Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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
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sure is easy being a white queer leftist these days who doesn't feel any pressure whatsoever to challenge their own white supremacy. Just blame Capitalism and straight people for everything and absolve yourself of work or responsibility.
@kyo I've been very happy with my Pocketbook Touch HD (the first version, though I *think* all of this is still true for the later versions, but make sure to check!).
You can just dump files on it via USB as mass storage, it takes a microSD card, it has various optional(!) network syncing features, does not require network to function, and does not advertise on your homescreen. It does also have a browser (which is again optional) and a somewhat jank RSS reader implementation.
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If you are a person of relative privilege please CW your political posts. It took a lot of work to get people to respect that norm pre-influx and it seems to have gone by the wayside again.
Not everyone lives in your country and not everyone can follow politics while maintaining their mental well-being. Give people the choice.
People who are not privileged get a pass because they have some things other people need to hear whether they want to or not.
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
cranked out another blogpost!
https://cthu.lu/servermaid/pixie.town
An overview of the https://pixie.town services and sprawling infrastructure, plans for the future, and a bit about the financial side
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@rune Single Sign Off
@ifixcoinops Hey, someone else who remembers it :)
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To explain this policy of mine:
The fediblock tag is a flawed tool.
But it is still an incredibly useful one and has been for years.
Spamming the tag with nonsense in "protest" of the flawed tool is not the slam dunk you think it is.
Ditto for using the tag for overwhelmingly unfunny "jokes".
You are contributing nothing.
You are making a tool that a lot of admins/moderators use worse.
You are wasting their time.
If you have nothing useful to contribute to improving the fediverse moderation situation, at least shut the fuck up and stay out of the way.
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good use of statistical machine bullshit: free humans from drudgery that they're barely paid for, if at all, and doesn't involve the need for interpretation or creativity (example: OCR for digitizing aging texts, translating individual words, pronunciation help)
horrible use of statistical machine bullshit: literally anything where people's livelihoods in our current capitalist society would get taken away; literally anything that involves human interpretation and creativity (examples: art, full translation)
Automation was supposed to free us from drudgery. I still support automation freeing us from drudgery. But when automation is used just to free Capitalists from having to *pay* for drudgery, while pocketing the change, that's not something that we can do until we free ourselves from the system-as-it-is.
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Going forward I am considering continued abuse of the fediblock tag grounds for defederation of individual accounts and instances.
Stop wasting my time.
@dch Happy to help, feel free to ask if you have any further questions :)
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https://biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2021/08/02/children-as-an-oppressed-class/
Children are an oppressed group. The normalized treatment of children in our society undermines their autonomy and personhood.
Most common parenting methods aim to control and coerce children to behave in a way that that is pleasing to the adult. This is, in my opinion, one of the reasons ABA therapy is so popular amoung parents.
Heres a reminder that behavior communicates need, and that if your child is acting out that does not make them bad or broken.
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What you see on this photo is not from the Empire Strikes Back.
No, it is German police protecting a coal mine excavator in #Lützerath - a village planned to be demolished by the energy company RWE to extract coal that is not even needed for the energy security of Germany.
#Klimaschande
#EndCoal #EndFossilFuels #LütziBleibt
Picture: @mariusmichusch
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I love the part of adhd where you get fixated on something for a few months and then it suddenly doesn't hold your interest or appeal to you at all. Really great and definitely doesn't cost a lot of money and make you feel like it's pointless to have any interests
re: fedi drama?
@lambda @ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt It honestly doesn't really matter whether it "doesn't anymore".
When someone decides to implement something like this without talking about it to anyone first to understand the potential consequences, and then becomes incredibly defensive when criticized, it clearly signals that they cannot be trusted to account for the safety of marginalized folks, and so it gets defederated.
The problem here is not the specific decision, but all the factors that went *into* that decision, and what it says about all the other decisions they might make.
The "apology" page just reinforces this further - it throws in the good old abuser justification of "if I didn't do this, someone else would have, therefore you shouldn't complain about it so much".
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being annoyed about how people talk about fediblock
'fediblock will be used the same way as automated blocklists that silenced people' is a statement that is really easy to make if you don't actually pay attention to how a lot of moderators use and follow up on the hashtag
posting 'i'm blocking this person' and giving links and screenshots and offering a *choice* for other admins you federate with, on a platform where you can easily migrate if your admins make a bad call or aren't transparent?
it's pretty different to 'one person solo has control of who thousands of people block, has no expectations of transparency and community responsibility, and the people blocked are affected without the ability to move somewhere where they won't be blocked based on someone else's asshole decisions'
different things are different and you may wanna pay attention to the demographics actively telling you they use the tag when you go 'but marginalized users will be hurt!' because like. mostly until the past few weeks, it's been free speech assholes that are like, *the* vocal opposition to everyone having a network that says 'block these assholes'
re: fedi drama?
@lambda The problem is not technical, the problem is that it is a consent violation on multiple levels. It enables anonymous following (a significant harassment vector), and also replicates follower-only posts. It is essentially deliberately bypassing the visibility/privacy controls placed on posts by their authors.
This is one of those "just because you *can* build it, doesn't mean you should" things.
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You might be a fan of the liquid crystals, or maybe you like that new OLED stuff.
But my favorite display technology has got to be high voltage neon dot matrix
fediblock, meta
@schratze Additionally boosting a comment that tries to justify consent violations by arguing that the spec allows it, to get an idea of the general amount of respect they have for personal boundaries
subtoot
"Violating consent is fine because the spec says you can do this" sure is a hell of a privileged techbro take
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Salesmen going door to door selling competitive afterlife packages
Instead of eternal utopian paradises, they're having to sell you on the concept of like, haunting a 50s diner that probably won't close any time soon, or a river, or a post office
- 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
