Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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COMBAT THE FASCIST LINE
🪭easier to say we are “weak” to explain why we struggle to get lasting shit done! It’s a comforting thought, isn’t it, that *you* are safe in whatever country you might be in because *we* just aren’t trying hard enough.
Convenient to blame people fighting the system from within *the imperial core*, which is *the* most secure place in the empire, for failing to overthrow the empire.
Imagine it was Star Wars, and you are on Alderan, and as the Death Star laser charges up you say “those people on coruscant need to do more”
Yes. Stormtroopers are swarming the place. Money extracted from a million worlds is flowing into the surveillance and security apparatus. The worst people in the galaxy live here and they are willing to pay well to keep it locked down tight.
And yet irl, unlike in star wars, the US seems like it’s on the verge of being burnt to the ground by its own population at all times.
Huh. Maybe the rebels here are *doing a good job* 💛
@aud This sounds vaguely familiar to me. Did any of this ever make it into any public threads?
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encyclopædias: many short blog posts
how a type of plane was developed: incident report
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50°C take: all nonfiction is either an incident report or a blog post about something cool
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COMBAT THE FASCIST LINE
🪭do you need proof the us left is strong?
1- even with an anti-trans fascist in charge and 4 years of relentless legal attacks, some places here have some of the best legal protections for transgender people in the world
2- we regularly talk, publicly and openly, about awful genocides the United States has done. This isn’t socially acceptable in many other places
3- we publicly resist every awful thing they do
4- we raised such a stink over the genocide in Gaza here that they are disappearing people to kill the movement
5- 10% of the country was out in the streets in 2020. George Floyd’s death sparked an *international* anti-cop movement. Yet again, they had to go around rounding people up to kill the movement. Police stations were burned to the ground, remember?
6- despite having the most anti-labor and pro-capital government on earth, we’ve still been unionizing. Did you not notice all the strikes over the last 4 years?
And no. It hasn’t been enough
@rune No experience with this myself, but I do vaguely recall seeing some designs at some point that opted for making things controllable with elbow movements rather than wrist movements (mainly by being big enough that one can push down on it with their arm if they so chose). No idea if that even approximates an ideal solution, though.
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like, okay, imagine money is invisible. you can't see it. no-one can see it. what does society look like? and looking at it like that, does it even matter how many digits Jeff Bezos's net worth has? that's not the difference between him and you.
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we used to say capitalism does evil things so they have slightly higher profits this quarter, but we're realizing that it seems more like capitalism does evil things so laborers are kept powerless.
like, we heard a story as a kid from someone who used to work in a bank, about the person in charge of the copy room - absolute badass, had a whole system to cycle through picking up documents, did a lot of routine repairs on the machines.
copy room person asked for a raise. got given notice, instead.
the college student they hired to replace her got paid more than she did.
so did the next two college students they hired, because just one new employee couldn't keep up with what she could do.
so, why did they spend over three times as much? it's obvious. because they would rather do that than let her ask for a raise. than let laborers have that much power.
it's not about money. capitalists are covetous but it's not about that. it's about power.
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For an example: Reticulum would be something that might be on the list. So might alternative firmware to revive old abandoned devices. Or tools for organizing things in a communal living setting.
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In #spoonieTown people understand, and value, comfortable silences.
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In #spoonieTown most days are misty in the morning, and sunny in the afternoon. Much of the time can be spent working quietly in the garden, writing, painting, reading, and resting and nobody cares if you feel like wearing holey old blue jeans, or if you don't make much money. Life is quiet and peaceful with enough space to rest and think.
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Kinda been long enough now to where I don’t feel uncomfortable saying that GitHub and Microsoft explicitly delayed (through a ton of procedural actions and “safety” concerns) rolling out support for pronouns for welllllllllllll over a year despite the many, many, many explanations and comments from LGBTQ staff requesting otherwise.
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we really need something like f-droid but for browser extensions.
specifically the reproducible builds part where you can verify the source code is the same as the actual extension you install.
Is there any list of "tech for a hostile world" anywhere? 
Not specific lists like "made in EU" or "privacy-friendly" or "decentralized" or whatever, but an aggregrate list of tech that's likely to be of use in an environment or world where you need to ensure your safety in some way, and build community with others to survive.
(If the listing criteria are entirely technically-oriented and don't take into account social factors, it's not what I'm looking for. Please check for this *before* recommending something.)
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One of the reasons I love aliexpress is you can find the most sketchy products that make you wonder... who is this for? What do they do with it?
This one is an "cigarette lighter" but with a wireless functions and mumblings about fireworks implied from some of the images and context.
It's dirt cheap and frankly probably illegal for some reason. What is this about? Dangerous fireworks? Crimes? Both?
@futurebird That's definitely meant as a budget/home alternative to proper remote ignition equipment for fireworks! Basically, point (illegally) powerful laser at fuse so that it spontaneously ignites.
Could technically be argued to be safety equipment I guess, but given the difficulty of pointing a laser at a distance, I have my doubts
sort of uspol, tech
I'm wondering how long it will take before "making old hardware reusable again by optimizing software and/or gaining control over their firmware" becomes an appealing-enough option that it becomes a significant part of the tech economy, what with the tariffs and the crap going on around Taiwan
@navi How... what
uspol, bleak
You know that sci-fi trope of "some mysterious historical event resulted in the deletion of all research and humanity regressed by decades overnight, but we don't know how it happened"?
... yeah.
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
