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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
Is there any list of "tech for a hostile world" anywhere? 
Not specific lists like "made in EU" or "privacy-friendly" or "decentralized" or whatever, but an aggregrate list of tech that's likely to be of use in an environment or world where you need to ensure your safety in some way, and build community with others to survive.
(If the listing criteria are entirely technically-oriented and don't take into account social factors, it's not what I'm looking for. Please check for this *before* recommending something.)
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One of the reasons I love aliexpress is you can find the most sketchy products that make you wonder... who is this for? What do they do with it?
This one is an "cigarette lighter" but with a wireless functions and mumblings about fireworks implied from some of the images and context.
It's dirt cheap and frankly probably illegal for some reason. What is this about? Dangerous fireworks? Crimes? Both?
sort of uspol, tech
I'm wondering how long it will take before "making old hardware reusable again by optimizing software and/or gaining control over their firmware" becomes an appealing-enough option that it becomes a significant part of the tech economy, what with the tariffs and the crap going on around Taiwan
uspol, bleak
You know that sci-fi trope of "some mysterious historical event resulted in the deletion of all research and humanity regressed by decades overnight, but we don't know how it happened"?
... yeah.
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I think it's kind of fucking insane that not absolutely, positively everything is open source. Cars are a great example. Every time a new model of car comes out, mechanics around the world have to collectively reverse engineer on it, and find out what the car company broke this time around. The amount of time and effort that is wasted by these extremely talented people that could have been spent just fixing the fucking thing, if only they had specs, designs, firmware source code, etc is abhorrent.
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Meshtastic is absolute garbage driven by youtube and preppers, and I am frustrated that its eating all the oxygen in this space.
Please stop making out that it is practical for usage anywhere other than countryside with line of sight and seven other users who all have baofengs anyway.
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Chloe 
Warum die KI fragen, wenn du dir auch einfach selbst eine falsche Antwort ausdenken kannst?
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When I talk about how Black people of all genders experience an ungendering in an antiblack world
When I talk about how gender is always about race
This is a good illustration of what I'm getting at.
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Perhaps a bold take, but: if your organization can't put together a comprehensive manual for your software - to say nothing of readability or user friendliness, just _a_ document that tells people what the software does - I actually don't think you know what your software does, and that's scary as hell
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The mirror image of RTFM is that many software companies - most, probably, at least among B2C firms - refuse to Write the Fucking Manual in the first place
People keep claiming that they use AWS because it's "easier than running my own server" and then I see them an hour later running into the most asinine and specialized issues and, honestly, I just do not believe them
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Note to white fedizens: Your takeaway from @CaribenxMarciaX 's article should NOT be to witch hunt all Black fedizens named Jay, or to police YOUR perceptions of peoples' Blackness (see my prior post on this). Plenty of Black people named Jay on the Fediverse are real people, not scammers. The ISSUE is most of you, to quote Dr. X here, "do not know nor engage with communities of color," and ESPECIALLY not in a meaningful way as equals, and ESPECIALLY not with any nuance.
https://subscriptions.boricua.style/scamming-on-fedi-race-cyberspace-and-privacy
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ACAB
irl politics
there's some kind of morbid fascination in me about how so many fucked up things that are happening to us right now make amazing lore for some ruined grimdark cyberpunk world. we might forget important data on climate change and technology and agriculture because we stored all our data on cloud servers that belonged to megacorpos? holy fucking shit this is a fucking ttrpg campaign right here. with scathing critique of technocapital!
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https://bsky.app/profile/torkson.bsky.social/post/3llyyx4z7p22q
Weer een huisbezoek intimidatie
Okay, getting I/O errors and a readonly-remounted filesystem on a VPS is definitely a first for me...
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And yes, I have the pictures and paper cuts from newspapers to show them. Their faces light up when they see them. They wonder why I did what I did. They don't always agree. But those are the best discussions we have, discussions that bring us together. Totally worth it. Get on the streets, friends and followers. Not just for your kids. But for every kid out there, looking for a way to channel their rage and dissatisfaction.
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Dear young parents. My kids are in their 20s. You know what impresses them most? What they keep on asking about? The stories of my political activism. How I joined protests when I was their age and even younger. How I organised protests and political influence when they were still shitting their diapers. This is why they are active too. Why they are alert when things change. So here's my advice to you, young parents: protest. Get out. Your kids will be proud of you and will become active too.
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Crappy 50th anniversary to Microsoft, may your cake be moldy and may the candles set off the halon system you forgot to decommission
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
