Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @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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@not-leader@pleroma.envs.net @hllizi They're related indirectly; both have a causal link to fundamental governance issues, but they are still separate issues.
(I'm fine with people asking questions btw, it's mostly the "barreling ahead with loud opinions with no insight" that's been bothering me.)
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@hllizi Nope, it's about the moderation/governance shitshow
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Like, I'm fine with people newly getting involved in the conversation, but when it's so clear that this is a long-running situation, do your fucking homework first before commenting the same tired takes we've heard a hundred times before
Lot of "I don't really understand what this is about but I'm going to insert my opinion anyway" going around in #NixOS land lately
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Boss battle arena background for Tiny Thor #pixelart #MastoArt #digitalart
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I think people working for companies like Anduril or Palantir deserve to be shunned and pushed out of any communal space on tech. These are people who willingly choose to work making the killing of other people more efficient and easy. I'm ok, happy even, with them not feeling welcome in FOSS.
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OH “It is very crowded in this train” (looks around, empty seats everywhere) “so, until Kortrijk the first class is also available with second class tickets” 
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I think something that many might not realize about large open source projects like #nixos is that despite a huge number of contributors:
1. Number of contributions follows a power law.
2. Contributors aren't fungible, instead it's tens-hundreds of individual SPOFs.
3. Willingness to put your time to fix problems for others (not just stuff you have a personal interest in) is highly correlated with strong ethics.
=> Piss off the wrong 5 people and the project grinds to a halt within a month.
@Linux I'd slightly disagree there: DRM-free digital purchases are a thing! Less so with movies and TV unfortunately (I would really like that to change), but quite often available for games.
Pretty much as good as a hard copy, and can't just be yanked out from under you either.
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At the end of Friday 3 May ICM 4011, the oldest Koploper still in service at 
, is leaving active service, after more than 40 years.
@daughterofrao@weirder.earth The
paradox of tolerance?
@aral @delroth It's also conveniently ignoring how there have been problems with marginalized folks getting harassed for *at least* 5 years already by this point, and the only new thing is that there's pushback against the shitty people, but of course that prior harassment would have never affected him because he's a privileged dude, and so everything used to be rosy *for him*...
As usual, the "suddenly everything is political" accusation is really just disguising a complaint about people setting boundaries that he doesn't like
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3rd most active contributor to #nixos drops from the project due to the lack of leadership from the Foundation supposedly backing the project.
Everything is fine, I'm sure the arms dealers will compensate the lost contributions. /s
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@jon @vladcampos@mastodon.social FWIW, The B1M has a reputation for doing (often undisclosed) sponsored placements
taxes
Love spending a bunch of time trying to track down a 4-cent deviation between my books and what my bank says, only to discover that the bank's data export listed a transaction on Dec 31 but it's listed in the e-banking UI for Jan 3 of the next year
(The use of the words 'eject' and 'intend' are intentional here; I do not believe that different licensing terms are a solution to this problem; it is a social problem, not a legal one)
Or to phrase it differently: a public commons can only actually work, if you eject those who only ever intend to take from it
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And this is not so much a complaint about that one maintainer, as it is a complaint about FOSS culture more broadly, and its chronic inability to recognize that capitalist power dynamics are something to defend from, not something to embrace,
leading to people tossing in the towel entirely.
This is going to keep happening as long as you actively invite corporations in your midst
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Another day, another FOSS maintainer going "I will stop doing FOSS because this is not sustainable" and dismissing code sharing as a concept entirely, rather than recognizing that the extractive users (like corporations) are the actual problem here
- 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
