Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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.
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- 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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In Zuid-Holland moeten 120.000 huizen verwarmd worden met restwarmte uit de Rotterdamse haven. Maar is dat echt duurzaam, of spelen andere belangen een rol? https://www.groene.nl/artikel/de-botlek-als-kachel
@rotfarm@eldritch.cafe @dysfun@treehouse.systems Assuming you mean the fedi thing: quite possibly. Alternatively it may be a more 'boring' EEE in that they try to convince people to run their specific stack that's tied to their specific infrastructure so that they cannot migrate. Or both.
Either way, it's a near-certainty that the intention is to monopolize control over the fediverse, because that is exactly what Cloudflare has been doing with ~every decentralized system for the past decade, including the internet as a whole.
As for the registrar service: yes, that was almost certainly their intention. It's the only plausible explanation for the misleading marketing that they used to pitch it initially - going all "look at how extortionate existing registrars are, we are here to save you from them", and then only comparing to the particularly expensive ones, and not the ones that only had a negligible fee beyond registry cost.
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@doot also, fun fact, with that unbroken chain of compatibility, this "wider fedi" social network both predated *and* outlived Google+
https://rys.io/en/162.html#a-bit-of-history
Remember this next time anyone makes a galaxy-brained "argument" that only corporate-supported tools and services are "long-term viable" or somesuch bullcrap.
@houbovycaj@catcatnya.com @samgai I wrote this article about them in the past: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/07/14/cloudflare-we-have-a-problem/ (wow, it's been 6.5 years!), and more recent attempts at centralization include https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/109676113992029709
... and many many many other more subtle cases, where they've proudly announced something to "make the internet a better place" but it was always conveniently the solution that allowed them to gain more power over the internet, and *not* what would've actually been the optimal solution if reasoning from first principles
@halfy I think this is basically what GoToSocial is meant to address?
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I think just as a matter of praxis of securing the open "run anywhere" nature of the fediverse, I'll be UA-blocking Cloudflare's "Will only run on cloudflare" fedi project and encourage everyone else to do the same.
Anything that talks to vee must be capable of being self hosted for no additional cost or licensing encumbrances. I'm sick of EEE.
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Move from 'effective altruism,' to 'solidarity, not charity.'
@dysfun@treehouse.systems Oh yeah, but that'll be a lot harder to convince fediverse admins in general to do (which is necessary for it to be an effective defense), whereas Wildebeest itself is still a manageable issue
@dysfun@treehouse.systems Hm. I guess automatically fediblocking any Wildebeest instances would be a pretty effective community defense, too.
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in case anyone needs the reminder, cloudflare suck
don't give them your business
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@gsuberland @joepie91 the garbage collector relies on heuristics, often resulting in dangling pointers to important objects.
@dysfun@treehouse.systems This is exactly the same thing that they've been trying to do with their registrar service, too.
Framing themselves as the saviour for providing "at-cost domains", while conveniently failing to mention that this makes it impossible for *any* other registrar to compete with them and stay in business, unless they resort to upsells or have service bundling like Cloudflare does.
Hi everybody reporting on #luetzerath, can you please try to include alt texts for your images and videos, so that the vision-impaired among us can also follow what is happening? Almost everything I see coming by is missing alt text!
@dysfun@treehouse.systems This hot bullshit: https://github.com/cloudflare/wildebeest
Oh look what a surprise, Cloudflare is trying to co-opt the fediverse and centralize it into their own infrastructure
When will people finally start accepting that Cloudflare is a bad actor?
#ADHD allocation algorithm: objects go in the nearest free spot on a flat surface, and that is now forever their Place. Retrieval uses a temporal/associative lookup table.
Love seeing the "many of the new Mastodon users did not want to stay there" articles, clearly written by "journalists" who don't have the first idea about how MAU metrics or user adoption curves work
(Basically, you *always* get an initial spike of people who have just created an account to check it out, and then immediately decided that it wasn't for them, and that downwards slope starts a month after the wave begins. This is true for every platform/service no matter how liked or successful)
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What movie was this? Old campy sci fi movie, probably b/w, a group of scientists (?) traveling down through a planet (earth?) in a shaft and they pass a copy of themselves in another shaft going up. The second group is trying to wave them off, to go back, but to no avail.
They say that elephants never forget, so what movie was that, Mastodon?
Also: if you want people to provide you with technical support on *your* terms, then FUCKING PAY THEM.
Programming help pet peeve: people refusing to provide the full code when asking a room of volunteers to help fix their bug, incompletely and inaccurately transcribing it instead (and usually omitting the cause of the bug in the process).
Like, I'm not going to waste a bunch of time and energy on playing 20 questions with you, just to satisfy your manager's weird obsession with Proprietary Company Information(tm)?
- 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
