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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Lots of sentiment out there that we can't reasonably expect The Users to know anything at all about how computers work and that's just not a useful way to look at things. If every innovation has to work perfectly, the first time, for people who don't care to learn what a file is, we are doomed to make endless VC funded iOS apps for eternity.
The price for doing new and interesting things that run counter to the interests of capital is that you have to engage with the world, just one little smidgen. Just a pinch of giving a shit about how your civilization functions. That's all.
It's particularly ironic how they're talking about preventing "takeover of the fediverse", without acknowledging that that is *the exact thing they are doing* by trying to centralize governance into an inaccessible pseudo-official conference
Reading some of the #FediForum meeting notes and oof, this has quite some 'privileged tech dude with a new toy' vibes
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Taken just now, an april shower rolling up our valley towards us.
#photo #photography #photooftheday #smartphonephotography #umbria #italy #landscapephotography #landscape #AprilShowers #clouds #PhotographyIsArt #ArtistsOnMastodon
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it's actually free (and extremely sexy) to tell capitalists (and their wannabe shills) to fuck right off
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if a capitalist is selling you on some shiny new thing, it should invariably be regarded with suspicion if not outright hostility
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in the great, great majority of cases, technology that's being pushed on us makes our lives demonstrably worse, not better; interesting technical innovation comes from solving problems from below, not enforcing so-called 'solutions' from above
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seriously tired of having technology we don't need/want forced on us by capitalists
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@same "this protects you from really nasty shit. anyways we disabled it"
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Today I learned there’s a term for the reductionist thinking where management looks at a graph as the thing, instead of the underlying things the graph represents, and makes decisions based on that. It’s called surrogation, and it can cause companies to fail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogation
the nitrokey post on Qualcomm chips 
Does anyone have more insight on Nitrokey's claims about Qualcomm chips sending data? The whole post feels a bit 'off' to me, it feels more like fear-based marketing for their own products than like legitimate security research. Lots of oddly-placed hyperbole and the commentary is all over the place.
I'd love to know if anyone can reproduce/confirm these findings independently.
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if only we bullied tankies off the fediverse as hard as we did to corpos tbh
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conversion therapy website hacked
gay/trans conversion therapy website factsaboutyouth dot com got pwnd
make sure to be gay on the computer or alan turing died for nothing
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God I hate neoliberals. Yeah sure its the fascists who are running amok but how did we get here? Who enabled them? Oh right, it's the neoliberals, dogmatic conservatives who pretend they're not conservative but "rational" and "moderate" and do nothing but slowly poison the well by constantly insisting that the rational, moderate thing to do is compromise with and cede ground to fascists
This message brought to you by me seeing an article about how those most opposed to a full pay 4 day work week in Germany are the supporters of the neoliberal party
Fucking neoliberals are why we can't have nice things and why we have rising fascism instead
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Reminder that if you build websites, the #Firefox browser has built in #accessibility checks. It's not everything, but it's a start. #UX #a11y
Open your site in FF, press F12 (or CTRL + SHIFT + i) and select the Accessibility tab
LLM/GPT shit, sarcasm
Great news! Now instead of straight-up using artists' work without proper attribution directly, YouTube music channels can launder it through an "AI" plagiarism machine to "create something original"!
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please game developers, please, PLEASE, add font size options to your UI heavy games. I am so tired of having to bail from a game because I simply can't read the UI easily.
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windows, a year and a half after being installed:
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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
