Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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Wij begonnen allemaal ons leven op dezelfde manier als mijn piepkleine dochter nu: hopeloos afhankelijk. En niemand van ons ontgroeit dat echt, ook al wordt ons geleerd net te doen alsof. Dit is namelijk de centrale leugen van het liberalisme: dat we onafhankelijk zijn, zelf ons eigen leven opbouwen, en dat we los staan van anderen. Maar het conservatisme is niet minder bedrieglijk. Het prijst het gezin aan als de ideale eenheid van het sociale leven, maar dan een gezin dat hiërarchisch opgebouwd is en zich afsluit voor buren, vreemden en mensen in nood. Het pleit zogenaamd voor orde en persoonlijke verantwoordelijkheid, terwijl het stiekem de banden van solidariteit, die het zelf romantiseert, doorsnijdt. Het resultaat is een wreedheid die zich voordoet als stabiliteit, een cultuur van ongeïnteresseerdheid, verpakt in de taal van traditie. https://www.doorbraak.eu/nu-de-wereld-in-brand-staat/
@clarfonthey I'm hoping it does, because I'll actually need such a service at some point (for a legitimate purpose) and I absolutely do not want to give any money to the grifters stuffing this crap secretly into apps and browser extensions
Do any *ethical* residential proxy services exist? So with full, informed consent from everyone whose connection is used, and without shady separation between the buying and the selling side.
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I learned something. Tent pegs are named after fish in Western Europe, but a different fish in every language.
Dutch: haring (herring)
French: sardine (sardines)
German: aal (eel)
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Budapest 
Another angle; some sources say there were between 100 and 200 thousand attendees!
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pro-palestine protest signs, NATO, eupol
Another round of Amsterdam public comment on the war machine.
#AmsterdamPublicComment #StopNATO #gaza #palestine #abolishNATO #freepalestine #iran #pspol #AmsterdamGraffiti #eupol
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Save future videogames from planned obsolescence!
There is an initiative asking the EU to regulate or at least clarify video games being made inaccessible remotely by publishers.
The initiative is on an official channel provided by the EU itself, if it reaches one million signatures the European Commission will have to look into the matter and provide a response, there is still a month until 31 July.
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We're here
We're queer
Connection reset by peer
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the can opener bridge delivers when we are in our moment of need
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ4tpEhQ86g
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@joepie91 and sometimes it'll decide to show me a language I don't even speak and never chosen before like what's going on at Google???
Also didn't we invent this entire web standard to indicate which languages we speak? Can companies please respect it??
Part of me wonders if big tech happened in Europe instead of the US, we'd have better multi language support for things
spicy take, FOSS, standards processes
(Because if you actually cared about the criticism, you would be asking yourself "what support does this person need to have their problem solved" and then you'd immediately discover that "file a PR/proposal" is completely outside the realm of the viable for most people)
spicy take, FOSS, standards processes
This is basically the standards equivalent of the equally-exclusionary practice in FOSS to respond to criticisms with "well just make a PR to change it" or "well just fork the project then", all of these are just responses that try to dismiss the criticism without making it sound like they are
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probably a hot take, birdsite
One thing I kinda miss from twitter is the notification when someone liked something I boosted.
On here, boosts feel like they end up in the void, unseen, on twitter I could see that others appreciated the things I boosted, which made me more likely to do it.
Thoughts like "oh $person would really like this post" don't really occur to me much anymore.
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spicy take, standards processes
A standards process that responds to complaints about the spec/tech/system with something like "file a formal spec change proposal if you'd like to see it changed" will only ever produce specifications that benefit the privileged
I can't get over how swathes of academic research into misinformation, as well as a lot of public sources on 'media bias' (including the heavily-advertised ground.news that sponsors all those Youtubers), are all just based on the opinions of A Guy Called Dave.
No, that's not a metaphor or a joke. The guy is literally called Dave.
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I wish you could submit a suggested edit for alt text, so that when I do ALT4you labor, the original poster gets a notification and they could just approve it to automatically add it to their images.
- 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
