Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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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if i ran a bank i'd keep all the money in the bank and when people asked to take their money out i'd give them the money because it would already be in the bank and it would be fine. anyone tried this
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dot social is haunted y'all
lewd joke
The top supply chain issues
SVB failure
So Y Combinator is calling on the government to compensate for Silicon Valley Bank's failure.
But here's the thing - their petition is full of high-and-mighty talk about how employees' livelihoods should be protected.
... and then they call for the affected corporations to be made whole. Not the employees, but the owners/bosses. Suddenly it's not really about the employees anymore, now that they've outlived their usefulness as a debate prop!
I'm sure the government doesn't want to be handling payroll for individual employees, but there are a lot of reasonable solutions that could've been called for here, and this is what they went with instead.
Capitalist vultures gonna capitalist vulture I guess, socializing the losses.
Het is interessant hoe de term 'strippenkaart' nog altijd door een hoop Nederlandse bedrijven gebruikt wordt, ondanks dat de oorspronkelijke strippenkaart alweer ruim 10 jaar afgeschaft is
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BREAKING: FediForum, the event criticised for opaque finances and steep ticket prices, issues a short statement blaming Russian state-backed hackers for discovering the discount code "SCHOLARSHIP", which can be used to obtain a "scholarship" ticket for free.
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"But what about ___?" you might ask! The answer is simple: No. You literally don't need them in your life, the world spun fine before them and will spin fine after them 😘
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Anyway, on a more serious note, a lot of problems will be solved very easily if you immediately defederate from any/all activitypub servers ran by any sort of tech or social media company.
Easy-peasy, no worries, Bob's your uncle, a few clicks and it's done, just like that 
Their imperatives are not your imperatives, don't need them x
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I'm ready for that top 8 drama when Myspace federates 🍿
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
re: nlpol demos
https://nos.nl/video/2467113-zo-ging-het-er-vandaag-aan-toe-in-den-haag
and as the NOS put it "there's a horrible amount of police presence" (at the climate demo)
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nlpol demos
nothing new, but the contrast between more grassroots organizing on the streets for climate justice, and fascist farmers having a small turnout on a designated demonstration field with expensive stages and setups is so fucking clear
tech grumbling
> My message explicitly points out that there are many ways to "update all packages at once", all subtly different. This suggests that the Yarn core isn't the right place where we should implement this solution, [...]
Some package manager that is
klimaatdemo
"Triest dat politie nodig was", zegt burgemeester die zelf besloot om politie met geweld in te zetten tegen een vreedzame demonstratie
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us culture thing, alc
isn't it 'odd' that like the vast majority around the world knows the US drinking age, even though it has no influence on them at all
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If I could change one thing about the way we talk about copyright, it would be to replace "protected" with "encumbered," at least in the library context. An out-of-print book from 1950 with a dead author and a defunct publisher is not "protected" by copyright; it's encumbered. 60-year-old newspaper articles, 10-year-old political ads, on and on - vast swaths of in-copyright material with no commercial life but some remaining intellectual value aren't protected by copyright. They're encumbered.
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And it hasn't too post this for a while, but just a thought on content warning, which has become a lot less prevalent in the last six months:
CW on Masto isn't about censorship. Its about not retraumatising people who have suffered abuse.
That's it. The Twitter algorithm wants you continually raw with trauma, because it's good for engagement.
For a personal example: I have a couple of major triggers. If I see those triggers CW'd? On a bad day, I'll scroll past.
And that's what it's for.
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- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
