Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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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- 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
And to complete that thought: genuine solidarity looks like bottom-up organizing, among everyday people (the 'workers') for everyone's needs, and *not* like following an esteemed leader, even if that leader seems to speak the language of solidarity.
Note that the phrasing of "capital owners and fascists" is deliberate. Capitalism is not the only oppressive and authoritarian ideology. Fascism can hide in nominally progressive-looking ideology, too. I'm especially looking at some interpretations of communism here.
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I think my non-binary-ness basically boils down to wanting permanent access to a character creator.
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Learn to be normal about people not liking your faves/being discomforted by your faves
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i loooove love love gender as a bizarre performance art type of deal. bioessentialism is so BORING exclusionism is BORING "he/him is for men, she/her is for women, they/them is for nonbinaries" GAG ME. i'm here to be weird and sexy. i'm here to confuse everyone. i'm here to freak out the people in charge. and i'm here to be sexy again
A quick real-world example of how a company can behave in an 'evil' manner even though nobody involved sets out with explicitly malicious intentions, in a hypothetical SaaS company:
1. Executives set revenue targets for departments to hit, to 'increase efficiency'; departments that do not hit these targets risk being terminated as a cost center.
2. Department manager wants to make sure nobody in their department loses their job, and so tries to maximize the revenue for their department; in the process, they veto things that could result in reduced revenue.
3. Developer ends up not implementing cost controls on their service, because it might unexpectedly block service of customers, which reduces revenue because it's an extra hurdle to reactivate the account or change the limits
4. Customer makes a single mistake and ends up being charged more than they could possibly afford, because there are no cost controls.
Nobody in this chain was being deliberately malicious. Aside from the capitalist nature of the enterprise, everyone involved tried to do what they could in their situation.
And yet, the outcome is a hostile system that will screw people over with little to no recourse, and that is unlikely to ever get fixed.
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sorry big corpos but you do not deserve a payment equal to the opportunity cost of not being a piece of shit just because someone did the same thing as you in a better way. lost sales from having an inferior product is not the same as having money stolen from your bank account. (i'm actually not sorry get fucked)
My brain seems to have invented a desert-themed citybuilder/RTS game with water management mechanics that has appeared in my dreams at least twice so far
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The most joyous thing I've seen today is a man on TikTok extolling the merits of dating nerds such as himself:
"Don't feel like going out? Good. I usually don't. Why would I spend $120 on three drinks and a cover charge in a nightclub when for the exact same amount of money we can get the brand new Mario Kart, a bottle of tequila, Chinese takeout, and spend the entire night in our pajamas?"
Compelling, I would say!
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On a scale of 1 to a fire, how much do you trust this power supply to function if I try to turn it on?
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the syslog() function in glibc has a buffer overflow that lets attackers get root. it's had it SINCE FUCKING 1993. FOR MY ENTIRE TIME ON THIS PLANET.
When will enough be fucking enough and we ban the writing of new programs in C from an industry standards level?
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i wish people understood that being non-binary doesn't imply looking androgynous. sorry, i may be fat, have large shoulders, a beard, body hair and a deep voice. i'm still non-binary. i didn't choose to have these traits, nor do I feel particularly interested in changing them. doesn't change the fact that i am not a man
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anyway copyright law is really just a way for large corporations to bully smaller entities into submission. until it is fundamentally rewritten to prevent that, or disbanded entirely, we are stuck with the reality of large corporations and their bullshit
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copyright hot take time
copyright is just colonialism for ideas
It occurs to me that debatebros demanding a "source" before believing you, is implicitly also an expectation that you've built your *own* belief from a single source, rather than from a deep dive into the topic (which would not be easily referencable), and so they're basically demanding the weakest form of evidence
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hotter tech take
I think that NDAs are extremely, extremely overused across all industries
like, I get that most public environments (especially gamers) are hostile and it's better to have a unified front when announcing stuff
I think that from a basic standpoint it makes sense to hide things from the public, although I don't think that it should be at the risk of anything but your job, tbqh
games companies and tech companies in general are so quick to just say "yeah sign away your rights to reveal this thing to literally anyone, including your closest friends, and we will sue you for thousands to millions of dollars if you break the contract"
like
that's bad, actually
and the idea of no one knowing that you're working with a company who was probably problematic a year ago, until you've spent a year investing in them, is also bad??
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angry political venting
first it was, don't call me a nazi
then it was, actually, it's bad to condemn nazis
now, it's bad to condemn actual fucking genocide
and it's bad to even just, condemn genocide in general! like, what the fuck!
"don't kill entire groups of people in an attempt to permanently exterminate them" should not be a fucking hot take, it should be so obvious it need not be stated
but also
fuck the genocide israel is committing in particular, and support the fucking palestinian people
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venting about tech bashing
Tech bashing / contempt culture is basically the reason that I can't enjoy stuff like "people uploading weird shitposts to npm" anymore, something that would otherwise be a spark of joy in a day of difficult project work - because I *know* that as soon as I bring it up anywhere, there will be Some Dude waiting behind the curtains to take it as an opportunity to start complaining about JS and loudly talking about all the reasons they personally would never use it (most of which are based on them not having bothered to understand how it works)
- 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
