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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happy fucking disability pride month; more on the breathing issue we have
needing to leave a place—typically very abruptly; we often have only a few seconds to reach clean air before needing to breathe again—because someone decided they just had to smoke there right now is something that happens to us regularly, and whenever this happens when we're expected to stay around we get to explain (usually to abled neurotypicals) that if we did stay there would have been a medical emergency
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I've been asked a few times by older inlaws how AI is changing the video-games industry, and I'm very pleased with how I've handled gently dashing their hopes :3 "We've evaluated it, but the output is well below our quality bar for most things." That's usually a good pivot point for talking about how the AI stuff is waaay over hyped.
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Are there good participatory budgeting processes that allow stakeholders with different amounts of money to allocate among several budget categories of fixed but different sizes, reflecting different priorities? Like in a ranked-choice kind of way? @ntnsndr
proprietary systems cannot be innovative, long-ish
There are lots of *practical* reasons why proprietary and commercial environments aren't really capable of producing innovation, but those are not the ones I want to focus on here.
The bigger reason why proprietary systems cannot be innovative is more philosophical. "Innovation", to me, is a very specific thing: it is the collective process of discovering and iterating on new techniques and technologies, to make society a little better for everyone every time.
The "iterating on" is important there; innovation is about *collective knowledge building*, about improving humanity's collective understanding of the world in a durable and sustainable way, and ensuring that those who come after us can build on our work to improve a little further.
Proprietary systems, by their very nature, cannot do this. "Innovations" in proprietary systems will live and die with the organizations in which they are built; the knowledge of their workings is secret and deliberately obscured, practically guaranteeing a loss of knowledge when the organization eventually folds - as every organization does sooner or later.
Proprietary organizations simply do not participate in the process of innovation at all; they *emulate* it, as a cheap party trick to impress investors and accumulate more power, economic or otherwise.
For something to be truly innovative, it *must* happen in the open, no exceptions. If others outside of your control cannot iterate on it, it is not truly innovation, no matter how clever it sounds.
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exhaustedly again asking folks not to use "crazy" as a generic derogative
don't boost shit that says "insane" when they really mean "coldly calculatingly evil" or "responding rationally but disappointingly to perverse incentives" or "foolish and shitty"
mental health problems are not the enemy you're aiming for
in fact by using this lazy shorthand you are doing the fascists' work for them - associating mental health issues with degeneracy, chaos, and evil, and furthering eugenicist beliefs.
irritated
The only DRM I could get behind is a limiter on gasoline powertools that only allows you to rev them a set amount of times before they lock up for the rest of the day, jesus christ
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fundraiser for an african family trying to rebuild their house after a natural disaster
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There will come a point where you ask internet-oracle-of-choice "how do I self-host a Netflix alternative" and they will intentionally give you bad advice in order to discourage you.
That point is coming sooner rather than later, and we need to train *an entire generation* of internet users how to get out of this trap.
That's *our* work to do, RIGHT NOW.
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Learn to host your own services now. Because in the future you might not be able to discover how.
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this is going to be increasingly relevant from now (July '24) until November of this year. please, fellow white people, *check your sources* and be especially careful about what you say--and what you repeat. there is nuanced debate to be had, but you *must* understand the nuances *before* you speak up. this is a very important time to *listen* to BIPOC, *think* about what they say, and *not make assumptions*.
we all have a lot of learning, and unlearning, to do, especially right now. it's an excellent time and opportunity for *all of us* to sit down, shut up, pay attention, and think carefully.
adventures in game development
Just implemented rudimentary hot-reloading for my game engine in like 15 minutes 😁 This sort of thing is why I am excited about doing (non-web) game development with JS
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I ask the conductor, won't they get confused in Dortmund? It's not on my route. Conductor: no, no, don't worry it's fine.
DB info desk in Dortmund (upset): what are you doing here? You should have gotten out at osnabruck. I can't help you, you have to go to dusseldorf.
In the mean time. Every step I need to take, my leg hurts more. I lost my walking assistance on the EC. Der #bahn does not care.
I'm tired.
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New idea to ponder:
Try replacing the word 'smart' with the word 'cruel' in regards to technology.
See how accurately it fits, and adjust choices accordingly.
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Humans invented art 40,000 years before we invented money
We’ve never needed monetary motivation to do beautiful things
and we never will
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@robinhood *495,000 years before the invention of currency
Just to really drive home the incredibly tiny amount of time money has existed. And that's giving a very generous 5,000 years where money in some form kind of existed at all (which is, itself, an overestimation of how long money has existed).
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US Politics, Tech, VC
At the top of The Verge, a tech reporting outfit that I thought lost its voice a few years back, is an absolute BANGER of a take down of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.
A worthy read about how two of Silicon Valley's most famous VCs have fully thrown in with Trump. #USpol
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24204706/marc-andreessen-ben-horowitz-a16z-trump-donations
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@KaraLG84 @jscholes @BorrisInABox I once heard about a boxed frozen tiramisu dessert. On the box was the instruction, "Do not turn upside down." That particular instruction was printed…on the bottom of the box…where you'd have to turn the box upside down to read it.
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From the text about the collective defense against the J20 charges:
"Let us pause in awe at the stupefying hypocrisy of those who profess to believe in the 'rule of law.' How can it be that the prosecutor, the court bureaucracy, and two grand juries were permitted to terrorize two hundred defendants with multiple nonexistent felony charges for nearly a year? Surely, if anyone is still naïve enough to earnestly believe in the rule of law, they should consider those who are complicit in pressing nonexistent charges to be the number one threat to civil society. Prosecutors, police, and judges neither believe in nor uphold the rule of law any more than the most iconoclastic anarchist does. The difference is that anarchists are honest about this and propose an ethical alternative, whereas the professionals of the justice industry shamelessly pursue personal gain and little else."
- 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
