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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When you wear a mask, you tell disabled and vulnerable people that their lives matter. That you don’t see them as expendable
You tell your others that you value community care
You tell the government that you know Covid isn’t over & you want better from public health
It’s a symbol of resistance.
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and ads
There's a B plot to an episode of DS9 in which Quark puts an ad on a replicator terminal
And it's an annoying but honestly pretty harmless ad
And you can tell that the Star Trek future is the good future because everyone instantly goes
OH ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT
To even the most innocent ad that might even be relevant to what a lot of people want
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mozilla, AI etc etc etc I am so fucking tired
"And it means we have to be intentional about where we invest our time and resources so we can make the biggest impact. [...] With that in mind, we’ve made the difficult decision to phase out two products: Pocket, our read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, our browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. [...] As we wind them down, we’re looking ahead to focusing on new Firefox features that people need most. This shift allows us to shape the next era of the internet – with tools like vertical tabs, smart search and more AI-powered features on the way."
What is *wrong* with you people???
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Well here we go. I will do a write up in this thread of the health issues I have been going through in the last years. I meanwhile strongly suspect I will end up getting a #postcovid #mecfs #pem #pots diagnosis but it took me a very long time to piece everything together and to understand what is (likely) going on. Since reading about it on Mastodon helped me find a lot of information I decided to share my story too, maybe it will help others.
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This is not the first time I'm saying this but it probably bears repeating: the foundational technologies underlying the web are about as decentralized as they can be, with the current state of technology.
The reason the web is heavily centralized has absolutely nothing to do with the technology, and everything with politics, capitalist ideology, and the social dynamics that result from those.
If you want to "decentralize the web again" then you need to acknowledge this, or you will just be working into the void.
Also, what happened in operating system land in December of 2023? There's a sudden spike in marketshare then...
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re: Matrix moderation, Element
@joepie91 media isn't associated to the message that sent it??? what the hell, how even does that sort of a basic oversight get into a protocol/major implementation(s)
A little over a year ago, the global Linux 'marketshare' according to StatCounter surpassed 4%. Those with an activist background will see where I'm going with this, I think.
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Please for the love of god tell me someone has a non-corporate discord option. With voice chat. I need it to keep my friends :(
Please boost I need help fedi please
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fucking Microsoft was bombarding the one and only public repo on my forge so bad that it OOMd my 32 GB of RAM server what the FUCK
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Matrix moderation, Element
Here are some things that Element could have done years ago to mitigate the abuse issues, but didn't:
- Move invites to a queue that is not visible or attention-grabbing by default
- Homeserver-level support for subscribing to shared ACLs
- Protocol-level support for synchronizing ACLs across rooms in a space
- Track associations between media files and the messages they are referenced from, so that they can be automatically removed alongside their messages
- Automatically hide images from newly-joined users behind a spoiler tag
All of these are viable from a technical perspective, most of them were suggested years ago already, and this list is not exhaustive either.
Think about this next time you see Element talking about how much work they've been doing on safety and how there's just not many things left that they can do.
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"Hmm, what's what weird smell outside?"
Two minutes later: a brush fire across the river appears on the fire department feed
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dear parents if you suspect your child is queer and you aren't against it please tell them that. that in case they are, they can trust you and that you support them. especially if youre like 90% sure
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...does anyone have any suggestions for a Discord-Shaped-Object (DSO) that isn't owned by a big bad?
I'm testing Matrix but want to keep my options open. Main use-case is a server with 4 people in it making art/music together.
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Maybe the real Ship Of Theseus was the parts we replaced along the way
- 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
