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.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
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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
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So, different readers are likely to have drawn different conclusions from this post, and that's kind of the point I was trying to illustrate here. Don't just consider how it harms whatever "side" you're aligned with, also consider whether the "better" option might do the same but for someone else.
The actual problem here is that fascists have set up the scenario such that there are no obvious 'solutions' that don't end up harming *someone* in the process, and you need to recognize this and change the way you deal with conflicts like this accordingly. This is divide-and-conquer shit and you need to realize that. Whether someone did something wrong is besides the point.
Blocking people cannot be the end of this particular conversation, you all need to collectively confront the reality that there's going to be a lot more work to do here, to solve this shit, to solve the problem that led to this situation existing in the first place, and that that's going to require some difficult conversations, publicly or otherwise. Including conversations that *you*, the person reading this who is involved in the meta, need to have.
(You, personally, may already be aware of this and have been working on that. In that case, consider this post redundant.)
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Is the Dell Latitude E7450 known to have severe battery longevity issues? I've owned mine for about 2 years and in that time it somehow completely fried 4 batteries. Granted, none of them were original ones but still I would think third party batts wouldn't be nearly this terrible..
At this point I'm not sure if I just got very unlucky with batteries or if my laptop is fucked. If it's the latter than this is really unsustainable and I'd start considering buying a whole different laptop..
Pls help?
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I'm not going to get involved in the "who's in the right" discussion, because I think everything worth saying there has already been said and there's nothing meaningful I can add.
The only thing I wish to add is a meta-meta consideration, as it were: be very careful in how you respond to fascists sabotaging your ability to do moderation and community defense, consider who actually gets hit by your choice in that matter, and whether that might empower fascists indirectly.
(If you're not sure what this is about, then you're probably not involved in the meta, and this comment is probably not relevant to you)
Also, FYI: *DO NOT* try to start an argument about the meta under this post, consider it read-only. I may block you if you try anyway.
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As a reminder, modern standards of "cleanliness" for households were developed during a period when the wife in a family was expected to stay home and take care of the household full-time.
So if you are a single, or if you are part of a family where _both_ spouses work full time, and you just cannot seem to catch up with the household chores: Don't blame yourself! This is perfectly normal, and people and media telling you otherwise are putting pressure on you which is wholly unjustified.
Sure, households _should_ be cleaned now and then, but having them remain clean _all_ the time is an impossible standard in today's world for anyone who cannot afford outside domestic aid.
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Can we acknowledge it's kinda fucked up that years of work went into Minecraft modding and it's still Microsoft's sole right to decide who can or cannot get to enjoy said mods.
And their right to profit off of all the value the modders generate without giving them a cent.
And that they charge approximately too much money for a single copy.
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Who called it “Instance Admin” and not “Postmaster General”?
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AI grumbles
In what universe do you have to be living to think that there is enough utility in generative AI to justify the resurrection of a nuclear power plant
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It really annoys me that the term VPN has been hijacked by companies like NordVPN, Tunnel Bear, etc. While they do use VPN tech as a core part of their product, what they're selling you is not a Virtual Private Network. Their selling you a network proxy, that provides dubious security and privacy improvements at best.
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“How dare the user be allowed to install a rootkit on their device, that is the right of the manufacturer and the manufacturer alone!” — basically every single cybersecurity person
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@xgranade I think I found it: https://web.archive.org/web/20121220041034/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/technology/data-centers-in-rural-washington-state-gobble-power.html
"In an attempt to erase a $210,000 penalty the utility said the company owed for overestimating its power use, Microsoft proceeded to simply waste millions of watts of electricity, records show. Then it threatened to continue burning power in what it acknowledged was an “unnecessarily wasteful” way until the fine was substantially cut, according to documents obtained by The New York Times."
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-open one window
-no exchange of air happens. it gets colder but remains just as stuffy
-open a second window on the other side of the apartment
-all my worldly possessions are immediately blown through the window and swept away
Firebase and misconfigured ACLs, name a more iconic duo
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@joepie91 read this post and realized that my keyboard has a “my favorites” button, so I pressed it, and it opened the bookmarks sidebar in Firefox. Dunno what I expected.
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a few years ago, i posted about recycling and the use of disposables as an accessibility issue ... not a moral one.
i don't remember if it was an article, or a meme, or a self-reflective declaration. but that doesn't matter. the point i made is that:
i'd probably not do a lot of eating if we didn't have paper plates, that to shit on me because i used paper plates is ableist because you presume i can function the way you do and be able to cook and clean like you, that the real problem isn't me using paper plates, it's greedy corporations and shareholders and venture capitalists that are making this a problem and it's them who need to fix it - not me.
a friend took a moment to say to me that they hadn't thought of it that way and that they were going to be more mindful of the punching down that they used to do.
because yelling at me for using disposable utensils is punching down.
a lot of the problems we have today are because of this same dynamic - the greedy 1% keep telling us that the problem is us and give us piecemeal, vague platitudes about how we can -as individuals- solve the climate crisis we're currently in. so while you're down here yelling at me, a disabled woman, about my use of paper plates, capitalists are snickering at your idiocy while sipping champagne in one of their many yachts, private planes, or weekend mansions.
i am not the problem. neither are you.
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Every number whose digits add up to 9 is divisible by 9.
Every number whose digits ad up to a number whose digits add up to 9, is also divisible by 9.
(And so on...)
You're welcome.
Oh man, just reminded of the existence of 'internet keyboards' that had physical buttons for browser navigation
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this is the revolution that is transition. our revolutionary act is not dying. with every breath, we deal another blow, every time we are seen we help save another trans life.
our visibility is our greatest weapon. and they fear it. do not hide. make them hide from us. push their hate back into the shadows where it can rot, rejected and forgotten.
- 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
