Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @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
@ifixcoinops Ah, I think I remember people complaining about some SD cards having a 'book allergy'
@jonah That's exactly why I'm suspicious :p
@cato Two, ways, at least! Either modelling the physics, or building it and trying it out!
(I suspect that the outcome of the first one is why nobody ever did the second one)
@cato Emphasis on "sick", I suspect :p
@eloy Meestal zet je de maan in het zonnetje, toch?
@jonah If the paper spam isn't outright lying, all of the other prizes are either a) cash prizes, b) very large giftcards for normal stores (no way they negotiated *that* kind of discount), or c) high-value electronics.
I couldn't identify any of them as being a way for them to save a buck, which is part of what confused me about this grift.
(Like yeah, giftcards are often how this is done, but we're talking a 1000 EUR giftcard for an online department store here so that's not it)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Sharing this on behalf of a friend to try and find this doggo a home. Please boost it, I'm sure there are people on fedi local to the area who can help.
Location: USA, Southwest GA but can be driven anywhere in GA
They picked up this beautiful boy at an intersection. Their local shelters are all full. No tags, no chip, and no-one has claimed him in response to the post at the shelter.
They need to find his owners, OR find him a home as they can't keep him -
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@ifixcoinops Did you make the mistake of *checks notes* writing to it?
@gsuberland@chaos.social Hm. I am having trouble finding exact numbers but I *think* those things are pretty restricted for lotteries here...
@gsuberland@chaos.social ... also, come to think of it, I'm not sure 'whales' are even a thing here because I don't think you *can* even spend large amounts of money on this lottery?
@gsuberland@chaos.social Sure, but this is an established lottery that has been around for many years, and that sends out nationwide spam multiple times a year. How many possible marks can there be left that they haven't baited yet?!
@gsuberland@chaos.social ... and if it's a loss leader, then where does the profit come from? As according to them, you're not stuck with anything, and it's not like a lottery provides a useful product or service that keeps you there 🙃
@gsuberland@chaos.social That would make sense if they were off-brand speakers, but them being brand-name makes me wonder how much of a discount they were really able to negotiate, because AFAIK the big brands rarely do significant bulk discounts like that (as freebies cut into their sales)
(Yes I know that they are banking on some percentage of people never cancelling, but that strategy generally only works if cancelling is either a hassle or requires a waiting period. To my knowledge the former is banned here, and the latter, well, they *say* "any time"...)
Spam from a lottery:
"Did you find a gold card? Enter your win code at <URL> and play in <lottery>, and immediately see which of the prizes you are guaranteed to receive, at least a JBL speaker worth 45 EUR. You pay 15.50 EUR per draw, and there are 15 draws per year. You can cancel at any moment."
I wonder what the grift here is, exactly? I can't imagine them giving away 45 EUR worth of stuff if you can cancel at any time (ie. after a single payment of 15.50 EUR), so what's the catch that makes it profitable for them?
re: Fascist attack against GNOME (transphobia, mention of shocking images)
@SolInfoNat This sounds like the same attack that some queer spaces have already been targeted by for many months, it's unfortunate to see it expanding further.
Related gripe: people *seriously* need to learn to deal with criticism in a healthy way.
Yes, you are sometimes going to be told "no". You are sometimes going to be told that something is expected of you that you don't like, if you want to participate in a community. You will sometimes get an unfriendly or hostile response if you wrong someone in some way.
These are normal parts of life, normal products of social interaction between people with different backgrounds. What's *not* normal is expecting every single word uttered to you by someone else to be friendly or polite, or to always get the benefit of the doubt.
And I see this in so many other places too. There's very little that gets you framed as a dishonest person faster than showing empathy towards people you don't (all) personally know.
And that is fucking depressing and, IMO, an indictment of everyone engaging in that kind of dismissive behaviour.
The most disappointing thing to me about alt-text discourse isn't that people aren't putting alt-text on their images.
It's when I see people talking about it dismissively, framing an expectation of alt-text as "policing", or as if it is some bizarre request with no practical purpose, some demand that people make just so they can be difficult about something - not even *entertaining* the possibility that maybe people have a very good reason for expecting it, and there's something to be learned from it.
- 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
