Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

I can't do the policy justice with some full accounting of what it is, but hopefully a useful summary is that moderators tacitly or actively associated with fedimins actively protect their users from servers that are not well-moderated and do not share the same priorities, which include many anti-racism principles and other social justice principles.

One big red flag is when moderators of other instances have enough unexamined privilege that they are apparently unaware of it and its impacts on their own thinking and decision-making.

I can't say that it directly follows that a host of other moderation issues are inevitable, but they are tightly associated with this fundamental issue (of unexamined privilege). And of course, there are confounding indicators too.

One thing I tend to look for, and that the fedimins folks I've known look for is understanding and supporting antiracism theory. And it is a fact that you can't do that while just sort of coasting along, being white. It requires study, active examination, and doing the homework (to confront and deconstruct one's internalized colonialist/supremacist enculturation).

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People who post almost exclusively in a language other than#English but write their #alttext entirely in English fascinate me. As a #blind monolingual dude, I appreciate the alt text! It’s also fun to have something like the experience a sighted person might have when watching a video without subtitles; understanding the visuals but not the words is a fun and weirdly unique experience for me as someone who is blind, and I think there’s an interesting #art space someone could explore here. But #accessibility isn’t just a privilege for English speakers. Have we really become that western centric? If you are someone who does this, I’d love to try and non judgmentally understand your reasons. #a11y #i18n

Idea: A new #InfoSec conference called "The Boring Security Conference". It covers topics and hands-on advice that are what actually keeps organizations secure. No zero-days, no APTs and no "if the criminal does these 39 things in precise order and you're not watching your owned" talks.

looking at a online style guide for a not to be named organisation: "you may obtain our corporate font by requesting permission from us and contacting the foundry"

or: by reading the CSS and just downloading a TTF

and i am of a staunch opinion that once the shackles of the capitalist and statist oppression will finally be destroyed and the spirit of the person will be freed, there will be a boom in artistic expression that no generation has ever seen before. and i hope that i can live for long enough to see it happen before my eyes.

what elon musk's speech about there having to be trillions of people so we get thousands of mozarts is leaving out is that there are already millions of the likes of Einstein, Sartre, Bach, Simone, Tarkovsky, Camus and others that walk in the same crowds as we do. the problem is that 99% of them die unnoticed because they're burdened with being homeless or working 9 to 5 jobs in office until their heart gives in.

@hyenagirl64 i agree. it also sends a pretty disgusting essentialist message that you can be a successful artist or academic only if you have the "right genes". not only it disregards the amount of work and reflection people put in to become excellent at what they love doing, it also has possible eugenicist or racist implications

Me: Knock knock?

You: Who's there?

Me: You're.

You: *confused* You're... who...?!

Me: YOU'RE CUTE 🥰

*flees with extra flee, giggling*

Someone should make a "year in review" thing that scans journald for useless stats.

* Your longest time without a reboot this year was 5 days and 3 hours.
* You messed up your sudo password 1/3 of the time. Once it took you 5 attempts.
* Your most segfaulty program is kwin_wayland.
* Hidden gems: did you know you had mysqld running all this time?