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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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- 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
Today's workshop improvements! Reused an empty 3D printing filament spool as a spool for the long extension card in the garage, installed some hooks to hang my (non-electric) scooter on (finally, it's no longer in my way!), and finally added some nonslip tape to a working surface so that I can safely put stationary tools on it without them moving around and without having to bolt them down permanently.
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My office is in a location where I do get a wifi signal but there are good wifi days and bad wifi days, and I can only think that this is the result of daily fluctuations in the solar winds blowing past Earth, causing RF interference, and that makes it less frustrating and easier to deal with, knowing that I'm experiencing the effects of something beautiful and much grander than, say, a bit of incompetence by whoever set up the nearest wifi access point.
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anarchism doesnt mean being an agent of chaos! that is a separate decision, that i have also made
I wish for a world in which people recognize that they have a certain amount of responsibility towards others, regardless of circumstances and regardless of whether money is involved
cursed, brands
Parkside, Parkside Performance, Parkside Cloud
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10 SCORES AGAINST TECH FASCISM
⟶ CALL FOR PROJECTS
This call for resistance is not about global fixes or sweeping victories — it’s about finding ways to challenge the current systems with the means available: misdirection, opting out, and pushing back. Resisting in solidarity with others and carving out spaces in which we can develop technological systems that align with collective needs rather than exploiting us.
Apply now until 17 June 2025 for grants ranging from €1’500 to €7’000.
Read the full call for projects here
⟶ https://error417.expectation.fail/406/tech-fascism-not-acceptable
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From @pluralistic :
"Just a QR Code" is a new site that generates QR codes, operating entirely in your browser, without transmitting any data to a server or trying to cram ads into your eyeballs. The fact that it runs entirely in-browser means you can save this webpage and work with an offline copy to generate QR codes forever – even if the site goes down:
QR code generators are mostly bad news, so this is great news.
Echt, wat is Tweakers toch ook journalistiek waardeloos. Jaren later en nog steeds klakkeloos de sensationalistische onzin van LLM-bedrijven overnemen.
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"why do people download x instead of streaming"
I dunno man, why do you buy clothes instead of just assuming the clothes shop will always be there
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Hetzelfde geldt voor een bericht over het laatste ziekenhuis voor hart- en kankerpatiënten in Gaza, dat volgens NOS 'onbruikbaar is geworden' in plaats van verwoest door Israëlische bombardementen. [3/5]
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Als NOS zegt dat er vorig jaar Tropisch regenwoud ter grootte van Ierland 'verloren ging' wekt dat de indruk dat het zomaar gebeurde. Zo blijven de oorzaken en de daders buiten schot. [2/5]
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Nieuws moet een eerlijk beeld geven van wat er aan de hand is. Dat betekent dat berichtgeving zorgvuldig en duidelijk moet zijn, en er geen plaats is voor misleidende frames. Helaas staan NOS-artikelen er vol mee! [1/5]
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It's baffling how many applications lock up, balloon in memory use, continue doing something in the background (with the UI now missing) once you 'cancel' it, provide zero immediate UI feedback, or otherwise completely break as soon as a remote server is a bit flaky or slow to respond.
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Parents arguing for smartphone bans always feels like an admission of impotence to me, a cop-out that releases them from having to deal with the actual problems involved, such as the addictive design and dark patterns they are also subject to themselves.
It delays having to deal with the unhealthy work habits that demand that they are always connected, and 'productive'.
It certainly does not do anything about the fact that a large percentage of adults has simply no critical internal review of what kind of information they consume, where it comes from, and so forth, as evidenced by how deeply mis- and disinformed they are.
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By and large, free and open source software projects don't compete with FOSS projects. If your project has more users than mine, than we both win.
Even if a project is developed and "owned" by for-profit companies, that doesn't necessarily hurt other projects.
Non-free software is the competition. Possibly even the enemy.
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@kdj8 KDE Plasma 6.4 officially released, here's what's new:
- Improved performance with wobbly windows (they are wobblier)
- Improved HDR support
- Button in a single application that's only visible when a specific feature is enabled is now a rounded button. This has been a pending feature request for 7 years. Millions rejoice
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«It showed that, when there is non-promotable work to be done, women volunteer to do it 48% more often than men.
But they also found that men volunteered less because if they waited, they knew that a woman would volunteer. In all male groups, they had no trouble getting volunteers. If there were no women there, men volunteered just fine.
The even more interesting part was that, when managers were asked to choose someone to do thankless work, they asked women 44% more than they asked men.»
Now I’m pissed https://www.noidea.dog/glue
- 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
