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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- 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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@calcifer @malte The thing I always point out about preventing hierarchies from re-emerging in anarchist thins is that it has to be a conscious, ongoing effort. Every egalitarian society I know of which has survived for substantial amounts of time had purposeful levelling mechanisms to ensure that no one developed outsized authority, and any time I try to envision any kind of anarchist future I always include how decentralized organization can balance power and thereby eliminate hierarchy.
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It's cool that people want to make more egalitarian structures. It's amazing that people want to eliminate hierarchies of power. But it's frustrating to watch such attempts fail because a certain brand of idealism prevents people from understanding that the absence of a plan for keeping power distributed and accountable will in every case produce unaccountable power structures, which is usually a worse outcome than what they're trying to avoid or replace
it's exhausting to watch people make the same mistakes over and over.
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You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
more NixOS-specific
Relatedly, it's frustratingly difficult to explain to people that the reason NixOS "doesn't have a feature" is because it fundamentally doesn't *need* that feature, because the "feature" is actually a workaround for a problem that NixOS doesn't have to begin with...
vaguely philosophical tech stuff, long-ish
So there's an interesting problem that Nix has, which is the "curse of knowledge"... once you learn how it works, suddenly everything else in the space starts looking super fragile. I joke about this a lot, but it's a very real thing.
And that has implications for how Nix(OS) folks interact with other communities - they'll often point out, for example, that some problem isn't actually fundamental or inherent because Nix *did* solve it already a decade ago.
And outwardly this looks a lot like "a fanboy pushing their favourite tool on everybody", but it isn't, really - quite often, it's *genuinely* a case of that person seeing issues that most other people have learned to ignore or accept, and not being able to un-see that.
And they are getting *legitimately* frustrated by other people continuing to build more towers of complexity on top of (to them) obviously fragile systems - not because their favourite tool isn't being used, but because of all the wasted effort and time that other people put into needlessly broken systems, that could've been put to so much better use.
I'm not entirely sure where I was going with this toot, but this is something I rarely see being talked about. It's not exclusive to NixOS, either; there's a very similar thing going on with capability-based security, and undoubtedly a number of other topics that I don't know about.
It feels like there should be some sort of broader conversation about this?
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🇵🇸 
Van 
If "Share The Road" feels more difficult/dangerous than it used to, it's because it is.
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ah hm yes 0B of free space on /, I see how that would negatively impact things
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apparently there was another incident of someone leaking classified documents on the war thunder forums to settle an argument
this is the third time in a year
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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The implicit meaning of this argument is that one should not face responsibility for their actions unless everyone faces responsibility for their actions—which is, again, a childish way of attempting to dodge guilt while clumsily and unconsciously admitting it.
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i read a thing recently that blew my mind a little.
went something like:
people can imagine time travel to the past and one little act making massive differences in the timeline
but in their present they think even the greatest effort they can put in will not make any difference to the future
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i wonder if people who are into latex have the experience of searching something about it and finding things about \LaTeX instead
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You create a system that rewards exploitation and then wonder why the greediest bastards always seem to rise to the top.
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cryptocoin grifters are so much worse when they say they do it in favor of some good cause.... if you really cared you'd help without cryptoshit grifting ya know
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Holy shit happy Ronald Reagan's dead day
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Corporate Pride
The thing about rainbow corporate logos during pride month isn't that I have strong feelings against seeing rainbows in June unless flown by the proletariat.
OK, I mean, its not just that.
Its that these companies spend 12 months a year underpaying their low level staff, in which includes LGBT workers. They lobby against minimum wage increases by giving money to right wing politicians who want to destroy us. That's nearly all of them.
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transphobia
just got a YT ad from the daily wire about "in California girls who identify as boys can have a double mastectomy at as young as 13 years old." something something "madness" something something "documentary", while they're mix-and-matching heads and bodies and legs with ominous children singing in the background. how much money does Google make from that shit having been shown to me? from having been shown to trans people? but happy pride month I guess
all caps, obscure joke
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- 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
