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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musings about 'democracy'
More and more, I'm feeling like there's a suspicious lack of evidence that policies such as "majority voting" and "electing people" are actually reasonable or rational ways to arrive at the claimed goals of democracy, at all.
Like, I have always had my issues with the failures of these systems, personally, but I would at least entertain the possibility of there being a hypothetical Good Implementation that could work.
I don't think I believe that anymore, and over the years I have seen basically nothing to convince me otherwise.
And to go even further, I am starting to believe that the only possible long-term outcome of both of these systems is authoritarianism, and no sustainable mitigations to this exist.
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@loren fish hanging out at their computers, watching the webcam, waiting for a chance to ring the mensendeurbel for you
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Trump, segregation, uspol
Wow, I wasn't expecting the speed run to be this speedy. They are bringing back segregation, as in non-white people explicitly not allowed to use white facilities.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-musk-lift-ban-on-segregated-facilities/
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there needs to be a person doorbell so someone can tell cloudflare that im a person and let me in to any website
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If you’re helping resist in ANY way, do it quietly and leave your phone at home.
Organize offline. Use Signal if you absolutely have to have digital communications.
Social media has taught us to forgo discretion in an effort to get clicks and likes.
Discretion could save your life right now.
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@joepie91 It's probably fine that every business is adding the ability to spend money you don't have, try not to think too deeply about what this implies about the general situation.
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governance advice
One insight I've gained from many years of being involved in governance discussions...
If someone responds to governance advice with some variation on "prove to me that it works", rather than an interest to non-judgmentally understand its mechanics or effects in depth... then they are exceedingly unlikely to ever take your advice no matter how much proof you provide. It's probably not worth having the conversation at all.
When people are genuinely interested in your advice, they do not demand proof - they ask to learn from you. They open a space in their heart or mind where the new ideas can go.
If someone demands proof, chances are good that they're just trying to strike down your idea without making it look like they are to others - in a way that lets them claim that they've considered the idea, when they really never had any genuine intention of doing so and were just looking for the nearest way to make you 'wrong'. They're setting you an impossible-to-meet challenge.
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Hey, so, in light of Microsoft killing off Windows 10 in October (https://digipres.club/@misty/114190352645015060)...
If you want more people to use Linux, now would probably be a good time to start talking to your friends and relatives about how Linux will still work and get updates and, most importantly, *offer to help them setting it up and keeping it working*.
And ideally, take notes of what problems they run into, because those notes are going to give you a pretty good idea of what needs changing for Linux to become more widely usable to people. Maybe you could even contribute some of the fixes yourself!
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Apparently Doordash is adding the ability to finance your takeout order with Klarna, and if the next financial crisis is caused by too many people defaulting on their burger loans instead of their mortgages I'll be going to live in the mountains
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That's a problem for future me. I'm sure future me will be angry at past me about it - but thankfully I am current me, and neither past nor future me, so therefore *I* will never have to deal with the consequences
racisme
Brandbommen en varkenspoten aan het hek bij een AZC-locatie, maar nee hoor, Nederland "heeft geen racismeprobleem"...
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the fediverse is so full of communists that instead of having many spammers we have one spammer and we all have to share her
governance advice
One insight I've gained from many years of being involved in governance discussions...
If someone responds to governance advice with some variation on "prove to me that it works", rather than an interest to non-judgmentally understand its mechanics or effects in depth... then they are exceedingly unlikely to ever take your advice no matter how much proof you provide. It's probably not worth having the conversation at all.
When people are genuinely interested in your advice, they do not demand proof - they ask to learn from you. They open a space in their heart or mind where the new ideas can go.
If someone demands proof, chances are good that they're just trying to strike down your idea without making it look like they are to others - in a way that lets them claim that they've considered the idea, when they really never had any genuine intention of doing so and were just looking for the nearest way to make you 'wrong'. They're setting you an impossible-to-meet challenge.
Thanks, Plasma, not like I'm actively playing music *right now* or anything
So in my quest to redesign a couple of Matrix protocol things, here's one thing that has been incredibly frustrating...
It's very easy to design deterministic algorithms that are efficient in most cases and only slow in uncommon cases. But those algorithms are completely useless in systems where an untrusted party controls whether something is the slow uncommon case... which is the case for most of a messaging protocol.
And designing deterministic algorithms that are efficient in most *real-world cases*, and resistant to artificial worst-cases... *that* is much more difficult!
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The polylibrary story by @foone lives in this one's memory banks rent free
CW: kink, tattoos, body mods, various kinks are mentioned
https://foone.tumblr.com/tagged/Polylibrary
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HEY FEDI! How might you make some DIY trading cards?
I want something sturdy enough to stand up to a few decades of kicking around in a junk drawer. Ideally, I want custom wax packs to wrap them in, but I'd settle for printed foil.
I'm in favor of either a fully DIY option or a service I can hire.
Any ideas? Brainstorm with me!
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random thought: I don't think Wikipedia will downfall in the coming decades but I think it might transform into one of those "infrastructure thingy a lot of stuff depends on but most people don't know about". For the foreseeable future it will be a popular household brand name
- 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
