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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Hi everybody! We've been inactive for a while, so it's maybe time for a reintroduction. HUP is a fully #openaccess university press. We publish high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly literature, particularly in the #humanities and #socialsciences. All our publications are freely available on our website at: https://hup.fi/site/
We are looking forward to learning more about the #Fediverse!
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I call this piece "trying to take a picture of my cat in the dark"
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Might switch back to saying LGBTQ instead of queer just to make sure everyone knows where I stand on the inclusion of the T
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For the past 5 years it's felt a little like being in a glass coffin. Stuff was happening all around me as my community moved on. It was if we were dead. We were still there, we could see, we are still alive. But no one was listening to us behind the glass. No-one cared to break me out.
But there was no Prince to rescue me as he was locked in there too.
In a way what Fluconf did was show us the weak spot where we could break out of the glass coffin.
You're not shoving me back in there.
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@fluconf gives us a third way, with a freedom of expression and access. There's a freedom of presentation and the subjects provided in the call for papers enabled the soul of the conference.
#fluconf feels radical in a way that the other two aren't. The other two can't provide a space because their organisational memory is fixed now. It's as much attitude as technology.
Whereas fluconf is beginning and has flexibility so it can adjust and change. It's open in a way the others aren't.
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In the meantime there's a breadth of art and tech happening at #fluconf .
Blog articles and videos. Hypermedia commentary introducing us to new folks, new tech.
The kind of presentations we don't see anymore at other conferences, but are in our hackspaces and art spaces.
Tech and art have a long history together, and Fluconf helps to remind me of that.
Thank you @ansuz and @manisha and the others at @fluconf team and contributors alike.
I am looking forward to next year.
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The thing about the #ICC (International Criminal Court - which holds individual people responsible for human rights violations) and the #ICJ (International Court of Justice - which holds countries accountable for human rights violations) is that they were founded as deeply colonial institutes. They were created as instruments for the Global North to police the Global South. For the first time in their history, both the ICC and ICJ are going after (leaders of) a country aligned with the Global North, and just watch the same Global North collectively ignore both courts, where up to now they were all about "rules based society" and shit.
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The next #fluConf session is an article by ohio olarte (not on the Fediverse) titled "Neo-Luddism in a developing country can be odd"
https://fluconf.online/sessions/neo-luddism-in-a-developing-country-can-be-odd/
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setting silly stats was a really incredibly effective way to get crawlers to start respecting robots.txt: https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/pull/3718#issuecomment-2629328372
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Watching people say about overt fascism "but that's illegal!" gives me such strong flashbacks to the billion times that disabled people talking about the patterns of discrimination we face have been met with similar shock and disbelief: surely "they" can't deny you jobs or an education or information in accessible formats, "that's illegal!"
The sooner you get past the shock, the sooner you can get to more useful reactions. Listening to your disabled comrades will make you harder to shock.
uncomfortable tech questions
TLS certificates require the specification of a country code for the organization that requested the certificate. This country code must be one of those specified in ISO 3166.
So, who exactly decides whether your country is enough of a country to have correctly-configured transport encryption, and what are the political implications of that answer?
CW-boost: uspol, news/journalism
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Do not hire WATs. Do not indulge WATs.They are not useful, and they are not helping. They will waste your time and burn your money.
Hire dirty, grubby, grime-under-their-fingernails engineers. People who are not afraid of a torch and a wrench. People whose primary skill is in *Iooking* at the world, then building to that reality. Folks whose disdain for developer tool marketing is palpable. Sceptics and dissenters. Hire *them*.
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uspol meta, "you"
Like, if you're still waffling on to this day about how you want to see what the 'rule of law' does first, and aren't already planning your own actions, you are *too late* and I do not believe that you are *ever* going to take the necessary action
uspol meta, "you"
I'm going to be blunt here: how ignorant do you have to be to still believe that 'rule of law' is going to solve the shitshow in the US, and so you don't need to take direct action yourself? Where have you been for the past decade?
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Interestingly, two days before Oracle deleted my account and all servers associated with it, I publicly criticized Oracle's CEO in a viral post for promising dystopian AI surveillance technology to his investors.
https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113879369270806353
What a weird coincidence.
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- 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
