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
Oh and they're also almost always loudly Christian, same deal for the "arcade" (ie. childrens' gambling) operators
Possibly my least favourite category on Youtube are the "passive income" videos where white dudes from the US (it's *always* white dudes from the US) happily extoll the virtues of getting filthy rich off running a laundromat with almost no effort.
So I just discovered that KDE Connect will actually automatically mute the music on my PC when my phone rings, and unmute it when the call ends. Neat!
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I've seen a couple of "the fediverse is only used by nerds, so it won't survive - it needs the cool kids to arrive" hot takes recently.
I'm not sure the basic principle - that it is only used by nerds today - is correct anyway.
And even if it were, a small group of nerds is more than enough to keep a service running for themselves and their friends. The fediverse has already "survived" for years.
And who says nerds aren't the "cool kids" anyway?! Being nerdy is pretty cool, IMHO.
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Why are ethics questions always like:
"is it ethical to steal bread to feed your starving family?"
And not:
"is it ethical to sell bread when families are starving?"
@quoteme
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Deeply troubled by seeing my Dutch colleages — both at @Radboud_uni and elsewhere in the country — hyping up ChatGPT rather than help curb the hype, which I think is our responsibility as academics. Why do we let money-motivated AI tech dictate our academic research and debate agendas. We need rather to resist and educate on critical reflection.
all caps
E_ROOF_LEAKING
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So, in summary, current DHL status:
- One parcel which they claim to have delivered on Thursday, but didn't
- One parcel which they claimed they would deliver today, but aren't delivering because it's "too heavy"
Things are going great again at DHL
(I do love how the GraphQL API behind their track-and-trace gives you all the gory details of where your parcel is and what's wrong with it)
Apparently I am not getting my new filament today, because according to the DHL API, the parcel is "too heavy"
Why accept a parcel for handover that is too heavy to deliver??
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take a gender, leave a gender
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In Enschede zijn twee woningen van woningcorporatie Domijn gekraakt nadat de corporatie deze woningen vijf (vijf! VIJF! 5!) jaar leeg had laten staan.
De krakers zullen wel weer ontruimd worden, maar de schande ligt bij corporatie Domijn.
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Oh hey my instance and I are being impersonated.
I recommend blocking cloudisland.online
Thanks everyone! Looks like the instance went offline pretty quickly, but you should still suspend the domain in case it comes back.
"left as an exercise for the reader", ie. "I didn't feel like finishing this part of the article"
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I’m going to tell you the story of the man who solved a crime.
Not, like, a cop who put together the clues and got his man, but a person who took a crime as old as civilization and fixed the problem where it got you in trouble.
The man: Artur Virgílio Alves Reis.
The place: 1920s Portugal.
The crime: Counterfeiting.
The problem he fixed: That the money is counterfeit.
(This is going to be a long 🧵 . Just trust me.)
A question for folks who *aren't* developers:
What would be the most important things/qualities for you in a website/page builder? Specifically, in the kind of builder that lets you build in some limited amount of interactivity (like forum functionality).
Developers, sit this one out please. Boosting is of course appreciated, though.
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Voorts ben ik van mening dat de strijd voor klimaatrechtvaardigheid verder geëscaleerd dient te worden.
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I often say that election security is by far the hardest technical problem I've ever encountered. Why? Four reasons:
1) Contradictory critical requirements, particularly vote secrecy vs. transparency.
2) No truly neutral trusted third parties.
3) Election do-overs are generally impossible, so the ability to merely detect problems is insufficient. You have to reliably prevent them.
4) Much of the technology than can manage the complexity of elections is inherently untrustworthy.
- 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
