Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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.
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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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It's hard to explain to people that AI is extremely dangerous, but not in the way they think it's dangerous.
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my biggest complaint about AI is we didn’t ask for it. zero popular movements took to the streets to demand AI. no one sat around kitchen tables lamenting how hard life is without AI.
what people want is health care, housing, climate change solutions, etc We sit around kitchen tables wondering how to pay for college, get loved ones the psych and addiction support they need, or help the people on our streets who need homes
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honestly we didn’t need an app for everything in 2010 and we don’t need AI for everything now. all we have ever needed was to tax the rich and take care of people
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(I am seriously considering just closing PR functionality on all my repos, telling people to file an issue instead, and working to find a better model of collaboration)
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Like, it seems to be a widespread problem that the review and processing of PRs ends up taking up more time than it would have taken to implement the feature by oneself, which seems to defeat the point of collaboration?
"But drive-by PRs are a really important way to get new contributors involved!"
Okay, but if we're relying on an unscalable, net-labour-cost model of interaction for attracting contributors, then what does that say about the health of our communities...?
I have trouble believing there are no better and more sustainable ways to achieve collaboration
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I'm becoming more and more convinced that pull requests, at least in the "from random people passing by" sense, are just overall a terrible idea
(I am seriously considering just closing PR functionality on all my repos, telling people to file an issue instead, and working to find a better model of collaboration)
Like, it seems to be a widespread problem that the review and processing of PRs ends up taking up more time than it would have taken to implement the feature by oneself, which seems to defeat the point of collaboration?
"But drive-by PRs are a really important way to get new contributors involved!"
Okay, but if we're relying on an unscalable, net-labour-cost model of interaction for attracting contributors, then what does that say about the health of our communities...?
I have trouble believing there are no better and more sustainable ways to achieve collaboration
I'm becoming more and more convinced that pull requests, at least in the "from random people passing by" sense, are just overall a terrible idea
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I'm collating #evidence, studies, and journal articles refuting the bogus claim that porn causes harm to women and encourages violence towards women and girls, so we can cite evidence to Baroness Bertin in the #porn enquiry tomorrow. Please spam me with anything you've got. We need everything we can get our hands on, especially recent references.
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Nederlandse trans mensen, weten jullie hoe je hormonen in Nederland zonder een genderteam kan krijgen voorgeschreven? Er is een jonge trans man (bijna 18 jaren oud) die sinds 3 jaren geleden heeft gewachtet voor een afspraak met Radboud UMC, en nu zou hij willen proberen een dokter direct te emailen om zijne transitie te kunnen beginnen.
Dus, hier zijn de vragen:
Moet je in Nederland een gender dysforie diagnose krijgen om HRT te krijgen voorgeschreven?
Welke dokters zouden jullie aanraden te emailen?
Kunnen huisartsen gewoon hormonen voorschrijven, zonder een endocrinoloog te moeten zien?
Allemaal bedankt!
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I came up with this joke when I was asleep, so forgive me if it's not very funny
Yesterday I learned that the Provos, a very influential anarchist group in NL in the 1960s, originated from the Dada movement.
And that their wildly successful method of subversive politics was literally "shitposting", but before the internet.
I have just learned that Stardew Valley requires OpenSSL 1.1.1 to run, that therefore it does not work on newer Linux versions, and so people are working around this...
... by running the Windows version under WINE...
... or by manually installing an outdated OpenSSL binary that will never get any updates into their /lib...
meta, subtoot
If you are loudly wondering what possible *technical* objection people could have to Bluesky bridging, then you have not been paying attention to anything people have been saying on this topic
cory doctorow's walkaway net is living in my head now and it is not paying rent
advertising on cookware
"Lasts 10x longer*
* in an abrasion test, compared against other non-stick coatings. E-mail us for more details at..."
Okay 
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If I thought that "Social Media" meant using X or Facebook... I might agree with "stay away" But, that isn't the whole universe (we know that here, but who else knows?) and these are the kind of people who should know!
In the future social media will be media. The end.
What will that be like? We are building it now. Please for the love of God we need smart people to participate in this project. 4/4
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Is "stay away" realistic advice for young people? Or for ANY people? It drives me nuts that some of the people with the best judgement, the cooler heads, the deeper thinkers, think that just ignoring social media is a solution.
Any format of information sharing can be "bad" yellow journalism, propaganda TV networks. All media present an opportunity to control the public will and so all media can be put to dishonest uses.
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- 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
