Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
For no particular reason, here's a very large collection of chiptune music: https://chiparchive.com/files/ -- also includes the latest(?) known MusicPack from the now-defunct keygenmusic.net.
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My mother’s union just secured a 40% raise and 7 weeks parental leave for its workers after walking off the job (in an illegal strike no less).
Don’t let people tell you unions aren’t worth fighting for
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Putting the new iOS18 “vehicle motion cues” to the test in the passenger seat on today’s windy roads down the Oregon Coast to reduce motion sickness potential. So simply clever, so unexpectedly effective, and barely distracting once you get used to it.
The only downside is that it’s impossible to remember how to search for that very specific name in settings search, but there’s a control center widget for toggling it that makes that moot.
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I think keygen music, an energy drink and a themed code editor complete the soul
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@baldur As someone in NL, with its 'kieswijzers', this is a *very* familiar problem and people will basically keep buying into election lies forever if this discrepancy doesn't get called out loudly in the public debate.
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Besides being awesome games in terms of graphics, gameplay and story, the Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West games are quite the indictment of modern society and out-of-control billionaires.
The first game clearly takes crack at an Elon Musk type character in the form of Ted Faro. The second basically shows the end result of the TESCREAL ideologies.
I feel like they get far too little credit for their social commentary (and for being so actual/ahead of their time).
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#flohmarkt needs an #accessibility review to leave beta phase.
Is there someone in the #fediverse who can help on #a11y?
Boosts 
highly appreciated!
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prisons, spicy take to some
Imprisonment is a form of torture, no matter how 'humane' it is on paper, and should be treated as such from an ethical perspective.
And when you argue for imprisoning people as a form of 'justice', you are arguing for torture as a form of 'justice', with all of the implications that that has.
It's just a form of torture that's easy to rationalize if you don't want to confront those implications.
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Oh my FUCKING GOD
I finished dumping 99.99% of a very old, damaged, backup CDROM that was previously unreadable. It took 3 days and I was super excited to find out what old data I put on it. The disc had UDF sessions, because that was common at the time for just Adding Files to non-rewritable media.
So I mount that shit in my Windows 98SE box, and lo and behold, this is all that was on it.
I would be absolutely upset if it wasn't so fucking funny
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Heb jij vragen over burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid? Wil je de A12 blokkeren, maar twijfel je nog? Maak je je zorgen om je Verklaring Omtrent het Gedrag (VOG)? Dan is een actietraining iets voor jou! Je bent van harte welkom met al je vragen!
Info & training: https://a12blokkade.nl/
(And this is where I realized how difficult it is to write a useful spoiler-free description of a show!)
Just finished watching two seasons of The Ark and despite the disastrously bad visual effects especially in the pilot episode (don't think I've ever seen a show hit the uncanny valley like that), I've been quite enjoying it!
One of the showrunners is Dean Devlin, and you can tell - if you've watched Leverage, you'll probably recognize the same notes of... hopepunk? scattered through the storylines, and the moral thread weaving them together.
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"The basic premise is that neither the institutions of power nor those opposing it will meet our demands without being forced to do so. The basic premise is that, without the self-organization of those directly concerned, we entrust it to the State to define the politics of care. And it will develop health capitalism where we want a politics that favors a production of care."
[translation: mine, if you find mistakes please let me know]
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"highlighting the points of convergence between AIDS and COVID makes it possible to remember the importance of a communal fight against the hierarchization of lives, for the defense of preventive, patient-oriented/care-oriented public health and in favor of a medicine that remains evidence-based and scientifically produced and validated."
[translation: mine, if you find mistakes please let me know]
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ACAB
morrowind and racism
so recently i found out about that morrowind mod that adds a complete recreation of emba-5 (a real small military town that was built in kazakhstan during the ussr times). the mod was made by a person who lived there and i thought it was kind of cute until it turned out the mod maker is a russian religious quack nazbol guy who says that it's a "uniquely russian" town and believes kazakh people cursed it and bastardized it after ussr fell. wack.
@valentyn @remixtures I mean, what isn't clear about that is that people have been saying for years that "that's in every service's terms of service, it's boilerplate text" (which is approximately true) and "it doesn't mean anything" (which is *mostly* but not entirely true).
So this framing feels a lot like victim blaming to me. There *are* realistically no services that don't have this clause, and this exact same clause is used to deal with a legitimate legal issue (namely, vagueness about what constitutes a derived work in a network context), so arguing "well it's always been there and you should've noticed" really doesn't help anyone.
If you want to criticize something, that criticism is better aimed at the culture and legal environment that have allowed this boilerplate to persist for so long without scrutiny.
subtoot, schools, LLMs
@feliks I'm not sure how this is relevant to the post?
@stellarskylark @schratze I feel like you're just solving the "getting rid of dust" problem here, to be honest
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
