Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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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 🙃
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
Or how many years(!!!) it took for smartphones to gain even the most basic copy-paste functionality, for example.
It's really very obvious that you're supposed to just consume media with smartphones and not ask too many questions or be able to do too much with it
And I'm not talking about "user-friendliness" (most appliances really are not remotely user-friendly either) but about leaving out any kind of functionality that might allow someone to repair, customize, maintain, or otherwise tinker with their system, including basic functionality like "run a filesystem integrity check/repair on a microSD card"
I hate how smartphones are designed like appliances and not like computers
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Very cool that payment processors can effectively censor the entire internet with impunity by restricting what kinds of goods and services people can sell (regardless of these goods and services being perfectly legal).
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A "black" permanent marker can make for some very interesting results on some materials
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reply guy whataboutism is a disease that must be stopped
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The Inaccessibility Cycle
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"i can't stop thinking about this tweet"
submitted by u/kathyeehaw
https://redd.it/1ber1et
#fuckcars
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Megabus (RIP) was definitely a very professional bus company
A "black" permanent marker can make for some very interesting results on some materials
(The cryptocurrency folks actually identified this problem correctly, even if their proposed solution was completely absurd and unsustainable...)
Like, think about some well-known SaaS and IaaS providers, think about how their services might be implemented in a decentralized manner, and on what point that might become difficult - and most of the time, the answer to that will be "namespace management", that is often really the only part that benefits from centralization in any serious way
If anyone ever figures out a credible and sustainable solution to decentralized namespacing, I expect that half the tech industry will just fall over overnight - there are so many companies that claim to be SaaSes, but whose true core business is really just namespace management and gatekeeping
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Admin Announcement
This should go without saying, but if you discover someone's IRL identity - no you didnt. The correct action is to forget about it and move on. You certainly should not contact their family, friends, or employer with jokes about their fedi profile. No matter how funny it may seem, that's just not appropriate.
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Advice for new activists
(crossposted with permission from a YouTube comment under this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NCSY85FqVQ)
CW-boost: Twitter, fascism
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early in the pandemic i remember reading this comment from someone about how covid might traumatize us about their grandma who lived through the 1918 flu pandemic. they said that until her death she was always very worried about the flu and she would always make sure her house was very well ventilated by leaving windows or doors open
i fucking get it now. their grandma wasn't traumatized, their grandma knew it never went away even if people pretended it had, she knew that airborne respiratory viruses were really bad for you, and she knew ventilation helped keep them away from her
this poor woman, people treating her like she was traumatized and crazy all her life when *she knew* what was what better than most people
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@xgranade Essentially, relying on corporations to 1) buy in to the ideology, and 2) create the financial support is just like... trickle down economics. It doesn't really exist, or when it does there's not enough seats for people to participate. And the majority contributions aren't reflective of the community's needs.
I think we all understand on some level that this is a path of failure disguised as success, but it feels like we all can't come to a consensus on a real solution :/
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no dear tech giants, an alternative to "yes" isn't "later"
it's "no"
Question for plural folks, feedback needed 
Assume a chat system that allows you to have multiple accounts, and which also allows you to select a 'presented identity' on a per-message basis (under an otherwise shared account that is identifiable as such).
Does this meet your needs, and if not, what other accommodations are needed to make it a comfortable experience for you?
(Please only answer if you consider yourself plural or have some other reason for presenting as multiple identities. Boosts are welcome from anyone!)
- 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
