the license can make demands in the first place)
Looks like Mozilla is killing off one of their "AI" things, Orbit
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#PublicDomain no AI icons! Meant to look well with the Creative Commons symbols (despite them not being anti-AI, last i looked at least) and yah, feel free to use on your instances or websites or art or wherever!
Here's the source so its easily modifiable too! https://freesvg.org/no-ai-icons
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#openSource #vector #symbol #iconography #noAI #AI #disabledArtist #fediArt
- 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
