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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
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sci-fi concept, Asimov's Laws
AI that's been programmed with the Three Laws of Robotics and due to how they define harm they decide to fully dismantle capitalism.
Also yes, I have encountered every single one of these in the wild, repeatedly
Reasons I will not take your "the web is broken" blogpost seriously (non-exhaustive):
- Does not distinguish between different ways of using tools that are designed to be used in multiple ways
- Does not distinguish between tools and their ecosystems (where those are plausibly separate)
- Recommends as the 'solution' some hyped-up novel thing that fails to clearly explain how it actually solves problems better than previous options
- Recommends as the 'solution' some commercial product
- Assumes that anything that is "standard" (usually for a remarkably narrow definition of the term) is automatically qualitatively better
- Recommends as the 'solution' some sort of strange infrastructure design that seems conveniently designed to fit one specific service provider (looking at you, Netlify)
- Does not recognize or understand the reason that "web apps" exist, and that that is a separate consideration from what web *sites* should look and work like
- Suggests replacing technologies that have nothing to do with the problem being described (usually HTTP is the victim there)
Seriously, there are so many valid criticisms to make, and so many possible paths forward. Do better, people.
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And like, the core complaint of excessive complexity on the web and all the accessibility/performance that originate from that, is *valid* -- but you do actually need to understand the cause correctly to fix it
Something that continues to amaze and frustrate me in equal parts, is that many of the "web has gotten overly and irresponsibly complex" criticisms are aimed primarily at React...
... even though it's probably the only 'modern' development stack whose design actually plausibly lets you opt out of its broader ecosystem and is designed somewhat standard-ly, unlike the 'competitors' like Angular, Vue, etc., which are rarely mentioned in this context
Like, to be clear, React does have its own problems, but also this sort of thing makes me wonder how many of those criticisms are well-informed, vs. how many are just based on imprecise anecdata
re: facebook, fedipact
For those interested, this phenomenon has a name, by the way - it's the "preparedness paradox" (also often called "prevention paradox" though that seems to mean something different as well)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox
Not mentioned is that it tends to be Certain Demographics who are particularly likely to fall into this trap
facebook, fedipact
I bet that if Facebook decides not to federate after all with their Twitter clone, all the usual techbros and bootlickers will immediately go "see, you were panicking about nothing", and not consider for a moment that maybe the #FediPact backlash might be the *cause* for that
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#MastoAdmin Boosts requested
Hey! So i've upgraded my instance, and systemd is saying everything's ok, but the streaming service is saying:
Error: Missing access token
I tried restarting everything too ;-;
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Alles ist besser, wenn der 3d-Drucker wieder ordentlich druckt. :) #DIY #Making #DesperateHousehackers
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I’ve taken to calling this period we’re in the “late pandemic.” As with “late capitalism,” the phrase expresses a desire rather than a current condition, with a dose of exhaustion thrown in. And it’s stopping me from voicing “post-pandemic,” which remains a giant bucket of nonsense.
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19 juli: Politiek proces wegens oproep de A12 te blokkeren – de achtste ‘opruier’
Wat gaan we eraan doen?
De waarheid zal tijdens de rechtszaak op woensdag 19 juli ongetwijfeld niet aan het licht komen, maar ik weet genoeg. Het is nodig om te laten zien dat we dit niet pikken. Kom daarom naar de rechtbank of uit je ongenoegen op een andere plek of manier. Laat zien dat repressie beantwoord zal worden met (meer) verzet. Verspreid ook de oproep om op 9 september de A12 te blokkeren. Niet alleen om die actie nog groter te maken, maar ook omdat veroordelingen in deze zaak zullen betekenen dat iedereen die deze oproep doet dan vogelvrij is: in het bijzonder klimaatactivisten en onder hen vooral anarchisten en antifascisten. Precies daarom moeten we de handen ineen slaan. We laten ons niet intimideren.
Blokkeer de A12 op 9 september om 12 uur. En de dagen erna.
Doe ook je eigen ding om de klimaatcrisis te stoppen.
Op de barricades!
Joke Kaviaar, 7 juli 2023
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ACAB
people praising meta again
wish techbro journalists shut their fucks up sometimes
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Eindelijk weer eens een nieuw artikel geschreven! Onlangs las ik in de #NRC over hoe #klimaatactivisten een 'schrikbeeld zijn geworden voor bedrijven'. Dit is in mijn ogen zeer positief, maar in mijn ogen miste het verhaal bepaalde punten die cruciaal zijn.
Mocht je iemand kennen die actief bezig is voor het klimaat, maar nog wat kritischer tegenover bedrijven kan zijn, waardeer ik het als je dit met hun deelt.
#ExtinctionRebellion #klimaatcrisis
https://purpleflame.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/06/het-belang-van-kordaat-klimaatactivisme/
It's fascinating how Rocket Internet gained a reputation of shoddy cloning whereas Facebook/Meta gained a reputation of shrewd entrepreneurship, even though their business model of "making clones of whatever is successful" is fundamentally the same
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A reminder that https://vulpine.club is closing shortly (a day or so left).
If you haven't migrated instances, please do so as soon as possible to retain your account on the #fediverse
Where to go? 
We at https://red.fox.yt are still open and accepting registrations if you need a place, but if foxes aren't for you then take a look at https://furryfediverse.org and join an instance.
Closing down post
https://vulpine.club/@rey/110159033678693673
Official migration documentation 📖
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
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Heya! We just published the first release candidate (rc1) for version 0.10.0 of GoToSocial! 
Highlights of this release include support for LISTS, partial text search, and lots and lots of fixes.
You can get the release candidate from here if you wanna help us test it out!
https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.10.0-rc1
Please read the release notes carefully, as this release contains some database migrations, and an extra warning about automated media cleanup.
To all our supporters and contributors: thank you so much for being groovy.
To all our sworn enemies: take a long walk off a short pier!
😍
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Oh hey, Mastodon's usual maintenance doesn't remove cached profile avatars and header pictures unless you explicitly do it from the command line or a maintenance script using a command only added in version 4.1 ("tootctl media remove --prune-profiles"). My disk usage just dropped from an alarming 96% down to 67%, with 11.7GB of cached data blown away. #mastoadmin
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Feel like I could summarise most research into repeated victimisation of neurodivergent people into this headline:
“People who have been consistently gaslighted since childhood, susceptible to more gaslighting”
- 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
