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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Do you know what genderflux means?
Do you think it's just a synonym for genderfluid?
Well, as a genderflux folk, let me explain in this thread what being genderflux means ⤵️
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"The system has been destroyed" is my favourite Android error message ever
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So I'm watching a couple of folks spiraling out from a distance both off and online, and. Whew.
There's ways that some ppl will use the language of mental health, claiming that they're not getting the "community" or interpersonal "support" they need....when what's really happening is that the ppl around them are exercising their boundaries, bc the personal spiraling equates "support" w/ "letting me get away with antisocial, harmful behavior scot-free"
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When someone is having whatever degree of break from reality, support actually *needs* to come in the form of someone telling them at *some* point "the way you're percieving reality right now is skewed," and that doesn't feel like support in the moment to that person, I get it. But it's what needs to happen.
Does anyone have an average percentage (of total CPU cycles) representing how much overhead syscalls add in typical real-world applications? 
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Do you have a vacuum desoldering station? Tell me what you like/dislike about your model and/or vacuum desolderers in general :) (Please boost for visibility!)
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The closer I get to this stuff, the clearer it is to me that "addict/surveil/extract/sell" biz models have ruined the internet really are wrecking mental health, propagating disinfo, dissolving social cohesion, etc. with very little real compensating upside. I think the case for this gets stronger everyday. But there is a TON of resistance to this among "tech people" generally, even those who work for places that would benefit from the demise of surveillance capitalism.
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So you get real discomfort from tech people around even pretty weak proposals for beefed up privacy protections. You get this kind of squirming uneasiness even from tech folks who DO see that surveillance capitalism biz models are problematic. They still find it hard to reconcile themselves to the idea that nearly their entire industry, and their own wealth, is based on companies following the money within a legal structure that left basic rights unprotected against new technical capabilities.
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kink-adj but mostly dunking on the cishets, adhd lol
thinking about that one time i googled for doggirl memes but ended up reading an article on "puppyplay kink" on a mostly sfw capitalist cishetnormative lifestyle website and whenever the article mentioned ppl engaging in this, even if it was just hypothetical ppl, it always pointed out that they are heterosexual. like every paragraph was like "puppyplay is a heterosexual kink that many heterosexuals like to engage in for heterosexual reasons in a heterosexual way", explicitely using the word heterosexual excessively all over the place. and anyways my takeaway from this is that heterosexuality is so fragile that the cishets need constant reaffirmation that a kink is heterosexuality-compatible in order to be able to practice it lol
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“You always told me it takes time. It has taken my father’s time, my mother’s time, my uncle’s time, my brothers’ and my sisters’ time, my nieces’ and my nephews’ time. How much time do you want for your ‘progress’?” —James Baldwin
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re: being "overly sectarian"
@thufie With those 'calls for unity' in general, it sure is interesting how they always come from the folks with lower standards or less ambitious goals, and it's never *them* who are willing to compromise on that, it must always be other people.
(The water-less plastic recycling processes I've seen seem to always boil down to some form of "press the pellets into a new shape under high pressure and temperature", which isn't a very flexible manufacturing method)
Something else to note (not in the video) is that recycling dyes and otherwise reducing wastewater is typically something that barely any attention is paid to with the recycling that happens in NA/EU. Other countries are much further ahead on this.
There are very similar issues with plastic recycling - there's only a few recycling processes used in NA/EU that require low or little water, and they're typically only used for manufacturing 'low-grade goods' (think plastic bollards).
*And* they use lasers for patterning instead of chemicals, awesome!
This is quite cool, a jeans recycling facility that manages to recycle the *dye* - something that very frequently gets ignored in recycling processes (and is responsible for a lot of pollution): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV_-yJ6NiP8
- 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
