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
@joshix @lea@lea.pet @jessew While that's true from the perspective of someone who *wants* to self-host their stuff, that doesn't do anything for the folks who are dependent on others to run it for them (which is going to be the majority of people even in an ideal world, because most people don't have time or interest to maintain servers).
re: unsolicited opinion
@benaryorg @lea@lea.pet @joshix @jessew As someone who actually tried to get involved in XMPP stuff to fix these issues, and eventually jumped to Matrix: it really wasn't that simple.
Trying to get people in the XMPP ecosystem to care about usability was, in my experience, like talking to a brick wall. The vast majority of people at the time wouldn't even recognize that it's a thing that's valuable, let alone be willing to take *any* steps to improve it.
At some point you have to take your losses and create a better environment for that, which is pretty much what Matrix ended up being. The improvement of XMPP was never going to happen on any reasonable timescale purely due to cultural inertia.
@lea@lea.pet @joshix @jessew As far as I've been able to determine from the scant technical documentation, sealed sender doesn't do this either and in the end still boils down to "trust us bro" (it just describes the way in which they *claim* they have made it harder for themselves to correlate, but they still have all the control needed to quietly undo that)
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uspol, furries, kink, Elon Musk, the world is a joke
Elon Musk was kicked out of the Bay Area Babyfur community.
Much respect to the furries for recognizing how much of a toxic piece of shit Elon is, and giving him no quarter. Even if this may have led to him acquiring twitter so that he could avoid being kicked out, it really shows the power of furry communities to maintain a healthy environment.
https://x.com/denimneverdies/status/1817441645236772931
https://x.com/HYENAFREQUENCY/status/1816661175037268201
https://old.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/1ecshvh/elon_tried_to_enter_the_babyfur_community/
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uspol, furries, kink, Elon Musk, the world is a joke
Aspiring manipulators of public perception take note: this is how you guide a narrative away from harming your own communities.
One option would be to ignore it because, even if it's about someone you hate, it makes fun of your own community. To do so would give up control of the narrative, and it's going to come out anyway. To suppress it would align your interests with his.
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ACAB
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Top tip on German trains: if something is unclear with your ticket *seek out on board staff before they find you* - that way you’re being the helpful and proactive one, not being evasive or hiding
Due to a partial cancellation of a later train I wasn’t entirely sure I could take this earlier one
Find train manager, ask, explain - and now it’s all fixed
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openSUSE 10.2 in the mid-2000s was BRINGING IT. Just sublime.
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o.O getting a restraining order to not get your certs revoked https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68995396/alegeus-technologies-llc-v-digicert/
sabotage in France (clarification)
To be clear, I'm not saying that *the act itself* could not be carried out by a leftist! The rail network would be a strange choice of target, but there could conceivably be circumstances where this would happen. It's the "nobody has claimed responsibility" part that makes this weird.
sabotage in France
Authorities claiming that the arson attacks on rail infrastucture were probably carried out by "the ultra-left".
I don't know, but it doesn't seem very credible to me that an actual leftist would do that *and then not claim it*. It doesn't really make sense in the context of leftist politics - you'd want to be making a point, and ensure it is clearly understood.
Unlike right-wing groups, which thrive on fear and blame, I don't see that leftist groups really have much to gain from just causing unspecified chaos... that's not how leftist politics work.
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You know what I fucking love? That point in a person's transition that they forget their dates. Their hormoneversery becomes a thing that they realise was a week ago. It's become normal. It just is. It's not a thing to celebrate. They fought the battle, they won, and now they are living in the body they forged and it's so normal that they forget the date they won. Like a forgotten victory day for a war distant ancestors fought
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thoughts regarding transmedicalism
i feel like a really dangerous part of transmedicalist rhetoric is the idea that you have to have yourself figured out to be trans. Think of all the stories that always come up with trans people in the media about how "they knew they were a (woman/man) since they were a young child". I'm sure this is the case for many trans people but it's also not reflective of many other trans experiences and creates the narrative that "true" trans people have their gender figured out, thus restricting others from figuring themselves out and getting the care they need. Plus as many others have pointed out it invalidates non-binary people. Transmedicalism is just another arm of the patriarchy used to enforce gender roles and should be treated as such.
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political take
i love liberals (/s) for the damage they made to society by convincing it that public transport can't work outside of cities
yes it can and it does or did before public transport was systematically deprived of financing and proper management
lol
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Want vooruitgang is niet apolitiek. Vooruitgang voor de één is achteruitgang voor de ander. In dit geval: de vooruitgang in arbeidsproductiviteit en “goedkope arbeid” is een achteruitgang geweest voor arbeiders. En dat de machtsverhoudingen tegen vooruitgang zijn geënt. https://www.doorbraak.eu/middenklasse-correspondent-weigert-zowel-verslechteringen-als-onze-strijd-voor-verbeteringen-waar-te-nemen/
@treinenweb Tja. Dat is niet gek - 'winst maken' (of uberhaupt gelijk draaien) is dan ook een heel vreemd doel om te hebben voor een treinnetwerk; het is een publieke voorziening waar de maatschappij veel aan heeft, en dat mag gewoon belastinggeld kosten.
Ik snap die obsessie met "verlies draaien" van de NS dus niet zo goed (en dat bedoel ik in het algemeen, niet specifiek aan jullie gericht).
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@jonny I remember reading something about a fedi instance that would spend most of its time with no federation, but would every so often "dock" with a random instance out there, federate for a little while, and then pick up and "leave" again.
If I remember right it was a mildly shitposty concept that never actually got implemented, but there is a charm to it.
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You know what I dont even care about a browser fully implementing web standards. Whoever makes a browser that animates every website at like 5% speed with little guys running out into the internet to go bring back the pictures and stuff them into place, little goblins that push the page elements around to animate them, and you adblock by Mario stomping the tracking demons as they try and steal your clicks and stuff... I will use that browser no matter how completely busted it is
- 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
