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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- 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
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#PSA: If you are a #uBlockOrigin user, and you suddenly started getting ads on #YouTube, check out this Reddit post:
TL;DR: either purge the filter list cache or disable/re-enable the "Quick Fixes" list.
https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/154vtwy/getting_ads_on_youtube/
In other news, I'm currently recovering from this mild heart attack of suddenly experiencing ads on YouTube for the first time in probably 10+ years. 😵
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Wenn marginalisierte Menschen „zu weit gehen“, machen sie’s definitiv richtig.
Every so often I see a video or an article about "good news about the world that you've missed" and half of it is always shit like "billionaire has given some money to people" or "scummy NGO announces one of their campaigns was successful [even though the effectiveness of the campaign is in question]"
And like, do you even *understand* why people are so cynical and pessimistic about things?
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I can't be the first person who has made this comparison, but being neurodivergent is a lot like driving stick shift when everyone around you drives automatic.
"What do you mean you need to listen to the noise your engine makes, and take the speed you're travelling into consideration?
Just keep your foot on the accelerator and push through! It's always worked for me. 🙄
And what's wrong with you anyway that you need to 'change gears', why do you need to label & pathologise everything? "
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Another machine my passport crashes: global entry
excellent
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ngo industrial complex
the non-profit industrial complex is a giant counter-insurgency operation and all tehse activists no matter how well meaning are just agents of pacification
*cries*
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@theverge.space
Grindr employees are organizing.
A “supermajority” of the “approximately 100 eligible members” have signed union cards to form Grindr United, according to a press release from the Communication Workers of America. The employees come from multiple departments at Grindr, including engineering, design, IT, marketing, and quality insurance.
Next, they’ll vote in a union election.
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Reddit admins: "shit, the users and mods are organizing against us. I know! let's give them a game to play where you must work together to communicate a message, that will surely put a stop to this"
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Homophobia, politics
So, just to recap:
Hungary has a new law that forbids any queer content to be presented in any form to people under 18. This involves all books with any reference to LGBT+ (including, ironically, Harry Potter). These books can only be sold wrapped in plastic, and in the adult section of bookstores. Stores have already been fined for millions of Forints for not complying. This week, they are also being taken off the shelves in some stores completely.
I feel helpless.
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Linguistic terms I want to make mainstream:
The Chewbacca agreement.
The peculiar situation of two bilingual but not fully competent individuals that results in each speaking a different language to each other without ever changing to the other speaker's language, that nevertheless produces a perfectly intelligible conversation to them.
Named, of course, after how Chewbacca just howls and chirps but everyone understands him and replies in English.
It is a very frequent situation in regions where more than one language is common or dominant.
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home media copy protection
it's widely accepted that copy protection and DRM doesn't prevent piracy. Macrovision didn't prevent piracy, DVD CSS didn't prevent piracy, and BD AACS doesn't prevent piracy. in the digital realm, no form of DRM prevented piracy.
so why do studios and publishers continue to use copy protection?
a common assumption is that they're simply too ignorant or stubborn to give up.
but what if copy protection is nothing to do with piracy, and instead is entirely aimed at controlling legitimate users?
if you buy legitimate copy-protected media, you don't 'own' it in any normal sense. you can't create backups, you can't store it on a media server, you can't transcode it for viewing on a tablet or phone. and to most people this situation seems entirely unremarkable or even expected.
once you condition users to believe that they don't own their media, then it becomes much easier to push other forms of anti-consumer practices. for example, studios hate the first sale doctrine; a populace who have given up ownership of media would be much more likely to support its repeal.
they would be much more likely to support other forms of media distribution, like streaming, where you pay forever and own nothing.
and they're more likely to support other forms of copyright maximalism like copyright term extension, or restricting what public libraries are allowed to do, since the idea of content being publicly owned or available would seem quite alien - in fact, that idea is mostly associated with pirated media nowadays.
if this is the purpose of copy protection, i wouldn't say it's been an unqualified success, but it certainly has been quite effective.
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I love diy medicine I'm such a big fan of diy medicine i wish i had a pill press so i could [there is a knock at my door] educate everyone about the dangers of diy medicine you should never do diy medicine
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Here’s an alternative to scrum poker that I find really good, I call it “ADHD”:
Just fix the problem with the biggest and loudest warning messages, have some caffeine and ANC headphones and it’ll be done tomorrow night at 4AM
Reddit admins: "shit, the users and mods are organizing against us. I know! let's give them a game to play where you must work together to communicate a message, that will surely put a stop to this"
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Is there any Mastodon web client where one can enter a Mastodon access key for an account?
I want to give someone posting access, without giving them the full password. I could make a new application key (& secret) and give it to them. If they turn evil, I, with the root password, can revoke it. 🙂
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My wishlist for the federated web is an activitypub-enabled phpbb clone (complete with the themes and emotes). I'd kill off my (mostly disused) discord server for Tangerine for it if I could pay a company to do the basic administration for me like you can with mastodon (keeping on top of updates and so on).
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Reminders to web designers
* Don't build functionality that breaks the "back" button
* Don't build functionality that breaks in-page searching by control-F
* Would it kill you to open it even once in Firefox, jesus
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If you are horrified by the Web Environment Integrity proposal by Google (#DRM for ads), stop using Chrome and switch to Firefox and block ads everywhere.
The only eyeballs left for Google to show ads are the ones protected by ad blockers. That’s the highest growth opportunity they have, and we cannot let them have it.
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Good. The whole concept of cash bail is that people should be detained pre-trial based on how much money they have, instead of whether they're a flight risk or a risk to the community. It's an indefensible system. It should be abolished everywhere.
"The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a state law eliminating cash bail. Illinois will now become the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail when the new law takes effect Sept. 18."
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/illinois-supreme-court-upholds-far-reaching-law-ending-cash-bail
- 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
