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
I consider myself an anarchist, and I believe quite strongly in anarchist principles. And yet, I don't have anarchist 'branding' anywhere in my outward identity.
One of the reasons for that is that I've been very disappointed with the praxis in nominally anarchist circles around me.
I should not encounter ableism in anarchist circles, and yet I do. I should not encounter racism in anarchist circles, and yet I do. And so on, and so forth. None of these things should be as widespread as they are, if people actually lived by their stated ideals.
And all too often, the people I run into who *actually* put anarchist ideals into practice, unreservedly so, and on contentious topics as well, do not even identify themselves as anarchists!
In that context, does it really make sense to brand myself as an anarchist? #Anarchism
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Good morning 2024! I wrote a text about how I experienced some first time volunteers at #37c3 trying eagerly to do as much work as possible and what I told some before. As always: Other folks may have other views on this topic and this is OK.
https://jascha.wtf/angels-at-chaos-about-volunteering-and-fitting-in/
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Ah, much better.
Now if y'all could just stick to one or two phrases, I could get a certain mouse off my timeline. There are - and always were - much cooler mice out there.
Literally any other mouse.
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#Autistic Bread Making Challenge:
Remembering that when a recipe says, 'fashion the dough into a ball' they mean 'a shape that is more round than square', not, 'a shape so perfectly spherical that Archimedes, Kepler and Euler would go into paroxyms of ecstasy and invite you to join them in the annals of geometrical legend.'
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Diese Woche war so stressig, da habe ich ganz viel Zeit in meinem Nest gebraucht. Tatsächlich habe ich erst dieses Jahr den Begriff “Autistic Nesting“ gelernt, obwohl ich den Mechanismus seit meiner Kindheit nutze.
Kennt ihr das auch und wenn ja, wie sieht euer Nest so aus? Ich wünsch euch einen erholsamen Sonntag! ❤️
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mickey mouse, copyright
In addition to what's already been said about the racist background of Steamboat Willie, please remember that there's not much worth celebrating here - the copyright laws that made this a problem to begin with are still very much there, and even as a symbolic victory it is a hollow one.
The fight is not over until #copyright is abolished.
(No, I will not argue "reform vs. abolition" on this thread. That is a discussion for another time, and one I will only have with people who have done the work of asking themselves what *demonstrable* benefits copyright actually has. Do not argue about this in my mentions.)
New Worakls Orchestra concert
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNq6eAr_wIo
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"Aan water geen gebrek momenteel, maar wel aan schoon drinkwater. Het zuiveren ervan kost waterbedrijven steeds meer moeite. En daarom gaan de tarieven omhoog. [...] Leverancier PWN schat in dat een gemiddeld huishouden per jaar ongeveer 10 euro meer kwijt is. [...]
De waterbedrijven zijn genoodzaakt om de tarieven te verhogen vanwege de extra kosten die ze moeten maken om water te zuiveren. Dat is moeilijker omdat er steeds meer bronnen van verontreiniging zijn, zoals pfas of medicijnresten. Of mest en bestrijdingsmiddelen."
Veel duidelijker dan dit kan het niet worden, toch? Bedrijven vervuilen, en de maatschappij draait op voor de kosten.
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Disabled folks at UC are constantly told the public university we pay for with our taxes, tuition, and fees finds accessibility "too expensive".
Yet when they raise >$7B dollars, where do they prioritize that going to? More goodies for abled people. #UCAccessNow #Ableism #NeoliberalHellhole @academicchatter @disability
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A reminder that Mickey Mouse is thinly coded minstrelsy. A tune in Steamboat Willie, “Turkey in the Straw,” has a previous title so racist I won’t note it here. Minstrelsy is a long scar on our cultural landscape, one of the most popular forms of entertainment for a century, and its vestiges and symbols remain with us.
Happy New Year!
[Updated to correct error about where “Turkey…” appears; link to song details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_in_the_Straw ]
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happy fuckin new year, let's kick the fascists to the curb
The more I try to look into the question of "why does IPFS chunk files", the less convinced I am of its usefulness: https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/300 (but maybe I'm missing something?)
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In 2014, I made a steampunk submarine costume for my son's wheelchair. When the chair was in motion, the pinwheel twirled, the wheel's design spiraled, and the periscope was retractable. Made entirely from cardboard and random stuff, including paper tubes, pill container lids, altoids tins, wallpaper, duct tape, and a clear plastic salad bowl rescued after a catered event. #wheelchair #disability #OpulentMobility #wheelchaircostume #submarine #cardboard #upcycling #steampunk
(Note that I am only asking about deduplication here, not about parallelization of downloads and such; because there are other ways to achieve that)
#AskFedi: the usual explanation for why #IPFS splits files into small-ish chunks is that it's more efficient because it can deduplicate across files.
But is there any actual data on what the *real-world* efficiency gains are in real-world usage of IPFS? Does this actually make a meaningful difference in practice?
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Stop doing "stop doing" memes!
Centuries of internet memes yet no real-world use found for making infographics demanding other creatures stop doing stuff!
Want to stop doing something? We had a tool for that: it was called doing something else!
Here are just some of the crucial, irreplacible things that outlandish internet memers have demanded you stop doing:
*Math
*Stop doing memes
These are REAL stop doing memes made by REAL meme-makers!
"Stop doing replies to fediverse posts." They have played us for absolutely easy marks. #StopDoingStopDoingMemes #Meta
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Most posts about #37c3 were published on the Fediverse.
I found 11.130 posts on the Fediverse (known to chaos.social or mastodon.social), 2.620 posts on X/Twitter and 1.069 on ATProto/Bluesky. Published between 2023-12-23 and 2023-12-31. (I haven't figured out how to collect posts on Threads, but I have found 150 there. Maybe there are more, but they don't show up in the search results.)
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Ik heb net de pomp uitgezet van de beregeningsinstallatie van molen de Salamander.
Weinig molens hebben dit, maar wij hebben sproeikoppen aan de buitenkant van het riet zitten, waarmee we dat rietdek drijfnat kunnen maken.
Dit kost zoveel water dat we het uit de vliet pompen, en de nevel lijkt verdacht veel op witte rook die uit de molen lijkt te komen.
Vandaar dat we de brandweer waarschuwen voordat we deze installatie aanzetten.
De molen zou nu tegen verdwaalde vuurpijlen moeten kunnen.
- 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
