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
@agturcz "Institution" is probably the closest translation I can think of, especially one of a governmental nature (though not exclusively so)
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Concept:
A reaction button on Masto
But it's not a "fave," "reply" or "boost"
It's a "dismiss" button and it just disappears the message (unless someone else replies to it or something)
re: foss meta
@kescher Did I miss something happening? Or was this not prompted by anything in particular?
ableist trauma
Ableist trauma is having learned to reflexively make up excuses why you didn't do something, because nobody ever believed you when you told them the truth.
@eloy If only it worked that way. In practice, capitalism significantly distorts the power dynamics (and that is likely why the OSI felt the need to comment, because corporations keep relentlessly pushing their exploitative interpretation of "open-source")
@eloy This is not about the size of the group - it is about power dynamics. Language is not neutral.
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My union magazine uses gender neutral pronouns. I have a firm belief that if a 45 year old welder who does some journalism in his free time can do it, then academics can do it.
re: Mozilla grumbling
@selfisekai https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/111562605874551611 for LLM + some Discord stuff, more Discord here: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/join-the-mdn-web-docs-discord/110177
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a bunch of my accessibility customization plugins just broke so if you're the kind of person who'd tell me to "just" use "tampermonkey" can you translate this into fifth grade level english please? i googled "enable developer mode" but when i did that it just opened a side panel of code with a lot of buttons i don't understand
Mozilla grumbling
So Mozilla, supposed stewards of the open web, is moving more and more community stuff to Discord, a notoriously very closed-off platform, and is now doing an entire themed week around LLM bullshit
When will people stop giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt?
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Sci-fi opinions
I'm not saying that good sci-fi doesn't contain parallels to real-life politics
But it's one of those things where you really gotta stick the landing and if your allegory has implications that you didn't think through, it's bad
And the spicier the issue that you want to address, the more oblique you get to be about it without it being weird
If it's 1993? Yeah you gotta have a contrived sci-fi scenario to talk about gay shit
But now it's 2023, and you can just say "they're gay"
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fedi project where the accounts aren't run by people, they just represent virtual pets. interacting with their posts feeds them, helps them rest or exercise
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"I witnessed almost every publication that I once held in esteem become complicit in normalizing a level of death once billed as incalculable."
The indispensable Ed Yong reflects on reporting on long COVID:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/opinion/long-covid-reporting-lessons.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE0.HxbC.efD9YqoKWjqn&hpgrp=ar-abar&smid=url-share
https://archive.is/b5scE
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Sci-fi opinions
The thing about classic old-timey sci-fi using allegories to talk about political issues is that
They had to do it in a lot of cases, or they would be literally censored by actual government policy
Kirk slash Spock, at the time it was invented, would have been actually illegal due to obscenity laws
And you don't have to do that about a lot of stuff these days that you used to, and in fact speaking indirectly is much harder and way easier to fuck up
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Reminder that when we say a billionaire is worth X billion dollars
The billionaire doesn't actually have X billion dollars worth of stuff (houses, cars, yachts, a vault of gold coins in the style of Scrooge McDuck or even money in any bank account anywhere)
It mostly means that he has X billion dollars of political power
And
Fuck that
@eloy How does that make it valid descriptively? Even descriptive language involves more than just "someone said that X means Y" - if that were the case, then words would become meaningless because you can use any word to use anything.
Even in descriptive language, it is still very important whether the meaning is culturally understood when you use a given term, and that's the test that this fails - the meaning that people generally draw from "open-source" (the benefits gained from it) is not one that applies to the thing being described, therefore it is descriptively false.
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i'm afraid i still can't get over blowhards saying "supply chain security" when they really mean "we built a capitalist enterprise on top of a pile of donated work from idealistic hackers, and now we're mad that they didn't have the same goals and process as our paid employees."
literally fuck off with that. people writing code for their friends is not your "supply chain", it's just an extremely bad business model for lazy people.
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Wayne released from prison!
Wayne Hsiung has been released from jail after 40 days locked up, most of that time on remand awaiting sentencing.
Wayne had been sentenced to three months in prison and probation thereafter after being convicted of one count of felony conspiracy and two counts of misdemeanor trespass for his involvement in animal rescues at Sunrise Farms and Reichardt Duck Farm.
Due to overcrowding in the jail, Wayne was released earlier and will have to serve two years of probation, which include being unable to see “14 co-conspirators”, many of them his close friends.
Post prison conditions can sometimes be as harrowing as the prison sentence itself, so ensure you send love and solidarity to Wayne and welcome him back to the outside world!
SOLIDARITY IS OUR BIGGEST WEAPON.
https://unoffensiveanimal.is/2023/12/10/wayne-released-from-prison/
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Hey, if you're the type of person that can start typing a reply to an argument, then decide that actually it's not worth bothering with and delete the reply, I want you to know:
You're doing fantastic, and you should be proud of yourself. I wish more people had that kind of restraint.
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Is your tap water drinkable? Please boost if you can.. I wanna see something…
- 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
