Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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.
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- 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
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"I want you to imagine someone for me. Her name is Jessica and she is 17 years old...."
For years, "A Story About Jessica" (a computer security parable @SwiftOnSecurity wrote, published on their Tumblr in 2014) was pretty hard to find.
Per the CC BY license, I've now republished it so it's easier to discover and reference.
http://harihareswara.net/posts/2024/a-story-about-jessica-by-swiftonsecurity/
My comments in the post include pointers to relevant work by Mark Pilgrim, @sprblm , @luis_in_brief , @jacob , and @evacide .
activism meta
The problem in activism that I find the most challenging is not how to convince people or make things better, but how to make sure that those improvements persist without needing a Dear Leader and how to avoid the usual cycles of improvement followed by inaction and regression
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“Nike’s $25B blunder shows us the limits of “data-driven” | by Pavel Samsonov | Jul, 2024 | Medium”
https://spavel.medium.com/nikes-25b-blunder-shows-us-the-limits-of-data-driven-ad30b6e3d938
> For those of us who don’t think that’s what he meant to do, it bears reflecting on where he went wrong.
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I am on a bus. The bus has tables!!
When did this happen?!
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"this game runs at 60 frames per second using a technique called 'lying'"
Has anyone figured out a reasonable technical solution to thread splitting in federated forum/chat systems yet?
CW-boost: hamas, caps, assassination
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Today's video is all about shitposting! What's the difference between a shitpost and misinformation? What do researchers have to say about shitposting? Is shitposting just for fascists, or can the Left play, too? And finally, DID JD Vance fuck a couch? https://skepchick.org/2024/07/jd-vance-the-couch-the-ethics-of-sposting/
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@jonny hot new idea: in order to pass your PhD, you need to write a Simple Wikipedia entry version of your thesis and run it by an actual layperson.
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eupol, petition, Stop Destroying Videogames
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Instead of going on holidays, I am going to teach myself #medieval woodturning. As a first step, I finished the chisel.
You often see medieval woodturners at festivals, but they all use modern gouches and a tool rest.
Medieval lathes do not have tool rests, and the chisels are shaped totally different from modern ones. That tells me that the whole manner of wood turning was totally different from today.
The chisel was forged by Smederij Zwolle, and I made the grip myself from spalted beech.
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hawright y'all, it is time for me to testify about my existence and experiences on the fediverse as a queer person of color in the almost 2 years i've been here.
i am finna put up this request right up front and at the end of my thread: if you white and you're reading this, please do me a favor and keep the groveling/apologizing to yourselves. i've seen and heard enough of that shit here on other POC's posts/threads about this very subject. just please hush and listen, like we been telling y'all for eons now. you can learn a lot by simply listening to others and their experiences without putting in yr two cents, even if yr intentions are meant to be good.
we good? good.
okay, here i go~ 🧵👇🏾
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LAPD's budget is $1.3 billion dollars, annually. For one year they moved $11 million of that (0.8%) to a basic income guarantee experiment that dramatically improved quality of life for 3600 people in LA by giving them $1000 a month. Like all basic income guarantee programs it is ending with no sign of sustained funding. LAPD's budget will increase by ~$75 million this year.
Every time.
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“Bent u bekend met ons concept?”
Wij hebben het full size gourmetten uitgevonden.
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OH: I wrote a wrapper shell script for rofi that checks if the exit code is the one for segfault, and if so, just runs it again
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@mynameistillian Charities can get in the way of solving the problems they are designed to address, because their existance relies on it. That, and often because they're being funded to support industry. Medical charities can transfer money into medical services, Homeless charities can be used to pretend they are the solution to homelessness instead of addressing the housing market etc
that's not to say no charities do good things, of course. many do. it's just that capitalism co-opts kindness
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Does AI entice people to buy?
No. No it does not. People are less likely to buy things when AI is a part of the product description.
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One thing we're focusing on in our NSF POSE "ecosystem discovery" interviews is what makes someone trust a data source, and separately how they built trust with their own downstream users / audience.
Interestingly, a lot of folks recognize that they choose who & what data to trust largely based on institutional affiliation, but don't highlight that as a key to others trusting *them*
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Confidence is not "I know what I'm doing."
Confidence is "I know how to find that out" and "I know how to learn new things" and most importantly "I know when I don't know what I'm doing, so I stop and find someone who does"
Obnoxious blowhards rely on people not understanding this distinction. And they amplify it by framing actual confidence as weakness.
This may be a useful thing to talk about with certain people in your life who are being fooled by fascists.
- 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
