Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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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hey tech nerds of the fediverse, can you help me with a thing?
i need to investigate a new round of work computers for my workplace, and I don't know whats the best way to go...
Anyone got suggestions for cost effective yet still performant laptops that can be purchased in multiples easily?
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This Discord could have been a Wiki
Is there some way in Mastodon/glitch-soc to (optionally) view mentions and notifications from silenced instances?
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I don't envy GTS folks for having to deal with "but maybe we can work with bigots just a little bit" kind of buffoonery now that a bunch of new people are showing up, but the responses make me happy.
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I swear, paypal changes their payment flow more often than some people change their underwear
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
@joepie91 I guess it's another failure of open source too. NLnet requires projects and their documentation to be released under a suitable floss license, but that leaves a lot of room for just taking the project private afterwards, or open-core type shit
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In retrospect, the idea that we should monetize our free time, spare space, and unused car through gig apps should have been repugnant even without knowing it would lead to an entire industry of unregulated taxis and hotels
I think that what pisses me off most about this, is that all this grant money *could* have been used to do so much good, and could have been life-changing for people... but instead, it ended up basically 'seeding' some tech for a hypercapitalist cryptoshit company, to save them a buck
(It's Tether/Bitfinex who have taken it over, by the way. Yeah, the ones who have been artificially pumping up exchange rates.)
I sure wonder how all the past grant providers, such as NLnet, feel about the core protocol being taken out of open governance, and instead captured by cryptoshit scammers: https://github.com/dat-ecosystem-archive/organization#grants-and-grant-applications
Guess I'll have to look for a new stack for my P2P project...
Oh jesus christ, *of course* it's fucking cryptobros. Fucking hell. Well, RIP hypercore I guess.
Welp, apparently Hypercore is a company now. Sigh.
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Experts: "Car traffic should not grow further..."
Ministry: "Car traffic will inevitably grow..."
Experts: "...which is why we shouldn't build new motorways"
Ministry: "which is why we should build new motorways"
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Massachusetts HS can’t turn off lights <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/us-school-runs-lights-24-7-365-the-smart-lights-have-been-broken-since-2021/>. Basically, they installed a ‘smart’ lighting system relying on proprietary software that the vendor no longer supports. The system failed and the lights are stuck permanently on.
And this, friends, is the problem with unfree software.
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You can truly get some wild effects with a custom game boy camera rom
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Everyone should read about the #prison trusty system. Not "trustee" (plural: trustees), but trusty (plural: trusties). I think it's key to understanding #patriarchy. 1/15
*Something* about the sound mixing in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ivF-cdqxjQ makes my brain tickle, but *only* on my speakers... on headphones it just sounds noisy
- 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
