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 is amazing work by @alshafei and team. You can search by company, country and funding entity, and learn things like:
"safeXai is the entity that has quietly resumed the operations of Banjo, a digital surveillance company whose founder, Damien Patton, was a former Ku Klux Klan member who’d participated in a 1990 drive-by shooting of a synagogue near Nashville, Tennessee."
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I recently discovered this amazing resource on how to write alt text thanks to Mastodon!
It's a great 101 explainer of what it is and how to write it, and even has a photo of a capybara with tips on it to help!
Check it out here: https://www.perkins.org/resource/how-write-alt-text-and-image-descriptions-visually-impaired/
#Accessibility #DEI #A11y
https://www.perkins.org/resource/how-write-alt-text-and-image-descriptions-visually-impaired/
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Bakfiets with trailer, the real Dutch 🛻
Perhaps we should be building better developer tools for the people making intricate spreadsheets and repurposed tools, rather than for the people making exploitative platforms, live services and cash grabs
mention of food
I seem to have an uncanny ability to come downstairs into the kitchen any time food is being made, regardless of what time it is being made at.
Now that might be explainable by smell, if it weren't for the fact that most of these times I'm going downstairs for a very specific reason that is completely unrelated to food!
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RIVM, even kort samengevat:
sinds Sars-Cov-2 zijn intree heeft gemaakt verwachten we een hogere sterfte dus vanaf nu is oversterfte (vooralsnog) alleen dat wat daar nog boven zit.
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uspol
It'd just be really fucking nice if the response to the incredibly bad faith arguments from Republicans (arguments used to justify *more* electoral fraud, for what it's worth) didn't involve downplaying or dismissing concerns about actual electoral fraud.
That shit cost the 2000 election, for fuck's sake. It's not even remotely theoretical!
(3/3)
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It's absurd on the face of it — how can you say you'll accept something that hasn't happened yet? We *know* for a *fact* that electoral fraud is *rampant*.
It's just that Republicans are the ones doing it, and they do it not by double-voting or voting illegally. That's pretty high risk to gain a few votes at most. Going after voting machines, voter rolls, the certification process, and so forth are far more effective attacks.
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The Republicans make so much of a fuss about election security, all from a position of *incredibly* bad faith. By and large the Democratic response seems to be to call out that bad faith, but also going further to downplay questions about election security *in general*; hence the trope of asking politicians if they will accept the outcome of the 2024 election.
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Increasingly convinced that communication and writing/speaking/etc. should be considered a mandatory skill for software development outside personal projects.
(Note: that *does not* imply the use of 'standard' language, or even necessarily words. The point here is that you understand how to make yourself understandable to others, not what language or dialect or spelling you use to do so.)
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what are you
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i fucking wish android had proper audio routing like linux...
i wanna play a game while listening to a podcast, but the game doesn't have a mute option
on linux, i could just pop open pavucontrol and click one button, but here, i'm simply fucked, unless i wanna mod the apk.
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"Wat doe jij nou?"
"Ik laat even het spoelwater van de sla weglopen."
"Maar dat moet in een vergiet."
"Dit kan ook."
"Nee, dat is de korf van de slacentrifuge!"
"Weet ik."
"Dat moet gewoon in een vergiet."
"Nee hoor."
Mensen: dit is toch gewoon handig???
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The guy in front of me on Caltrain works at OpenAI and the fact that he’s spent the last ten minutes on Google writing queries with “site:reddit.com” after them tells me everything I want to know about the state of this industry
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When I think of digital sovereignity, I'm not just thinking about it at a country level.
There's a dearth of independent hosting options for bare metal if you want to set up your own hosting service or say move your existing one.
@dentangle has been pondering this.
There are some basic criteria:
- MUST have IPv6 on their website and MXs
- MUST NOT not use Cloudflare (or equivalent)
- MUST be running their own MXs (no Gmail, no Office365)
Short list of 13
#ipv6 #bgp
https://chaos.social/@dentangle/112960609707482171
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A hosting company that hides its own website behind the skirts of Cloudflare does not inspire confidence.
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One of my many alma maters is running a FREE course on science literacy: learning how to differentiate between science, pseudoscience, fake science, and fraudulent science – and to explain what makes pseudoscience both attractive and dangerous.
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/admissions-programs/online-courses/science-literacy.html
#ScienceLiteracy #CriticalThinking #YEG #UofA #pseudoscience
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@q extracting vectors from obscure PDFs on the Wayback Machine is one of my hobbies
Also, you know what speaker is typically used for speaker mode, which some people - like me - need to be able to make *any* call at all?
Exactly.
- 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
