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
I would like a NixOS that makes both the hard and the easy parts easy, instead of making the easy parts hard
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"200 years ago, Luddites rose up against machines. Contrary to the ahistorical libel you've heard, the Luddites weren't angry or frightened of machines--they were angry at the machines' owners. They understood--correctly--that the purpose of a machine "so easy a child could use it" was to fire skilled adult workers and replace them with kidnapped, indentured Napoleonic War orphans who could be maimed and killed on the job without consequence."
https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/15/wellness-taylorism/#sick-of-spying
Preach it, @pluralistic
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piracy
>Vimm's Lair: The PlayStation 3 Vault is now complete and holds every known PlayStation 3 disc in the world. For the file format fanatics out there, downloads in the GameCube Vault are now available in .rvz format.
huh, cool
huh, cool
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I love that there’s a metadata standard called Dublin Core, which is the only XML namespace you can dance to.
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- sure, a well-fitting, high filtering mask is best, but seriously, being visible in any mask is HUGE
- seeing others in masks means we feel less alone, and yeah, a lot of us feel pretty damned alone right now
- It also means we are less likely to be targeted with harassment
Or how many years(!!!) it took for smartphones to gain even the most basic copy-paste functionality, for example.
It's really very obvious that you're supposed to just consume media with smartphones and not ask too many questions or be able to do too much with it
And I'm not talking about "user-friendliness" (most appliances really are not remotely user-friendly either) but about leaving out any kind of functionality that might allow someone to repair, customize, maintain, or otherwise tinker with their system, including basic functionality like "run a filesystem integrity check/repair on a microSD card"
I hate how smartphones are designed like appliances and not like computers
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Very cool that payment processors can effectively censor the entire internet with impunity by restricting what kinds of goods and services people can sell (regardless of these goods and services being perfectly legal).
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A "black" permanent marker can make for some very interesting results on some materials
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reply guy whataboutism is a disease that must be stopped
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The Inaccessibility Cycle
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"i can't stop thinking about this tweet"
submitted by u/kathyeehaw
https://redd.it/1ber1et
#fuckcars
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A "black" permanent marker can make for some very interesting results on some materials
(The cryptocurrency folks actually identified this problem correctly, even if their proposed solution was completely absurd and unsustainable...)
Like, think about some well-known SaaS and IaaS providers, think about how their services might be implemented in a decentralized manner, and on what point that might become difficult - and most of the time, the answer to that will be "namespace management", that is often really the only part that benefits from centralization in any serious way
If anyone ever figures out a credible and sustainable solution to decentralized namespacing, I expect that half the tech industry will just fall over overnight - there are so many companies that claim to be SaaSes, but whose true core business is really just namespace management and gatekeeping
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Admin Announcement
This should go without saying, but if you discover someone's IRL identity - no you didnt. The correct action is to forget about it and move on. You certainly should not contact their family, friends, or employer with jokes about their fedi profile. No matter how funny it may seem, that's just not appropriate.
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Advice for new activists
(crossposted with permission from a YouTube comment under this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NCSY85FqVQ)
- 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
