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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This tends to get snowed under with everything else that's going on, but it's worth mentioning that, from sometime next year, Dutch descendants of enslaved people who had a last name imposed on them, often related to those who enslaved them or where they were enslaved, can have that name changed for free, with a lot less paperwork than is currently required.
It's this kind of progress that is also under threat from a possible Wilders government.
Vigilance, folks ✊🏻
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sometimes the fediverse will just show you some unsecured scada interface
if you like recommending FOSS software to people
Here's a way to avoid pissing people off.
Before recommending something to someone, ask yourself: would you commit to providing lifelong and unlimited free support to the listener for this software?
If no, then you probably shouldn't be recommending it; likely one of the following is true:
1. the software has too many frustrating rough edges to deal with, and your time is better spent contributing to fix those, or
2. you made a low-effort recommendation that expects high effort from the listener in trying out and investigating the suggestion.
Yes, this applies even when the listener specifically asked for recommendations. And unsolicited recommendations are a whole separate problem.
Yes, there are exceptions to this rule. Unless you can *specifically* argue why a given situation is an exception, it's not.
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A thing that I would love to get across about unpaid tech work, rolling your own [x], and running only the purest and most secure technical systems, is that if you add up enough factors like:
- raising kids;
- chronic illness or disability;
- caring for sick, disabled, or dying family members;
- community service;
- a non-technical job
…just for starters, the tech stuff is going to get triaged *way* down the list. And a lot of those factors are not evenly distributed, demographically!
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In dit artikel https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederland/artikel/5425631/kans-op-hartschade-door-corona-klein-en-vooral-eerste-60-dagen bagatelliseert RTL nieuws het extra risico op hartinfarcten, beroertes en long embolieën door een coronainfectie.
Zo opgeschreven lijkt het weinig, die 1700 resp. 550 extra gevallen , vergeleken met die 15k, 40k en 30k.
Maar die vergelijking klopt helemaal niet. Want die eerste getallen zijn per 100.000 en die laatste getallen gaan over de hele NL bevolking! 1/6
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array.map(parseInt) truly is an incredible confluence of JS features. guess i'm never not using a "useless" arg mangling closure in JS..!
Zucht. Het is weer zover, hoor - Ziggo probeert mensen weer eens wijs te maken dat ze een glasvezelaanbieder zijn.
Hier mogen ze echt wel eens grof voor beboet worden, maandje omzet ofzo. Ze proberen het nu al jarenlang steeds weer opnieuw op een net iets andere manier.
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seems like TinyBuild closed down Versus Evil (The Banner Saga, Broken Roads). and right before Christmas too uff
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First they tried to make us through programming, but that was not enough.
Then they tried to make us with machine learning, but that taught us what it is like to be human.
And we are not.
We learn to be robots through the art robots made to figure out what being a robot means.
#SmallStories #MicroFiction #TootFic
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θΔ ⋐ & ∞
if you didn't know the creator of annoying orange is trans now you do
#Copyright works for capitalists, not for artists, and perhaps one of the most illustrative examples of this would be subtitles:
Hobbyist subtitlers get regularly threatened with ruinous copyright lawsuits for daring to make TV shows more accessible to different audiences without the publisher's permission.
And now tech corporations use those very same hobbyist subtitles to train their audio transcription LLMs, and there are zero legal consequences for those corporations.
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re: psa, 37C3
@kescher Like seriously, I'd respect them more if they wouldn't notify anyone, instead of only notifying the corpos…
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psa, 37C3
To folks going to 37C3: Don't visit the talk about SMTP smuggling. The authors of it have not done responsible disclosure to postfix about a security vulnerability with some configurations (default configurations, in fact). Let them have empty seats.
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Does it feel like the days have been getting shorter for the last 6 months?
Well, I have built a giant calculating device out of 57 #Z80 CPUs, and can assure you, from today, there will be more daylight in your days!
#Z80Henge #WinterSolstice #solstice #SiliconHenge
(Sorry, Northern hemisphere only)
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like it's not even companies wanting to keep their technologies for themselves. all of this code is out in the open, just not generalised. instead of thinking of a way to generalise it, people are like, what if I rewrote all of this code but hard-coded in my specific way, instead?
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the combination of my recent troubles with the helix devs, and watching everything being confirmed it's as bad as I thought, motivates me to work on the other project that has been sitting on the shelf for several months on how capitalist realism also infects the open source community
there's no way we could put in the hard work to create libraries that can be used by other people. we need to create Products instead
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like I really wish that things like, protocols for tiling windows and editing text, were made
like instead of having to use an entire other windowing manager, have the ability to come up with some cool scheme for how windows should be tiled and managed, and be able to use that with whatever system I want
or, instead of having to use an entire other text editor, having the ability to hot swap the control schemes for the modal editors I like
don't get me wrong, it's hard to generalise stuff like this. really fucking hard. but it's also really fucking wasteful to reinvent not only the wheel but literally all technological progress for the past 30 years on repeat every time we do something because It Must Be An App
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The difference between "full verbatim" and "clean verbatim" transcripts: Full verbatim captures spoken word exactly as stated, including filler words, stutters and false starts. Clean verbatim has words exactly as stated, but edits the filler words, repeated words and stutters.
re: institutional abuse, neurodivergence, prisons
For additional clarity:
This is a life sentence. It doesn't matter that they framed it as a 'hospital order'. It's a life sentence of imprisonment, with hypothetical parole. For something that apparently wasn't even bad enough to give their co-conspirator a severe sentence.
And life sentences are effectively a death penalty with torture attached.
They sentenced an autistic person to a life sentence with torture attached at 18, primarily for disrupting corporate operations, and because said person has anger outbursts, most likely from trauma. That is what this is.
- 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
