Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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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That final e-mail before your domain does dark at the regsitry:
Afghanistan ccTLD Network Information Center ( af NIC ) queer.af has been suspended in the registry and will no longer be included in zone file generation. This means that any services connected with this domain, such as websites or email addresses will cease working shortly. Please contact your registrar if you have any questions about this process. Your registrar's details are as follows: Name: Gandi SAS Website: https://www.gandi.net Email: support-en@support.gandi.net Phone: +33.(1)70.37.78.80 Fax: +33.(1)43.73.18.51 Address: 63-65 boulevard Massena Paris 75013 Ministry of Communications and IT Mohammad Jan Khan Watt Kabul Afghanistan
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it's just policy to remove public benches but removing all of the chairs from the offices of those responsible is considered a "crime" and "morally reprehensible"
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very nice climate policy you've got over there, so much that the most pro-eco green low-carbon traveling option is hilariously uncompetitive compared to taking a plane 
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day 2478456789293489085 of waiting for the EU to regulate prices of international (sleeper) trains so they can get anywhere near being financially viable option for anyone except very wealthy enthusiasts
Also my hands now seem to be weirdly soft as a result
chores
Shredding and composting the overgrown plants I'd cut down yesterday: done ✅
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cw: screenreaders, there’s a lot of all caps in this
you want to make people excited about your game? MARKET YOUR GAME
you want to share your excitement with other gamedevs?
WRITE A NICE DEVLOG OR JUST SHARE YOUR EXCITEMENT
STOP MAKING OUR PROFESSION A CONTENT MILKABLE ONE, THAT IS NOT WHAT GAMEDEV IS, ITS SETS VERY UNHEALTHY EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT OUR PROFESSION IS TO PEOPLE WANTING TO BECOME GAMEDEVS
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Is there a GUI program (for Linux) that can manage a keyboard using QMK?
I recently found out that mine uses that and can do a lot more stuff than I thought it could, but it's all managed through key shortcuts and possibly like, manually editing config files and rebuilding the firmware 😅
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Artists who put a dozen hashtags on their work but no image descriptions at all...
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Hello fellow admins!
It would help users migrating from queer.af if you would temporarily add the following to /etc/hosts:
65.108.48.233 queer.af
The domain was suspended this morning without warning.
For users attempting to migrate, there’s an alias domain for the UI setup at: https://queer-af.alioth.systems
Thank you everyone for flying queer.af; sorry for the abrupt end, but it was out of my control, and you were all (hopefully) aware of this possibility anwyay.
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Hey Mastodon, can I tell you a fact I've been obsessed with since I learned it last year? You know that time in early spring when you just wake up one day and suddenly everything is green, as if it happened overnight? That happens when we have 10 hours of daylight - that is the magic amount that encourages everything to grow. The day when we have 10 hours of daylight is sometimes called "Persephone Day" - it's when she returned from the underworld!
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h/t to the person who opened hackertyper when the NOS pointed a camera at their laptop #hackerhotel
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@flimpie @cato at 30c3 the NDR filmed me typing on hackertyper:
https://youtu.be/qrcPoyBdKzo?t=54
(I did tell the camera guy what it is. he loved it for B-roll)
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Love the effect some localized publicity has on #OpenStreetMap - When the #RatHole went viral, the area around it was basically just the streets and houses.
Now it contains all kinds of extra data like trees, gates and sidewalks
about ethical licenses, moderately hot take
I think they're a terrible idea, specifically the "license" part. I think the 'ethical constraints' part is good (if anything, a lot of ethical licenses don't go far enough IMO!), but a license is the wrong tool for this.
Why? Two reasons:
1. Licenses are *very fundamentally* a part of the copyright system. The same copyright system that systematically advantages exactly the parties you want to prevent from using your thing, against whom it is notoriously difficult to get a ruling.
Licenses are a copyright mechanism. Copyright serves the wealthy and the powerful, not the marginalized. FOSS licenses are a necessary workaround to mitigate the harms, but crucially they are not and can never be an effective enforcement tool. It's not how the power dynamics work.
2. License conflicts are a huge problem. Ethics are as varied as favourite foods, and that's a *good* thing, but it's incompatible with one of the desirable properties of public licenses, namely consistency and interoperability.
Things are not built in a vacuum. They are built on other people's work, which is built on yet other people's work, and so on. As you stack more and more pieces onto each other whose licenses all forbid subtly different things, you eventually end up with something no one can use due to the non-overlapping exclusions.
This makes any projects of serious scale (say, those trying to build a stateless society and its infrastructure...) pretty much guaranteed to paint themselves into a corner due to the license constraints piling up, and that is probably not what you were trying to achieve with your license choice.
You should absolutely enforce ethical constraints in your project, but if your goal is to sabotage powerful actors, there are much more effective solutions that don't have these problems - like making it abundantly clear that they are not welcome in the community, they will not receive support, their bugtickets will not be handled, and their needs will not be designed for.
The kind of organizations that people usually try to keep out with ethical licenses - corporations, militaries, etc. - are ultimately looking to exploit free labour (*especially* support-wise), and if you deny them that, their interest will wane. You don't really need a license for that, especially if you couldn't afford to sue anyway.
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I *really* want Result and Option in JS tbh
This post is not hyperbole and I am being 100% serious
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Economics is a pseudo-science and its primary purpose is to act as a credibility shield for capitalism
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
