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
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Do you work at Google or Facebook or other $TECH?
Have you considered doing some intentional corporate sabotage?
Throw some sand in the gears
Add a few terabytes of difficult-to-spot noise to a few big datasets
Put peanut butter in some critical infrastructure and then release some animals that won't be harmed by infesting it
Start out small, but scale it up until you finally get fired for it
Will it be fun? Yes
But is it the right thing to do? Also, yes
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Some of them say "this might be my last tweet and I don't ever want you to forget that you left us alone and isolated in Gaza."
I have never seen something like this in my life and I will never be the same, seeing the fascists in the tech industry I'm surrounded by for whom it is so easy to deny, dehumanize and justify this genocide.
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the hyperfocusing on something to never wanting to hear about it again pipeline
The problem with "not all cops are bad" is that it means that you don't recognize the power of a fundamentally corrupted and oppressive structure over individuals.
That means that you believe that people's behaviour within those structures is decided by themselves individually, and that makes you vulnerable to "good cop, bad cop" strategies.
And *that* means that I simply cannot trust you not to rat out me or my friends when the rubber meets the road, maybe even without realizing it. That I cannot trust you to have my back when cops come for me.
It doesn't matter how good your intentions are, or that you believe this out of fear for a world without police, or that you think you can separate the good ones from the bad ones.
None of that matters for the simple fact that if you make this choice, I cannot trust you with my safety.
(And when people take issue with you being friendly with cops, *this is why*.)
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Goed artikel. Constructieve en noodzakelijke kritische kijk op hoe het in en met XR gaat.
De tijd om over anti-racisme te praten is altijd nu, ook voor XR
https://www.doorbraak.eu/de-tijd-om-over-anti-racisme-te-praten-is-altijd-nu-ook-voor-xr/
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what git jargon do you find confusing? thinking of writing a blog post that explains some of git's weirder terminology: "detached HEAD state”, "fast-forward", "index/staging area/staged", “ahead of 'origin/main' by 1 commit”, etc
(really only looking for terms that you personally find confusing, not terms that you think someone else might be confused about)
Why do people keep reinventing injectable SQL
... are you fucking kidding me? Does SPARQL *really* still not have a standardized mechanism for parameterizing queries?
This is fucking terrifying.
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Linking paywalled articles on social media should be considered a shameful thing to do. Like loudly farting in public
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honestly, a lot of inherently untrustworthy entities (like VPNs) have been gaining traction through relative trustworthiness, rather than actual, absolute trustworthiness
like if someone asked you to funnel your internet traffic through them, at face value, that is extremely suspicious. but people trust the folks on top-- Google, Meta, Amazon-- so little that they'd rather talk to some rando in a dark alley than them
and of course, the irony is that this rock-bottom trust is actually especially profitable to those at the top too, since they run those ads on their platforms
the entire lot of them deserve the bin
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Me and another person just saved a car from being hit by a Kliko on the run. It was filled with styrofoam and had no clear owner 😬
(I do like the Dutch word piepschuim more - squeaky foam)
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How to use ChatGPT:
Step 1: Don't.
Is er toevallig ergens een artikel o.i.d. over de operations in de Efteling, en hoe dat zo efficient geworden is?
De wachttijden lijken tegenwoordig echt veel korter dan ~15 jaar geleden, en ik vraag me eigenlijk af waar dat door komt, maar er wordt maar zelden geschreven over de logistieke kant van pretparken...
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Voor een actie voor toegankelijkheid OV zoek ik een rolstoel. Er staat alleen een bord in, dus hij hoeft niet functioneel te zijn. Mee kunnen slepen is genoeg. Liefst omgeving Utrecht
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I would immediately apply for a company with a “no meeting” policy.
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I don't know if anyone has talked about or covered metrics on the data cost of ads on websites? Particularly in countries where mobile data is expensive and we live 200mb bundle to 200mb bundle, going to a website that costs 6mb to visit because of video ads and banner ads and ad network generated website links with 12 links and their own bespoke thumbnails... One of those hidden poor tax costs is data.
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large unmarked white van update: the spot previously occupied by the large unmarked white van is now occupied by an unmarked van of the same shape and size, but painted cyan
- 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
