Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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.
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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
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
re: Searchtodon meta, scraping related 
also for fucks sake
> That said, I think the Mastodon community will have to have to come to terms with “trust they follow me” and delegating that trust to third parties that are fun or useful.
https://chaos.social/@janl/109677640974046213
No we fucking don't. We've been posting fine here for YEARS without having to come to terms with that. Figures now that this account is a recent join too.
Why do they always bring the "it's the inevitable future" arguments when **they're the ones making that ""inevitable"" future**
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In Zuid-Holland moeten 120.000 huizen verwarmd worden met restwarmte uit de Rotterdamse haven. Maar is dat echt duurzaam, of spelen andere belangen een rol? https://www.groene.nl/artikel/de-botlek-als-kachel
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@doot also, fun fact, with that unbroken chain of compatibility, this "wider fedi" social network both predated *and* outlived Google+
https://rys.io/en/162.html#a-bit-of-history
Remember this next time anyone makes a galaxy-brained "argument" that only corporate-supported tools and services are "long-term viable" or somesuch bullcrap.
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I think just as a matter of praxis of securing the open "run anywhere" nature of the fediverse, I'll be UA-blocking Cloudflare's "Will only run on cloudflare" fedi project and encourage everyone else to do the same.
Anything that talks to vee must be capable of being self hosted for no additional cost or licensing encumbrances. I'm sick of EEE.
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Move from 'effective altruism,' to 'solidarity, not charity.'
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in case anyone needs the reminder, cloudflare suck
don't give them your business
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@gsuberland @joepie91 the garbage collector relies on heuristics, often resulting in dangling pointers to important objects.
Hi everybody reporting on #luetzerath, can you please try to include alt texts for your images and videos, so that the vision-impaired among us can also follow what is happening? Almost everything I see coming by is missing alt text!
Oh look what a surprise, Cloudflare is trying to co-opt the fediverse and centralize it into their own infrastructure
When will people finally start accepting that Cloudflare is a bad actor?
#ADHD allocation algorithm: objects go in the nearest free spot on a flat surface, and that is now forever their Place. Retrieval uses a temporal/associative lookup table.
Love seeing the "many of the new Mastodon users did not want to stay there" articles, clearly written by "journalists" who don't have the first idea about how MAU metrics or user adoption curves work
(Basically, you *always* get an initial spike of people who have just created an account to check it out, and then immediately decided that it wasn't for them, and that downwards slope starts a month after the wave begins. This is true for every platform/service no matter how liked or successful)
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What movie was this? Old campy sci fi movie, probably b/w, a group of scientists (?) traveling down through a planet (earth?) in a shaft and they pass a copy of themselves in another shaft going up. The second group is trying to wave them off, to go back, but to no avail.
They say that elephants never forget, so what movie was that, Mastodon?
Also: if you want people to provide you with technical support on *your* terms, then FUCKING PAY THEM.
Programming help pet peeve: people refusing to provide the full code when asking a room of volunteers to help fix their bug, incompletely and inaccurately transcribing it instead (and usually omitting the cause of the bug in the process).
Like, I'm not going to waste a bunch of time and energy on playing 20 questions with you, just to satisfy your manager's weird obsession with Proprietary Company Information(tm)?
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"Smash RWE!"
Graffiti in Buir denouncing the German energy conglomerate which owns Garzweiler, the opencast lignite mine which is being expanded to engulf the village of Luetzerath.
For the past few years activists have occupied the largely abandoned town to prevent it's demolition.
In recent days police from all over Germany have converged on the village as part of a major operation to attack the fortified protest encampments.
There are still ongoing battles in the area, as thousands of armed police are attempting to evict the remaining defenders.
#Luetzerath #LuetzerathBleibt #LuetzerathVerteidigen #SmashRWE
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I think my favorite use of emoji responses on Slack/Discord/etc is when someone just latches onto a particular word in a message and attaches its emoji, with no semantic content intended. E.g. someone'll say "Sorry, the bus is running late" and someone else will just slap a 🚌 on there to confirm that they did indeed notice and recognize the word "bus"
Okay, what the fuck is up with Fight for the Future? I remember them being advocates for privacy and digital rights, but now they're shilling Web3 trash and advertising VPN services?
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anyway. give people money if you have it
not non profits. People.
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Anne C.A. Baanen
impractical plan: let's sue the Garzweiler mine!
According to the accepted repository of all knowledge and wisdom, Wikipedia, the Garzweiler II mine contains about 1,3×10⁹ tons of lignite. Taking optimistic estimates, this corresponds to 1,2×10⁹ tons of CO₂. Over the planned 24 years of operations, this represents about a thousandth of current worldwide CO₂ production.
It is estimated (Deltacommissie (2008). Samen werken met water: Bevindingen van de Deltacommissie.) that only the Dutch sea and river defences will require €38 billion in the coming years to adapt to changing climate. World-wide the costs are closer to $100 billion per year between 2010 and 2050 (PBL (2014). Costs and benefits of cimate change adaptation and mitigation: An assessment on different regional scales).
So the Dutch government should sue the Garzweiler mine for €40 million in climate damages and convince other governments to sue them for the €4 billion in total damages this mine will cost in CO₂ exhaust alone.
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Dear fellow techies:
If you have a great idea for a fediverse tool, and it's amazing that nobody's done it yet... ask around. Especially ask PoC and LGBT folks.
There might be very good reasons it hasn't been done yet.
Or--it might have been done already, multiple times, and raised a storm of protests that drove each developer into shelter. You don't want to be that person.
The fedi needs tools! The fedi needs activitypub hackers! Don't waste your time writing code nobody wants, work with the community.
Hint: we don't want indexers or search engines.
- 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
