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.
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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
@the_feral_housewife@hellsite.site so many options yet no "show results" or "spiderman" :p
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@mcc as I understand it:
"effective altruism" is "use your money in the ways that produce the most good" which became "give the already wealthy all the money because once they have infinite wealth they'll do something good with it. right?"
longtermism is "greater long term good is more important than small short term good" which became "the things the rich are doing are awful for everyone right now, sure, but they'll create a utopia in millions of years"
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tech optimism in the 1990s: computers allow unlimited copying. this will be revolutionary for society! that's right, no more property! communications that the government and corporations can't trace! yay, free culture!
tech optimism in 2020: with this revolutionary new technology we can make private property and money a reality on the Internet. we'll financialize everything and force the middle class to live in VR! all at the small cost of disastrous climate change!
@aurynn Seems they've promised to switch to opt-in, and delete all the data collected so far. We'll see I guess.
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when thinking about cloudflare trying to get in on the fediverse hype, you should remember that their vision of "free speech" means shutting down a mastodon instance for sex workers while platforming literal nazis
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I just want to be treated with kindness, consideration, and care, consistently.
That's the non-negotiable baseline.
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the time is now: 12:00 (flashing)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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everyone is always talking about the top of the morning, but what about me, the bottom of the evening?
@t54r4n1 I imagine that'll depend on the exact religion.
@absolucy @alive "Taking over existing networks" is literally what Cloudflare does. The people buying into Wildebeest are just the 'meat shields'.
The collateral damage here is to blame on Cloudflare, not on those trying to protect their communities from a parasitic corporation with a long long *long* track record of malicious behaviour.
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i put together a automatically-updating list of wildebeest instances, for convenient blocking or silencing:
https://wesleyac.com/wildebeest
please do your part to push back against the corporate takeover of the fediverse by a company that profits from platforming nazis, fascists, and bigots.
@aral "The modern answer is telemetry"
That right there is such a good illustration of the problem. It doesn't say that it's an *effective* answer, just that it's a *modern* answer, and well... that's probably because it isn't effective.
It's completely absurd how there's now basically an entire cult around trying to gain insight from telemetry, when we've known for a decade+ that this *just does not work* and surveying even just a couple of users will give you more reliable data.
But number must go up, apparently.
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i have a cat. i also have meetings every two weeks. my cat is mostly respectful of the fact he's not allowed to jump on my laptop or climb on my body while i'm working... unless it's meeting day. how does he know. please get off of my shoulders.
@web3isgreat With the margins that are typical on these things, you've gotta be *very* mismanaged to end up in bankrupcy
re: twitter
@quentincoyote@meow.social @soatok@furry.engineer It's not officially *confirmed* (of course not, it's Musk) but it sure *looks* like that in every way :D
transphobes
Whoa, I just learned that apparently Gleason (of Soapbox/Spinster fame) was kicked out of the Pleroma project for being too awful for them
re: twitter
@rune And even better, considering that apparently nobody on the team warned against this, it suggests that there's probably *nobody* left who still understands the existing architecture
re: twitter
@ceralor @soatok@furry.engineer Oh yeah I'm greatly enjoying this
Quick birdsite update: half the site is currently broken, seemingly as a result of them shutting down the API without realizing that the first-party clients use it too, and they've announced an additional 4-day "grace period" for the API shutdown which of course totally isn't just an excuse for them to roll it back and fix their *own* shit
lol, lmao
- 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
