Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Zo, die ellende hebben we ook weer achter de rug. 🥱

On a metaphysical level I never understood why so many people who align toward their idea of "chaos" are self-centered narcissistic dickheads.

That's the norm. That's boring. That's doing what everyone else with a shred of power in this world does. Focusing on your own power and how to grow and exert it over others is milquetoast privileged bullshit.

True chaos is what results when you use the power you know you already have to empower others. You want chaos, try predicting what an artist will do when you give them the safety, means and power to create.

my brain CANNOT read the word peninsula right on the first try

Very few neonyms annoy me as much as 'maker'. You are into crafts, you're just too sexist to use a term usually used by women

I've seen so many bad takes lately about how defederation is "overreaction" or "childish" or whatnot

Usually seems to come from the idea that Fedi is "a platform"

and I'm like

No

No it's not a platform

it's a loose federation of a bunch of small social networks (one per instance), and any "a platform" that you might see is the emergent result of admins doing all the defederation and cleanup work behind the scenes

There is no good way to hire a cop who proudly took part in mass surveillance programs so intense and privacy violating that even their government admitted it was in violation of human rights after international human rights orgs intervened post Snowden.

Especially being proud of the fact that he used their devices to do it.

Even if RPi had handled everything perfectly after their announcement, this should still be disgusting and unacceptable.

https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/4818/uk-government-acknowledges-past-violations-individuals-rights-and-fight

Looks like there’s a new phish in town. Keep an eye out, folks

#phishing #github #security

A lot of people are apparently twigging to the fact that the transhumanist/accelerationist/longtermist/effective altruist/singularitarian threads that run through the entirety of silicon valley and the Western technosocial context is intimately, innately tied to the project of eugenics and let me just say: Welcome to the conversation.

I wish there were more mobile games like stardew valley where you can build things and make everything pretty and just chill and there are 0 ads and 0 pressure for time

Very good read for anyone working on accessibility:

Avoiding the engineer-saviour trap - Jenny List, Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2017/08/03/avoiding-the-engineer-saviour-trap/

"And in that moment, I almost fell into a trap. I was setting myself up to be the Engineer-Saviour, riding in on my white charger to deliver the users of the room from the ceaseless hell into which its designers had put them. The overwhelming smugness of Helping Someone Less Fortunate Than Myself was reaching out to envelop me, and it was time to put the thought down and back away real slow."

#accessibility #a11y

A bit late now but thanks for the info

hey guys, one of my friends is an ukrainian queer refugee that is currenty residing in Germany with his mother that has chronic health problems. they're near Munich, in Ergolding.

they have been experiencing troubles with housing and healthcare.

does anybody know any services or groups that help find a place to stay and medical assistance for ukrainian refugees in this area? please provide contacts and links.

this question is time sensitive, we have a week or so. please share.

Are journalists thinking about this? Are major news organizations internalizing this into their threat models? Are politicians and civil society actors? What are people thinking?

At this point the most important elite social media network in the western world has been captured by a partisan actor who is weaponizing internal company (and possibly user) information for partisan / ideological purposes, with uncertain consequences for the next American elections.

I am not sure if this has fully sunk in.

#FediBlock is not a meta tag

FediBlock tag is not a place to muse about if you should block someone or even saying you did not block them

FediBlock tag is not for posts that are not about blocking someone or a server

make your own tag to “defend” instances, or just dont block them. not satisfied with the “proof?” dont block them.

not everything requires your input.

do not include the actual tag if there is no one to block, you are flooding the tag with useless posts

The problem with #RaspberryPi proudly hiring an ex-spy cop and seeing nothing wrong with it isn’t that they were unprofessional in their replies to criticism on the fediverse. It was the fact that they proudly hired an ex-spy cop and see nothing wrong with it.

If what you want is corporations* to be better at whitewashing what they do, be careful what you ask for because that’s all they want too.

* They’re an offshoot of Broadcom and their “foundation” has multiple for-profit companies.

#RaspberryPi own the two main organisations teaching coding to children today (Code Club and CoderDojo). And they see absolutely nothing wrong with proudly hiring an ex-spy cop who brags about having built surveillance equipment using their boards.

I resigned from the board of directors of Code Club many years ago because they didn’t see anything wrong with legitimising Google (a surveillance capitalist) to children.

These people are creating curricula for your kids. You should be worried.