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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People still really use the incredibly inaccurate and misleading BMI scale? It even has racist origins, and was created by someone who wasn't a health physician or doctor.
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ACAB
killing of sam nordquist, antiblackness
just found out that emily motyka, one of the alleged murderers, posted white supremacist shit online. such as the confederate flag.
that bitch two years younger than me.
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killing of sam nordquist, antiblackness
ny police saying they cant say if a hate crime was commited against sam nordquist cause the suspects "identify as lgbtq+" and one of them isnt white, so guess that means they couldnt have tortured this black trans man for weeks and weeks before killing him and ditching his body in a field just because he was a black trans man. only white cishets can commit that as a hate crime i guess /sarcasm
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killing of sam nordquist, antiblackness
If you, too, wish to block LLM scrapers from Alibaba Cloud pretending to be desktop browsers, you will find a generated list of nginx deny entries here: https://www.enjen.net/asn-blocklist/index.php?asn=45102&type=nginx
Can you tell where I blocked Alibaba Cloud from my Forgejo instance and cleared out its archive cache?
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Here's a question for dual citizens who are also gender-weird.
If I have one passport that lists my gender as F and a different passport that lists it as X, is that going to cause any complications I haven't considered?
I have somehow managed to fuck up my tinc VPN config so badly that my monitoring now thinks all of the remote servers are up, but localhost is down
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OH: "my brain is only compatible with infodumps made for the autism API"
uspol meta
A reminder that whether Trump and friends are able to grab absolute dictatorial power, depends entirely on whether people consider their 'executive orders' legitimate or not, not just legally but also socially.
This also goes for the latest one that claims Trump is the ultimate controller of all government agencies. He won't be unless you accept his claim that he is.
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i'm going to be real with you
have respect for hobbyist developers.
I don't care about what people's takes on sustainability is here, that's not relevant to whether you should be taking a hobbyist developer seriously. the entire kernel is literally just a hobbyist project that got big. dozens of graphics drivers that are fully khronos compliant (NOT just asahi!!!) started as hobbies. Panfrost was a hobby project until it wasn't, freedreno was a hobby project until it wasn't, nouveau was a hobby project until it wasn't, radeon.ko was a hobby project until it wasn't, and some of those hobby projects getting the blessing of companies doesn't change that.
open source literally thrives on non-profitable ideas
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Lists with free or affordable alternatives to big commercial applications and services…
➡️ https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/
➡️ https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to
➡️ https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle
➡️ https://codeberg.org/ADHDefy/delightful-creative-tools
➡️ https://github.com/KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives
➡️ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yNXpuy5tVP0q-El0DqoY-AwmPHT6K09NEZG-Pf0KJ7E/edit?tab=t.0
➡️ https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
#software #tip #tips #free #OpenSource #FOSS #tech #technology #BigTech #FediTip #FediTips #MastoTip #MastoTips #tools
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Δ-44203, 'Carbon the "atomic beeper"' 
- designations are second nature to robotgirl fedi users, that it is easy to forget that the average person can only remember the serial numbers of like 5 of their friends.
+ and one name encoded as hexadecimal ASCII, of course.
- of course.
Also, the plan before that is to set up GoToSocial and eventually some Matrix homeserver, on whichever server seems to be most suitable for that
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Happy to announce that Waag Futurelab installed Peertube to host our video content. Check https://tube.waag.org We are in the process to migrate our Vimeo en Youtube content to the Fediverse.
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I'm sure I've already seen some tips here, but I did not bookmark them. So where do you buy(!) English language ebooks without drm?
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In today’s “terminology matters”:
❌ Return To Office policy: middle-management language that assumes “office” is a neutral position, we’re somehow “returning to”. This term has been carefully crafted by corporate strategists to sound as palatable as possible.
✅ Mandatory Commute policy: centers the outcome for workers - spending hours each day on an unpaid commute to and from the office just so we can be on video calls all day.
We don’t just have to accept hostile framing.
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Boeiend! Terwijl sommigen stellen, dat transgender zijn een hedendaagse mode is, waren er al in de middeleeuwen mensen (waaronder zij die interseks geboren waren) die zelf hun gender bepaalden en, meestal zonder medische ingrepen, maar zelfs die kwamen voor, bevestigden! https://theconversation.com/trans-people-affirmed-their-gender-without-medical-help-in-medieval-europe-history-shows-how-identity-transcends-medicine-and-law-248559?utm_content=buffer80995&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=buffer
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The number went up
I personally know FOUR people at Microsoft now who have gotten laid off in the last 6ish years since I joined two of them through social circles, two thru the actual trans I’ve been on.
all four have been out transfem
I don’t know a single cis person who has been laid off
I know multiple cis men who have done unspeakably incompetent and inappropriate things.
I don’t know a single cis person who has been laid off. I work with a LOT of people at this company.
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Like any normal computer toucher my workflow relies on a modified version of a script no one else uses because it's uncommitted in my local git checkout with -rune postfixed to the name.
- 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
