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.
- 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
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You might be a fan of the liquid crystals, or maybe you like that new OLED stuff.
But my favorite display technology has got to be high voltage neon dot matrix
subtoot
"Violating consent is fine because the spec says you can do this" sure is a hell of a privileged techbro take
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Salesmen going door to door selling competitive afterlife packages
Instead of eternal utopian paradises, they're having to sell you on the concept of like, haunting a 50s diner that probably won't close any time soon, or a river, or a post office
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If the brain named itself then so can trans people
meta, subtoot, activism/leftism
The way that the jorts.horse admin is posting right now, that's how abusers behave.
- Reducing a combination of problems/factors to a single event, pretending that that's the only thing that happened, and complaining about how unreasonable the response would be to that strawman
- Strategically not mentioning (or responding to) the very legitimate criticisms that they've received, cherrypicking only the emotionally-charged comments that they feel they can ridicule and trivialize
- Treating the whole thing as a joke, and painting "people getting upset" as a justification of why they were right all along not to take it seriously
- Using their marginalized status as a shield from criticism about an entirely unrelated thing
- Setting themselves up as the gatekeeper, declaring that they do not *personally* see the value in something and therefore nobody should be expected to treat it respectfully
- Making a non-apology, claiming they've told them to knock it off, but never *actually* condemning the problematic behaviour in question
Again, this is abuser behaviour, disguised as shitposting. And this is far from an isolated incident - this sort of thing is uncomfortably widespread in leftist and activist circles. Learn to recognize the patterns and act against them.
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Although cis people pretend it's an open, democratic discussion of current events, "the transgender debate" is actually cis people discussing with themselves where they will draw the line between permitting trans people to exist and putting us into prisons and killing us.
The transgender debate is the oppressor's discourse regarding what level of genocide is acceptable to them.
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There's nothing edgy about shitposting Black and Brown trying to protect themselves.
You're just racist.
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Me: You do understand what an Emergency Power Off is for, correct?
Them: But it could damage my system.
Me: If this button is getting pressed, your system is already gone from either fire or the sprinklers going off. This is so someone can save *YOU* in an *EMERGENCY*.
Them: [shakes head in confusion] But my laser...
Me: IS LIKELY THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE
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I've been struggling with this myself, so I thought I'd repeat it for other people that might be dealing with the same thing:
Not every hobby needs to be a project. Not everything needs to be a whole *thing* with a goal and an endpoint. It's okay to not finish something. It's okay to pick up something for a bit, explore it, start making something, and then drop it without making any "progress".
Productivity is capitalist bullshit that doesn't need to infect your free time too. Have some fun
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Researching mines in northern Spain I came across this curious object. It's a canary cage designed to keep the canary alive in the event of a gas leak. If a miner saw the canary laying at the bottom of the cage it was time to abandon everything and leave the mine, but not without first closing the latched glass door and opening the valve of the oxygen bottle to save the bird. A miner would do that on their way out and take the bird with them. It's a signifier of the miner's legendary sense of solidarity, no lives lost to the mine on a miners watch. A solidarity that was also crucial in the fight for workers rights, creating safer and more humane working conditions, achievements of unionization and solidarity that some of us still enjoy today.
Heads-up if you're using CircleCI: it got popped, and your stored credentials are compromised.
https://circleci.com/blog/january-4-2023-security-alert/
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Hi my jorts.horse friends. Your admin is being a complete and absolute shithead about other people on jorts abusing the fediblock hashtag. Please consider moving to another instance, as the admin and other people have a continued stance of not giving a shit about an actually useful and helpful aspect of Mastodon. Thanks.
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Let's be very clear.
What jorts[dot]horse is doing is straight-up white supremacy. They are attacking a tool, specifically, created to help make the fedi safer for Black and POC users because they feel it's bad and is laughing about it. That's unvarnished anti-blackness, and they are proud of it.
At this point, nothing separates them from any other racist instance like kiwi farms or gab.
They are actively working to make the fedi a less safe place and enjoying that effort.
#fediblock
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@DanaBlankenhorn @rosalux @HandgunYoga @aral
Achieving a higher seat at the table of a deliberately unjust system, is not progress, it is a bribe.
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Do other Mastodon admins see weird behaviour regarding instance suspensions?
Take "example.org", and subdomains "social" and "social2".
If you first block the root domain and then the subdomain, the block for the root domain disappears here. Is that the case for you too?
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I admit it. I hate Britain. I hate America too. I hate every country. I hate the arbitrary geopolitical borders that violently carve up our planet into the worthy and unworthy. I hate the way they’re secured. I hate the way our cultures have been infested with nationalism.
I hate the way people can be forced to move from one arbitrarily defined piece of land to another because they don’t have the correct piece of paper.
For a (critical) meta-review of dependency security, I'm looking for documented dependency security incidents!
Please reply with (a link to) any such incidents that you know of, in any language/ecosystem as long as it was from a public registry/source - I'm especially interested in the less well-known incidents.
The goal is not to write a sensationalist fearmongering article, but rather to place real-world attacks in perspective and talk about where the *real* dangers are, because almost everything people claim about dependency security today is wrong.
Boosts appreciated! 
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Added some new Mastodon monitoring infrastructure for discuss.systems.
Sure, every good #MastoAdmin has a cool Grafana dashboard, but we're going a bit more old school here...
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Ageing doesn't cause conservatism
(begin quote)
"Let's get something straight. Growing old doesn't make people #conservative. In fact the more marginalized identity statuses a person has, the LESS conservative they grow over time.
The reason we equate "old" with "conservative" is that #marginalization kills people off younger.
Some of the most radical people you know are old.
It's just a lot of others died before they could get there, so there's a diminishing proportion. (2/5)
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RT @fluffy@twitter.com
Am I doing this meme right?
- 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
