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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- 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
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When the world is cold and cruel,
It's punk as fuck to be warm and kind.
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When you're an academic at a dinner party, proper condiment placement is essential.
You need to site your sauces.
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Friendly reminder that US Department of Defense casually holds onto <s>two</s> thirteen /8 IPv4 blocks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks#List_of_assigned_/8_blocks_to_the_United_States_Department_of_Defense
And a lot more, in AS721 alone:
One /9
One /10,
Three /11
Four /12
Nine /13
Eighteen /14,
Thirty-one /15
And fifty-five /16
So that would be your fair access to IPv4 in the era of address exhaustion :)
@boekenwuurm Tering, is dit een captcha of een begrijpend-lezen-toets?
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A cuneiform keyboard, for all your modern communications.
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Gamedev companies that laid off THOUSANDS of people are the same ones that asked everyone to crunch their way to divorce and depression just couple years back.
Think about it next time you thunk about staying a single minute overtime.
"It's not open-core because the proprietary parts are developed by the same people but under a different organization name"
- The Gitea developers, apparently
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"Babbage’s engines were also designed to surveil the workmen... Their design complexity was vastly increased, and their feasibility decreased, by Babbage’s insistence that they print out the results of their calculation throughout the process"
In class, we discuss Gary Becker's economics models that show how much productivity firms are willing to give up in order to discriminate. The same was true of surveillance in the first computers, as @Mer__edith points out
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it took way too long for me to realise that the little bag/cover for an umbrella is not just an aesthetic thing but a way to be able to put your umbrella back in your bag without getting everything wet
just don't forget to take it out when you get home to let it properly dry
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Apart from everything else— and holy DAMN it's a lot "else"— the mixed messages these kids are getting about "AI" and school work are fucking nightmarish.
"Don't use AI! It's faulty, unreliable, and plagiarism! Also if you use it, we'll use a different faulty and unreliable AI to catch you! Also here's some integrated AI tools, make sure to use them."
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Hey if you’re young, pace yourself or you’ll be spending your 30s+ never actually recovering from burnout completely.
Best case scenario you’ll take frequent breaks to try and top-up your energy but you’ll never actually get it back.
Maybe you think “I’m not going to live that long anyway” but you should try to live like you will keep living.
Or maybe you think “if I go at 500% now I’ll be able to afford the rest I need later.” but omfg no you won’t. You won’t make enough for that. You won’t.
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Random polyam peeve: I DETEST the word 'throuple'. I'm in a triad.
Why the hate? The first reason is shallow. The word is ascethetically displeasing to me. It sounds more like a virus than a loving relationship. Blech.
The second reason is much more important. 'Throuple' is derived from 'couple'. This makes concept more accessible to the mainstream, but to me, it's yet another monoganormative microagression. Keep that nonsense away from my relationship.
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Working on a solo project as a conscientious #developer sometimes really be like...
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hi i'm ash :) i told my partner i missed having a place where i could put my silly thoughts since i quit twitter last year and they invited me here <3 have a picture of a quilt i made recently (open invitation to talk to me about fiber arts)
@tokudan@chaos.social I hear this frequently as the explanation, but I'm personally not really convinced that that fully explains it - considering how many people there are who claim that they can fully understand such-and-such, but then are completely unaware of some of the abstractions that exist in that system, and had just assumed that the level they interacted with was the lowest level (as might happen with a non-leaky abstraction). See eg. the "C is a direct translation to machine code" belief.
I'm sure that there will be some people who can actually reason end-to-end about how those systems work. But I do not think that this scales to a generalized explanation of their reputation for accessibility.
@sindarina Toch bijzonder hoe dat "zonder ons is er geen eten"-argument plotseling verandert in "en jullie zullen alleen dat van ons eten"
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re: French Wikipedia, queerphobia
non-queer editors often say “why is everything on these topics so personal to you? why are you bringing this fight here?”
this is why.
left unchecked, “moderate, well-meaning concerns” become “exclusions” and then “removals”.
Idle thought: when people talk about how BASIC-era computers were so much easier to tinker with, I wonder how much that wasn't because it was somehow easier or more accessible, but because back then computers still shipped with high-quality documentation on their internals
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Internet safety tip [Oracle]
Hey so if a space describes itself as "the only space Minority X is safe" and you are Minority X, run like hell. It's a cult at best.
- 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
