Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
re: Birdsite downfall
@stavvers@masto.ai Ahh, I'd been waiting for that particular shoe to drop.
@brainblasted Worth noting that Automattic itself does not have an entirely clean slate either; for many years, if you wanted to move your free blog away from Wordpress.com, they have been charging a *significant* recurring fee (currently $13/year) to set up a redirect.
It's definitely pretty shitty to lure people into a "free" service, and then basically hold their linked-to domain hostage by charging quite a bit of money for something that costs them virtually nothing to maintain (in fact, it would cost less than continuing to serve up the blog, which they *don't* charge you for).
Also makes any promises of long-term interoperability pretty suspect...
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I have mixed feelings about the Tumblr ActivityPub thing. On one hand, that's a lot of users that will now be able to interact with our open community here, and I feel like that can be a good thing. I always felt like fedi culture and Tumblr culture were very similar too. However, a major company becoming part of the ecosystem is an entry point for companies to take over the ecosystem. I think the current owners of Tumblr are decent people, but if Automattic or Tumblr get acquired again we may end up in a situation where a company wants to take over fedi for the benefit of its shareholders.
@scanlime I wish it were that easy outside of fedi
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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/Cinny 
infosec, politics
@ava Mmm, I'd say that this issue in many ways predates the "official recognition" of infosec as a field, much of infosec history is colored by it.
For example, there's long been a problem of many in the infosec field being just straight-up power-hungry assholes, who wield their knowledge as a sort of 'weapon of dominance' over others.
Government/corporate recognition of infosec has basically just laundered those practices, as long as they are in the service of capital and oppressive power.
re: meta, government accounts on non-government servers
@Kye@tech.lgbt The concern is less about that particular account - it is obviously identifiable - and more about what it says about someone and their trustworthiness when they are happy sharing space with oppressive actors.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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subtoot, infosec
"If these people don't want the feds to read things, they shouldn't use the internet."
That isn't the fucking point, you goddamned wet noodle.
No one is sitting here thinking that intelligence agencies can't read shit. It's that we don't want to *welcome them into our spaces*. We know where that gets us. And it's never been anywhere good.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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subtoot, infosec
Fucking dorks sitting there like THEN DON'T USE THE INTERNET.
Idk, jackass. Why don't you try to think about how we use OUR spaces? How we build things with intentionality?
Why not use your skills for actual safety and getting these fuckers *out of our lives* instead of supporting them? Unless, of course, you want the same power they have and you're working your way into that.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Many government agencies are expressing concerns about how to communicate with the public without Twitter, especially in emergencies. Of course, it was a bad idea to become dependent on Twitter to such an extent in the first place, and no matter what happens, this needs rethinking.
@luci @david@tech.lgbt And apparently the admin of infosec.exchange is a member of Infragard too, which uhhh
@whatanerd Oh, right 😅 I missed that, definitely am not running on all cylinders today, heh
@pthenq1@mastodon.la @polymerwitch You will find that many people on here do not define the word "community" that way.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Genuinely, if someone wanders past some sources on Wren (the #CarbonOffset thing) that aren't coming *from* Wren and are looking at the work they do?
Please send them to me. (Boosts and DMs are okay.)
Something about them keeps bugging me, and I really want to look into it with more depth than just "Their website says!"
(Am not thinking of putting money into it, but am highly cynical.)
@whatanerd Wendover did a very good video on the problems with carbon offset schemes, though I don't recall whether they covered Wren specifically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW3gaelBypY
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Instance Subtoot but
"information security focused social network INVITES US federal department of homeland security onto their instance" reads like a fucking parody sketch
How is this real life
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I've created a small, incomplete, list of instances with moderators of color.
The list and suggestions became to much to keep up on my own, so here is a Google document, https://docs.google.com/document/d/12pTmSMpq8lMYyYlHT25DgTmdMmE6ysUyRHGiq-E4XdQ/edit?usp=sharingp
Here's how to move accounts and take your followers with you https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFedi #FediTips #TwitterMigration #MastoAdmin
subtoot
@scanlime Ah yes, I am sure that Jeremy from Infosec is, as an "Info Sec practitioner", in a perfect place to educate... *checks notes* marginalized folks on "proper risk assessment".
And people wonder why I don't want anything to do with the infosec industry.
- 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
