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
lewd-adjacent, complaining
@marlies This is a free one (and primarily for hookups rather than long-term dating) so I'm not sure what they're hoping to gain from that, in their business model it makes more sense to make the experience nice so that people keep coming back IMO
re: lewd picture, (almost) nude teasing
(boosts are OK!)
lewd-adjacent, complaining
And also, if you cannot even take the time to read and answer a simple question, what makes you think I'm going to meet up with you? Like, come on
lewd picture, (almost) nude teasing
If you saw me like this and you could do anything, what would you do?
@fluffy Oh no, what happened this time?
lewd-adjacent, complaining
Okay what the hell happened to hookup chats, why do I need to practically A/B-test my profile text to get anyone to read more than three words?
nl politiek
Aha, dus dit is een van de bedrijfjes die zich bezighouden met "oud-politici als commercieel lobbyist in de markt zetten": https://loopbaannapolitiek.nl/
Opgericht door ene Willem Ginjaar, die betrokken is (was?) bij een van de VVD afgesplitste partij (uiteraard...) in Zeeland. Geven ook graag aspergediners cadeau aan politici, blijkbaar.
@daudix@vmst.io I believe the process manager (about:performance) now also does this when you hit the 'X' on a tab group
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
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
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
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
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Some years ago, I got the impression that a certain team in a very well known European university was multiplying papers unnecessarily.
Basically, the same idea was spread across several papers, and some obfuscation was used to make the ideas seem more complex than they were.
A senior colleague got this answer from one of the students: "that's what our advisor asks us to do".
mentions racist rhetoric, re: US pol: Is there any kernel for this lie?
@futurebird Right. So then perhaps the underlying, implicit claim is "immigrants are making our schools worse by increasing class sizes" or something like that? Since that would be more politically palatable, if I understand you correctly.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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OpenAI snark
lol at ChatGPT discussing a price hike up to $2k monthly
Tell me the bubble is bursting without telling me it's bursting
mentions racist rhetoric, re: US pol: Is there any kernel for this lie?
@futurebird Not sure whether this rhetoric also exists in the US, but it reminds me of the common racist rhetoric in the Netherlands of "immigrants taking all the houses, leaving none for Dutch people". Which is derived from a (deliberate) misinterpretation of refugee housing policies in the context of social housing waitlists. Something like that perhaps?
alt text, software/politics
@xgranade@wandering.shop
Comment from cgranade that quotes a message saying "Personally, I don't feel a browser should be political."
Then their own message: "If it's alright, I want to quickly respond to this. I don't mean to distract the thread too much from being an issue about the AI sidebar introduced upstream with 130.0, but I think it's relevant to the issue to be clear about what it means to be 'political'.
In particular, a browser is political almost by definition - decisions about web standards affect who has and does not have power on the web, which is pretty intensely political. Even more so, the decision to be privacy focused is absolutely a political stance, especially with the way privacy violations are used to hurt everyone from pregnant people seeking abortions (to wit, Facebook turning over chats about abortion or advertisers building up profiles based on inferred pregnancy) to queer kids looking for information without outing themselves to homophobic or transphobic parents. Journalists depend on privacy to investigate corrupt officials, exploitative corporations, or other powerful institutions. Those are all intensely political aspects.
That is, I don't think it's a reasonable goal to avoid politics, so much as to ensure that whatever the political implications are of a development decision, that they are intentional and align with the values of the project as a whole.
My understanding about the politics *implicit* in the previous decisions made by the LibreWolf project lead me to believe that a feature designed to erode user privacy, devalue creative labor, and to consolidate power behind a few API gateways is likely not a feature in keeping with the chosen politics of the project. I could be wrong, in which case I'm happy to disagree and find an alternative browser that is more in line with the politics that I and people I care about depend on for our safety."
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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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
- 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
