Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- 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.
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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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people are surprised when i say that i distrust or hate the police and like
dude those guys have the leverage and the power to ruin my life and to put my name to shame even if i did nothing wrong
are you sure that i'm the one who is unreasonable here
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Fuck de anti-jongeren-terreur.
Zo'n 10 jaar geleden kon ik die dingen nog horen. Ik wist niet wat het was, behalve luid en irritant. Ik belde de politie om te vertellen dat het alarm van het winkelcentrum afging. Zij hoorden niks. We lokaliseerden de bron en de agenten legden me uit wat het apparaatje was. Het concepte wekte weerzin.
De volgende dag heb ik een ladder meegenomen en de draad van het apparaatje doorgeknipt terwijl ik zwaaide naar de beveiligingscamera.
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self medicating is a valid choice
self medicating is a valid choice
self medicating is a valid choice
self medicating is a valid choice
self medicating is a valid choice
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one final computer history question: why are Intel processors little endian? Why were some other processors big endian?
Mostly interested in pre-1980 reasons (before the internet)
I'd love citations / links if possible -- I got a lot of guesses and speculation in replies to the last computer history question.
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Don't participate in the expansion of the surveillance state and prison industrial complex, ya'll.
At the *very* least, stop paying for that Ring doorbell subscription.
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personally not a fan of how so many people celebrate/talk about women’s month because apparently we have to go back to male and female only language and it’s Tiring
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Remember kids; there is no propaganda in the west. It's only propaganda if it comes from the Propaganda region of the former USSR; everywhere else it's called sparkling advertising.
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In the interest of science and community, let me break this down for you:
Heat pumps are the most efficient way to heat a building. Period. They move energy from one place to another at a rate four times what they consume, sometimes more. Many of them can move heat in both directions, meaning they can also provide cooling. That's a fun little bonus which you may or may not choose to use, but I will say that given long-term implications of climate change, you might want that handy.
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You know what would be the single best upgrade you could make to a pinball machine today?
Make it cheaper.
Pinball being as expensive as it is makes it a rich man's hobby, with all the toxic problems that go along with that. At the same time, game rules have gotten so complex that they're impenetrable to those who haven't grown up with pinball - which is, remember, most people.
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Meanwhile I have a cat sitting on my shoulder that thinks she's a parrot and I'm a pirate.
Harrrrrr-prrrr-meow.
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one of the things i’ll miss about the bird site is stuff like the gender pay gap bot like just seeing so many companies be like “women are important” and then the bot quote tweeting “you pay women 28% less than men” just does something for my soul you know
long, hachyderm meta, now with less snark 
So when I warned against Hachyderm and its corporate-friendly atmosphere a few months ago, several people expressed concern, and felt that I was seeing ghosts and that "just because companies are allowed doesn't make Hachyderm itself bad".
Then recently, the Hachyderm admin casually posted a thread where, aside from problematically using slavery as a debate prop, they mentioned that they intended to monetize Hachyderm and their "FOSS governance" thing, Nivenly - and that they are, paraphrased, a "reasonable capitalist".
And here's the thing: this isn't a surprise to me at all. This is *always* what happens with corporate-friendly "communities". Every single time. It always becomes a vehicle for profit, either directly or indirectly. That is what capitalism does.
When we warn against an instance that's corporation-friendly, that's not because of some weird conspiracy theories or whatever. It's because we've seen time and time again where that leads, and how it harms the most vulnerable people - and crucially, *why* that happens, even despite the (appearance of) best intentions.
Instead of waving away our warnings as being "unrealistic", or "naive", or whatever this week's pejorative for anti-capitalists is, spend a moment to think about *why* we're issuing those warnings. Where they come from, what history they are based on.
Because I promise you that they aren't arbitrary, and that learning to recognize the signs will save you from a *lot* of ruined communities, and allow your communities to flourish like they couldn't before.
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when I say "if that makes sense" it's not bc I think I'm too smart for you or anything, it's because my brain is a monster truck rally of a train graveyard clusterfuck
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Heb recent m'n spamfilters bijgewerkt en ze werken best goed. Desondanks komt er nog spam-e-mail doorheen. Van de afgelopen 5 spamberichten die ik ontving, was er 1 van 'n overduidelijke spamserver, maar 4 waren gestuurd via de grote bekende maildiensten: Google, Microsoft, Sendgrid, Mailgun...
Die zijn zo groot dat je ze niet echt kunt blokkeren. Mede daarom hadden "we" dergelijke centralisatie nooit moeten laten gebeuren.
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"Do not use slavery as a prop for your capitalism apologia" seems like such a simple rule to follow, and yet
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No gods
No masters
No instances with over 10k users and open registrations
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"Home is where the WiFi auto-connects" hat die Rechnung ohne eduroam und WiFionICE gemacht.
(*fällt aufs Sofa*)
(*fällt aufs Sofa*)
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Honestly the biggest shame is that the people reposting the stop doing ipv6 post is they missed there was a great voice actor reading of it made:
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It's International Women's Day
Trans women are women.
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To absolutely no one's surprise, employees are feeding sensitive business data to ChatGPT👇🏾
- 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
