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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Dear vegans: be very cautious when buying orange juice in the Netherlands. The largest producer is now adding 0,02% cow milk to some variants to avoid the recently raised sugar taxes 😵💫
@serapath @balrogboogie I have strong doubts about that approach, to be honest - ultimately the gatekeeping rarely happens on the actual technical level, so I don't think that's really the right problem to be solving.
Even with a nominally distributed development model, the vast majority of users are going to have some notion of an 'official' or 'canonical' branch, and it's going to be the one with the best marketing (which is where privileged folks have an advantage).
Even excluding that, you will run into interoperability problems; just look at how much Mastodon is imposing its constraints on the rest of fedi, despite the protocol nominally being open, purely by its relative size and fame in the ecosystem. Same deal with Element and Matrix.
So no, I don't think that "avoiding governance" (which is what decentralized repos boil down to) is a sustainable solution. We're going to have to actually engage with the deeper governance problems and find ways to avoid these problems specifically, while still doing governance.
Perhaps the most frustrating part of this all is that if the situation continues for long enough, lateral violence often starts happening - nobody can hold the dude at the top accountable, therefore people start trying to hold *each other* accountable, even if nobody involved in those conflicts actually has the power to do anything about it
@balrogboogie As usual, the most dangerous form of privilege might well be the *unrecognized* privilege
@balrogboogie That is definitely often a factor, though I've seen the same thing happen without the bigotry component too. My working theory is that the most privileged among us are accustomed to the system Working For Them (ie. things "just magically work") and therefore do not recognize that they have a role to play themselves in making things happen
Like, I've seen and been involved with tons of governance issues in FOSS communities over the years, and I've lost count of how often it's just a situation of "everyone in the community is working really hard to make this work, and solving all the difficult problems, and then the entire effort grinds to a halt because of one singular white tech dude at the top being uncooperative or 'not seeing the problem' or being unwilling to delegate responsibility"
Behind every FOSS governance problem is seemingly a tech dude who holds the keys but just doesn't care
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@eloy My gut feeling would be that it often correlates to one's general sense of competence; someone who has a general (and usually misplaced) sense of superiority might frame that as being a generalist, whereas someone who knows where their limits are would be more likely to speak in terms of specialisms?
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yessss the monoliths are back
Never know when that information might become relevant later
I would subtly suggest to start taking notes of who in your tech circles works for companies like Anduril
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The easiest way to see 'privilege in #FOSS' with your own eyes, is probably to observe how the people arguing for sketchy sponsors, legalistic moderation procedures, "neutrality" in moderation and government involvement, are virtually always white dudes - and those opposing them are everyone else (and, often, a small subset of white dudes).
Like, you don't actually need to believe me on this. Just keep an eye on who is saying what for a couple months. You'll see the patterns.
@shine Hmm. That might work as a backup, though they wouldn't really be something that people are unlikely to have their own stash of at a hacker camp (in terms of material properties, which the acceptor looks at) and the consistency would be a challenge
@DelphineUnseen@queer.party Definitely true!
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Had the pleasure of illustrating the landing image for open-source text editor @novelwriter as part of its latest 2.3 update.
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Protesters have taken over the park around the convention center and have been holding a teach in about Boeing's role in US imperialism.
There's several live streams on the gram 🙄 (I'll see if I can xpost a speech)
https://www.instagram.com/resist.seattle/live/18024391120971510?igsh=bWppcmhkYjI0Zmw0
(The current idea bouncing around in my head is some sort of scavenger hunt involving finding coins)
I don't think it'll work with plastic coins though, so I may need to find a source for metal non-money coins somewhere
- 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
