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.
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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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I feel somewhat worried about the sentiment "I use Signal because I trust Meredith Whittaker"
that has never ended badly
@acetone_kitten @raphaelmorgan @MichaelTBacon Looking at how many people I've seen over the years getting involved in activism and then burning out of again, I'd wager that a big part of *why* we're not there now is precisely because we do not have a culture of rest and recuperation as suggested in the original post.
@helle @budsofstone @wgahnagl Wait, aren't you in NL? I thought all pharmacies here handle and provide sharps containers? Did I misremember?
Inspired by a few posts I've seen recently that complain about everything having become IP, and then TCP, and then HTTP, and there being nothing left in the rest of the space...
Another way to look at this, is as an organic, emergent, permissionless process of people figuring out exactly where the boundary is between "application-specific requirements" and "generalizable requirements" in a network protocol.
And so far, it seems people have largely settled on "a way to transmit discrete arbitrarily-sized messages with an ordering guarantee, built-in support for meta-headers, and serialization of arbitrary labelled data consisting of keys, primitive values, lists, and maps".
Or in other words, HTTP+JSON.
And sure, one way to look at it is "we're neglecting all these other protocol features". But I think it's more constructive to draw insights from this about what people *actually need*, completing that model from the complaints about things people find lacking in HTTP+JSON, and iterating from there in future protocol development.
personal vent, empathy
"You can't care about everyone's fate, it's too much for one person to bear, you need to learn to let things go"
Well, it would be a hell of a lot easier to deal with if you people didn't insist on making an uphill battle out of every solution to the issues in question!
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@joepie91 this was in my ereader and I guess I read it too hard 😑
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Another bloody SD card dead, ho hum
@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)
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*Please Boost*
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 -
(continued)
@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 🙃
- 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
