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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- 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
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I think one of the main reasons why people find decentralized network services hard to understand is that "talking to your sysadmin" has become a foreign concept to most people. Tech companies have normalized the idea of sysadmins as faceless, god-like beings, impossible for mere Users to communicate with directly.
In the early days of the Internet, when it was pretty much exclusive to major universities, the admins were at least people in your organization; co-workers or staff members who you could speak to in person. They may have held power, but they were known and approachable.
There seems to be an obsession with replicating the scale and power of GFAM and co. now. Being a "responsible admin" by putting on your professional face and treating the people on your servers like customers rather than fellow community members. (It's often at least partially motivated by people wanting to make themselves feel important & powerful, but that's another story.)
But when your sysadmin is just an authority figure, not a person, you can't have a conversation with them. You may be entrusting them with control over your digital life, but you can't open up to them. It's just a phone call with Customer Support—you can ask them why the computer's not behaving, but you can't sit down with them for a coffee and discuss how it all works. And the air of distance and superiority makes people afraid of all sysadmins.
We need less of that, I think. Far, far less of that, and more sysadmins who are friendly, approachable members of the community they serve. Hell, Free Software and the Internet is supposed to be about community! Let's nourish that, not crush it in favour of corporate aesthetics.
In the early days of the Internet, when it was pretty much exclusive to major universities, the admins were at least people in your organization; co-workers or staff members who you could speak to in person. They may have held power, but they were known and approachable.
There seems to be an obsession with replicating the scale and power of GFAM and co. now. Being a "responsible admin" by putting on your professional face and treating the people on your servers like customers rather than fellow community members. (It's often at least partially motivated by people wanting to make themselves feel important & powerful, but that's another story.)
But when your sysadmin is just an authority figure, not a person, you can't have a conversation with them. You may be entrusting them with control over your digital life, but you can't open up to them. It's just a phone call with Customer Support—you can ask them why the computer's not behaving, but you can't sit down with them for a coffee and discuss how it all works. And the air of distance and superiority makes people afraid of all sysadmins.
We need less of that, I think. Far, far less of that, and more sysadmins who are friendly, approachable members of the community they serve. Hell, Free Software and the Internet is supposed to be about community! Let's nourish that, not crush it in favour of corporate aesthetics.
FYI, I'll be at eth0 this weekend! https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/Main_Page
@gitea @dachary@mastodon.online This sure is starting to sound an awful lot like the arguments Andrew Lee made in his hostile takeover of Freenode.
@Natanox@chaos.social Don't forget, it's only a drug when it's not manufactured by the alcohol industry!
@ben Wait, which mods are we talking about here?
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acab includes stalebot
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Please, @gitea, do not go down that DAO route. I would hate to see a very good open source project associate itself with a dying, planet-killing technology.
(refering to your announcement https://blog.gitea.io/2022/10/open-source-sustainment-and-the-future-of-gitea/ )
@SkyFox Or one could just use literally the first widely used bundler, Browserify, and get easy configuration and fast bundling while being compatible with the existing ecosystem 🤷
Hey look another new monolithic JS bundler that claims to be magically faster and that breaks compatibility with every existing build tool, even though that wasn't actually necessary to solve the claimed performance issues
@naln1 Good question, no idea! But https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patat-frietgrens
@naln1 That is getting dangerously close to the friet vs. patat discourse in NL :p
@teh_dude Ah, if you mean having everything you *actually* want installed as transitive dependencies, then that wouldn't work - NIX_AUTO_RUN uses nix-shell, which is ephemeral, so the dependencies don't get installed to your global system environment (plus the bin/ etc. wouldn't be exposed in PATH for transitive dependencies anyway)
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gonna get really into online privacy discourse to launder my extreme right wing views, anyone tried this
@heccer so *that's* why there's all those minecart rails everywhere
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for every one block you travel in the netherlands, you travel 8 blocks in the overworld
So apparently Nix can just, like, transparently fetch whatever thing you're trying to run if it isn't installed on your system yet. What
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Some trans people know at age 6, some at 26, some at 86. This used to be a thing that gatekeepers got in a huff about but even they don't care so much anymore.
Whatever age you figure out how to be happy is the right age for you. Seize it. Be beautiful. I believe in you.
Can't help but feel like a bunch of small/mid-sized companies are increasingly making the NixOS community their personal battleground, and I hate it
The various replies I've been getting to my Congress COVID thread are certainly a very good illustration of why I do not "trust in the [orga] process".
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To angry straights and respectability gays everywhere:
If your day can be ruined by the mere fact of me wearing tights that make me happy
You deserve to have your day ruined
- 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
