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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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This May Day the cops are really working overtime to demonstrate why they should never be considered workers or part of the labor movement
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I used to be really excited for what the next smart phone would offer. Or the next tablet. Or hell, the next smart watch.
Not any more. And of course this happens when all technology (or gadgets) become old-hat.
Thing is there IS new stuff that might be exciting. VR. MR. AR. They haven't hit their stride yet. I SHOULD feel excited to see what happens when they do.
But I don't.
Why/? I honestly think is the software. The monetisation. The -companies- themselves.
The companies selling the new gadgets make me not care.
No matter how fancy the tech, it won't stop it just straight-up boring me. Even when Apple or even Meta show off something new with a VR headset, I never do more than glance at it for a moment, before browsing away to a different article or video.
Basically, what I'm saying is: capitalism killed my interest in gadgets and technology, almost entirely.
I'm more excited by weird $40 open source bits of hardware, despite many using decades old tech.
So that's what I think I'll focus on. The weird shit. The cool shit. The bizarre re-uses of 8-bit Z80 or 6502 processors. Of cheap e-Ink displays on 2010-vintage microcontrollers.
Maybe I'll find some joy again there.
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Hi friends,
The http://alt-text.org alt text library project needs a new leader, I have brain cancer.
I built a working, scalable, proof of concept library of shared alt text with fuzzy matching.
I'd like to connect with the #accessibility dev community. I want to hand the project off to a team or a leader if anyone is willing to take it over.
Github: https://github.com/alt-text-org
WIP MVP: a site designed for writing alt text with a private library: https://my.alt-text.org
Boosts appreciated
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I guess DDoSing a moderation team with spurious complaint threads is a thing now
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“this is `aynrando1970`s first contribution, please welcome them to the #NixOS Discourse!”
After countless hours of pushing for change in the #NixOS project's governance, there's a result!
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-board-giving-power-to-the-community/44552
We're certainly not there yet, but this is definitely an important step forward, that hopefully finally creates space for solving the rest of the issues.
Now excuse me while I hibernate for the next 3 years to recover...
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r a z o r g i r l personally, if someone on cyberpunk.lol tried to report a post on here or elsewhere for "begging" i'd nuke the entire account without hesitation
it speaks to a sort of horrible cruel capitalism-poisoned mindset that can take shitloads of time and effort to overcome, and i am under no obligation to let other people get caught in that crossfire
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Who called it “search engine optimization” instead of adversarial attacks on ranking algorithms? #SEO
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“How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland? | by Anna Andersen”
Glad somebody wrote about this because it’s an objectively hilarious UX case study
(And they just announced that eleven people managed to get the requisite number of endorsements in time) https://uxdesign.cc/how-do-you-accidentally-run-for-president-of-iceland-0d71a4785a1e
#AskFedi: I'm looking to find new programming languages that meet all(!) of the following criteria:
1. Dynamically typed.
2. Has a conflict-free module system. Not namespaces, not a flat dependency tree. It must support conflicting versions of the same module at different places in the (transitive) dependency tree.
3. Suitable for 'systems programming' tasks like OS kernel development, microcontrollers, ideally also the ability to write C-compatible libraries (some static typing for the API surface there is acceptable).
4. There is usable documentation (it does not need to be perfect).
5. Memory-safe (to at least the level you would find in JS/Python/etc.)
The language doesn't need to be well-known! And it doesn't need to have a lot of libraries available for it, but it should be usable for a real-world personal project. Hit me with your niche recommendations :)
(Please do not argue with me about the requirements. I am aware of what is and isn't possible.)
The more I'm involved in governance issues, the more convinced I've become that social decentralization is a critical component of a functioning society, and scale is the enemy.
There doesn't even have to be any malice involved.
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I hope this emali finds you at all.
sent from a self-hosted email server
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Hey, anyone on the NixOS subreddit. Note that no one from the NixOS community moderates the avenue. It is not an official location for NixOS discussions. And yes, individuals are now adding more FUD to the fire they lit. Again and again. Froggo's sad and hot.
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The fun thing about teaching things like tech ethics and tech & disability is that i get to weave strategies of resistance throughout the semester, and end on reminders that things don't have to stay like this, that they can build new systems together, and that there can be hope. It reminds me, too.
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"Ethics in AI" issues that seem to always get forgotten FOR SOME REASON
Your AI isn't ethical if:
* You boiled the oceans to manufature the hardware it runs on
* Running its data centres consumes the entire water table
* Curating its training data corpus is traumatizing workers in lower income countries for starvation wages
THESE ARE ETHICAL ISSUES TOO BUCKO
Why aren't you talking about them?
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What's the cheapest mini-PC I could use as a media PC (i.e. slap Linux on it and hook it up to the TV permanently)? I have this ASUS stick PC thing but it's running on an old Atom CPU so it's not fast enough to be able to properly handle HD video decoding
I looked it up online and seems like the cheapest ones are like, 300€? Which isn't a lot-a lot but it's still kind of a lot for me 💀
(Note: this is about untangling already-broken governance with long-standing issues, not about providing your feedback on things that are yet to be decided, of course!)
Moral of this story: please *do not* try to involve yourself in governance discussions unless you can commit to being in it for the long haul, because otherwise you will likely just slow down solutions
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@violator it’s like I can be distracted by a thing and it doesn’t immediately dump all other thoughts and memory. The previous thoughts are there and accessible and I can put them in a place they need to be. And if the distraction turns out to be just that, a distraction I don’t need to attend to, I can just find every one of the previous thoughts I had and return to them without effort. I have *never* been able to do that before. And here it’s happening as I type. I know what I was doing before
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
