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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- 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
@f0x Diced, because that means I can just throw them into the electric chopper thingem and push a button and not make any effort
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Remember: if you get Wikipedia "pls give us money" begging, give to the Internet Archive instead.
The internet archive is perpetually underfunded, whereas Wikipedia has enough cash on hand to continue operating at twice its capacity for about 3 decades.
Editors strongly opposed the wording of the recent beg banner:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statistics
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Once again I am begging the void to produce an activitypub fediverse answer to bandcamp.
Labels, orgs, groups of punks host instances.
Bands create profiles. Can upload their music, organized by release with lyrics, art, metadata. Numerous download formats available. I don't really care about payment for music, but probably some integration with external payment platform (librepay?) for PWYC downloads goes here.
Profile is viewable by anyone. So far this is a self-hosted bandcamp clone (that also does not really exist as far as I know).
You can follow profiles from elsewhere on the fediverse and you'll get posts when the band publishes new songs/releases (with embedded player linking back to the media hosted on instance?) or posts other updates (tour dates! etc). (It should have RSS too)
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We know a lot of nasties are also creeping on the fediblock tag looking for people to harass and abuse.
So if that ever makes you 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 the creeps but that information to still make it out there to help others.
I'm happy to try to take some of the pressure off x
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Anyone know of some good studies that examine the psychological impacts of “going viral”? (Working on a project with a first year PhD student and we’re coming up short on recent studies in this space… wondering if there might be some older work out there.)
re: type of guy
@scanlime Is it just me who has an almost visceral reaction against the name "Robert's Rules of Order" in and of itself?
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My objection to "progressive" does not come from a right-wing place, obviously, and I can ally and be friends with progressives since our goals frequently align. I just fundamentally disagree with the idea that human history progresses out of oppression and destruction. This is empirically false, and even normatively questionable given the fundamentally racist and Eurocentric conception of "progress" which has been used to justify genocide, the carceral state, ableist violence and more.
@katnjiapus@toot.site @selea@social.linux.pizza Another option would be PHP-Friends: https://php-friends.de/vserver-ssd -- small-to-midsize provider, I haven't used them for as long yet, but so far their service quality has been solid and the performance very good. They do have somewhat unusual contract durations though, by default it's not month-to-month.
@katnjiapus@toot.site @selea@social.linux.pizza Afterburst's cheapest plan is probably worth a look, then, depending on how much traffic you need; they're a small provider, but have been around for years, with very good quality of service and support, and "fair-use" unmetered traffic on 1gbps (ref https://afterburst.com/network-policy/)
@katnjiapus@toot.site @selea@social.linux.pizza How "dirt cheap" are we talking, in terms of monthly budget?
@retr0id @desea @cadey That's the thing though, the expectation that online social spaces must reflect your full social graph at all times is actually *very weird*, and an expectation that didn't exist at all prior to startup social media silos.
We don't expect this from any in-person social spaces - why would we expect it from online social spaces? Meeting different people in different places is a pretty normal part of social interaction, for precisely those reasons of social compatibility.
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De Fokke & Sukke voor morgen. Ik plaats hem hier omdat ik wil experimenteren met Alt-Text.
Does this work for you, @oedipusnj ? @labellaragassa
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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
- 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
