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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- 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
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ADHD thoughts
Non-newtonian motivation: gently nudging me to do something is okay, but if you push me it becomes very hard to do the thing
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pol-
You know how everyone votes for a politician for their populist progressive promises and is all surprisedpikachu when the politician fails to achieve any of them?
Just once I would love to instead see a politician get elected on their safe corporate moderate platform and then shock everyone by implementing surprise socialism
Just once I would love to instead see a politician get elected on their safe corporate moderate platform and then shock everyone by implementing surprise socialism
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Het is weer zover.
Den Aha levert diepvriesspul.
In een tas.
Die in de tas babyromaines zit. Bevroren dus, 5 stuks.
Winterwortel: deels bevroren.
Bleekselderij: idem.
Prei: idem.
Dan nog groente in stukken.
Een fles kapot.
Op de kokosnoot 'zit iets raar nats'.
Ik snap dat gewoon niet. Ze vergoeden het maar ja: te laag bedrag voor bezorging dus ik moet naar winkel die ver weg is, dus met tram.
Soms, soms gaat het goed.
Meestal niet.
Vandaag dus weer niet.
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Just Stop Ads
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Wat een nuance in een programma voor kinderen, iets om als volwassenen van te leren:
Indonesië in de oorlog, Klokhuis
"Honderden jaren was Nederland de baas in grote delen van wat we nu kennen als Indonesië. Janouk gaat vierhonderd jaar terug in de tijd en ziet hoe Nederland delen van het eilandenrijk met geweld veroverde. Veel Indonesiërs wilden een eigen land. In augustus 1945, kort na het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, riep Indonesië de onafhankelijkheid uit. Janouk ziet wat voor oorlogen er nodig waren voordat Indonesië eindelijk een eigen land werd, en hoe deze tijd hier in Nederland wordt herdacht. In de sketch zien we hoe Nederlandse kolonisten zichzelf heel erg beschaafd vinden, maar zijn ze dat ook…"
https://hetklokhuis.nl/tv-uitzending/5519/indonesie-in-de-oorlog
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Whenever you see a headline or an editorial piece which is wildly at odds with the evidence of your eyes and ears, just ask yourself, "How would the public accepting this as fact benefit/empower/enrich the billionaire who owns this megaphone?"
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microsoft
So, Microsoft decided to break lots of people's computers:
https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-cracking-down-dodging-windows-11-system-requirements/
Any "security improvements" that require people to buy a new computer (or phone) is a security upgrade that poor people and/or people in the third world don't benefit from.
It is worse than useless, it is discriminatory, it is obscene. It throws people under the bus, causes us great economic duress, for the sake of other people's security. It erects a walled community and keeps us out, and pretends things are safer by removing us from the statistics.
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Eckartsberga. Het station lijkt haast bevroren in de tijd, er zit zelfs een vuilniszak in de afvalbak #Pepermuntje
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I have managed to create a table style that I am quite proud of
this is all done with CSS
Is there a name for this philosophy around projects (of any kind)?
"Never discourage someone (or yourself) from attempting a project based on whether you think it is achievable, but you do have a moral obligation to discourage someone from attempting a project if it would be unethical for them to do so."
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this is your irregular reminder to
* be gay
* do crime
* post about being gay
* not post about doing crime
Edit: wow, my best performing post ever. guess what: it's #SettlerSaturday, so your job is now to find an Indigenous person's #MutualAid post and throw them $2/$5/$20/$100.
if you boosted this post and you're white this is not optional! if you truly have no money to give then you can credit yourself 50c for every #IndigenousMutualAid post you boost, until you reach one of those thresholds (take your pick).
have money but no spoons to read through a hashtag? here's one for ya: Evel needs accessories for xens new wheelchair. https://throne.com/evel/collections/wheelchair-things
or you can give money to xens indie studio co-op here: https://ko-fi.com/aldercone/
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Choose your phone!
Your options are:
- company that seeks rent on every transaction that happens through the phone
- company that tracks your location, habits and usage to build detailed profiles on you to inform advertising
- custom ROMs that can’t run your banking app
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a lot of processes in the industry i work in now rely on spreadsheets
like really janky ones with hours of people's lives burned away by copy/paste weekly or daily and pointing and clicking, following a checklist
so i think "aha! i can help!" and i replace the spreadsheet with an automated process
and hours per week are saved and i am a hero and it feels great
but then they need to make a little change and they can't, they have to go through me, i have effectively taken their power away
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@nota thinking about this more, i'm a little reminded of a discussion i read a while ago (on tumblr i think?) about "handmade" clothing, in which several people who were very into sewing absolutely lost their mind at people believing there's any sort of cheap clothing that's "not handmade" — it's just that it gets done in places that aren't usually thought about much (unless one wants to insist that "handmade clothing" prohibits the use of a sewing machine ig)
like it's the same kind of assumption that "mass-produced elsewhere" might as well mean "it just kinda materialised" (and credit is given to whoever designed it, not whoever made it)
like it's the same kind of assumption that "mass-produced elsewhere" might as well mean "it just kinda materialised" (and credit is given to whoever designed it, not whoever made it)
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It just feels like the sort of contrived seeming line you'd make someone say in a novel after the chapter that details the oppression of the people making the widgets, in order to set up the class conflict the book centers around.
And yeah, tech media at large does really just act like if these devices just appeared on shelves out of the æther and that explains a lot, I never thought about that.
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I boredly clicked a MKBHD video a while back where he unboxes a sealed original iphone. I keep thinking about it, because he talks up how it was "never gazed upon nor touched by human hands".
What do you mean Marques, "no human" 🧐
Of course if he'd have thought about it for a second he'd have realized that it had been through dozens of hands and seen by hundreds of people. But he didn't, they just left it in. It's so mundane in it's detachment from reality and somehow that really tickles me.
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Every time I hear the “novelty and creativity is rare” line I get so angry I have to stand up and pace to calm down
Language, art, and media are massively combinatorial. We’ve barely been able to scratch the surface of what’s possible because we’re locked in economic systems built on uniformity and in industries that always choose the broken and bland to boost short term profits
The absence of novelty is down to economics and your mindsets. The media themselves are as unexplored as the galaxy
I wish music festivals didn't allow national flags.
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Remember when we were all at awe at how we can access all the information we want like 10 years ago with the internet and phones
Well looks like the party is over with all the algorithmic intelligence poisoning SEO crap
Remember when Wikipedia was considered an unreliable source
- 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
