Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
- 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
Well, I have found the cause: it was the piezo-electric igniter in the gas stove, that was tripping an RCD. Somehow.
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You don't need to be able to repair your car, but I do think you're on the hook for knowing it burns gas to turn the wheels.
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I get very very frustrated by terms like "screen time" and "phone addiction" because it's a fundamental flattening of a huge, complex, textured landscape of social spaces, communities, games, audiovisual media, textual communication systems, automation, and productivity tools into "technology bad" - it's a dismissal of the complexity of the the global communications infrastructure from a boomer perspective.
But I also absolutely hate the whole "WiFi means Internet", "don't tell me it's not an app", "discord servers are actual servers, language is moving on" attitude. It's the same level of flattening, the same lack of interest in the actual shape and texture of this enormous machine we use every day.
We cannot say anything meaningful about all electronic communications except, perhaps, that they rely on petrocapitalism. We cannot say anything meaningful about "technology" as a whole, or even "high technology", except that it is, presently, captured by capital.
A power outage sure is a great way to start the day /s
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message to all reverse engineers and hackers of fedi: when youre figuring out some really obscure thing and you finally crack it PLEASE document it somewhere on the web. maybe youre the first to ever walk this path, maybe youre the first person to care. but i promise you are not the last, and there will be a day when some lone hacker follows the path you took years or decades ago and they will find what you wrote and they will be eternally grateful and wont forget it ever. and thats so beautiful
Really enjoying Against The Storm so far
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Once again for the people at the back. The purpose of public transport is to transport the public. Making money from doing so is a secondary purpose at best.
Noone talks about the profitability of the motorway network. So why do we do the same for public transport?
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@elilla Also abolishement shouldn't mean "we proclaim this structure/system to not exist anymore and ignore why they happen" but "we continually educate each other about workings of power structures and together dissolve every instance they manifest in"
Abolish copyright.
"Record Labels Hit Internet Archive With New $400m+ Copyright Lawsuit"
https://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-hit-internet-archive-with-new-400m-copyright-lawsuit-230812/
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@emptyfortress it's worse than that - according to Wikipedia, as of 1999 the style guide explicitly *requires* diacritical marks ... "for French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German". Every other language, they get trashed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Diacritical_marks#cite_ref-44
- Packbats 🎒 💢
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Its really weird to recognise executive dysfunction but be powerless to stop it because you can't identify what's making you not do stuff but it's important and you can't do anything else until it's fixed but you don't know what it is so you just scroll phone
Yeah uh, dear Volkskrant, cutting off an article *below* the fold, telling me that I need to become a monthly subscriber to finish reading the article that you've hooked me into...
... is an excellent way to ensure that I will never give you a dime of my money. Fuck off with that sort of manipulative shit.
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I like city building games, like SimCity or Cities Skylines, but as someone who grew up outside of the US, the lack of mixed-use zoning in these kind of games is really confusing to me...
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Goo Truther 
I remember being really excited when a game or piece of software got an update when I was younger, because it often meant cool new stuff and ideas I could play with.
And I feel sad about how nowadays, my first response to an update is "oh no, what did they make worse this week", and how usually that sense of dread is justified shortly afterwards by the removal of a feature, the addition of more microtransactions, a forced account merge, etc.
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Gonna try this baldurs gate game everyone keeps going on about, surprised by how cheap it was!
Wat is er toch allemaal aan de hand bij BNR? Ik kom nu net dit lijstje tegen, en er staat zoveel overduidelijk dubieuze shit op: https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/media/10376809/shortlist-dutch-podcast-awards-bekend
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shitpost, but true
It's your civic duty to call the cute fedi beings cute and make them blush!
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Just found this note on my phone 💀
- 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
