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.
- 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
@brianleroux I continue to feel that GraphQL (or rather, something like it) would have been a much better fit as a server-side data layer abstraction, that itself never goes over the network (and is just a library function call); because collating different data sources is the part that the model actually good at!
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Twenty-five years of Krita today! Join us for a trip down memory lane -- KImageShop, Krayon, Krita through a quarter century with Halla @halla, the Krita maintainer:
@StroomAfwaarts Als dat daadwerkelijk de conclusie is die iemand trekt, dan ga ik sterk mijn bedenkingen hebben of ik nog wel met die persoon om wil gaan. Dat is moedwillig het gevaar negeren, en op zo iemand kan ik dus niet vertrouwen.
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Dear computer friends - as information workers on strike at #UAW4811, im trying to think of some digital picketing strategies. Ways of incurring additional costs and disruptions to operation that are within the bounds of the law. One of the biggest levers we have is grading, and UCLA uses a fork (?) of Canvas (bruinlearn). Does anyone have any bright ideas for how to run up a cloud bill? Something along the lines of uploading enormous files to course pages, asking students to download a directory with millions of files as a .zip, that kinda thing. Something thats an arms length shy of CFAA but something that could let our students and remote colleagues help with the strike. Any ideas? Boosts welcome. (I do not speak for or represent UAW 4811 in any way as a rank and file member)
Edit: dm me for my signal if you are curious about such a topic and are not necessarily volunteering any information in the affirmative or negative
Okay this has been playing on repeat for a couple hours now, damn this is good
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I'm not sure what kind of music this is, but it's... nice? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlU91m_mmec
@xgranade@wandering.shop Also somehow in these conversations the problem always lies in some unspecified third party or phenomenon that should be vaguely "addressed", it's somehow never attributable to those who are in power or their friends
@xgranade@wandering.shop It will never stop frustrating me how many people are all "yes we should solve this problem" right up until it implies any kind of consequences for their friends and suddenly we need to be "reasonable" and "careful" and "not make hasty decisions" etc.
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Yeah MIT Technology Review, I'm sure that's all they "could" be used for and could never be used to kill brown families in the countrysides of those who live in areas that have always been subjected to violent colonial forces. 🙄
At this point, this type of omission (how this type of tech, specifically, is financially viable to research because of its violent military applications) is an egregious ethical lapse and journalists should be called out for it.
Engagement farming accounts can fuck right off
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The world is not self correcting. Saying “don’t get upset about things, things will fix themselves” is useless. Things only get fixed because people got upset
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@witchy@h-i.social (FYI, the 'easily disproven excuses' link is dead now - I assume it was the excuse about dark pencils not existing, but the deletion makes it hard to follow if you haven't seen the other posts about it)
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Putting this here bc I too am tired of the term "enshittification" and its erasures.
Like for example when inauthentic accounts on Twitter were imitating Black ppl or being used to stoke GamerGate we didn't hear about "enshittification"
But when everyone else started getting porn bots under their every tweet oh NOW the platform is "degrading"
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I love that a multi-billion-dollar corporation like RedHat/IBM can ship an operating system with a broken screen reader in 2024 (it’s not just them, it’s true for basically every major Linux distribution today) and, when you point it out, the response is “it’s no one’s fault… it’s all free labour… it’s FOSS, man”. And then: oh, and this charity is paying for one person to work on accessibility support to be implemented now… Anyone else see how fucked up that is?
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June is almost here and the #kink at #pride discourse is back! If you're thinking "gosh, this sounds familiar", I've got the historical survey for you. Leather, drag, and kids at pride, from 1969 to 1995. The interplay of radical & reactionary forces within queer circles and broader society. Pride as polyvocal celebration & prefigurative counterpublic! Moral panic! The Lesbian Sex Wars!
I spent months researching this history for y'all. I hope you enjoy it.
https://aphyr.com/posts/358-a-history-of-leather-at-pride-1965-1995
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hot take about cybercrime policing
i honestly find the marvel-ification of cybercrime police operations quite disgusting, turning things like the lockbit operation and operation endgames into entertainment spectacles is quite dystopian, not funny and doesn't even really serve the purpose of intimidation.
it's just the peak of corporate and government cybersecurity folks thinking they're the protagonists in some sort of sci-fi action movie when in fact they're just turning themselves into comically pathetic cyberpunk villains
you're the plague, not crash & burn
it's just the peak of corporate and government cybersecurity folks thinking they're the protagonists in some sort of sci-fi action movie when in fact they're just turning themselves into comically pathetic cyberpunk villains
you're the plague, not crash & burn
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A shout out to librarians, libraries and library science -- and the practices of care, community and service which make up their democratizing force.
https://buttondown.email/maiht3k/archive/information-access-as-a-public-good/
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If riding an ebike is "cheating" compared to other exercise, why do my ebike rides have such a profound effect on my happiness and physical well-being? Why do I have measurably better health and get dramatically more minutes of activity compared to when I was riding a non-electric bike? Why can't I find a single downside to this form of exercise other than cost?
If it walks like exercise and quacks like exercise, maybe just call it exercise and leave off the judgment.
I'm not sure what kind of music this is, but it's... nice? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlU91m_mmec
- 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
