Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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hey folks? fix your fuckin' email parsers. the only way to validate an email address is to send email to it, and i promise that .codes is a real domain.
An interesting mini-documentary about still-running steam trains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKIoMtunQ3c
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organizing, sabotage, meta?
Probably the most annoying thing in radical organizing is supposed "allies" starting to uncritically argue for buying into a status quo structure or mechanism because "it's easier".
And it's often hard to tell whether it's just naivete, or deliberate sabotage of the organizing effort.
(Thinking of the "fedi and corporations" discourse right now, but it's way more frequently applicable)
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@schratze The proof is left as an exercise for the heater.
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searched for this post and couldnt find it so i guess i never posted it which is a crime. anyway. Its Happening Again
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@dragon i wish they made adult play-areas. i just wanna fuck around on swings and climbing walls and also those massive indoor play-areas.
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furry, pol, meta musings
Furry is such an inherently quiet but subversive community. The things we do, while fuzzy and non violent, are often inherently against the arbitrary rules that are forced on us to hierarchicalize and control us in most other spaces.
Consider the sorts of things that go on at furry conventions. You've got kids and adults alike pulling on costumes, playing camp games, sitting in piles of boxes, playing board games, etc.
These are things we are told are "childish things" that need to be put away when we become adults. But these are not things that only children enjoy, which is why we do them. Nor are they things that a person with adult experience would reason lead to some harm or another. They are labeled 'childish' -- with the implication that it is wrong for adults to do them -- because the systems that would control us can't resist any opportunity to draw arbitrary lines and demonstrate what happens to people who step over them.
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I wish more people understood that "I want the computer to generate a natural language text that sounds like a plausible answer to a question about x" and "I want the computer to answer a question about x" are two very different problems.
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quora is just twitter but for snobs that want to seem intellectually superior
never seen a more toxic qna website, aside from reddit
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A light bulb moment for me was realizing that much of the talk about student "motivation" (how to boost it or why a given kid lacks it) is really code for talking about compliance - that is, the extent to which students do whatever we tell them.
rant, GUI vs. terminals
GUI-only users: I really don't want to have to use a terminal
terminal-only users: GUIs are trash, why isn't everything a terminal application
Generalized, obviously, but it's remarkable how there's such a common difference between "I don't want to" vs. "nobody should want to"
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hackerspace open day 
Next week Saturday (March 25) it will be Open Day again at RevSpace, the hackerspace in The Hague (https://revspace.nl/)!
Everyone is welcome - entry is free of course, and you don't need to speak Dutch! It's pretty accessible by public transport too.
Do make sure to book a timeslot here in advance: https://pretix.eu/revspace/opendag2023/ - the other COVID safety measures are also explained on that page.
Some more details about RevSpace (in English) can be found here: https://www.nycresistor.com/2019/01/12/hackerspace-envy-a-visit-to-revspace-in-the-hague/
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Read some pro-socialist literature when you're supposed to be inventing a new form of planned obsolescence or whatever
Draw up a plan for unionizing your workplace instead of inventing a new way to hide the way that your startup is exploiting a loophole in labour laws or whatever
Grab the garden hose and take it to the server room and oops oh no how did that happen
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Are you a techbro?
Are you actively making things worse?
You could just chill instead
Take a nice, long coffee break today
Do some time theft
Slowly scale it up to intentional sabotage over the course of years, sure
But for now, just chill and, don't
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Turns out Mastodon on e-ink is cool af
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It’s pretty intense when I play on my kit in the loft.
It’s drum attic.
- 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
