Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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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@joepie91 Last year, I had a delivery notice sent to me on December 16 for something I should've received that day? That updated the delivery date to December 15.
Which was nice. We all needed a time machine.
"Due to the holiday season, we have moved your delivery date from January 5 to January 5"
O...kay?
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When it comes to tech companies, Harvey Dent’s line about dying a hero or living long enough to become the villain is a haunting reminder of just how much of a dangerous game tech companies play with people’s lives and minds.
As an IT professional myself with 18 years experience across a handful of different kinds of positions and companies, it’s getting to the point now where I just want to dedicate my expertise to building alternatives.
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they should make a "strawberry pi" account on brands town and make fun of raspberry pi imo
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BREAKING: Raspberry Pi Foundation dismisses concerns about their product's use in police surveillance, suggesting that people can simply unsubscribe from police surveillance.
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BREAKING: Raspberry Pi Foundation tells victims of police violence to "just chill and be an adult" on social media, the company was unavailable for comment at the time of publication.
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Okay, but seriously
The idea that moderation should happen in the manner they suggest
1. If you *wanted* to make it impossible to defederate from a bad instance quickly, and you wanted to give them a chance to continue to abuse users, this is how to do it
2. Mandatory public receipts is a terrible idea if you care about user safety at all and will be weaponized
3. Voting about whether a thing is racist/sexist/homophobic aka having constant referenda about the value of these groups 
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qoto, bad instance
@researchfairy I wonder how anyone still federates with qoto. Between the block evasion scandal, the "freeze peach" commitment, the extremely suspicious exceptions in their rules, proudly saying they don't block any instances...
And now talking about how bad it is when others defederate. Like, is there anyone that can't see this is a server with extremely low standards, that is constantly being blocked by a lot of people?
For fuck's sake, just the name. "Question others to teach ourselves", it is clearly an instance _focused_ on sealioning.
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Welp.
I certainly didn’t expect the actual Raspberry Pi folks to announce hiring a former surveillance cop with such pomp and circumstance before dismissing concerned people with a genuinely baffling amount of snark and playfulness.
But that’s what’s happened and I’ve blocked the [former] cop and the entire Raspberry Pi instance as a result.
I’ll have to find another way to build a mini-computer as Raspberry Pi seem to have no issue letting a former surveillance cop work for them.
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BREAKING: Raspberry Pi Foundation joins United Federation of Instances, Tony Blair welcomed the company in a short statement saying that they "have a lot in common".
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tech bros will literally be like
my interests include
#ObjectOrientedProgramming
#SoftwareDevelopment
#BusinessToConsumerApps
why would you be so bland (yes these are all taken directly from a tech guy's bio)
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| TakeV | 
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*drops LLVM down a steep hill*
LLVM: clang
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Love to see corpos and right wing chuds shit the bed as they realize the ground is shifting under them and they're doomed 
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"we have been made aware that our social media intern was insensitive toward those who've had bad experiences with the police. they have been let go and we promise that we will do better in the future. you can rest assured that the security of our products will continue to remain excellent and uncompromised # foss # raspberry_pi # forgiveandforget # livelaughlove"
meta / UFoI, slurs, antisemitism
Yeah, so that "manually-approved federation of good actors" is clearly going very well
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Yeah, not really feeling @Raspberry_Pi any more now they're beating their chest on the socials at how proud they are to have hired an ex-surveillance officer and responded to people's concerns like ~that~. Read the room. Cops (yes, even ex-cops), and surveillance creeps are a tangible danger to many of us here.
https://raspberrypi.social/@Raspberry_Pi/109476972427437410
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#fediblock raspberrypi.social
Hired a cop to work there, being belligerent dicks to people raising their concerns about that: https://raspberrypi.social/@Raspberry_Pi/109476972427437410
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the classic mistake of trying to tidy your house before a visit, and when the visitor almost arrives, you realise you're out of spoons to socialise, because you spent your spoons tidying.
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Anyone have a favorite, counterintuitive thing? Because mine is that dinosaurs are divided into "lizard-hipped" and "bird-hipped" and birds are descended from "lizard-hipped" dinos.
- 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
