Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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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Update on ua-fediland.de :
One of their moderators got back to my email. They're in Ukraine and can't moderate during the blackouts (understandably!), and the bots/spammers take advantage of the power outages (they're Russian) to sign up when they know they'll have maximum time to stay on the instance before getting moderated.
I've suggested they might want to close sign ups before the outages to try to prevent it.
Please also see the reply to this toot, however. #Fediblock
dear journalists 
I'd like to share an excerpt from the e-mail here that I sent to the journa.host admin, back when they were asking for people to explain why they were getting defederated. (I never did get a response, disappointingly.)
I think it explains pretty well why your journalist instances *keep* getting defederated on here.
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What it essentially boils down to: the fediverse as we know it today has pretty much been built by marginalized and vulnerable folks - whether due to sexuality, gender identity, disability, or whatever other reason. They've built this place because nobody cared about their needs on any of the other platforms, to serve as a safe social space for them. And all of these people have been significantly harmed by widespread journalistic malpractice over the years - the recent wave of transphobic reporting is just one example, but far from the only one.
This means that a bunch of journalists joining the network feels essentially equivalent (and in many cases, rightfully so) to hostile actors invading their (and my) community. There may well be individual journalists who are careful about how they interact with and represent marginalized folks, but the harsh reality is that the vast, vast majority of journalists have a history of doing the exact opposite - whether it be through deliberately harmful reporting, or the infamous "neutral journalism" (which doesn't exist, and in practice boils down to a strong bias towards the status quo, ie. one that marginalizes people).
The result: the marginalized folks running large swathes of the network simply do not want journalists in their spaces. There is absolutely no relationship of trust towards journalists, quite the opposite, and they are - rightfully - concerned that journalists will act unethically, not just in the form of pushing sensationalist news, but also by eg. intruding into close-knit/semi-private conversations with their journalist hat on, essentially serving as a permanent threat to publicize private conversation. It's like walking into a local bar unannounced with an army of journalists, and this distresses people accordingly. Nobody knows how their words are going to be twisted or decontextualized.
I do not think that this is possible to fully solve with different instance policy. Following community CW norms is certainly helpful, and for some instances it will be enough if you're all staying within the community norms of marginalized communities. However, I expect that for many other instances this will not be enough - because the problem isn't just with fedi policy, but with the journalistic apparatus in general. The journalistic community needs to reckon with the harm that it has caused to marginalized folks for many decades through irresponsible reporting, faux neutrality, and platforming of fascist rhetoric, while ignoring warning calls from the marginalized folks threatened by it - and likewise, hold fellow journalists accountable when they are not doing the same. Until that happens, journalists as a group will simply not be welcome in many spaces
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transphobia, newsie.social is still listed joinmastodon.org
Does someone want to get newsie.social delisted from joinmastodon.org? Because I'm pretty sure their admin's recent acceptance of transphobia is against what is required to be listed there. After all, it got some instances delisted from there, too.
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Meet the #rainboweucalyptus.
These #gums are unbeliebable.
When a rainbow eucalyptus sheds its bark it reveals a neon green inner layer. Over time, as this layer is exposed to air, it ages into different colors. They display bright reds, oranges, blues, pinks and purples.
The different colours appear as different layers fall off, while other exposed areas begin aging.
Rainbow eucalyptus is the only eucalyptus tree native to the #northernhemisphere.
It’s found mainly in the Philippines, New Guinea, and Indonesia.
And funny enough, it is not native to #Australia!
📷 sources;
thespruce.com
oneearth.com
#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #aesthetichedonist #januaryjoy #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #godmustbeabotanist #makesmehappy
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FediBlock rec
context: https://github.com/sgrigson/oliphant/issues/9
the user (aeris) who opened this GitHub issue seems likely to harass other blocklist maintainers in the same way (demanding their domain be removed, citing the GDPR, threatening legal action and action from their country's data protection authority).
#FediBlock imirhil.fr / social.imirhil.fr
(plenty of pile-on from other users in that thread whining about illegal censorship. might want to see if any of them can be identified as admins too…)
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new rule: if a ceo wants to take “full responsibility” for a layoff, they must contribute at least 1 month of their own compensation to the impacted employees for every percent of the company laid off — responsibility without consequences is meaningless and insulting
politics, prisons
A life sentence without parole is not remotely a "humane alternative" for the death sentence. It's just a death sentence with a long period of torture preceding it. They'll never see the outside of a prison before their death ever again.
