Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
re: subtoot, NixOS, venting
I wasn't kidding when I called out tomberek as an abuser, you know
subtoot, NixOS, venting
@silvermoon82@strangeobject.space @thibaultmol But by this point the damage to the community's goodwill is already immense and I don't know that it can be repaired
subtoot, NixOS, venting
@silvermoon82@strangeobject.space @thibaultmol They did (rightly) get called out and flagged enough that their post got hidden, at least. It really is just a few rotten apples in the community
subtoot, NixOS, venting
@thibaultmol From someone in a position of power in the project, too
subtoot, NixOS, venting
"If you have such a problem with an arms dealer sponsoring the project, why don't you try to beat their donation?"
What the fuck do you think we are, naive?
@byte I think the technical foundation is much more amenable to *making* something that is genuinely fun to use, but you still have to bring your own fun so to say
@byte At least for NixOS, I would only partly agree - a lot of stuff in NixOS land is also designed very clearly For Infrastructure(tm) and there's not a lot of stuff going on around themeability and customizability for example, with eg. Plasma themes still being a moderate pain to even get working
@byte I find a lot of the new FOSS stuff just so... boring and bland, and I often wonder how much of that is because of my changed usage patterns (needing things to Just Work because I need to work to pay the bills) vs. because of a changed environment (designing everything for commercial needs instead of joy and exploration)
Sven Slootweg
boosted
A horror/thriller film about a billionaire who retreats to his doomsday bunker after the apocaylpse to realize too late that a massive fortune means nothing if he can't master basic interpersonal cooperation and doesn't have the capacity to value the welfare of others
The twist is that the apocalypse didn't even happen and it was an elaborate ruse accomplished by his billionaire business rival
@researchfairy I could swear that I have seen this *exact* plot somewhere
Sven Slootweg
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OK, I have seen quite some vending machines in France (baguettes, pizzas (cooked), cheeses, milk) but this is next level. Concrete vending machine! 🙂
https://mastodon.infrageeks.social/@erik/112252445799170688
EDIT: there are LOADS of them! OMG 🤯 https://www.selfbeton.fr/nos-implantations
NixOS, NDAs
@hazelnot The shitshow about the arms dealer sponsor for NixCon and the broader community safety issues and conflicts of interest
NixOS, NDAs
The "cases where commercial NDAs have interfered with proper resolution of community safety issues" counter is currently at 2.
I sure hope people are taking lessons from what happened here.
Do you see now why I have such a problem with corporate involvement in the community?
OH: "Can I do pulse width modulation on the mandarin orange purchases?"
why people do not trust "allies", long
You know why marginalized folks like me so often don't trust "allies"? Because they are not bound by their plight.
Marginalized folks *live* their oppression; they can never opt out from it, they cannot choose to escape it. They need to either fight it, or drown in its consequences. Every consequence of their oppression is one that they will experience personally.
They will be in the fight for however long it exists; that is a guarantee. And that means you can rely on them being there to have your back, as they are able to.
Allies, however, have no such plight. As an ally, you have a price. It may be high, it may be paid in something like safety or convenience rather than money, but you have a price.
There will be a point where you have the opportunity to leave marginalized folks and their plight behind, for your own benefit or comfort. You will have the opportunity to opt out. Sooner or later, you are likely to take it.
You will convince yourself that it is "better for everyone this way". That you have "changed perspectives". That you have "discovered more nuance". That ultimately, you made the right choice by leaving behind the most vulnerable in society, when the price for doing so is high enough.
Depending on what you do to support marginalized folks, we may appreciate it. It may be genuinely helpful. But we will never be able to *trust* you. Because when the stakes are highest, you are going to be the first ones to leave.
Sven Slootweg
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"If you're under 25 your brain isn't fully developed, so you can't be trusted to make informed decisions"
I'm seeing this a LOT lately, especially today with the Cass Review fallout. And it's utter guff, based on hearsay, misunderstandings of neuroscience, or wilful ignorance.
Why? I'll tell you why
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NixOS, subtoot
@onepict@chaos.social To be clear, most of the NixOS community is quite nice, actually, on average people are a lot more decent than in most tech communities - but the complete lack of consequences for those few dudes has ruined it for everyone
NixOS, subtoot
@onepict@chaos.social Well, the blunt answer is that they (a few specific dudes) are abusers who have so far acted with relative impunity
NixOS, subtoot
(If you don't already know what this is about, an explanation is unlikely to clarify it any further.)
Sven Slootweg
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HSE at the company I work for has been talking a lot over the past years about our Stop Work Authority. If we encounter a situation that is a danger to our physical health, we have full authority to immediately stop our work, no matter the consequences, until the safety issue is resolved.
HSE in Belgium has now explicitly extended this to include situations that endanger your mental health, such as discrimination, racism, sexism, transphobia, etc.
So if you're in an important meeting with a big client and they say something racist, sexist, transphobic, etc., my Belgian colleagues now have full authority to just drop the meeting and walk out. Even if that would cost like a million euro contract.
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
