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
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We got lots of spam at MetaFilter and one time someone posted trying to promote something called "Exemplary Purchase" and we kept wondering what are they were trying to say until we realized it was a translation error, they meant to say "Best Buy" in English.
Ten years on, every time I drive past a BestBuy, I think "Exemplary Purchase!"
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It has turned out that the world just does not suffer significantly from the kind of problem that our research was originally intended to solve.
this is pretty titanic and sums up so much of what is wrong with software and computer science: just because a problem is theoretically interesting and/or rigorous and/or fun to work on *has no bearing whatsoever* on its usefulness in the real world. none. theyre unrelated. sometimes they overlap, cool, but they are not correlated.
you have to do a kind of analysis that engineers are not equipped to do. its a kind of design research that involves understanding your intended audience and their challenges. its deeply human and subjective and i was only exposed to it when working towards my MFA.
something about one of the titans of thought of computer science working for decades only to realize his formal systems -- while intellectually thorough and interesting! -- didnt solve anyone's problems. he just assumed they would. but he never asked. something about that to me feels like The Whole Story.
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Since Calvin and Hobbes are popular right now, please know that the entire archive is available online, searchable, for free. This includes ALL the strips, including some that didn't make it into the various anthologies:
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes
And if you are insistent on using alt text but are (like me) sometimes not motivated to type out the dialogue, there's even a 'transcript' button in the three-dot submenu. It's short on describing images, but it's thorough on the text.
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i'm thinking about inventory systems because there is no way i could keep track of extremely similar looking hard drives and SSDs which have different levels of wear and usability (at this point i already forgot 🫠 and also other computer parts stuff i guess)
but like, what software do i even use for that then? writing CSV by hand sounds like a management hell, does anyone on fedi know of like inventory system software things?
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Verso sent out a gift idea list and I’d love to see one for the people in our lives that need to know what to do in the face of fascism, but are coming at it from a 101 level and are unlikely to read theory.
What are some accessible books (fiction and non-fiction) that show what we’re facing?
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Find that one person in your organization with Kira Nerys energy and get her on your side
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Hitman: okay, so who are my targets?
Dog: well, do you know this guy called Pavlov?
Hitman: rings a bell...
Dog: exactly!
Hitman: right... And what about this Schrödinger guy. You want him dead or alive?
Cat: yes.
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re: uspol, suicide mentioned/discussed, please open
@joepie91 @mynameistillian Exactly. Not everyone can, or even needs to be, on the protest front. To put it in MMORPG terms, we need support classes as much as we need fighters and tanks.
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re: uspol, suicide mentioned/discussed, please open
@joepie91 yes. with how liberals and democrats have proven themselves useless, we need all hands we can get.
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uspol, suicide mentioned/discussed, please open
the first thing to understand is you absolutely MUST NOT kill yourself about this. please don't do that. i understand why you want to, but that is what these fascists want. it's convenient for them if the opposition self-exterminates, that way they won't even have to move a finger. stay alive and fight. it's harder but if everyone gives up then we are truly done for. we need you and we need each other. i love you
re: fascists and centrists
I'd be a lot less salty about this sort of thing if it weren't for the fact that exactly 0% of the people I am talking about here have ever acknowledged their error or shown any kind of retrospective reflection on how they got it wrong and how they might learn from that in the future
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@inherentlee Thinking about it is only better if it leads to some action or change! Otherwise it's just sparkling self-centeredness!
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Hey, cis folks? And especially men? If you want some low effort trans ally actions you can take, put your pronouns everywhere.
Like, everywhere.
On here, in your profile. On your other social media. On your own website. On your GitHub profile. On your resume. In your email ‘From:' header. Your email signature. Your business cards, if you have those.
Basically everywhere you introduce yourself, in other words. Make it pervasive, normal, set an example.
Then take your privilege, wield it like both sword and shield, arguing for gender neutral language everywhere you can. Legal documents, the works.
Let us see you fight for it ✊🏻
fascists and centrists
Thinking of the many, many, *many* times I tried to warn someone years ago (online or in person at eg. Revspace) of the fascist leanings of a supposedly "centrist" or "objective" or "neutral" podcaster or whatever, and those warnings were ridiculed because I was "seeing ghosts", and oops now it turns out they're all basically fascists
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"Ik vind het mooi dat we gewoon spontaan, ongepland een hele maaltijd bedacht hebben!" sprak de kok van de avond.
Benieuwd hoe de kok van de avond denkt dat alle ingrediënten voor die "ongeplande" maaltijd naast elkaar op het aanrecht terecht waren gekomen toen het tijd was om te gaan koken. Kaboutertjes? Pieten?
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This is was my first 3D printer, which I built from a kit at the my hacker space over a decade ago. Its X/Y axes are not perpendicular, but I was able to make it work anyway by skew correcting the gcode. I got it producing pretty good prints for the time, though it usually had to be retuned after each print.
I was thinking yesterday that I'm probably never going to bring this printer back into working order, and so maybe I should turn it into a MIDI instrument? 🤔
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I also feel the world that let Twitter be part of the culture and be (at best) neutral/good is just dead at this point.
I don't think you can look at what happened since ~2012 to marginalized people Online and argue that having everyone exposed in the same place is the "best option". It really shouldn't be the *only* option, at the very least.
- 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
