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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I know a lot of folks in the US are preparing for emigration now, so here's a PSA of sorts for anyone considering Norway (drugs)
Do not ever, everrr, EVER, under any circumstances, mention ever having consumed any controlled substances, including cannabis, to anyone in a position of authority in this country - not your GP, not a psychologist, not anyone working for a government agency.
Whatever you may think the benefits of being open about it are, it will literally never go well.
You can be denied vital medicine, you can have your driver's license revoked, you may even have your children taken away. If you get a direct question about it, don't hesitate, just lie.
Unless they're the cops pulling you out of traffic, they have to believe you (also most psychiatric services will demand urine tests before offering you any kind of treatment, but any mental health-related services in this country are mostly a Potemkin village anyway and will bill you hundreds of kroner for a pat on the back and a "Just pull yourself together, you'll be fine").
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The birds aren't real people bought the Enron trademark for $275 and are doing this incredible bit and all I want to know is how do you buy a trademark because between infowars and this every impish bone in my body aches to acquire some toxic IP
type of guy
Type of guy who lectures you on being "too abrasive, you won't convince people that way" with no knowledge of your history, and who really just felt personally called out despite the post not being addressed at them, and so tries to cover their discomfort instead of self-reflecting
venting, FOSS, nerds
This all kind of slots into a broader frustration I have about people having collectively unlearned how to take care of their communities, whether those are in their physical vicinity or online.
It's like people have mentally outsourced everything to corporations. Leading themselves to believe that if a company doesn't do it for them, it is not possible. This happens for so many things, not just software.
venting, FOSS, nerds
I'm kind of running out of patience for nerds complaining how Matrix is 'terrible' and making exactly zero effort to contribute towards any sort of improvement, even when explicitly invited to collaborate on an effort to do so. And often arguing for switching to proprietary platforms in a context where that really is not appropriate (eg. FOSS projects).
Yes, some people have a good reason to not be able to contribute. I refuse to believe that 100% of nerds are unable to do so. And a lot of the complaining has a very strong undercurrent of "everything must be served to me ready-made and I am unwilling to work to make my neighbourhood better, because that requires effort".
Hey, guess what, building a commons requires putting in work. How about you do your part in making the open platforms better? Instead of making demands of the, like, 5 people who are actually doing something useful about it?
(This was inspired by a comment elsewhere, but not a subtoot of it, this has been grating on me for years now)
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boss: why did this stop working
me: gremlins i guess
boss: it looks like someone smashed it with a hammer until it stopped working
me: fucking gremlins, they get trickier every year
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fun fact, gremlins are not some old folkloric creature, they’re something airplane mechanics made up in the first half of the 20th century as an explanation for mysterious problems arising with machinery that have no obvious cause.
i feel like gremlins should therefore appeal to the fediverse at large on the basis of
1 being an extremely relatable experience for people who write software
2 being emblematic of industrial sabotage
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related question, does anyone know modern child friendly media with a polyamorous relation in it, stuff we would have loved to have seen sooner
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True joy is finally letting go of the irony poisoning you've internalized since you were a teen.
Embrace the cringe! Embrace the edge! Do it all unironically! Just genuinely enjoy things that judgy teens would call lame! Who cares! I certainly don't!
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ℹ️ After consulting the todon.eu/todon.nl community it is clear that almost all of you want this new rule.
There are some concerns about how this will be moderated. First note that this rule is *only* about *local* (todon.eu+todon.nl) posts. Remote posts AI can still be reported when it's misused for another rule violation (e.g. disinformation). Because we trust our existing users not to use AI on purpose, we don't expect to much trouble. New users will have to explicitly accept this new rule during sign-up. Of course it is difficult to see if something is AI or not, especially texts. Therefore we will only take action when we are really sure that it's AI. We are also won't automate this, so we rely on your reports. And if you report someone for AI, please add proof. If displaying AI is necessary to illustrate e.g. criticism about AI (someone called it fair use), we don't have any problems with that.
The rule is now being added to our Terms of Service, and the server rules on the about and sign-up pages.
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Just a little revelation thats both upsetting and probably very normal
The child who stands up to their bully is someone confronting the status quo.
This disruption of normal is what is being punished when the adult reacts with hostility towards the bullied, but not the bully.
This explains a lot about liberal ideology.
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hrmpf, linux/computering gets harder day by day with the ever faster progression of the AI-sloppyfication of the internet. My bluetooth-mouse is "loosing" clicks every now and then, and after having to open the fifth website that starts with introducing the history of Bluetooth I don't really want to fix it anymore..
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These are tough ethical challenges with real pain involved, and the possibility of additional harm depending on your actions. In these situations, volunteer moderators fall under intense pressure to balance conflicting policy, harm reduction, and privacy constraints. They also face emotional pressure from third parties who want to weigh in on the decision, often without access to complete information.
I keep this in mind when deciding whether to amplify or join in arguments over moderation.
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fedi crimes have been done. maybe you are reading this on social.pixie.town?
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anyone got any good media they'd recommend that's generally more positive revolutionary than negative? i consume so much negative media about the current state of things, i need some more positive revolutionary thinking of the future to balance it out
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It's a silly joke but I find it incredibly funny... And what more can you ask for a joke to be that Mario, Zelda, and HTML altogether? I wish I had thought of it for comiCSS.
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As a disabled web accessibility practitioner. This pisses me off. Extremely.
GENERATIVE AI DOES NOT AND CANNOT EVER REPRESENT DISABLED PEOPLE.
Just fucking hire disabled people like me who know what they're doing.
Believing AI over disabled people is ABLEISM and DEHUMANIZING. For fucks sake.
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Wakker worden #Nederland. We kunnen er nog sneller dan de Hongaren worden ingeluisd. De weg naar een #fascistoïde staat heeft minder grensblokkades dan we denken.
- 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
