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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thinking shit like "i will forget if i dont remember"
@h3artbl33d Ah, well, taking a cutting is a good start, but you have to plant it in some soil and nurture it for a while to have it grow into a proper WiFi-bearing plant
Surely the Eurotunnel has got to be the train line with the most road surface per train
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OH: SAP Community Edition
@h3artbl33d Also, they don't want you to know this, but the internet is free, you can just take it home, etc. etc.
@h3artbl33d In fairness, they are also orange things sticking out of the ground, so close enough
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🦝 ugh what am I going to do with all these websites
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🦝: starts another website
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i want an indestructible flipphone running modern android and i want it to not be made by a company complicit in crimes against humanity
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polyamory v. mononormativity
framing it as "ethical non-monogamy" means it is still framed as abnormal
The idea that some tech company is being benevolent by "giving you a platform for your community" while pocketing the ad money themselves to supposedly "keep the servers running"...
... really isn't any meaningfully different from the myth that employers are benevolent by "giving you a job" and you should be glad to have it, when in reality it's *your* labour that sustains them.
The 'platform economy', especially where it involves people voluntarily creating media and content on those platforms, is just the same old worker exploitation with a new coat of paint.
If it were truly about 'supporting communities', then the platform wouldn't be run by a for-profit company.
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„Fandom and the multimillion dollar business of monetizing volunteer work ” is my newest blog post about Fandom (big F), wikis, volunteer work and capitalism. If you have the time and any of those topics interest you, give it a read. 
https://frisk.space/posts/fandom-and-the-multimillion-business-of-monetizing-volunteer-work/
#wiki #volunteering #Internet #moderation #Fandom #capitalism
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Respirators are so effective that United Kingdom research has indicated their use by the public would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay, meaning the virus would have been highly suppressed for as long as respirator use continued. The exponential math of viral spread also means that perfect masking compliance would not have been required to achieve suppression.
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don't fucking fall for it. It's not your fault when you get scammed, it's not your fault when you find a cool song and it turns out there's ai, the pain you feel in your heart isn't a personal failing it's a dream of a better world where no one feels that pain
and don't judge others who fall for shit either, just let it go and move on
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none of these things are your fault, but the more you think about them on a level of "is this my fault or is it their fault" the more you consider the only options to be personal ones; you can't build a better world where these scams don't happen, only you and the scammer could change this, the govt and regulatory bodies and everyone involved does not exist
all things become the libertarian wild West in your mind, a lone ranger navigating a minefield
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one of the worst parts of our modern scam culture is how it's designed to make you feel guilty when you fall for it
you heard an interesting fact that was actually propaganda? Your fault. Fell for an image? Your fault. Got scammed money wise? Your fault
but that in itself is the biggest scam of all
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“Where do you get your ideas from? - by Joel Morris”
https://joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-do-you-get-your-ideas-from
> So if you put out an episode once a week, and you make it to being one of the world’s most successful podcasts… you’ll be paid enough for a pizza per episode, provided you don’t go for any side dishes.
The modern media economy is unsustainable
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I have been playing with a new term: "slop huckster"
A slop huckster is more than someone who likes to play with generative AI, or has some arguments for why they've been able to use it productively
Slop hucksters argue that generative AI means you should stop doing creative and productive things, kind of likes to rub it in your face that they can make creative persuits useless
The attitudes of slop hucksters resemble incels, a kind destructive bitterness stemming from jealousy
@dirk @algernon @cassidy This is really just a rebranded form of the 'meritocracy' rhetoric and it's wrong for all the same reasons.
There is a wide variety of possible reasons why an issue might not get attention, and many of them are temporary and variable in nature. This is exactly *why* it is important to actually triage issues and, if there is a reason not to address it, be explicit about the reason for that.
Most crucially, *there is not actually a reason* to close issues. An issue being open does not actually affect operations in any meaningful way, unless you are using the "open issues" view as your sole view of the state of a large project, in which case *that* is the problem. Tags and filters do exist for a reason.
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I guess it's possible the issue gets accidentally fixed or becomes irrelevant, but something about *closing* a perfectly valid issue report because nobody from the project has checked it out rubs me the wrong way. Similar to closing an issue as WONTFIX does versus a more precise “out of scope” or “design conflict.”
It really turns me off as a potential contributor who is trying to help, and makes it less likely that I would actually stick around and help with that much needed issue triage.
- 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
