Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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
It occurs to me that debatebros demanding a "source" before believing you, is implicitly also an expectation that you've built your *own* belief from a single source, rather than from a deep dive into the topic (which would not be easily referencable), and so they're basically demanding the weakest form of evidence
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hotter tech take
I think that NDAs are extremely, extremely overused across all industries
like, I get that most public environments (especially gamers) are hostile and it's better to have a unified front when announcing stuff
I think that from a basic standpoint it makes sense to hide things from the public, although I don't think that it should be at the risk of anything but your job, tbqh
games companies and tech companies in general are so quick to just say "yeah sign away your rights to reveal this thing to literally anyone, including your closest friends, and we will sue you for thousands to millions of dollars if you break the contract"
like
that's bad, actually
and the idea of no one knowing that you're working with a company who was probably problematic a year ago, until you've spent a year investing in them, is also bad??
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angry political venting
first it was, don't call me a nazi
then it was, actually, it's bad to condemn nazis
now, it's bad to condemn actual fucking genocide
and it's bad to even just, condemn genocide in general! like, what the fuck!
"don't kill entire groups of people in an attempt to permanently exterminate them" should not be a fucking hot take, it should be so obvious it need not be stated
but also
fuck the genocide israel is committing in particular, and support the fucking palestinian people
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venting about tech bashing
Tech bashing / contempt culture is basically the reason that I can't enjoy stuff like "people uploading weird shitposts to npm" anymore, something that would otherwise be a spark of joy in a day of difficult project work - because I *know* that as soon as I bring it up anywhere, there will be Some Dude waiting behind the curtains to take it as an opportunity to start complaining about JS and loudly talking about all the reasons they personally would never use it (most of which are based on them not having bothered to understand how it works)
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It's done: abortion is now a constitutional freedom in France. 👏
yuzu lawsuit, IP lawsuits in general
There are obvious ethical concerns with the technical outcomes of IP lawsuits like those against Yuzu; projects getting killed off, interoperability getting harmed, etc.
But the part that *feels* the most disgusting to me, and that rarely gets mentioned, is how common 'compelled speech' is in these sorts of lawsuits.
That is, people are compelled by the legal system (via settlement or otherwise) to make ethical statements that they do not agree with, *on personal title*, and essentially serve as a propaganda mouthpiece, feigning agreement with the judgment.
Even if you agree with the mechanical outcomes of IP lawsuits (and I don't), this should be considered so obviously unacceptable and a perversion of any reasonable legal system.
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death cars
Reckless speeding is epidemic in the US. This simple technology could save tens of thousands of lives.
is it called "not cars"?
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austria: suggestions? online shops, covid-related
does anyone maybe have suggestions where best to buy #covid gear (specifically masks and antigen tests) in austria? currently i only know about hygi.de (which worked well before) and shop-apotheke.at (which lists tests for cheaper but with horrendous shipping?!)
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@jon what struck me most when I cycled in the Netherlands is that you don't have to plan a route. I roughly looked on a map in which direction I wanted to go and just ... cycled there. No looking at a map and figuring out if this main road has a quieter side street or anything like that
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@guerrillarain i'm preaching to the choir here but I saw the phrase "landlords provide housing like scalpers provide tickets" and it's now my favorite way to describe my loathing of landlords to non-leftists, it's extremely oversimplified but I think really gets the point across
venting about tech bashing, addressing reader
And if your immediate response to reading this is "but JS kind of sucks, why shouldn't they be allowed to point it out", then chances are that you are part of the problem and have some reflecting to do
venting about tech bashing
Tech bashing / contempt culture is basically the reason that I can't enjoy stuff like "people uploading weird shitposts to npm" anymore, something that would otherwise be a spark of joy in a day of difficult project work - because I *know* that as soon as I bring it up anywhere, there will be Some Dude waiting behind the curtains to take it as an opportunity to start complaining about JS and loudly talking about all the reasons they personally would never use it (most of which are based on them not having bothered to understand how it works)
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31 maart, Tilburg: Meebrullen met Your Local Pirates!
Your Local Pirates gaat twee liedjes opnemen. In de open lucht, en jij doet mee als je wilt! De plaats: Tilburg. De datum: 31 maart, in de middag. Aansluitend, als de klus geklaard is, mikken we er een optreden achteraan. Dit doen we allemaal op de komende Anarcho Picknick, die Vrije Bond Tilburg die middag op touw heeft gezet. Weest welkom!
Opname in geluid en beeld van:
Nederlandstalige versie van El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido, befaamd strijdlied van de revolutionaire bewegingen in Latijns-Amerika, en Op De Barricaden.
Meer info op: https://yourlocalpirates.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/04/31-maart-meebrullen-met-your-local-pirates/
Plaats: Stadspark Oude Dijk, Tilburg; bij regen wijken we uit naar de aangrenzende Muzentuin.
Datum en tijd: zondag 31 maart. Vanaf 14.00 uur is de picknick; YLP neemt op en speelt van 15.00 tot 16.00 uur; de picknick duurt tot pakweg 17.00 uur.
Vragen over de anarcho picknick zelf? Mail de organisatoren via: vrijebondtilburg@riseup.net
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netherlands:
everyone speaks english.
“card only” signs everywhere.
“sorry, we’re forbidden from accepting cash”.
employees even at big grocery chains visibly confused by cash and struggling to count coins.
germany:
“was?”
“cash only” signs everywhere.
“sorry, card payments from 10eur only”.
“easy online payments, just provide your online banking login and password to sofort, it’s completely safe and totally does not blatantly violate the terms of agreement you signed with your bank”.
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Kids don't connect two microcontrollers to your PC at the same time
It gets very confusing and you're bound to overwrite the wrong one
Definitely not speaking from experience 
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Does anyone know a place in the Netherlands or Flanders that me, my partner, and cat can stay for a couple months from late april/early may as we try to get out of the kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmare we have found ourselves in? Limburg or nearby preferred but if it's like a house sitting thing we'd probably go anywhere
Please boost
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Hey. Yeah, you, hey: if you are not currently sick or disabled, one day you will be, and you will wish you lived in a world that had the resources and culture to make your life as full and thriving and happy as anyone else's. You will want that world, and you can start helping make it, right now.
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- 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.
- 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
