Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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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 hardest problem in computer science is gender dysphoria
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
making playlists is just wear-levelling for getting bored of songs
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computer
@schratze it honestly feels like Plasma is the only desktop environment (across all OSes) that is made by the same people that use all its features regularly.
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Je vecht het beste terug tegen Complotdenkers, wappies, fascisten en QAnonisten, door geen content meer aan te leveren aan Twitter. Door nog een redelijk geluid te laten horen, lijkt het alsof dat medium nog enige waarde heeft. Dat is waarom ik ben gestopt met posten daaro.
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Yeah, sex is great, but have you ever had huge chunks of supports and rafts come off cleanly, in a single solid unit?
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FOR THE LAST FERSTINKIN' TIME! SAYING THAT YOU HAVE PRIVILEGE DOES NOT MEAN YOU SHOULD FEEL GUILTY, IT MEANS YOU SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SOCIETY IS UNJUST IN WAYS THAT FAVOR YOU AND THAT YOU HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO FIGHT FOR IT TO BE JUST FOR EVERYBODY
GROW UP AND GET TO WORK
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Huh? Oh, no reason.
[Edit: Comic from https://webcomicname.com/ by Alex Norris.]
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Oh, that was a new one.
Got an email from PayPal about a suspicious payment request. I verified the email came from PayPal, but went into PayPal itself to check. Sure enough, suspicious request, and the note indicated it had been flagged, with a number to call.
I called.
And while I was on the call, went to the PayPal "Contact" link... and realized it was a different number.
The attacker was using the INVOICE NOTE to phish for details.
Hoping I didn't expose to much before I figured it out.
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My most controversial #cybersecurity opinion is that giving #security bugs human-recognizable names (aka branding them) was one of the more important advances in the field in the last decade 😋
meta, power imbalance, addendum
(This *should* go without saying, but none of this is meant to imply that fedi culture is perfect as it is, or that there aren't real eg. racism issues. It just means that those are social issues, not technical issues.)
meta, power imbalance
I think that what bothers me about the "there's a power imbalance between who can host an instance and who can't and that's why fedi is unsustainable" argument, is that it doesn't acknowledge that *this is true for every alternative too*.
This isn't a problem of Mastodon or fedi specifically. It is a problem of technology in general, a problem that even predates computers. It holds true for any infrastructure that involves technical complexity. Once it becomes a specialization, there's a power imbalance.
Even if you just look at social media sites - how is this any different for Twitter, Cohost, and so on? There's still the same admin vs. user power imbalance, just now you don't even get to choose who is the admin, and there's no real accountability because the cost of leaving is social exclusion.
I'm not convinced that this problem (of power imbalance in technical complexity) is actually solvable, and I also don't think that it's a useful *goal* to try and solve it - it feels to me like the same old 'rugged individualism' in a new coat of progressive-sounding paint.
The more useful goal here would be to *acknowledge* that those power imbalances exist, and try to erase or at least minimize their impact through building healthy communities and trust relationships. Not by replacing it with a centralized silo that has the same problems but worse.
(And no, P2P isn't a solution either. There's still a power imbalance between developer and user there.)
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“venture capital funds innovation”
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“You can find us anywhere you get your podcasts.”
I *adore* this phrase, because it has been like two whole-ass decades and not one single venture capital darling has managed to unseat plain RSS as the distribution method for podcasts. Not one. (And they have really tried!)
Podcasts are just out there, like air. You don’t go to one place to get them; you get them from everywhere and anywhere. You can choose how you want to engage with them and manage them and it is legitimately heartwarming that nothing has ever gotten in the way of that being a fundamental fact.
This is the best of what the web is. It will never have a stock ticker or even a marketing scheme. Most people don’t even know it is there. But it endures (past the many, many attempts by squillionaire corporates to kill it) because of its absolute unshakable utility.
My suggestion: any time you hear “anywhere you get your podcasts”, send a little thanks to RSS for keeping the real web alive.
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boostable version, donate to Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, transmisia, fuck TERFs
Today, scottish Arch-TERF JK Rowling announced she's funded a competing rape crisis centre in Edinburgh that will only serve cis women, apparently as a fuck-you to the existing Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, which has a trans woc CEO and has endured months of harrassment from TERFs to the point of temporary closure. Please show some support to the current trans-inclusive ERCC if you can:
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earlier today i was added to a telegram stock trading scam group, sent an image of a fennec saying "look at this cute fennec :)" and immediately got banned
*desperately searches for loose components bin for like 10 minutes*
Ah yes, I've found it, it was the bin labelled "components" at eye level directly in front of where I was standing to begin with
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yet another meta
Like, try to offer shared codes of conduct or moderation guidelines, let alone volunteering moderation time, and you quickly land on the same land already poisoned by alt-right trolls. The actions that qoto and UOfI have taken substantially harm efforts to make a meaningful fediverse centered on personal agency and on community health.
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yet another meta
Most of the problems of qoto and UOfI are trivially solved by blocking and/or defederating, as it's obvious that nothing good will result from explicitly institutionalizing bigotry in a cross-instance code of conduct.
What makes me especially sad, though, is that UOfI has pretty effectively taken the air out of the room for good-faith efforts at creating cross-instance resources for community support.
- 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
