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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- 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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Regular reminder that effective, cheap, mass sterilization technology for just about every known and unknown airborne pathogen exists — we just choose not to deploy it.
HEPA-grade air filters are cheap, easy to install, effective, and severely underused. Unprecedented flu outbreak? SARS pandemic? N5H1? It can scrub the air of all of the above quickly, efficiently, and economically.
Something occurred to me. That idea of "not immediately punishing someone but instead discussing the problem with them and giving them room to learn from their mistakes and grow"?
There's exactly one demographic that already gets this treatment from government authorities today.
That demographic is 'corporations'.
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The fun part is that Tumblr is immediately going to turn it into a webm or avif.
Can I just cut out the middleman and upload a webm/avif?
No of course not. That would be Video, which has different rules. Gif isn't video, it's pictures! Animated pictures! Which we store in a video format!
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There is An Alternative!
Humans are not driven purely by materialism and self interest!
All of us are dependent on each other, no matter how hard we strive individually!
When people do shitty things to you or calamity befalls you, justice for you is a collective responsibility!
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Oh, rofl. I just locked myself out of my own forge's web UI for an entire hour.
How? I was curious whether my HackerNews griefing snippet works, so I searched for git.madhouse-project.org on HN, followed a link, got a nice HTTP 418 Teapot, and all was fine.
But then I wanted to toot about this, and mention caddy-matcher-persistent-referrer, a small module that remembers the IP of visitors from a particular referrer, and continues to match them for some time.
I made this #Caddy module to circumvent HNers just copy pasting links after seeing the initial 418, or simply hitting enter on the address bar. With this module, they're locked out for an hour.
...and so am I, because I tested it, with a visit referred from HN.
(Of course, I can ssh into my VPS, reload Caddy, and clear its in-memory cache, which I did. But nevertheless, it's funny!)
politics, activism, Anonymous (3)
(The reason this kind of grift works is pretty much exclusively because of journalists who desperately insist that there MUST be a leader *somewhere* and who simply will not accept "no, there isn't one" and so end up publishing whatever is claimed by the first person who brands themselves as a leader)
politics, activism, Anonymous
For a bit of context for those who aren't very familiar with what Anonymous actually is: this is like someone creating a bunch of accounts named "Anarchists Official", claiming to be the spokesperson of all anarchists worldwide, and then posting a bunch of fascist garbage.
politics, activism, Anonymous
Oh look, the "Anonymous Official" shithead who has been falsely claiming the credit for other people's work within Anonymous (and conning journalists) for over a decade, is posting fascist propaganda now.
Completely unsurprised.
Also, this doesn't mean that you can't extrapolate from a study if you have a plausible reasoning behind it, but *you do actually need to do that part out loud* and draw the distinction between what the study says and what you think!
I really dislike claims like "studies show that X doesn't work that way" where the X in the study is only a small subset of the X in the claim.
That's not how science works!
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nearly all fiction classified as a power fantasy tends to fall into one of four buckets in my experience
1: bullied kid gets their turn to be the bully
2: just outright awful garbage, to the point that being a fan of the story is a massive red flag
3: horrible, awful, terrible, no good, very bad, waste of oxygen, excuse for a human being (allegedly), gets a miraculous second chance and gets to experience a self-serving life at the top of whatever type of hierarchy the author likes most (this one is almost always isekai, and almost always follows the exact same structure)
4: the power of friendship
but you know what kind of power fantasy I've never seen before? a selfless one
yes yes, there are plenty of power fantasies where the protagonist is ostensibly a good person with good intentions, and they try to do good things, but all the ones I've seen still fall into buckets 3 and 4. even when the protagonist does good things supposedly in the name of others, the spotlight is always on them, and they are always rewarded for it. no matter how selfless their actions are supposed to be, the story remains selfish with the protagonist at the center of it
I want to see a power fantasy where the protagonist actually acts selflessly. show me a protagonist that does thankless work, a protagonist that doesn't expect or even desire reward, a protagonist that uses their power to actually change the world around them for the better without any incentive separate from the goal. show me a power fantasy where the world itself is in the spotlight, and the protagonist works to ensure that it stays that way. I want to see a power fantasy where the fantasy doesn't end at having power, give me the fantasy of successfully building a better world in short order, where even though the protagonist is the only one capable of setting things in motion, everyone else is just as important
does this exist
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Back online after a week of being treated like a mushroom by my VPS provider as they troubleshoot an outage. I don't appreciate being kept in the dark and fed sh!t.
#mushroommonday #nature #naturephotography
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looking for a flat share in Hamburg; reposts welcome
Hi there, a friend of mine is urgently looking for a flat share (or very cheap flat) in Hamburg.
If you have any leads, please let me know.
Reposts are welcome!
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discovering that fewer cybertrucks have been sold than Sinclair C5s has amused me greatly. and honestly, if you want to drive a weird vehicle, the C5 is far more fun.
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plea to people to stop making comments saying/implying people harming the queer community "must be closeted"
Please, please, please stop implying (or outright claiming) that every politician/religious leader/person with social and/or financial power doing anything queerphobic "must be closeted".
It minimises the fact that systematic harms exist because the people participating in disenfranchisement and societal abuse gain from them.
It perpetuates the idea that being queer is an insult/embarrassing thing to say about a person (good job, you hurt the actual queer people who will see what you said, unlike the bigots in question who will likely never see or care about it!)
It creates a sense of sympathy for the bigots in a LOT of people (I have seen/heard countless replies to claims like this that are some version "if you think about it though, they must be in a really painful place to hate themselves that much, which is more sad for them than anything!", and even if *you* don’t have that takeaway from the idea they ‘must be closeted’ you are contributing to the pattern of pushing social dialogues about queerphobia towards discussions of people’s assumptions about a bigot’s gender/sexuality and away from how people can help the victims and stop the abuses from continuing!)
Even if the person IS closeted, that doesn't matter! it doesn’t nullify the harm they are doing to the world or absolve them of these abuses! It doesn’t even really change their reason for their actions- they are still choosing to harming others for their own gain (it just adds another factor of what they may be thinking of as their ‘gain’),
These comments derail important social conversations with bullshit assumptions. We don’t need to try to hypothesise why a person in power is doing something that takes power away from others- the answer is right there in the question.
Just. Stop.
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Hear hear hear. De Correspondent schrijft het ook nog maar eens op. https://decorrespondent.nl/15884/in-holland-staat-een-zuil-hoe-hoogopgeleiden-zich-steeds-meer-afzonderen-van-de-rest-van-nederland/77fa3643-8e64-03e7-367c-f3b4d93a44e3
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Linux Kernel, community, Project Dev attitude
I wrote this last year. It's still relevant.
Who you are as a project lead gives the example to others of what's acceptable behaviour.
Which also applies outside kernel land with our fediverse projects as well.
software distribution horror
gradle-wrapper.jar
3d print, recommendation for glucose meter users (2)
This post brought to you by me receiving a glucose meter from the hospital, and it coming with a little travel bag and a small container for test strips, but only a massive box of testing needles that was bigger than all of the rest of the stuff combined(!).
They certainly did not stick the landing.
3d print, recommendation for glucose meter users
I've found this box to be excellent as a travel box for storing glucose meter needles (at least the AccuChek Instant ones, don't know about others): https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6411665
It's slightly finicky to open initially (put two nails under the latch to bend it outwards) but the size and rigidity are just perfect for storing in a travel pouch while still having a decent capacity.
- 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
