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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So far the majority of the submissions for #FluConf2025 have come from demographics that are over-represented in tech and especially open-source.
While that doesn't necessarily have any bearing on the quality of the sessions, and there are some great ideas being proposed, we are painfully aware of the disparities that are common at tech conferences (gender, race, and many more).
We encourage all those who are typically underrepresented at such events to consider applying. FluConf is largely about challenging the status quo and imagining a future that includes more voices.
Before applying please consider checking if any of your underrepresented colleagues would like to present or co-present your team's work.
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i really think we need to acknowledge the existance of „network pain“. the pain of leaving connections behind. social networks are not just tools or apps, but means of connecting to other people, thoughts, information we care about. it actually hurts to lose that. https://mas.to/@meganL/113794498411810949
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this also introduces the same issue as intel's recent rebrand: the bottom tier is just "Dell", in the same way intel's bottom tier is just "Intel Processor". just as "if you're getting an intel, avoid pentiums and go for at least an i5" has become "if you're getting an intel, avoid Intel Processors and go for at least a Core Ultra", we now have "if you're getting a dell, avoid inspirons and go for at least a latitude" being replaced by "if you're getting a dell, avoid Dells and go for at least a Dell Pro". the cheapest and least capable dell laptops are now the ones called "Dell". incredible.
apple used to do something similar: the worst macbook was the one labelled "macbook". but there are two key differences: it was not called an "apple", and the base macbook was a pretty decent machine.
imagine if the cheapest macbook you could buy was a 4c4t 36Whr 1366x768 piece of garbage called "Apple". now imagine the cheapest intel processor you can buy is a dual core chip with a 46W TDP called "Intel Processor". the second one is true.
note that the intel processor 300 (god i hate this naming scheme) is not a bad chip if you use it for the right things (e.g. home server). but i feel like having Company XYZ naming their lowest spec product The XYZ is a bad idea all around.
imagine if honda's budget range was called Honda. if a small fries, small coke, and hamburger with no cheese was called The McDonald's. etc etc etc
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some guy is gonna be here between 10 and 12 to check the heating, so now i'll be cycling my idle animation while waiting next to the door for two hours
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Ask people for the calendar date they think the pandemic ended and show them the wastewater charts spanning 2020–present challenge
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how do people remember names of ppl irl when like. there's no nametag floating above their head at all times
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Hearing about a young hacker whose being extorted by the University of Washington, not cool UW.
The student claims they built an app to help kids get the course schedules they want, a hack as old as time, and the university decided to expel him until he ports his app to the university's internal systems.
This would be unpaid labor.
Until then his class registration is on hold and he can't register or attend his last few classes. 🥴
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Basically every person I talk to about their job is working under conditions that are straight up illegal
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EFF being EFF
https://mastodon.social/@eff/113794035082252926
Update: After this blog post was written, we learned Meta revised its public "Hateful Conduct" policy in ways EFF finds concerning. We are analyzing these changes, which this blog post does not address.
Get fucked lol
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Facebook fascism
Gone is the clause saying you cannot compare women to "household objects or property." Also removed is a prohibition on claiming that there is "no such thing" as a trans or gay person.
Added in to the policy are new clauses apparently designed to explicitly allow common anti-trans arguments, such as advocating for trans people to be banned from public bathrooms, school sports, or certain jobs.
"We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation," reads one exception. The same section previously said that users couldn’t call protected groups “freaks” or “abnormal”.
Meta also replaced language banning “generalizations” about a protected group’s “inferiority” on the basis of “intellectual capacity”. Now the new language merely bans “unsupported comparisons” between protected groups’ on the basis of their “inherent intellectual capacity” — seemingly opening the door to scientific racism.
Fucking awful. Absolutely do not want to hear "good thing I don't use Facebook" etc. Because your parents probably do and most of the people you grew up with do too.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/facebook-fact-checking-hate-speech-meta-b2675311.html
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I must admit, my patience for people who can't bring themselves to divest even a little from fascist and fascist sympathising platforms is just getting less over the years. The options have never been stronger and at some point it's on you.
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Given recent events, I would like to see some adjustments from various local queer community projects who seem to think that expecting you to have an Instagram account to access them is a great idea. But given what's happened to Twitter, I'm not expecting much.
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a reminder to US folks that you can see how much your doctor has been bribed at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov
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As an antidote to all the horrible US Tech Bros in the news, what are some nice, encouraging stories about thoughtful/ slow/ kind/ humane tech catching on and doing well?
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It's funny to see how Eugen went from "shut up, Zuck" to "omg yes, we're federating with Threads 😍 " back to "Zuck is a threat"
uspol (+ international), Facebook
So Zuckerberg has basically just said "we're gonna do whatever Trump wants", and has started explicitly allowing hate speech in the most recent policy change.
I would like everyone who insisted that Facebook "isn't that bad" and "is working on improving things", to explain to me exactly how this fits into that.
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If you are planning to attend the event, please do make sure you're vaccinated, mask up, take rapid tests.
Most importantly, if you have any suspicion that you are starting to get sick do not hesitate to skip the day's talks and stay home. It is unlikely that any of the talks will be good enough to justify spreading covid and any of the other pathogens that tend to spread during this season.
- 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
