Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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
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The thing about the #ICC (International Criminal Court - which holds individual people responsible for human rights violations) and the #ICJ (International Court of Justice - which holds countries accountable for human rights violations) is that they were founded as deeply colonial institutes. They were created as instruments for the Global North to police the Global South. For the first time in their history, both the ICC and ICJ are going after (leaders of) a country aligned with the Global North, and just watch the same Global North collectively ignore both courts, where up to now they were all about "rules based society" and shit.
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The next #fluConf session is an article by ohio olarte (not on the Fediverse) titled "Neo-Luddism in a developing country can be odd"
https://fluconf.online/sessions/neo-luddism-in-a-developing-country-can-be-odd/
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setting silly stats was a really incredibly effective way to get crawlers to start respecting robots.txt: https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/pull/3718#issuecomment-2629328372
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Watching people say about overt fascism "but that's illegal!" gives me such strong flashbacks to the billion times that disabled people talking about the patterns of discrimination we face have been met with similar shock and disbelief: surely "they" can't deny you jobs or an education or information in accessible formats, "that's illegal!"
The sooner you get past the shock, the sooner you can get to more useful reactions. Listening to your disabled comrades will make you harder to shock.
uncomfortable tech questions
TLS certificates require the specification of a country code for the organization that requested the certificate. This country code must be one of those specified in ISO 3166.
So, who exactly decides whether your country is enough of a country to have correctly-configured transport encryption, and what are the political implications of that answer?
CW-boost: uspol, news/journalism
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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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Geld, Community ---, offensive to wealthy eyes
Ich hoffe dass wenn ihr das nächste Mal wenn euer 350€ Kickstarter Projekt dass ihr nicht selbst gemacht habt ankommt und ihr euren fetten Server den ihr nicht benutzt ausmacht um mit eurer 3200€ Bahncard zu eurem ersten von 14 200€ teuren Event ins 300€ Hotel einspart ich finde dass ihr richtige heuchlerische Wichser seid wenn ihr bei dem ganzen scheiß nicht einmal 50€ einsparen konntet damit es einer anderen Person die ihr kennt deutlich besser ergeht. Nein, erzählt der Person von eurem tollen neuen Job, und wie viel Kerne ihr doch mehr habt und fühlt euch gut weil, ihr habt den Antifa Sticker und mehr für das Ticket ausgegeben, damit seid ihr nämlich frei von jeglicher Verantwortung und müsst nicht mehr darüber nachdenken und diese Werte bedeuten euch so viel und ihr habt wirklich Verständis darüber was das alles bedeutet. Das merke ich wenn ihr dann ankommt und mir ein Ticket anbietet, wenn ihr überhaupt nicht begreifen könnt das ich mir weder die Fahrt noch ein Hotel für einen Tag leisten kann weil ihr so fucking weit entfernt davon seit und euch nicht damit beschäftigt, weil ihr leid vom Kapitalismus nicht erkennt wenn es vor eurer scheiß fresse passiert und nicht bereit seit irgendetwas zu tun was euch von eurem sorglosen leben auch nur annähernd in die Quere kommt, da hört Solidarität und Verständnis plötzlich auf. Wenn man mit einer mitfahrt, bei einem Umzug, mit alter Elektronik und Werkzeug, alten Möbeln oder einem geteilten Schlafplatz für das ganze Jahr oder langwieriger für eine Person etwas ändern könnte. Das geht zu weit, wenn es mehr als das extra Ticket klicken ist und man eventuell nicht das tolle überteuerte neue Projekt anfangen könnte wenn man endlich von dem Event zurück kommt, die Person die es sich nicht leisten konnte dorthin hinzufahren und das Ding was ihr toll neu basteln könnt der Person die in Armut lebt in die Fresse halten könnt. Wenn das überhaupt stimmen würde dass es irgendeinem von euch es so viel kosten würde dass ihr das merkt, be it an Zeit oder Gelder, die Menschen in unserer Community die unter dem System am meisten leiden, zu helfen
- 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
