Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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.
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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
Pondering whether it would make sense to classify programming languages on a "precision" axis, meaning where it sits on the axis of tradeoffs between "exactly (needing to) specify all the details of what you want it to do, resulting in guaranteed and predictable behaviours" and "doing hopefully-the-right-thing with little specification work, at the cost of less predictable behaviour and it sometimes guessing wrong"
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"Police interactions are people's first engagement with the prison system. Police can be in any public setting. They're on the street. They're in hospitals, libraries, train stations. They're in our schools. They're in our workplaces. They enter our homes - sometimes when summoned, sometimes by force, with or without a warrant. As K's experience illustrates, police bring the threat, and often the reality, of harassment, surveillance, criminalization, arrest and even death. Patrolling protests - including protests against the police - is part of their job. Police ensure that, particularly for marginalized people, there's always a possible path from everyday life to prison."
— Maya Schenwar, Victoria Law, Michelle Alexander: Prison by Any Other Name, p. 144
Being detained three separate times in my life (one for shoplifting, once for fare evasion and another for protest activity), this whole chapter, especially being based in New York City, is really getting hard to read, but I feel seen in a way I wasn't expecting.
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Make this Doctorow 's article your most important week reading:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/#how-about-a-nice-game-of-chess
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boost with CW: food used as a metaphor to make a really important point about AI and image descriptions
https://mastodon.eternalaugust.com/@pencilears/112978735034497272
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we have to kill capitalism so the internet can be good again
meta, communication styles
I've noticed that the (autistic?) practice of "repeat in different words what was said to explicitly acknowledge it and incrementally add onto it at the same time" often gets interpreted as "mansplaining" on here and I'm not sure what to do about that
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pol-
You know how everyone votes for a politician for their populist progressive promises and is all surprisedpikachu when the politician fails to achieve any of them?
Just once I would love to instead see a politician get elected on their safe corporate moderate platform and then shock everyone by implementing surprise socialism
Just once I would love to instead see a politician get elected on their safe corporate moderate platform and then shock everyone by implementing surprise socialism
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Het is weer zover.
Den Aha levert diepvriesspul.
In een tas.
Die in de tas babyromaines zit. Bevroren dus, 5 stuks.
Winterwortel: deels bevroren.
Bleekselderij: idem.
Prei: idem.
Dan nog groente in stukken.
Een fles kapot.
Op de kokosnoot 'zit iets raar nats'.
Ik snap dat gewoon niet. Ze vergoeden het maar ja: te laag bedrag voor bezorging dus ik moet naar winkel die ver weg is, dus met tram.
Soms, soms gaat het goed.
Meestal niet.
Vandaag dus weer niet.
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Just Stop Ads
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Wat een nuance in een programma voor kinderen, iets om als volwassenen van te leren:
Indonesië in de oorlog, Klokhuis
"Honderden jaren was Nederland de baas in grote delen van wat we nu kennen als Indonesië. Janouk gaat vierhonderd jaar terug in de tijd en ziet hoe Nederland delen van het eilandenrijk met geweld veroverde. Veel Indonesiërs wilden een eigen land. In augustus 1945, kort na het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, riep Indonesië de onafhankelijkheid uit. Janouk ziet wat voor oorlogen er nodig waren voordat Indonesië eindelijk een eigen land werd, en hoe deze tijd hier in Nederland wordt herdacht. In de sketch zien we hoe Nederlandse kolonisten zichzelf heel erg beschaafd vinden, maar zijn ze dat ook…"
https://hetklokhuis.nl/tv-uitzending/5519/indonesie-in-de-oorlog
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Whenever you see a headline or an editorial piece which is wildly at odds with the evidence of your eyes and ears, just ask yourself, "How would the public accepting this as fact benefit/empower/enrich the billionaire who owns this megaphone?"
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microsoft
So, Microsoft decided to break lots of people's computers:
https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-cracking-down-dodging-windows-11-system-requirements/
Any "security improvements" that require people to buy a new computer (or phone) is a security upgrade that poor people and/or people in the third world don't benefit from.
It is worse than useless, it is discriminatory, it is obscene. It throws people under the bus, causes us great economic duress, for the sake of other people's security. It erects a walled community and keeps us out, and pretends things are safer by removing us from the statistics.
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Eckartsberga. Het station lijkt haast bevroren in de tijd, er zit zelfs een vuilniszak in de afvalbak #Pepermuntje
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I have managed to create a table style that I am quite proud of
this is all done with CSS
Is there a name for this philosophy around projects (of any kind)?
"Never discourage someone (or yourself) from attempting a project based on whether you think it is achievable, but you do have a moral obligation to discourage someone from attempting a project if it would be unethical for them to do so."
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this is your irregular reminder to
* be gay
* do crime
* post about being gay
* not post about doing crime
Edit: wow, my best performing post ever. guess what: it's #SettlerSaturday, so your job is now to find an Indigenous person's #MutualAid post and throw them $2/$5/$20/$100.
if you boosted this post and you're white this is not optional! if you truly have no money to give then you can credit yourself 50c for every #IndigenousMutualAid post you boost, until you reach one of those thresholds (take your pick).
have money but no spoons to read through a hashtag? here's one for ya: Evel needs accessories for xens new wheelchair. https://throne.com/evel/collections/wheelchair-things
or you can give money to xens indie studio co-op here: https://ko-fi.com/aldercone/
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Choose your phone!
Your options are:
- company that seeks rent on every transaction that happens through the phone
- company that tracks your location, habits and usage to build detailed profiles on you to inform advertising
- custom ROMs that can’t run your banking app
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a lot of processes in the industry i work in now rely on spreadsheets
like really janky ones with hours of people's lives burned away by copy/paste weekly or daily and pointing and clicking, following a checklist
so i think "aha! i can help!" and i replace the spreadsheet with an automated process
and hours per week are saved and i am a hero and it feels great
but then they need to make a little change and they can't, they have to go through me, i have effectively taken their power away
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@nota thinking about this more, i'm a little reminded of a discussion i read a while ago (on tumblr i think?) about "handmade" clothing, in which several people who were very into sewing absolutely lost their mind at people believing there's any sort of cheap clothing that's "not handmade" — it's just that it gets done in places that aren't usually thought about much (unless one wants to insist that "handmade clothing" prohibits the use of a sewing machine ig)
like it's the same kind of assumption that "mass-produced elsewhere" might as well mean "it just kinda materialised" (and credit is given to whoever designed it, not whoever made it)
like it's the same kind of assumption that "mass-produced elsewhere" might as well mean "it just kinda materialised" (and credit is given to whoever designed it, not whoever made it)
- 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
