Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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.
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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
I feel like (2D) printers would be considered amazing technology if it weren't for capitalist incentives completely ruining their day-to-day operation
A helpful pointer: when someone accuses you of being transphobic, they are not claiming you are doing so *intentionally*, they are telling you that your behaviours are transphobic and have the effects of transphobia.
Likewise, when someone accuses you of being racist, they probably mean you are *being racist*, not that you are literally wearing a KKK hat.
And so on, and so forth. These criticisms are about behaviour and the harms that that behaviour perpetuates, *whether or not* the behaviour was intentional. And you need to acknowledge and work on that issue, *whether or not* it was intentional.
Whether it was intentional makes no material difference to the person on the receiving end, and you should not expect them to make that distinction. If you do not want to be called a bigot of some sort, then take care not to practice bigoted behaviour.
You should *not* respond to it by trying to defend yourself from the accusation, and trying to paint the accuser as the aggressor. Instead, take it to heart and learn from it. *That* is how you show that you're not what you're accused of.
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PSA about the Steam client performance:
Turns out that in your Steam library, rare achievements are marked with an animated light effect. This animation somehow takes up an astounding amount of system resources especially on older PCs/laptops.
If you notice that your PC slows to a crawl whenever your steam library is open, you can go to Steam > Settings > Library and then turn on Low Performance Mode. It simply disables a few insignificant animations but the performance gains can be massive. On my old Dell Latitude, the CPU usage goes from >50% to <10% just from changing this one setting!
I have no idea why they put this under "Library" and not "Interface" cause I've been looking for a setting like this for months but I finally found out about this and now you have too!
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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.
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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.
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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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semi-related-ish ... someone here posted about their game being poached by game aggregator sites and adding a check to see if it's in an iframe and rendering something else. whoever that was, thanks for the tip!
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survey question about eating
Informal survey question: are you plural, and do you eat a lot? 
(For 'normally', assume whatever you think is common; the exact quantity or pattern is not important here. If you're not familiar with what 'plural' means, please skip answering this one - I can't add a 5th option, sorry. Boosting is still appreciated!)
survey question about eating
Informal survey question: are you plural, and do you eat a lot?
(For 'normally', assume whatever you think is common; the exact quantity or pattern is not important here. If you're not familiar with what 'plural' means, please skip answering this one - I can't add a 5th option, sorry. Boosting is still appreciated!)
Getting a highly customized build of your operating system that installs headlessly onto 5000 routers in exactly the same way every time, with exactly the same resulting behaviour, surviving upgrades across the fleet deterministically? Trivial, comparatively.
Installing DaVinci Resolve? Oof, hope you had nothing planned this weekend
"Making the hard things trivial, and the easy things difficult" really does kind of feel like it sums up NixOS tbh
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How do I get a mid-teen to understand data privacy, surveillance capitalism and why these topics matter?
Is there a teen-specific guide?
Thank you all very much for links etc.
The most recommended works are:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780765323118/little-brother by @pluralistic
https://nostarch.com/smartgirlsguide by @violetblue
as well as ' Government Surveillance: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)' https://yewtu.be/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M
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Sexual assault, Biden
In the past few weeks, I've seen multiple people talk about how fucked up it is that people would rather elect a rapist (Trump) than Biden. So I have to say hats off the the Democratic party for successfully memory-holing Tara Reade's accusation of Joe Biden sexually assaulting her in the 90s, not to mention the several other women who also accused him of touching them inappropriately.
Just 4 years later and folks have completely forgotten. Stunning work.
Special shout out to #MeToo founder Tarana Burke, who refused to condemn Biden and continued to advocate that we vote for him in 2020.
Realizing that making a community-focused social media thing also means having to re-teach people how to run communities, because this has been widely unlearned over the past decade
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found a website where you can get free and personalized legal advice about your rights as an EU citizen called Your Europe Advice https://europa.eu/youreurope/advice/index_en.htm
it's an NGO with over 60 lawyers contracted by the EU commission. they also work with SOLVIT which will actually mediate in disputes between EU nationals and countries that aren't their home country regarding the violation of EU rights https://ec.europa.eu/solvit/index_en.htm and gently remind govt institutions of your rights as an EU citizen
i'm just leaving these here in case anyone ever needs these like i do right now
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shower thought: why don't adults have sleepovers? It's not like we collectively agreed not to, we just *don't*. 
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New programming font designed by Frere-Jones Type for Intel. Interesting.
"Identifying the typographically underserved low-vision developer audience, Frere-Jones Type designed the Intel One Mono typeface in partnership with the Intel Brand Team and VMLY&R, for maximum legibility to address developers' fatigue and eyestrain and reduce coding errors. A panel of low-vision and legally blind developers provided feedback at each stage of design."
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Here's a different one. @michaela_p said it looks like angry caterpillar and like... I can't unsee it now
- 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
