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
(And no, "leaving the communication and education to a bunch of data startups that do incredibly creepy things for even creepier customers and publish some scraps on a blog in the process" is not an acceptable implementation of that)
And like, lots of the concepts behind it are great, and would genuinely be helpful to an open web! But you do actually need to *communicate* these things in a way that people can understand it
I don't know how anyone ever expected the 'linked web' to take off on the open web, with how dense and academically impenetrable all the resources around it are
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Bike parking: build these. Just these. That’s *it*. These stands can accommodate any type of bike. And you can lock the frame to them.
Don’t build ones where only the wheel goes in. Don’t build anything where the mechanism can go wrong.
I know this is boring. But IT WORKS!
Edit: to those going “they can be cut and taped and bikes stolen” - I know. Do I care? No, not really. Tell me a type of rack that can’t be cut with an angle grinder!
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Hey Canadian nerds! I have held the domain registration for regex.ca for a very long time. When I lived in Canada it was my primary domain, but I haven't used it for years. Does anyone on the fediverse have a good use for it?
I'm going to release it but if you've got a good pitch I'll pay for a 1 year renewal and then transfer it to your ownership.
[edit: @blakecoverett has put https://regex.ca to appropriately goofy, human-centric use. huzzah for the Fediverse!]
If you've ever been involved in activism, you've probably heard someone tell you that "these things always take time, it's a slow process", as if it's the most normal thing in the world.
But... is that actually normal? *Should* that actually be considered normal?
Building a new highway is a relatively fast, procedural process. Getting a train line built is a very slow process of convincing people with no guarantee of success.
Increasing police funding is a relatively fast, procedural process. *Decreasing* police funding and reallocating it to social services instead, is a very slow process of convincing people with no guarantee of success.
Why do we consider any of this normal and acceptable? Why do people consider us to live in a functioning democracy, when this kind of asymmetry for 'doing the right thing' exists?
How does any of this constitute a healthy society, even on paper, even according to liberal political norms?
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And there’s a Slido poll. Did you get to A CONFERENCE ABOUT RAIL BALTICA by car or public transport. Bike not an option. And a big majority for car 😭
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free and open source now feels like a buzzword such as "organic" or "100% natural" but for tech companies that profit from stolen labor
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Buch-Empfehlungen pls? 🥺
SciFi, Fantasy, sehr gerne divers (queer, Neurodivergenz, Behinderungen, etc) und utopisch (aber kein Muss)
Englisch/Deutsch
The upside is that that whiteboard was definitely never gonna fall off under any circumstances, this tape is honestly pretty cool
(The whiteboard has been removed now but it took a solid few minutes of prying to get it off the door)
Looks like the hypothetical removability of the tape I used for the whiteboard was largely hypothetical indeed
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@zens I've really liked pop os for these reasons, like everything can be done through GUIs that are actually put together nicely (except the pop shop, like zamn it sucks but there's going to be a completely new one for cosmic so that's exciting)
hopefully we'll see more software move towards simpler installation and GUIs when possible
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had to use the internet without ublock origin for like five minutes the other day and was horrified about what an ad-infested shithole it is, i can't believe regular people just live like this, it's like some horrible dystopian parallel universe
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as if the web's degradation from public forums into little walled gardens with only limited search capabilities (discord, facebook groups, whatever) wasn't bad enough, the best sources of obscure technical information are being wrecked prematurely in order to help fuel automated generation of wildly inaccurate 'information' in the form of LLM vomit.
I should probably archive everything useful I read from now on
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One side effect of the current corporate AI fad is website users deleting their posts and accounts in protest. One prolific user of a site was responsible for posting sooooo much information that I've used to learn 'retro gamedev' on multiple platforms; and they've killed their account and every post as part of a wider protest against the site's new policy to explicitly scrape all posts for LLM training data 😢
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We need to be working together to solidify our abolitionist and disability justice politics and fight attempts to push eugenics and squash dissent.
This means returning to masking as a regular, everyday practice, as centring the most vulnerable continues to be our best path forward to liberation.
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I wrote about receiving an AI-written email from a friend:
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I completely forgot I uploaded VistaPro 3.20 (the scenery renderer) to the Internet Archive, where you can run it from your browser. For those sudden urges of wanting to create some landscapes.
https://archive.org/details/vistapro320
Includes the MakePath tool.
Don't forget to take screenshots of your creations! Nothing can be retrieved from the disk the in-browser DOSBox keeps, as far as I know.
(Please be patient with the Archive's speed, they're dealing with persistent DDoS attacks at the moment)
- 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
