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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thinking about "public transit strikes are universally evil because they affect people who rely on that service" when the ones in Portugal were happening
Y'know the ones where the drivers still worked but they just refused to take fares and just ran the system themselves with no fares
And it worked way better than it did with fares.
But hey let's ignore that so we can get angry about workers striking is bad
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Time for a Completely Unscientific Poll because I am a wee bit curious. Please boost this for reach.
Writers of Mastodon: Have you ever gotten a false positive on tests that claim to detect AI-assisted writing? I have a sneaking suspicion that neurotype is a factor here, so I'm adding "autistic" and "non-autistic" separators in the options.
#AmWriting #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #Writers #WritingCommunity #Writing @actuallyautistic
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techbro: I'm gonna write code to take advantage of all this juicy Mastodon data!
Techbro, shortly later: wow the Mastodon people are really unpleasant to people who take advantage of all that data, and that makes me sad and now I won't make tools that unethically take advantage of all the data
Me: System working as designed.
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Time to mute the tech company dudebro who built a proprietary Mastodon browser extension and *somehow* got boosted onto my feed
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The aim of https://Fedi.Garden is to help people discover small and medium sized servers on Mastodon and the Fediverse.
All of the servers listed comply with the Mastodon Covenant (https://joinmastodon.org/covenant), have fewer than 50,000 members, are open for public signups and block threads.net. They can be any sort of Fediverse server, not just Mastodon.
If you run such an instance, send me a message if you'd like to be listed.
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
the fruit juice: "never ever from concentrate"
yeah me neither i have adhd
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In response to mounting consternation, GtS developers release a brief press statement: 'told you so'
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So there’s a global economic slowdown, various countries in recession, an ongoing cost of living crisis, a global energy crisis, and a pandemic that the governments are now trying to ignore. Not to mention the ever-present climate crisis. But corporations are STILL reporting record profits? What will it take to make people admit that capitalism is ruining us? Is all of this somehow not enough?
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The Gardeners of the Galaxy Mission Report is a free weekly newsletter covering topics related to growing plants in space.
You can read online or subscribe to have it delivered directly to your inbox.
#SpacePlants #astrobotany #gardening #botany #ethnonotany
The latest edition went out yesterday, and you can find it here:
https://us6.campaign-archive.com/?u=6ef2923276841a1396dca55bb&id=e5cf6c167b
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🇳🇿
The fact you're looking at this on an ActivityPub-enabled Fediverse app demonstrates that a community of focused individuals can create a global-scale network around an open standard that rivals (or, frankly, beats) pretty much anything capitalism could create, even at its 'best'.
And these communities create without profit motive - just because they share a vision and think it'd be a good thing. All they require is sustainability, not exploitative profit.
I think that's worth celebrating.
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If I have to prove I'm not a computer by identifying traffic lights and busses, perhaps we're not quite ready for self-driving cars.
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(Printable STL for the drive rack is here: https://git.cryto.net/joepie91/modular-hdd-rack)
After two days of badblocks and two hours of heavy random read/write operations across all four disks, I think I'm gonna conclude that my new drive array passed its temperature stresstest!
I did have to add some cooling, the drives were getting uncomfortably hot on the R/W tests without some sort of active cooling
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Gesprekje gisteren.
"Ik ben hier met de trein gekomen", en jij dan?"
Ik: "met de auto, ik mijd het OV sinds 2020."
"Ach ja, vervelend he dat gedoe met die mondkapjes?"
Ik: "Integendeel, waren die nog maar verplicht, want dan was ik nu wel met de trein gekomen".
Wat een bizar land zijn we, dat als iemand het OV mijdt de 'logische' aanname is dat dat is vanwege verplichte mondkapjes, in plaats van om te voorkomen dat je ziek wordt bij gebrek daaraan.
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and can someone from pleroma or akkoma report this status so I can test if federated reports from those instance types work? thank you!
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Yes, surveillance capitalism gives us some material things that are useful.
There are also about a billion things we have never even tried out because rich people believe there's no money in it! Maybe some of those things will also be useful and we should try those instead. Just sayin!!!!
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🇵🇸 
Kijk nou, de staat heeft toch nog wat gevonden om te privatiseren
"De staat onderhandelt over de verkoop van een deel van stroomnetbeheerder Tennet. Die deal kan vele miljarden opleveren, maar ligt politiek gevoelig. Volgens een vorig jaar verschenen rapport is „een geïntegreerd Tennet van groot strategisch belang” voor Nederland."
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/01/24/kabinet-negeert-verzet-tennet-en-wil-duitse-tak-verkopen-a4155219
- 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
