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
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Wat een nuance in een programma voor kinderen, iets om als volwassenen van te leren:
Indonesië in de oorlog, Klokhuis
"Honderden jaren was Nederland de baas in grote delen van wat we nu kennen als Indonesië. Janouk gaat vierhonderd jaar terug in de tijd en ziet hoe Nederland delen van het eilandenrijk met geweld veroverde. Veel Indonesiërs wilden een eigen land. In augustus 1945, kort na het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, riep Indonesië de onafhankelijkheid uit. Janouk ziet wat voor oorlogen er nodig waren voordat Indonesië eindelijk een eigen land werd, en hoe deze tijd hier in Nederland wordt herdacht. In de sketch zien we hoe Nederlandse kolonisten zichzelf heel erg beschaafd vinden, maar zijn ze dat ook…"
https://hetklokhuis.nl/tv-uitzending/5519/indonesie-in-de-oorlog
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Whenever you see a headline or an editorial piece which is wildly at odds with the evidence of your eyes and ears, just ask yourself, "How would the public accepting this as fact benefit/empower/enrich the billionaire who owns this megaphone?"
re: microsoft
@eldaking With my (probably justified in the case of Microsoft...) conspiracy theory hat on for a moment, they are entirely too insistent about having a TPM for it to (just) be about security of the user.
I bet this is related to DRM in some way.
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microsoft
So, Microsoft decided to break lots of people's computers:
https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-cracking-down-dodging-windows-11-system-requirements/
Any "security improvements" that require people to buy a new computer (or phone) is a security upgrade that poor people and/or people in the third world don't benefit from.
It is worse than useless, it is discriminatory, it is obscene. It throws people under the bus, causes us great economic duress, for the sake of other people's security. It erects a walled community and keeps us out, and pretends things are safer by removing us from the statistics.
@jon @bohwaz@mamot.fr ... wait, so what are people supposed to do who don't *have* a surname?
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Eckartsberga. Het station lijkt haast bevroren in de tijd, er zit zelfs een vuilniszak in de afvalbak #Pepermuntje
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I have managed to create a table style that I am quite proud of
this is all done with CSS
Is there a name for this philosophy around projects (of any kind)?
"Never discourage someone (or yourself) from attempting a project based on whether you think it is achievable, but you do have a moral obligation to discourage someone from attempting a project if it would be unethical for them to do so."
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this is your irregular reminder to
* be gay
* do crime
* post about being gay
* not post about doing crime
Edit: wow, my best performing post ever. guess what: it's #SettlerSaturday, so your job is now to find an Indigenous person's #MutualAid post and throw them $2/$5/$20/$100.
if you boosted this post and you're white this is not optional! if you truly have no money to give then you can credit yourself 50c for every #IndigenousMutualAid post you boost, until you reach one of those thresholds (take your pick).
have money but no spoons to read through a hashtag? here's one for ya: Evel needs accessories for xens new wheelchair. https://throne.com/evel/collections/wheelchair-things
or you can give money to xens indie studio co-op here: https://ko-fi.com/aldercone/
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Choose your phone!
Your options are:
- company that seeks rent on every transaction that happens through the phone
- company that tracks your location, habits and usage to build detailed profiles on you to inform advertising
- custom ROMs that can’t run your banking app
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a lot of processes in the industry i work in now rely on spreadsheets
like really janky ones with hours of people's lives burned away by copy/paste weekly or daily and pointing and clicking, following a checklist
so i think "aha! i can help!" and i replace the spreadsheet with an automated process
and hours per week are saved and i am a hero and it feels great
but then they need to make a little change and they can't, they have to go through me, i have effectively taken their power away
@stuebinm @nota@chaos.social (The deeper background for this is that I've been thinking a lot lately about ways to change my language that actually encodes the relevant properties into the name directly, rather than relying on an assumption that is not universally shared - to make it harder for terms to be coopted.)
@stuebinm @nota@chaos.social I guess I could've been a bit clearer, yeah 🙂 Thanks for the background!
I was thinking to use "agency over their work" to describe what people currently think "artisanal"/"handmade" means, which would implicitly allow for reframing "handmade" as a descriptor of labour rather than as a mark of desirability/uniqueness/craft/etc. - which would in turn hopefully create more room to talk about the *conditions* of that labour, getting rid of the assumption that "someone worked hard for this" is in and of itself a positive property (since as you say, that depends entirely on the working conditions!).
@stuebinm @nota@chaos.social (Where "creator" means the person who physically put it together and not the designer, but I'm having trouble finding a better word for this)
@stuebinm @nota@chaos.social I wonder if framing it in terms of "did the creator have agency over their work" would be a better way to talk about this than "was it made by hand"?
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@nota thinking about this more, i'm a little reminded of a discussion i read a while ago (on tumblr i think?) about "handmade" clothing, in which several people who were very into sewing absolutely lost their mind at people believing there's any sort of cheap clothing that's "not handmade" — it's just that it gets done in places that aren't usually thought about much (unless one wants to insist that "handmade clothing" prohibits the use of a sewing machine ig)
like it's the same kind of assumption that "mass-produced elsewhere" might as well mean "it just kinda materialised" (and credit is given to whoever designed it, not whoever made it)
like it's the same kind of assumption that "mass-produced elsewhere" might as well mean "it just kinda materialised" (and credit is given to whoever designed it, not whoever made it)
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Every time I hear the “novelty and creativity is rare” line I get so angry I have to stand up and pace to calm down
Language, art, and media are massively combinatorial. We’ve barely been able to scratch the surface of what’s possible because we’re locked in economic systems built on uniformity and in industries that always choose the broken and bland to boost short term profits
The absence of novelty is down to economics and your mindsets. The media themselves are as unexplored as the galaxy
I wish music festivals didn't allow national flags.
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Remember when we were all at awe at how we can access all the information we want like 10 years ago with the internet and phones
Well looks like the party is over with all the algorithmic intelligence poisoning SEO crap
Remember when Wikipedia was considered an unreliable source
- 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
