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: fedi meta, UFoI, qoto
@david@tech.lgbt I've found this to be a good argument for that: https://old.mermaid.town/@triton/109474778261139113
Out of curiosity, which instance are you referring to with "one of their strongest supporters"?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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tech bros will literally be like
my interests include
#ObjectOrientedProgramming
#SoftwareDevelopment
#BusinessToConsumerApps
why would you be so bland (yes these are all taken directly from a tech guy's bio)
re: meta / UFoI, slurs, antisemitism
@pinkprius@chaos.social Undoubtedly helped by the pretty clear vote manipulation on QOTO's side, there were some *extremely* suspicious voting patterns in there, like getting 19 downvotes within 11 minutes of posting a critical reply, while zero people actually replied to it
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| TakeV | 
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*drops LLVM down a steep hill*
LLVM: clang
re: meta / UFoI, slurs, antisemitism
@sanctionedanya Oh, it 100% is that. Unfortunately the QOTO guy is very good at spinning official-sounding rhetoric that effectively catches the more, shall we say, politically oblivious
re: meta / UFoI, slurs, antisemitism
@sanctionedanya I mean, I doubt they even really looked at instance contents either, eg. this is a post on a member instance: https://m.azisserver.me/@Azis/109470567053446183
re: meta / UFoI, slurs, antisemitism
@goat@hellsite.site And this instance was added to the approved member list some time in the past 8 hours, so there's no excuses to be spun about "well it looked different at that time" either
re: meta / UFoI, slurs, antisemitism
@pinkprius@chaos.social Of course, this is just the direct evidence of what folks have been warning about already.
Maybe it'll help in dealing with the usual "oblivious centrists" who see something that sounds official and legalistic and immediately skip any critical inspection and consider it trustworthy. Probably not.
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inb4
"we have been made aware that our social media intern was insensitive toward those who've had bad experiences with the police. they have been let go and we promise that we will do better in the future. you can rest assured that the security of our products will continue to remain excellent and uncompromised # foss # raspberry_pi # forgiveandforget # livelaughlove"
@kim Ironically the RPi folks have actually blocked an infosec.exchange user calling them out
meta / UFoI, slurs, antisemitism
Yeah, so that "manually-approved federation of good actors" is clearly going very well
@stella I suspect they wouldn't get far
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Yeah, not really feeling @Raspberry_Pi any more now they're beating their chest on the socials at how proud they are to have hired an ex-surveillance officer and responded to people's concerns like ~that~. Read the room. Cops (yes, even ex-cops), and surveillance creeps are a tangible danger to many of us here.
https://raspberrypi.social/@Raspberry_Pi/109476972427437410
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the classic mistake of trying to tidy your house before a visit, and when the visitor almost arrives, you realise you're out of spoons to socialise, because you spent your spoons tidying.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Anyone have a favorite, counterintuitive thing? Because mine is that dinosaurs are divided into "lizard-hipped" and "bird-hipped" and birds are descended from "lizard-hipped" dinos.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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the 2010s was great because you'd open the box for a new smoke detector and find a leaflet asking you to register your detector and to join the manufacturer's forum
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Agh it's been five years since my last big wire order, I'm running out of wire, and the dude who sold me wire ain't selling wire no more.
And there's a whole load of crappy floppy wire out there! Folks, who's your go-to for decent quality copper wire at fair prices? Need some 22, 20 and 18-gauge stuff in maybe half a dozen colours. Boosts for visibility welcome.
@tami @LunaFoxgirlVT@vt.social That's how they present it, yes. The insidious part is that it doesn't just define "some common rules"; it effectively defines a *ceiling*, as in, saying that you *must not* moderate more strictly than is stated in those rules.
The origin of the whole thing is also extremely sketch, as I've written about before: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/109433103633543373
See also:
- https://josh.tel/@josh/109475460956631087
- https://old.mermaid.town/@triton/109474778261139113
@stella (I promise this is relevant despite being a week old by this point, not much has really changed since then)
- 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
