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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
Amsterdam climate protest, Sara Rachdan, Greta Thunberg, propaganda, Holocaust mention
So after seeing various Dutch media post extremely poorly-sourced articles (well, let's just call it what it is - propaganda) about the incident at the Amsterdam climate protest, I finally had time to look into what actually happened.
The claims: Sara Rachdan is a "Hamas supporter", a "terrorist friend", and "trivializing the Holocaust".
The actual evidence: Sara Rachdan drawing parallels between what happened in the Holocaust and what is happening in Gaza, eg. comparing the death tolls and circumstances.
Now there's two ways to interpret that: either you assume the Holocaust was horrible, and so by extension she claims that what's happening in Gaza is also horrible.
Or you assume that what's happening in Gaza is Not That Bad, actually, and therefore by extension that must mean she claims that the Holocaust also wasn't that bad.
And well, if you look at the reporting in the Dutch media, you can very easily tell that they went with the second interpretation - and I think that pretty much says everything I need to know about these claims, and the people spreading them.
To share a translation of the final question in the survey I just got, about "getting information about station services":
"Can you suggest any place or format that this facility information should be available in? It does not need to exist yet, be creative"
TL;DR I get the impression that they actually give a shit about the results, and they aren't just trying to make the KPIs go up
I certainly have my complaints about the Dutch railways, but I do appreciate the surveys they send out; they're quite in-depth (in a good way) and always explicitly leave room for submitting new ideas to improve things at stations. I rarely feel like there's no place to communicate a specific frustration/compliment.
Also, bonus points for occasionally getting sneak peeks of new train interior designs 🙃
(I'm especially interested in communities that do their own subtitling/translation in a collaborative manner)
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this meeting could have been a place of honor
highly esteemed deeds could have been commemorated at this meeting
something valued could have been in this meeting
So, with OpenSubtitles becoming further assholes with every passing month, is there any *actual* community-run subtitle source to switch to yet?
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Anyone know if anywhere sells PLA filament in that "old computer beige" colour?
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small capitalism vent
The only way for a platform like YouTube to be sustainable is one thing, and one thing alone:
government/commons funded platform that allows people to upload and download videos freely (only regulating actual abuse), potentially with some limits on video length or such for moderation reasons, but otherwise just a free usable either centralized or federated platform (i.e. large per-country instances, but you can always self-host) such that people without the resources to self host can still participate on account of the commons who actually watch the videos
an economic model that calculates with people actually doing something they like doing for the greater good or self-fulfilment needs without requiring people to make big buck, for instance UBI in a way that allows you to have food, utilities, rent and stuff – the basics – plus something extra on top to pursue self-fulfilment on a small scale
The idea that you need a sponsor or get money for doing it otherwise to sustain you doing something that others enjoy, but your art requiring disproportionate amounts of time to create vs. to consume is flawed, because under capitalism it's virtually impossible to fund other people's work in that way even on a larger scale (i.e. if everyone dumped half their salary into Patreon, Ko-Fi, and friends).
(Why I consider it a hackjob: it does weird stuff like referencing yarnpkg, which is just an npm mirror, as an authoritative source; and then it doesn't even link the real package, but some random fork that approximately nobody uses)
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Question about HRT patches, slight panic
Does them being crinkled up with like lots of lines even if they are/feel firmly attached on the skin make them less effective or is that okay?
Like, don't get me wrong, it was a legitimate problem, but the emphasis here is on "was" - it was discovered and publicly talked about years ago
That Unciphered article about the supposedly newly discovered Bitcoin wallet vulnerability sure looks an awful lot like a cheap marketing hackjob that tries to recycle and rebrand an old and documented security issue to drum up press coverage...
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Wellicht gaat het helpen: mijn klacht aan de #AVROTROS over hun verplichte "overige cookies" op de site van #1Vandaag.
Zonder "overige cookies" krijg je geen #peilingen te zien, en dat vind ik echt niet kunnen. Mailtje naar AVROTROS gestuurd, met een verwijzing naar dit draadje, maar tot op heden geen reactie.
Ik ben gelukkig niet de enige die klaagt, wellicht helpt dit de #NPO om hun sites in orde te gaan maken. Hoe meer mensen hier bezwaar tegen maken, hoe groter de druk om een nette site te maken en hoe groter de kans dat we de komende #verkiezingen de peilingen gewoon kunnen volgen zonder flauwekul.
｛Hans｝ wrote the following post Tue, 24 Oct 2023 19:14:09 +0200 @Catharina Bethlehem ☑️
Mochten andere mensen dit ook gaan doen, blijf gewoon aardig. De receptie van de avro/tros heeft hier geen invloed op. Maak een opsomming er bij en verzoek een antwoord van ze . Uitfoeteren zal zeker niet helpen
Zonder "overige cookies" krijg je geen #peilingen te zien, en dat vind ik echt niet kunnen. Mailtje naar AVROTROS gestuurd, met een verwijzing naar dit draadje, maar tot op heden geen reactie.
Ik ben gelukkig niet de enige die klaagt, wellicht helpt dit de #NPO om hun sites in orde te gaan maken. Hoe meer mensen hier bezwaar tegen maken, hoe groter de druk om een nette site te maken en hoe groter de kans dat we de komende #verkiezingen de peilingen gewoon kunnen volgen zonder flauwekul.
｛Hans｝ wrote the following post Tue, 24 Oct 2023 19:14:09 +0200 @Catharina Bethlehem ☑️
Mochten andere mensen dit ook gaan doen, blijf gewoon aardig. De receptie van de avro/tros heeft hier geen invloed op. Maak een opsomming er bij en verzoek een antwoord van ze . Uitfoeteren zal zeker niet helpen
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"JS is definitely not known to be secure in computing", says the guy running SLES with ancient EOL versions of software that haven't gotten any security updates for years
I swear, Enterprise Linux users...
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In response to the ongoing Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, and taking inspiration from similar initiatives in New York and London, sit-ins are taking place across the Netherlands in the days ahead. The sit-ins aim to address commuters, raise awareness, and keep the pressure up on the Dutch Government.
✊ Join us! Meet in Schiphol Airport, Tuesday 14th Nov, 18.00.
📌 We meet inside Schiphol Airport Plaza, near the main entrance, at the check-in gates for the trains
📌 We aim to keep the sit-in at least for 60 minutes, possibly longer, depending on energies. Feel free to leave at any point, when you need / want to.
📌 Our safety and strength will rely on our numbers, so it is very important to be present at 6PM and not come later, if you can, so we can start the sit-in with as many people as possible.
- 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
