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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- 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
ableism, infrastructure in NL, ranty
(This is unrelated to the NJB thing, FYI)
Given the continued misinformation about this topic... things that are ableist in Dutch infrastructure:
- Near-total lack of public toilets
- Poor accessibility of public transit
- Removal of public seating for "loitering" reasons
- Disability parking/access card procedures
Things that are *not* ableist in Dutch infrastructure:
- Fucking bike paths. I promise you, mobility devices can *and do* use these widely, this is part of the street design
- Cars are not a magical accessibility solution, and their use as such (for those who *do* need them) is not prevented either in NL, not in "car-free" areas either
I don't know where this perennial belief keeps coming from that cycling infrastructure in NL is ableist, but I'm growing more irritated every time I run across it, and more suspicious as to its origins. It smells of abled folks using disabled folks as a pawn to defend their precious cars
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@welshpixie IDK whether to update it with the whole
😺 "Guys I'm sorry for severing all your connections from that nasty woman's website mastodon.art. I'd like to talk about the death threats though, they're super not cool. Sending an admin a death threat is an awful way to communicate. Let's all calm down."
🙇 "Wait, are you saying you got death threats from .art folk?"
😺
🙇 "Are you saying that though"
😺
🧔♂️ "Leave him alone, he's had death threats!"
🙇 "Has he? Or is he just saying death threats aren't cool in general and that's got nowt to do with .art?"
😺 Block'd
...situation, because this whole entire debacle becomes more and more embarrassing to explain as it goes on
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Memory, food
Dammit, I just had the thing where I get a momentary sense-memory of some tasty food from my past, but without enough surrounding context to know what it was, or even what kind of thing it was (other than "savoury" and "nice").
Always bugs me. Brain, tell me what the thing is, and I will feed it to you! We can eat it again! If it doesn't exist to buy outright, I can learn the recipe and make it, it's fine!
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Really feel like mastodon's design doesn't prioritize protecting users from the actions of a malicious admin enough. If the pitch is "if the admin tries to burn things down then you can move" then for that pitch to work it can't be that an admin can torch everything before you have time to react
Yes, they can always take the instance down immediately and in its entirety, but thats not what I'm talking about. But hey actually, if that happens there should still be a way to recover and move your account
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One thing I've noticed with people in the “wait and see” camp is that none of them seems to be able to answer this very simple question:
Meta is a *known bad actor*. It has a track record of abysmal privacy policies, catastrophic moderation (Myanmar genocide docet) *and* successful open protocol busting (XMPP). What information do you have that would even suggest this isn't what they're bringing to the Fediverse, to justify a “wait and see” attitude?
7/
meta, but more general, gruber and others
It's always fascinating to watch the privileged tech dudes go "things should be open to everybody, it makes a stronger protocol" and then completely fail to answer "strong in what sense, and is that actually a good thing?", just treating the technical-achievement-in-a-vacuum as some sort of fundamental good regardless of the implications for actual people and their communities
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a billionaire stuck at the bottom of the ocean? surely he can pull himself up by cutting down on unnecessary spending and picking up a side hustle
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the biggest problem I see with big servers is that their open admissions policy and huge unmoderated userbase makes them the equivalent of a mall TGI Fridays
they have to serve the same policy to the entire franchise, which gives local bartenders a much tougher time kicking out the "well-behaved" fash when they arrive
Genuinely local pubs can have an opinionated, pissed-off bartender who just says "get out" and reaches for the bat as soon as they clock a Nazi
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Capitalism doesn't end. It's always going, always consuming. It is a system that optimizes for oppression, and it's been very busy lately. Income inequality is the symptom. Capitalism is the sickness.
Capitalism doesn't end, so you have to end capitalism.
re: grumbling, academic
"The vibes are off", academic edition
re: grumbling, academic
Ledger this, ledger that, the protocol doesn't even have anything resembling ownership!
re: grumbling, academic
Like for example, it's *extremely weird* to classify a Matrix room history as a "Transaction-based DAG" despite not involving any transactions whatsoever, just because it kinda sorta looks like a thing you've seen in blockchain stuff
grumbling, academic
Getting increasingly annoyed by this paper on Matrix state resolution, which makes constant references to weird blockchain concepts, and I'm beginning to wonder whether that was just some nonsense to get the research funded
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As a UI Developer I have slowely been realizing why electron is so popular.
There's really just a significant lack of UI frameworks that are cross platform without extreme amounts of hassle (Qt's linker hell when cross compiling or just even compiling in some circumstances)
health -
such neck/headache :(
re: directed at reader, a behaviour to unlearn 
It's hopefully not necessary to say this explicitly, but I will anyway: this of course does not apply to genuinely informing someone about a problem that needs to be considered.
But that's a very different kind of conversation, a collaborative one, and not a dismissive throwaway comment that gets thoughtlessly inserted into a post like "that will never work" usually is.
directed at reader, a behaviour to unlearn
"That will never work anyway."
Even if you're leftist, even if you're marginalized, there's a pretty good chance that you've picked up this habit of telling people that they won't succeed - it's uncomfortably widespread.
Think carefully: what are you hoping to achieve by saying this? If you just say that something won't succeed, you're not giving someone any actionable information on how to *make* it succeed.
Are you looking to discourage them? Because that's certainly what the practical effect of this will be - and you may be doing that without even thinking about it. You're actively making it come true.
If you're about to tell someone that something won't work anyway, regardless of whether you *believe* that it will - stop, take a step back, and hold that comment. It will not be a positive contribution, and there's no need for you to share that belief.
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FEDI. recommend me cool trans content creators, preferably video essays about tech stuff or something like that!
- 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
