Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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.
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- 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
re: vent-
@theresnotime@fox.nexus I don't know if this applies in your situation, but I usually see folks describing very similar experiences in a context of experiencing misogyny.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Urgh, this sounds like the usual US-centric encapsulation of a thing, in this case ActivityPub and the fediverse. Office on Mission Street in San Francisco, a white team, ‘partners’ like Meta, Automattic, Medium, and the Ford Foundation.
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/09/24/launch/
"Whether that’s advertising supported, or funded by charities and non-profits, or based on paid-for services, or affiliate revenue, we are working to find ways that companies can do well in the Fediverse.”
https://socialwebfoundation.org/mission/
See also this thread by @onepict;
@elilla The closest thing I know of is Rome2Rio (proprietary), which IME has better coverage on options than Google Transit does, but doesn't support specifying specific cards/discounts.
KDE Itinerary (FOSS) supports importing various tickets and passes, and I *think* (but don't know for sure) that it takes them into account for planning options. However, its coverage of transit providers is more limited.
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“Back to office”
If your view is that cities are dying because of WFH, and you’re prepared to strong arm employees “back to the office”, but you have taken zero activity to make those offices safer against COVID and airborne viral transmission… you’re pushing eugenics.
If you’re happy to see everyone maskless again at events, and doing zero to mitigate COVID, you’re happy to see folks disabled by the virus you’re ignoring.
I’m tired of people pretending normality and taking zero responsibility.
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“We do not accept iCloud Hide My email addresses.”
Aww, sweetie. Then your competitor wins this round. 💅
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Every consumer electronics product: Here, let me show you my featureless cube from every angle except the one that shows the ports!
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Cities: Spending money on public transit? Hmm I don't know, why can't public transit be more like the private sector. They don't need handouts!
Private sector: That's right, now don't forget you need to spend a million million bucks on maintaining free roads for cars, free parking spaces for cars, free bridges for cars, the traffic lights, signs, and cops for speed limit enforcement
@raito This gives me more output but ultimately still just seems to be JSON-wrapped strings... based on an evaluation of a bunch of different "Nix GUI" codebases, it seems the answer is basically just "use regex to parse the output"?
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The grapevine is saying that Matt Mullenweg has just announced to his automattic employees that starting today, any resignation will be effective immediately to try to prevent leaks.
I'm sure this will prevent the leaks and no one will tell anyone what it's internally announced anymore.
Masterful gambit, pardner.
RE: fedi meta (Social Web Foundation)
@hazelnoot Yeah... this looks like a step towards corporate cooptation
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telegram
Can't help but notice that the reason for the Telegram CEO being arrested in France seems to have shifted from "failure to moderate the platform" (in the original reporting) to "failure to hand over user identities to cops" (Telegram updated their T&C to hand over data).
Those are two VERY different things.
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Here’s my blog post about Macedonia’s phantom rail lines https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/north-macedonias-phantom-rail-line-and-why-i-am-worried-theyre-repeating-the-error-at-the-other-end-of-the-country/ #Innotrans
idle historical musings, cryptocurrency
@serapath (You can see this reflected in how basically every single thing that cryptocurrency touches, immediately goes to shit and becomes miserable)
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I feel like people are generally not good at telling apart emotions and the actions that arise from those emotions
Emotions cannot be moral or immoral. You cannot be guilty for feeling a certain way. And you cannot be proud of it, either
How you choose to act on your emotions is a different thing altogether. You have control over that. An emotion may explain a certain type of action, but it cannot justify it
idle historical musings, cryptocurrency
@serapath Exploitation, especially labour exploitation, same as with any other kind of money. "Printing money" isn't how billionaires get rich.
idle historical musings, cryptocurrency
@serapath The problem is that that is not how it would actually work in practice, as has been demonstrated by basically every single "earn money by posting" platform in existence.
What will actually happen is that you make "earning money" the core metric in your system, and therefore people will start hyper-optimizing for that, and in a matter of months your entire platform will just be profit-optimized slop of no authentic value to try and maximize income.
Quite literally the worst thing you can do to *anything* is to make money the primary objective. It should only ever exist as an auxiliary thing, at most, and "you can tip anything trivially" is the opposite of that. The friction is necessary to not create a capitalist hellscape.
idle historical musings, cryptocurrency
@serapath The problem is that you can't. The existing capitalist power relations have long been replicated in the Bitcoin ecosystem, just in a slightly different form.
You just fundamentally cannot fix a political problem with technology.
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police
tldr do not talk to the cops, not as a witness, not for background, not for anything. They’re allowed to lie about that if they think you did it and especially if you haven’t done anything you might not realize they could think you did.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I hate the term ‘commuter rail’ cause it implies anyone using it for something other than getting to/from work is an afterthought at best
- 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
