Sven Slootweg @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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I don’t know why taking photos of shit like this is so irresistible to me but it is
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Everything catastrophically wrong with the world was done to make some billionaire even richer.
Every town that had to evacuate due to a chemical spill, strip mining, or a never-ending underground fire was done to make some billionaire even richer
Every news article that pits white people against minorities and immigrants is written to distract us from billionaires destroying democracy, human rights and the planet to make themselves even richer.
The billionaires are the problem.
meta, racism, question
I've seen a couple of comments now from various non-white folks saying that they get proportionally *more* racist abuse hurled at them here than on Twitter.
I'd like to better understand why that is - "equally much" makes sense to me, with the culture not being less racist here, but I don't quite understand how it can result in *more* abuse than a functionally unmoderated place like Twitter.
Does anyone have any insights for me about what is causing this to happen? What protection is missing, what misfeature is amplifying the problem, or what else about the environment *or* system here plays a role in this?
(If you're white, please only respond if your understanding is based on what non-white folks have said on the matter; I'm not looking for guesses here from people who aren't themselves on the receiving end, because you're very unlikely to have the right answer.)
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means testing doesn't stop determined fraudsters,
but they're an insignificant minority of applicants to government aid programs to begin with.
what means testing does do is convince people who need help that asking the government for help isn't worth the time or effort, and then provide an excuse to cut funding to said means-tested programs due to an artificially depressed number of applicants.
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There is a huge discrepancy between PokéDex entries and like, every canon depiction of the Pokémon world. Shit's way too idyllic for some of those entries to be true.
Either the PokéDex is as faulty as our current day "AI" is, or Professor Oak already knows plenty about Pokémon and he's just sending kids out with their version of a copy of Grimm's Fairytales to teach them some kind of moral lesson.
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the iss, a space station run by joint efforts by nasa, roscosmos, esa and jaxa solely for scientific purposes, being scrapped and "replaced" with corporate projects commissioned by individual national governments is a very sad reflection of everything else happening in the world
If you have views on how a better society would work:
Do you also constantly pick out situations you see (in real life, stories, movies, whatever) where something went badly, and then evaluate in your head how your ideal society would have dealt with it, warts and all? Or is that just me?
And if you do, what's your goal with it? (I do this specifically to find gaps/flaws in my ideals)
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It's #DisabilityPrideMonth 
Time for my annual PSA for #Video Creators:
*Subtitles Are Vital*
Also, plan on them going Over your video
When you put important info at the bottom of the screen I have to pause, turn off subtitles, rewind, play it to see the info, pause, & turn subtitles back on- unless I miss it entirely because the subtitles hide it!
#Inclusion #Disability #Subtitles #Deaf #HoH #HardOfHearing #Processing #Accessibility
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Today is a single serotonin molecule bouncing 'round like a DVD screensaver day.
Let's see how long it takes to bounce perfectly into the corner, and that'll be the one cognitively productive event of the day.
#AskFedi: has any country ever done a comprehensive study on the cost of public transport ticketing (machines, materials, staff, checking, gates, fare management software, transaction fees, etc.), vs. the revenue that it actually brings in?
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Free public transport now. Everywhere and for everyone. Dismantle the entire industry of ticketing and checking tickets.
You need to travel? Just hop on the train/subway/bus/ferry! Just goooo!
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Neither spouse nor I have become more conservative as we've moved into middle age (we've actually been radicalized across a number of vectors). What I have become, however, is much more pragmatic. I am fine to talk theory and it's important to hold ideals, but at the end of the day (and the conversation, even) I want to know what we can accomplish together IN THE WORLD. I honestly consider 'workability' a MORAL issue, because harm happens in real time.
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Can anyone recommend a good write-up - either their own, or one that they’ve used - for self-hosting a Firefox sync server and a Firefox account server?
Not just the sync server, please.
Alternatively, personal recommendations for keeping Firefox settings, including add-ons, custom shortcuts, bookmarks etc., in sync across multiple devices without storing data on someone else’s computers are also welcome.
I’m pretty sure I’ve tried to sync the whole profile before and ran into problems when I had instances of Firefox open on multiple machines simultaneously.
Thanks!
Edit: sorry, I should have said that I’m looking for solutions which run on Linux!
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OPINION: stop studying cybersecurity because of me
im trying to get u into activism, not college
https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/please/
im trying to get u into activism, not college
https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/please/
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Is there any open source solution that could take a input of a dozen pictures (or better, videos) and then create a spherical panorama? Or even to generate a 3d scene with a reasonable precision?
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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. :/
- 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
