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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"Don’t sweat about being 'behind the times'. If it works, it’s stable, and it’s performant, your tech stack is fine." - @Meyerweb
This. SO MUCH THIS.
It's true for work, but it's quadruply true for personal projects.
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@jonny The cynic in me suspects that that is *precisely* why a lot of (very specific) people like it
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just spent several hours debugging a "tcp connect error: network is unreachable"
turns out the network was perfectly reachable and it was, as is always, DNS
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"Why do people keep tweeting about COVID? We can't just --" Yes, you can. Because immunocompromised and disabled people have been implicitly sentenced to do whatever that is for our whole lives. That's why we're tweeting.
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Look at this! This is in a local library. It's a place to sit in for children, shaped like a spaceship. This is awesome decoration.
re: Group Organizing for Tech, Domain Names, Layoffs
@MerlinJStar@weirder.earth Feel free :)
re: Group Organizing for Tech, Domain Names, Layoffs
@MerlinJStar@weirder.earth Ahh, I get what you mean. So the problem with the domain name system is that it's *mostly* decentralized, but at the top of it all is ICANN. So whatever you do, ultimately you have ICANN to answer to, even if you run your own registrar.
Combined with the broad availability of existing registrars, and well-defined transfer procedures between them (+ ICANN to basically play registrar cop), it means that it tends not to be at the top of the list of concerns - only marginal improvement is possible.
(There are no obvious ways to fully decentralize the domain name system either, 'decentralizing naming systems' is basically one of the unsolved computer science problems)
I think that if a larger cooperative tech movement were to get off the ground, cooperative registrar services would probably appear - but I doubt it's anyone's top priority right now, given all the other things where big tech company dependency is proving to be more immediately problematic.
I actually suspect that the *hosting* side is more likely to gain people's attention early, and then especially the AWS-style hosting stuff, which is very vendor-locked right now.
re: Group Organizing for Tech, Domain Names, Layoffs
@MerlinJStar@weirder.earth I'm not sure I understand what you're suggesting, maybe I'm just missing something? Like, what specifically needs to be organized to solve which specific problem?
(Asking to determine whether it's anything I can be of help with)
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@soatok
I generally can't understand why anyone trusts about 90% of security products on the market. Honestly the bare minimum I expect is a transparent, open source implementation of their protocols. I see that basic lack of engagement with the wider research community as a massive red flag. Bug bounty programs are nice, but too many companies just have them as a check-box item.
Too much of that fear of loosing their special sauce by being open about evolving best practices. Too much security-through-obscurity with extra steps. As if the core robustness of their product is tangential to their market development >.> <.<
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Remember, bigots cannot have a reasonable conversation because hating someone you don't know is inherently absurd.
They bitterly complain about being blocked and isolated because they know they are incapable of swaying people with their ideas, so they rely on violence and ignore boundaries.
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Een NV is een naamloze vennootschap. Een BV is een besloten vennootschap.
Maar wat doen we met het woord ‘vennootschap’? Waar ligt de klemtoon: op ‘ven’ (eerste lettergreep) of op ‘noot’ (tweede)?
Zoek het niet op, maar stem spontaan – graag apart voor Nederland 🇳🇱 en België 🇧🇪.
(Je moet een keuze maken want er zijn maar vier opties mogelijk bij een poll, dus ‘Allebei prima’ kon ik niet opnemen.)
Eens kijken of dat soort polls ook op Mastodon werken. Boosts zijn heel welkom. Alvast dank! 🙏
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By the way: The best way to clean an edge connector is with a rubber eraser. Shout-out to @janbeta for this great tip. 👍
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[enters the room] "I have some bad news, the printer is haunted"
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Layoffs are yet another area where companies refuse to follow the science. Here's what the science says.
Layoffs:
- don't save money
- don't improve company performance
- don't increase stock pricess
- destroy trust
- have huge impacts on health, well-being, and income of employees
So why do layoffs? It's a network effect: execs lay people off because other companies are doing it
Stanford Biz School article: https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/
Harvard Biz Review:
https://hbr.org/2022/12/what-companies-still-get-wrong-about-layoffs
@doot@glitterkitten.co.uk It's worth noting that the Rijksmuseum has a similar policy, too: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/research/conduct-research/data/policy (I'm not sure if there are others)
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The LGBT Flag but it's compiling the Linux kernel on Gentoo
- 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
