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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#RaspberryPi hired a surveillance cop then reacted poorly to people criticising them?
I already released (partial) VCE disassembler, which is enough for an interested reverser to keygen the <=RPi3 codec licensing algorithm.
Maybe I should just, ya know, post the serial algo code.
(fuck software patents/etc anyway)
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There's no systemic racism but weirdly every time we train an AI on public data sets it becomes very racist.
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BREAKING: Raspberry Pi Foundation unveils new "Raspberry Spies" campaign promoting the use of its single-board computers in the intelligence and police communities.
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the qoto guy
And the same qoto guy who, lest we forget,
* sent a weird mass email to a bunch of fedi admins who defederated from him
* (a list which he openly compiled using a kiwifarms tool)
* insisting we only defederated from him because of something some troll did, which is drama I'd never heard of, which happened years after most of us defederated from qoto.
The whole man is a problem on this one, just him, by himself, as a person, the way he behaves, is enough to make me defederate.
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fedi meta
I see the qoto guy is trying to organise a "united federation of instances," and I plainly can not put into words how bad of an idea that is.
I would go back to MySpace before I subjected myself to mandatory federation with anyone, I would be one of the top users on Ello before I subjected myself to a constitution of "bylaws" and "amendments" decided on by the fucking qoto guy.
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alright for my future reference, what are some Raspberry Pi alternatives worth looking into?
I just realized that "🙃" is really just the FOSS version of the SarcMark™️
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UFoI meta, shitpost
pretty cool that the folks who don't like being blocked keep organizing all-in-one-place blocklists for the rest of us
question about police 
So, if you're someone who sees police as "protectors of society", here's a question for you: has the police ever kept you, personally, safe from harm?
And I mean something very specific here: a situation where they prevented harm through "immediate response", in a way that bystanders or emergency services (ambulance, fire brigade, etc.) could not.
So *not* first aid, prosecution, moral support, or anything like that. But an actual first-responder situation where they were uniquely positioned to do so in a way that others couldn't.
This is mostly a rhetorical question, but also one that I am asking you to consider seriously, and that you can reply to if you have a genuine answer to it.
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fedi meta, nerd culture
Brands beloved by tech nerds are really shitting themselves nonstop... makes you wonder if the whole culture is bad or something 🤔
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fedi meta shitpost, cops adjacent
Raspberry Pi? More like Raspberry P.I., amirite?
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Also in my understanding a lot of the time when tech companies hire people who had full careers in other industries it's because they're trying to sell to or otherwise cater to the people who make purchasing decisions in those industries - so this is effectively an announcement that raspberry pi is trying to get those lucrative security state contracts
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capitalist propaganda, "poor people lazy and bad"
today someone told me that charity and mutual aid is bullshit because "you just give away the money and the person in need is just leeching off of you instead of being independent"
I said that I don't care. I see a person in need, I help them as much as I can. it's wrong to assume they are lazy just because they're in a poor position. not to mention that poverty is a cycle. (1/3)
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This Raspberry Pi thing reminds me of the time when Ellen DeGeneres got very upset when people voiced their concerns about her having a jolly old time with notable war criminal George W. Bush.
No one’s saying you can’t be mates with a bastard. Just don’t get upset when no one wants to be friends with a bastard enabler.
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Today's main character is the Raspberry Pi Foundation. A summary for those unable to see it now their server's on fire:
Pi Foundation: Check out @\TobyRobertsPi@mastodon.social, we're proud he spent 15 years (that he'll admit to) using our hobbyist/educational hardware to domestically spy on people for the UK government, now he makes ~quirky LED projects~ for us!
Stop booing us! Why are you booing us! Why do you hate LEDS!?
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Good morning. You can be great and let that greatness influence the world around you. But you have to resist the pressure of the world trying to mold you in it's image. Go make the world a kinder safer place for those without power, and an unforgiving, hostile place to those who would abuse their power.
Make it so!
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anti raspberry pi foundation shitpost
raspberry pi foundation is bad for you, actually. i strongly recomnend to use normal foundation from beauty stores for your makeup rather than creaming raspberry pies into your face.
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minetest dungeon generator mod update, pics
the dungeon occasionally cuts into caves with vegetation in them now !!
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As a non- #blind person I secretly enjoy reading the image descriptions people post. It is a nice way to see what is important to them and how they put it in words.
Hover over the images - it is fun. 🙂
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Raspberry Pi Foundation [edit for some formatting and additional context]
Fediverse: There are no good companies on here.
RPi Foundation: *joins*
Fediverse: There is one good company on here.
RPi Foundation: *Hires cop whose job was surveillance, replies with snark when asked to consider at least how they made the announcement.*
Fediverse: There are no good companies on here.
- 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
