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
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if you didn't know the creator of annoying orange is trans now you do
#Copyright works for capitalists, not for artists, and perhaps one of the most illustrative examples of this would be subtitles:
Hobbyist subtitlers get regularly threatened with ruinous copyright lawsuits for daring to make TV shows more accessible to different audiences without the publisher's permission.
And now tech corporations use those very same hobbyist subtitles to train their audio transcription LLMs, and there are zero legal consequences for those corporations.
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re: psa, 37C3
@kescher Like seriously, I'd respect them more if they wouldn't notify anyone, instead of only notifying the corpos…
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psa, 37C3
To folks going to 37C3: Don't visit the talk about SMTP smuggling. The authors of it have not done responsible disclosure to postfix about a security vulnerability with some configurations (default configurations, in fact). Let them have empty seats.
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Does it feel like the days have been getting shorter for the last 6 months?
Well, I have built a giant calculating device out of 57 #Z80 CPUs, and can assure you, from today, there will be more daylight in your days!
#Z80Henge #WinterSolstice #solstice #SiliconHenge
(Sorry, Northern hemisphere only)
re: ADHD, medical system
@river @clarfonthey If this is already a problem today (which it is), I have to ask how exactly prescription gatekeeping is supposed to solve this problem
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like it's not even companies wanting to keep their technologies for themselves. all of this code is out in the open, just not generalised. instead of thinking of a way to generalise it, people are like, what if I rewrote all of this code but hard-coded in my specific way, instead?
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the combination of my recent troubles with the helix devs, and watching everything being confirmed it's as bad as I thought, motivates me to work on the other project that has been sitting on the shelf for several months on how capitalist realism also infects the open source community
there's no way we could put in the hard work to create libraries that can be used by other people. we need to create Products instead
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like I really wish that things like, protocols for tiling windows and editing text, were made
like instead of having to use an entire other windowing manager, have the ability to come up with some cool scheme for how windows should be tiled and managed, and be able to use that with whatever system I want
or, instead of having to use an entire other text editor, having the ability to hot swap the control schemes for the modal editors I like
don't get me wrong, it's hard to generalise stuff like this. really fucking hard. but it's also really fucking wasteful to reinvent not only the wheel but literally all technological progress for the past 30 years on repeat every time we do something because It Must Be An App
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The difference between "full verbatim" and "clean verbatim" transcripts: Full verbatim captures spoken word exactly as stated, including filler words, stutters and false starts. Clean verbatim has words exactly as stated, but edits the filler words, repeated words and stutters.
re: institutional abuse, neurodivergence, prisons
For additional clarity:
This is a life sentence. It doesn't matter that they framed it as a 'hospital order'. It's a life sentence of imprisonment, with hypothetical parole. For something that apparently wasn't even bad enough to give their co-conspirator a severe sentence.
And life sentences are effectively a death penalty with torture attached.
They sentenced an autistic person to a life sentence with torture attached at 18, primarily for disrupting corporate operations, and because said person has anger outbursts, most likely from trauma. That is what this is.
institutional abuse, neurodivergence, prisons
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67663128
"Arion Kurtaj from Oxford, who is autistic, was a key member of international gang Lapsus$. [...] He will remain at a secure hospital for life unless doctors deem him no longer a danger. The court heard that Kurtaj had been violent while in custody with dozens of reports of injury or property damage."
What the actual fuck??
Like, to be absolutely clear, "secure hospital" means "prison". It is not primarily a place of care, but one of isolation.
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Substack takes
Reading all these Substack takes and I’m just like
This is the result of the ongoing American naiveté around speech and the way it uses its position to imperialistically force that naiveté onto the rest of us
Why are you all so surprised at this outcome continuing to be what happens
This is what you get when you have a bad underlying understanding of speech
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Unless you're a government body, I don't want to hear any fucking bullshit about "free speech" from you.
If you're a corporation or community organisation I want to hear what you stand for. I want to hear where you will draw lines and what values you think are expendable in the pursuit of success.
Plant a flag. Show me who you are. Don't give me this centrist fuckery about how it's important to be balanced, when you're not the only game in town. None of this internet bullshit is indispensable.
Stand for something. It might work better than you think.
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#Introduction We're the University of #Groningen #Library - Universiteitsbibliotheek Groningen! 🎓📖
We moved here from https://akademienl.social/@Bibliothecaris, our first home in the Fediverse.
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bad tech vibes
more bad vibes from Helix, a modal text editor written in Rust:
https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/5520
they have not developed any kind of proper keyboard layout remapping, which excludes people who have literally anything besides a QWERTY keyboard layout, used mostly by those in English-speaking countries
I point out that this is a hard blocker for people using the editor, and that there's an existing solution that's been sitting around for over a year that has been ignored. instead, I get called entitled for asking for more features when the project is run by volunteers
like… I fucking hate when tech people advertise their projects as revolutionary fucking shit and try and entice more people to use it, and then act like calling them out for accessibility issues is as bad as calling them out for not designing things exactly the way some rando wants without them doing the work
like… there's a difference between a software project, and a community. and these people sure as hell don't know how to run a community, despite advertising it like they're building one
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[115] VN:wooncrisis al lang in de maak
https://nos.nl/teletekst#115
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what Substack is, snark edition
@joepie91 @researchfairy i like the notion of referring to companies by what year they got funding so you can tell how close they are to flipping
- 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
