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.
- 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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All y'all posting lists of "things you should be doing now to prepare for natural disasters" in the wake of #Helene need to stop omitting:
--Join with local efforts to abolish policing
--Prepare counter-repressive measures (disguises, means of defence & means of attack) to defeat police hoarding supplies
So far (I haven't been paying close attention) I've already seen reports of cops mobilizing to support the owners of an Ingles grocery that refused to even sell supplies to residents, and (last boost) cops dispersing people from getting bottled water from a wrecked transport
Now that I think of it, Katrina happened long enough ago that a lot of adults can't remember it, huh? If you have the time and the stomach, read up on how the cops there were just as much of a killing force as the hurricane itself....
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If you haven’t already, I would recommend reading the book In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil.
“Looting rejects the legitimacy of ownership rights and property, the moral injunction to work for a living, and the “justice” of law and order. Looting reveals all these for what they are: not natural facts, but social constructs benefiting a few at the expense of the many, upheld by ideology, economy, and state violence.”
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Update: HTM doet ook mee met het protest. Behoud het @OV!
Teken op https://methetov.petities.nl
PSA: personal health, surgery and risks, availability
If all goes to plan, I will be receiving a kidney transplantation on November 12 (2024), followed by an unknown recovery period. What to expect:
After the transplantation, I will not be around online for a while; this could be anywhere from a few days to a few months depending on how well (or not) the surgery goes. Even after I return, I will likely be avoiding stress for a while, which also means I may drop out of things unannounced.
In the time leading up to the transplantation, I will become less and less consistently available, and you may see me around less, as I deal with the preparations for the surgery.
I'm receiving a kidney from a living donor, under pretty much best-case circumstances (no dialysis), so the chance of success is high, and the chance of complications is low, but it is not zero. Likewise, survival chance is high but not 100%.
If the transplantation succeeds, I will be able to live a mostly normal life, but I will be on immunosuppressive medicine for the rest of my life. Among other things, this means that you're probably only going to see me at (hacker) events that take sufficient precautions against COVID and the like.
So if you want me and other immunocompromised folks around at those events, ask organizers to take those precautions! Ventilation/filtering and CO2 measurement is a good baseline.
If you have any questions about all this, feel free to ask, but I may or may not have the spoons to answer them.
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Random memory:
I was in 1st grade or so, eating lunch in the gym. I was drinking juice from a thermos, and a teacher I didn't know stormed over and shouted at me to "next time bring a spoon and eat it properly". I eventually figured out he thought it was soup?
That was, I believe, the day I realized teachers are not infallible authority figures, they can in fact be complete buffoons; and ultimately planted the seed for my general disdain for authority.
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folks posting screenshots of silly output from ML chatbots is exhausting. I'm seeing it half a dozen times a day and I'm so bored of it. yes, we know, it's crap. tag or CW that shit, please, for my sanity.
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There are days when it feels like we'd all be better off if we paved over the entire software industry and restarted from scratch
It's just random fucking shit breaking constantly on every kind of device and every kind of OS
Sometimes it feels like this entire field is just shitty code, chaotic nondeterminism, and constant bullshit day in, day out, top to bottom.
Just... ugh.
(Ignore me. I'm just here in my corner being annoyed.)
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#PSA #PayPal is changing their privacy statement/terms of service starting November so that they can sell your information to merchants.
You CAN opt out, but you have to do it before they start:
Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off
ETA: this is probably country specific, due to differing privacy laws.
You can try privacy>settings>recommendations
Check replies, people have found the same toggle under a different header.
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Alles voor de kinderen natuurlijk, maar in plaats van onze telefoons om te zetten in afluistermachines die iedere WhatsApp foto potentieel met de politie delen is er ZOVEEL meer wat we eerst op orde moeten hebben. Want de politie heeft het al druk genoeg (zeggen ze zelf), en de achterstanden zijn nu al vreselijk:
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/alles-voor-de-kinderen-maar-dit/
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Mijn man wilde iets regelen op de site van de belastingdienst en dat kon opeens niet meer. Na lang in de wacht en iemand aan de telefoon vertelde die medewerker dat de site alleen in Chrome werkt.
