Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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
"Cheap rubberized (furniture) wheels with a mounting plate" turns out to be a surprisingly useful thing to have in stock, time to put *everything* on wheels!
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Why I Refuse to Use "AI"
https://benui.ca/why-i-refuse-ai/
It occurs to me that LLM companies are possibly the first to find a form of copying that *is* in fact stealing; they're not just replicating, they're actively appropriating people's work and taking away from them, displacing them and drowning them out.
Like, the best way I can describe it is that stuff like classic trance felt like it was designed to be played in a small venue with a few hundred people tops, whereas current EDM feels like it's designed for festivals with many thousands of attendees.
It's not *bad*, per se, and I enjoy it every now and then just like every other kind of music, it just shouldn't be the *only* thing that still gets made
I dislike how almost all new EDM seems to be 'festival-style'; I'm not very particular about (sub)genres, but I always greatly enjoyed the kind of classic trance that was... quieter, more intimate, almost? And there just doesn't seem to be much left of that, other than minimalist EDM which really doesn't have the mood I'm looking for.
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There's a lot of noise around Linux accessibility software. I used to work on that and I have opinions: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/72379.html
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What are the best ways to protect yourself from facial recognition in public spaces? Preferably without a mask, face painting is okay. DIY preferred.
Please share!
Was sind die besten Arten sich vor Gesichtserkennung im öffentlichen Raum zu schützen. Bevorzugt ohne Maske, Gesicht bemalen ist okay. Dinge zum selbst machen bevorzugt.
Bitte Teilen!
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my actual motivation was trying to create trauma porn so bad and cringe that it can't be exploited for mass consumption
guess i underestimated who i was up against
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there was an open call for queer ephemera, and i submitted an xy chromosome panel made from bright pink pipe cleaner pieces, with googly eyes glued on to them, covered in glitter, and wrote a text calling it "reclaiming gender"
it looks like a really shitty kindergarten art project, there's drops of hot glue all over it
it's in an exhibition now and the cis love it and think it's really profound
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I wrote a little something about the Sony PRS-300 on my blog:
https://blog.not-outdated.com/entries/prs300.html
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@queen_fennec En dan is er ook nog dit heldere stukje https://www.securityinnovationstories.com/soevereine-cloud-de-vegan-kipfilet-van-de-digitale-wereld/
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Vanmorgen is op het tuintellingforum https://tuintelling.actieforum.com het tienduizendste bericht geplaatst.
Dit forum bestaat nog geen jaar, heeft 25 leden, heeft een goede sfeer en er zitten geen spammers.
Voor mensen die van leven in de tuin houden is er nog plek.
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Your periodic reminder that not only is using hue as the sole way of differentiating things in a document an accessibility issue, it also renders the information inaccessible via a greyscale display or printer. Not everyone reads on screen, not all screens display colour, and not everyone who prints wants to print everything in colour.
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Someone must have made a shit to of money by selling these plastic nets to the city.
The oldest trick in the capitalist play book, create a certain panic and then sell people a "solution".
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The tiger mosquitos are an imported species and apparently they can carry certain diseases. At least in theory. But it's not by covering certain water surfaces with plastic that we can combat them. They breed where there is water. Which is everywhere.
Meanwhile we see less and less birds, for instance swallows! The birds no longer find enough insects to feed on. By covering water surfaces we also make it impossible for other mosquitos to breed. Meaning even less food for birds.
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In our communal gardens they installed these ugly, clunky contraptions, some sort of plastic net to cover the water fountains, in an effort to combat the tiger mosquito.
This is such a joke. I mean, are you going to cover all the lakes and ponds as well? How would these small fountains make a difference compared to those much larger bodies of water?
But i think this is also a form a speciesism. Tiger mosquitos hurt humans a bit more (their bites are also easier to avoid). So we combat them.
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they should make it illegal to operate a leafblower in the mornings while there is a heatwave
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Where do people go for technical recs these days?
Like, today I want an overview of current Linux distros, but other days it's RSS readers or hardware or whatever. In the past there were reputable forums and review sites. If I didn't know them I could search, skip the obvious ad bait, and next would be the good ones. But now either I can't tell the good from the slop, or it's all slop.
What's the methodology now? Where do you start for high-level tech recs?
Boosts appreciated.
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"heh. well. have anarchists ever considered that [topic anarchists have written 50+ essays debating over the past 100+ years]"
- 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
