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
@ttuegel I'd almost agree, with a slight alteration: replacing "Nix" with "Nix-like systems". IMO it is the underlying principles that make it work, which *could* be applied to other systems also!
Another interesting observation is that those underlying principles are largely anarchist in nature. And that it depends on the observer whether they are perceived as "anarchist" or as "democratic" (but that both draw roughly the same conclusions about what it enables).
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Here's your reminder that any brand that makes an account on here can be shot at with eye lasers and exploded. It's legal
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On Twitter, I had a hard time finding other trans people with shared interests to follow. On Mastodon, they’re just all coming out of the woodworks. It’s like that SpongeBob scene where he keeps opening different things and there are diapers. But instead it’s a good thing and the diapers are all #trans friends who become mutuals. I love this place.
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Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.
This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set.
If these are unpublished pictures, work-in-progress, etc. they'll still be analysed as soon as they're synced.
I've been using Lightroom to sync photos from my Windows desktop to my iPad. Now I need to reconsider that.
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@servingworlds @doot Having all the marketing types on one server does have certain advantages for the rest of us, mind you
December 2020 vs. today, about two years later. Holy shit. #NixOS
(Graphs from Repology)
@f0x Maximum vibing frequency exceeded
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Active For Justice is een meldpunt begonnen voor Foie Gras in restaurants!
Weet je er een? Meldt het dan hier:
http://activeforjustice.nl/meldpunt
BOOST als je ook wilt dat het afgelopen is met het dierenleed van dwangvoeren van ganzen en eenden!
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@aurelia @welshpixie I'm assuming this is for the LinkedIn cross-posting functionality that they claim they will be providing
@vitak Ah, that makes a lot more sense, thanks. I guess I got confused by the way it was presented :)
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@welshpixie @jigbean Seems that they are planning exactly that: https://equelsocial.com/story
Yikes^2
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@welshpixie "Bonus" points for the "always give before you ask for help", as if everybody is equally able to give and there's no inequality at all
@rosalux@climatejustice.social In the odd case that we have actual serious snow in NL, the same thing happens every time: almost everybody walks, people only drive on snow-cleared roads (particularly highways), and for any mid-distance travel over non-cleared roads, people use their bike because that's at least *somewhat* controllable.
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@terrencefoxfur That part I don't really have an answer to, unfortunately. I'm nowhere near close enough to any artist communities to understand the finer details of social dynamics and influence there.
The generic answer to this sort of problem is "it helps a lot when influential people in a community publicly speak out about how people's assumption actually isn't right", but of course with fedi being pretty much designed against "influential people"... 😅
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@terrencefoxfur Oops, I just realized that I might've misread your original question 😅
If you meant "more artists" rather than "big artists", then my answer would be different: there seems to be a widespread belief among artists that "there's no reach on Mastodon, because it's not a [public square] like Twitter is".
Which isn't true in practice, because people actually *interact* with each other much more here, but it's a somewhat understandable conclusion if you're applying the assumptions of how Twitter/Facebook/etc. work to something like fedi.
Under those assumptions, less people == less engagement, because of the sense of needing to fight for every scrap of attention, because that's how Twitter and such work.
The only solution I can see is to try and explain to them how the social dynamics are completely different here, and you don't *need* a massive following to have interactions with people, because there's much more genuine interaction.
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@terrencefoxfur Very likely the issue is precisely in the "bigger artist" part. Twitter is made for building large parasocial followings and 'social rankings', whereas the fediverse is much more about community building in a more egalitarian manner (even if definitely not perfect).
I've found a *lot* of celebrities (at various scales) to be turned off by that change; it would mean losing their special status, and in many cases I've actually seen celebrities get genuinely angry that they don't get a massive parasocial follower base here.
This also raises the question: do we actually *want* the "bigger artists" to come here? The egalitarian community building is an important part of *why* this place is so much less toxic. Less megaphoning, more genuine community.
That's not to say that those artists aren't welcome here *as a person* of course, but I feel like seeking "bigger artists on Mastodon", in that phrasing, is much more looking for the celebrity than for the person. And what would that really bring us?
@duck@queer.af Oven/microwave combination mode!
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#FediBlock for bylines.social - transphobia and lack of moderation
@dxciBel@fruef.social @blahaj@blahaj.zone Framing the fight for trans right as a debate is empowering transphobia. It's actively normalising the idea that our rights can be questioned, and that there are circumstances where our rights can take a back seat if an argument is well made.
The people debating don't care about the debate. They're not looking for answers. They're just making their feelings about trans folk known, because the debate gives them a chance to share their bigotry, as long as they do it in the socially acceptable way. Not a single person changes their mind and drops their transphobia because a trans person or an ally was willing to debate with them or "answer all of their questions".
We "win" the debates when people develop enough empathy to realise that making our rights contingent on debate is an act of harm in and of itself, and that takes empathy and consideration. And empathy and consideration will only develop when we are normalised. And normalisation is achieved by visibility, not by debate.
As for the comments, they were up for a VERY long time, including active death threats to trans people. I'll be waiting for a comment by them to show measures that ensure it won't happen again before I consider refederating.
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meta, admin stuff
just got yet another "why are you blocking my domain you have no reason listed and I don’t think that’s fair" email from a fedi admin who’s totally not upset that my single user instance is blocking his but thinks it sends a bad impression of him.
"it’s only 29 hours old and has no posts!"
yep, and before you installed GtS yesterday you ran pleroma on a different subdomain and federated with any and every cesspool that came your way.
now you’re using kiwi farms tooling to see who remembers and convince them they don’t.
fuck off, tiuxo dot com admin, I’m tryna have a nice end of year break.
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@julialuna@chaos.social From what I've heard, the Prusa Mini + Prusament is the cheapest "just works reliably" option. Significantly cheaper than the full-size Prusa, though with a smaller build volume. Some 500-600 EUR I think?
*Personally* I've been quite happy with my Sovol SV06, which is essentially a Prusa clone, and significantly cheaper (200-250 ish EUR). The only issue I've had with it is the auto-bed-levelling being weirdly off, which required a one-off fix of manually twisting the Z axes until it was level. It's been printing with perfect reliability since. But that's more than zero tinkering of course, and the overhang performance/cooling is not as good as that of a Prusa or Ender.
(Still need to e-mail their support about the levelling issue further, totally forgot about that, oops)
- 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
