Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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
abuse, NixOS
Okay, I'm just going to say it: the #NixOS community has an abuser problem.
I don't mean that it's *full* of abusers - most of the NixOS community that I've interacted with has been excellent! That's not the problem.
The problem is that there is a handful of people in the community, some of them in positions of power, who have been showing openly abusive behaviour for years now, with effectively no consequences - because they are the kind of abuser who uses 'civil' words.
This came to a head two days ago when one of them decided to run a deliberate experiment on my emotional state without my consent in a governance discussion, giving me an anxiety attack at 4am, but that is only the most obvious recent incident and not the first one.
That same person, and a number of others, have been concern-trolling every single moderation, CoC, governance and policy discussion to death for years (perhaps the most infamous example is RFC 98). They've been making patronizing comments towards lots of folks who are just trying to improve things a bit.
They've been going "oh but we shouldn't call fascism bad, that's polarizing". They've been trivializing very real problems that (particularly marginalized) folks are experiencing. They've been disrupting constructive governance conversations with bad-faith arguing.
I've been trying to resolve this problem privately for years now, but not enough is happening and I'm running out of patience, so perhaps it's time to call this out publicly. I'm withholding names for now, but if this doesn't get resolved on a community/moderation level, I might change my mind on that.
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ACAB
threads transphobia
the entire threads situation reminds me of this one time where me and my friends used to party together with this friend we used to have that was really toxic and later started inviting his friends who were bigoted to me and others and didn't care. and one time we threw a party without him because we got tired of his bs and he comes along and says 'why didn't u invite me, you have to' dude last time you came you wrecked the place and your buddy lev called me a tranny fuck off
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We have an utterly fucked up idea of what counts as technology. Something that projects many of our biases including gender, and race.
To many these days it's only technology if it's electronic, and used by western men. But to take such a narrow definition is to ignore the amazing technology that surrounds us, and upon which our society is built. As such. It's time for a thread. I'm gonna talk about two different items you use every day, and the technology that goes into them.
1/n
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"Aan de mensen die zeiden dat dit verhaal twee kanten had." Nieuwe Substack writing online! Subscribe als je op de hoogte wilt blijven van mijn schrijven.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mikalschrijft/p/aan-iedereen-die-zei-dat-dit-een?r=z5ozj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
(ja er is een typo in de titel ik heb geschreven toen de ritalin uitgewerkt was)
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We are Covid Safe Furs, a group of furries supporting each other and advocating for Covid safety and inclusivity within the furry fandom. We believe that through education and solidarity, we can help keep each other safe and make furry a more inclusive place for all.
I am Yatchi, and I started Covid Safe Furs at the beginning of 2023 because, as I started going back to in-person events, I noticed that I wasn't the only fur wearing a mask and taking precautions. Covid has remained a top-of-mind concern for many of us within the fandom.
I realized there were many furs just as passionate about Covid safety and inclusivity as me, and I thought it'd be great if we got together to say:
You are not alone!
Your comfort and safety matter!
You have a place here within the furry fandom!
We began attending cons where we hosted educational panels on Covid safety and handed out free N95 masks and rapid tests. You may have seen us at #GoldenStateFurCon, @lasvegasfurcon, or @blfc this year, and we'll be at #AnthroNorthWest in the new year!
We love seeing all our friends at cons and events, and we also believe we can have fun while still keeping ourselves safe. We do not judge or dictate the behavior of others, but we do want to make sure you have the knowledge and tools you need to make informed decisions.
Here are the PDF slides from our most recent #BLFC2023 panel, hosted by Yatchi and Junius, and jam-packed with the most important, up-to-date, and practical information you need to know about Covid to protect yourself and others. https://covidsafefurs.org/Covid%20Safe%20Furs%20@%20BLFC%202023.pdf
If you've ever wondered
- What kind of mask should I bring to a con?
- How can I evaluate the safety of a crowded space?
- If I'm hosting a room party, is there anything I can do to make it safer?
- Can I wear a mask while fursuiting?
We have answers to these and more!
If you're looking for a supportive group of Covid-conscious furries, come join our Telegram chat at http://covidsafefurs.org/telegram! We're here to share information, answer questions, collaborate on projects, and simply be there to support each other.
For more resources and information on our events, visit our website at http://covidsafefurs.org. And if you'd like to help out with art, writing, web design, panels, or anything else, we'd love to hear from you! Together we can help make furry safer and more inclusive for all.
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“Assuming a large, polished and centralized web service adding an open protocol will somehow bring new users to many indie, rough-around-the-edge, underfunded websites, then somehow become less dependent on the large web service.” is the most optimistic thinking I have read this year.
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Why do so many people, even people in favor of blocking threads, say that doing so will "split the fediverse in half" like that's a bad thing? Oh you mean we'll split the good half from the bad half? Aren't we supposed to be the social media people who want smaller communities with more integrity?
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A user called Aldanimarki designed these, which say "I love chokky milk" in Arabic, kind of as a way to make a point about how westerners see their language as sinister.
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The provider with the best coverage in Germany is called “Kein Netz”, apparently
re: subtoot
Of course it ended up just being the usual rant about how control over moderation should rest with the users while conveniently not mentioning abuse considerations, not any actually interesting take about EEE or anything
subtoot
Just ran across an (older) comment that claims something to the effect of "defederation should be removed from the protocol because it makes it too easy to centralize the network, just look at what happened to XMPP", and I think I need a new brain now
Page reload seems to have fixed it 🙃
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ARGH
What's a good website for hosting, and writing, stories? I like Word but also want people to be able to like, leave editing suggestions and critique, ideally ON the text of the page they're reading. Google Docs COULD work but doesn't have a side-by-side view which is... I mean *why.*
Oh hey, the bug is back where a different post gets boosted from the one I clicked 'boost' on
(This extra applies to Dutch folks; no, we do not have a consensus culture, we have a compromise culture, and that's why we're dealing with a fascism problem now)
Compromise: finding a middle ground between existing solutions, nobody gets exactly what they want
Consensus: identifying the root cause of the disagreement, and determining a (potentially novel) solution that meets everyone's needs fully
Know the difference :)
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Web Platform Baseline, recently re-announced by Google Chrome, does not consider browser support for #accessibility features built into the web platform.
Accessibility is a fundamental requirement for devs (legal compliance, contracts). Yet Web Platform Baseline does not actually cover baseline support.
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/12/baseline-does-not-really-cover-baseline-support.html
Moderation litmus test: in a moderation dispute, do you give the benefit of the doubt to the offender, or to the person who has been harmed?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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This might be one of the most horrible hacks I've heard about in a while.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38661103
(h/t @bluecmd)
- 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
