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.
- 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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Oproepje voor mijn Friese volgers.
Er is een echte Friese Mastodon-instance, maar die worstelt om overeind te blijven. Weinig donaties, hij draait vooral op de privé-investeringen van de beheerder.
Weten jullie in je omgeving mensen of organisaties die trots zijn op hun Friese roots en dat best willen uitdragen op de Fediverse via een Friese naam? Wie kent er nou het top-level domein ".frl" tenslotte? 😉
https://mastodon.frl/
#Friesland #Fryslân #Mastodon
Er is een echte Friese Mastodon-instance, maar die worstelt om overeind te blijven. Weinig donaties, hij draait vooral op de privé-investeringen van de beheerder.
Weten jullie in je omgeving mensen of organisaties die trots zijn op hun Friese roots en dat best willen uitdragen op de Fediverse via een Friese naam? Wie kent er nou het top-level domein ".frl" tenslotte? 😉
https://mastodon.frl/
#Friesland #Fryslân #Mastodon
@rallias There would be, but in this case "do you" really is the right phrasing for what I'm trying to work out 🙂
I'm glad I posted this poll because the results are not what I was expecting :)
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in an effort to get folks to contribute more to the most marginalized folks' mutual aid requests, i'm open for small sketch requests for donations. send me proof of $10+ donation to a black or indigenous person's mutual aid and you get a little doodle request !
here is a non exhaustive list of such requests (updated 3/15): https://weirder.earth/@thief/114155764209364196
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Ich habe hier einen ganzen Eimer mit Einweg-Kühlpacks rumstehen.
Im Prinzip sind die noch gut zu gebrauchen und für den Müll zu schade.
Hat jemand in #Aachen Interesse daran?
Ich gebe sie kostenlos ab.
@herhandsmyhands Have the workers communicated how they would like the public to support their action? Not buying things, or deliberately keeping up the ordering to increase pressure, or something else?
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A website I really miss is browsershots.org
It could create screenshots of a website in a quite a wide variety of browsers
It could be recreated as an open source project though... QEMU/Wine... Kinda expensive to run as SaaS but a modern computer can easily spawn 50+ parallel browsers in a minute I think
http://web.archive.org/web/20190102012353/http://browsershots.org/
@miyuko It's currently accessible at http://joepie91-home.cryto.net:3500/ if you're curious (using test data) - cyan background is a debug indicator meaning it is loading messages from a simulated server that takes about a second to respond. Note that that link can stop working at any time, it's just my dev process running locally
I've linked my work-in-progress chat client in a few places now, and some of the most notable commentary includes "why does it look like basic Qt" and "are you making an IRC client?" which means I'm probably on the right path, given that it's a Matrix client that runs in a browser and the project is partly intended to disprove people's assumptions about what that means
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Racism, sexism and bigotry in porn
I remember there once was a meme or a post going around basically saying "are you a white cishet male or are you a porn category?" and I hate how accurate that still is..
Whenever I make the mistake of visiting mainstream porn sites I am reminded that if you want to see people of color, feminine people who aren't straight up underweight, trans people, queerness or otherwise anything that's NOT white people having straight sex you need to look through dedicated kink categories that specifically fetishize minorities. I do not understand how in the year of our lord 2024 it's still ok to have shit like "BBC", "blacked" and other similar "kinks" that reduce people of color to a weird fantasy of dominance on practically all the major porn sites.. If anyone out there is into that while believing it's not blatantly rooted in racism I think they have some serious introspection to do.
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:cuwu:
TPM can be used for
- malware
- malware
- 2-factor authentication
- malware
- malware
what a lovely device
- malware
- malware
- 2-factor authentication
- malware
- malware
what a lovely device
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(girlfriend arc)
hey fedi, is there anyone willing to host me in berlin for a few days sometime in december or january? 
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Poll for people with only one eye (two eyed people please boost):
Do you suffer from motion sickness?
I want to better understand how people decide to donate to things. Therefore, a little poll! 
Do you donate to people/projects through Patreon, or through other services? Why or why not? (Please elaborate in the replies if you can.)
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Hm.
So if you think about it, if you're looking down at a map, it's easy for you to see the shortest path between two points, but it's hard for a computer to, because it has to walk all the way from point A to point B to see how far it is.
Which makes me think, are all graphs of dimension N more easily solved if they can be viewed from N+1?
@Dylan Ik - en vele anderen - hebben je in een vorige reactie al uitgelegd dat dat gebrek aan engagement en bereik een logische uitkomst is als je er zelf geen moeite in steekt. Met een algemene reactie als deze die, zonder daar op in te gaan, vooral het probleem bij Mastodon probeert te leggen, lijk je dat beeld eigenlijk alleen maar te bevestigen.
De enige andere manier waarop ik dit kan interpreteren is eigenlijk "we willen vooral dat anderen ons het bereik op een dienblad aanreiken zonder er zelf wat voor te doen, en aan die verwachting voldeed Mastodon niet", en die conclusie zou inderdaad kloppen, maar dan zou ik me ook afvragen waar je als publieke omroep dan eigenlijk nog mee bezig bent.
Is het niet jullie taak om dat bereik te *creëren*? Is dat niet specifiek de reden dat jullie als overheidsdienst bestaan?
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In school we heard "you won't carry a calculator around all the time" as reason for doing math on paper. OK, that was a total goof, because now we all have phones that, potentially, can serve as arbitrarily powerful calculator anytime and anywhere.
But that's not the gotcha you think it is. I don't think teachers were just blind to technological progress here, they were fully aware of one thing that they neglected to teach: it's a tool, and a tool is only as powerful as the mind that uses it. If you don't know how something works, you fall back into a magical understanding: you throw in ingredients on one side, and a solution pops out on the other side. There is no way for you to tell if the result is reasonable, or the magical process completely goofed out. Also, you will be completely dependent on the tool where a little understanding could show you shortcuts that make things easier for you, or at least feed the machine easier.
We're now in a worse situation like this concerning LLMs. They are branded AIs, advertised as machines that give answers, and if you don't know the shape of the answer already, and have no idea about the facts, you are completely at the mercy of a magical process that tells you fairytales. When things don't work with that answer, you are completely adrift with no idea how to fix it. Because a tool is only as powerful as the mind that uses it.
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Ik weet niet hoor maar dit vind ik dus Heel Verdacht! Heel!
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remember, when you're giving to Indigenous mutual aid today — and if you have money, you ought to be — as tempting as it might be to write "death to America" in the note field, this helps nobody and puts a target on two people's backs.
payment processors are not the place to leave radical messages.
- 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.
- 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
