Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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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- 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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@Siph also, like one of the early steps in your learning about racism both outside of and inside of you, includes learning that you are racist, because you're raised in white supremacy, that's the whole point.
Unlearning it isn't a one day lesson, or seminar, it's a hell of a journey and you will learn over and over again just how racist you are and have been and still continue to learn as you uncover more things.
and it connects to sooooo many things, that you then start to learn about those things, and phew... one heck of a ride.
What I'm trying to say is: If you haven't learnt that you're racist yet, your anti-racism journey has not even quite begun.
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if you think calling someone racist as an extremely serious accusation that must be heavily substanciated and carefully considered like accusing someone of a crime then you might be racist
it looks like for some people "falsely" accusing someone of racism is as bad or worse than being racist, if you think like that, subconsciously or not, then you might be racist
idk how to explain it more clearly but if you’re doing that in "good faith" you’re leaving the gate open for 1) shutting down conversations about racist behavior 2) endless concern trolling and "debate" about what is racist or not by people who really have no business being the arbiter of the subject
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#Fediblock moth.social
moth.social and the Mammoth client are backed by VC funding, same shit that ruined the rest of the internet. if you care at all about commercial exploitation of the Fediverse, send this one to the trash can next to Cloudflare and Medium.
https://mammoth.writeas.com/we-are-hiring
https://mammoth.writeas.com/our-business-model
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As always, https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture is highly relevant
Developers write a critique of software development without using JS developers as a punchline challenge 2023 (impossible)
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moderately cursed
a microSD card is *technically* a cartridge
re: dependencies, capitalism
(You can actually see this in practice in the JS ecosystem, where it's the shiny half-broken reinvented kitchensinks that have glossy websites stuffed full of sponsors... but all the crucial underlying single-purpose libraries have gone unfunded, as have all the modular Just Works alternatives to the high-level glossy stuff)
dependencies, capitalism
I frequently talk about how the ideal dependency is one that does precisely one well-defined thing, rarely needs any maintenance, has no room for scope creep (because it only does exactly one thing), and that is so straightforward and unremarkable that you almost forget you're using it.
Explaining this to people is already exhausting, because this is a topic with a lot of misinformation and wrong assumptions floating around it.
But what *really* worries me is that even if everybody were to accept this on an 'intellectual level' overnight, it likely still isn't going to happen - because capitalist incentives work against it.
Why? Because you won't get millions of VC or acquisition money for something unremarkable that Just Works and needs no marketing copy.
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"We have VC funding" is like the best reason to not use something, when you're on the fediverse
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How on earth is someone getting 5 million dollars (Five. Million. Dollars.) in VC money for a *validation library*
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What's your favourite distro
re: meta question
Conclusion: yes, they can! Thanks for the tests everybody :p
meta question
If you mention someone who is not a follower in a followers-only post, can they see the post?
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number of days since I was forced to fill in a binary title for a contact form where it's completely irrelevant: 0
There's a long-running problem where more smaller dependencies is actually better but it intuitively *feels* worse to a lot of people, and I wonder whether anyone is working on resolving that UX problem
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Each and every grain of sand laments its seeming insignificance, forgetting that without them the vast Sahara would not be.
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You: *a compliment*
My internal monologue: "If I say thanks or smile or accept the compliment they might think I'm agreeing with it which is arrogant and prideful, but if I say nothing they might think I'm rejecting it which is rude and ungrateful, and and"
Me: *runs away*
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He doesn't want to come inside.
He was made for this.
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I had one of those dreams where I was back in school and about to fail something and now I'm upset thinking about how education systems make upsetting and stressful situations like that common enough that having dreams like that for the rest of your life is a common experience among people
- 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
