Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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you probably all know this but trans women need to regularly check their breasts for lumps. mmkay?
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Internet search sucks now.
Making a classic "search engine" requires obscene amounts of money and resources, so creating direct competition is not a realistic option.
But what if we had a way to each take our own personal bookmarks and link collections, and share them, using a federated protocol?
My fifty sites, your sixty-five links, some friends and their contributions... All hand-selected and vetted, manually tagged and organized by real people... Hosted on small, volunteer-run servers...
What if web search results were organized not by "how many ad dollars did this site generate for the search company" but rather something like "someone you know directly tagged this site, and someone twice-removed tagged this other site so it's lower priority"?
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It's very funny to me that we've seen several "I promise it's not the Fediverse" networks pop up and die in the time the fedi has been around
They inevitably focus on censorship resistance, as if that's the main problem with the fediverse, and they inevitably fail to have even very basic moderation controls because of it
And that's a low fucking bar, it's not like Mastodon is the Rolls-Royce of moderation!
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When writing software, enable people to change their usernames.
You don’t know who might make their username based on their real name, then realize they need to change their real name, and are now stuck with a username based on their dead name.
Asking for a friend.
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I wish Any kind of modern user-facing thing that involves filtering or querying was as nice and flexible as what we had in email clients even before I was born
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days since I've wished you could apply mastodon filters to specific accounts or only in CWs: 0
re: Matrix, and how to deal with it, also kind of subtoot
And for the love of all that is holy, stop spreading around the obvious conspiracy theory posts just because they also say "Matrix is bad".
Matrix, and how to deal with it, also kind of subtoot
Yes, I know that Matrix has governance issues. Friendly yet insistent request not to straight-up torch the place, because quite a few people are reliant on it, and despite the rhetoric, neither XMPP nor IRC are suitable substitutes for it.
Please think carefully about the way you approach this. Propagating misinformation certainly isn't the right approach.
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someone said that the more they healed, the less ambitious they got, and i honestly can't stop thinking about this. the ability to be content and just BE without having to achieve something all the time.
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“Over 100 artists including Rage Against the Machine co-founders Tom Morello and Zack de la Rocha, along with Boots Riley and Speedy Ortiz, have announced that they are boycotting any concert venue that uses facial recognition.” #Technology https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/tom-morello-zack-de-la-rocha-facial-recognition-concerts-boycott-1234775909/?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon
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"i miss when computers weren't useful because they could do useless things really quickly"
CW-boost: government oppression, satire
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Dear Rachel,
Thank you for your email and interest in our product and services, my Fediverse related consultancy fee is 10.000 10grans for each started hour.
If this is acceptable to you, please do forward the details so I can make up a contract.
I understand the conversation will be OTR. As a first word of advise (by reading further you agree with the consultancy fee as described in the first paragraph of this email, and understand that you, or the legal entity you represent, will be billed for this advise accordingly), I propose to use OMEMO instead of OTR. OMEMO has better user experience, and, due to it's use of double ratchet, has better confidentiality.
Kind regards,
ilja
Thank you for your email and interest in our product and services, my Fediverse related consultancy fee is 10.000 10grans for each started hour.
If this is acceptable to you, please do forward the details so I can make up a contract.
I understand the conversation will be OTR. As a first word of advise (by reading further you agree with the consultancy fee as described in the first paragraph of this email, and understand that you, or the legal entity you represent, will be billed for this advise accordingly), I propose to use OMEMO instead of OTR. OMEMO has better user experience, and, due to it's use of double ratchet, has better confidentiality.
Kind regards,
ilja
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email from Rachel [redacted] ([redacted]@meta.com) to mail@fosstodon.org
subject: Meeting with Instagram?
sent: 2023-06-22 16:03:26 (+0100)
body:
Hello,
You may have heard of P92. I am reaching out because Instagram is interested to host a roundtable on June 27th, from 11:15am - 12:00pm PT with Mastodon server admins to seek feedback and guidance. This conversation will be off the record, as the team may discuss confidential details that should not be shared with others.
Let me know if you are interested to join, and I can send you the meetibg details.
Thank you,
Rachel
reply, sent 2023-06-23 09:36:40 (+0100):
Hi Rachel,
Thanks for the email. Meta's moral compass and my own are far from aligned, so I really don't see how this could be a productive conversation. With that in mind, I'm going to pass on this offer.
If you want my feedback/guidance, I'm happy to provide it here - your primary motivation for P92 should be to connect people, not to make money by forfeiting their privacy for ad revenue. We both know that's very unlikely to happen though. There you have it, that's my feedback, so no need for a conversation now. :)
Kind regards,
Kev Quirk
Fosstodon Co-Founder
E // <email address same as fedi username>
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When were you born? I'm just curious about age split in my observable #Fediverse :)
Pls retoot for a wider reach! Gracias :)
Important edit: I apologize for not having split the options in a better way. It's been made clear to me that lumping entire generations in a single option isn't great. Which should have been obvious to begin with... This wasn't meant as an offence, rather it's a result of framing this based on my own age + prior social media experiences.
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"Steal from the boss and his company, not from the working people"
Pasteup seen it Pilsen, Chicago
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lb, about doomerism i guess
there are things you can do right now to improve people's material conditions!!!!
like even if you subscribe to some sort of weird doomer ideology that doesn't mean you should just sit around and do nothing right!!!
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🌶️ spicy take, software correctness
The common ways that software developers try to solve software correctness reminds me of broader societal issues...
Automated tests: don't try to solve the systemic problem, just institute enough procedures for specific cases and hope you've covered enough of it
Static type checking: don't try to solve the systemic problem, just treat everything and everybody as untrustworthy, you cannot trust anything that isn't verified by a computer
(Please do not reply with 'counterarguments' until you *really* understand where the analogies are coming from here)
- 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
