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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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- 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
PSA for anyone who has a Stadia controller: if you want to prevent it from becoming e-waste, you should update it to Bluetooth mode *now*, even if you don't plan on using it yourself anymore - that way it can be used as a stand-alone controller in the future. 
This update is possible until December 31: https://stadia.google.com/controller/index_en_US.html
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There's a reason all those who believe in trickle-down are already at the top
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turns out GitHub Copilot runs at a loss - charge $10/mo, cost $20/mo avg up to $80/mo for heavy users
wonder how hard it would be to automate hitting it as hard as possible
"social contract", re: decentralization and power dynamics
Thinking about it more, I think my intense aversion to the framing of a "social contract" is for the same reason.
Defending government policy with "the social contract" does the exact same thing - it doesn't actually do anything to distribute power over that decisionmaking, but it *does* diffuse the accountability to "everyone".
The politicians had the power, but they "can't be blamed for doing what the people want, they were voted in". The people themselves do not actually have the power to influence policy in reality, but they are pointed at as the party to blame.
End result: nobody is *actually* accountable for the choices made by a select few.
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@joepie91 It's fairly obvious to me that it is: Take the article 7, paragraph 3 of the Berne Convention:
Article 7(3) In the case of anonymous or pseudonymous works, the term of protection granted by this Convention shall expire fifty years after the work has been lawfully made available to the public. However, when the pseudonym adopted by the author leaves no doubt as to his identity, the term of protection shall be that provided in paragraph (1). If the author of an anonymous or pseudonymous work discloses his identity during the above-mentioned period, the term of protection applicable shall be that provided in paragraph (1). The countries of the Union shall not be required to protect anonymous or pseudonymous works in respect of which it is reasonable to presume that their author has been dead for fifty years.
Copyright admits that pseudonyms are fine, and these are licences, so they run on copyright infrastructure. I don't see the problem.
Apropos of nothing: I have yet to see any credible evidence that a "legal name" is actually required for a CLA (!= copyright assignment) to be valid, from a legal perspective, despite the claims of various nominally-FOSS projects
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Game Informer just posted:
CD Projekt Red Devs Form Union Following Layoffs
Developers at Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt Red have formed a union. The union was formed in response to the company's three rounds of layoffs this year, as reported by Eurogamer. Polish Gamedev Workers Union founders Lev Ki and Paweł Myszka say that all necessary documentation has been submitted but that the union hasn't heard any response from CDPR ...
https://www.gameinformer.com/news/2023/10/09/cd-projekt-red-devs-form-union-following-layoffs
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Full stack developer, as in "my stack is full, please don't try to push anything else or my behavior will be undefined"
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shitpost about tech headlines
Tell me you have no idea how any industry works and you have no idea how technology works without telling me that you have no idea about any of this.
At least I don't get literal page-long types in my compiler errors anymore, like used to be the case for async stuff in Rust :p
Beginning to think that maybe "Node.js bindings for a Rust library that uses Tokio" was not the best choice for "first production Rust project"
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Lastly, considering that journalists are by nature people who question and dig away at anything screaming a lack of transparency, I'm surprised that only a few (if any?) journalists have sounded alarms or protested.
Journalists flocked to Mastodon last year, and a year later, there's barely a whimper as one man's silent takeover/ownership of journalism platforms and even a verification tool here has him establish a monopoly, despite none of you knowing anything about him.
You shock me!
FIN.
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Just as you wouldn't expect a doctor's forum to be run by someone who never went to medical school, or a gardeners' club to be run by someone who has never pulled weeds before, I find it unacceptable that a platform for journalists, including many who left Twitter due to trolling, slander, death threats...would be run by someone who has never worked in our field. How would I be certain that someone would uphold journalism ethics and values if they haven't walked a mile in our shoes?
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Last week, the Journa server was taken over by new management. None of us were notified, and I found out when server updates caused account to freeze for a few hours.
The instance has now been taken over by a "Jeff Brown" from Newsie. Now, I have no idea who he is and have no ill will towards him. But the individual is not a journalist. I couldn't find anything on him online that would suggest that he would be trustworthy enough to oversee management of Mastodon's largest journalism instances.
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🧵 Hey all! This is a new account, I'm still Zecharias Zelalem, freelance journalist and aspiring OSINTer providing news and analysis on the Horn of Africa for a variety of international media outlets. For the past year or so, I posted via @zekuzelalem@journa.host, but I've transitioned away from that instance. I'll be posting from this account from now on. After recent changes on the journa dot host instance, I had no choice but to set up elsewhere. Hope to continue exchanges and friendships here.
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people keep posting things like "valve makes trillions of dollars every day from counter-strike gun skins and they can't even run more than three servers" and I'm just wondering where any of those numbers came from
like clearly they made them up and they're wrong but why did they pick those specific wrong numbers
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- 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