Dus de belastingdienst en de overheid dwingt mensen om een browser te installeren en te gebruiken die door bijvoorbeeld @bitsoffreedom als meest privacy-onvriendelijke wordt omschreven?
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software, lost media, musing
it'd be so cool if there was a tool (like a gnome addon or a bg service or smth) that regularily compares all the file names in your system (or like the music+videos+documents folder) with a regularily-updated list of lost media (like a list hosted online that gets updated regularily). and if it thinks a file you have might be lost media it'll tell you, and you can manually check, and if it's a false alarm you just need to tell it and then it ignores the path
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Wij doen weer mee aan het Weekend van de Wetenschap.
Tickets zijn gratis!
https://weekendvandewetenschap.nl/activiteiten/2024/open-dag-wat-is-een-hackerspace-3/
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opinion, fedi, might be meta-ish
@ashten @ChaosKitsune @amie I kinda feel like fedi has become this place that is mostly about fedi rather than being about the people. It's not that I think people shouldn't talk about stuff like social justice, but at the same time, it feels very distant when so much of what is posted here is people shouting about how society should be instead of creating connections in the here and now.
And the annoying thing is that whenever I post about social justice and stuff like that, I tend to get rewarded for it with a bunch of likes and boosts. But when I talk about the latest game I played, nobody cares. To the point where I just don't post on fedi about it anymore. I just talk to my friends instead because then I at least get to have a conversation.
Yes, social justice is important, but can you have it if we don't create connections and friendships? If all you do is shout at people? I think we need both or else it feels too distant.
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ACAB
also i am doing my film school homework right now and i need to write an essay on blade runner but i lowkey don't wanna watch the theatrical cut cuz people say it's heavily altered from how it was supposed to be, and final cut fixes it. but i can't find ways to watch the final cut online for free. does anybody know any libraries with free movies pls??? ty!
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Really loving this phenomenon of orchestras playing EDM
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Onderzoek toont aan: openbaar vervoer wordt structureel benadeeld ten opzichte van autovervoer
https://www.doorbraak.eu/onderzoek-toont-aan-openbaar-vervoer-wordt-structureel-benadeeld-ten-opzichte-van-autovervoer/
“In plaats van mensen in de auto te duwen door hen uit het openbaar vervoer te jagen, moet er een fundamentele kentering komen in het denken en doen over individuele en collectieve mobiliteit. Dus minder auto en meer trein, tram en bus.”
#Rover #PBL
#Beweging #Kapitalisme #Uitsluiting #WijReizenSamen
Als gepensioneerde mensen aan de ene kant dingen moeten zoeken om zichzelf bezig te houden, en er aan de andere kant paniek is omdat er steeds meer mensen de pensioenleeftijd bereiken en we niet meer genoeg werknemers gaan hebben om al het werk te doen...
Dan moet er toch op een gegeven moment ergens een lichtje gaan branden dat er misschien iets mis is met de manier waarop we over "werk" denken, zou je zeggen.
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Kwam deze net weer tegen, als het luisterverhaal op zondag bij de NRC, en het is een goede reminder hoe armoe troef het runnen van een pakketpunt is, voor de betrokken ondernemer.
En een eerder verhaal uit 2022, over mensen die thuis een pakketpunt hebben;
Allemaal zodat we niet thuis hoeven te zijn terwijl er iets bezorgd wordt 😐
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Good ideas for people about to lose their jobs at 23 And Me
If you're about to lose your job at 23 And Me anyway now that the company is dying and selling off its assets
Have you considered
Intentional corporate sabotage on your way out?
Do a little $ sudo rm -rdf /*
On a couple servers with customer data that's about to be sold
Depending on what absolute snake of a buyer is on the way, you might even save some lives
*looks at security update for piece of software in JS*
"Fixes XSS"
It's gonna be Handlebars templates, isn't it? *checks* yep, it's Handlebars templates.
- 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
