Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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.
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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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I think that all of the projects explicitly archiving scientific works are extremely helpful but I also wish these were more projects that just outright listed old published works
like, adequate citation info "author, book, published date, publication, etc." for all works, but without the actual works themselves, since that means it'd be safe from copyright, plus links to other cited works and keywords about what they're about
I know plenty of modern publisher websites will tell you this for modern works but like. I've found more links to relevant papers from David Hilbert, for example (~early 1900's) from old textbooks than I have from any modern scholarly source. and even then, they're all in German and I have to translate them all myself
As an addendum for clarification: for now, I'm going to try and exclude non-white folks from this change (as in, will not unfollow them), and see whether this is enough to bring it down to manageable levels, as they *do* still regularly post things that are actually new to me.
I still would appreciate CWs all the same for the same reasons, but also understand that there are conflicting needs that warrant doing it differently here.
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felons & voting in mn
we did this, it's effective now and everything! once you served your time you're eligible to vote again. https://www.sos.state.mn.us/elections-voting/register-to-vote/i-have-a-criminal-record/
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Both of these are dangerous.
If we shame others for compromising then they're never going to ask for help. They're going to associate the people pushing back against the culture of scamming as being insufferable jerks.
If we proudly declare we always use the defaults and accept all, then that sends a strong signal that our culture of constant scamming is acceptable. It works even more to ostracise those who may push back against it.
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With that in mind, I have two requests for you all. They're hard requests, and I struggle with them both.
One is don't shame people for compromising. Nobody wanted to supply their email address, or click the giant "accept all". They're tired and just wanted to get on with their day.
The other is don't take pride in your complicity. "*I* never have those problems because *I* don't block ads." Great, good for you, but that doesn't help the people who want to preserve their privacy.
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I want a game where I can just wander around and find things. do you know one?
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Apparently the Razr doesn't charge batteries while stuck in bootloader mode. That's okay, I have this modded PSP battery charger that works just fine
CW-boost: racisme, wilders, fascisme, enz.
RIP Batflyer-station in Duinrell, die bovenverdieping waarvan ik me als kind altijd afvroeg wat daar nou precies in zat, want het leek op een plek voor een attractie maar je kon er met geen mogelijkheid komen...
Toch best bizar dat ik nu, zo'n 20 jaar later, eigenlijk voor het eerst foto's zie van wat er nou precies te vinden was, en alleen maar omdat het nu gesloopt wordt
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My dear lefty accounts: "cabal" is an antisemitic word, and "idiot" is an ableist slur used for eugenics.
I'm sure we won't fight fascism with more White supremacy.
Maybe get more creative and to the point when describing malicious and deathmaking, greedy capitalists?
#ableism #antifascism #antisemitism #slurs #capitalism #anticapitalism
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There was a very good article some years ago, about "manager view" versus "implementor view".
A manager needs a very broad view of the whole project; they need to know superficially what's going in everywhere.
An implementor needs a deep view of specifically what they are doing, and they must be able to trust their manager to hold the big picture.
Anybody remember it? Have a link?
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A lot of my planting of seeds feels like an incantation that can't possibly work.
I'm told nearly every day by some rando on the internet, a devotee of nihilism and inaction, that change is impossible.
Change is the only thing I know will happen.
The good kind comes from an incredible amount of work, work that feels impossible before it succeeds, and like magic after it does.
I cast a little magic today. It feels good.
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#ClimateChange #seeds #native #plants
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Just held a talk at NixCon 2024 about an exploit that allowed full takeover of nixpkgs :3
Heads-up: I'm likely going to be unfollowing quite a few people in the next week or so. The reason for (almost) all of them is going to be the same: continuous posting of negative/doom-ish/inciting/etc. things without CWs.
I'm finding it increasingly difficult to keep my feed from becoming a depressing hellscape, and it's apparently not possible to keep these follows in a list without also having them show up in my main feed.
Note that I'm mainly talking here about people tooting 'news' articles and such, calls to action, and so on. I understand that these are meant to 'make people aware' of a topic, but I am exceedingly aware of these things by this point and it does not help anyone to overload my emotional system with it constantly, least of all the people affected by the tragedy being described.
It is simply Too Much, and it is actively keeping me from actually being able to *do* anything about any of it. It paralyzes through depression.
So I've decided, for both my own mental health and my ability to actually work towards effective change, to start unfollowing the people I mainly see this from. This will, unfortunately, include almost every Dutch person I follow too, since CWs do not seem to have caught on on Dutch fedi.
It is not a personal thing but it also sort of is; if this stuff would be behind CWs consistently, or even just most of the time, it wouldn't have been an issue. So it's not about who you are personally, but it *is* the result of a choice you have made to not CW things. I will occassionally check in (there is a reason I followed you in the first place!) and reevaluate if that changes.
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this blew up on Bluesky, so I'll post it here too.
original title: "I made an abomination."
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Headline: “Wow, Bluesky managed to get $8 million in funding”
What you should be reading:
“Bluesky took on an additional $8 million in debt, which they will need to be pay back with interest one way or another”
How are they going to be doing that, you wonder? Well reader, certainly not just by selling domain names at a slight markup.
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hey fedizens who are also on bluesky, is it me or has activity there dropped off a cliff compared to a week ago?
- 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
