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.
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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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police
tldr do not talk to the cops, not as a witness, not for background, not for anything. They’re allowed to lie about that if they think you did it and especially if you haven’t done anything you might not realize they could think you did.
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I hate the term ‘commuter rail’ cause it implies anyone using it for something other than getting to/from work is an afterthought at best
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Fuck you wikipedia. I donate with my name but then you take the name from my credit card and deadname me in every fuckin email since.
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Daydream: a lawsuit against publishers to recover the money that we all would have gotten from the lawful resale of our video games, books, movies, etc except that now everything's digital and so publishers just collect rent now
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"I agree that we should oppose fascism but there was a small amount of litter left after the protests so it's impossible to say who's in the right"
Best not get stenography and steganography mixed up
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Δ-44203, 'Carbon the "atomic beeper"' 
query: is there a concrete example of HTTP signature validation that this one can test its code against?
details: this would specify the [signature, public key, string that is signed], and the steps to verify (for example, openssl commands).
context: its ActivityPub implementation considers all incoming activities to be incorrectly signed.
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telegram
Can't help but notice that the reason for the Telegram CEO being arrested in France seems to have shifted from "failure to moderate the platform" (in the original reporting) to "failure to hand over user identities to cops" (Telegram updated their T&C to hand over data).
Those are two VERY different things.
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i can't marie kondo. im too much of a nerd. EVERYTHING SPARKS JOY
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“Sometimes they say it’s illegal [for prisoners to unionize], but it’s not. It’s just frowned upon. But it works.”
New today from Michelle Pitcher: Texans are organizing inside and outside of prisons to empower incarcerated workers, who labor in dangerous conditions without pay. https://www.texasobserver.org/solidarity-prison-labor-union/
#politics #prison #WorkersRights #labor #HumanRights #Texas #USpol #news
idle historical musings, cryptocurrency
If the US had had something like SEPA (and the associated infrastructure), I genuinely wonder if Bitcoin would have ever caught on in the first place
If you're not quite sure of the details of a situation *and you realize that*, then like, don't loudly comment on it either? This is not difficult?
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you don't have to give your opinion on every bit of media that comes up in conversation, especially if your opinion is negative and *especially* if everyone else seems to like it. I'd much rather hear about things you enjoy.
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concept: a sexy anthropomorphic iron encourages you and your fellow laborers to take coordinated action to secure a collective bargaining agreement, because you should strike while the iron is hot
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Listen, this "only useless people wouldn't understand this" crap has kept me in work for a long time, but it still makes me incredibly angry. Folk happily preserving the opportunities for them and their pals like it's just the natural order of things.
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To set aside the exclusionary shit and put my educator's hat on for a minute, the primary thing that makes mastodon complicated for people to get started with is not technical or practical, people know how to fill out forms - it's conceptual. Understanding how to choose an instance requires a significant amount of context, together with a clear sense of the implications of that choice. And we haven't done a great job of providing that context in an accessible way, so far anyway.
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technology fact! IPFS stands for "It Pdoesn't Fucking Swork"
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Okay this is a perfect example of what I was talking about earlier this week. You're building a web browser. One of those most sophisticated pieces of software you can imagine. But meanwhile you bolted this little firebase thing onto it that executes arbitrary code in everybody's tabs. And those folks weren't experienced enough with security practices to understand how potentially dangerous that was.
https://flipboard.com/@theverge/apps-tj3a91j8z/-/a-PE98y0ECTFOOTE0EgUjWSg%3Aa%3A43611565-%2F0
https://flipboard.com/@theverge/apps-tj3a91j8z/-/a-PE98y0ECTFOOTE0EgUjWSg%3Aa%3A43611565-%2F0
- 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
