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.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
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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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COVID + other infectious diseases
Related: politicians have from the start been promoting an idea that "we can't wear masks forever" /para from the start, and I'd like to contradict that. Yeah, actually, we *can* wear masks (in public places in regions where COVID is spreading) forever, and really, we should. Things are never going to "go back to normal", either. That's a related liberal fantasy. Even if not having to worry about disease epidemics was truly "normal" (considering all of human history, it really wasn't), we can't go back to it.
This is our new normal, and we have to live with that new normal. Not by throwing caution at the wind and letting a deadly airborne virus to spread indiscriminately, but by doing the opposite and fighting against it. That means always having masks at the ready, for the rest of our lives and for as long as humans continue to exist, and using them if COVID has spread into your area in addition to quarantining if you know you've been exposed. Yes, we can do this forever, and we have to.
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I have been told this is a very hot take
I don't consider allies to be part of the LGBTQ+ community. They're not any gayer or transer or queerer for associating with people who don't have the same privilege they do. And it seems that anytime they don't get to participate in the "club," they get really upset, like they're owed something for their support.
It's not that the support of cishet people isn't valued or important, but so often it feels performative with the end goal of being part of a community they don't belong to.
Anyway, I've been told this is a really controversial take by a few so-called allies, and it seems to fit into a pattern that I've noticed over several years. One with a lot of "we" language when they're happy with what the queers are doing and a lot of "you" language when they want to distance themselves, which the ones I've met do as often as it's convenient for them.
Since this apparently needs to be repeated: you don't write reliable code by "being really careful" or "avoiding mistakes".
You do it by accepting that you *will* inevitably make mistakes, and designing your code so that the likelihood and/or impact of those mistakes is minimized.
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Always thought the Dyson Sphere thing was weirdly capitalist, like "a type 6 advanced civilization will need to harness the power of an entire star" no an advanced civilization will sit in the grass enjoying birds and bugs and a stable climate for thousands of years
??? why was the cat sleeping in the shower
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If OpenSSL were a GUI 
Credit: https://smallstep.com/blog/if-openssl-were-a-gui/
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tonight's "point camera at sky for pretty results", please enjoy
sunset:
1. 400mm
2. 100mm.
3. 20mm.
moon - 400mm
We should have some form of public goods transport, where you 'check in' some kind of cargo (camping gear, large hardware store purchase, whatever) at the point of origin, specify where you're going and when you'll arrive, and then someone shows up after that time with your stuff, for a price that's in line with human public transport.
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🇵🇸 
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“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin
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It's so bizarre that people assume so many things about autistic people and do weird studies on them like they're animals instead of just asking them questions. We are so dehumanized that they don't even trust our own perceptions of ourselves
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hey if a tech person is ever explaining to you what the bug was that they fixed and it doesn't match the problem you saw tell them because odds are there's another bug that they have to fix
source: someone I was explaining what bug I fixed to like 15 seconds ago
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German goverment reduces taxes for the oil companies to buy gas.
Oil companies keep the additional profit.
Government is surprised.
slow clap
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here's your irregular reminder that NPM can, in fact, do time-traveling installs:
👉🏻 `npm install foo --before 2021`
...will only install `foo` (and its dependencies) as they looked right before 2021-01-01 at midnight.
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Leiden: koloniale vuilnis ingepakt #beeldenstorm https://youtu.be/e1ngxUwWaaA via @YouTube@twitter.com
De gemeente maakte zelfs bekend dat er aangifte gedaan gaat worden van vandalisme. Aangifte voor het inpakken in vuilniszakken?
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It does raise one interesting question though - in cases where you really are one of the few minorities in a bigoted town, is anarchy actually any better for you than modern democracies with civil rights and whatnot? I think so, because there's no apparatus of power for the bigots to capture and use against you, they'd have to do the oppressing themselves, and if there are other minorities a mutual defense association would work as a deterrent. But, it's still a scary thought.
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I've been in a multi-day extended (friendly) discussion with a socdem. They keep saying pretty much the same three things:
1. People will somehow vote "more correctly" under "true" democracy whereas under anarchy people will automatically become bigoted conservatives bc of localism
2. Examples of the failure of democracy today are just "badly executed democracy."
3. We need a single reified entity to enforce a set of rules, so we can have a "society."
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- 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
