Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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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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British Gas's programmers don't believe that a surname can be only a single character.
Their customer service agents worked around this by adding a parenthetical note to my record.
The result is hilarious postal mail that tries to reassure me that my surname really is what it is:
EDIT: Well this blew up. FAQ etc. at https://danq.me/it-is-only-q
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Screenshot from my old account
I guess I've been banging this drum for the last five years huh
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i get the "newsletters are just blogs with extra complication" argument in my heart, i really do, but i so understand why you'd want to retreat from What All This Has Become
Like, I can see why this might not happen for cryptocurrency companies, despite how many people they've screwed - it's usually a chain of shell companies run by barely-identified people with highly-paid security, which is difficult
But like, I don't think LLM companies have any of that?
It's kind of surprising that none of the LLM company HQs have burned down yet, to be honest
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putting interesting stuff on the internet is on its way out
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Just realized that I missed my "cops stole my shit" anniversary, which is now over 10 years ago
meta and also politics, sort of directed at reader
There are some very uncomfortable parallels between "citizens scapegoat other powerless citizens because the actual politicians in power refuse to address problems head-on", and "Mastodon users scapegoat other powerless Mastodon users because the actual developer in power refuses to address problems head-on"
I hope that you can fill in the gaps yourself on what this means for the social dynamics on fedi
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my advice on coming out is simple: don't feel like you owe anyone anything at all
coming out is by definition a consequence of cisnormativity
do not give the fuckers an iota of your power
do whatever you want.
be happy.
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open registration servers are a menace and should be limited. hope this helps #mastoadmin
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There should be a way for instance admins to automatically limit other instances with open registrations. It would discourage instances from having open registrations for the sake of "reach"/"growth" imo
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🇨🇦 Canada politics; Yes I'm still on about this
To sum up:
Justin Trudeau cancelled Public Domain Day in Canada for the next 20 years
2023-2042, nothing enters the Public Domain in Canada
Thanks, The Liberal Party of Canada
who needs a polycule nextcloud when you can have a polycule syncthing
Pick your type of neurospicy:
1. Eats the same thing every day
2. Will not eat the same thing twice
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remember when the internet had a "pirate shanty" phase but it was actually just that one song?
I feel like we really missed the boat on the potential depth and breadth of the genre.
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free software advocates when you ask them to take an intersectional view on the ethics of using certain software, going beyond the question of 'is this thing foss or not': ⁉️ 😕 😠 🤬
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the USian assumption that every text is exclusively in one language versus de realiteit dat sommige gebruikers meerdere talen spreken
- 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
