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
... and the 'get help' page links to a Google Group that was banned for violating ToS in some unspecified way.
That's not promising.
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I feel like the one of the lowest level human internet problems we haven’t solved is how to be around millions of people, many of whom vocally disapprove of at least some of our thoughts and actions, without letting our hyper-social status-sensitive primate brains either melt or devote themselves to arguing that all our positions are the right positions for everyone.
Like yes, some algos are bad, but we also just built structures we can’t quite handle and are perma-mad at each other about it.
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The deeply frustrating thing about this is that I also believe we have to be able to find our people in the big morass of the world, so I can’t accept that the Dark Forest/group chat model is the way forward, which is why I am spending all my available time and brain on this stuff. 🙃
I don't have strong opinions on what it *should* be, to be clear, as long as it's not SQL; I'm interested in seeing what other approaches folks have come up with over the years!
#AskFedi: please recommend me (open-source) relational databases that are easy to run and *do not* use SQL.
(ORMs are not an acceptable solution, I am looking for something that is designed from the start to not use SQL)
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ACAB
mastodon for harris, mentions of sexual abuse, family abuse, violence, queerphobia, ableism and much more.
i could go on, but it's just a small fraction of what i went through. it's an unimaginable amount of pain and i am genuinely fucking in awe and confusion how the fuck am i even still alive right now. it's something i went through, nonetheless, and i can't change it, but i hope that one day i can be happy, somewhere.
calling that "trauma porn slop" is spitting on everything i just described
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@scanlime "we look forward to contacting you again when our HR system has a data breach"
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Braziliaanse veehouder krijgt boete van 47 miljoen voor ontbossen Amazone. https://nos.nl/artikel/2530367-braziliaanse-boer-krijgt-boete-van-47-miljoen-voor-ontbossen-amazone
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re-upping this one again
so many forms of writing are rendered nearly useless if they have no info on *when* they were written
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is it still an ICE if the air-conditioning is broken?
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Hey #wildfire fediverse - I'm a qualified forest firefighter currently available for deployment. Based in Australia, open to anywhere.
I do need to get paid for my work, and need someone to fund a chainsaw ticket refresher (last done in 2007). Otherwise I still have a valid arduous medical (until late November), 4wd, FFMV PPE, valid passport.
Not sure how much difference one extra pair of hands can make, I'm sure there are other people in the same position.
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Having said all that, I'm now interested in what the outcome of Windows being (largely, at least) Free Software would be. I suspect it'd be fairly like the Chrome situation - Microsoft's supported commercial release would probably still dominate even if anyone else could theoretically compete, since the sheer level of effort required to maintain a fork would make it impractical for anyone else to compete
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hello fedi, what does one do when there is a "complaint about message from [IP]" email from staff at hotmail dot com, and the email is... a confirmation email for a sign-up to one of your services
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meta; mastodon for harris; US politics; mutual aid meta
this shit is honestly making me feel so sick it is giving me nausea. I'm already in a fucking bad place and now I can barely stand. I've been all day in bed.
people keep asking for money for the most basic necessities for how fucking long. people go fucking starving and get almost nothing. every fucking cent given that way is making actual material difference in the world and even if half of the money given goes towards a scammers (it fucking doesn't), it will still do measurable better good than giving what in the grand scheme of things be fucking pennies to a fucking imperialist party (and take the double meaning).
this is money who could change people's life but it will go down to pay for some pamphlet that will just go to the thrash.
this is conscious laundering to a fucking T. you wanna feel fucking good about yourself. doing shit so can say "I did my part" when shit hits the fan when you in fact, did nothing, because doing something that would actually impact the american politics is too much fucking work (like actually talking to people for once).
and the fucking worse is, it could have made a difference if you gave it to fucking anyone else. we always knew y'all didn't gave a fuck but you're now showing us the receipt.
you're on the wrong side of this. there already are blood on your hands.
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bees entering through the window: hmm. interesting. what is this. huh. ok. cool. i'm out.
flies entering through the window: aaaAAAAA hello hello HI HI HI WHATS UP whatsthisplacewowsomanythingshere oh WOW THERES ANOTHER ROOM ohmygodthisisthebestplaceeverwow i am NEVER leaving
politics meta (not fedi meta), why things never seem to go anywhere
Something that frustrates me is that political discourse and action largely sorts into two buckets:
1. "Everything is fucked and we can't fix it anyway!"
2. "I'm doing my part already by being involved in <some local thing>, what more are you expecting?"
And they are both wrong but for different reasons; "everything is fucked" is a reasonable feeling to have but ultimately doesn't reflect what can *actually* be accomplished with the right organizing, and "I'm already doing my part, I can't do more" is *also* a reasonable feeling but ignores that the idea of a "first step towards progress" only works if you acknowledge that there are many more steps to follow!
And because the second category never ends up achieving large-scale change (because they consider the work done after the first step), the first category never experiences what can be achieved, and so the first category of folks doesn't get involved, and that then causes the second category of folks to keep feeling overextended, and on and on it goes in a circle.
The actual solution here is to start small, with an accessible first step, *and* treat that as a stepping stone towards larger, overarching organization, where you constantly keep pushing for that larger change (even if you personally are not the one doing the work there!).
But both categories of people will tend to reject this idea (often implicitly rather than explicitly), for a different reasons.
How on earth do we resolve this?
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i found this website on accident on the internet.
https://www.betrayingwhiteness.org/
in short, it's a "guided online learning path toward understanding & undermining the constructs of race" and is primarily focused on deconstructing race, class and white supremacy, and is aimed at white folks that wish to do some self-reflection to understand their own bias and work towards a future without white supremacy
i find it useful myself as someone who wants to work on that, so i thought i'd share that w yall
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Imagining toots bragging about the Fediverse contributing a quarter of a million dollars to mutual aid instead of billionaires.
- 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
