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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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
tangent, re: adventures in game development
I do wonder if I'm gonna be the first one to ship a game that runs in Node.js (as opposed to a browser), though. This doesn't seem to be something that anyone has really explored?
adventures in game development
Some things done today: implemented rudimentary resource loader, added automatic texture packing, hot-reloader now shows an error screen when the game throws an error very quickly after restart, added a better GLSL validator that actually gives me helpful error messages, animated my test triangle to test rendering correctness, various bugfixes. Now working on actually rendering sprites on the screen.
Honestly, once you find reasonable OpenGL bindings, there's some pretty damn good game development tooling available in JS.
@vantablack Fastest way to find a contact method, I suppose?
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meta uspol thingy that inspired these posts
i think $250,000 would actually literally meet every single goal in the mutual aid hashtag going back like multiple years
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i think fundraising for politicians on fedi is a bit gauche when there are so many people in the #MutualAid hashtag who really need help
if you have money to burn on pointless political bullshit you have money to give to your struggling digital neighbors
Perhaps the most insidious crime of capitalism is that it has deprived generations of their ability to dream in public; a horde of pencil-pushing busybodies perpetually waiting in the shadows to tell you that "that would never work"
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proprietary systems cannot be innovative, long-ish
There are lots of *practical* reasons why proprietary and commercial environments aren't really capable of producing innovation, but those are not the ones I want to focus on here.
The bigger reason why proprietary systems cannot be innovative is more philosophical. "Innovation", to me, is a very specific thing: it is the collective process of discovering and iterating on new techniques and technologies, to make society a little better for everyone every time.
The "iterating on" is important there; innovation is about *collective knowledge building*, about improving humanity's collective understanding of the world in a durable and sustainable way, and ensuring that those who come after us can build on our work to improve a little further.
Proprietary systems, by their very nature, cannot do this. "Innovations" in proprietary systems will live and die with the organizations in which they are built; the knowledge of their workings is secret and deliberately obscured, practically guaranteeing a loss of knowledge when the organization eventually folds - as every organization does sooner or later.
Proprietary organizations simply do not participate in the process of innovation at all; they *emulate* it, as a cheap party trick to impress investors and accumulate more power, economic or otherwise.
For something to be truly innovative, it *must* happen in the open, no exceptions. If others outside of your control cannot iterate on it, it is not truly innovation, no matter how clever it sounds.
@dorian (Aside, I'm aware that "finding a non-controversial term" is a bit of a cat and mouse game due to any radical term being *made* scary over time by established institutions, but making this sort of thing more politically approachable can still be a helpful device in the short term, IMO)
@hi_cial I think the first two have a similar problem to https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/112848411877779555 unfortunately :(
"Helpwave" doesn't, but seems a bit too... generic/branded? I'm not sure how to put it into words.
@timorl That's more or less what I'm going for, but "building up dual power" refers more to the overarching principles and organization, rather than any one particular effort that a given person might be involved in.
So essentially I'm looking for a slightly more specific term, to refer to the activity rather than the philosophy, if that makes sense.
@dorian So that's *almost* what I'm looking for, but the problem is that anything called 'radical' is a scary term to folks who would be on board with the *concept*, but have built up a kneejerk reaction against the term due to *waves in general direction of politics*.
I'm looking for a more 'gentle' term, something that drives people to go "huh, what's that?" rather than "aaa that sounds bad", to have a foot between the door and introduce them to the concepts.
I really appreciate it when library developers specify upfront in the documentation what their design goals and non-goals are.
Even when they don't match what I'm looking for, it immediately tells me whether it's what I need, and saves me a lot of time and frustration!
#DuckDuckFedi: what would be a good, concise term for "grassroots initiatives to build alternative social structures founded on radical principles, focusing on the 'building up' and mutual social support part rather than the 'tearing down' part?"
I'm looking for something less specific than 'mutual aid', also encompassing the somewhat more abstract and semi-centralized movements, but not including institutional efforts.
snark, privacy
@vkc We care about Your Privacy (the commodity), it is very valuable to us
(If they give you some evasive non-answer about how it 'depends' and they've never talked about mutual aid before, the answer is most likely "zero", by the way)
@Deiru Right, but it is very possible that Sony set this (transferring patent rights) as a requirement to fund the game's development at all.
That doesn't mean there's no ethical implications of saying yes to that, of course, but it is very different from "Kojima patented this thing" - and given how common these sorts of clauses are, you can't necessarily assume that Kojima was aware of the *extent* of the patents that would be filed, for example.
Normalize asking your well-off friends at prestigious tech companies what their mutual aid budget is
@Deiru Patent portal is not working for me at the moment so I can't check, but various sources seem to suggest that the patent was filed by Sony, rather than Kojima?
@WillemBijl @BrabantsBurgerplatform Ik krijg de indruk dat het vooral een paar grootschalige boeren zijn die hier een handje van hebben, en dat er een hoop kleinere boeren zijn die wel gewoon redelijk zijn, maar weinig invloed hebben in organisaties als LTO
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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- 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
