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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i think it would be more interesting if journalists paid more attention to the actual weirdness (complimentary) that seems particularly prevalent among rank-and-file tech workers and less attention to "in this Great Man Profile of a Founder, i explore his SV-brain extracurriculars. meditations *and* valuations???"
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Thoughts on Cyberpunk 2077, Massive Spoilers
So played Cyberpunk as a Black woman, as I do most games. I have always found playing powerful characters that don't resemble me interesting.
A weird thing happened as I got more into the story, and I felt very uncomfortable with the idea of a dickhead white dude invading my very Black body and feeling entitled to it.
At a point in the game, you're told your body no longer belongs because this white man's personality has over-written your own. I don't think the developers intended the massive racist implications of this scene if you play as Black (which is another convo). Still, I couldn't help but notice the bulk of the game was about a white dude gentrifying someone's existence most rudely and unapologetically way possible until you choose to give him chance after chance to not be a dickhead.
Outside of the fact main story is a redemption arc for a person who used a nuclear weapon that killed many people to get revenge on a company that killed someone he allegedly loved but treated like shit, the central theme is coming to terms with someone who is literally robbing your entire identity. There's nothing you can do about it.
If I were writing a story about how white supremacy works, it would look a lot like Cyberpunk 2077's central narrative.
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Anyone on tonight’s NightJet wanna play SBB Quartett? 🥺
Also a good way to study my train types ☺️
school uniforms, politics, long, personal anecdote
As a kid, I was torn on the subject of school uniforms. On the one hand, I recognized how it prevented self-expression; on the other hand, I felt the goal of preventing classism was laudable.
At the time, I couldn't draw a conclusion; there didn't seem to be a right answer, it seemed like something that was just fundamentally a conflict of interests, and there was no right answer.
With what I've learned since about oppression, I've also started to realize that I was wrong; it *wasn't* some fundamental unresolvable tension between interests, but rather I just wasn't given all the available options.
School uniforms don't *actually* prevent classism, of course, despite what is claimed; they just *obscure* class differences. They try to hide the problem. They don't address the underlying dynamics, or the oppressive/bullying behaviour involved in them.
The class differences are still there, the bullying is still there, and the systemic classism in society is also still there. It just takes on different forms.
In other words: the school uniforms are taking away self-expression and promoting homogeneity, without any actual positive tradeoffs to show for it.
The *real* solution is to address class differences materially. To not only make sure that everybody has their needs met, but also to dismantle the oppressive systems that have produced this inequality in the first place.
To make it so that self-expression is available to all, without needing to have class connotations to begin with.
That, of course, would be considered "too radical" for a school; calling for dismantling those systems would *also* call into question the position of power of those schools themselves, as well as the systems of government and capitalism above them.
Those same oppressive systems which stand to benefit from reducing self-expression and bodily autonomy... through, for example, school uniforms.
And so instead, what a lot of people got was a "solution" that never really solved the problem, but certainly pretended to, all the while strengthening existing inequalities under the guise of "progress". School uniforms.
And I think a very useful lesson can be drawn from this, because this is what happens for a *lot* of supposedly progressive policy.
So many of these supposed "conflicting needs" in society could be resolved by rejecting such false progress, and asking the hard questions about what the root cause of the problem *really* is - and then solving all of those supposedly-conflicting needs together, by addressing the true root cause.
This is part of what 'solidarity' is about; recognizing that everybody's struggles often have a shared cause, and that they are not in competition at all. That they all have the same solution.
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Across #Britain, boys at many high schools are forbidden to wear shorts even during hot weather due to uniform policies (curiously there was once an era when as a boy you *had* to wear shorts to school (until biological age 13) in all weathers!).