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@f0x This cat is riding an invisible penny farthing
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name a more iconic duo
journos
being transphobic
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Capitalists understand collective action.
The current layoffs *are* collective action. They're collective action *by the Capitalists* to suppress wages/rights.
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an unstoppable force (adhd hyperfixation) meets an immovable object (autistic special interest)
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Vanuit Woonopstand zijn we nog steeds bezig met de afhandeling van het excessieve en gewelddadige politieoptreden tijdens onze demonstratie in Rotterdam op 17 oktober 2021. Burgemeester en meerderheid gemeenteraad wilden geen onafhankelijk onderzoek, maar wel een 'dialoog'. Wij willen nog steeds een behoorlijke verantwoording van de driehoek. Het gesprek wordt inmiddels voorbereid. Fijn dat ombudsman Reinier van Zutphen heeft toegezegd de gesprekken te willen begeleiden.
https://woonopstand.nl/gesprek-tussen-woonopstand-en-rotterdamse-driehoek-in-voorbereiding/
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Hey just a smol reminder... Don't boost non-cw'ed screenshots of bad, hateful takes. It's not funny to me and I think I can speak for a lot of people who just don't want to see that on their feed.
I just unfollowed a couple of people because I'm seeing the same homophobic shit boosted multiple times and it's upsetting.
Thank you for understanding!
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ogl; queer/trans
I have zero stake in the #OGL meta going around, but I'm reading through WotC's 1.2 draft right now and it still feels like a pretty raw deal.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1432-starting-the-ogl-playtest
In one point among many others: As a queer polyamorous trans person I can't afford to trust any corporation with the unilateral, unchallengeable right to terminate my license if I "engage in conduct that is... obscene," with their sole right to define that. There are CEOs today who define my existence as obscene.
food
Found the first *good* vegetarian fastfood burger around here, and it's from a spare ribs place for some fucking reason, and also better than the meat version
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#nix/#nixos ramblings:
If often read the now classic "Nix is not a general purpose language" statement online. I respectfully disagree with that.
Sure, Nix was not originally designed as a general-purpose language. That being said, people decided otherwise.
Build systems are inherently complex. Re-writing the whole world to bend to your weird non-FHS-compliant model is even more complex.
The expressiveness of the language led people to write all kinds of Nix libraries to work on Nixpkgs. Generators, parser combinators, unit test frameworks, a *whole* lazy module system, and the list goes on.
These tools are a key point in the success of Nixpkgs. They helped the project scale to what it is today. Complexity exists, complexity is here, in Nixpkgs. We have to manage it.
This is where it gets ugly. Nix is a de-facto general-purpose language. That being said, it hasn't been designed to be one. This is where most of the pain comes from:
- there's very little tooling around the language (no LSP, primitive profiler, primitive debugger, primitive unit test system, etc.).
- the evaluator is fairly slow. (no JIT, single-threaded evaluation)
Despite having been designed as a domain-specific language, Nix de facto became a general-purpose language. For better and for worse.
Complexity is here and is unlikely to go away. If we want the project to succeed in the long term, we have to deal with it and work on bending Nix to become a better general purpose language... ... or migrate to a new general purpose language (Guix did that, successfully as far as I can experience).
If often read the now classic "Nix is not a general purpose language" statement online. I respectfully disagree with that.
Sure, Nix was not originally designed as a general-purpose language. That being said, people decided otherwise.
Build systems are inherently complex. Re-writing the whole world to bend to your weird non-FHS-compliant model is even more complex.
The expressiveness of the language led people to write all kinds of Nix libraries to work on Nixpkgs. Generators, parser combinators, unit test frameworks, a *whole* lazy module system, and the list goes on.
These tools are a key point in the success of Nixpkgs. They helped the project scale to what it is today. Complexity exists, complexity is here, in Nixpkgs. We have to manage it.
This is where it gets ugly. Nix is a de-facto general-purpose language. That being said, it hasn't been designed to be one. This is where most of the pain comes from:
- there's very little tooling around the language (no LSP, primitive profiler, primitive debugger, primitive unit test system, etc.).
- the evaluator is fairly slow. (no JIT, single-threaded evaluation)
Despite having been designed as a domain-specific language, Nix de facto became a general-purpose language. For better and for worse.
