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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- 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
After two days of badblocks and two hours of heavy random read/write operations across all four disks, I think I'm gonna conclude that my new drive array passed its temperature stresstest!
I did have to add some cooling, the drives were getting uncomfortably hot on the R/W tests without some sort of active cooling
re: rambling, kind of politics
@loren @artcollisions @nu I feel like this is the same sort of thing as the "news" vs. "journalism" distinction.
News: reporting of a thing that is currently or has recently happened. Not contextualized, not actionable. Basically useless, just sensationalist and anxiety-inducing. It sells newspapers, pretty much.
Journalism: investigating and explaining some sort of long-term trend or phenomenon, drawing from many different events and contextualizing them into a bigger narrative. Often actionable, low on sensationalism, and not necessarily related to any very recent event.
I kind of apply this same principle to 'global thinking' around activism; there is not really any value in me being aware of every little thing that has happened anywhere around the world, because it is not actionable.
It *is* useful, however, to understand the shared problems and long-term patterns that exist in many places, and how they come into existence and can be fought. That is much less anxiety-inducing, and provides a concrete starting point for understanding how to apply it locally, even if the events don't look the exact same.
I guess this is probably where the phrase "think global, act local" comes from, too.
(In the same vein, I would love for people to toot less about the crisis-of-the-day, and more about their ideas and/or projects for addressing long-term concerns...)
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Gesprekje gisteren.
"Ik ben hier met de trein gekomen", en jij dan?"
Ik: "met de auto, ik mijd het OV sinds 2020."
"Ach ja, vervelend he dat gedoe met die mondkapjes?"
Ik: "Integendeel, waren die nog maar verplicht, want dan was ik nu wel met de trein gekomen".
Wat een bizar land zijn we, dat als iemand het OV mijdt de 'logische' aanname is dat dat is vanwege verplichte mondkapjes, in plaats van om te voorkomen dat je ziek wordt bij gebrek daaraan.
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and can someone from pleroma or akkoma report this status so I can test if federated reports from those instance types work? thank you!
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Yes, surveillance capitalism gives us some material things that are useful.
There are also about a billion things we have never even tried out because rich people believe there's no money in it! Maybe some of those things will also be useful and we should try those instead. Just sayin!!!!
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🇵🇸 
Kijk nou, de staat heeft toch nog wat gevonden om te privatiseren
"De staat onderhandelt over de verkoop van een deel van stroomnetbeheerder Tennet. Die deal kan vele miljarden opleveren, maar ligt politiek gevoelig. Volgens een vorig jaar verschenen rapport is „een geïntegreerd Tennet van groot strategisch belang” voor Nederland."
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/01/24/kabinet-negeert-verzet-tennet-en-wil-duitse-tak-verkopen-a4155219
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@terry @soatok My hypothesis? It's not about the money. It's about securing the employee. If the employee is dependent on the employer's wages to continue living after a major (possibly interstate, sometimes international) move to an area with a higher cost of living, then the employee is highly disincentivized to look for other work - they're in a new place with no contacts outside of work, and they need their current job to stay housed, fed, and possibly medicated due to the increased cost of living from their move, so they're starting any job hunt at an extreme disadvantage.
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Zet maar vast in je agenda! Woonprotest in Zaanstad. 25 maart. 15 uur vanaf het Stadhuis (=uitgang station centrum kant)
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I occasionally see trans people wondering when their family will come around, and I don't mean to be pessimistic but in my experience, if they don't take to it quickly and naturally then they probably never will without you forcing the issue.
It sucks. I know.
@ChlorideCull Huh. That's actually... kinda of makes sense.
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Customer: BRITISH EXPRESSION, SHORT FOR: WHAT DO YOU MEAN MY FRIEND? WILL BE GOING ON AN ELECTRIC CAR - HENCE THE WATT PUN. WATT IS THE SI UNIT FOR POWER.
DMV: YOU WAIT A MINUTE
Verdict: ACCEPTED
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Polite reminder that while it is essential that people who are *able* should utilize the image description function and add alt text for people reliant on screenreaders... please don't assume that everyone who doesn't do so is ignorant or doing so out of malice.
There are competing disabilities that make even something as "simple" as adding alt text not so easy. Near every time I see a PSA about alt text, people neglect to phrase it in a way that is considerate of this.
#accessibility #captions
@trashheap@tech.lgbt Well, realistically, "convincing but not necessarily accurate" is also the business that Google is in. So it makes sense that they might see eg. OpenAI as scary competition.
@anxiousrage Welcome :) And indeed, no such thing as 'too late'!
@ifixcoinops I'd love to hear your thoughts on the idea of setting up some sort of (FOSS/non-commercial, obviously) hosted thing for doing stuff like this, so that people can run banner exchanges like this on their site and accept submissions without needing to install/maintain some piece of software for it themselves.
Seems to me like it could help encourage other folks to do the same thing by lowering the barrier of entry, but you've probably spent way more time thinking about this than I have :)
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I'm confused when devs claim that you can't experiment with software on the fediverse. I have spent the last 5 years of my life building experimental software on the fediverse, and people have been very supportive!
There is a MASSIVE design space for weird ideas that are not just dressed-up surveillance capitalism, but so many devs come here saying "I will try out some dressed-up surveillance capitalism" and then act like their genius design thinking is being stymied when people say "fuck off"
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Let me be as blunt as I can. #CloudFlare wants to own the entire Internet. Everything they do, however cool and good it may seem, is in service of that goal.
They're well on their way, seeing as they're being used by more than 20% of the entire web already.
All of this is legal and "Good Capitalism™".
What can you do?
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@gsuberland@chaos.social SLADHD
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Dear journalists, sign up as a regular person on a regular instance and see what normal human society and its standards are like. You might like it.
Journalism organisations, set up your own fucking servers and then get judged on your own merits (or lack thereof) instead of those of the dickheads you sign up alongside.
You may quote me on this.
- 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
