Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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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For me it isn’t just making friends that can be difficult, but keeping them too.
image: @oh_sograceful
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A lot of trade unions used to maintain an "Ask First" list of people or companies their members should, well, ask the union about before agreeing to do work for because they'd been found to have mistreated or underpaid or generally shat on their workers in the past.
Unfortunately there isn't such a list for tech companies (although my goodness there should be), but in the absence of such a list I'd just like to say that (particularly if you're at all neurodiverse) then it would do you well to Ask First before agreeing to work for #RedHat.
I'm not posting this lightly. It's very much a last resort. But after six months of trying to fix this myself I'm done. I know it could have professional repercussions for me to post openly about this, but any company which would consider that to be a show-stopper as far as hiring me was concerned isn't a company I'd want to work for anyway.
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I wish a lot of these 'leftist' people with wide-reaching platforms would realise that it *is* possible to talk about right-wing indoctrination and propaganda in settings like schools *without* denying that our schools *do* indoctrinate and spread propaganda.
And I also wish that they'd stop leaning into the whole myth about teachers frequently being good people, which often relies on the trope of saviourism people hit us with.
Many teachers are bad, many teachers are good, and schools are most certainly not great places (and they definitely do not encourage teachers to be understanding of their students' needs).
That needs to be understood instead of swept under some rug because the right-wing is right about indoctrination happening in schools for the wrong reasons.
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The failure of the Internet to deliver its promise is particularly noticeable when you hunt for repair manuals for a product from the 90s. Used to be, the information would either be there or not there, finable or unfindable.
Now, there are hundreds of algorithmically generated sites claiming to have it just because it appeared in their search logs, generating potemkin village content traps with endless paging, broken-thumbnail named-like-the-file-you-want but actually-just-ebay-photos bullshit
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The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
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every time people complain about GoToSocial --
"wah missing features"
"wah bugs"
"wah why does it force authorized fetch"
-- we add another bug 
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
@tobi adding bugs will continue until morale improves
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Does anyone have any idea where to find a sensory friendly, affordable apartment in Germany? I am currently trying to move back to Cologne (because my friends live there), but it seems to be impossible.
Which city/area in the West or North of Germany can you recommend for an #ActuallyAutistic female person and her cute Beagle?
If you can't help please boost.
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http status code breakdown
1xx - you need to do it
2xx - we did it
3xx - go do it over there
4xx - you can't do it
5xx - we can't do it
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I don’t “live with” autism. I am autistic. My husband lives with autism (me).
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I hate every single person who thinks that the EU should expel states for "not living up to the bloc's standards of human rights and dignity." [mentions state-sanctioned murder of migrants, racism] - Part 1
a) This bloc has no fucking standards of human rights OR dignity. Zero. If they did, the entire Greek government would've been fucking drowned or burnt to the ground after all the times it murdered migrants, not just this last time where they intentionally enabled their coast guard to capsize a whole boat of people. The Italian governments (even those BEFORE Il Duce, Part II -- Giorgia Meloni) would've been smashed through the floor for sending migrants to camps in Libya. The Spanish governments would be brutalised for their attempted murder of migrants in "Spanish North Africa" (places like Cueta). All of that (and more) to protect "Fortress Europe."
Every single anti-Roma bastard on this continent would be punished (not just legally but in every way possible) for razing Roma communities and demanding they be put on LISTS.
There is no such thing as human rights or dignity in Europe, and people better fucking recognise that now and stop pretending like it's some bastion of perfection.
Europe is trash. Get that in your heads *now*.
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anyone know of a status page that can post to mastodon?
Update: apparently it was a mistake on Github's end, and I have been unbanned.
Remaining questions:
- Why did that answer come 16 minutes after beginning to make noise about this?
- How could this happen in the first place?
- Why are there absolutely no mechanisms for repository owners to eg. undo this locally, so as to not break projects that were contributed to?
You get punted off to a 'community support forum' now
Also, I wonder how many people have realized that #Github just straight-up doesn't have a general support department anymore for free users
I've posted an updated summary of the situation, as its own post: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/110733995438668688
Summary of the #Github debacle so far:
- My account seems to have been flagged and shadowbanned, based on the symptoms, but it doesn't actually say this anywhere in the UI
- The reason is unclear; I've received no notification or explanation of any sort from Github, and had to find out through someone at $customer not being able to see my comments
- I sent a support ticket 16 hours ago, and have gotten zero response or acknowledgment so far.
- *All* of my content, except for commits, is hidden without notice; it looks deleted to anyone not logged in as me.
- My repos are gone. Any PRs and comments I've made in other repos over the past decade+ are gone. My Gists are gone.
- This includes at least one Matrix MSC that's entirely gone, and many review comments on other Matrix MSCs and NixOS RFCs. There's just entire chunks of the standards process history missing now.
- Github's account data export only includes my own repositories; all contributions to other projects are missing. Gists are completely missing.
- I can no longer do my job for $customer, that pays my income; because anything I post in their private company repositories(!!) is also invisible - including everything I've worked on over the years, retroactively.
Like, mistakes happen, an account can get flagged for erroneous reasons, fine. But it's slowly dawning on me just how much impact this is having, with seemingly no recourse. And it begs the question of how many other people this has happened to.
community management, moderation
What nobody tells you about community management is that 90% of moderation work is having to endlessly deconstruct systemic and ingrained misbeliefs that people have picked up from toxic politics, debate culture, rape culture, etc.
None of which you were responsible for them starting to believe, but somehow you have become responsible for making them *stop* believing it, and the people in question may not even realize themselves that they believe it
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@joepie91 That is... seriously disconcerting.
I mean, you get flagged, OK, some automated system probably figured there's a good reason to do that (whether that system is correct is another matter, of course), but the complete erasure of history, without quick response to your questions, is absolutely unacceptable.
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Profit is life?
It comes up again and again in different stories.
Apparently, in the US at least, it's become entirely mainstream to regard "ability to make profit" as the one big indicator that something has a right to exist.
How does one even begin to fight that sort of sentiment?
- 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
