Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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
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this also introduces the same issue as intel's recent rebrand: the bottom tier is just "Dell", in the same way intel's bottom tier is just "Intel Processor". just as "if you're getting an intel, avoid pentiums and go for at least an i5" has become "if you're getting an intel, avoid Intel Processors and go for at least a Core Ultra", we now have "if you're getting a dell, avoid inspirons and go for at least a latitude" being replaced by "if you're getting a dell, avoid Dells and go for at least a Dell Pro". the cheapest and least capable dell laptops are now the ones called "Dell". incredible.
apple used to do something similar: the worst macbook was the one labelled "macbook". but there are two key differences: it was not called an "apple", and the base macbook was a pretty decent machine.
imagine if the cheapest macbook you could buy was a 4c4t 36Whr 1366x768 piece of garbage called "Apple". now imagine the cheapest intel processor you can buy is a dual core chip with a 46W TDP called "Intel Processor". the second one is true.
note that the intel processor 300 (god i hate this naming scheme) is not a bad chip if you use it for the right things (e.g. home server). but i feel like having Company XYZ naming their lowest spec product The XYZ is a bad idea all around.
imagine if honda's budget range was called Honda. if a small fries, small coke, and hamburger with no cheese was called The McDonald's. etc etc etc
advice, mh
@hazelnot I'm not sure 'discipline' is the right mental model there, that'll likely just end with chastising yourself over 'failing at it' and that causing a depression loop (which would make things worse). Probably the first step would be to figure out *why* games tend to suck you in, in detail, and then find a way to deal with that.
For example, is it because there's a low barrier to starting with them, and the barrier to doing art is high? You could improve on that by either a) finding a way to make art easier to get started on, or b) increasing the barrier to video games (eg. by having a dual-boot setup and isolating games to one OS).
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some guy is gonna be here between 10 and 12 to check the heating, so now i'll be cycling my idle animation while waiting next to the door for two hours
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Ask people for the calendar date they think the pandemic ended and show them the wastewater charts spanning 2020–present challenge
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how do people remember names of ppl irl when like. there's no nametag floating above their head at all times
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Hearing about a young hacker whose being extorted by the University of Washington, not cool UW.
The student claims they built an app to help kids get the course schedules they want, a hack as old as time, and the university decided to expel him until he ports his app to the university's internal systems.
This would be unpaid labor.
Until then his class registration is on hold and he can't register or attend his last few classes. 🥴
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Basically every person I talk to about their job is working under conditions that are straight up illegal
EFF being EFF
@rune Why do these people have such difficulty understanding that "playing the middle" is a losing proposition long-term
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EFF being EFF
https://mastodon.social/@eff/113794035082252926
Update: After this blog post was written, we learned Meta revised its public "Hateful Conduct" policy in ways EFF finds concerning. We are analyzing these changes, which this blog post does not address.
Get fucked lol
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Facebook fascism
Gone is the clause saying you cannot compare women to "household objects or property." Also removed is a prohibition on claiming that there is "no such thing" as a trans or gay person.
Added in to the policy are new clauses apparently designed to explicitly allow common anti-trans arguments, such as advocating for trans people to be banned from public bathrooms, school sports, or certain jobs.
"We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation," reads one exception. The same section previously said that users couldn’t call protected groups “freaks” or “abnormal”.
Meta also replaced language banning “generalizations” about a protected group’s “inferiority” on the basis of “intellectual capacity”. Now the new language merely bans “unsupported comparisons” between protected groups’ on the basis of their “inherent intellectual capacity” — seemingly opening the door to scientific racism.
Fucking awful. Absolutely do not want to hear "good thing I don't use Facebook" etc. Because your parents probably do and most of the people you grew up with do too.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/facebook-fact-checking-hate-speech-meta-b2675311.html
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I must admit, my patience for people who can't bring themselves to divest even a little from fascist and fascist sympathising platforms is just getting less over the years. The options have never been stronger and at some point it's on you.
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Given recent events, I would like to see some adjustments from various local queer community projects who seem to think that expecting you to have an Instagram account to access them is a great idea. But given what's happened to Twitter, I'm not expecting much.
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a reminder to US folks that you can see how much your doctor has been bribed at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov
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As an antidote to all the horrible US Tech Bros in the news, what are some nice, encouraging stories about thoughtful/ slow/ kind/ humane tech catching on and doing well?
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It's funny to see how Eugen went from "shut up, Zuck" to "omg yes, we're federating with Threads 😍 " back to "Zuck is a threat"
@anthropy Oh, ideologie kan zeker een geldig argument zijn, dat is het probleem niet - alleen moet dan wel erkend worden dat die ideologie een rol speelt, hij moet niet onuitgesproken blijven :)
Dat is ook hoe ik op de definitievraag terecht kwam - vaak behandelen mensen het concept 'eerlijk' als een soort van universele moraal, die er zomaar is en objectief voor iedereen hetzelfde is (of zou moeten zijn). En daarmee verbergt het de rol die de onderliggende ideologie daarin speelt.
@anthropy Het zal inderdaad context-afhankelijk zijn, maar dat zou an sich een definitie niet in de weg moeten staan; dat betekent alleen dat de context-afhankelijkheid op e.o.a. manier onderdeel moet zijn van de definitie.
Maar ik vraag me dus af hoe je dat zou kunnen definieren. Ik kom zelf niet verder dan "dat iets eerlijk is, betekent dat je vindt dat het past binnen je ideologie", en de specifieke ideologie zal dan verschillen.
Voorbeeld: er zijn genoeg mensen die niet *kunnen* werken. Is het eerlijk dat die geen of minder geld krijgen? Als je een kapitalist dat vraagt, zal die waarschijnlijk ja zeggen. Als je een anarchist dat vraagt, zal die waarschijnlijk nee zeggen.
Maar als het klopt dat 'eerlijk' puur een ideologische vraag is, en daar lijkt het wel op, dan betekent dat ook dat 'eerlijkheid' niet als argument gebruikt kan worden zonder de onderliggende ideologie te erkennen...
- 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
