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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- 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
@cab404 Oukitel WP5 (the non-Pro version)
One development I've been glad to see over the past year or two on urban planning Youtube, is that it's become now almost standard practice to call out how specifically *Black* neighbourhoods were razed for highways, rather than just leaving the type of neighbourhood unspecified (as often happened before).
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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apparently you can just airdrop yourself Apple Pro Apps from display units in Apple Stores and use them without paying hundreds of dollars xd
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there's no rule that goes "it's okay to cheat as long as it's not multiplayer"
cheating in a game is okay if everyone affected by it consents
if you play a custom game mode in any moddable game, that's the same as cheating but within a framework that ensures everyone who is playing with you vaguely understands what changes have been made to the rules of the game
the player count doesn't matter. what matters is consent
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Tech culture
The fact that open source exists makes the extent of the burnout dumbfounding
What I mean is, you can read open source as "you can't stop developers from writing code"--we have some of the most prized skills in the world, and we'll give it away because we love computers.
How does the collective business world take that and fuck it up so bad that we never want to look at another computer again?
(Also the screens are only 15 EUR with shipping so that's a nice bonus)
TIL that my budget no-name rugged/waterproof smartphone (whose screen has finally given in after many drops) apparently has replacement screens widely available, *and* it does not use adhesives so it's easy to replace it!
Very pleasant surprise, this. I was not expecting it to be so repairable, and there seems to be an iFixit guide for it too.
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unsolicitted advice to white people who want to be helpful
But, like, all the white people in the replies trying to be helpful by centring themselves is . . . fucking yikes.
So, for people who want to be allies:
1. Don't ask the person being harassed for stuff. If you want to help, but don't know what to do, make a separate post asking on your own TL.
2. Your feelings of guilt or shame or whatever for stuff that you didn't actually do - replying about those emotions reads like a request for reassurance. Somebody been systemically harassed should not be asked to make you feel better about their pain. If you're having complicated feelings about whiteness, this is good for your own post. Self-loathing is not a more acceptable way of centring your own whiteness.
Rule of thumb: if your reply is actually about you, just subtoot it instead.
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I think we need to encourage people to stop using phrases like "Rupert Murdoch is worth $8.3 billion" and replace them with the more accurate "Rupert Murdoch *controls* $8.3 billion." People aren't worth any more or less because of their wealth or lack of it. The phrase encourages a sloppy and immoral habit of thought.
@natureworks Maybe @koen could help? They mostly do stuff in NL I believe, but they have experience with this sort of thing
actual suggestion, sleep
@njion I've spent a lot of time on figuring this out (for, I assume, similar reasons), and I've found a way that works fairly reliably for me at least: relaxing all my muscles (is a thing that can be practiced) and then trying to make my brain deliberately drift away into nonsensical thoughts (by rejecting logical thought and following weird tangents at rapid pace), and after a pretty short time my body just goes "oh huh I guess we're in sleep phase now, better put the rest to sleep" and I'm asleep!
Can go into more detail about how to practice this, if wanted - but the short version of it is that I'm emulating the first phase of sleep to kick off the rest of the process
meta, racism, question
@jdp23 Thanks! All of those make sense, and that clarifies a lot.
I also wasn't aware that Twitter did any word filtering at all. I guess I'd assumed it didn't due to the large amount of slurs I still regularly encountered there. But perhaps their list just wasn't very complete.
@alecm There's a pretty significant difference between using a cookie and acquiring it, that's missing here: acquiring a cookie lets your access persist beyond the pageload, whereas 'making requests with it' only works as long as you can execute code on the page (ie. as long as the page is loaded).
It's the difference between stealing someone's keys, vs. tailgating them. Quite a different level of impact.
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I don’t know why taking photos of shit like this is so irresistible to me but it is
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Everything catastrophically wrong with the world was done to make some billionaire even richer.
Every town that had to evacuate due to a chemical spill, strip mining, or a never-ending underground fire was done to make some billionaire even richer
Every news article that pits white people against minorities and immigrants is written to distract us from billionaires destroying democracy, human rights and the planet to make themselves even richer.
The billionaires are the problem.
dealing with tech fascists
@th (I feel like "fascists are chronically unable to shut their mouths" is generally an underutilized strategy for this sort of thing, to be honest)
dealing with tech fascists
@th Personally: "Dude. What the fuck is wrong with you?", and then in response to the likely "what do you mean?", start challenging them on why on earth they want to have anything to do with that, and drive the conversation with clear disapproval until it eventually ends up at pointing out that they're associating with fascists.
Basically: make the social disapproval abundantly clear, and give them *just* enough room to blurt out enough details that they can't retroactively claim they had no idea (which usually happens if you jump straight to the 'fascists' claim).
Applies more generally, too; be just hostile enough that someone feels challenged, but not so much that bystanders will dismiss you as the aggressor. The fascist will out themselves and their beliefs to onlookers soon enough, if you just keep them talking for long enough.
vent, pissed
@mynameistillian (How this translates into organizing strategy is unfortunately something I do not yet have an answer to)
vent, pissed
@mynameistillian I'm reminded of some comments I've run across many times over the years, how the people who always show up to help, are rarely the people speaking loudly about it.
They are not entirely distinct groups either, but the core message here is that most solidarity is not found in discourse, nor those engaging in it.
- 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
