Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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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- 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
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@foone It always frustrates me that the modern design mantra of modern hardware/software appears to be “we’ll streamline it all and tell you what the experience is that you want” rather than “here are some parts and a good first guess at a good interface, have fun!”
Especially when folks making the locked down/vertically integrated pieces of tech all cut their teeth on open ecosystems that enabled or even encouraged mucking about in internals.
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My attitude to hacking proprietary software/protocols/hardware has always been:
this should be open/documented and it should be easy to produce software/hardware that interacts with it with no problem.
But it's not, so you can't blame me for getting out the crowbar and breaking in.
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@joepie91 it's like that thing where bands go on a 'world tour' and the world tour in question is just america, canada, a handful of european cities, and australia
Like, if you genuinely want to "have a broader conversation with the community", maybe you should actually give three shits about accessibility, instead of pre-selecting for well-off white tech dudes by your choice of venue?
OpenSSF: "We encourage everyone to join in on the conversation in the next days and weeks around FOSS supply chain security!"
Also OpenSSF: "We will be having that conversation at a physical event in North America [that many people will not be able to travel to, particularly those who are already underfunded and therefore at risk of maintainer compromise]."
Fucking 'foundations', every fucking time.
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I guess the takeaway from the xz backdoor situation is:
If you’re an open-source project maintainer, and somebody starts getting on your case for not doing enough free work for them, you reply “big Jia Tan energy there” and then block them forever.
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Kan me nog steeds niet aan de indruk onttrekken dat SIDN de eisen gewoon zo opgesteld heeft dat AWS eigenlijk de enige optie is, en dat de komende 5-10 jaar ook gewoon blijft.
Met dan een mooi verhaaltje er naast over hoe, mocht het ooit mogelijk gaan zijn, ze altijd over kunnen stappen naar een andere partij. Want, ook al kiezen ze voor AWS omdat AWS de enige is die het kan leveren, ze zitten er niet aan vast hoor! 🤪
https://www.sidn.nl/nieuws-en-blogs/het-waarom-achter-onze-keuze-voor-public-cloud-en-aws
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are there any microsd cards that are made for using as swap space?
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I'm willing to say no #IPv6 support could be considered a class issue.
Old and wealthy western ISPs don't care because they hold onto an /8 or something and can live like that for the next 2 decades with NAT and NAT444.
But new, small, local ISPs or ISPs in developing parts of the world struggle with IPv4 availability the most, barely having any to do NAT444 for their customers, hurting performance even further in regions that already suffer from not the best network access
It's a good thing to always question social norms, but... that involves more than just being contrarian - you actually need to do the work of understanding why they are what they are, and go from there.
If you're ignoring people's requests to behave in a certain way, and at the same time you claim you "don't care" to learn the reason that people are asking that, you are not being critical of social norms - you're just being a self-serving asshole.
If you've done the work, proactively looked into it, *really* understood the reason, and concluded that the reason is just a bad one (eg. upholding oppressive norms) - then by all means, ignore those social norms. But show that you've done the work first.
(This is aimed not just at outright bigots, but also at eg. activists who argue for accelerationism, those who uphold one type of oppression and justify it by claiming to fight another, etc.)
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idk how many people fall for the holistic psychologists grift
but like
she is a grifter. she is a fake. she is a white supremacist with a pretty mask.
please dont follow her
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autistic people will really get bored one day and end up finding a vulnerability with a CVE score of 9.3
Does anyone know of an Omnivore-like read-later app, but explicitly non-commercial (and FOSS), while still having a similar featureset? #AskFedi
I'm specifically looking to avoid anything that has a business attached to it now or in the future, or anything that follows tech hypes (like "AI integration").
CW-boost: transmisia, nazis, historical
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so many space games seem completely opposed to letting you use your ship as housing and i wonder how much of it can be attributed to anti-traveller bias.
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Pre-internet: only know people who are generally around you
Early internet: finding your rare little slice of culture all over the globe!!
Social internet: oh no this machine exists for starting fights
Now internet: using every tool available to go narrow, narrow, narrow, back to huddling amongst the people who are “generally around you”, but, like, spiritually. And from anywhere in the whole world.
alt-right rhetoric, youtube
"So rather than being a soy JS dev pretending to know stuff about security..."
Well, at least it's helpful when video creators on YouTube signal how shitty they are within the first minute or so. Saved me a watch, I guess.
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Quote of the day (from the Fedora devel list):
We have no mechanism to flag when J. Random Packager adds "Supplements: glibc" to their random leaf node package. As a reminder, *we are a project that allows 1,601 minimally-vetted people to deliver arbitrary code executed as root on hundreds of thousands of systems*, and this mechanism allows any one of those people to cause the package they have complete control over to be automatically pulled in as a dependency on virtually every single one of those systems.
— Adam Williamson
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april fools has just become a day where every company does an elaborate joke about making a change nobody wants, as if they don't do that unironically the other 364 days of the year
- 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
