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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- 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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After typing out the same caption for the same image for like the fourth time...
Do... Do we have an image file format with alt text baked in??? Is that a thing? If it isn't, how??? And if it is, why aren't we using it?
re: subtoot, angry
"But I don't have the energy to constantly be outraged about everything all of the time!"
Well maybe you should do some work on dealing with your own emotions around that then, and learn to deal with the reality of not being able to affect everything, instead of offloading that work onto others by arguing that their concerns are not real or trying to trivialize them.
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And don't come at me with fucking rationalizations about how "it's your choice to come" or "some people just want to continue living" or whatever the hell else.
If you believe that it is a worthwhile or acceptable tradeoff to exclude vulnerable folks in exchange for "not being inconvenienced yourself", then actually stand behind that view and call it what it is - don't try to hide it behind euphemisms and justifications just to make your own emotional discomfort go away.
Since it's that time of year where people everywhere start asking me whether I'm coming to #37c3, here's my answer:
No, it is not possible for me to come, because the orga has chosen not to implement any COVID safety precautions, forcing me to choose between "keeping my kidneys working" and "attending a hacker event".
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i am infinitely grateful that fedi does not have "kink discourse" every other fucking week
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When we found out that deodorants were destroying the ozone layer, did we stay telling people to use less toilet spray and buy less Axe? No, we legislated big corps and the problem was completely solved after a few years. What's with the cult of personal responsibility, why are we still here telling people that if they don't take the plane and use paper straws maybe grandma won't lose her house to the rising tides before she dies in an 'unprecedented' heatwave?
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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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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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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/
- 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
