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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“Bird of Pray”
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/bird-of-pray/
> Lots of people are spending lots of time coming up with potential use cases for products that, quite literally, threaten to destroy everything. Lots of people are extending more intellectual generosity to some of the most well-funded companies in history than they are to their own colleagues whose jobs and funding have been eliminated.
Audrey speaks the truth
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Who wants a cassette of the noises of different mail servers?
I'm creating a mxtape.
@KFears All these things are true, but they're also not excuses. Governments should be hiring technical people themselves who *also* work on contributing back to the software they are using.
There's this incessant drive to outsource everything, particularly in Europe, and that's ultimately at the root of all this and it needs to go. It's literally just a mechanism for funneling money to private industry.
"Ah well but the way FOSS projects work doesn't fit into the tendering and purchasing procedures of the government, so they have to hire consultancies"
I literally do not care. It is the job of the government to adapt itself to the needs of society, not the other way around. This is not an excuse. Go fucking fix it.
Instead, we mostly just get governments paying consultancies to deploy and manage these things under the assumption that this "builds a local economy" and helps keep things running, completely failing to understand the underlying dynamics and economics of FOSS projects and what their role in them should be
Like, there's all this talk about 'digital sovereignty' and yet they constantly miss the most important part of actually achieving that: you need to figure out who your 'community' is, and *help to make it stronger*, not just take from it
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@joepie91 The past decades, any organisation screaming "Let's go FOSS", seems to get approached by a MS salesperson that offers them cheap shiny licences for 5 years and then the decisionmakers quickly budge.
So, any time I hear some org say it, I'll won't hold my breath. I'll cheer when I see they actually /do/ successfully do the entire transition.
This is not subtooting a specific government by the way, it seems applicable to almost every "let's go use FOSS!" move from the past decade
"Government wants to move to LibreOffice from Microsoft"
Okay great but are they also going to contribute toward its improvement, or are they just going to expect an off-the-shelf perfect equivalent again and give up in 6 months because "employees had trouble getting used to the new software"
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computers are actually good
what i hate is the tech industry, the evil men behind it, and the apologists
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Reposting the Stand Down campaign ideas so that it's boostable!
Slide into my DMs if you want the whole campaign framework.
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the fediverse is like the world's worst cutlery store
so many forks and no spoons
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What gender do you identify with?
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guide to new fedi users: this is what those funny buttons under my posts do
@StroomAfwaarts Wie weet, met zo'n wolkbreuk
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Via unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/RxQ_WYkdRS4/ (Freezer)
#Fox #Bot
@StroomAfwaarts Lijkt het wel op, in ieder geval het authenticatiesysteem van de Google-wolk
@turtle Google's IAM did an oopsie
- 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
