Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

open source maintainers should tell entitled corporate users to fuck off more often

my entire timeline, the entire local timeline, the entire federated timeline, and every post on the list i titled "better federated" are all united around one thing tonight and i am HERE FOR IT

In case anyone needs it tomorrow. #HenryKissinger

In honor of #HenryKissinger, the traditional rule to not speak ill of the dead is hereby suspended for the next 10 days.

Oh hey also as a reminder:

Laughing at shitty people dying is great! What's better is paying attention to the communities hurt by those people and listening to their voices above all. Don't let your partying overshadow their strife and their reparations.

Wikipedia editor "Asticky" edited Henry Kissinger's article at 8:46 ET and then changed her userpage to this (with the edit summary "lmao")

wow a Rolling Stone gathers no moss and pulls no punches

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

(archive link in case they're forced to soften/edit it: https://web.archive.org/web/20231130015817/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/)

if you want to modify your body and medicine allows it, you should just be able to do that

Can we please all agree that COP is now just an excuse for rich bastards and world leaders to fly somewhere to sit around tables and agree that the climate is fucked, sign a bunch of inconsequential paperwork that nobody takes seriously, promise to do better, then fly back home to carry on business as normal? #COP28

I wish there was a "digital divide simulator" which takes your existing computer and makes it work slightly less well, each click/response takes a bit longer, each application loads more slowly, each tab opened gradually slows down the machine, newer apps (Slack) don't work at all. Wifi iffy.

I'm using a machine exactly like this, and even being totally savvy and being able to make good choices, it's still wild having to suddenly be this parsimonious and economical with my tech use. Educational

this is such a good debugging story ("Rust std fs slower than Python!? No, it's hardware!”) https://xuanwo.io/2023/04-rust-std-fs-slower-than-python/

I'm so tired of the discourse on #adblocking being framed as users vs. creators.

Creators suffer from rampant unregulated advertising attached to their hard work. Seeing their labours being exploited to promote scams and enrich surveillance capitalists with no control or recourse. Seeing potential subscribers close the tab because their impression of the channel in those crucial first few seconds was some obnoxious ad.

You think makers *want* this system? Hell no. We just want an income.

Creators, more than anyone, need to speak out against this false ‘us vs. them' narrative. It's a disingenuous ploy, like when Facebook said cross-app tracking was ‘good for small businesses’.

I encourage anyone to adblock my stuff, and I know I'm not alone in that. Every creator has a part to play in promoting better security practices and fairer business models.

I made this image to put into the credits of future videos. I release it into the public domain; feel free to use it in your own.

A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that is going on right now.

in tech exec speak, the two biggest red flag words are "innovation" and "community"

innovation: something that is now public or common should be my private property

community: something valuable of yours should be free, or, a problem I created should be someone else's responsibility

I wrote a piece on a #Coop alternative to Etsy that just launched, one that puts power back into the hands of artists & makers:
@coopartisans (glad they're on Mastodon!)

I didn't realize the extent to which #Etsy had become toxic to sellers until starting interviews for this piece. It's clear that artisans are being drawn to this because an alternative is long overdue.

(there's a tech issue with the authorship at the top; it names me as the author at the bottom)

https://www.shareable.net/artisans-cooperative-an-etsy-alternative-owned-and-run-by-artists-and-makers/

If I could have one wish it'd be to absolutely destroy BMI.