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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instead of “hey i made this tool”
try, “hey i am thinking of making this tool” first and get opinions before you do the work that you’ll inevitably have to delete bc you didnt ask for opinions
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Side note, but I hate how the letter Q has been hijacked by American rightwing conspiracy weirdos. Q used to be our letter, dammit.
I hate how "arcade" has come to mean "children's gambling parlour"
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user hostile software
signal is threatening to take away all the features unless I "upgrade" to a worse version that removes a feature I use every day
but yeah tell me more about the liberatory nature of open source, sure
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To avoid disappointment, a brief reminder that EMF happens every two years and our next event will be in 2024.
If you're looking for a similar event in 2023, we will be at Chaos Communication Camp in Germany.
events.ccc.de/2022/10/18/no-congress-2022/#no-congress-2022-en
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“you can’t go viral on the fediverse”, says person who hasn’t posted a joke about going viral on the fediverse
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Remember userbars? I remember making some in Macromedia (as it was) Fireworks, back in the day.
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The Trolley Problem is that we have roads and cars and we don't have any fucking trolleys.
Oh and they're also almost always loudly Christian, same deal for the "arcade" (ie. childrens' gambling) operators
Possibly my least favourite category on Youtube are the "passive income" videos where white dudes from the US (it's *always* white dudes from the US) happily extoll the virtues of getting filthy rich off running a laundromat with almost no effort.
So I just discovered that KDE Connect will actually automatically mute the music on my PC when my phone rings, and unmute it when the call ends. Neat!
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I've seen a couple of "the fediverse is only used by nerds, so it won't survive - it needs the cool kids to arrive" hot takes recently.
I'm not sure the basic principle - that it is only used by nerds today - is correct anyway.
And even if it were, a small group of nerds is more than enough to keep a service running for themselves and their friends. The fediverse has already "survived" for years.
And who says nerds aren't the "cool kids" anyway?! Being nerdy is pretty cool, IMHO.
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Why are ethics questions always like:
"is it ethical to steal bread to feed your starving family?"
And not:
"is it ethical to sell bread when families are starving?"
@quoteme
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Deeply troubled by seeing my Dutch colleages — both at @Radboud_uni and elsewhere in the country — hyping up ChatGPT rather than help curb the hype, which I think is our responsibility as academics. Why do we let money-motivated AI tech dictate our academic research and debate agendas. We need rather to resist and educate on critical reflection.
all caps
E_ROOF_LEAKING
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So, in summary, current DHL status:
- One parcel which they claim to have delivered on Thursday, but didn't
- One parcel which they claimed they would deliver today, but aren't delivering because it's "too heavy"
Things are going great again at DHL
(I do love how the GraphQL API behind their track-and-trace gives you all the gory details of where your parcel is and what's wrong with it)
- 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
