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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fosstodon and completely lacking anything resembling self-awareness, name a more iconic duo
"you"
Or to phrase it differently: we'll talk about "minimizing dependencies" when you show you understand how to minimize your *project complexity* first
Looking forward to the day that an actual, genuine discussion can be had about "minimizing dependencies" and what that entails, instead of the horde of "just make number low, problem solved" arguments that always happen in practice and completely ignore important things like internal complexity and peer review
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EDIT: Es haben sich Menschen gefunden, danke für die vielen Boosts 😊
Liebe Menschen, ich hab ein Problem. Ich hab mir vorm Wochenende 3 x 2 Schwerlastregale bestellt. In der Anzeige (eBay) stand beim Gewicht nur „10“, ohne Maßeinheit. Heute kamen sie, zwei Tage vor Avis. Der DPD-Bote weigerte sich, die Pakete hochzutragen. Ich war also eben unten. Auf den Paketen steht ein Gewicht von jeweils 26 kg, aber meinem Gefühl nach ist das deutlich mehr. Ich hab sie notdürftig aus dem direkten Eingangsbereich weggezerrt, aber die Treppen krieg ich sie beim besten Willen nicht hoch. Das sind ja bei mir 5 Stockwerke, und es gibt keinen Aufzug. Gibt es hier körperlich starke Menschen, die heute Zeit hätten, mir die drei Pakete hochzutragen? Mein Dank würde Euch ewig nachschleichen.
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"15-Jähriger fährt mit Bus durch Bremen und sammelt Fahrgäste ein"
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/oldenburg_ostfriesland/15-Jaehriger-faehrt-mit-Bus-durch-Bremen-und-sammelt-Fahrgaeste-ein,busfahrer270.html
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"If there are no loud Black women in the room that you're in, you're not in a radical space. If there are no Black women who's presence inherently makes white folks uncomfortable, then your space is not as radical as you think it is." - ahbeeolah on TikTok
I also recommend watching this stitch by nonsomorah:
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGe7TcEqf/
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take that techbros would hate
accessibility includes supporting old hardware, nobody has the same economical status as you to afford a new machine
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Hey -- if you've been made to feel unsafe by *any* member of our extended community (hardware hacking, openFPGA, Lix, etc); please, feel free to reach out.
We've gotten way too many recent reports of e.g. SA perpetrated by well-known community members, and it's about time the silence stopped.
Some more-secure ways to reach out:
signal: ktemkin.8051
xmpp(+omemo): kate@ktemk.in
matrix: @ ktemkin:katesiria.org
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Let's all hold hands and watch bitcoin and AI crash together.
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jk rowling, terf, etc
from shon faye, author of the transgender issue, found re-posted on tumblr and i thought it was good enough to put here, i love to save stuff i find, don't mind me
(I've been checking for quite a while already. But the last boost told me that the issue is actually worse than I thought.)
Grmbl. Since this apparently needs clarifying.
I will not boost pictures without *useful* alt text. Technically having alt text that's completely useless to the reader ("an image", "a tweet", etc.) is not enough. Yes, I check.
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I just saw an alt text somewhere that described something as, and I quote, "An image". For fucks sake people, I know that already, the whole point of alt text is to *describe* the image. I know it's an image, maybe tell me what the fuck the image is? If you can't add good alt text, don't ad it at all.
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@DeArcheoloog @TiciaVerveer It worked! It is really possible to turn wood without a toolrest on a pole lathe with a medieval chisel.
The chisel is quite heavy, but that helps to keep it steady.
I hope I can improve my skills this week, and make something useful. My ultimate goal is the late medieval children's tabor pipe I measured at the archeological depot of Leiden. But that feels far away: I need a lot more skill for that. I think I will start with the handle of a shoemaker's awl.
CW-boost: racist violence in UK
'intellectual' podcasts
I think I've finally worked out what annoys me so much about these 'intellectual podcasts'. Like, sure, they're almost always laundering right-wing politics, but I find them grating in a much more visceral sense than that, and this includes the ones that *aren't* right-wing.
I think it's because of how those shows are almost entirely centered on a few people sitting in a room enthusiastically agreeing with each other. There's a pretense of intellectual debate, but no actual depth of any sort.
There's no room for learning of novel perspectives, of different experiences. It's just two dudes - it's almost always dudes - talking over each other about how right they both are. No genuine reflection or inquiry.
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@joepie91 That makes sense. And I've almost always seen organizations react to the problems that arise from this by further centralizing power and reducing people's agency. It's a downward spiral that eventually either destroys the organization or turns it into a bureaucracy, i.e. an organization which tries to make everyone interchangeable.
Which I guess is what Google was *trying* to become at the end of the day. Only they seemed to think they could do it better than others and have people still do decent work. I think it's pretty obvious at this point that they were wrong.
Hypothesis: the fact that tech workers have little genuine agency over the work they do and how they do it (the boss decides in the end, not them) leads to bad technical choices sticking around institutionally because the inertia is hard to overcome if you don't have power over the direction, and those bad technical choices are introduced in the first place through hype cycles because "banding together around an exciting new tool" is the closest thing that anyone has to community organizing.
(This is an unrefined thought)
Pondering about the relation between worker agency/ownership and the susceptibility of the tech industry to hype cycles
- 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
