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
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Let me give you an example of a fake Instagram influencer finding his way onto the Fediverse.
Look at this guy:
https://www.instagram.com/mronevibe/
He has 253K followers on Instagram. Mostly fake.
He also has a Pixelfed account right here:
https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/444567745991109534
Zero posts, but 76 followers.
Who are his followers?
Take a look at this screenshot. They're all fake Instagram influencers who buy fake followers.
@mjgardner
Look at this guy:
https://www.instagram.com/mronevibe/
He has 253K followers on Instagram. Mostly fake.
He also has a Pixelfed account right here:
https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/444567745991109534
Zero posts, but 76 followers.
Who are his followers?
Take a look at this screenshot. They're all fake Instagram influencers who buy fake followers.
@mjgardner
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So many people citing Henry Toureau and his Walden to evoke the idea of running away from social media and hide from trackers. To isolate and reconnect with the environment. “Walden-ponding”
I’m sorry to break the illusion but according to his diaries, his mum and sister visited him daily to wash his clothes and cook lunch. The cabin was 15min walking distance from the family house, it was built in his friend’s land for free and the lake next to it had swimmers in summer and skiers in winter 😂✨
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
@thufie the pixie town economy depends on it's lustrous posting fields and rich content mines
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if a service gets OOM-killed and restarts without anyone noticing, did it ever really happen?
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listen. the idea that the state and its military and intelligence agencies are everywhere and all-powerful and always a step ahead of you - that IS the propaganda. that IS the counterinsurgency.
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I have a feeling this will appeal to multiple people for multiple reasons.
[original source: https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/10rukp8/oc_magic_coding/]
cryptoshit, funny
Cryptoshit has truly become a parody of itself... "do your own research at this conveniently provided page written by us"
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"Can you explain this gap in your resume?"
"Yes, I used LaTeX and couldn't fix that bit"
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The best time to start wearing an n95 (ffp2 for thise of us in Europe) or better mask in public was spring 2020, but the second best time is now #CovidIsNotOver
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Try this fun game.
Imagine you live a hundred years.
That's 36,525 days.
Imagine you get to spend 20,000 dollars a day, every single day.
Yup you're a newborn spending 20 k a day, stay with me.
You'd die a 100 years later and you would have spent 730,500,000. That's 730.5 million dollars.
You'd be very rich, but still would not be able to call yourself a billionaire.
No one "earns" that. No one needs that.
Billionaires should not exist.
Edit: Ajusted for leap years.
twitter app API keys
Oh no https://gist.github.com/pvieito/ee6d2c8934a8f84b9aeb467585277b8a
It sure would be a shame if people used that to bypass the API payment requirements
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Goo Truther 
people who describe markets as a "system" are bullshitting you
there is nothing inherently intelligent about a market and I wish economists and market anarchists would stop talking about it in terms of complex systems when they are talking entirely out of their asses. There is no emergent intelligence, or consistently beneficial properties, that can be quantified. If anything it is a pristine example of a completely non self-regulating chaotic mess that will spit out different outcomes with minor random changes in its environment which are difficult to plan for.
No, its all bullshit. Actually the people who benefit from this are the ones aware of the chaos, who can take advantage of how disorganized everything is, and create auxilliary systems of control like finance.
There's a special kind of disdain aimed at anything web-related, and I'm so sick of it
And don't bother correcting any of the hundreds of misconceptions and outright false claims that float around, because people immediately get very angry at you as if you've personally wronged them
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I wonder if people realize how much of software development is just translating between slightly incompatible APIs and formats
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"queer culture" shitpost, food
me, glaring at my unhealthy queer friends: lesbian culture is eating your vegetables. bisexual culture is going outside and taking a walk
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Infodump on my #Framework Display Kit re-use project
Also contains lots of loose info on Type-C P/D alt-mode (DisplayPort) negotiation and implementation options that might be interesting (or totally wrong, this is all pretty new to me)
https://community.frame.work/t/custom-lcd-driver-board-for-display-kit-as-type-c-monitor/26910
In general I’m at a bit of a crossroads in the project now, unsure what option to design around since none seem particularly enticing…
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Periodic reminder that we are not anything like "post"-pandemic. We are mid-pandemic; Peri-pandemic; Right smack dab in the fucking middle of a goddam pandemic and no amount of squeezing our eyes shut and plugging our ears and going "la la la it's not real" while wishing it were otherwise will make it so.
- 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
