Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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
activism, infiltration, slightly vent-y
I wish people in activist spaces would spend less time arguing about who is or isn't a cop, and more time figuring out strategies where it doesn't materially *matter* if some people are cops.
Like, you can try reading tea leaves until you're blue in the face but it's just going to cost you a lot of energy that's better spent driving effective change.
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At what point does "can't sleep" become "couldn't sleep"?
Asking for a friend, who is my brain, who didn't sleep.
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Findings on multiple instances conclude:
the moment a gay reaches their gay destination their fedi activity seizes for a given amount of time.
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After a busy morning of unfurling and rigging work, we have sailed off our anchor and are making way towards Sint Maarten.
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New wind turbine blades in the U.K. will be painted black to help prevent bird deaths. While the country is committed to boosting clean energy sources, it’s also home to large populations of seabirds, and the new trial will build on studies that suggest black blades can reduce bird collisions by 70%.
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Heya 👋
We from @SafeguardingResearch are looking for volunteers to work on our landing page (self-hosted ghost). We already got a basic page up, but it can use some improvement.
If you want to help/support (in any way), feel free to ping us :)
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Top 10 connected roads in Baden-Würrtermberg without a sidewalk tag.
Quick map to demo. 2 largest blobs are in Würrtermberg, just saying. 😉
Just learned about "midlance" and wow that's a fucking scam.
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Happy to announce that I've found a new IT assignment. Unironically, it happened via LinkedFUCKINGIn.
LMFAO!!!!
Blogged 👇
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Anyone got access to the PDF for https://doi.org/10.2174/1389450119666171129165427 ? #ICanHazPDF
(Got it, thanks everyone!)
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github is the linkedin of git forges send toot
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People don't fear technology, they fear what capitalism might do with it.
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@luna I think it's valid to examine how this is disproportionally to the benefit of corporations and governments. They'll make sure we have memory safe DRM, memory safe back doors, and memory-safe regressive laws; and we'll keep getting hit by memory safe ad-network attacks, memory safe social engineering, and memory safe bulk data selling.
I don't want to live in the fully automated memory safe global crapitalism police state.
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memory unsafety may cause a lot of software crashes, but it also helps a lot of people jailbreak their game consoles, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,
This is not exactly news, but I should maybe say it explicitly: I do not have any remaining faith in the #NixOS project pulling itself back together governance-wise.
There's been a consistent lack of urgency in addressing the increasing mountain of governance crises, some of them created by core developers(!), and that tells me that any formal solutions will *at best* be implemented reluctantly.
Any actual meaningful positive change is going to come from things organized outside of the formal structures in the project, like forks and specialist groups.
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The massive disparity between what managers and politicians think of “AI” and how rubbish everybody else thinks it is, continues to boggle the mind
It’s hard to think of a more concrete demonstration that tech is an oligopoly that doesn’t need to worry about competition or customer demand
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i often lament that people don't share show posters on mastodon (all the vancouver punks are still just on instagram...), but i admittedly haven't been great at posting here either. so i'm gonna change that. perhaps it'll start dragging the music scene people off the big tech platforms.
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Nix 🤡 fork
The “not-a-fork”[sic] fork of Nix has decided to go ahead and take over the next major version number out of the hands from the official Nix package, and from there, take over the mindshare of the version 3.0.
What the actual fuck?
This is effectively a hostile takeover of the Nix name. Nix 3.0 will surface the “not-a-fork”[sic] fork.
They will surely be using the excuse that it's “Determinate Nix”, which is a different name. But in practice, you know how it is. They are polluting the mindshare with their “not-a-fork”[sic] fork.
Also, this is absolutely 100% a fork, even though they say it's not.
This is a fork that has made the current state of Flakes stable. A major fork in the road. Either Nix will have to become "incompatible" with the stability “promises” from the “not-a-fork”[fork], or bow down to what Determinate Systems decides for compatibility, for their future.
I guess it's a good time to jump over to Lix, for anyone who hasn't done so. It work just fine with NixOS.
Hopefully we'll have a statement from the Nix project regarding this.
CW-boost: uspol, resistance, actionable
- 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
