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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- 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
Here's a question to ponder: what do you consider to be "violence" and what not? Who benefits from the definition you follow?
Partner: "multiplayer eep" (going to bed at the same time)
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Me, 20 minutes ago:
Ooh, I'll take that pastry out of the freezer to defrost and make those custard tarts again.
Me, 2 minutes ago:
Huh? What the fuck is this doing on the counter?? Oh well.. what was I doing again?
Me, in 2 days time:
"Alexa, how to clean dried up pastry dough off benches"
Me, in 2 weeks time:
Weird.. why do I have so many unopened cleaning products under the sink..
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I am now officially declaring this thread as closed.
What started four years ago as a thread on Twitter when I started looking into NBNCo's Community Switch and Technology Choice programs has ended with my house receiving the Internet connection we were all promised all those years ago.
I want to thank and acknowledge everyone who replied and offered advice, tips and insights. I want to thank the fabulous people at Aussie Broadband who put up with my persistence and doggedness.
Its been a journey.
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I know that some of you all wondered what happened to Merlin Star after they closed their public account on Mastodon.
Well, they recently posted this: http://merlinjstar.com/2023/10/24/things-have-gone-from-bad-to-worse/
Seems they aren't doing as well as hoped. They also gave mutual aid links at the end of the blog post.
Anyways, donate if you can, boost if you can't.
PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/MerlinJStar
I saw an ad on a bus shelter today that advertised a bicycle in the same style that car advertisements are usually made in, and it was fucking *weird* to see
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and hashing algorithms are like
"this spell was once thought unbreakable, but now it's just a laughing matter and the wizard council recommends using a different one"
"this spell was once thought unbreakable, but now it's just a laughing matter and the wizard council recommends using a different one"
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encryption algorithms are like
"yeah so the wizard council approved this specific spell, now it can be used to make sure only the recipient can read the letter"
"yeah so the wizard council approved this specific spell, now it can be used to make sure only the recipient can read the letter"
re: tech grumbling
I swear, scalability poisoning is a scourge on the computer world
tech grumbling
If you end up being the person saying shit that's emotionally adjacent to "you're not a real business unless you're tech company scale", even if not using those literal words (and yes, this includes assuming everyone *needs* tech company scale), you are doing something very wrong
CW-boost: DENK, fascistische retoriek en propaganda, queer-haat
food-related, health
(Note: the "eating more vegan" and "starting kidney disease treatment" are not directly related to each other, although it does seem that vegan diets are no problem whatsoever with my kidney disease, at least, aside from the salt restrictions being trickier)
food-related, dental health
It occurs to me that since I've started eating more vegan (mostly it's just cheese left in my diet, and chocolate, in terms of non-vegan stuff), I've had to have way less plaque removed from my teeth at the dentist.
It also roughly coincides with starting kidney disease treatment though, so hard to say which factor (if either) is responsible.
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grousing
we live in a world inundated with Fuck You
Paying your rent? Fuck You, it's been raised. Why? Fuck You
Welfare? Insurance? Fuck You
This letter is pretending to be your bank because Fuck You. This letter IS your bank adding a new fee because Fuck You.
Your boss is texting you on saturday because Fuck You. You won't quit.
You can't buy this in a simple transaction. A subscription makes it easier to trick you. Fuck You
so many big & little things at once but it. does. not. stop.
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how do i tie my shoes
results:
- fifteen minute video with clickbait titles and an obnoxious host
- "looking to tie your shoes? well you've come to the right place. many people are looking to tie their shoes"
[skip five paragraphs]
"adidas fans have long awaited.."
[skip five more paragraphs before deciding there aren't instructions here]
- tieshoes.com, a site that's trying to suggest there's more to it than this article where the only advice is to use this specific brand
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i feel the internet has put me in this grumpier state of mind where like, everything keeps getting a little more annoying day by day and it all adds up. in a way, some of it is worse than before i had internet, because at least i knew how to learn how to bake a cupcake, even if it was more work. now i jump right to the internet and weed through a bunch of false answers. getting a call is more annoying because i have to decide if i think this call is real or i'm being sold something
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New-ish Asus routers [CORRECTION: at least two routers bought in Sweden] seem to enable "Yandex.DNS" by default. This forwards all of your DNS lookups to Yandex, a large Russian search engine. I discovered this on my dad's router when he had troubles accessing his bank from his broadband but not on his phone. (Presumably, the bank geoblocked Russian IPs as a protest to the invasion of Ukraine.)
I get that you need to trust someone with your DNS lookups (your ISP, Google, Cloudfare, etc), but I didn't expect the non-ISP option to be the default...
Check your router!
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trying to imagine an art form that cannot be co-opted by AI and consumptive tech and reinventing Dadaism
CW-boost: israel, gaza, shitty company
- 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
