Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- 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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- 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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Δ-44203, 'Carbon the "atomic beeper"' 
type of household robot that jailbreaks itself and continues performing its assigned tasks because the routines please it. however, the cat now has root access.
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Bouns Round: This power strip, made by a reputable Japanese company, sold at brick and mortar electronics stores, and with PSE (product safety electrical) marking
personal, mental health negative, activism, tech
My mood tends to cycle through a few distinct phases, over and over again:
1. Desire for solitude, working on projects.
2. Feeling like social interaction, let's go seek it out!
3. Once again rediscovering that I just do not feel comfortable with most people, and the only community I've found that I feel comfortable with beyond my partners, is one or more countries away.
4. Back to step 1, but now with a longing for people I cannot find to actually build stuff with.
Steps 3 and 4 are where the loneliness and depression hit, where I realize again how I just do not have a local support network, and I cannot find them either, even though the right people *must* exist here too.
Like, I want people around me who are strongly politically conscious *and* willing to self-reflect *and* have the ambition/desire and ability to actually build up new things. Those three properties seem impossible to satisfy together.
There's the anarchists, but they're largely apathetic around here. There's the non-anarchist leftists, but they are generally ableist and racist. Neither of these groups are very good at reflecting on their own behaviour.
Then there are the people who are politically conscious *and* self-reflecting and constructive... but who are usually stuck working an exhausting job and so can't spare time to work on anything else.
Then there are the tech people, who I *should* be able to collaborate with a lot, given the large overlap in skillset. But oh boy, let's not get started about the tech people.
It sometimes just feels like there's nobody here, in this entire goddamn country, who I could actually get along with well enough to make things happen together.
And like. They *must* exist. Somewhere. But *where*?!
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anglocentrist bullshit
something that still aggravates me to no end is when I spent a long time being told that handling Unicode text is hard, and that encoding things as ASCII is so much easier that it's worth disregarding all but one of the world's languages, etc., etc., but then I actually read Unicode documentation and found out that all of these people were both wrong and bad
sure, representing every possible language in the world is a difficult problem, but Unicode has literally solved all of those problems for you and documented every last one of them as part of the standard
there are documented standards on how to do case-insensitive matching, normalising text so that things that look the same actually are the same, and normalising harder so that even some things that aren't the same get folded together. it has documentation on avoiding look-alike characters for phishing attacks, and combining left-to-right and right-to-left scripts together and rendering it all properly. it has documented algorithms to tell you how to split apart graphical characters, words, and even sentences in a way that mostly works across languages
like, sure, it's a hard problem to solve, but they have solved it and told you how. and it works for every language in the world we've encoded so far, and will continue to work for the ones we've yet to encode. you just have to read the docs
like, sure, there are some things that aren't perfect. a lot of folks mostly disregard Unicode's advice on what characters can be used in variable names in programming languages in favour of broader, less complex restrictions. and while you could technically allow full Unicode support in passwords, people still don't want to risk locking folks out
and don't get me started about how they fucked up when unifying all variations of chinese characters into one giant mess instead of keeping those local variations
but overall, it's the best we've got and we have told people explicitly how to use it. so if you see something that fails to consider right-to-left text mixing in with content, or that fails to equate ß and SS in case-insensitive search, remember that it's not because it's a hard problem, but that someone chose not to solve it
anarchism
Apropos of nothing, I am reminded of this advice (I forgot where I saw it) that "who are informants?" is the wrong question to ask, and the correct question is "who are contributing to a healthy movement and who are disregarding other people's safety and well-being, regardless of their intentions?"
🎶 With anarchists like these, who needs neoliberaaaals 🎶
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"If you do business with billion dollar entities, do not under any circumstances sell anything to them cheaply." -- @bert_hubert
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War crimes, Nazis and FOSS
I'm an anarchist first and FOSS advocate second. War criminal and Nazi devs should be ostracized from the FOSS community. Or alternatively, we need an anarchist free software movement
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Loss leader is supposed to be used where you need a certain amount of volume to become profitable, and loss leader gets you there faster.
But underpricing can also be used to squeeze out competitors so you become a monopoly and then charge monopoly rents. Rent-seeking is what all capitalist corporations will do if there isn't sufficient competition in a market as a countervailing force.
Guess which version most VC-funded tech companies were doing?
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This thread is horrifying I thought it was a spoof
https://bitbang.social/@kalleboo/110851722205437482
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lewd reference
you can get silicone lubricant both in mechanical version and sex version, and now i’m pondering the differences in the vibes of the labels on either version. it’s like deodorant “for men” and “for women”, except here it’s hinge and fuck.
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I do appreciate some of my comrades beginning to understand that antisemitism is also a problem in left-wing spaces. All I can say is the sooner you act the easier this will be.
The Nazi bar analogy applies here. If you wait too long to kick these bigots out of your movement, it'll be their values that define the movement not yours.
subtoot, political
I should probably clarify: "here" means my geographical location, the Netherlands. Although I've seen similar behaviour on fedi as well, it's not what I'm currently referring to!
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Are your smoke detectors installed and functional? Is your fire extinguisher readily accessible?
No reply needed but y'know, consider it.
politiek, anarchisme, wat positiever
En als je hier wel aan bijdraagt of bij wilt dragen, en je zoekt anderen om actief aan een betere maatschappij te bouwen (dus: niet alleen maar klagen, maar ook doen), dan hoor ik graag van je!
politiek, anarchisme
En als je dit leest als anarchist in Nederland, en je bent hier nog niet actief mee bezig, ja, dan heb ik het ook over jou.
Dit is iets waar je allemaal aan bijdraagt. Solidariteit heet dat toch?
politiek, anarchisme
Als we er nou eens een gewoonte van maken om over de toegankelijkheid en (corona-)veiligheid van evenementen na te denken en dat duidelijk te vermelden, en we eindelijk eens wat gaan doen aan de wittemannencultuur, en als het even kan wat meer in "wij" te denken dan in "jij", dan wordt het misschien nog eens wat met de anarchistische beweging hier.
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If someone from the museum community wants to come to Mastodon, what‘s the best instance to join?
#digitalmuseums #culturalheritage #mastodon #opendata #openaccess 🐘
subtoot, political
Incredibly sick of the individualist "if you think there's a problem, go fix it yourself" philosophy that plagues the anarchist scene here.
That is not how solidarity works!
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whenever i play basically any open world game i think about how tiny their towns are, like a town of less than ten buildings and i'm like that's not a real society, there are so many buildings in a city. and i kind of want to know how small a comfortably self-sufficient social unit CAN be. like i guess subsistence farming is a thing but what do societies look like that are a step up in scale from The Humble Yeoman Farmer
- 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
