Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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.
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- 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
Voorbereidingen voor Te Land, Ter Zee En In De Lucht in de Efteling
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Testosterone doesn't make men aggressive. Really.
If a man is behaving badly, it ain't testosterone, it's something else. The association between T and aggression is weaker (MUCH weaker) than other factors associated with aggression.
And, yes, this is a feminist issue -- because to imply that bodies with higher T have higher anti-social behavior is literally the definition of biological essentialism. It also implies men can't help it, which is also false.
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me, remotely, on my home server whose only connection to the outside world is a wireguard tunnel: wg-quick down wg0 
me: 
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Russian network filtering is configured in such way, that if some user simply opens phpmyadmin.net in a browser, all Hetzner address space will be blocked for this user.
This could be related to attempts to block Tor Browser, which uses www.phpmyadmin.net as a BridgeDB front. Well, except that they are two different domains that resolve to different addresses 
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When I was in college some people were really into “intentional media consumption” the idea being that if you should consume media, you should give it your undivided attention or not bother with it at all. At the time, I found this idea annoying and a little pretentious. They claimed things like reality TV and 24 hour news wouldn’t be popular if people only did this.
AI content is making me want to revisit the idea. Maybe do a personal experiment.
What happens if you pay attention?
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@futurebird I also think the other side of it, what might be called critical ignoring, has potential. There's a huge amount of media being made and circulated vehemently, and being intentional about what you don't give your attention to is as important as what you do.
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Guardian and Observer journos on strike today - don't visit those sites.
Digital picket lines!
[Source: National Union Of Journalists bulletin]
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FBI (etc): You should use end-to-end encryption, because networks can be easily compromised by national adversaries.
Us: Right! Just like we've been saying all along forever!
FBI: Never heard that. Anyway, It's even worse than that! They can even compromise wiretapping systems!
Us: You mean just like we warned that they would when you mandated them?
FBI: Nope, never heard anything like that either.
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Yes, I've heard that the FBI is now recommending that we use End-to-End encryption. Yes, I am worried about dying of an irony overdose.
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Such an absolute scorcher on the state of generative Ai. Hard to pick a favorite passage, but this one works.
"The entire tech industry has become oriented around a dead-end technology that requires burning billions of dollars to provide inessential products that cost them more money to serve than anybody would ever pay."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter
@olivvybee@honeycomb.engineer Ah yes, rollercoaster statistics, the thing where literally everybody lies anyway 
"No, we promise that it really is that tall! Well yes, we measured from the ground level at the entrance of the park instead of the ground level at the coaster, but that doesn't make it *false*!"
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I know a lot of folks in the US are preparing for emigration now, so here's a PSA of sorts for anyone considering Norway (drugs)
Do not ever, everrr, EVER, under any circumstances, mention ever having consumed any controlled substances, including cannabis, to anyone in a position of authority in this country - not your GP, not a psychologist, not anyone working for a government agency.
Whatever you may think the benefits of being open about it are, it will literally never go well.
You can be denied vital medicine, you can have your driver's license revoked, you may even have your children taken away. If you get a direct question about it, don't hesitate, just lie.
Unless they're the cops pulling you out of traffic, they have to believe you (also most psychiatric services will demand urine tests before offering you any kind of treatment, but any mental health-related services in this country are mostly a Potemkin village anyway and will bill you hundreds of kroner for a pat on the back and a "Just pull yourself together, you'll be fine").
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The birds aren't real people bought the Enron trademark for $275 and are doing this incredible bit and all I want to know is how do you buy a trademark because between infowars and this every impish bone in my body aches to acquire some toxic IP
type of guy
Type of guy who lectures you on being "too abrasive, you won't convince people that way" with no knowledge of your history, and who really just felt personally called out despite the post not being addressed at them, and so tries to cover their discomfort instead of self-reflecting
general "you", blunt, re: venting, FOSS, nerds
@lnl Actually, I want to go into that a bit more in the general sense, because this is a big part of the problem I am venting about: looking for reasons not to do something. This is in response to you in this case, but I constantly see this from a lot of people.
It is really easy to find all sorts of reasons not to contribute to something. It requires almost no effort. It's much harder to find reasons *to* contribute to something. And yet, that is exactly what is necessary to actually make an open messaging platform happen.
I'm not saying you need to work with Element, or that there can not be a genuine conclusion of "this will never work in the context of an Element-governed project" after giving it a fair shot. But it's a problem when that gets extrapolated to "Matrix is hopeless".
Matrix is not just what Element decides it is, despite the formal governance structure. It is ultimately what the community recognizes as legitimate, that matters. Which means there are plenty of ways to work around Element. But *you do need to look for them*.
Saying "Element is bad and therefore Matrix is doomed" is not a valid reason. I'm sure it emotionally *feels* like a justification, but it's not - it's just the nearest and easiest plausible excuse to not do the work. And all it does is offload the work onto a nebulously-defined "someone else". The same applies for nearly every other reason people come up with for not contributing to Matrix.
You can't build and maintain a communal garden with that attitude, let alone an open messaging system. This is not how you build communities.
venting, FOSS, nerds
@lnl There is vastly more to Matrix than just that, and even when I have brought up a governance and protocol fork, there has been very little active interest, mostly just onlookers.
So I'm sure that it can be used as an argument not to work on stuff (like so many things), but it's not the reason that people aren't doing so.
re: venting, FOSS, nerds
@schrottkatze@chaos.social I mean, that's a completely fine way to contribute! Or collaborate on an existing one, for example. I personally don't even really care about what particular shape someone's contribution has!
As long as it's not the "everything must be Provided to me" attitude that I see so often.
venting, FOSS, nerds
This all kind of slots into a broader frustration I have about people having collectively unlearned how to take care of their communities, whether those are in their physical vicinity or online.
It's like people have mentally outsourced everything to corporations. Leading themselves to believe that if a company doesn't do it for them, it is not possible. This happens for so many things, not just software.
venting, FOSS, nerds
I'm kind of running out of patience for nerds complaining how Matrix is 'terrible' and making exactly zero effort to contribute towards any sort of improvement, even when explicitly invited to collaborate on an effort to do so. And often arguing for switching to proprietary platforms in a context where that really is not appropriate (eg. FOSS projects).
Yes, some people have a good reason to not be able to contribute. I refuse to believe that 100% of nerds are unable to do so. And a lot of the complaining has a very strong undercurrent of "everything must be served to me ready-made and I am unwilling to work to make my neighbourhood better, because that requires effort".
Hey, guess what, building a commons requires putting in work. How about you do your part in making the open platforms better? Instead of making demands of the, like, 5 people who are actually doing something useful about it?
(This was inspired by a comment elsewhere, but not a subtoot of it, this has been grating on me for years now)
- 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
