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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
It's kind of darkly funny to watch people defend Framework's soldered RAM in desktops by going "well it's necessary for high-bandwidth memory" given that that's literally the exact excuse that competing laptop manufacturers used for years
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pol, kink
Activism is the highest form of bratting
Guess we know which outlets do actual journalism and which outlets just post vendor press releases
hospital/doctor advice for neurospicy folks
If you get some uselessly vague advice like "don't eat/do things like <list of hyperspecific examples and nothing else>", keep talking and asking (and mentioning your understanding so far out loud repeatedly, even if it's probably wrong!) until they tell you the underlying mechanism.
Example:
"Avoid intensive exercise."
"Okay, what qualifies as 'intensive'?"
"Well, try to avoid sports like football or tennis, for example."
"Okay, but what about VR then? It's virtual so you can't get hit by anything, but I don't know if that's safe enough."
"Ah, well, you should avoid any kind of exercise that causes shocks to your body, like when jumping a lot."
And just like that, you learn the underlying mechanism that the advice originates from (which might be "shocks to your body can cause issues with healing" like in this case), and now you can reason for yourself about whether something is or isn't safe to do, instead of being limited to a (usually heavily neurotypical) set of 'common' things.
(Sometimes you can also just ask point blank what the underlying mechanism is, but it's pretty much luck of the draw whether you get a doctor who trusts you enough to actually engage with that.)
I increasingly feel like "decentralization" is the wrong goal to have, because it is just an unreliable proxy metric for the thing people *actually* care about, which is autonomy and self-determination
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USpol
Liberals have become disillusioned about the democrats, and chuds are becoming disillusioned about the republicans.
Let's build off that
Framework, what the hell are you doing. What is even the point of 'repairability' from an environmental point of view if you're going to burn untold amounts of resources on "AI" garbage instead (which, yes, is true for 'local AI' too)
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I didn't realize how fucking useful the word 'fucking' is for eliminating AI
Turns out, it's really fucking useful!
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i hope people that invented cloudflare always sleep on warm and uncomfortable pillows 
because what can be a better idea than trusting us-based company to decide if people will get to your site or not, collecting all the possible data in the process and selling it to who knows where /s
because what can be a better idea than trusting us-based company to decide if people will get to your site or not, collecting all the possible data in the process and selling it to who knows where /s
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Posting this in English too because it's just baffling.
Albert Heijn, a Dutch supermarket chain, has been spending significant piles of money advertising their new "AH Terra" store brand, which is supposed to be all about plant-based food.
They've just rebranded their canned beans to fall under that brand, and to 'celebrate', they published a magazine with bean-based recipes.
Half of which use dairy ingredients. 🤦♂️
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I so often see cleaning advice like "use a soft microfiber cloth" but nobody ever bothers to mention that microfiber cloths are really good at getting hard bits like crumbs stuck into them and that if you reuse that cloth, it'll badly scratch up whatever you're trying to clean
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Can we please stop landing mars rovers so far apart from each other. Its going to take ages to drive them close enough for a special edition of robot wars.
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Shout out to the edit button! I don't know the why of the way my brain is wired, that I can't see typos in the edit box but two seconds later in the final post I can see them clearly.
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No. I am absolutely NOT saying that y'all should spam this email address. I would never.
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they got me ranting about software licensing again
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tech ethics
How do you decide if a project is too likely to be used unethically for you to be willing to work on?
Some cases are obvious, but a zillion things are "dual use".
Designing a quadcopter 10 years ago would have been unambiguously okay with me. Now I'm not sure it's possible to work on without it ending up used for surveillance, targeting weapons, etc.
Does anyone have a framework for analyzing these things that works? I feel like I'm playing devil's advocate on *both* sides.
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Windows XP is now older than DOS was when Windows XP came out
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Is there a better email than “your account has been permanently closed” for something you have no recollection of signing up for?
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ACAB
how to prevent carpal tunnel:
don't let carps inside the tunnel
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
