Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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A lesson I wish I could put on a thumb drive for most humans:
When you're seeking community, shared identifiers and interests will never yield the same results that shared values and praxis does.
Someone being queer, or liking the things you like does not guarantee that they will value you adequately or treat you well.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I want an app called "Who to Boycott".
When I download it I am asked 30 questions about how I feel about issues and there is a sliding 1 to 5 scale going from support for to 100% against. It has things like use of fossils fuels, unions, a minimum wage, reproductive rights.
Then everyday it sends me a list of 5 products to boycott and why based on company or ownership stands on my specific issues, and 1 new question.
Based on several institutes that track policy stances and legislation.
re: matrix moderation
@tastytea@very.tastytea.de @alyx@alyx.social Those still don't work for targeted raids, because the person doing the raid will know the answer(s), and will have embedded them into the bots (because it's a targeted attack) - they rely on the unpredictability of the question in untargeted attacks.
(Leaving aside the accessibility problems you can introduce by asking knowledge questions)
matrix moderation
I feel like moderation for Matrix would be in a much better place if there were a bot framework specifically for moderation tasks, with a very simple API and one-call methods for all common moderation actions, so that you can actually quickly respond to developing attack strategies
re: matrix moderation
@tastytea@very.tastytea.de @alyx@alyx.social FWIW, (typical) captchas don't really work for targeted raids, and are less and less working for untargeted ones too
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Honestly don’t understand how people can dislike pigeons. I mean, look at them, they are so cool! We need more pigeon portraits.
#Photography #Birds #BirdPhotography #Pigeons #PigeonPortrait
@kloenk@chaos.social I'm really hoping for a blogpost about this eventually, because it sounds deliciously turbocursed!
@kloenk@chaos.social Huh? How does that work?
@hugh AFAIK 'sneakernet' is just a description for transferring data over physical travel links, but in this case I'm thinking of goods, the same way you might send a parcel
Type of ADHD brain mode where brain is constantly oscillating between two different tasks at high speed, being interested in both but not *quite* interested enough to make any serious headway or commit to either of them
@lnl True, but that's still more a brand than a general term
@whreq I was thinking in a more general sense than just hackerspaces :)
I know that turtlemail.app exists, but I'm not sure they intend for "turtlemail" to become a generic term!
What do you call a 'sneakernet' but for physical stuff, transporting stuff (potentially over multiple hops) through people who are going somewhere anyway?
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We've deactivated our Twitter/X account.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Today's realization:
I am not doing "nothing."
I am calm and comfortable, abiding in this quiet space so my brain can rest and heal.
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Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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@Em0nM4stodon
That EU law does not require a #CookieBanner unless the web site wants to track your clicks or sell your data.
Because people do not understand this, they think "stupid EU law" instead of...
- "website owner has no respect for consumer rights"
- "website owner has no solid business plan and just hopes for a few bucks from the advertisement industry"
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.
idle thoughts on open-source 'enterprise' software
When comparing proprietary versus open-source options for enterprise software, what stands out to me most is that the open-source versions are usually 'simpler' - not in the sense of being easy to use, but in the sense of being really close to an original "in a vacuum" design, with very few accommodations or avenues for organization-specific changes and needs.
More interestingly, many of the newer, startup-y proprietary options look just like the open-source options!
- 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
