Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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
Great, apparently today is one of those days where every single attempt at focusing is foiled. Some software suddenly breaks, or someone down the street suddenly starts hammering on something, and so on, and so forth.
I hate days like this.
@archeokluit Kun je de eerste vier woorden van pagina 27 en van pagina 28 noemen? Dan kan ik de tekst uit een digitale kopie proberen te halen (die heeft geen zinnige paginanummers).
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Janneke 🍋 
EDIT: OPGELOST!
Help!
Wie is er in het bezit van het boekenweek geschenk "De Krater" van Gerwin van der Werf?
Bij enkele exemplaren in mijn directe omgeving, is het met drukken mis gegaan op pagina 27, waardoor er woorden en zelfs een zinsdeel weggevallen zijn.
Wie heeft een exemplaar waar wél alles leesbaar is op pagina 27?
Ah great, and Fractal is doing the typical GNOME thing of failing to work but not giving you any kind of useful error message whatsoever, so no way to figure out what exactly the problem is
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making fun of tesla
@joepie91 Cybertruck (right) and garbage container (far right)
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Re Microsoft win 10 machines.
Don't believe Microsoft
"because they can’t be upgraded to a supported OS there will not be the normal secondary market for those buying new hardware. This means there’s no boon for charities or other good causes, and instead this is a recycling or landfill choice.
This is criminal.
Recycle to Linux.
Why is Element such garbage
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@schoentoon Dat is exact wat het is, inderdaad.
@Ninji The reason for this is most likely that companies don't actually *want* this - they care much more about having corporate branding and styling with something bespoke to their application, and having total control over the interaction flows (because they constantly get 'optimized' for increased profits and engagement)
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@misty same with techcrunch. an old boss of mine (cofounder of an unrelated company) had a login to the CMS and he could just post whatever he wanted
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I really wish it were wider knowledge that most of the content on Forbes.com is basically unreviewed blogging that didn't go through an editorial process. I still see a lot of people trust random posts they see there because they believe it's a business publication with actual reporters and editors. *Some* of the content is but a lot sure isn’t!
I don't blame individuals for not knowing, but I definitely think a lot of people'd be able to judge stuff better if they did.
@smveerman (Overigens zit de Gamma hier dus op dezelfde strook land, en dat zit tussen twee stukken bebouwde kom in, dus de locatie is hier eigenlijk geen issue)
@smveerman Het bijzondere in deze situatie was dat de overeenkomst er al lag, de lokale politiek had - naar mijn weten - al akkoord gegeven. En toen begon het gezeik vanuit de Gamma en consorten.
@eloy Ik ben er helaas bekend mee, en dat lijkt hier ook gebeurd te zijn
Kijk, als er nou een goede reden is om er geen bouwmarkt bij te bouwen, prima. Maar dit lijkt niet meer te zijn dan "matige winkelketens doen huilie omdat ze nu echt moeten gaan concurreren i.p.v. de enige optie te zijn".
Blijkbaar komt er dus definitief geen Bauhaus in Rosmalen. Want "er is al meer dan voldoende concurrentie".
Ah ja. Daarmee bedoelen ze natuurlijk de Gamma (van Intergamma), de Karwei (ook van Intergamma), en de Praxis,, wat alledrie nauwelijks bouwmarkten te noemen zijn en die geen recht stuk hout verkopen.
De aanleiding voor het afblazen van de bouwplannen lijkt dan ook te zijn dat die bouwmarkten bezwaar hebben gemaakt, en blijkbaar is er gewoon helemaal niet gekeken naar de *kwaliteit* van de concurrentie.
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nlpol, uspol, rant about penal labor and slavery
If you're wondering, Dutch law does also prohibit slavery, buuuuuut, they do encourage "voluntary prison labor", where they pay less than a euro per hour.
This is a good research paper, in English, explaining some ins and outs of "voluntary prison labor" in the Netherlands:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20319525241260877
Also if you're curious, here's the state news paper issue that declared the abolition of slavery in Suriname and how much they compensate slave owners as well as that the Surinamese people that were freed were to be put under "special supervision" for a period of 10 years where they were forced to sign "employment contracts" that forbid them from leaving their plantation prisons:
https://coleccion.aw/show/?BNADIGBUKIKOSTBARE0198
Also side note: the thing about researching slavery is that you have to keep in mind that the abolition of the "slave trade" only meant that you couldn't import slaves anymore.
You could still move to a colony on stolen land and own slaves there for like an additional 100 years after they banned slavery in the Netherlands proper. It wasn't until 1914 that slavery was banned on all Dutch "territory".
Anyway, setting that tone that even after slavery, the King still declared that we could do a little more slavery, but this time, there's an actual employment contract, and I couldn't find anything that said prison labor was illegal ever, anywhere, until like 4 years ago.
Here's that recent change in 2021 saying you can't force labor anymore:
https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0043990/2021-12-01
Here's a blog post by the same author of the research article above:
https://criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2023/11/10/prisoners-pay-and-options-for-work/
From everything I can tell, you are strongly encouraged to work while in prison, and if you don't, it can factor negatively on your behavior report, which could be used as justification to deny you privileges in the prison, or be factored into your actual release. It is only slightly better than the USA but still is pretty awful.
Anyway, that long research rant over, slavery is still of concern in both the US and NL. We just call it "penal labor" now and in NL it's "optional" (no it isn't) and "paid" (no it isn't).
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ACAB
on queer, racial and neurodivergent experience
being someone's only trans/queer/neurodivergent/nonwhite acquaintance is like a saw trap where you have to perform the most perfect model minority you can be and if you don't, they take your flaws as justification for their bigotry
- 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
