Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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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- 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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In the fediverse, many of us appreciate #RSS to follow blogs and podcasts and such, but I never see anyone talking about using #iCalendar for following event calendars. An open standard of similar age to RSS, it works well and is widely supported by #calendar software—even Google still supports it, unlike RSS. I'd like to see more meetups publishing their event schedules, more apps doing interesting things with calendars, and more investment in the open calendar ecosystem. Wouldn't you?
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A reminder to academics that might think you need to “engage” in “good faith” with blatantly immoral actions taken by hateful people: you super don’t.
Really.
Nothing happens if you don’t take up the role as devil’s advocate. No one is clamoring for that.
You won’t reach the end of your existence and regret having dismissed out of hand the positions of folks that would deprive others of their humanity.
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Normalize bullying individuals and corporations for using AI slop of any kind (imagery, video, voice, LLM).
If the thing you're making or doing can't exist without scraping the internet and stealing everything you see while burning drinkable water and coal like crazy - this thing shouldn't exist, and you should exist in jail after ecocide trial
If the thing you're making or doing can't exist without scraping the internet and stealing everything you see while burning drinkable water and coal like crazy - this thing shouldn't exist, and you should exist in jail after ecocide trial
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Normal queer household activities such as a discussion about linked lists and UTF-16
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A friend added my FOI request feed to their home alerting dashboard, and informed me that every time I harass a government department the house lights flash.
Friend: I am sorry for what is about to happen.
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My friend asks: "I wonder if there are art historians, curators and educators around" fedi. What instances should I point her at?
#AskFedi: Does anyone know of one of those awesome-whatever lists, but for "software (of any kind) that is easy to set up and learn to use"?
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27 years of building web apps and watching my peers build authoritarian surveillance and propaganda systems to support facists and grifters.
politics, nazis, actionable
Something to remember is that nazis and other fascists are, generally, not very courageous. They use fear to oppress others, but they don't usually know how to deal with someone who isn't scared.
One of the most effective things you can do against nazi rhetoric personally, is to openly defy it. To make it clear that you are not intimidated, that their fear isn't working on you. This will leave most fascists with a lack of strategies.
This is not *entirely* zero-risk, of course. But they have way, *way* less bite than their rhetoric would imply.
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looking at two socks, trying to determine if they’re from the same pair, like a biologist trying to figure out if two similar specimens are from the same species
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MIVB/STIB is taking a good step to solve the issue of homeless people on their network. Instead of policing them out like the rest of the world... they hired a whole team to provide social support, and have a bus built out as a safe place and a gateway to support 
info https://mivbstories.be/includo-helpt-daklozen-en-druggebruikers-op-het-mivb-net/ https://stibstories.be/includo-aide-sans-abris-toxicomanes-stib-bruxelles/
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Using LLM is denial of service on humans and I will not waste my time on the receiving end of it
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A complement to “don’t feed the trolls” is “what we pay attention to grows,” which I first encountered while reading adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy.
In turning attention away from trolls, we can turn it toward the practices of care through which we build resilient communities able to guide change.
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The WINE 10.0 change list looks amazing:
- ARM support
- Many graphics pipeline and touch input improvements, could be worth trying this with programs like Paint tool SAI and CSP
- Better high DPI and scaling support
- Native Wayland support
- Improved COM/RPC proxies and calling
- Moving from GStreamer to FFmpeg for decoding things should improve many things, also things like game intro videos etc.
- and much more
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Now to the kicker with meshtastic.
The project is run in the usual tech-bro seeming ways and are rude ass fuck to new comers with less experience / platform than I who've made the -same- observations about floodfill's limits.
The core team is die on the hill of the shitiest routing algo possible because they I guess don't want to read anything about routing algos research.
Bruh... I worked in a networking research lab in the early 2000's, almost every excuse this team has made is bullshit.
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This is a subtoot and should probably be a blog post. But basically some techbros are re-inventing mesh radios (badly) going on like my 20th year of tinkering in this corner of tech.
Low cost, developer friendly mesh radios have kinda been going in circles for decades.
So in many ways I guess I shouldn't be surprised to review yet another cheap mesh radio project and realize, "dude this just plain sucks and isn't improving at all, oh and the community is kinda awful".
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Duck duck fedi, autism
Duck duck fedi 
Does anyone know where i can find good, universal communication cards?
Some which i can show random ppl and/or work colleges at events when im not doing well, preferably both in german and english.
Bonus points for some specifically for overloads and being non verbal
- 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
