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.
- 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
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Zouden boomers er nou nooit moe van worden om jongeren de schuld te geven van hun eigen gebrek aan langetermijnvisie?
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It's possible to start a business, including a technology business, without it being a #Startup . A Startup is a specific kind of business, one in which the goal of the founders is to raise a ton of cash early on in hopes of making a *huge* product down the road.
It's tied to investor and #VentureCapital culture.
It's possible to run a small business where the goal isn't being acquired or creating a monopoly.
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Tech companies: "Upgrade your subscription to remove the CSS blur effect that makes the chat transcript illegible."
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LB about how Linux missionaries berating people for not knowing terminal aren't helping their "just use Linux it has a GUI" cause:
Ah, so that's why people onhere who proselytize about the fediverse and "don't understand why more people don't use it" are so shitty about constantly "suggesting" that people should spin up their own instances the second they experience anything unpleasant here. They are just used to being judgy condescending technoelitist shitnuggets.
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Degrowth is an incredibly threatening idea to capitalists -esp. to some in certain industries.
There's gonna be lots more disinfo and distortions about it.
Degrowth targets -excesses- that are harmful (mega yachts, bombs, commutes- stuff we don't need to live well), not reductions to basic well being.
Comments declaring we'll need to live in caves, or that reductions in population are necessary first steps …yeah, ya might want to investigate whether they are paid shills or just ignorant.
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Clarification: "racism", "fascism", etc. are obviously not "marginal differences in personal views" and are not what I'm talking about here.
One would hope that that's obvious, but I'm adding this to make sure that the Usual Suspects don't try to use this post as ammo to try and shut up criticism. Which I'm not arguing for anyway, by the way, genuine criticism is fine.
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With how much bullshit and abuse queer communities already have to endure from fascists and the like, it would be nice if those queer communities made a bit more of an effort to constructively resolve conflicts between said communities, instead of trying to eat each other for marginal differences in personal views.
Like, sure, you don't have to interact with people you don't like, and this isn't an argument against eg. fediblocking, but the amount of abuse I sometimes see flying from communities trying to 'defend' themselves from something that isn't actually a threat, is concerning.
Please *talk to* people first and understand why they do what they do, instead of making assumptions about them and mounting entire campaigns based on that.
(This is almost certainly not about whatever conflict you may be thinking of, but it probably does apply there too. I'm being deliberately vague here because there's no point in calling out a specific case.)
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I saw a microbiologist today.
Much bigger than I expected.
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I don't think I agree with the idea that time spent automating a task only "pays off" if it saves you a significant amount of time on an ongoing basis. Yesterday I automated the sending of a monthly email that probably takes me less than a minute to send. Even if it took me five minutes I would not recoup the time spent automating it for over a year.
But - I feel lighter. Now I don't have to remember to do it, and I don't have the nuisance of a boring repetitive task to deal with every month.
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What the actual fuck?
This is some wild investigative reporting from IGN.
Did you know: JCDecaux and Clear Channel are advertising companies, not infrastructure companies.
The reason you see them everywhere is because they have contracts with many municipalities; they pay for and maintain city infrastructure (bus stops, trash bins, benches, etc.) and in exchange they get exclusive advertising rights in many locations. They operate throughout Europe, and probably elsewhere.
These contracts typically come with steep cancellation fines, and are a major reason why political efforts to ban advertising in public spaces often goes nowhere; if the local government were to go through with that, they would immediately have a large cancellation fine and infrastructure bill to pay.
Often, (part of) these contracts are publicly available; consult the public infrastructure agreements and documents for your local government, and do a FOIA or equivalent request if necessary. This should tell you exactly how they are keeping your local government under their thumb.
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Something that just occurred to me: a lot of people identify with and cheer on the protagonist in movies who knowingly takes a difficult decision at great cost to themselves or even others, a potentially destructive or violent one, which they know must be taken for the greater good.
And yet, many of these same people will immediately condemn radical direct actions undertaken by activists under exactly these circumstances, where they only see the outcome and not the process of careful deliberation and consideration that went into it.
(Yes I know that sometimes, some other emulators work under some configurations for some games. The point here is that Goldberg works *consistently*.)
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You can't just give huge tax cuts to millionaires, they will just spend it on drugs, and overpriced social media companies that they won't even know how to run correctly.
PSA: if you're trying to use a Steam emulator to do offline/local/account-less multiplayer in a Windows game under WINE/etc., then replace it with the Goldberg emulator - as far as I can tell, it's the only Steam emulator that works under WINE and where the developers deliberately ensure that. Some games may need a specific build, see the included readme.
If you're using a pirated copy of a game under WINE/Proton and it crashes but according to ProtonDB it should work, then this is almost certainly also your issue - it came with a Steam emulator that doesn't work under WINE.
(There's also a Linux version of the emulator, but that is only useful for native Linux games - it will not work with Windows games under WINE.)
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[Settler opinions not welcome]
A leading criminologist has said the crown has been acknowledging and apologising for the racism of its law enforcement agencies ever since Moana Jackson’s He Whaipaanga Hou report in 1987.
“These apologies are all worthless insults to the Māori people as long as the Crown never actually stops its racist violence.”
“This report shows what we have known for decades: the police are a racist, violent, occupying force in Māori communities,” said Emmy Rākete.
#NewZealand #NZPol #NZ #NZPolice #Maori #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #Criminology #CriminalJustice
(colonised spelling of "Māori" used for hashtag purposes only)
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Early this week someone mentioned the lack of education/scientific resources in Mastodon (compared to twitter pre-musk), and that we have to start somewhere, so here's my contribution for this week:
A comprehensive list of grants (public and private opportunities) assembled by Johns Hopkins University https://research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-opportunities/
That's the largest and most detailed grant resource I know of, if you know other ones let's contribute :)
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Boost for reach: Looking for a UI/UX designer for paid work on a F/OSS project.
The fundamental goal is to improve the new user experience for ngscopeclient (https://www.ngscopeclient.org/)
I'm not looking for coding/implementation work specifically, more of general human-factors etc feedback on how to make the UI easier to figure out and as intuitive as possible. It's a complex tool with a large feature set and striking a balance between seas of menus and toolbars blocking your view of the data, and making the UI impossible to navigate, is not trivial.
Experience with electronic test and measurement, scientific computing, DSP, or data visualization is a plus.
If you're willing to offer discounted rates for open source projects that's a bonus.
- 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
