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
@kelledy It's certainly something I've observed elsewhere as well, but the infosec community is the only one where I can speak about it from extensive experience :)
re: meta, long
@dl While I do think it is important to be prepared for such a situation, it is also very dangerous to just assume as a fact that that *will* be the situation, and moreso to state it as such.
What breaks loosely organized structures isn't abuse itself, but a loss of trust in the structure's ability to deal with it. Declaring it impossible to do so upfront just makes that failure mode *more likely* to occur.
Losing the openness should be the absolute last resort. It is an option that should be on the table, but *only* after every other possible solution has been eliminated, including (particularly!) the ones that might seem unlikely to work because of (frequently misguided) beliefs about "human nature".
In infosec, there's the "I want to protect others from harm" people, and then there's the "I like having power over others" people, and it is usually *really easy* to tell which is which, and most of the community is the latter type
re: Full-text search on Mastodon rant
@SeanWrightSec@infosec.exchange @buherator@infosec.exchange (Sidenote: did you have an earlier account elsewhere? Because it's a bit odd to call this a "worrying trend" when this has very explicitly been the policy here for *years* and you joined here less than a month ago...)
re: Full-text search on Mastodon rant
@SeanWrightSec@infosec.exchange @buherator@infosec.exchange To reiterate: fedi is primarily a place built by marginalized people for marginalized people, and that means a heavy emphasis on community safety features.
It is neither meant to be a Twitter clone, nor a "public square", nor something that optimizes for "what the majority wants".
Convenience with disregard for the consequences is already the default everywhere else. Why is it such a problem that this is the one place where it isn't? Why does everything need to be like Twitter?
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
if pixie.town goes down today it'll be because of a local power outage, there's a big fire in the substation 😬 👁️
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If an #ActuallyAutistic person shares information w you, it’s NOT because we feel negatively toward you or “think we know everything” or are judging you.
We’re doing it because we like you.
Most of us LOVE information.
We’re just sharing our favorite thing.
@f0x But are they auto-scaled yet
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Twitter, vent
That fucking Twitter engineer has the same energy as a gatcha game designer explaining that multiple currencies, timed events, and carefully-calculated friction are what people want in a game, because they make the numbers go up
@wmd@chaos.social kolektiva.social, maybe? Not entirely tech-focused, but there are still quite a lot of nerdy folks there
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"Mastodon is just like email."
Like email? So I use Microsoft Outlook?
"Use WHAT"
(Tools -> Account Settings -> RSS Feeds -> New -> https://mastodon.social/@Gargron.rss)
Like email? So I use Microsoft Outlook?
"Use WHAT"
(Tools -> Account Settings -> RSS Feeds -> New -> https://mastodon.social/@Gargron.rss)
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@rune @kim @dumpsterqueer Crowd-sourced social media break scheduling
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re: journa.host
I think this signifies a profound change in the fediverse. It's not like seeing a Pleroma instance crawling with swastikas and 4channers and smashing the suspend button. That's easy.
Reporters control narratives. They are watching us because we are a "beat" (an actual remark I have seen by one of them). We are material for their careers.
We can be as objective as we want in their interviews, but at the end of the day, they're the ones who decide what we said and how we said it.
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journa.host crosspost
A think a lot of us have been patient with this instance as it's been finding its place in the fediverse, but it's time to #fediblock.
I appreciate that Adam apologized for using, and removed, a Kiwi Farms scraping tool. I appreciate that Mathew Ingram removed his link to that tool in his article for Columbia Journalism Review.
I want to support journalists and the essential work that they do.
However:
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re: journa.host, racism
It's finally sinking in for me, and I'm devastated to see journa.host take so long to enforce its server rules, as well as outright punish reporters that identify violations.
Mike Pesca, who was fired from Slate in 2021 for defending his "right" to use the N-word, who endorsed flawed, biased, transphobic reporting, was allowed onto journa.host. Why? Why are white men so fucking bad at just listening to the rest of us?
And when are they going to figure out that we're actually really good at finding out exactly what they're doing outside of the fediverse?
@Paulinebvr Aw :( I've been looking for a while for a well-sourced overview of "how this model has worked throughout history" that is smaller than a book, hence the question :)
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"i use arch btw"
boring, old, may get you mistaken for a techbro
"Federal regulations require me to mention NixOS at least once"
sparks curiosity, menacing
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Being autistic does not exclude or excuse one from being an asshole. The autistic community must take responsibility for fascists, abusers, and other jackasses in our own ranks. Not try to claim "they're not actually autistic" to wash our hands of them.
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#Drag kings, quings, queens, artists of the Fediverse, where are you?
I wanna connect!
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- 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
