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.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
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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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Edit: I've found a local place, thank you for all your suggestions!
I need a few small plates. Anyone here sell food-grate pottery? If so, please send me the link to your stuff!
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uspol
With “DEIA” being dismantled, it’s time to rethink what we want. What we were doing wasn’t very effective; much of it put lipstick on a hierarchical pig. It’s time to think instead about what actually enables the thriving of the people targeted by white supremacy and what undermines the power of white supremacy.
To me, the hierarchical nature of most workplaces—a nature DEIA efforts worked within rather than challenged—is a big part of the problem. The bias of others who rate you and hand opportunities to you matters much more than the bias of a colleague you can associate with, or not, as you choose.
Another problem is the need to do something you hate doing because it helps nothing but an owner’s wallet. Owners *need* to control you, and an authoritarian power structure and infighting helps to achieve that control.
To achieve a world that is just and equitable and accessible, we need to radically rethink power relations, not establish yet another powerless committee.
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realistic factorio-like where you have to rent a little building to build a production line for like toilet brushes or something else mundane
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How do people go about making alt text for abstract art?
actionable, AI
Massive tech companies have invested absurd amounts of money into "AI" systems, recentering their whole business around it.
It seems to me that one of the most effective ways to hurt these tech companies, would be to sabotage their play by making "AI" as socially unacceptable as possible, so that their investments turn into useless bricks that nobody wants or trusts.
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ACAB
Something I've been noticing lately, in a lot of different places, is that as economic conditions get worse, things start getting stolen more often.
I'm not talking about shoplifting here; I'm talking about people stealing from their own communities. I've noticed increased reports of this in a wide variety of communities, across countries.
Please be mindful of who you are stealing from, and don't let it be your community. And conversely, if you are still doing well financially, look for people in your community who are financially drowning and how you can help them.
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more apps should have offline modes, where they operate using info they have cached
also, more apps should cache information they receive so it can be reused without constantly connecting to the internet
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totally not unpopular opinion
strongmen are a danger to fediverse, we need lots of small servers run by nerds, punks, and queers, not big servers by wannabe techbros
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thinking about that time someone posted "More bug bounty programs should take after the Microsoft Security Response Center." and MSRC liked the post just for the original poster to point out that it was posted on april 1st for a reason
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i repeat: now is absolutely the time to challenge people in your "community" who are taking advantage of crisis to give themselves positions of power, create cults of personality, and establish themselves as gatekeepers of support and resources. "but that's infighting and we don't have time for that" no fuck that. now, before they can leverage dynamics of scarcity so others have no choice but to rely on them.
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Bluesky users: For a mere $30million USD, we can distribute Bluesky to one other node
Fedi users: I put an instance on my car!
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Happy to say that FreeCAD seems to have finally reached a point of usability for me (albeit with OpenTheme and its preference pack applied).
Nieuwsartikel dat Buienradar en co het KNMI aanklagen omdat ze een 'te goede' app hebben gemaakt. Dat vinden ze concurrentievervalsing.
Ik wist helemaal niet dat het KNMI een goede weerapp had, maar nu wel, dus nu gebruik ik die i.p.v. Buienradar. Bedankt, Buienradar!
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I wish more militant atheists could sense the extent to which they have completely absorbed some of the worst aspects of cultural Christianity.
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I fucking hate washing machines design, why do you always need to guess in what little shitty section put your gel/detergent/powder, they are always marked with some cryptic ass symbols and you always guess wrong somehow 
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after several years in the making, I have finally published a blog post on decoupling capacitors and why you should probably stop using 100nF.
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You can apply that everywhere: "Healthcare is good cause your workers come back faster", "schools are good cause you get better skilled workers".
People are not their economic value. Why do we accept that framing?
- 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
