Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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.
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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
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Do not hire WATs. Do not indulge WATs.They are not useful, and they are not helping. They will waste your time and burn your money.
Hire dirty, grubby, grime-under-their-fingernails engineers. People who are not afraid of a torch and a wrench. People whose primary skill is in *Iooking* at the world, then building to that reality. Folks whose disdain for developer tool marketing is palpable. Sceptics and dissenters. Hire *them*.
@slightlyoff Something that is worth noting here is that the original community around Node.js and npm very much were the "grime-under-their-fingernails" developers just wanting to try new things, throwing them away and trying again if they didn't work out or weren't compatible with reality.
And then the hype cycle started, the Silicon Valley startups rolled in, and those folks effectively got displaced from the community by WATs. The ecosystem gentrified, essentially.
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uspol meta, "you"
Like, if you're still waffling on to this day about how you want to see what the 'rule of law' does first, and aren't already planning your own actions, you are *too late* and I do not believe that you are *ever* going to take the necessary action
uspol meta, "you"
I'm going to be blunt here: how ignorant do you have to be to still believe that 'rule of law' is going to solve the shitshow in the US, and so you don't need to take direct action yourself? Where have you been for the past decade?
@StellaQuasten Ze zijn er zeker wel, maar de media hoor je er niet over, dus als je geen mensen in die bewegingen kent of volgt dan zul je het waarschijnlijk nooit tegenkomen.
(Dat is overigens in Nederland vaak niet anders, maar dat terzijde.)
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Interestingly, two days before Oracle deleted my account and all servers associated with it, I publicly criticized Oracle's CEO in a viral post for promising dystopian AI surveillance technology to his investors.
https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113879369270806353
What a weird coincidence.
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domain names, asking for advice
@Byte It's not impossible for e-mail services to do that, in theory (and if anyone, I would expect it to be Microsoft doing that, who are notorious for having inscrutable spamfilters), but I have never heard a single report of this happening so I don't think that is currently a thing.
domain names, asking for advice
@Byte Addendum: there are probably smaller companies doing domain registration that aren't owned by shitty people, but the problem is that they almost always are just reselling one of the big guys with a markup, so your money ends up going to the shitty companies anyway...
domain names, asking for advice
@Byte I've had good experiences with internetbs.net over the years, though I don't know if their most recent acquisition has changed things since. I've had very few issues and whenever I did have one, they always resolved it and communicated personally (ie. no canned answers).
(They also don't immediately hit the "suspend" button as soon as any abusemail comes in, genuine or otherwise, like certain other registrars do...)
It may or may not meet your "not owned by shitty people" bar. Their main target demographic is domain squatters (ie. bulk customers), which are mostly shitty people though nowhere near as bad as blockchain/"AI"/etc. stuff. That having been said, the entire domain industry seems to be shady that way, these guys are just a bit more obvious about it...
ranty, stalebots
@thcrt I decided a couple years ago that projects using stalebots don't actually want to know about issues, and so I just don't file them anymore when I find them. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there are usually a lot of bugs I run into in those projects...
I hate stalebots with the intensity of a thousand suns. There are *so many* better ways to handle task prioritization and communication to contributors, and yet projects insist on telling their contributors that they don't give a shit about fixing issues or respecting people's time.
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Stukje wijsheid uit de werkplaats: "turning right oppresses, turning left liberates"
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i wonder if there will come a day when i realize i can recall people's pronouns with clarity but i still blank on their names even after i've known them for years and shit
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warning regarding uspol and data archiving (2)
@joepie91 Thanks! I'll look into both. I've been looking into solutions where groups of individuals can pool their resources for a project like this and it seems like it's needed now more than ever.
@silvermoon82 Seems so! I found out about this because of the Wikipedia article for CDRWIN mentioning that it would allow setting up this device to use it from the program.
warning regarding uspol and data archiving (2)
@KuJoe That could certainly be a useful option here!
Garage may also be worth looking into, though it has much weaker protections against malicious nodes - it's more useful if you control all of the storage systems involved and just want to distribute the data among them.
TIL about the Kodak Disc Transporter, which seems to have been a peripheral you could connect to your computer back in the day to automatically load and unload CD-Rs from your computer as you were burning them?
warning regarding uspol and data archiving (2)
Also, more generally, consider that institutional organizations are *much* more vulnerable to hostile action than chaotic local collectives which do not have clear operators or representatives.
It pays to store a copy in some obscure organization that's difficult to figure out as an outsider, even if they don't have professional infrastructure to support it. Deliberate censorship is the bigger risk right now, not accidental data loss.
- 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
