Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @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.
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- 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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go to gendered bathrooms and replace the signs with two random things like, a fish and a sandal, and watch as people puzzle out which one is manlier
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*holds up a mug that says* dont talk to me until ive had my lawyer
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the queen is dead. you can no longer lose the game. it's over. you're free
(ID&T Radio used to broadcast hour+ long mixes by serious DJs over FM in the Netherlands, but when they rebranded to SLAM!FM, it all changed to the standard format of "guy talking about bullshit and a bunch of ads interspersed with some EDM tracks")
It's interesting how SLAM! has been kinda redeeming itself lately with their mixes on YouTube... I remember the ID&T Radio days when it was still really good, and then it turned into a crappy vaguely EDM-y standard radio station, but now they seem to be going back to their roots again
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All social media services federate with each other via screenshots
mini software dev rant, pol?
I wonder whether this can be convincingly explained to people (who have bought into that ideology) by equating it to the saying about "teaching someone to fish", as that saying seems to resonate with a lot of tech folks on an emotional level - an opinionated framework is giving someone a fish, providing guidance on how to select options and what options there are is *teaching* someone to fish.
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I really have to write Properly(tm) about these intersections between authoritarian ideology and software development culture some day, because this is *far* from the only case where this crops up
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I also feel like this ties into authoritarian ideology in interesting ways. The broader belief that the only way you can make people do something "for their own good" is by forcing them into it and giving them no other choices, rather than giving people agency and trusting them to be responsible and competent in handling it.
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It boggles my mind how it's *still* a widespread belief that libraries/frameworks must be opinionated "because otherwise people would get lost in the options" - as if "technically forcing people into a specific choice" (with all of its significant downsides) is somehow the only possible way to help guide someone towards a sensible solution.
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If we allow such concentrations of power, we place ourselves at the mercy of the moral fiber of whoever claims it, because ultimately they will not be accountable to anyone else. And eventually, either the people put in power will begin to use it for their own gain, as I said, or those who are more ruthless and more comfortable ordering people around (because anyone whose long term goal truly is freedom can never be comfortable destroying it) will rise to power and take advantage themselves.
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MLs really think that you can undo the harm caused by hierarchies, power imbalances, and authority by making a way worse and more concentrated version of them and then waiting for them to abolish themselves, just because "when it's our guys in charge they'll always stick to the plan and do what's right." What they don't realize is that power doesn't just corrupt, it *seduces* and *reveals.* Remove the restraints of equal power around you and few can resist using power for their own gain.
launching a fedi instance that blocks all mentions of a certain queen instance-wide
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The year is 2122, we have seized the means of production, public transport is free and easily available, the few cars that still drive do so autonomously with zero accidents, Half Life 3 has been released and all our power needs are fulfilled by nuclear fusion.
You update your Linux system:
( 1/23) upgrading xorg-server
Something to think about: there are lots of plausible solutions to long-standing problems that you will never hear about - because the people with the solutions stopped talking about them publicly, as they were constantly laughed out of the room or harassed over them, just because they were unconventional solutions or broke with tradition.
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financial dependence is *such* an effective tool of abuse, that we really should be working together as a society for things like ubi, and universal health care, if for no other reason than to reduce the levels of power abusive employers, spouses and parents have over theur victims.
it wasn’t obvious to me but it’s so clear now that virtually all conservative policies are about increasing those power imbalances
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
more resources on (accessible) color palette design highly appreciated! #GoToSocial #GtSDev
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they are apparently still around. also from their finance reports it seems they got *at least* a $200.000 investment to start... for essentially a non-federating fediverse instance
- 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
