Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
Trying to gauge something, please boost this so that I can get a bigger sample size! 
Think of some kind of activist cause - it doesn't really matter what it is about specifically, just whatever thing in society or politics bothers you, and you would want to see changed.
Are you currently actively involved in activism around it? And if not, but you had the certainty that other people felt the same way, and they'd want to work together with you, so you're not standing alone... would you be open to *getting* involved with it?
(Please answer honestly; there are no wrong answers here.)
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it's not that you're not speaking anymore, it's that your actions are stealing the spotlight.
mondkapjes, positief(?)
Vandaag in de trein een paar kinderen die botte opmerkingen maakten over onze mondkapjes... maar de vader(?) die erbij was sprak ze er direct op aan, en maakte het behoorlijk duidelijk dat ze niet zo snel over mensen moeten oordelen, ongeacht wat voor reden iemand heeft om een mondkapje te dragen.
(En merkte daarbij ook nog even op dat de mensen die het meeste oordelen over dat soort dingen, vaak zelf het minst hun zaakjes op orde hebben)
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the problem with the "do not go to [site] because it contains illegal content, I am making you aware that [site] exists and hosts illegal content so you can avoid it" method of sharing pirate links is that when I am trying to warn people of sites that legitimately are unsafe and dangerous they sometimes think I'm trying to make a covert recommendation
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ive always been fond of the alternate means of slaying the hydra wherein you make it grow so many heads it biologically cannot support all of them
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#Solarpunk community: please stop using AIs to generate images. Yes, I know there's very few solarpunk visual concepts. Generative AIs are predatory, anti-worker software and on top of that its energy and water consumption is huge (specially since it's a non essential service). Commission an artist, use stock images. Don't make me go fight you.
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> We Had the Tools
https://guinesspig.ghost.io/we-had-the-tools/
October 2, 2023
“...anytime a government or health officials says we have the tools to deal with Covid-19.
No we don’t.
We had the tools. All we have now are the memories of those tools.
We (and by we, I mean collectively, societally we) blew it. We threw the tools away. We traded them in for something we believed was so much better.
Why? Because the very leaders we are supposed to trust to look out for our best interests, like General Manager Tim, told us to. They gave us permission. They told us it was more important to get back to normal than to rely on those tools.”
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code, screenreader-unfriendly, question
With no further context on why it looks like it does, *could* you work with code that has syntax like this? (Even if it may not be your favourite syntax.)
if (equals a b) (
log "matches";
doThing a b;
) else (
log "does not match";
doOtherThing b;
)
"Unmanaged dependency": a chunk of code that has been copy-pasted from elsewhere and therefore has all the downsides of dependencies - but that never gets updates, therefore is 'unmanaged', and gets few of the *upsides* of dependencies.
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⭐ Digital wallets and the “only Apple Pay does this” mythology by @matt https://birchtree.me/blog/digital-wallets-and-the-only-apple-pay-does-this-mythology/
"Apple Pay is great, but I think there is some misunderstanding out there about the details of how it works."
This is an excellent overview of how Apple Pay and others hide card numbers. Plus a lot more I didn't know I wanted to know about.
📌 https://rknight.me/links/digital-wallets-and-the-only-apple-pay-does-this-mythology/
code, screenreader-unfriendly, question
(Note that this is not a typo; the block syntax is indeed made up of parentheses.)
code, screenreader-unfriendly, question
With no further context on why it looks like it does, *could* you work with code that has syntax like this? (Even if it may not be your favourite syntax.)
if (equals a b) (
log "matches";
doThing a b;
) else (
log "does not match";
doOtherThing b;
)
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me: "nix is really neat, you can build your whole server just from CI, and the configs are reproducible, and you can copy aspects between various machines, and-"
friend: "hey i just switched to nix"
me: "oh god why did you do this to yourself "
friend: "hey i just switched to nix"
me: "oh god why did you do this to yourself "
CW-boost: pers, politiek
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I have suspiciously good internet on this train ride
Am I on one of these trains where PKP with ISPs installed signal repeaters 
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Tak, Tak, Listrotakt 
(≙)
@rail_ “Our train is equipped with modern WiFi connectivity”. The WiFi:
After thinking a bit, I've come to the conclusion that I don't like tycoon-style video games because of the "making money" part (I don't care about that at all), I just want to do supply chains and logistics with some sort of feedback metric on how well I'm doing
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If you want to know more about the impact of antitrust on IBM behaviour, I’d recommend reading this paper by Tim Wu. In his conclusions, he looks at what antitrust regulators should learn from the case, and I found this paragraph quite relevant to what’s currently happening. https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3292&context=faculty_scholarship
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facebook threads, fedi (actionable)
https://todon.eu/@queue/112130436372737490
To very little surprise, Facebook's Threads platform (the one that was supposedly so enthusiastic about the Fediverse) is now hiding all mentions of Pixelfed - the Fediverse software that's competing with their Instagram platform. Hopefully this makes it clear that they were never going to federate in good faith.
Things you can do:
1. Sign the Fedipact (if you run your own instance) or ask your admin to do so (if you don't) to commit to defederating from Threads: https://fedipact.online/
2. Support the creator of the Fedipact, vantablack, who is in financial and housing trouble: https://cyberpunk.lol/@vantablack/112080004580673240
- 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
