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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- 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
@aral Wait. Aren't Mozilla's location services dead now? They got patent-trolled.
re: fedi meta shitpost
@kescher I think you might run into some demographic overlap issues with the Social Web Foundation there
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fedi meta shitpost
I hereby found the Anti-Social Web Foundation and formally invite Anduril, Raytheon and a bunch of other military contractors to join
Together, we can ruin the Fediverse
I'm not sure if they operate outside the local area (seems they might do repairs in all of NL, despite only having store branches here? Their website isn't very clear about it), but in case anyone else in NL is looking, the company is Lunenburg.
Repairpeople just returned to install the replacement part, and to my surprise they remembered that I asked them to mask last time, and they brought their own masks and were already masked up before they came in!
Absolutely A++ experience honestly.
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Best not get stenography and steganography mixed up
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@KinkyKobolds One link I could easily find in my history is https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/23/telegram_tcs_suspect_info/, but the narrative seems to have shifted more broadly across media
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.
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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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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
- 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
