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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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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Rapid Antigen Test PSA
rapid antigen tests aren't all that sensitive. they are useful for figuring out if the infection you have is COVID-19, but on average they only show positive a few days after symptom onset, so not really the time you'd ideally want to know. they are useless for early detection and you'll be infectious well before they show a positive result. they also can't tell you when you stop being infectious. at best having been positive and then getting a negative really is an indicator that you're near the end of an acute infection (though virus can sometimes persist in the body long past the acute phase), but it certainly doesn't tell you that it's safe to be unmasked around people again.
AGAIN, DO NOT RELY ON RAPID ANTIGEN TESTS TO KNOW THAT IT'S SAFE TO BE UNMASKED.
Just realized I have been doing webdev for 20 years now
@jonny Probably framesets?
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Happy 2026!
@mynameistillian Happy new year :)
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i don't understand folks who are like "ceos do important work, they deserve to get paid more than others"
bro. if not for the janitors you'd drown in shit. if not for the workers and engineers, the receptionists, the call centre operators, the couriers, the designers and accountants and god knows who else, your enterprise would come to a screeching, dead halt.
what a machine is without its cogs? a husk of useless metal. so don't be a bootlicker. CEOs wouldn't get anywhere without our labor
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trains are the crab of transport systems
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@mossfet A lot of people seem to understand "politics" as a sort of abstract "thing that politicians do", like they're debates for the purpose of debate because that's what politicians do, rather than it being about its effects on society
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BREAKING: Unconfirmed reports suggest year 2024 likely to end tonight. For more coverage, click here
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We just deployed a first version of an FAQ page for #fluConf2025
We'll continue to update it as necessary, and we're working on adding a number of clarifications to the text on our other pages
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If you've been at the #38c3 Onion Cluster assembly, or we've otherwise met in person around congress, get tested for Covid-19 ASAP.
There has been at least two positive antigen test results, one from me, one from someone else at the assembly cluster.
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These are 1 kilometer apart! It's true!
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re: rape apologia
@cafkafk There are some reports of it on fedi; a few pictures of the leaflets that were handed out, mainly. From what I've heard, a number of people ran onto stage, yelled... something (inaudible apparently) and handed out those leaflets. That's all I know of it, as I wasn't there.
This is one of the leaflet posts: https://defcon.social/@cptwtf/113731130297472479
@smveerman Wat dat betreft, let op dat een 'keramische' pan ook niet per se geen PFAS bevat. Fabrikanten beweren echt van alles maar het is doorgaans lastig te bepalen wat er nu echt klopt...
I was just reading https://thenewstack.io/what-happens-to-relicensed-open-source-projects-and-their-forks/, about the contributor dynamics of formerly-open-source projects that were closed down, and their community forks.
There's not very much concrete data in this article, but it does suggest something very interesting: that there seems to have been a set of people who *wanted* to contribute to a project, but were somehow unable to when it was under corp-centralized stewardship, and only became able to when there was a multi-stakeholder fork.
Clearly the license was not originally a problem. So what was? Was the governance of the original project hostile to external contributors on an organizational level?
rape apologia
If your response to a discussion about rape and sexual assault is something to the effect of "that is what we have the legal system for" or "they should have gone to the police", then you frankly need to shut the fuck up and actually listen to a victim some day, because you clearly have *no idea* what you are talking about.
In unrelated news, guess what the response in some CCC circles was to the protest at #38c3
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Alien Intruder is a new game for DOS where you save people from aliens and get to the exit. It's free, really easy to pick up, and it's always fun for me to fire up DOSBox to play a new game
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i've been told my whole life that bugs are weird or scary or gross. i took it to heart, rarely sharing my interest in them. hiding that i find them beautiful and fascinating. but being on here, seeing so many share my excitement has really helped me fully embrace my love for all things creepy and crawly. i love your bug pictures and i love your appreciation for them. thank you for that, even if no one else in your life appreciates bugs, i do.
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@jstevenyork it’s in the interests of the billionaire owned centralised social media to destroy any alternative because it show a different possibility so of course we hear ‘Mastodon is dead’ all the time. #Mastodon doesn’t have to be the biggest to win it just has to exist.
- 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
