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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- 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
hot take, FOSS development
The "hit-and-run PR" model is a completely unsustainable model for FOSS development, because it shifts the majority of the labour to a handful of core maintainers, and is the outcome of a hopelessly individualist and capitalist understanding of what "collaboration" means
Project management systems should instead be primarily focused on building trust and retaining contributors at varying levels of commitment, and giving them room to breathe without becoming detached from the project
racist rhetoric, re: LLM grumbling
Imagine believing that "they are just not capable of starting tech companies" is the reason that folks in the global South are getting exploited, jesus christ
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Ik schreef een stukkie. Over mijn ervaringen van afgelopen 13 jaar met #rolstoel.
De ongeschreven regels die bij een #handicap horen in mijn ogen. Iedereen heeft eigen ervaringen. Dit zijn de mijne.
https://daisymerollin.nl/opinie/de-20-geboden-voor-mensen-met-een-beperking/
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re: LLM grumbling
Like, if your first response to being told about the exploitative nature of it is to make colonialist jokes, then uhhh I don't know what to tell you, but you might be part of the problem here
LLM grumbling
Discussions about ChatGPT sure are very educational in learning how people think about colonialism and labour exploitation, huh
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I'm probably never going to be able to go back to school because my blog is in the chatgpt training set and anything I write is marked by AI detectors as AI generated
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"Why don't people want to pay for streaming anymore?" cry the companies who split streaming into 40 different services that keep increasing in cost while randomly removing content without warning, and shoving ads into our paid services.
Yup, sure is a mystery. A real head scratcher.
Claudine Gay
If you run across claims about Claudine Gay, be very wary; by all appearances this seems to be another wave of racist harassment disguised as criticism, from all of the usual right-wing pundits who Suddenly(tm) care about academic integrity now that it's a Black woman they can point their anger towards
(Like how nobody except said right-wing pundits seem to believe that any plagiarism actually happened, not even the authors in question whose work was supposedly 'plagiarized')
WaPo has an article, I wouldn't exactly call it excellent, but it does at least provide a lot of context for what's going on: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/12/15/harvard-president-claudine-gay-race-criticism/
I wonder if the "you can't say anything anymore" crowd would like to hear some of the things that I can't say to privileged tech dudes without them exploding in a ball of anger
Such controversial statements as, for example, "you are violating a boundary", "you hold racist beliefs even if you don't realize it", or "building tech does actually come with an ethical responsibility"
Something tells me that that's not what this crowd is talking about, though, when they complain that "you can't say anything anymore"
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The reason why QR Code generators can charge you up the ass for a fucking JPEG is because the image they generate is not a direct link to your page, but in fact a redirect link going through their servers. So they can limit traffic however they want. That's the scam
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PSA: If you're using a self-hosted #Gitea, you may wish to migrate to #Forgejo instead, it is a drop-in replacement.
Gitea started down the enshittification path, and is now open core: it has features available in Gitea Cloud that aren't in the open source version. I know of at least one such feature: a user quota, which limits how many users a Gitea instance can have.
That's something required by their pricing model, but it's also something that would be interesting for self-hosted instances in the long run too: once Forges federate, a user quota on an instance with open registration would make it much easier to run a small forge.
Who knows what other changes there may be? Just say no to open core, and use #Forgejo.
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I wonder why #37c3 doesn't have an indoor weather network. We get nice graphs for c3noc, but I want CO2, PM10, RH% and °C. Would help people with COVID-19 awareness and how mediocre the ventilation here at CCH really is.
Can we at least get this like next year, as COVID-19 won't be gone.
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The most insidious thing about racism on Mastodon is how it is done in such a way that the majority-white user base never sees it. I don't think that it's simply a matter of white people not seeing what they don't want to see - at least in the vast majority of cases.
So when a non-white person discusses the racism they see as a user of Mastodon, it must feel like gaslighting when white people respond with "What do you mean? I've not seen anything like that here."
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dont feel bad for using your local library and its services if you have a good local library system. literally use the hell out of its services if you can, it gives them justification to keep getting funding
this post is sponsored by Big Library
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-Fanatikerin 
politics fascism shitoot but actually not
The problem with this form of democracy:
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The ultrasonic humidifier I use when my lungs get gnarly sent a push notification with a look back at our household's special moments of 2023, I am going to do a crime
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Anne C.A. Baanen
meanwhile, in an alternate timeline:
bron en verantwoording: https://taaldacht.nl/2023/08/05/engeland-maar-dan-nederlands/
- 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
