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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- 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
@Shine_McShine Mmmm. PINE64 certainly has its own bit of questionable history, unfortunately.
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I created this image in May 2017, shortly after I started Elekk, and it was Elekk's hero image for several years. (In fact, it still should be, but the link is broken...) It predates and is not associated with the current project under the name "United Federation of Instances".
re: question about police
@respectthefire@g0v.social (The unspoken part of the problem here is that there are a lot of people who genuinely believe that society would be worse off without police - not from an authoritarian perspective but from a harm prevention perspective, because they've bought into the widespread police propaganda)
re: question about police
@respectthefire@g0v.social I certainly hold a police abolitionist perspective, but the question is genuine: there is tiny-but-not-zero chance that I am overlooking something, and either way it is important to get clear exactly *what* people expect or experience police to do.
A big part of police propaganda is the deliberate conflation of different tasks and purposes, muddying the waters about what the police is actually *for*, and this makes it really difficult to talk about "but what would a better solution for these issues look like?", particularly with people who aren't close to the violence.
So in the end, posing this question to people has multiple different purposes:
- Surveying the problems that police (are believed to) solve
- Making people question whether their assumptions about the purpose of police are actually correct
- Demonstrating that an abolitionist perspective makes sense - if my view that "police don't do anything that cannot be done better in another way" is correct, that should prove itself from the replies
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Heads up, there's a shiny new SQL injection for wordpress. You will want to update if possible.
https://wordpress.org/news/2022/01/wordpress-5-8-3-security-release/
If you can't update, you may want to look into input validation methods for your text boxes, move your userlists and other info to a separate sql database that then gets called as needed on your page or find a way to restrict user access to /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
@whreq Omdat het feitelijk opgelegd wordt als (sociale) norm waar je geacht wordt je aan te houden, i.t.t. slechts een observatie dat er iets veranderd is?
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UK politics, disinformation
This is not a government that negotiates in good faith
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#RaspberryPi hired a surveillance cop then reacted poorly to people criticising them?
I already released (partial) VCE disassembler, which is enough for an interested reverser to keygen the <=RPi3 codec licensing algorithm.
Maybe I should just, ya know, post the serial algo code.
(fuck software patents/etc anyway)
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There's no systemic racism but weirdly every time we train an AI on public data sets it becomes very racist.
re: question about police 
@whreq It's deliberately limited - whenever discussing the role of police in society, their various hats tend to get conflated, and the most crucial "special powers" that they have tend to be justified by things that don't actually require them.
That's why I'm singling out those specific circumstances here, that those special powers are claimed to be needed for.
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BREAKING: Raspberry Pi Foundation unveils new "Raspberry Spies" campaign promoting the use of its single-board computers in the intelligence and police communities.
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the qoto guy
And the same qoto guy who, lest we forget,
* sent a weird mass email to a bunch of fedi admins who defederated from him
* (a list which he openly compiled using a kiwifarms tool)
* insisting we only defederated from him because of something some troll did, which is drama I'd never heard of, which happened years after most of us defederated from qoto.
The whole man is a problem on this one, just him, by himself, as a person, the way he behaves, is enough to make me defederate.
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fedi meta
I see the qoto guy is trying to organise a "united federation of instances," and I plainly can not put into words how bad of an idea that is.
I would go back to MySpace before I subjected myself to mandatory federation with anyone, I would be one of the top users on Ello before I subjected myself to a constitution of "bylaws" and "amendments" decided on by the fucking qoto guy.
@ben That admin is also the person who started that whole "united federation" charade as basically a poorly-disguised "anti-cancel-culture campaign"
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alright for my future reference, what are some Raspberry Pi alternatives worth looking into?
I just realized that "🙃" is really just the FOSS version of the SarcMark™️
re: question about police
@virgil And did they respond in time to be useful?
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UFoI meta, shitpost
pretty cool that the folks who don't like being blocked keep organizing all-in-one-place blocklists for the rest of us
re: question about police
@lambda I'd consider that just as valid a response!
What I want to illustrate with this question is that there's a huge difference between "the protection that police are claimed to provide" and "what police actually do", and I would say that "how often are they actually needed in the first place" is also an important component of that.
question about police
So, if you're someone who sees police as "protectors of society", here's a question for you: has the police ever kept you, personally, safe from harm?
And I mean something very specific here: a situation where they prevented harm through "immediate response", in a way that bystanders or emergency services (ambulance, fire brigade, etc.) could not.
So *not* first aid, prosecution, moral support, or anything like that. But an actual first-responder situation where they were uniquely positioned to do so in a way that others couldn't.
This is mostly a rhetorical question, but also one that I am asking you to consider seriously, and that you can reply to if you have a genuine answer to it.
- 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
