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
Relatedly: I wish Objection.js actually had meaningful error feedback instead of just throwing a meaningless stacktrace nested 10 levels deep
TIL: in VS Code's file switcher 'command bar', you can just enter a path:line:char stacktrace entry and it'll jump directly to the correct location
infosec meta
The thing that gets me about the infosec.exchange thing is that at least Jerry seems to understand and respect the choice to defederate...
... which is something that cannot be said for seemingly its entire usebase
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I blocked infosec.exchange, in line with Scholar's no-cops policy (I know, strictly speaking not cops, but DHS is close enough for us)
A user on Scholar wanted to migrate there, asked me to un-suspend them while they did that
It took ~ 35 mins for users on infosec.exchange to start sending us harassing messages
Not cool
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if the ear resonates with sound waves for your brain to interpret as sound, does that mean when I put a square wave in Famitracker my ear drum is doing binary
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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@ifixcoinops I'm trying to find #theowlhouse people
PLEASE!
No one seems to have moved from the bird app. I don't think they learnt how to fly yet....or they're all penguins in which case i'm in big trouble because I was only on there for the artists 😭
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For other instance admins
It's okay to say "we don't allow police on our instance"
Scholar has had that in our About for at least a year:
We also had a "no institutions, only individuals" policy for even longer
This has done us well
I just want to remind you that you don't have to provide volunteer tech support and hosting for agents of the government, for-profit companies, or other institutions
You can just, not
And it's bad for your community if you do
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operator precedence parsing was solved 100 years ago, y'all just cowards
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Everything *else* aside, having a government account hosted on a community server seems an awful lot like having a government website hosted at something like
bobspersonalpage.com/users/~InternalRevenueService
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Just spotted some graffiti that said "abolish bedtimes"
Results of today's #StreetComplete trip:
- The optician was closed due to an eye surgery
- The social housing corporation's office is up for rent
- There are now two branches of the same flower shop within the same shopping area. In addition to the two supermarkets of the same chain we already had.
I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.
infosec meta, question
So, uh. Are there any infosec instances left that *aren't* buddy-buddy with feds/cops/fascists/etc.?
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The modern German train experience of "your train is delayed, so you wouldn't make your connection. However that train is also delayed, so you'll make it" 😅😅
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I have mixed feelings about the Tumblr ActivityPub thing. On one hand, that's a lot of users that will now be able to interact with our open community here, and I feel like that can be a good thing. I always felt like fedi culture and Tumblr culture were very similar too. However, a major company becoming part of the ecosystem is an entry point for companies to take over the ecosystem. I think the current owners of Tumblr are decent people, but if Automattic or Tumblr get acquired again we may end up in a situation where a company wants to take over fedi for the benefit of its shareholders.
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subtoot, infosec
"If these people don't want the feds to read things, they shouldn't use the internet."
That isn't the fucking point, you goddamned wet noodle.
No one is sitting here thinking that intelligence agencies can't read shit. It's that we don't want to *welcome them into our spaces*. We know where that gets us. And it's never been anywhere good.
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subtoot, infosec
Fucking dorks sitting there like THEN DON'T USE THE INTERNET.
Idk, jackass. Why don't you try to think about how we use OUR spaces? How we build things with intentionality?
Why not use your skills for actual safety and getting these fuckers *out of our lives* instead of supporting them? Unless, of course, you want the same power they have and you're working your way into that.
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Many government agencies are expressing concerns about how to communicate with the public without Twitter, especially in emergencies. Of course, it was a bad idea to become dependent on Twitter to such an extent in the first place, and no matter what happens, this needs rethinking.
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Genuinely, if someone wanders past some sources on Wren (the #CarbonOffset thing) that aren't coming *from* Wren and are looking at the work they do?
Please send them to me. (Boosts and DMs are okay.)
Something about them keeps bugging me, and I really want to look into it with more depth than just "Their website says!"
(Am not thinking of putting money into it, but am highly cynical.)
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Instance Subtoot but
"information security focused social network INVITES US federal department of homeland security onto their instance" reads like a fucking parody sketch
How is this real life
- 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
