Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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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An organic, fair-trade, community-governed, collectively-owned, open-source oil rig is still an oil rig.
Intentions, governance, ownership, etc. are all super important, but you also need to be honest about what the thing does and the consequences.
I'm lookin' at you "Open-Source Local LLMs".
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:ms_deminonbinary_flag:
is there like a list of computer hardware stuff outside of pcpartpicker's categories? pcie cards for example are excessively lacking on pcpartpicker
(i know how to build a computer)
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Heb ik volgers die zich bezighouden met de front-end van veel bezochte Nederlandse websites én affiniteit hebben het beperken van energieverbruik van het totale internet?
Ik help @fershad met het vinden van partijen die mee willen werken aan zijn grid-aware websites project
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My own testing has shown it outperforms the others *and* doesn’t box you into weird licenses and questionable leadership promises.
https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/114497582785089366
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angry at fatphobia
i FUCKING HATE doctors. if you're not willing to operate on fat patients don't become a fucking doctor.
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angry at fatphobia
my sister has been desperately dieting and losing weight and has lost 63.5kg over the course of a year and she booked a consultation for some cosmetic surgery, video consult, doctor said it was fine and she should drive from Wales to Birmingham to get this done. she gets there today, sees another doctor who tells her she's *too fat to get the surgery* and then slams the door in her face when she starts crying.
Huh, got a 'data processing notice' e-mail from a B2B marketing / "contact database" company telling me that my freelance site had been indexed, and... they seem to actually be seriously trying to follow the GDPR in spirit?
Apparently they delete data from their database when it disappears off company sites, and they have a *very* long document explaining in detail why they feel there's "legitimate interest" and it's actually a credible argument ("you made a company site to market your company, and our business directory has the same goal").
Didn't think I'd ever see this.
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Where is that post that goes "I fucked up my repo so bad" and then it's an infographic of the Christian denominations schisming and branching off of one another
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25 jaar geleden was 13 mei een zaterdag en net zulk prachtig weer als vandaag. Vijf jaar geleden schreef ik op wat ik die dag zag, hoorde, voelde, en deed. Vanochtend las ik het terug en rolden toch weer tranen over mijn wangen. Het was een dag die voorgoed in mijn lijf bleef wonen.
https://infullflow.net/2020/05/twintig-jaar-geleden-nooit-vergeten/
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Stop Saying "Responsible Disclosure"
https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/responsible-disclosure.html
https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/responsible-disclosure.html
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Tijdens de demo van zaterdag verbasterde een van ons de leus; hoe laat is het, solidariteit. Nadat men hoe laat is het riep. Antwoorde een van ons met twaalf over een. Meedere anarchisten pikte deze verbastering op en riepen vrolijke mee.
Een socialist met een roeptoeter vroeg om uitleg.
Twaalf over een? vroegt ie
Twaalf over een in de middag antwoorde we
Huh?
13:12
Ah zo, oke.
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Definitely one of the most underrated aspects of a long running mod project like Tamriel Rebuilt is that it kinda becomes a haven for art that is being made with hardly any concern for deadlines or schedules. They have a general cadence they try to keep to, but it seems they often go back over old content to make sure everything is up to standard. Quality first.
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“Just stay home” is not a public health strategy.
Non disabled people were livid during stay at home orders. They found the idea of being forced to stay home unpalatable, yet they’re only too happy to demand the disabled do it for the rest of our lives.
Clean air & masking make spaces accessible.
... is the Internet Archive down again?
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about those government petitions
Those "hit X signatures and the government will consider your request" petitions irritate me to no end. Not because of the people sharing them, but because their institution is such a farce of 'democracy'.
Like, the appeal is clear. "You can influence government policy, just sign these petitions!", and that makes them an appealing tool for governments to use to give citizens the impression that they're participating. But no, you're really not.
Here's the fundamental problem with them: the amounts of signatures that these things require are very high, and the counterpart obligations on the government are extremely low. Generally they require nothing more than 'consideration' or a vote, as they are entirely non-binding in terms of policy.
The result is that, as a petition organizer, you basically always have to spend orders of magnitude more effort getting your petition 'through', than it costs politicians to dismiss it if it doesn't fit into their plans.
That is not democracy. That is not influence. That's a way to suppress citizen participation by exhausting organizers, and nothing more.
I don't have a problem with people choosing to create such petitions, or campaigning for them. But I do have a very big problem with the governments who basically declare that we'll get these fucking crumbs of influence and we shall be happy with them.
No. Fuck that. It's *our* world. Governments do not get to define the ways in which we are allowed to govern ourselves.
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🥽the system we are in likes to give us all diet love. Love aspertain.
Over and over it puts us in situations where we feel that need and try to fulfill it, and then we are given solutions that taste like love but do not actualize it. Instead of giving the shirt off your back to a person who needs it in front of you, you give it to Goodwill. Instead of pouring devotion on your community you pour it on a celebrity or influencer who cannot be there for you. Instead of doing the hard work of making change yourself you write a letter to a powerful person and hope they care.
Cast your eyes down to people in your life. Try being more simple. You do in fact need to act on your love instincts in ways that matter to be fulfilled and no it is not easy, straightforward or safe.
You have to understand that love is about your need for others to have their needs met, and unless their needs actually get met you will continue starving even if you *feel* full.
- 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
