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.
- 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
@byte I wish people had heeded the warnings...
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I didn't realize how fucking useful the word 'fucking' is for eliminating AI
Turns out, it's really fucking useful!
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:rabiesPride: 
i hope people that invented cloudflare always sleep on warm and uncomfortable pillows 
because what can be a better idea than trusting us-based company to decide if people will get to your site or not, collecting all the possible data in the process and selling it to who knows where /s
because what can be a better idea than trusting us-based company to decide if people will get to your site or not, collecting all the possible data in the process and selling it to who knows where /s
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Posting this in English too because it's just baffling.
Albert Heijn, a Dutch supermarket chain, has been spending significant piles of money advertising their new "AH Terra" store brand, which is supposed to be all about plant-based food.
They've just rebranded their canned beans to fall under that brand, and to 'celebrate', they published a magazine with bean-based recipes.
Half of which use dairy ingredients. 🤦♂️
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I so often see cleaning advice like "use a soft microfiber cloth" but nobody ever bothers to mention that microfiber cloths are really good at getting hard bits like crumbs stuck into them and that if you reuse that cloth, it'll badly scratch up whatever you're trying to clean
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Shout out to the edit button! I don't know the why of the way my brain is wired, that I can't see typos in the edit box but two seconds later in the final post I can see them clearly.
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tech ethics
@bipolaron Personally I've started looking less at what type of thing the project is, and more at whose needs it is designed for.
Things that are designed for institutional (and especially profit-extractive) needs are much, much more dangerous than things that are designed for communal or personal needs. The latter tends to be very difficult to retrofit into harm-at-scale.
This does mean that a lot of commercial tech gets excluded, because almost all commercial tech that pays the bills is designed for the needs of the company and not for the needs of its users (and there is mechanically very little difference between a for-profit corporation, and a military or contractor thereof).
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How do you decide if a project is too likely to be used unethically for you to be willing to work on?
Some cases are obvious, but a zillion things are "dual use".
Designing a quadcopter 10 years ago would have been unambiguously okay with me. Now I'm not sure it's possible to work on without it ending up used for surveillance, targeting weapons, etc.
Does anyone have a framework for analyzing these things that works? I feel like I'm playing devil's advocate on *both* sides.
@Dee That sounds like you're interested! </extremely Microsoft voice>
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Windows XP is now older than DOS was when Windows XP came out
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Is there a better email than “your account has been permanently closed” for something you have no recollection of signing up for?
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|-/
how to prevent carpal tunnel:
don't let carps inside the tunnel
commenting on bigotry
@ben Also of course said group admin seems to have never caught onto the fact that the game is set in South Korea (it is inspired by a restaurant there), and neither in the US nor in Japan
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@ben my favourite games, Sim Tycoon, Planet Architect, and, of course, Theme
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https://web.archive.org/web/20250224180621/https://megalomanager.com/
can confirm that the normal internet archive crawler bot is also blocked by Cloudflare's "block AI scrapers" setting
and even if I whitelist the ASN, the "block AI scrapers" setting gets handled first
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"the URL for your Steam Deck compatibility explanation page must begin with https://steamcommunity.com"
okay
@ben It actually might not (technically) be fake; I think there was an experiment at some point to archive some things with a headless browser that wouldn't be navigable in a more traditional scraper, similar to how search engines sometimes do this
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Are there any videos, articles etc on consent and boundaries not made about sex or for partners but a more general approach for all types of relationships but also delve into power dynamics etc?
- 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
