Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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.
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- 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
cease the means of production
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I think carving a tunnel through a 2400 year old tree and then charging people money to drive a car through it sums up US culture better than anything else
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the adhd urge to use parenthesis in every sentence (because every thought comes with additional bonus content)
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I am asking for tech help here, feel free to reply if you have actually got a setup of the type described, but don't reply if you have only done a Google search on the topic
Has anyone else got a working setup for mu4e with Protonmail Bridge?
I used to, years ago, but I fear that they changed the workings of the Bridge software so that it no longer works with mu4e
(Tried to set it up and ran into problems but I'm not sure if they can be resolved if I tried harder or if it's just not compatible)
Tangentially, I suspect that this focus on the individual also provides an indirect advantage to whiteness (and privilege more broadly) and the structures that keep it in power.
Individualist systems always disproportionately benefit those who wield power, after all - those who are preferentially listened to, have the most to gain from a system that centers around clout and mythical personalities.
It's also in this context that I do not really see fedi as a long-term solution to social interaction online.
Sure, it is clearly better than centralized corporate platforms in terms of its ability to support community. But at its foundation, it is *still* about the individual, not about providing the tools for building deliberate community. And the entire federation setup is designed around that, too, it's not just Mastodon.
We can do better than that.
It's actually kind of uncanny to see the similarity between the disappearance of third places in the US, and the development of social media on the internet.
We used to have online third places - community-run spaces with some common interest in a topic, be it a TV show, a game, a hobby. Every space was its own thing, and the identifying characteristic was the community that built it. Forums are the most well-known example. You came there for the people, first and foremost, the topic was just the gateway.
Now we have social media that are entirely focused around the individual and their opinions and clout. And the community spaces that do still exist, are usually more like shopping malls - singular canonical subreddits that are sanctioned by the IP holder, controlled by them directly or indirectly, and expected to hold every single fan of the 'property'. No true mutual community, just a bunch of people in a room with a shared interest.
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Looking at complaints can be one way of surfacing pain points in a workflow. Often used by designers as input for customer journey maps.
But you also need to consider who is behind the complaint, who feels comfortable complaining and who is not given an opportunity to complain.
If you don't know what I mean by "not given an opportunity to complain", I'd urge you to read more about privilege, oppression and social norms.
But you also need to consider who is behind the complaint, who feels comfortable complaining and who is not given an opportunity to complain.
If you don't know what I mean by "not given an opportunity to complain", I'd urge you to read more about privilege, oppression and social norms.
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HTML stands for "How To Make Lemonade"
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just a reminder that @photomatt is a transphobe, and a tremendous piece of shit to boot, who banned a trans woman from his site because she was angry about said site allowing her stalking and harrassment, banned other trans users for talking about it, and then *followed the first trans woman to twitter and harrassed her*
let this be his legacy.
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When the world is cold and cruel,
It's punk as fuck to be warm and kind.
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When you're an academic at a dinner party, proper condiment placement is essential.
You need to site your sauces.
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Friendly reminder that US Department of Defense casually holds onto <s>two</s> thirteen /8 IPv4 blocks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks#List_of_assigned_/8_blocks_to_the_United_States_Department_of_Defense
And a lot more, in AS721 alone:
One /9
One /10,
Three /11
Four /12
Nine /13
Eighteen /14,
Thirty-one /15
And fifty-five /16
So that would be your fair access to IPv4 in the era of address exhaustion :)
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A cuneiform keyboard, for all your modern communications.
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Gamedev companies that laid off THOUSANDS of people are the same ones that asked everyone to crunch their way to divorce and depression just couple years back.
Think about it next time you thunk about staying a single minute overtime.
"It's not open-core because the proprietary parts are developed by the same people but under a different organization name"
- The Gitea developers, apparently
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"Babbage’s engines were also designed to surveil the workmen... Their design complexity was vastly increased, and their feasibility decreased, by Babbage’s insistence that they print out the results of their calculation throughout the process"
In class, we discuss Gary Becker's economics models that show how much productivity firms are willing to give up in order to discriminate. The same was true of surveillance in the first computers, as @Mer__edith points out
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it took way too long for me to realise that the little bag/cover for an umbrella is not just an aesthetic thing but a way to be able to put your umbrella back in your bag without getting everything wet
just don't forget to take it out when you get home to let it properly dry
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Apart from everything else— and holy DAMN it's a lot "else"— the mixed messages these kids are getting about "AI" and school work are fucking nightmarish.
"Don't use AI! It's faulty, unreliable, and plagiarism! Also if you use it, we'll use a different faulty and unreliable AI to catch you! Also here's some integrated AI tools, make sure to use them."
- 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
