Sven Slootweg @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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- 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
nixos, subtoot
That having been said, I am cautiously optimistic about how many people deciding to leave #NixOS are still open to returning to a hypothetical better community if it were to come into existence. This might end with a bit less collateral damage than usual for these sorts of conflicts.
nixos, subtoot
"All the people opposing weapons manufacturers must be from the US" is one of the more hilariously absurd takes that nevertheless seems to keep coming back. #NixOS
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Like, I'm fine with people newly getting involved in the conversation, but when it's so clear that this is a long-running situation, do your fucking homework first before commenting the same tired takes we've heard a hundred times before
Lot of "I don't really understand what this is about but I'm going to insert my opinion anyway" going around in #NixOS land lately
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Boss battle arena background for Tiny Thor #pixelart #MastoArt #digitalart
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I think people working for companies like Anduril or Palantir deserve to be shunned and pushed out of any communal space on tech. These are people who willingly choose to work making the killing of other people more efficient and easy. I'm ok, happy even, with them not feeling welcome in FOSS.
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OH “It is very crowded in this train” (looks around, empty seats everywhere) “so, until Kortrijk the first class is also available with second class tickets” 
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I think something that many might not realize about large open source projects like #nixos is that despite a huge number of contributors:
1. Number of contributions follows a power law.
2. Contributors aren't fungible, instead it's tens-hundreds of individual SPOFs.
3. Willingness to put your time to fix problems for others (not just stuff you have a personal interest in) is highly correlated with strong ethics.
=> Piss off the wrong 5 people and the project grinds to a halt within a month.
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At the end of Friday 3 May ICM 4011, the oldest Koploper still in service at 
, is leaving active service, after more than 40 years.
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3rd most active contributor to #nixos drops from the project due to the lack of leadership from the Foundation supposedly backing the project.
Everything is fine, I'm sure the arms dealers will compensate the lost contributions. /s
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taxes
Love spending a bunch of time trying to track down a 4-cent deviation between my books and what my bank says, only to discover that the bank's data export listed a transaction on Dec 31 but it's listed in the e-banking UI for Jan 3 of the next year
(The use of the words 'eject' and 'intend' are intentional here; I do not believe that different licensing terms are a solution to this problem; it is a social problem, not a legal one)
Or to phrase it differently: a public commons can only actually work, if you eject those who only ever intend to take from it
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And this is not so much a complaint about that one maintainer, as it is a complaint about FOSS culture more broadly, and its chronic inability to recognize that capitalist power dynamics are something to defend from, not something to embrace,
leading to people tossing in the towel entirely.
This is going to keep happening as long as you actively invite corporations in your midst
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Another day, another FOSS maintainer going "I will stop doing FOSS because this is not sustainable" and dismissing code sharing as a concept entirely, rather than recognizing that the extractive users (like corporations) are the actual problem here
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The Cursor Pack is now available! It's a completely free (CC0) package which includes 110+ cursors in both PNG and SVG formats! #gameassets #assetwednesday
https://kenney.nl/assets/cursor-pack
Share with your fellow developers 💜
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“When street medics give trainings on the weapons cops use and the damage they inflict, the first question they ask is, ‘What is the police’s most dangerous weapon?’ The answer is: fear. […]
As we all look toward a police-free world and prepare for reactionary pushback against this powerful international movement, we must avoid spreading fear the way cops do. That is their weapon. Ours is solidarity. Ours is calm. Ours is truth. Ours is community.”
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As we see young people rising up on campuses across the US, we encourage our comrades in the student movement to skill up on information hygiene and community defense + care tactics.
As such, we’re pulling from our archives a primer on information hygiene written by seasoned organizers to their comrades during the 2020 Uprisings in Minneapolis.
“How we handle information is crucial to our safety and success.”
https://antidotezine.com/2020/07/20/disinformation-hygiene-stop-the-deadly-spread/
- 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
