Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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discussion of ableism, classism, etc.
Yes, I'm pissed off at the people deciding to be pissed off at people trying to claw their way into the next day, week, month, etc.
Do I have a personal stake in that feeling? Yes. Is it the main driver behind that feeling? No.
I, personally, don't give much of a fuck about myself. (Don't lecture me on this pls)
I care a lot more about everyone else, and I hate watching them have to needlessly suffer.
Claiming to care about people and then using your typical anti-poor, anti-homeless, ableist, saneist, gatekeeper-y, speculatory bullshit against them/blocking them because they're annoying to have to witness in your digital backyard isn't how you demonstrate that care.
Again: we all suffer in some way or another. You are far, FAR closer to being in our shoes than you will ever be to a rich, luxurious life.
A few missed weeks of work, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, falling ill, etc. is all it takes.
some analysis, mastodon for harris
So, about that mutual aid vs. Harris campaigning thing, there's a couple of points that keep coming up. Let's talk about them for a bit.
"We don't know if they're scammers!"
Doesn't matter; a small chance of it going to someone who's "scamming" is still considerably better than knowing *for sure* that your donation will only be a drop in the bucket (like is the case for Harris fundraising).
And even if they *were* 'scammers', as I have previously pointed out, low-stakes scammers are disproportionately poor people, so it really doesn't matter for the purpose of supporting someone.
"Small chance? What if *most* of them are scammers?"
Do you actually believe that the world is in a good enough shape that it's more likely for someone asking for help to be a scammer, than to genuinely need help? Have you *looked* at folks' well-being lately?
"But I don't want to reward begging!"
You don't want to normalize asking for help? No, really, I mean it, this is a serious question - why, exactly, do you think this is a bad thing? Because chances are there's some internalized hate you need to work on there.
"If we just gave money, nobody would ever do anything productive again!"
Aside from this having been repeatedly and thoroughly debunked by research into motivation, you're also basically repeating conservative rhetoric. Are you progressive or are you not? Do you believe in the good of people or not? What are your politics *really*?
"But the greater good is more important!"
Okay. Have you done the math, and calculated what, exactly, that 'greater benefit' would be? How exactly your donation would concretely translate into a societal improvement? Because if you haven't, then this is a retroactive excuse, not a well-considered rationale.
If you have, you will probably pretty quickly have come to the conclusion that the amount of money we're raising here is insignificant in the bigger picture, that it will mainly be spent on a marketing campaign for an individual, and that there are zero assurances that it *will* even translate into anything good, even if Harris is elected.
Doesn't mean she isn't the better option compared to Trump, to be clear, but it's pretty hard to make a credible 'greater good' argument here; she only needs to win, *by how much* doesn't really matter.
In comparison, sending money to someone asking for mutual aid on here will likely save someone's literal life. Someone who, I might add, *then can contribute to improving politics*. You know, many hands make light work and all that. You can't fix politics when everybody is starving.
And if you believe that mutual aid recipients wouldn't make a useful contribution to the political environment, well. I invite you to ask yourself why you believe that, and sit and reflect on the answer for a while, because the problem there does not lie with the mutual aid recipients.
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@dee Personally, I wouldn't mind taking a step back and funding an organization whose job it is to find problems like this and assemble solutions for them - find people to review all the core infra software and make sure it's supported, or assemble resources for the programmers of such, or a million other things. That's no small ask though - even just deciding what, exactly, falls within that area is quite a task. :/
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Do you play #MagicTheGathering?
Did you know WOTC has a code of conduct?
Or that "This Code and all its related Guidelines applies to all members of the Wizards community, from one-time players to pros, shop owners, and convention managers"?
It's right here! https://company.wizards.com/en/legal/code-conduct
Remember kids, when in doubt at an organized event, call a judge over. 
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Well maybe one more:
Tech salvage co-op on a tech 'raid' where members of the co-op have located unused, in-tact technology, and have negotiated with the current occupants (or owners if no one lives there) for the recovery of the devices. These will then be used to extend the meshnet or add redundancies, improve the capabilities of libraries, or provide to others in their community.
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Serious question to people born on 1970-01-01: Did you ever encounter weird IT related issues due to your dob?
Sharing encouraged, because I'm genuinely curious
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kink, consent, grumpy
It is really frustrating when people act like there's one perfect way to ask for consent in all situations.
There's like three pretty good ways to do consent.
All of them have benefits. All of them have problems.
If you're autistic, it's okay to not get all the secret rules and need to be especially cautious.
If you're autistic, you will be more vulnerable to having your consent violated, because neurotypicals won't bother trying to figure how consent works for you.