So instead they are wearing skirts (this has also been happening in #Wales and oher parts of the UK)
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/23617026.farlingaye-student-goes-school-skirt-protest/
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fedi devs stop making flagship instances unless you plan to moderate them challenge
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Folks, apparently a Norwegian instance (snabelen.no) won’t be “associating with” me because of my position on not welcoming Meta and surveillance capitalists to the fediverse (https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/110621068046632124)
Please feel free to consider whether you want to associate with them accordingly:
https://mastodon.ar.al/@cbt@snabelen.no/110621662756744170
#NorskTut #allheimen #Norge #noreg #surveillanceCapitalism #bootlickers #fediverse #mastodon #meta
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@researchfairy So, I used to maintain a "hall of shame" of papers in my field.
It got popular, and then we got people literally submitting their own papers to our hall of shame...
So yeah, that is a thing that happens.
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Isn't "sub tooting" just any posts y'all make? smh.
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physical entity! go now and have some liquid. thanks.
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I'm looking for a minimalist responsive website theme for a side project I'm working on and I don't want to use ThemeForest because I read they take a huge chunk of the money from sellers. Any alternatives you'd recommend?
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Stop telling people how to use Fediblock. It ain't just gotta be a last resort, and to be effective it really SHOULD NOT be.
I keep saying this: If it don't apply, let it fly. You don't wanna block something? Don't. But don't be doing that "only when necessary" shit to everyone else when their thresholds are different from yours.
and use the #fediblockmeta ffs
long, project announcement
#ProjectToot: I've finally completed an initial version of dlayer, my graph query library; it's kind of like GraphQL, but without the Facebook, without the weird DSL, and without the weird monolithic "design your whole API at once" design.
Instead, it's an extensible, modular design; an API is composed at runtime of one or more modules, which may or may not be aware of each other's existence, and extend each other's types with extra attributes as well!
This makes it much more useful for collaborative projects where different people might design different extensions for a (semi-)standardized API structure, as well as organic development, rather than GraphQL's assumption that you have one "team" that "designs the API" - which I'm sure works great in a startup, but *sucks* for community projects.
It shares the same useful property as GraphQL does, however; it lets you very easily assemble a coherent API out of many different, inconsistent data sources, regardless of whether any HTTP is involved. (There's currently not even any HTTP anything!)
The current implementation is in JS, but the design (and extensibility method) are simple enough that I see no reason it couldn't be ported to other languages!
Here's a rough example of how it works, with some dummy "modules" and data: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/a01a59485cd399324e37e3c6f00ebf78?ts=4
I need to sleep now, but I'll post a link to the code and some initial documentation tomorrow, probably. Let me know if you're interested in testing this out though :)
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There's an alternate reality (probably without rms) where Linux is called Gnunix, and it's pronounced geese-necks for some reason.
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It's very clear that the concept of consent and boundaries is a foreign concept to many alleged progressive people in the fedi, especially when it comes to respect for Black and Brown folks.
The fact the basic idea of safety and moderation has been such a hot topic for months now is very telling.
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i'm so tired of everything
the meta meta meta (the meta about the meta about meta)
what ever happened to this being a comforting place? my warm, safe digital home?
can't we just go back to the days of posting pineapples and asking gargron to fix the emojos?
but no... this place must be defended. an incursion by one of the biggest evillest megacorps on the planet is relatively imminent
i will do what i can and must to defend this place
i can't and won't let y'all down
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And mark this note.
As safety tools improve, a lot of people aren't going to like them because they believe in unlimited access despite the quantifiable harm it causes.
There will be a fedi that values sustainable growth and community and one that will not, and that place will get worse as we become better and set those boundaries.
The commitment to a safer fedi will expose a lot of bigots, as the discussion around fediblock is already going.
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@zens like two careers ago i went to a conference talk where a facebook engineer was openly bragging about how their developing world strategy was to give everyone free access to mobile facebook in order to ensure that millions of people experienced the internet only through them
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All the "why we shouldn't federate with Facebook" articles are like, deep analysis of historical behaviour track record, potential consequences for the community, group dynamics, etc.
And then there's the pro-Facebook articles and they're all just "but the growth! won't you think of the growth!"
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
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- Pronouns
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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.
- 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
