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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- 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
It's actually very weird how "software architecture resembles the org chart of the organization it was produced in" is pretty widely accepted and joked about, but "software resembles the bias and ethical values of its creators" is somehow controversial
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Where to #find your #Mastodon #instance?
Relax, you were able to find phone and internet providers, hence you can manage this, too!
Mastodon instances
- Based on #community: https://joinmastodon.org/communities
- Based on #sustainability: https://greenfediverse.codeberg.page/green-instances/
- Based on #size: https://instances.social/list/advanced
- Based on #proximity: https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/
- Suche #deutschsprachige: https://contentnation.net/de/favstarmafia/artikel2
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Weet je nog dat je vroeger moest wachten tot een familielid klaar was met telefoneren voordat je in kon bellen bij een BBS en dat daar ook nog wel eens de lijn bezet was.
En je dan moest auto-dialen om binnen te kunnen komen.
En dan na 15 minuten zat je er eindelijk op, om met 128 bytes per seconde electronische berichten en bestanden te downloaden met ZModem of Kermit.
Nee, dat ken je niet? Nou, opa wel, en opa vindt dat die vertragingen hier wel meevallen.
@ivan3bx I'd say it's probably a rounding error, considering how difficult it is to configure access control for most serverless things correctly, and how many more network/access boundaries are introduced by it... it's probably made things *worse*, if anything.
@Dee Actually seriously quite likely, considering the background of the guy who started it
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the reason i use fedi as my primary social media is because of the culture here, it feels so much more cozy and personal and much more honest and i appreciate that a lot and we need to fight to keep it like this, this is much healthier than whatever professional culture most other social media may have. keep shit weird and cozy.
Periodic reminder: "serverless" is a marketing term that really just means "instead of learning how to manage a standard Linux server environment, you have to learn how to manage an expensive and proprietary vendor-specific system"
Oh and it's also an intercity route that goes up to 100km/h
Hey look, it's a video of the frankentrain that runs on third-rail metro tracks on one end, overhead-power tram tracks on the other end, switches train control systems halfway through, stops at train stations, and has signalized level crossings with roads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbtiDa6Lxxs
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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?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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acab includes stalebot
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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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
- 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
