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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- 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
Is it just me who feels very uncomfortable about the terms "pro-woke" and "anti-woke", in the sense that it seems to completely miss the point of what the term means?
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Holy shit the opt-in parallel scanning mode in ncdu is *fast*. Scanned my 700-800GB home dir in under 10 seconds, despite the many small files in various node_modules folders?
Instructions are on the website, but TL;DR run it with the -t8 flag for 8 threads.
Not unsurprisingly, in my experience this mindset also strongly correlates with "not recognizing *any* non-code work as a type of contribution", as applied to documentation, design/graphics fixes, community management, and so on.
Reading up on the comments to that complaint about stalebots, and once again finding that there is a significant amount of people who do not recognize carefully-filed and detailed issues as a type of contribution, because it's not a code patch.
I have Opinions about this mindset and none of them are positive.
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uspol positive
If things feel hopeless, please visit the FedNews subreddit for some reassurance. These folks are not rolling over, they’re not resigning, they’re standing together. Here’s just one thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1ifdcp7/from_your_genderqueer_coworker_dont_quit_over_the/
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Valuable lessons for those in #FOSS who tinker for fun and have a vast collection of gadgets
> Repairing stuff, however, is neither new nor that radical concept for me. In developing countries, repair is just a way to extend an object’s life. Repair is not necessarily seen as a political act, although it can and has been; it is another service that someone might offer as a non-expensive alternative to buying new. Here, technicians for all kinds of tech are abundant, at least in major city centers; and so having one’s broken stuff repaired will not break bank.
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Hi everybody! We've been inactive for a while, so it's maybe time for a reintroduction. HUP is a fully #openaccess university press. We publish high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly literature, particularly in the #humanities and #socialsciences. All our publications are freely available on our website at: https://hup.fi/site/
We are looking forward to learning more about the #Fediverse!
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I call this piece "trying to take a picture of my cat in the dark"
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Might switch back to saying LGBTQ instead of queer just to make sure everyone knows where I stand on the inclusion of the T
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The thing about the #ICC (International Criminal Court - which holds individual people responsible for human rights violations) and the #ICJ (International Court of Justice - which holds countries accountable for human rights violations) is that they were founded as deeply colonial institutes. They were created as instruments for the Global North to police the Global South. For the first time in their history, both the ICC and ICJ are going after (leaders of) a country aligned with the Global North, and just watch the same Global North collectively ignore both courts, where up to now they were all about "rules based society" and shit.
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The next #fluConf session is an article by ohio olarte (not on the Fediverse) titled "Neo-Luddism in a developing country can be odd"
https://fluconf.online/sessions/neo-luddism-in-a-developing-country-can-be-odd/
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setting silly stats was a really incredibly effective way to get crawlers to start respecting robots.txt: https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/pull/3718#issuecomment-2629328372
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Watching people say about overt fascism "but that's illegal!" gives me such strong flashbacks to the billion times that disabled people talking about the patterns of discrimination we face have been met with similar shock and disbelief: surely "they" can't deny you jobs or an education or information in accessible formats, "that's illegal!"
The sooner you get past the shock, the sooner you can get to more useful reactions. Listening to your disabled comrades will make you harder to shock.
uncomfortable tech questions
TLS certificates require the specification of a country code for the organization that requested the certificate. This country code must be one of those specified in ISO 3166.
So, who exactly decides whether your country is enough of a country to have correctly-configured transport encryption, and what are the political implications of that answer?
CW-boost: uspol, news/journalism
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Do not hire WATs. Do not indulge WATs.They are not useful, and they are not helping. They will waste your time and burn your money.
Hire dirty, grubby, grime-under-their-fingernails engineers. People who are not afraid of a torch and a wrench. People whose primary skill is in *Iooking* at the world, then building to that reality. Folks whose disdain for developer tool marketing is palpable. Sceptics and dissenters. Hire *them*.
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uspol meta, "you"
Like, if you're still waffling on to this day about how you want to see what the 'rule of law' does first, and aren't already planning your own actions, you are *too late* and I do not believe that you are *ever* going to take the necessary action
- 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
