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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cool thing I noticed: when hetzner generates root passwords for servers, they never include "y" or "z", and also no "O" or "0"
health update, transplantation (9)
It's now day 3 after the surgery. I can get out of bed and walk independently, albeit slowly. I've showered again, and can do that mostly independently too; just not bending over. I might walk around the hallways a bit later today.
Blood pressure is high and still a point of concern, blood sugar is a question mark (rising a little but still okay). Otherwise seemingly no side-effects from the immunosuppressive medication, and I also don't feel like I have a permanent cold anymore. Catheter is still a huge pain, as is the wound drain.
Overall very optimistic!
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There are just over three days left to apply to #fluConf2025
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proposal: a game that is just a creative management game engine and you can download mods that additively combine prisons, theme parks, hospitals, factories, restaurants, cities, beaver cities, etc.
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Weird thing that warms my nerd heart is when I see messy desk/workbench/etc pictures on here. Yay, a space actually being used! Sure, a prettied up glamor shot of a workspace is nice too, but a space in use just feels right - or maybe I'm just happy to see I'm not the only person who can't keep any active workspace clean to save my life 🙂
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Asking for advice re: innoculating against elder-targeted scams
Does anyone have any tips for talking to their parents about elder-targeted scams? My mom is on Facebook and I think she is usually pretty canny, but I want to encourage her to reach out to me if she ever starts talking to someone new online that could be a romance scam or similar. I don't want to insult her or invade her privacy if she is talking to someone real, and I'm just not really sure of the best way to start that conversation.
One of my grandmothers was poisoned and robbed by mail-order medication scams, thankfully we saw the mailers once when we were visiting before it got ruinously or dangerously far, but she never thought to reach out and ask because she was very proud and didnt think it was anyone else's business. That was 15-20 years ago and the scams seem supercharged compared to then, and I'd like to avoid that if possible.
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its inaccurate to be like well humans suck and elon musk types will come along every so often and wreck things...
what the anthropological record suggests is that many human societies have evolved cultural technologies that prevent people like elon musk from taking over. what's most interesting to me is that as communal mammals, we are quite capable of devising social structures that keep our worst impulses in check, we've done it in many times and places
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Last August, Lynch (who had emphysema) said he might never direct again because of the "let it rip" covid unmitigation strategies adopted by governments everywhere.
Wondering how many mourners would willingly, and without prompting, wear a mask around people suffering from Long Covid, respiratory illnesses, or other immune dysfunction, out of respect for their struggle, instead of placing the entire burden on vulnerable disabled people.
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the truly bizzarre thing is that all of these are simultaneuosly true:
this process contains a circuilar dependency
there is absolutely zero documentation of how to deal with this circular dependency for anyone
this is still, so far, the easiest and lowest-paperwork immigration process I've ever encountered
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Amid all the bad and scary news here's a baby #gecko to brighten your day.
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*reaches into your Nix store, pulls out a random path, and eats it*
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Linux distro idea: Date Night OS.
A distro that exists solely to make installation of it an enjoyable date night activity
meta, I guess, social media
I have complicated feelings about the idea that the Fediverse should be serving as a new home for people fleeing other platforms.
On the one hand, in a vacuum, I agree that from a technical/governance perspective it would be a significant improvement, and there is a real societal problem with people staying on Facebook/Twitter etc. as they are increasingly turned into fascist platforms.
On the other hand, *in practice*, what's effectively being proposed is to bestow the responsibility of handling the world's communication and social spaces, upon a group of mainly marginalized folks, who mostly just wanted to build their own corner and didn't ask for any of this.
I'm not comfortable with that dynamic, and it registers to me as belonging in the category of 'lateral violence'. Just because marginalized folks are the closest people who will listen, doesn't automatically make them responsible for solving the world's problems. Why are more privileged folks not expected to take this responsibility?
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time to try to reach a part of fedi that may not even exist! does anyone know anything about save file editing for generation 2, specifically japanese crystal? i would like to add the egg ticket to my physical cart by dumping the save file and editing it.
please reboost i have no idea if i federate with anyone who cares about this atm lol
#pokemon
please reboost i have no idea if i federate with anyone who cares about this atm lol
#pokemon
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also imo "to do list" should be ditched as the standard web dev demonstrative task, and replaced with wikis
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This also lets us turn the narrative around.
OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Meta—these companies are anti-craft. We should be asking their PR representatives why their company is pursuing anti-craft policies, and we should be contacting government officials and asking them why they aren't legislating against anti-craft agendas.
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I would like to propose we start using the term "pro-craft" to describe our movement, rather than anti-AI.
craft as a verb:
to make or manufacture (an object or product) with skill and careful attention to detail
craft as a descriptive noun:
an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill
I am not "anti-AI"…I am pro-craft.
I've dedicated my life to being a good craftsperson, in a variety of disciplines, and I'll be damned if I let craft be devalued or dismissed.
- 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