Complexity is here and is unlikely to go away. If we want the project to succeed in the long term, we have to deal with it and work on bending Nix to become a better general purpose language... ... or migrate to a new general purpose language (Guix did that, successfully as far as I can experience).
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And here is the full text (long)
Reddit user this_my_sportsreddit writes:
Here’s the most messed up part. I used to work at Amazon corporate, let me tell you how the entire program Amazon Smile got created.
So basically, when a customer wants to buy a product, they usually go straight to Amazon.com and enter what they’re looking for. But there’s also a large segment of customers who begin their search on google, and ends up at Amazon. Well guess what. When that type of search to purchase experience happens, Amazon has to pay google. Internally, Amazon thought that if they could force users to go straight to Amazon, offer a small but obviously less amount of money to charity from each customer than would have been paid to google, it would help kill customers going to google, save Amazon more money than paying google, and be good overall for the brand value of Amazon.
That’s why for the program to work, the user has to start shopping at smile.amazon.com. Until recently, the option to use amazon smile wasn't even available in the app, and even then the user still had to 'renew' being a part of Smile multiple times a year. There is no way for a customer to go through the traditional shopping experience, and then during checkout decide they want to give a portion of their purchase to charity, because giving to charity isn't the point of the overall program. Amazon Smile was developed by the Traffic Optimization team, whose entire purpose is increasing efficiency and lowering costs of getting customers to Amazon. A team of Amazon employees whose sole purpose is doing good in the world doesn't exist, despite employees repeatedly asking for such a team to be built in pretty much every single all-hands meeting.
Literally everything the company does is about profits, and extended customer lifetime value. Everything. Even the charity programs are just designed to save Amazon money.
User Echoenbatbat replies:
I also used to work at Amazon, and was a founding member of the AmazonSmile program, part of the Charity Support team working with the nonprofits to help them actually receive the funds. This was 2013. Left in 2016 after fully fleshing out the program, developed the metrics reporting system for tracking charity issues, and even a blurb document to respond to the most common questions nonprofits had.
You are completely correct. The intent of the program was to be cost neutral - the amount Amazon donated to charities was about equal to the costs it saved by not having to pay Google for advertising clicks. Tax writeoff was a negligible side benefit, goodwill was just marketing fodder.
Left because there was no opportunity for promotion or upward mobility. Got my Masters degree and used what I learned about nonprofits and charities to join a nonprofit as a grant writer and eventually help manage a network of nonprofits who help people find employment.
You're absolutely correct.
This is kind of cursed. Apparently these 'new' powerbanks actually contain the old (recalled) EE powerbanks with a different shell around them for branding.
Context:
- https://discourse.voss.earth/t/pb-260-brauchbare-3-euro-powerbank-bei-mediamarkt/1675 (this is where the picture is from)
- https://www.mobilenewscwp.co.uk/News/article/breaking-ee-set-to-recall-all-power-bars-due-to-fire-hazard
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i did a whole fucking night of sleep and am still #5 on hackernews, there are almost 500 comments, just how many bad takes about my pronouns can you have
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Beste @Radboud_uni , er moet me iets van het hart. De slogan van onze universiteit is "Je Bent Nodig." Zelf vind ik dat heel inspirerend: als wetenschappers en studenten zitten we niet in een ivoren toren, maar hebben we iets bij te dragen aan de wereld om ons heen!
Toch valt het me soms tegen hoe dit binnen onze organisatie zelf in de praktijk wordt gebracht. Schoonmakers die (via externe bedrijven) werken aan de RU verdienen te weinig om van rond te komen, maar ondanks de inspanningen van de ondernemingsraad ziet de universiteit het niet als haar verantwoordelijkheid om hier wat aan te veranderen. De RU doet nog altijd zaken met banken die investeren in de fossiele industrie - iets dat regelrecht ingaat tegen de eigen duurzame ambities. Het argument is dat duurzame banken nu eenmaal niet voldoen aan de ratingseisen van OCW. En daar blijft het dan bij.
Zou je, juist van een universiteit, niet wat meer vindingrijkheid, durf en engagement mogen verwachten? Een beetje "out of the box" denken, kritische/lastige vragen stellen, "speaking truth to power" - dat soort dingen? Want door je zo te verschuilen achter formele regeltjes en een vooronderstelde marktlogica maak je dat "Je Bent Nodig" niet écht waar.... die slogan zal toch zeker niet alleen voor de bühne zijn?
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
