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.
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- 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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This may seem like a trivial thing, but please re-consider using the word 'refugees' when you're coming over from other sites. It's easy to not put much thought into our words, but for a lot of people here, 'refugee' carries a really heavy implication that's being diminished seeing it used for people switching social media sites.
The fediverse at large - not just .art - is a very diverse place full of beautiful people trying to look out for each other in a caring environment. Let's be kind <3
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Interesting - we occasionally get signups from China on .art where people mention they're coming over from Weibo because of the filtering and stuff going on there, and they've heard from friends that .art is somewhere they can post more freely.
Had a whooooole bunch of them overnight!
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Mastotip: If you tag person x in a DM with person y, both x and y will be able to see what you said. A common workaround is to put spaces between the @ sign and the username (I.e. @ sandrockcstm @ orbitalstation.one).
This is really key if you are discussing a moderation related issue with an admin, say if person x is harassing you. If you tag that person you can inadvertently get them to see the conversation. This is not clear from the UI and a common trap for new users.
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enbies who infodump are so FUCKING attractive boost if u agree
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You can´t be a #feminist if you don´t actively fight #racism
This is not gate keeping
That means calling out your friends for casual racism
especially if they are queer.
As queer people we should strive to be more accepting than other communities and yet I see people being casually racist all the time.
And there are few things that make my skin crawl more than a queer person discriminating against other people
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Teobear
I hate that over time we've grown up into the idea that every hobby, every artistic venture, every self expression has to be worth something monetarily. It has to be profitable. It has to boost sales, boost visibility, boost your worth as a person by getting attention.
That isn't healthy!
It promotes the idea that your art output is tied to your inherent worth as a person in this crapitalist nightmare. But it's not.
Your art is your own. You are more than numbers.
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@aurynn I think it's built on an underpinning of "professional" as complement, and "amateur" or "hobbyist" as a pejorative - the presence of money somehow magically transforming people into the former.
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There is no admin interface for reading DMs, I'd have to go write SQL.
This isn't really a thing that admins do, it's concern trolling from disingenuous people trying to make the fedi look worse.
Why are people making loud construction noises at 07:30, what is this shit, that's unreasonably early even for the neurotypicals
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Dutch sexual abuse case
Will people now please finally see Johan Derksen for the absolute piece of shit he always has been and permaban him from tv
Test please ignore
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Can I get a "fuck landlords" in the chat
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Instance recommendations for mental health positive / awareness communities, go! (Not for me ^.^)
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tech, politics (sort of?), long
Honestly, I think that anybody tech-y with an anarchist view of the world should have a look at Nix and NixOS.
Not because they're perfect (they're not!) or because the community is universally anarchist (it's not!), but because it is one of *very* few systems I've seen where egalitarian mechanisms are built directly into its design - generally speaking, if your distro vendor can do it, then so can you, without any loss of reliability.
It (and Guix, obviously) are pretty much the only distros I know of that are designed like this. Highly robust conflict-free 'system primitives' that let you mix-and-match not just packages but also experimental concepts and system organization designs, from many different sources, and where the upstream distro is simply one of those sources with no inherent special privileges.
I won't go into *too* much detail here, but to give an impression of what I mean:
- The Nix language and stdlib are extremely minimal, basically *all* of NixOS is implemented with it, and any of your own 'system configuration code' can use all the same primitives
- nixpkgs, the 'official' package repository, is highly collaborative, without a closed-off team of packagers - *anybody* can contribute packages or updates through a PR
- In fact, NixOS itself is just a pile of Nix code within nixpkgs!
- Things are conflict-free wherever possible; all "derivations" (packages, config files, etc.) are isolated and explicitly-referenced by default, so dependency/config conflicts are essentially impossible
- That means that you can freely experiment with *totally* different methods of system organization and configuration, without breaking anything you already have or littering your system
Basically, NixOS, despite the many docs and UX issues it currently has, is one of very few systems that really gives me the sense that *the user* owns and controls their system, without compromises, and with plenty of avenues for collaboration.
And the freedom to mix-and-match from many sources with direct access to safe internals/primitives is IMO a crucial part of that - it's almost like the idea behind copyleft, where it guarantees that any downstream user is able to tinker with and control their system, regardless of how many parties are inbetween and with what intentions. More systems should take inspiration from this.
That said, before you go rushing off to distro-hop, I wasn't kidding about the docs and UX issues - it's definitely not a "works out of the box" distro yet. I'm recommending it here mainly as something to learn from and maybe tinker with.
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introducing the new "mint this post as an NFT" bot for mastod-- [i am shot]
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I'm bored of all the songs on the (broadcast) radio with people being possessive and jealous.
Where are the songs about a boy telling his girlfriend that he's met someone else and they form a polycule?
What about a girl telling her boyfriend she's trans and him being supportive and questioning his own sexual identify?
I think we need more @powderpaint on the radio...
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ADHD meds
Found a Ritalin cheat code: drinking a cup of tea alongside the first dose of the day (ie. before it kicks in) makes the effect of the Ritalin throughout the day *much* more consistent, even after taking it for a long time
- 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.
- 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
