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.
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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
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politics-adjacent, infrastructure
A (paraphrased) description by someone I know, of the "fallacy of the factory", which describes a serious risk of centralized manufacturing:
You build a factory to manufacture something that people need. That requires a big investment, that the factory now needs to make back in some way, but the legitimate need isn't big enough to do so.
So now the manufacturer starts inducing demand, by lobbying, advertising the product, whatever is necessary to make back that investment. Eventually the demand exceeds production capacity, and the factory needs to expand, again requiring significant investment - plus surrounding infrastructure *also* needs to expand.
This cycle repeats until your small "factory with a legitimate purpose" has turned into a self-serving sprawling system that keeps expanding unsustainably, regardless of what exact economic system it exists under.
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@Harry @q Oh, and also my ND ass very much appreciates the website for Zaventem, where you can enter your flight number and it'll give you a single page that contains *everything* you need to know as a linear list - departure time, when you need to arrive, what to expect, what you need to do, where you need to go when, etc.
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A quick reminder regarding the fediblock tag, we know a lot of the nasties are also creeping on that tag looking for people to bother. If you ever feel unsafe posting a fediblock toot let me know in a DM along with receipts and I'll do it on your behalf so you're not exposed to them in order for that information to still make it out there to help others.
I'm one of the least visibly marginalised people in the room here so it's a way to show support and take some of the pressure off x
@Harry @q Also just the layout and operations in general, honestly. 5 paths to get everywhere and half of them are incompletely signed. Security takes fucking forever.
And I distinctly recall my flight where there was *nothing* open after security, and no vending machines, meaning I literally couldn't even buy a bottle of water.
Compare to Zaventem, where there is precisely 1 (one) path from the station/escalators/elevators to the security area, you pretty much *cannot* go wrong, security is fast, and immediately afterwards there's a huge unattended box of water bottles for 1 EUR, and a massive concourse with *lounge chairs*.
And on top of that, the flights from Zaventem are generally much cheaper too, and there's a direct train to it from NL...
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
does not work on my machine, let's ship it and hope it works on yours
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Heads up for fans of the #Metatext #Mastodon app
- its lead developer @metabolist has stopped updating it, for health reasons.
If someone else would like to help out, please email them at info@metabolist.org
https://mastodon.social/@metabolist/109422457953717612
@q Like, I cannot understate how much difference there is in terms of "they actually understand how to run an airport"
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Today in people attempt to get to the hackerspace party: two trains are cancelled, someone gets lost in Oslo airport, and Schiphol is, well, Schiphol
@q The secret to surviving Schiphol is to fly to/from (especially from) Zaventem instead, I've found
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@actuallyautistic Does anyone have any helpful tips on the rage that comes up as you realize exactly how much ableism you've faced throughout your life? I'm generally very comfortable with anger and processing it but this is..........deep, lolsob.
@saadazim @NovaSquirrel Yep, this is exactly how most projects go for me
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ableism
they should invent adhd accommodations that are possible for ppl with adhd to acquire
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ranting about hive social
who could have ever predicted a student coding project with three people working on it and over 2 million users would have multiple critical vulnerabilities?
"The issues we reported allow any attacker to access all data, including private posts, private messages, shared media and even deleted direct messages. This also includes private email addresses and phone numbers entered during login." https://zerforschung.org/posts/hive-en/
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ranting about hive social
Hive is adding ~500k users daily, passing the 1 million user mark on Monday and then 2 million users earlier today. They're supported only by the 24-year-old founder, two employees, and zero moderators.
It's completely irresponsible for them to have unlimited signups when they can't possibly handle abuse, harassment, scams, spam, disinformation, or illegal content. https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-competitor-hive-social-run-by-24-year-old-founder-2022-11
@tessaracht Is this still cryptocurrency shit, though?
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"It was my belief that as Mastodon adoption grew, the moderators of whichever instance you chose to use would have to deal ever-increasing volumes of abuse. It’d be like how email providers have to develop spam filters to combat incoming spam from every other provider (but so much still gets through).
After a month on #Mastodon, I’ve realized I was wrong."
https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html
- 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
