Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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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TL;DR: The Second Circuit has ruled in favor of Vimeo in its legal battle with record labels, reinforcing protections under the DMCA and rejecting the labels' claims that Vimeo lost safe harbor due to user interactions with infringing content. This decision is a significant victory for creator communities and helps maintain the balance between copyright enforcement and innovation on digital platforms. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/second-circuit-rejects-record-labels-attempt-rewrite-dmca #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum
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If you find later on that you need the illustration for something else (e.g. your book is being expanded into a boardgame), you can always contact the artist at that point for another license and discuss the fees.
Remember: artists are humans too. We want to see you succeed. Contacting us again with a "hey guess what, I'd like to expand on this project" is not going to make you look weird, it's going to make us very happy for you.
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(Indie) authors and other commercial commissioners: you do NOT need to purchase the full rights to a piece right off the bat. Save yourself a lot of money and ask for a usage license. This is a license to use the illustration for your book/boardgame/whatever only.
A usage license for just your book/boardgame/company mantlepiece will suffice just as well and cost you a lot less than a full buyout.
#commissionsopen #commissions #artcommissions #commissiontips
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Extremely bad Signal bug
To reproduce
1. Have Signal on iPhone and iPad that you don't use that much
2. Block someone on Signal with phone
3. Wait a good long time to use iPad, long enough that when you open Signal on iPad it gives you the "syncing stuff" screen
4. Your phone will inform you that you unblocked the user in question, even though you absolutely did not
5. Hope that person wasn't abusive and that this doesn't put you in danger
6. Hope the @signalapp devs take this seriously
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Paraphrased, in regards to rainbow capitalism:
“I do not miss the cash-grab Pride displays. I miss the kind of society that made cash-grab Pride displays safe to perform.”
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“data center” is such a boring uncreative name. we should call them computer dungeons
venting about shitty people
Well, so much for the 'chaos furs' group. They've gotten enough chances to not be bigoted assholes.
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NL pol en rechtspraak
De staat wordt gewezen op haar verplichtingen: zij moet zich aan haar eigen wetten houden. Dat vindt het huidige kabinet niet zo leuk – jammer, denk ik dan – en daarom klaagt het over de rechter die eigenlijk gewoon een constatering heeft gedaan en daaraan consequenties heeft verbonden.
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I know the world was objectively a worse, less progressive place, and with much less ozone in the ideal layer for it, but I certainly shouted "oh, fuck off!" a lot less at computers back in the '90s
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The Date is dead, long live the Temporal!
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/javascript-temporal-is-coming/
politics, slightly spicy take
There is no such thing as 'shifting to the center' politically. Because of the ever-shifting Overton window, you are always shifting either 'left' or 'right' (and right now, it means shifting 'right').
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@cato Strange company. Public data shows the company works from a private home. And mostly lost money. It never had more than 140k€ in the books per year. There is a second company at the same address, with the same owners. Making even less money.
The Website list lots of different parts, all with generic datasheets, seemingly rebranded with their Logo. Whatever they do, it is really, really strange.
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Internet-armoede is gewoon armoede
Net zoals alle vormen van armoede met een term ervoor gewoon armoede is. Uitkeringen en minimumloon omhoog is eerder een oplossing dan voor elke zogenaamde vorm van armoede een apart potje te zoeken.
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#throwbackthursday to my birthday hike in 2022. I stopped and took a short nap beside a lake off the trail (as one does). When I woke up there was something large and wet in my arms. I slowly backed up, and there he was - I had been spooning a snapping turtle! I spent a while at that lake, hanging out with my new friend while he swam in circles near the shore. I’ve always wondered what on earth compelled him to curl up in my arms like that.
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nazis rhetoric and such
stop implicitly calling old nazis cool and stylish in contrast to modern nazis
trust me, i get what you're saying, but shit like "i bet hitler never grunted to make a sieg heil" to make fun of musk is basically reinforcing the myth.
image is everything to nazis. they do and have always been losers that cared if you thought they were cool.
to talk about their uniforms or whatever grants them this decorum and respect that you can rest assured you do NOT have to give them
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Mention of big tech company and current events (QC)
Amazon is doing some union-busting bullshit in Quebec
If you have Prime, you can cancel it
You don't need to pay the Amazon rent
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Filing the rise of modern fascism entirely under "Polarization" is some neat bookkeeping trick huh
advice, managing volunteer work, anarchism
Running a volunteer project in an anarchist way doesn't just mean that you declare everyone "equal" and let people sort things out by themselves with no guidance. That gets you debate club, not anarchism.
Far more important is that you balance responsibility and authority - do not give people authority without the corresponding responsibility, and do not give people responsibility without the corresponding authority.
Why? Because people usually need some degree of 'ownership' over the tasks that they take on, otherwise you will get nothing but endless arguments and it's not clear how the outcome is going to be decided, or by whom.
Once you have that balanced correctly, it becomes a matter of keeping tasks (and areas of responsibility) small, and ensuring that nobody has an outsized amount of them - people should not take on more than they can reasonably handle, even if that means that some things don't get done.
Beyond that, you need the usual things in any collective project - a safe, constructive and supportive environment, people to go to for help if you get stuck, and a whole lot of conflict resolution work and training.
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pol, boundaries (afk, my feed is nice, i just unfollowed or muted everyone not using cws a long time ago)
"have you heard what that nazi said!!!"
yeah i actually have. my media consumption habits are questionable some mornings. i know, i know.
but you know what? i would never even consider shoving that piece of news onto other people. especially not marginalized people who know perfectly well how shitty nazis are, and don't need anyone to tell them the latest details. like who even does that. what the fuck.
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
