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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- 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
@thibaultmol Definitely the noise for me. Goes straight through any windows or doors I might have.
Sigh. Leafblower season has started.
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Alexandre Garel presenting @openfoodfacts, the Wikipedia or Open Street Map of nutrition facts.
This is quite expensive data to license from commercial vendors. Great to have thousands of people contributing to open data freely available as an alternative.
Recently added environmental impact score of foods. Working on improving search capabilities.
New project: Open *Product* Facts for documenting components of any type of product.
@Jeremiah Oh, cool, I'd been waiting for something not specific to food :)
Today's interesting archive.org find: a collection of uncommon Encarta releases! https://archive.org/details/@encartaarchiver
We should probably normalize people calling out *which* company fired them. It should be an action that has social consequences for the company doing the firing.
ableism
@Polychrome The problem is that you're trying to make a wise-ass comment implying "oh, it's not that bad" when the practical reality is that a lot of people will suddenly be without their accessibility aids that they have come to depend on.
It *is* that bad. Most people do not have the time and/or ability to just casually develop an abuse-resistant decentralized system. *Especially* disabled folks who are relying on these sorts of aids to participate in society, and often already have less energy to spend.
You need to think about comments like these more carefully before making them, and ask yourself "will this comment actually help people"? And if you're suggesting that "oh, it's not that bad, because an alternative could theoretically exist but doesn't", then the answer to that is pretty clearly "no".
If you want to actually *work on* building that alternative, that's fine. Ask for people to join in the effort, that's fine.
But just throwing out a comment about a hypothetical that you're never planning to make happen isn't useful to anyone, and doesn't serve anyone except to reinforce your own sense of superiority for not needing to rely on these services. Which is, by the way, ableist.
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It's absolutely wild how huge swathes of 60s Doctor Who are completely gone, but the unbroadcast pilot that they didn't like survived to be watched today.
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Gumball machines, orgasms, harmful ideologies, all-caps, lewd
NO-NUT NOVEMBER IS HERE, and this is a time for the internet's most hideously joyless people to recruit vulnerable young men into a month of zero orgasms and an Incredible Amount of exposure to the sort of ideologies that can end up separating these already vulnerable young men from their real-life support networks and indoctrinating them further into the Awful No-Cumming Cult, and so to counter this ridiculous-but-no-less-harmful-for-it farce it's time for Dan to be Horny On Main for the entire month of November and that means AN UPDATE TO THE GUMBALL MACHINE THREAD
I am UPDATING THE GUMBALL MACHINE THREAD because I remembered a Thing I Witnessed in my youth, and it's come to my attention that some of my followers aren't from the North of England but instead FOREIGN PARTS, and might be completely unaware of the knickers-for-a-nicker vending machines that festooned Blackpool promenade dispensing sexy undies for a £1 coin.
HERE. HERE, YOU HORNY NORTHERNERS. LOOK AT IT. LOOK AT IT AND SPEND THE NEXT HOUR CLEANING THE SPUNK OFF YOUR CEILINGS.
Phwoarrrrr, eh?
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OH: I’ll do […] in 10 minutes. Also, those are ADHD minutes, which means they might range from a few seconds to several hours each.
@Polychrome @Jezebelley@mstdn.games Okay, so you're just trying to sound clever, rather than actually trying to help people, then.
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Make Contractors Afraid Again
On the night of November 13th we set fire to 6 Ernst Concrete trucks at 553 Seaboard Industrial Drive. Ernst is pouring the foundation for Cop City. This site, like so many others, is completely unguarded.
Front-pouring cement mixing trucks have large rear engine compartments which can be accessed without opening any doors. We placed incendiary devices and kindling near the engine block, the fuel tank behind it, and the double rear tires. We encourage further experimentation with incindiary placement.
There was a time when contractors were afraid to take on this project. If we can make the cost of the contract greater than the profit, they will drop it. Sneaking around at night is fun and burning shit is cool.
Below is the full list of Ernst sites sourced from [https://ernstconcrete.com/locations]
https://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2023/11/15/make-contractors-afraid-again/
@Polychrome @Jezebelley@mstdn.games Okay, but then how does this help anyone who will now be without subtitles because all of their integrations are breaking?
@Polychrome @Jezebelley@mstdn.games What is that "distributed solution", though? Because I haven't found one.
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it's incredible how microsoft made a very sizable chunk of people fear updates like 13th century peasants feared the drought
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computer touching
Apparently a few days ago the Let's Encrypt API returned certificates which have not had the structure of three certificates (cert, intermediate, root) separated by an empty line (i.e. being able to split by double newline to get the three parts).
That's kinda weird because it happened across several servers over a span of over 24h (less than 48h tho) for four of my certificates (probably all that were renewed in that span) and it was reverted to its old state apparently.
I don't log the certificate return values, but I would've loved to see what was in there 
If anyone knows anything, please tell me, I'm curious.
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Something that I've learned in my time on the internet?
What you joke about, and how you joke about it, speaks more to your ideals and worldview than you could ever imagine.
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New Blobhaj, New Blobhaj!!
Kyra has commissioned a dancey blobhaj for all to share!
- 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
