Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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.
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- 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
Go home #PostgreSQL, you're drunk
Add a LIMIT 10: query now runs 9 times slower
Remove a bunch of WHERE clauses (that do not actually affect result count anywhere): query now runs 6 times slower
???
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Here, have a rainbow kitty to see you through these trying times
(Nikon Z6, Macro f2.8 90mm, processed in Darktable)
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
the duality of wanting to write software but also being so tired of people, especially the people that use software
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@joepie91 this has to be a fediverse-targetted marketing ploy
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@punkthesystem Taxation IS theft but the reasons behind it being so, from an anarchist perspective, are different than they would be from a right-wing libertarian perspective. The right-wing libertarian would say that the government is stealing the money that rightfully belongs to you due to your hard work. The anarchist would say, no, nothing by right belongs to you individually, save that everything belongs to everyone, so everything belongs to you. So the anarchist critique of taxation is far deeper - it's essentially a branch of the phrase property is theft, which is more all-encompassing and more accurate. I therefore don't find it to be a very useful phrase since people will probably assume you mean the right-wing libertarian thing, at least in the US
cw meta
Eagerly awaiting the day where tech folks can have a discussion about CWs without invoking ableist commentary
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"We live in #capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. #Resistance and #change often begin in #art, and very often in our art, the art of words."
- Ursula K. Le Guin
@scanlime Ah, the latter is a dev/testing environment apparently
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twitter complexity vs. fedi complexity, speculation
I wonder if Mastodon gives off the aura of being more complicated than Twitter because we - as in, the folks running things - actually tell you stuff up front
like, let's be real, is "you need to include the full @ with the server name to follow somebody" any more complicated than "you need to be vague about why you're talking about art today because any tweets with the word 'commissions' in them are yeeted into the shadow realm"?
- 🎒 💭
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politics, violence, transphobia
I think what's really been increasingly fucking me up for the past week is not that the shooting occurred. It's the mainstream response.
When Pulse happened in 2016, the conversation was the bog standard argument on gun control.
Now, the right wing are openly cheering "do it again, do it again!" and trying to incite copycat attacks while the centrists (there is no left in this conversation) pointedly say nothing.
Things are getting much worse, very fast.
@scanlime ... huh? What?
Apparently the next stable NixOS release will be called "Raccoon"
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Legalize 
Abolish copyright on academic work
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Mastodon Important info
Reasons to defederate from Mastodon.social and Mastodon.online: Eugen would open registrations without consulting or preparing his mod team at the time, after agreeing to keep them closed (this went on over and over after he had promised not to do it again).
He would, in the early days, insist that Mastodon.social was not a flagship instance, and then open a second server, still owned and run by him. (second server is Mastodon.online)
He would promise no algorithms and then create the explore page without input. And the trending hashtags without establishing it with the community.
He surrounds himself with yes sayers, and if you want to stay in his good graces you need to take a fair amount of abuse if you disagree with him.
He would (I have not recent data points on this) throw a disabled partner's, as in business, disability back in their face when not wanting to work with them any more.
The community asked for years for a Mastodon Nonprofit, so we'd be responsible together. He eventually created one with himself as the sole founder, and no other members (as far as I've been able to find.)
All hail the Benevolent Dictator For Life.
(rewrote because some faulty info, but added some stuff I know got sure, as I do not want to give reason to be called a liar.)
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nothing stopping us from just calling federation instances "pubs" or "homes" or "neighborhoods" or anything more inviting. particularly to indicate that these are points of entry to a cultural group and that you are picking your moderators. that would be a very good idea.
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…the AES key is 0102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
@cgranade My first suspicion would be a graphics driver bug. Leading to rendering artifacts, and failing driver calls that cause other software to become slow as it retries things.
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To those folks proudly affiliated with surveillance capitalists, I say: Read the room. The room exists despite the best efforts of the corporations that employ you. Your affiliation to them affords you no legitimacy here. On the contrary, it’s a mark of shame. So perhaps do not be too proud of it. Perhaps don’t flaunt it. Perhaps approach this space in your capacity as individuals. Perhaps listen. Perhaps try a bit of humility.
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#surveillanceCapitalism #fediverse #corporateCapture #activism
- 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
