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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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
chaos communication congress, covid, ableism
Also, something I want to clarify: my criticism isn't and never was towards those in orga who were trying to keep the event safe for everybody. I recognize that some of those involved in the orga will have tried their best. My criticisms were specifically about those who didn't.
chaos communication congress, covid, ableism
@psy @snoopy@chaos.social See here: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/109189313536217039
chaos communication congress, covid, ableism
@KAOS@dragonscave.space As far as I could tell, it was widely believed in all sorts of hacker circles that Congress *would* take place by default, and that a cancellation would be an anomaly rather than a 50/50 chance. And this is also what the orga communication implied: https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2022/37-chaos-communication-congress-in-hamburg
chaos communication congress, covid, ableism
@satanskrapfen@chaos.social @snoopy@chaos.social There is simply no good option in such circumstances.
When decisions about crucial safety measures are being made 'behind the scenes', and the only available evidence to me suggests the same sort of negligence and ableist sentiments that have been extremely widespread elsewhere, then to me it is worth the risk to make a stink about it early, to hopefully prevent that from happening like it has happened in so many other places already.
And yes, I accept the risk that the outcome turns out to be different. That is why I left room in my original post for different outcomes, and indicated that information came through the grapevine.
chaos communication congress, covid, ableism
Update: it's just been announced that (centralized) Congress will be cancelled this year: https://ccc.de/en/updates/2022/no-congress-2022
Mixed feelings; I would have liked to see it continue with safety measures, but this is certainly better than continuing it with *no* measures.
The alternative suggested in the post (smaller local events) is probably a good one; the overall risk should be much lower there. I'm also more optimistic about Camp; with it being outdoors (= lots of natural ventilation), it would be much easier to limit the spread.
chaos communication congress, covid, ableism
@snoopy@chaos.social In that case, it would probably help if there were some kind of public information on what's going on, and what sort of steps/goals are being considered. AFAIK nothing like that currently exists.
I'd also be happy to look at the missing part of internal communications privately, but I hope you also understand that this is just too important for me to go "oh nevermind" without seeing some sort of evidence that it's taken seriously.
chaos communication congress, covid, ableism
@snoopy@chaos.social That unfortunately doesn't match the things I've been seeing. It'd be great if that were the case, and I'll be happy to post an update once there's more public clarity on the matter, but all I have to go off right now are some rather concerning internal communications and questions about the choice of venue under the circumstances.
chaos communication congress, covid, ableism
From what I'm hearing, the plan is to organize this year's Chaos Communication Congress in an absolutely packed venue with *zero* COVID measures because the orga doesn't care about even *trying* to find workable solutions.
This would be grossly irresponsible and unacceptable. And as usual, vulnerable people are being thrown under the bus.
"Being inclusive is good, sure, buuuut maybe vulnerable people just shouldn't come for a few years."
This is not good enough. Fix this. There are *so many* possible solutions, see eg. the MCH2022 measures.
Encourage people to self-test, and provide free self-tests for those who cannot afford it. They're cheap in bulk now.
Tell people to wear a mask, even if you can't 100% rigidly enforce it. Public health measures are not all-or-nothing, it doesn't *have* to be perfect.
CCC folks speak loudly about inclusivity, but that requires actions, not just words. Pretending that COVID doesn't exist is ableist and needlessly harmful.
If the Congress orga go through with this, I will not go to #37c3, and neither should you.
I think we all know how widespread hacker pest is every Congress, so you're almost *guaranteed* to be exposed to COVID at #37c3, with all the consequences that that entails - including serious risk of chronic disability and, y'know, *your brain* not working right anymore.
And yes, this is information from the grapevine, but this needs to be talked about *now*, before things are set in stone and the only response we'll get is "sorry, it's already decided". I'm sure that the orga will be able to issue a clarification if the policy changes.
Wrote a little library that can be used to do relational queries on linearly-ingested larger-than-RAM datasets, demonstrated here on the (tiny) GTFS sample data feed: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/a1b702e693202653f0d94483e844dd43?ts=4
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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our anti-crunch game jam 'a game by its cover' is back – no competition or prizes, long deadline, late submissions possible
with crunch and burnout as industry staples, more than anything we want to provide a safe, comfortable and fun way for participants to get creative
my friends and i made video with more info about the rules and how to participate
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I don't know who needs to hear this but
The postal service exists to deliver letters and parcels to people
Not to make money for shareholders
The transport system exists to move people to where they need to go
Not to make money for shareholders
The water, gas, and electricity supplies exist to provide people vital utilities
Not to make money for shareholders
The healthcare system exists to ensure (and that's ENsure, not INsure) the health of the population
Not to make money for shareholders
Shareholders in vital public services are a vampiric drain on those services
Capitalism is a disease
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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i swear there’s a big machine somewhere stamping out identical right-wing FOSS guys
@malin@linuxrocks.online Yes; though it'd require some browser-side JS to update the page contents as the number of people is adjusted.
There are some approaches that come to mind:
1. Insert the ingredient data as structured JSON somewhere into the page (eg. in an embedded <script> tag) and re-generate the page contents every time the amount of people is adjusted, this requires some form of templating (eg. with React)
2. Use specially-tagged tags like so: "Add <span data-amount='2'>2</span> teaspoons of sugar" and upon the number of people being changed, have a bit of code that finds all the `data-amount`-having tags in the page, takes the value from the attribute, multiplies it, and puts the result as the new *contents* of that tag.
Option 1 is probably better if you want to expand the site over time with more (dynamic) functionality like optional ingredients, option 2 is probably better for a "quick and dirty" implementation if this is all the dynamic stuff you'll need.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Squatnet: **Amsterdam: Oud hotel gekraakt door studenten voor meer huisvesting**
"Op donderdag 13 oktober om 3 uur ‘s middags vond er een demonstratie plaats op het roeterseiland campus van de studentenvakbond ASVA voor meer studenten huisvesting. Om de hoek van het protest hebben dakloze studenten van Autonomous Student Strug…"
https://nl.squat.net/2022/10/13/amsterdam-oud-hotel-gekraakt-door-studenten-voor-meer-huisvesting/
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I feel like I, upon discovering Mastodon, found the total, like, 5–6 people I wanted to follow and've just stuck with them for the last 3 years so I don't know how effective asking the greater Fediverse will be but
Does anyone know of any artists on here who either can do ASCII art or, while not the medium they usually inhabit, are willing to give creating it a try? 'Working on an all-text video game and could use someone who's open for commissions, right now.
@Dee this sounds solvable in software
hey look Musk has finally sent the invoice for his ""donated"" starstink stuff
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/13/politics/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-ukraine/index.html
... why is PayPal serving up a revoked TLS certificate? https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=paypal.com&s=64.4.250.36&latest
- 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
