Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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new Severance ep drops tonight
just a friendly reminder to please CW any spoilers
it's a mystery show
don't spoil a mystery show
spoiling a mystery show is a dick move
@hazelnot I used it like two months ago and back then it seemed to work
And it's always, *always* US-centric stuff. I don't know if Reddit is only translating originally-English posts or what, but it's never anything other than that.
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"For generations, scholars argued that white women were rarely involved in the active buying and selling of Black people. But a growing body of research is challenging that narrative, documenting the significant role that white women played in the American slave trade.
Between 1856 and 1861, white women engaged in nearly a third of the sales and purchases of enslaved people in New Orleans, which was home to the nation’s largest slave market at the time, according to a working paper released by the National Bureau of Economic Research earlier this year.
In 1830, white women accounted for about 16 percent of the purchases and sales of enslaved people in New Orleans, the study found. Elsewhere, an analysis of runaway slave advertisements published between 1853 and 1860, which were compiled by the Black abolitionist William Still, found that white women were listed as owners in about 12 percent of the listings.
Source: "Scholars Thought White Women Were Passive Enslavers. They Were Wrong."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/us/white-women-american-slave-trade.html
I really dislike Reddit's automatic post translation. The translations are poor, and it's polluted my search results with useless information - when I'm searching for something in Dutch, it's because I want information that's relevant to the Netherlands, don't spam me with auto-translated US-centric crap!
matrix (2)
(The joke, of course, is that I have already told them exactly why this is, some 4-5 years ago, but they didn't want to hear it.)
matrix
XMPP has lots of viable clients. IRC has lots of viable clients. *Mastodon* has lots of viable clients.
Why doesn't Matrix? That seems like a kind of important question for certain core folks to be asking themselves.
(The emphasis here is on 'viable'.)
@SURF (De reden voor de vraag is dat pogingen in het verleden om originele en/of publiek-domein datasets te gebruiken, op niets zijn uitgelopen, omdat er simpelweg onvoldoende beschikbare data is om nuttige uitkomsten te verkrijgen met LLM-architecturen.)
@SURF En op welke data is dat model dan precies getraind?
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URGENT 
here's my (updated) list of folks who need to be prioritized. most on this list are trans & disabled. *most are in increased danger due to US fascism.* please help by pasting their links into your search bar & boosting their posts directly or by giving any small amount. 💗
octo (795/1371) OVERDUE BY 13 DAYS: https://blackqueer.life/@octo/114093557919770970
kiamichi, utilities DUE MARCH 18: https://mastodon.art/@mahtheyzhawey/114116919571434972
ra'il (175/700) DUE MARCH 20: https://scholar.social/@so_treu/114129263339278157
squirrellilly (just 485) DUE MARCH 24: https://queer.party/@squirrellilly/114140496820373537
deliberately_me (210/630) DUE MARCH 25: https://blackqueer.life/@deliberately_me/113924192177103076
meatmech (0/365) needed ASAP: https://ondergrond.org/@meatmech/114147365724608303
clara (0/150) needed ASAP: https://eldritch.cafe/@Tropicalprincess/114088986483259903
rayne (435/650) needed ASAP: https://mastodon.art/@SingsongRaptor/114121511540844020
evel (182/394) needed ASAP: https://weirder.earth/@thief/114133090138300485
tasia (110/299) needed ASAP: https://disabled.social/@thereaders/114151003764705880
moo, needed ASAP: https://blackqueer.life/@moo/114100135055107573
ginny, needed ASAP: https://social.ginny.today/@ginny/114051543893991367
dionRa (125/232): https://kind.social/@DionRa/114048175934641857
pastel (375): https://blackqueer.life/@IelPastelBlack/113245209518615511
Sad bike news
@rune Wow, that seems like a streak of bad luck...
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In #spoonieTown there's a shop with a soundproof back room you can scream and throw china and glassware. Smashy smashy happy happy.
In the front of the store they sell mosaics and stained glass and all sorts of beautiful things, built from the brokenness.
@rune Hmm, conflict of interest on which axis?
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did an AI statement https://hidde.blog/ai/
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ropol, British liberals having Takes
Lmao The Economist (self-described as "radical centrist") downgraded Romania's democracy index status to "hybrid regime" because the elections were cancelled and are being restarted so a neo-nazi can be stopped from becoming president
Because to liberals, following the rules is more important than stopping fascism, and so many people are falling for this hand-wringy shit that at this point is more fascist concern trolling than anything 💀
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I feel like the entire history of gdpr cookie consent banners so far has been like:
corporation: okay, okay… we heard you, but, listen… we’ve come up with a new dark pattern to work around what you’ve told us while technically staying in—
courts: no.
corporation: ah. okay, then.
corporation: *quietly does it anyway*
Some #GDPR news from Austria:
"The Supreme Administrative Court confirmed that the first layer of a website’s cookie banner must provide the option to close the cookie banner without giving consent. This option must be visually equivalent to the option to consent."
Once again showing that the majority of 'cookie consent' dialogs actually violate the GDPR.
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We finally got around to actually proving out a cursed idea for getting access to USB devices from *Firefox* (which refuses to support WebUSB)
this approach is horrible and inefficient, but it allows access to a device without requiring *any* user intervention or permission prompts (the device has to opt-in to this hack of course, it doesn't allow access to arbitrary things)
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Well, if you need something to do to keep your spirits up during these trying times, why not learn to draw with this 1913 book.
https://archive.org/details/whattodrawhowtod00lutz
Via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/what-to-draw-and-how-to-draw-it-1913/
- 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
