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.
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- 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
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OH: "my brain is only compatible with infodumps made for the autism API"
uspol meta
A reminder that whether Trump and friends are able to grab absolute dictatorial power, depends entirely on whether people consider their 'executive orders' legitimate or not, not just legally but also socially.
This also goes for the latest one that claims Trump is the ultimate controller of all government agencies. He won't be unless you accept his claim that he is.
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i'm going to be real with you
have respect for hobbyist developers.
I don't care about what people's takes on sustainability is here, that's not relevant to whether you should be taking a hobbyist developer seriously. the entire kernel is literally just a hobbyist project that got big. dozens of graphics drivers that are fully khronos compliant (NOT just asahi!!!) started as hobbies. Panfrost was a hobby project until it wasn't, freedreno was a hobby project until it wasn't, nouveau was a hobby project until it wasn't, radeon.ko was a hobby project until it wasn't, and some of those hobby projects getting the blessing of companies doesn't change that.
open source literally thrives on non-profitable ideas
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Lists with free or affordable alternatives to big commercial applications and services…
➡️ https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/
➡️ https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to
➡️ https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle
➡️ https://codeberg.org/ADHDefy/delightful-creative-tools
➡️ https://github.com/KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives
➡️ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yNXpuy5tVP0q-El0DqoY-AwmPHT6K09NEZG-Pf0KJ7E/edit?tab=t.0
➡️ https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
#software #tip #tips #free #OpenSource #FOSS #tech #technology #BigTech #FediTip #FediTips #MastoTip #MastoTips #tools
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Δ-44203, 'Carbon the "atomic beeper"' 
- designations are second nature to robotgirl fedi users, that it is easy to forget that the average person can only remember the serial numbers of like 5 of their friends.
+ and one name encoded as hexadecimal ASCII, of course.
- of course.
Also, the plan before that is to set up GoToSocial and eventually some Matrix homeserver, on whichever server seems to be most suitable for that
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Happy to announce that Waag Futurelab installed Peertube to host our video content. Check https://tube.waag.org We are in the process to migrate our Vimeo en Youtube content to the Fediverse.
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In today’s “terminology matters”:
❌ Return To Office policy: middle-management language that assumes “office” is a neutral position, we’re somehow “returning to”. This term has been carefully crafted by corporate strategists to sound as palatable as possible.
✅ Mandatory Commute policy: centers the outcome for workers - spending hours each day on an unpaid commute to and from the office just so we can be on video calls all day.
We don’t just have to accept hostile framing.
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Boeiend! Terwijl sommigen stellen, dat transgender zijn een hedendaagse mode is, waren er al in de middeleeuwen mensen (waaronder zij die interseks geboren waren) die zelf hun gender bepaalden en, meestal zonder medische ingrepen, maar zelfs die kwamen voor, bevestigden! https://theconversation.com/trans-people-affirmed-their-gender-without-medical-help-in-medieval-europe-history-shows-how-identity-transcends-medicine-and-law-248559?utm_content=buffer80995&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=buffer
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The number went up
I personally know FOUR people at Microsoft now who have gotten laid off in the last 6ish years since I joined two of them through social circles, two thru the actual trans I’ve been on.
all four have been out transfem
I don’t know a single cis person who has been laid off
I know multiple cis men who have done unspeakably incompetent and inappropriate things.
I don’t know a single cis person who has been laid off. I work with a LOT of people at this company.
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Like any normal computer toucher my workflow relies on a modified version of a script no one else uses because it's uncommitted in my local git checkout with -rune postfixed to the name.
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80% of my timeline comes from instances hosted on various VPSs
20% of my timeline comes from instances hosted on servers with at least one of the following features:
raspberry pi
hanging freely from a ceiling
outdoors
was locked by a carrier
has an internal combustion engine
is made by siemens
makes frequent travel to coordinates that are on the NEWAG denylist
The thing is that with a robust plugin architecture, users are not beholden to the developers' vision of how the software "should" work
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The world if programmers put half the effort into designing robust plugin architectures that they put into architecting their own code today
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just a little personal gripe here but i'm rather tired of seeing posts that center transfeminine identity formation around relationships transfeminine people have with tech and plushies, it's a bunch of bollocks really; seems like another box to jump straight into after jumping out of the one labeled "stuff boys like"; i get that it's comforting to partake in these shibboleths but it also seems very exclusionary for people who are transfeminine and have no interest in computer-touching dweebery and mass-produced soft toys
(Don't really want to do that yet because if I don't have a solid grasp of what state each server is in, that just seems like asking for trouble in terms of keeping things secure for others)
Then eventually, once I know what runs where and have consolidated all the services that don't really need their own system, maybe I can free up enough space to provide some free (hosting) services to marginalized folks?
Next up is bringing various older VMs together under central management with morph, so that I don't have to manually keep track of so many different systems. And also making sure my backup setup is consistent everywhere.
Finally getting around today to inventorying and cleaning up all the various servers and VMs I have scattered across different providers and countries! Already deleted a bunch of ancient DigitalOcean VMs that served no useful purpose anymore.
- 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
