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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Things that seem to get missed in "how to solve the housing crisis in Canada" discussions:
* Abolish Airbnb
* Abolish multiple home ownership
* Fund housing co-ops that exist to keep housing prices low for their members, not for-profit solutions that exist to do the exact opposite
* Minimum density requirements to prevent and roll back unsustainable suburb development
I'm not trying to start a big thread of housing policy or "well actuallies" about how my ideas are bad, I'm just venting
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I wish there was a way for me to communicate to a certain demographic
That their enemy is not the immigrants, racial minorities or the "blue-hair-and-pronouns" crowd as they see us
It's the rich bros who are trying to turn all our jobs into gig economy style exploitation
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Depose CEOs
Depose the police
Depose politicians
Depose capitalists
Depose capitalism
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Concept: A law converting all gig economy exploitation schemes into salaried employers who must provide a base level of benefits
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ACAB
I wish there was something like SponsorBlock but for gore scenes in TV shows
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If you don't in the WordPress ecosystem, you may not understand how HUGE this post is
https://joost.blog/wordpress-leadership/
Joost is probably the second biggest figure in the entire WP ecosystem, only after Matt M himself. He is the biggest voice from the "Enterprise WordPress" world.
This is not anymore open source contributors complaining about governance. This is the Business WordPress demanding a leadership change and suggesting it either happens or a hard fork, backed by big business, is on the way.
gambling-related
Watching Coffeezilla's latest video on CSGO gambling, and it strikes me how much honesty there is from a lot of the people involved. I don't know what I expected, but it wasn't that.
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You ever see someone say something else and go "oh, so other people go through this too, huh?"
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chaos grumbling
@joepie91 same, i was really disappointed about how much of the program was “ai” related, and not in a critical way. not to mention that so-called “ai” is also deeply anti-hacker. they are closed systems owned by corporations. the only “ai” talks i want to see at something like ccc are about how to burn it to the ground.
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kink/sex, genuine question, trauma?
is me being into older stronger men somehow connected to the fact that my father is a cold abusive authoritarian asshole and thus i need to compensate with a figure that would actually love me or is it just speculative bs that pathologizes kinks
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I felt a tingling in my toes. I looked down and my toenails were bright red.
Uh, what. I pushed the game controller stick the other way. Back to normal.
I looked up at the TV. The character editor in “Battle Shell” lets you change *everything* from species to earring length, but I had never noticed the “player” checkbox in the edit screen before; I’d reflexively toggled it to see what it did. To be fair I skipped reading the release notes for the update that downloaded overnight.
I adjusted the hair slider. Oooh that felt weird. I sat forward and long red hair fell down my chest, from where it had been bunched up behind my head. Hmmn, chest… could it be?
It could. I am gonna be here for the /day/.
Published a small new #JavaScript library, resettable-defer: https://www.npmjs.com/package/resettable-defer
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@joepie91 I have had similar interactions with so many people doing web development professionally, all who should know better, so many times.
And the worst part: most of the time these situations can be avoided entirely by "just not doing" something. And for most of the similar situations: with literally no drawbacks.
And the worst part: most of the time these situations can be avoided entirely by "just not doing" something. And for most of the similar situations: with literally no drawbacks.
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hacker culture grumbling
This is... not exactly specific to chaos, rather applies to hacker culture in general, but...
What I was 'promised' from hacker culture, by means of social archetype, was "playing around with tech to make a more ethical world".
What I actually got was "playing around with tech, and maybe do some ethics if it doesn't get in the way of playing around with tech."
It has never stopped deeply disappointing me, and it's the main reason I don't really care for 'hacker culture' as a phenomenon anymore. It's such a shallow way to engage with the world, with delusions of grandeur about how 'deep' and meaningful it is.
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We are in an abusive relationship with technology.
So, yes, give it a name. Explain it. Notice it. Be outraged by it.
But also, at every opportunity we have, we have to reject it. (I noted, as I read the original article that I was accosted and asked for my email address twice, the second time while reading a section about how invasive and useless that is)
There are places that the Rot has not yet reached. We must identify them, share them, and embrace them.
(Linux and BSD, the fediverse in general, peertube, physical media, jellyfin/kodi)
When The Rot comes to places that should have been safe, we have to destroy them. Starve them of the users that power them or actually burn them to the ground. If you don't sanitize the area, the Rot will spread.
That means Ubuntu. That means bluesky. That means, in many ways, mastodon as a software platform.
chaos grumbling
The "but we can't ban [exploitative] AI! what if it turns out to be useful for something and we missed out on it??" contortions from some of the chaos crowd are disappointing but not remotely surprising. Apparently 'shiny toy' continues to be prioritized higher than 'ethics'.
I think it's time to prepare for releasing Validatem 1.0.0 soon (https://validatem.cryto.net/).
- 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
