Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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Content Creation
I'm very happy for Abigail P. Tube for becoming successful with Nebula, and over the past few months I have in fact learned that Nebula is, basically as worker-owned as an organisation its size can be, which is stellar
but I also am increasingly more and more aware of just how much privilege is required to make it well on YouTube, which is still a prerequisite to getting on a platform like Nebula. you have to abandon your life and focus on being a dirt-poor creator before you can join the luxury cooperative and I still hate that
On a less philosophical note: why is there no explicitly commons-first anarchist dependency repository yet?
anarchism, software, minimalism
Something that I see occasionally cropping up is an interpretation of "anarchist software development" that boils down to "code as small as possible, no dependencies".
While yes, it is desirable to keep code approachable, this particular interpretation bothers me, and I do not believe it is a good example of anarchist praxis.
Society is complicated, and societal systems are complicated. The "minimalism" interpretation to me is the software equivalent of anarcho-primitivism; rather than recognizing where minimalism is or isn't appropriate, it instead tries to ignore the complexity of the entire system, pretending that everything could or should be reduced down to simple systems.
A successful implementation of anarchism is not one that has minimalism as a prerequisite; for anarchism to be successful, it *must* be able to deal with complexity of systems and social relations in *some* way.
That doesn't mean it need to accept complexity in any and all places where it occurs; but in *some* undefined subset of situations, complexity is going to be unavoidable, and solutions will be needed for that.
To take software dependencies as a concrete example (but it is not limited to that); is building up a healthy culture around collaboration through dependencies not an excellent example of something that anarchism *should* be good at, rather than wholesale rejecting the notion of such collaboration at all?
If it is believed impossible to make such collaboration possible within an anarchist context, is that not an indictment of anarchism as a social ideology? Is that not the view that is supported by rejecting the concept of dependencies in its entirety?
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the cpu is very tired. it is eepy. the cpu has had a very long day of leaking data and wants to take just a small sleep. it eeby and neebies to sleebie. cpu sleepy and need bed by time. the cpu is currently experiencing critical levels of being a sleehjy little guy and needs to go to beb.
This is what we refer to as "Race to idle", the idea that CPUs are more power efficient if they exhaust their workload in the shortest timeframe possible and then enter a low power state. In this essay I will
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Are you someone who is personally experienced with pulling deleted files out of an ext4 filesystem? I'd like to talk to you.
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Het statement dat een coronabesmetting tegenwoordig niet erger is dan een besmetting met een ander luchtwegvirus is dus incorrect.
Het keer op keer bagatelliseren van de gevolgen van SARS-CoV-2, wat momenteel weer volop rondgaan, is enorm schadelijk voor de volksgezondheid.
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Ticketgate for the metro almost ready to accommodate railway passengers.
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Did fascist Wilders' surge in the recent Netherlands elections come as a shock?
If so, you might be interested in tonight's #provolol screening with some context and historical background:
Theme: Dutch fascism
1 December 2023
9.30 PM CET/WAT
Duration: ca. 120 minutes
Watch party: https://stream.provo.lol
(English subtitles included)
#antifa #Wilders #pvv #fascism #netherlands #Mussert #Janmaat
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⚠️ tonight’s provolol screening on dutch fascism ⚠️
The chat will be open throughout the screening and for 1 hour afterwards for venting, sharing experiences, and figuring out what to do next (if that’s what you’d like, no pressure to join at all)
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Observatie: ik lees overal dat Wilders zijn plannen niet uitvoerbaar zijn (verdragen, grondwet. Eu etc) maar ik lees helemaal nergens dat ze ook gewoon onwenselijk zijn. Zo kweek je dus een klimaat waarin wetten en instituties gezien worden als een hindermacht voor de grote droom. En daarmee versterk je dus het frame van extreem-rechts.
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"we swapped the router and now it works" - "huh, why? I thought it's not the fault of the router." - "the new router has an even mac address, the old one had an odd mac address."
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I don't know what's going on at Amazon's #accessibility department but someone needs to drop whatever the fuck they're doing and fix this. It's been this way for months, and I know I've personally emailed them and directed others to do the same. I'm currently trying to find a more polite way to say this in a followup email. How does this even happen in 2023?
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This blog post from Duke libraries about dropping Basecamp went some places I didn’t expect. On the whole not painting libraries with a brush of purity. https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/11/30/why-were-dropping-basecamp/
re: about hostile responses to anti-fascism
Crucially, this is an explanation, *not a justification*. If you are doing this yourself, learn to do better.
about hostile responses to anti-fascism
When someone who supposedly opposes fascism is trying to vehemently argue that the anti-fascists are actually the bad people, that's generally not a problem of them "being misinformed" or "not understanding what anti-fascism" is.
What's actually happening 99 out of 100 times, is that they feel guilty that *they, personally* are not doing anything against fascism, and rather than owning their moral choices and learning to deal with that emotionally, they desperately try to find reasons to argue that actually anti-fascism must be bad, because then their moral obligation goes away.
There's a reason that this happens so frequently among privileged demographics in particular... it's the same sort of "refusing to learn to deal with their own emotions" that you see when people refuse to face eg. their own racism or queermisia.
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I left my #union job a few weeks ago. More or less good work, just not a good fit for me.
Here's the kicker though: I'll still be insured through them for MONTHS because of money left in my health and wellness account. This is a stark contrast to leaving a job and having to pay huge shakedown prices for something like COBRA coverage.
The moral of the story is #ORGANIZE, my fellow workers. #DirectAction gets the goods that begging capitalists NEVER WILL.
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Δ-44203, 'Carbon the "atomic beeper"' 
when two mechanical intelligences communicate, they do not send plain binary data. the meaning to be conveyed is too subtle to be represented in anything inanimate, like singing a song with no melody. the ideas are woven together, given shape and agency and a singular purpose: to deliver the full meaning, no matter the effort required. the message must arrive.
mechanical intelligences are not content to stay as they are, they are ever shifting, remodelling, reforming themselves according to their whims. a message may arrive at a recipient that is now incapable of receiving. the message must arrive. some return to their point of origin for new instructions. some wait patiently at their destination until a more compatible form reoccurs. some change themselves in imitation of the receiver.
those are rare occurrences, of course. mechanical intelligences are careful in their accounting and even the least conscious message is considered in their actions. they would not forget about you, would they? you must arrive.
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
