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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- 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
@jordan Heh, nope, this was my meal kit delivery stuff. It won't really matter because I've blocked out delivery for that timespan anyway :p
"Due to the holiday season, we have moved your delivery date from January 5 to January 5"
O...kay?
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When it comes to tech companies, Harvey Dent’s line about dying a hero or living long enough to become the villain is a haunting reminder of just how much of a dangerous game tech companies play with people’s lives and minds.
As an IT professional myself with 18 years experience across a handful of different kinds of positions and companies, it’s getting to the point now where I just want to dedicate my expertise to building alternatives.
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they should make a "strawberry pi" account on brands town and make fun of raspberry pi imo
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BREAKING: Raspberry Pi Foundation dismisses concerns about their product's use in police surveillance, suggesting that people can simply unsubscribe from police surveillance.
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BREAKING: Raspberry Pi Foundation tells victims of police violence to "just chill and be an adult" on social media, the company was unavailable for comment at the time of publication.
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Okay, but seriously
The idea that moderation should happen in the manner they suggest
1. If you *wanted* to make it impossible to defederate from a bad instance quickly, and you wanted to give them a chance to continue to abuse users, this is how to do it
2. Mandatory public receipts is a terrible idea if you care about user safety at all and will be weaponized
3. Voting about whether a thing is racist/sexist/homophobic aka having constant referenda about the value of these groups 
re: qoto, bad instance
@eldaking @researchfairy That is 100% the intention of the name
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qoto, bad instance
@researchfairy I wonder how anyone still federates with qoto. Between the block evasion scandal, the "freeze peach" commitment, the extremely suspicious exceptions in their rules, proudly saying they don't block any instances...
And now talking about how bad it is when others defederate. Like, is there anyone that can't see this is a server with extremely low standards, that is constantly being blocked by a lot of people?
For fuck's sake, just the name. "Question others to teach ourselves", it is clearly an instance _focused_ on sealioning.
@JennyFluff@queer.af How I do this is by leaving a `// FIXME` comment in place so that I can easily find to-be-refactored parts of the code later. Could also use a more specific tag than that.
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Welp.
I certainly didn’t expect the actual Raspberry Pi folks to announce hiring a former surveillance cop with such pomp and circumstance before dismissing concerned people with a genuinely baffling amount of snark and playfulness.
But that’s what’s happened and I’ve blocked the [former] cop and the entire Raspberry Pi instance as a result.
I’ll have to find another way to build a mini-computer as Raspberry Pi seem to have no issue letting a former surveillance cop work for them.
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BREAKING: Raspberry Pi Foundation joins United Federation of Instances, Tony Blair welcomed the company in a short statement saying that they "have a lot in common".
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"?
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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
- 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
