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.
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- 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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section 230 ruling
"Yet, we generally do not think that internet or cell service providers incur culpability merely for providing their services to the public writ large."
if my cellphone were trying to maximize my engagement such that it, like, gave me helpful recommendations to text an ex or something, I would probably have some Thoughts On Culpability, clarence
carmack
Ah yes, Carmack "told [Kroese] that he shouldn't be so provocative" with BasedCon. Of course that's the best he could do.
It's not like he could've *demanded* this, under threat of not headlining the event. That would require privilege, and of course Carmack has none of that.
/s
("Intentionally provocative" sure is a choice of euphemism for "fascist", too. Something something nazis at a table.)
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racist appropriation of AAVE by harassment groups, resource for conversations about this
quick tip: if you need to explain to someone why they need to stop using "based", https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/based/ is a good rundown of the history
there are those who claim that "leftists" have "stolen" it from the 4channers, but as John Carmack has just reminded everyone yesterday, bigots still love saying it - https://www.pcgamer.com/doom-co-creator-john-carmack-is-headlining-a-toxic-and-proud-sci-fi-convention-that-rails-against-woke-propaganda/ - so really it's more a case of dirtbag leftists normalizing the word for their 4chan friends
anyway, web searches are quickly becoming untenable, so feel free to bookmark stuff if you need to let people know in the future
- Packbats 🎒
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@gruber A side thought on this line in that CNBC piece: “Apple said it has paid $320 billion to developers”
It’s interesting that Apple has gotten everyone in media to go along with the framing of “Apple pays developers”, instead of customers paying developers and developers paying Apple a fee.
1/3
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section 230 ruling
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1496_d18f.pdf
"As is common knowledge, these three companies control three of the largest and most ubiquitous platforms on the internet: Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. At the time of the Reina attack, Facebook had over 2 billion active users each month, YouTube had over 1 billion, and Twitter had around 330 million. [..] At least for Facebook and YouTube, those numbers are even higher today."
lol. lmao.
politics, "you should pay people"
Reminder that "you should pay people" is *only* a progressive stance in the context of capitalist power dynamics; in the context of interactions with peers or comrades, it is just a classist demand that excludes the poor from participation
health-, insurance
So apparently my kidney disease means that I'm straight-up unable to get disability insurance as a freelancer, and so I'm basically fucked if I ever cannot work anymore.
Fucking neolibs
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What's YOUR favorite tech innovation?
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so apparently universeodon.com is doing FULL INDEXING on every post they receive, without consent. It sounds like maybe even non-public posts??
"we didn't get people yelling at us, so it must be okay! but now people are? what the fuck?"
source:
https://terrible.city/@wolfe/110367918333706199
https://mas.to/@tokyo_0/110362014921240639
https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/110361918551656137
https://universeodon.com/@supernovae/110351720627808159
I don't usually make fediblock posts, but uh
yeah if you don't want to be indexed without consent...
#fediblock universeodon.com for fulltext indexing incoming posts.
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we have had them both blocked for years and i never enjoyed fedi more
stop being a coward bc (again) if they were smaller you would have already defederated due to website boys bad policies and practices
medication, shitpost
In addition to funny pills, nifty pills, angry pills, baking soda, and styrofoam, I now also have shitty powder
Why yes, I *do* assign punny names to my medication so that I don't forget which ones to take when
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Ah, my favorite time of year: #Eurovision, when every single person on my timeline are all attempting to describe the same event, but have clearly each taken a different bespoke hallucinogen.
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It's just so strange to me how many people are not receptive to being told
"Hey maybe we shouldn't have all of our computers based on proprietary operating systems and APIs controlled by a single corporation"
"Hey maybe we shouldn't have web traffic directed and organized through search by a single corporation"
"Hey maybe the way that we talk to each other online shouldn't be owned and controlled through algorithms and advertising by a single corporation"
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What fool uses the term "time traveller" when they could have used
"zeitguest"
Has anyone else noticed Minecraft mods inexplicably vanishing from Curseforge? Someone is reporting three mods from two authors that have vanished in recent months, but the last-online date for the authors is years ago.
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Anyone else with ADHD buys in bulk even though the item is just for you?
I am down to the last bits of my last tube of lip balm and YES I will be restocking with 7-10 new ones
The thought of buying shit when I need it is fuckin exhausting because it’s gonna take, at least, 3-5 days before I even get the focus AND energy to buy more 🤦🏾♀️
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welcome to "the entire fedi is talking about a thing I don't care about at all" night
re: twitter, fascist commentary, cops
(These are translated to be clear, the original thread is in Dutch)
- 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
