Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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#Nonprofit #OpenSource job alert:
Freedom of the Press Foundation (@freedomofpress) is looking for a part-time front end web-development contractor.
Work on https://pressfreedomtracker.us/, https://freedom.press/ and our other sites.
6 month duration with a possibility of renewal, fixed budget of $40K, monthly invoicing, schedule is up to you to propose.
Candidates with regular availability during afternoon work hours in US eastern time preferred.
Details: https://grnh.se/bc210daf5us
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If you leave change in a pocket and wash the clothes, is that money laundering?
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JK Rowling has explicitly said, multiple times, that people continuing to buy Harry Potter stuff is proof that they agree with her transphobia
Stop giving this bigot money
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
re: Terf mention, that ridiculous book series by a well known terf
@schrodingers_cat@rage.love something about individualism and not having culture so taking consumerism and nostalgia (great combo) as a substitute
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(non)consent, techbros
is the techbro understanding of consent really just "you didn't say no, even though you weren't aware what I was going to do"
fuck
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Cloudflare is already getting the whole embrace, extend, extinguish thing under way with Wildebeast (a fedi server that clones Mastodon's UI elements but runs only on cloudflare infrastructure). Please join me in wishing a very big 'fuck you' to cloudflare.
nothing
@doot@glitterkitten.co.uk 2 reply guys, 1 cop
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Celebrating Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists showing an interest in the fediverse is like celebrating wolves showing an interest in your chicken coop.
#SiliconValley #billionaires #vc #ventureCapital #BigTech #colonialism #fediverse #mastodon
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oooohkay, managed to make a buuunch of progress today (see ALT text for more info)
the #rust code is fully integrated with #GodotEngine, but it needs some final things to be 100% (mostly QoL and integration stuff)
biggest hurdles were trying to wrap my mind around Instance<T>, ToVariant and other memory / access related things between rust and godot
once i got a hang of it, it's quite easy to keep moving forward, and didn't have to write any `unsafe` statements ✨
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Opt-out is not consent.
re: Searchtodon meta, scraping related 
@f0x Oh, and let's not forget Signal of course.
@bstacey @f0x @janl@chaos.social Exactly this. A lot of safety features and conventions on Mastodon are the result of people having to endlessly push Eugen to do the right thing, *not* the result of some decree from above.
And more fundamentally, Eugen does not dictate what "consent" looks like on fedi. Eugen is just a software developer.
re: Searchtodon meta, scraping related
@f0x This is unfortunately a pattern I've seen a lot in security circles as well, where supposedly security-critical people turn off their skepticism when someone with enough charisma/clout proposes a bad idea, and it's how we got Intel SGX, Cloudflare, and so on.
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re: Searchtodon meta, scraping related
also for fucks sake
> That said, I think the Mastodon community will have to have to come to terms with “trust they follow me” and delegating that trust to third parties that are fun or useful.
https://chaos.social/@janl/109677640974046213
No we fucking don't. We've been posting fine here for YEARS without having to come to terms with that. Figures now that this account is a recent join too.
Why do they always bring the "it's the inevitable future" arguments when **they're the ones making that ""inevitable"" future**
@xerz @MoiraPrime @eevee I mean, I'm sure they could, but as far as I can tell they.... didn't. And with Mozilla's current leadership, I am not holding out much hope.
@balrogboogie Oh yeah, and don't forget all the fearmongering "we've observed the biggest DDoS attack ever" articles, which were very successful at convincing people that an attack was just around the corner and they *needed* protection (even though that wasn't the reality at all, and still isn't).
@eevee Back when Chrome was first introduced, it absolutely blew everything else out of the water (Firefox included) in terms of performance and general usability.
That momentum seems to have stuck, no doubt through constant marketing and integration campaigns, like the search engine bothering you to install Chrome or Android being built entirely around it.
@MoiraPrime @eevee From what I've been told, embedding Gecko is an absolute nightmare whereas embedding Chromium is comparatively trivial (this is particularly true when using stuff like Electron). Something something architectural technical debt.
- 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
