Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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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 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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longpost on old NES speedrun drama
Every now and then I think about this old drama chestnut in the NES speedrunning community that more or less entirely jaded vee on the idea of any leaderboard being entirely trustworthy and representative of the game's entire speedrun history.
The short of it is a few people got together and tried to make a list of "NES console-wide rules". Then started going around speedrun.com asking board mods to adopt them in addition to game-specific rules.
This got real weird when that group landed on Battletoads & Double Dragon, a game that allowed turbo/autofire. A couple of representatives from "The NES speedrunning community", as if there could only be one, showed up and started demanding turbo be banned and the board purged because you couldn't tell who did or didn't use turbo. The mods didn't really respond, so those people went to SRDC staff and had the game's moderation removed and replaced with people who don't even run the game, in order to "fix the board"
As I understand it, one of the people calling for the board purge was friends with the site's core developer, not even a site moderator, and the dev just took him at his word and made the moderation change.
Anyway the new mods blanked the board, citing "we don't know any of these runners and can't tell who did or didn't use turbo"; because after all, they didn't know the game they were taking over.
The reason the mods didn't respond to the demand initially? The entire speedrun scene of BTDD NES was Russian. Russians, by the by, primarily experienced NES in the era via a NES clone called the Dendy.
This is a Dendy. Notice the turbo buttons?
This is why I have zero faith in some one-size-fits-all pure view of speedrunning. That community more or less died because the people who took the board over didn't actually care about the game, they just wanted turbo out of their pure NES world.
It's also why I stopped trusting SRDC. Goes double now and days considering dotabuff owns them now.
At least, as I understand, the person who caused this mess chilled out in later years. That shameful-ass post of "If you can't do the mashing go find a different game" spat into a community of people who all agreed to allow turbo is still there though.
It's funny because I was reminded of this because I went and found Callum's old Toto World 3 run and found they said "Oops I had turbo on for a small segment, I penalized myself several seconds for that" and I'm cool with that. A lot of people wouldn't be.
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the rise of alt text has taught me that people who post reaction gifs dont know what theyre from either
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ACAB
mastodon for harris, death
but this system would not have survived had it not been upheld by people LIKE YOU.
people who call us bums. crackheads. beggars. people who spit on the very idea of having to believe us. people who put up spikes on benches or passcodes on restroom doors. people who arrest activists for handing out food for the poor. people who believe in capitalism that kills them. people on this very platform, who would rather see a person suffer than not donate to a richie
(9/?)
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mastodon for harris, death
simone de beauvoir once said that "the oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed", and that this is exactly what is destroying us all. your willingness to suck up to the oppression you yourself are a victim of, and indulging in the "fuck you got mine" mentality.
was CK's death "trauma porn slop" to you, as well?
is his suicide a "bury your gays" trope, perhaps?
how absolutely monstrous are you willing to be?
(11/?)
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mastodon for harris, death
one of the reasons i hate you fuckers to the bone is because you never know what it's like to watch your best friend die because someone wanted to snatch more money off of his cold dead hands.
i used to have a friend. Nicholas "Chairkicker" Leo, but i will call him CK because that's what he wanted.
guy was a poor queer indigenous disabled guy. an activist, a writer, a protector. someone who i trusted.
more than half a year ago, he died. (1/?)
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Starting a music streaming service that only implements SSL with 40-bit RC4 because it sounds warmer than modern TLS
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@smveerman „Halve Snelheijdslijn Zuid“?
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@joepie91 @helle our ideal code formatter would allow ranges and thresholds for everything, so only strong outliers would be changed. Maybe sometimes I want one blank line between functions, and sometimes two to match their higher semantic separation, but 5 lines is probably a result of pasting something and a formatter can take care of that
That kind of thing
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so about that "twitter api leak" yesterday that i also saw people talk about on here and taking at face value. it was fake, i analyzed it (and the circumstances surrounding it) in a twitter thread at the time and have since helped snopes report on the story as well.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fake-twitter-api-leak/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fake-twitter-api-leak/
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miau (monthly initial active users)
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I really wish people would be more conscious of the language they use. A nude body, a discussion of kink, or a conversation about genitals is not inherently “lewd.” I don’t think it’s a good idea to socialize the idea that it is.
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youtubers talking about "leaked content" while looking at an intentionally published and linked-to promotional page for the content they're claiming "leaked"
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Hello, world!
We are FAFO, a non-profit semiconductor and analytical chemistry research lab in Munich.
We exist to bring together people and tools necessary to advance not the cutting edge of manufacturing, but the cutting edge of making bathtub semiconductors and other Weird Hacks in your local hackerspace.
We've just rented out our first location and brought in a gorgeous 1980s JEOL T330A SEM. Restoring it to working condition is our first project, and this is where we'll keep you posted.
my personal view on the mutual aid vs. harris thing
If the choice is between Trump and Harris, I think it's very important that Harris get elected, despite all the problems with her, because the alternative is significantly worse.
Likewise, I am somewhat excited about the renewed enthusiasm among Democrats to actually do anything at all, and go (relatively) on the offense. In that light, the fundraising success is a good thing! I hope she succeeds at winning the election, despite my misgivings about the political system as a whole.
HOWEVER.
At the same time, there are people on here, in *your local community on fedi*, that are literally starving, with their mutual aid requests going unanswered for sometimes months at a time. *Your* virtual neighbours.
And in that light, I also think it is a good thing that people who donate to Harris but not to mutual aid requests are being made very, very uncomfortable by angry folks, including 'polluting' the Harris hashtags.
There are sometimes situations where people need a reality check, to stop living in their political bubble where if they just find the right political strategy, everything will magically be fixed. I often say this in the context of anarchism, but it applies just as much to Democrats and their supporters.
This conflict is exactly that. It is people in poverty telling Democrat supporters, to their faces, that they have neglected to care for their neighbours despite clearly having the means. Confronting them with the harsh reality of their politics. That their supposed political ideals are worth nothing if they are not put into practice. And that is a very important message to convey.
If you are a Democrat, a liberal, however you identify, this is something you should be listening to. It's going to be uncomfortable, and it is *supposed* to be; it is meant to shatter your illusion that poverty is a hypothetical thing that happens to Other People Far Away, and drive you into constructive action.
You can deal with this either by stubbornly insisting that these 'annoying beggars' are in the wrong, or by learning from what you are being shown and taking action to rectify it to the best of your ability.
The choice you make will tell other people a lot about your politics.
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commenting on the whole mastodon for harris thing
see, like, this shit is the exact reason why i do not trust capitalists or centrists or liberals. they say they're allies and then pull shit like this. what kind of solidarity can we even talk about?
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So here's a question I've been wanting to ask: is anyone doing daily digests of still-active mutual aid asks, by any chance?
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@joepie91 I'm pretty, and sure we've had lightning talks at Apache Confs that were basically just @shanecurcuru reading (rapping) all the names, and demanding that letters of the alphabet that weren't mentioned be filled by the next board meeting
(i may be misremembering this, or it might have been a dream)
"scammers", kind of mutual aid related
So here's a 'fun' fact: low-stakes scammers, so the kind that goes for hundreds or thousands of dollars rather than millions, are disproportionately folks in poverty who have resorted to scams as a way to pay the bills.
So even *if* there were scammers in the MutualAid hashtag (and that's unlikely), *even then*, giving to mutual aid requests would *still* support people in poverty.
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
