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
Sven Slootweg
boosted
I guess the takeaway from the xz backdoor situation is:
If you’re an open-source project maintainer, and somebody starts getting on your case for not doing enough free work for them, you reply “big Jia Tan energy there” and then block them forever.
Sven Slootweg
boosted
Kan me nog steeds niet aan de indruk onttrekken dat SIDN de eisen gewoon zo opgesteld heeft dat AWS eigenlijk de enige optie is, en dat de komende 5-10 jaar ook gewoon blijft.
Met dan een mooi verhaaltje er naast over hoe, mocht het ooit mogelijk gaan zijn, ze altijd over kunnen stappen naar een andere partij. Want, ook al kiezen ze voor AWS omdat AWS de enige is die het kan leveren, ze zitten er niet aan vast hoor! 🤪
https://www.sidn.nl/nieuws-en-blogs/het-waarom-achter-onze-keuze-voor-public-cloud-en-aws
Sven Slootweg
boosted
are there any microsd cards that are made for using as swap space?
Sven Slootweg
boosted
I'm willing to say no #IPv6 support could be considered a class issue.
Old and wealthy western ISPs don't care because they hold onto an /8 or something and can live like that for the next 2 decades with NAT and NAT444.
But new, small, local ISPs or ISPs in developing parts of the world struggle with IPv4 availability the most, barely having any to do NAT444 for their customers, hurting performance even further in regions that already suffer from not the best network access
It's a good thing to always question social norms, but... that involves more than just being contrarian - you actually need to do the work of understanding why they are what they are, and go from there.
If you're ignoring people's requests to behave in a certain way, and at the same time you claim you "don't care" to learn the reason that people are asking that, you are not being critical of social norms - you're just being a self-serving asshole.
If you've done the work, proactively looked into it, *really* understood the reason, and concluded that the reason is just a bad one (eg. upholding oppressive norms) - then by all means, ignore those social norms. But show that you've done the work first.
(This is aimed not just at outright bigots, but also at eg. activists who argue for accelerationism, those who uphold one type of oppression and justify it by claiming to fight another, etc.)
Sven Slootweg
boosted
idk how many people fall for the holistic psychologists grift
but like
she is a grifter. she is a fake. she is a white supremacist with a pretty mask.
please dont follow her
Sven Slootweg
boosted
autistic people will really get bored one day and end up finding a vulnerability with a CVE score of 9.3
Does anyone know of an Omnivore-like read-later app, but explicitly non-commercial (and FOSS), while still having a similar featureset? #AskFedi
I'm specifically looking to avoid anything that has a business attached to it now or in the future, or anything that follows tech hypes (like "AI integration").
CW-boost: transmisia, nazis, historical
Sven Slootweg
boosted
so many space games seem completely opposed to letting you use your ship as housing and i wonder how much of it can be attributed to anti-traveller bias.
Sven Slootweg
boosted
Pre-internet: only know people who are generally around you
Early internet: finding your rare little slice of culture all over the globe!!
Social internet: oh no this machine exists for starting fights
Now internet: using every tool available to go narrow, narrow, narrow, back to huddling amongst the people who are “generally around you”, but, like, spiritually. And from anywhere in the whole world.
alt-right rhetoric, youtube
"So rather than being a soy JS dev pretending to know stuff about security..."
Well, at least it's helpful when video creators on YouTube signal how shitty they are within the first minute or so. Saved me a watch, I guess.
Sven Slootweg
boosted
Quote of the day (from the Fedora devel list):
We have no mechanism to flag when J. Random Packager adds "Supplements: glibc" to their random leaf node package. As a reminder, *we are a project that allows 1,601 minimally-vetted people to deliver arbitrary code executed as root on hundreds of thousands of systems*, and this mechanism allows any one of those people to cause the package they have complete control over to be automatically pulled in as a dependency on virtually every single one of those systems.
— Adam Williamson
Sven Slootweg
boosted
🗿
april fools has just become a day where every company does an elaborate joke about making a change nobody wants, as if they don't do that unironically the other 364 days of the year
Sven Slootweg
boosted
just a PSA to anyone going to watch the eclipse, The American Astronomical Society says under no circumstances should you buy glasses from Amazon https://aas.org/press/american-astronomical-society-warns-counterfeit-fake-eclipse-glasses
Sven Slootweg
boosted
Every time I say generative AI is bad at everything, software engineers crawl out of the woodwork to "well actually" me about how great it is for writing code.
So, about that ...
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/
*evaluates Omnivore as a read-later tool*
"We're planning to add AI integration in the future as a paid option"
"Self-hosting currently requires the use of Google Cloud, we are working on making it more portable"
*closes tab*
Sven Slootweg
boosted
This is your annual reminder that many autistic people consider groups seeking to prevent or cure autism to be eugenicist hate groups and would strongly prefer that any donations you make go to groups that seek to improve the lives of autistic people instead
Sven Slootweg
boosted
Very few people add content warnings to their politics posts now (or any kind of post, while I'm grumbling). Super disappointed.
Should I start flooding the timeline with UK politics hot takes that make 0 sense to anyone outside of the UK all day? Apparently that's a reasonable and enjoyable thing to do
- 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
