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
And no, it's not *just* security folks overestimating the threat level, tons of software developers do it too (and often at the same time overlook the things that are *actually* dangerous)
I don't think computer people really realize just how little (relevant) malicious code actually exists on the anyone-can-upload package registries, and folks seem to consistently overestimate the actual threat level here
Tired: who would ever buy these useless home shopping gadgets?
Wired: oh, the target demographic is disabled folks, not me, some of them turn out to be really useful though...
Inspired: wait, my ADHD motor control issues are a disability, and I *am* the target demographic
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Somebody should invent socks that don't disappear when you wash your clothes
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Tech people using a language or API they don't like: ugh this is clunky
Tech people using their expensive mechanical keyboards: hell yeahhh clunkety clunk clunk clunk
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Pleroma TERFs & Nazis
This is why I have a general distrust of Pleroma users. I don't care that it is "more lightweight" than Mastodon. I don't care that it has extra features and multiple frontends.
Its Nazis all the way down. Even the official Pleroma website recommends Nazi-friendly instances, and their devs are openly friendly with out-and-proud Nazis.
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Quite a few games these days use chromatic aberration filters as a "wow, trippy" effect and I wish they wouldn't because with my glasses everything not directly in front of me already looks like that.
I've seen cases where something in the corner of the game screen was chromatic-aberrationy and my glasses reverse-aberranted it back to normal.
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We need a positive PR campaign on masks. We need to rebrand them as a symbol of compassion & empowerment. Our leaders have tricked many into believing they are oppressive but we can turn this around. #Covid
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I also love the presumed universal questions for topics in conversation, like "Did you believe in Santa when you were younger?"
Dude, I live in Slovakia. The *infant* Jesus (Ježiš) is the one bringing gifts according to tradition, lmao.
It occurs to me that there are some very clear parallels between "energy efficiency comparisons of programming languages" and ""EV proponents".
People are constantly talking about how EVs will be so much more energy-efficient, rather than questioning whether maybe we shouldn't have so much private car usage in the first place.
Likewise, people talk about the efficiency of different programming languages, rather than questioning whether maybe 80% of what we do with them (particularly advertising/analytics-related) maybe shouldn't be done in the first place.
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@joepie91 I've yet to see an energy consumption comparison that shows any context at all.
Doing software no one needs, endlessly duplicated to get the 9s nobody needs and low latency for all the world that no one needs, but it's written in Rust and thus at least those thousand servers take 40% less energy.
Hey uh, I'm starting to see "accusing some tech you don't like of being environmentally wasteful despite not having done the work to analyze or contextualize its actual environmental impact" becoming a trend, particularly with things where the impact is not actually obvious.
Can we all collectively nip that in the bud before it becomes a widespread thing please? It's just a different form of greenwashing; misusing climate rhetoric to shit on something you just don't *like* (and frequently upholding some personal favourite in its stead).
(To state the obvious: this isn't about cryptocurrency. PoW is obviously bad. I'm talking about shit like "language X is bad for the environment, use C instead", "Mastodon is bad for the environment because of the many instances", etc.)
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fediblock for a single user with a billion alts
#fediblock tallship @ too many instances to name
this dude has alts all over the place (literally like 15+), and he uses them to insinuate himself into open source + activitypub development as much as possible, post absolutely unhinged right-wing, bootlicking, anti-immigration rants, and boost himself from his own alts
if you're a masto admin, i recommend searching for the username 'tallship' in your moderation interface, and suspending every alt you see
you might also find it beneficial to suspend domains that host that dude, since they tend to be undermoderated 'free speech' places (aka sources of hate speech)
abusive academia, trans, surveillance tech
Reposting from @kubikpixel@chaos.social with CW
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Facial Recognition Researcher:
Left a Trans Database Exposed for Years After Using Images Without Permission.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina Wilmington scraped videos of trans people from YouTube without permission to create a dataset aimed at stopping hypothetical terrorists.
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Some people consider (or perhaps misremember) the "goto fail" bug as an example of why goto is dangerous, but really it's an example of why if-statements without braces are dangerous.
-Wmisleading-indentation exists now, but I don't think it solves the problem entirely - especially if you have auto-indent tooling in your IDE, or if you happen to be cursed with the requirement of using an ancient toolchain.
This write-up covers it well https://dwheeler.com/essays/apple-goto-fail.html
-Wmisleading-indentation exists now, but I don't think it solves the problem entirely - especially if you have auto-indent tooling in your IDE, or if you happen to be cursed with the requirement of using an ancient toolchain.
This write-up covers it well https://dwheeler.com/essays/apple-goto-fail.html
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At some point a desire to minimize "drama" acquires all of the repressive and intrinsically conservative qualities of calls to "leave politics out of it" --
Not a fan of "drama" myself, but ignoring politics isn't a luxury I can afford. And what is drama is often at root political and what is political is nearly always ... dramatic.
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The first step of restorative justice is for the perpetrator to acknowledge the harm they have done.
If they don't, then it's not restorative justice, it's just sparkling accountability avoidance.
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algorithmic timeline where you shake your phone and then tap it against the desk to get the posts to settle in a new order
- 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
