Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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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- 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
re: self-hosting stuff, directed at security people I guess
Speaking of which, there are multiple security issues in this Facebook library that I'm currently reviewing
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It makes me so sad that so many #disabled people take on society's view of them as deficient, shameful, and deprived. We internalize and individualize systemic #ableism and then blame ourselves for our misery.
It just shows how badly a #DisabilityPrideMonth is needed...
I'm sad for my younger self because I grew up thinking the same way. And indeed even my current self: I'm not totally free of internalized ableism, probably never will be. But at least now I have a better chance of spotting it.
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This was explained much better on the post where r/blind explained that blind mods can't moderate the subreddit any more.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/14nzwkm/they_finally_did_it_reddit_made_it_impossible_for/
Hot take: expecting security companies to solve IT security, is like expecting supermarkets to solve food security, it will never happen
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re: self-hosting stuff, directed at security people I guess
I guess all this is really just an extension of "if you're privileged, then be the change you wish to see in the world"
self-hosting stuff, directed at security people I guess
One narrative I'm particularly tired of, is the "you shouldn't self-host anything, it's never going to be as secure as using something by Google/Microsoft/etc. who have entire security teams", especially coming from security people.
Like, aside from a completely unwarranted confidence in the security competence of those corporations (believe me, it ain't that amazing), and completely ignoring all the *very concrete* safety risks in using those services given who runs them and why... it's also just entirely unconstructive.
Okay, so maybe you think self-hosting is not secure enough. Why are you not spending your energy and skills helping to fix this problem, rather than going "oh well, guess nothing can be done"? *You are* one of the people directing all the expertise to corporate platforms!
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Ik zit in een basic agile training, en mensenkinderen, wat een hoop lege bullshit word hier verkocht.
En wat een wereldbeeld dat alles kan werken alsof het software is.
Het is vermoeiend, stuur hulp alsjeblieft
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"I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly. Their reaction seems to me in direct proportion to their sense of feeling cheated of the advantages which accrue to white people in a white society. There's an element, it has laways seemed to me, of bewilderment and complaint (1/2)
~James Baldwin
mozilla
Looks like Mozilla is "fixing" their LLM bullshit on MDN by adding a disclaimer, rather than by removing it
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Add Nim to the list of languages whose community and leadership are openly sexist and racist. Was wondering when D would stop being alone on that list...
https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/10312
> Is there a Nim foundation?
> The wokes, they're cancelling He-Man!
(h/t Steve Klabnik on Birdsite)
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the Nim language founder is having a normal one
image captioned in the status text as follows...
Dro212:
"Hi All,
I'm interested in using Nim for corporate use. Everything looks great technically speaking, but what's the business organizational structure? Is there a Nim foundation? How old is Andreas? Are the financials of the organization sufficient at this time?
If there's already an article addressing these concerns, please link and I'll give it a read.
Thank you!"
Araq:
"The financials are fine and for years to come I'll work on Nim and hire other people to work on it. I'm 40 years old.
I lost all interest in setting up a foundation because I lost faith in mankind. Every day I wake up in this clownworld where people replaced the "master" branch with "main", sending a strong message "fuck you" to everybody who is older than 50 and has a hard time to change old habits.
Here is a hint: If you are obsessed with racism and sexism it's because you're a racist and sexist. Now go and cancel "He-Man - Masters of the Universe" because obviously He-Man is a slave owner."
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Hitman: Who am I killing?
Dog: Ever heard of a guy named Pavlov?
Hitman: Rings a bell.
Dog: *narrows eyes* That's right.
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“You must rotate your credentials every 60 days.”
*takes USB-C YubiKey out of slot*
*turns it upside down*
*plugs it back in*
Every time I'm reviewing the source of the React Native development stack, I'm reminded that there's nothing particularly 'clever' or 'magic' about these sorts of tools, it's just a lot of code
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Ik moet iedere keer weer glimlachen als ik dit interview uit 1982 met Chriet Titulaer in de Eppo voorbij zie komen.
Wat een visionair!!!
re: trans, positive
I felt like "getting a prescription filled" was gonna be the nightmare scenario, but nope, went through without a hitch (or well, no hitch beyond the usual problems with their new IT system anyway)
trans, positive
Still kind of surprised, but positively, that the local hospital's systems seem to have no issue with a mismatch between passport gender marker and the registration data provided to them for $partner
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trans, second-person, validation
Does it make you happier to regard yourself as/be regarded as something other than the gender assumed for you at birth?
I hereby give you full permission to use the word "trans" for yourself if you want to, and stamp VALID on your trans card.
Does it make you happier to regard yourself as/be regarded as the gender assumed for you at birth?
You probably are cis and aren't trans, though trans-adjacent identities like altersex may still be open to you. *hands back card without a stamp* If your answer changes, feel free to come back and get your stamp.
If it helps you feel better, your validator today has had documents and hormones and surgeries and everything, though that doesn't actually make me any better or worse at making validation determinations, nor any more or less trans.
- 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
