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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- 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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i've been using the netsurf browser on some of my qubes VMs over the past several weeks. it's a FOSS browser that runs on it's own unique browser engine rather than a fork of google's chromium or mozilla's gecko engines. if you use it in conjunction with search engines like marginalia or wiby then you can get a pretty solid experience browsing old web 1.0 sites, yesterweb-style stuff, blogs, etc. it's not very good for browsing most of the modern web. that can be a good thing depending on your POV.
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This is scary. It's (strong) SafetyNet for websites.
Every now and then I run into another Android app I can no longer run because someone decided my phone, running an official build of my choice of OS, that isn't even rooted, is "not trustable".
Now they want to start doing that for websites.
This kills open Linux on the desktop (including Asahi Linux). It kills alternative browsers. It is a backdoor to kill ad blockers.
No. Just no. Please.
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md
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hrt storage question
can anyone recommend me something to cool estradiol vials to a resonable temperature (20 degrees celsius or so, for a long time) given that the air is burning recently
analysis, neoliberal propaganda
A common argument against free public transport, goes something like this:
"Making public transport free would encourage a lot of unnecessary trips, that could be taken on foot or bike. And there's government support for poor folks who need it anyway."
Sounds very rational and 'economic' on the surface, right? Just working out the numbers, and that's the outcome, right? No ideology, just logical thinking about what's economically responsible, right?
Well, not quite: when you think about it, it doesn't *really* make sense. Transit is usually cheap enough that people with some disposable income can easily afford to take it even for short trips, so they're not disincentivized by this.
So what this *really* says, once you scratch away the veneer of 'economics', is:
"*Poor* people should not be able to ride public transport unless we deem it to be necessary for them."
This is how neoliberal propaganda works. It takes some kind of ideological stance (usually some version of "poor people do not deserve autonomy"), and then packages it into an economic-sounding argument that conveniently omits some details and consequences to make it sound neutral and objective.
This is how neoliberals make people believe that oppressive policies are "just the necessary thing to do".
Ah great, my trackball is perpetually stuck at 50% charge state again
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* 💜 claimed - also with a recommendation from other friends to donate to an abortion fund next time 💜 *
Anyone planning a trip and ready to book flights? I've got a $100 Delta credit that needs to be used by 3 Aug (about two weeks from today).
No restrictions on travel dates, just needs to be booked thru delta.com by 3 Aug.
hmu if it would be useful to you - I'm not gonna use it before it expires.
Only usable once, so plz only reply if you're ready to book rn.
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re: 100% serious about the whole browser DRM thing going on rn
There is now a GitHub pages link https://keschercode.github.io/Web-Disintegration
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100% serious about the whole browser DRM thing going on rn
I've forked the Web-Environment-Integrity proposal by "the W3C" (actually, it's just Google lol), and I think my proposal is so much better
Lets Name Heat Domes After The Top 100 CO2 Sources
https://thedorkweb.bearblog.dev/lets-name-heat-domes-after-the-top-100-co2-sources/
An excellent idea! The only "sponsorship" that I can get behind. Let's all just start using these names :)
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@aral They have now blocked all comments on this "proposal's" github issues - unless you've been contributing, i.e. are in favor of it.
CW-boost: oppression imagery
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It's predictable that TPM, secureboot, and code signing would eventually lead to top-down DRM and forced viewing of ads. It's also predictable that Microsoft-Google-Apple wouldn't show their hand until it was too late to anything about it. When Microsoft first tried with their MSIE monopoly and got smacked down, they didn't give up. Companies pulling BS *never* give up as long as they continue to exist. They go back to the drawing board. Monopolies don't get built just for fun.
political grump
Maybe if liberals and such weren't so milquetoast and constantly covering for abuses, radicals wouldn't need to be so fucking "polarized" all the time to clean up their shit
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I love how this makes perfect sense as a programmer but would sound horrible to anyone else
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Reddit users figured out that some bot crawlers scrape popular threads and auto-generate AI articles based on user comments, so they decided to create some fake hype to confuse them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/154umm2/im_so_excited_they_finally_introduced_glorbo/
It worked.
This is why real journalism matters.
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Unfortunately, given how the #W3C works, something like this is likely to become a Web standard.
For those unaware, being part of a W3C working group, given how expensive it is (in terms of direct fees and indirectly time required to dedicate to this), it is only possible for big companies. That is why the Web continues being shaped to their interests.
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Save the date: Electromagnetic Field 2024 will be held on May 30 - June 2, 2024. We'll be back at Eastnor Castle Deer Park in Herefordshire for the third time.
More details to come!
https://www.emfcamp.org/
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These two statements do not conflict with one another:
* "Certain classes of men can be oppressed based on their manhood and how it intersects with other identities"
* "Men as a class are privileged based on their manhood"
It's 2023. I hope our discussions of social justice and intersectionality have gotten to a point where we all understand that someone can have privilege and be marginalized at the same time, sometimes due to the same exact identity, simply based on how that identity is intersecting with other identities and/or even based on the country and culture they are residing in.
#feminism #intersectionalFeminism #intersectionalism #transmascFeminism
- 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