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Things spotted on market day in Aotearoa #newzealand :
A small human with his face and hands covered in chocolate ice-cream being told by his mum "Fin, keep your hands to yourself." He spreads his hands as wide as possible, grins cheekily and roars "NO!"
A guy with bare feet (20s?) and a British accent talking to a stall owner. He says "I came here six months ago. I only meant to stay for two weeks but I can't bring myself to leave yet." Stall owner nods in sympathy.
A small human and his grandma walking along. Grandma on small human's heels as he instructs her how to ONLY step on the shadows because stepping in the sun is bad luck. Both seem to be thoroughly enjoying the game. Later seen in line for a crepe. (Standing on shadows.)
The owner of a pottery stall explaining to a woman (80s?) with arthritically bent hands that he makes sure his cups have handles that anyone can hold. She makes a delighted noise when he shows her a cup that she can grip easily.
A macaron vendor explaining to three small humans (8 and younger?) how he makes his macarons. They are all completely focussed. He says "The trick is, don't sift the almond meal. They all tell ya to do it, but don't believe them!" All three small humans nod solemnly.
Any typos spotted in this post are not typos, they are poetry. Or at least that's what this author is claiming and I am totally prepared to do an interpretive dance to any typo poetry to back it up. (With kazoo accompaniment. Because poetry.)
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The irony of a commercial ship tearing down a symbol of post Cold War cooperation, collaboration, and peace between nations cannot be overstated.
A new era is born with future projections pointing to the building of commercial space stations.
/1
https://www.space.com/spacex-dragon-iss-deorbit-vehicle-design-revealed
secure boot
Far as I can tell, the only 'security' that 'secure' boot is providing *in practice*, is to allow manufacturers to lock down devices (eg. consoles) such that their owners cannot do with them what they want, and to let corporations prevent employees from having full access to the system.
I have a problem: there are a lot of very specific projects that I would want to work on, that currently do not seem to exist, but that I also couldn't realistically do on my own, and it's difficult to even start without someone like-minded to bounce ideas off.
Now I could share my ideas far and wide in detail and hope that someone is interested and responds, but I *also* have ADHD, which means that when they do, I might not be able to get back to them in a timely manner, and it may take quite some time before my interest loops back around to that specific project.
I'll likely keep my focus much better once I have someone else to collaborate with regularly/actively, but even then my availability/focus may be erratic, and it feels unfair to commit to working on a project and then make that someone else's problem.
The easiest thing for me to work with is someone who could commit to collaborating on a project, based on the ideas/goals that I already have, and subject to whenever I happen to have focus available. But that is so unbalanced in terms of what each party is expected to bring to the table, that that also feels unreasonable to ask for.
Not sure what to do about this, or how to proceed from here. Like, I can do a lot of the work, in principle, just not on any sort of predetermined schedule, but for this to work there needs to be some kind of synchronized-ish working on the project.
(Advice welcome, as long as you understand what "having ADHD" means and don't come up with useless 'advice' like "have you tried <neurotypical lifehack> to focus better")
immigratiepolitiek
De immigratie-eis dat je een monogame relatie hebt is racistisch beleid.
Lidl seems to be trying to pick a fight with the trademark deities
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in case you hadn't heard about it yet: there's an app, that will take your CO2-measurements and put them on a map for all to see.
https://indoorco2map.com
"Anyone who has a mobile phone and a supported mobile CO2-Monitor can participate in the data collection. Currently only the most widespread Device, the Aranet4 is supported but it is planned to support the Airvalent and Inkbird as soon as August."
https://indoorco2map.com/about.html
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(i cracked it: adhd talking is just s-expressions (because we always have something to add (this is a reference to nesting parentheses)))
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TL;DR: HELP ME REUNITE WITH MY PENCIL BOX😭
I know this is a long shot but if you spot a pencil box that approximately looks like this stuffed with fountain pens, crochet hooks and a penguin key chain, please let me know?
Highly likely in Dublin City Centre by the River Liffey
It is not that valuable in money, but it does have my fountain pens and I am so sad. 😭 😭 😭
Mine is more maroon than rainbow but it looks like this.
BRB going to cry my eyes out
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crowdstrike
Oh my god I only just now learned about Crowdstrike sending $10 Uber Eats vouchers to their customers...
Why would you do that as a company??? If you're going to put a price on someone's misery, make sure it's the right one, not 10 dollars...
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I think the problem with having a shitty software job is the fact that programming is one of my favorite things to do, to the point that I have devoted my entire life to becoming an engineer since elementary school, and they're having me write ten lines of powershell scripts, and then five hundred google docs
- 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
