Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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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.
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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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The problem with the infosec industry is actually pretty easy to summarize. In the infosec industry, there are roughly three things you can do:
1. Sell people reactive patchwork fixes for problems that have already happened. Good business, you'll have customers forever.
2. Put work into fixing security problems on a structural, worldwide level so that they just can't happen anymore. Years of work on the public commons, and no one company can profit from it. Therefore nobody will pay for this.
3. Do lucrative contracting work for the government. Sometimes reactive, sometimes structural. But whatever it is will always advance specifically *their* nation state interests.
Well, guess what the industry works on.
... paid work, that is.
There's plenty of genuinely important structural work that isn't getting done because it's not profitable, of course.
(Inspired by another toot)
If you're thinking of getting into infosec, you should know that the industry is like 99% military, cops, and bootlickers - and this largely holds true for the available work as well.
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Folks have mentioned that Twitter is an extremely important space for sharing #protest news across the world and as a result we should keep preserving it despite the takeover.
I get it, I am #Iranian, I have relied heavily on twitter for news sharing re protests in #Iran over the years.
But what you are missing is that those same activists and protesters are MOST vulnerable to the new Twitter regime. Misinformation campaigns will be easy, and #Putin/#China/Islamic republic will use it.
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“gender self-determination will always be a better argument than “born this way””
-- @tr4nsfem@twitter.com
🏷 #trans #transliberation
🔗 https://twitter.com/tr4nsfem/status/1597233470312710149
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BREAKING: Growing radical movement embraces extremist politics, claiming that life is "about more than just paying bills and dying". To learn more about how this might affect your investments, click here.
Echt, hoe de fuck zijn die energieslurpers nog steeds een ding voor de kleinste wissewasjes terwijl er (ook door groenbedrijven) steen en been geklaagd wordt over de energiekosten
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"But you lose so many people and good posts by blocking people/instances!"
You know who else make good posts?
The marginalized people these people and instances make a concerted effort to drive off, and the people who ignore and enable this toxic behavior.
Als we dan zo'n energiecrisis hebben he, zullen we dan beginnen met het verbieden van *fucking bladblazers*
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Good morning! A post just rolled across my fedi-timeline saying not to post about politics on Mastodon, so I'm here to remind you that:
1 "politics" refers to decision-making about how to live together in groups
2 choosing to not participate in political discussion is saying you support the status quo, and is a political stance
3 abstaining from politics because you feel safe from its impacts is a privilege and a choice to abandon your more vulnerable neighbours
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Been trying to keep an open mind about Post but, yeesh, it has a lot of warning signs right out of the gate, and I don't mean beta bugs. Comments run by OpenWeb? Investment by Marc Andreessen? No way to know who is reposting your content? No way to moderate comments on your posts?
It doesn't seem buggy, it seems structurally unsound in ways that will be hard to fix.
https://twitter.com/Chronotope/status/1596224339355262977
https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1596606967195533312
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
admin reads your dm's? i'm too tired to read my own, let alone anyone else's
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I'm starting to see this in the wild on the fediverse now. I figured I'd see it before long.
If you are currently using these so-called "fonts", please stop doing so. Use Unicode characters for the purposes they are designed for. Breaking screen readers doesn't make you cool.
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Some further "bug fixes and performance improvements" later (not even joking!), it's running even better :)
Oh, and I also did a writeup a while ago of how the tech behind this project works, and what the 'bigger picture' behind the project is: https://seekseek.org/technology
- 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
