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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
@vitak One thing that really stood out to me was the "I have control over the information I share online" item. Am I reading correctly that Dutch respondents hold this belief more strongly than American respondents? But how would that mesh with the higher degree of fatalism among Dutch respondents?
(Very interesting research, by the way!)
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I'm excited to share this article (open access!) comparing privacy attitudes in the US and Netherlands using factorial vignettes. This was one of my favorite projects (and teams) to work on over the last decade, and this paper represents the last study in the 3+ year project. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19391
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@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt Ah, right. Shot in the dark: tried Yandex's reverse image search?
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Regarding fatphobia and ableism:
No matter how progressive or broadminded people think they are, as long as they attach arbitrary conditions to the value of a human being, they are effectively gatekeeping humanity itself.
They are, therefore, holding on to the seeds of fascism, unwilling to let go.
@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt Quick search yields https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man1/findimagedupes.1p.html
@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt I don't know of an off-the-shelf tool for video, but if you have the disk space and CPU to spare, ffmpeg *can* just extract every Nth frame from a video (there's a stackoverflow answer for it ~somewhere~) and then you could use an off-the-shelf image comparison tool against that?
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Bank of America set on fire in Portland
"Last night I broke into a Bank of America in Portland, Oregon and started a large fire. According to news reports, the fire grew quickly and took firefighters more than an hour to extinguish.
I attack for revenge against capital for the hell it creates, to break the illusion of police control that usually protects it, and just because I can.
Bank of America funds the Atlanta Police Foundation and a thousand other projects of control. Earlier that day, the six friends in Atlanta charged with “domestic terrorism” were released from jail. May this fire bring them some warmth in winter.
Long live anarchy!"
https://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2023/01/01/bank-of-america-set-on-fire-in-portland/
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freelancers this is your reminder to download the past year of bank transactions for your taxes
poor people this is your reminder to get started on your taxes if you need it for income verification stuff that is due before the usual tax deadline 🐘
@joenepraat Ik heb wel een IT-achtergrond, maar redeneer (voor bijv. documentatiewerk) vaak vanuit niet-IT-perspectief, en in die context zou ik zeggen dat beiden niet echt fantastisch zijn, hoewel de tweede wat beter is, want de term 'compatibel' is wel enigszins gebruikelijk bij bijv. huishoudelijke apparatuur.
Bij het uitleggen van dit soort dingen heb ik meestal de voorkeur om de zinsconstructie aan te passen, i.p.v. directe synoniemen te vinden voor jargontermen, omdat het concept an sich vaak een gespecialiseerd iets is.
In dit geval zou ik bijvoorbeeld eerder iets zeggen als "verschillende Mastodon-servers kunnen met elkaar praten", eventueel met een toevoeging als "ze spreken dezelfde taal naar elkaar toe". Legt de focus op wat de server *doet*, i.p.v. de technische eigenschap van interoperabiliteit.
re: ABA, ACAB
@MerlinJStar@weirder.earth It would not surprise me, although I haven't dealt much with ABA directly. The language and rhetoric tends to be very similar in general, among those who seek to build and/or uphold hierarchies of any sort.
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In other news, Australia's Lord Mayor of Melbourne is frustrated that QR codes placed around the city to report graffiti have been vandalized by overlaid alternate QR codes leading to a hip hop culture documentary on YouTube. Oops!
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I really hate this ageist ass notion that young people always want change and hate the system, but it's only because they're "naïve" and they will "grow up" when they will age. whoever said that needs to be decked because they is not only ageist, they is also upholding the status quo
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I needed to read this today. My New Years revolution is to live life vibrantly, like a benevolent alien.
I think it might help. 🧡
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“Nice is not the same as kind.
Nice is not the same as ethical.
Nice is not the same as moral.
The older I get, the less interested I am in “nice.”
Nice is the gift wrap; it says nothing about what’s inside.”
-- @lingerie_addict@twitter.com
https://twitter.com/lingerie_addict/status/991532263266496512
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kids' t-shirts are so weird. girls t shirts be like "🦋✨gorgeous✨🦋 rainbows 💖💫💃🌈pretty💅💛" and the boys t shirts be like "KILL YOUR SISTER💀🔫👿 SHIT YOUR PANTS 💥🔪👊CARS 🚘🚔"
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This is also related to the myth that "racism will die out" or "homophobia will die out" as older people die.
No, bigotry and fascistic attitudes *don't* just die out, they must be actively fought and defeated on an ongoing basis.
Because sometimes we make the mistake of thinking "Oh, the youth must not be bigoted like their forebears" but guess what.
If that were true we wouldn't have had the tiki torches or the terf explosion.
Allies and enemies in every generation.
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@shine @whatanerd Hmm, I've not seen that one anywhere yet! I've tried the store-brand vegan mozzarella from Albert Heijn in a pasta dish, and it worked okay enough, but the taste was rather weak. Didn't try baking it though!
It probably helps that Nurishh is a brand from an actual cheese manufacturer, so they at least have people who understand how it's supposed to taste 🙃
@whatanerd Might not be! NL is notoriously behind with vegan stuff :) It's only very recently that there's starting to be affordable vegan stuff in regular stores with any semblance of quality
@whatanerd On a brighter note: I've been pleasantly surprised by both the 'premium' vegan burgers and the vegan shoarma from Lidl. Both turned out extremely well, the resulting meal was basically indistinguishable from the real thing
- 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
