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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- 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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the “short” URL domain for Teams links is `urlshortener.teams.cloud.microsoft`. never change, Microsoft
Checked in on my Spaces access control MSC for Matrix. The one that I was told "looks good", and for which an issue was created on Synapse to "implement a prototype" because "it looks compelling".
The issue was created in 2021 and has received zero comments since.
In case you were wondering what the experience is of actually trying to contribute a spec change to #Matrix.
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"We constrain our imaginations when we subordinate our creations to names owned by fascist tycoons. Imagine the author of a book telling people to "read my Amazon". A great director trying to promote their film by saying "click on my Max". That's how much they've pickled your brain when you refer to your own work and your own voice within the context of their walled garden. There is no such thing as "my Substack", there is only your writing, and a forever fight against the world of pure enshittification."
– Anil Dash, "Don't call it a Substack"
https://www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/
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"But the reason Substack wants you to call your creative work by their brand name is because they control your audience and distribution, and they want to own your content and voice, too. You may not think you care about that today, but you will when you see what they want to do with it.
I know you think you have control over your subscribers on Substack. But understand this: every single new feature Substack releases, from their social sharing to their mobile apps, is proprietary and locks you into their network. They don't let your writing live on your own website or domain under your control unless you pay them for the privilege. And it'd be a shame if something happened to those subscription dollars you're counting on, wouldn't it? Even when you say "but my readership is growing!" know that most new subscribers come from other writers referring their readers to you. Somehow... Substack wants credit for those writers making that choice? Even though it was your writing that inspired it? That's not some magical network effect thanks to Substack! That's just the internet, working as it was supposed to."
– Anil Dash, "Don't call it a Substack"
https://www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/
CW-boost: palestine, radboud university
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Them: "UBlock Origin: this extension was turned off. Chromium recommends that you remove it."
Me: OK, I guess I trust google to give me good advice:
$ sudo apt remove chromium
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question to (presumably?) neurotypicals, please Boost <3
OK, so I'm thinking about one of those "I never experienced the world any other way than I do, so I never really thought about my experience" things.
When neurotypical people say they ignore something (like a noise or whatever), what do you mean by that?
Let me specify.
I always thought it meant fully absorbing the sensation but deciding not to show any outward signs of acknowledgment, because that's what the word CAN mean e.g. in social contexts.
But now I wonder. Do some of you mean you can actually stop perceiving a stimulus?
Like, if someone is talking. Can you stop hearing and understanding the words as they are being spoken? Can you actually not listen?
Because it has never occurred to me before, but I'm starting to think maybe people can do that?
...is that why people would always tell me to ignore things that upset me? Were they actually giving what would've been actionable advice for someone like them?
I can't imagine consciously "tuning out" anything. Is that an actual thing and not a metaphor?
Like, when I'm at a social gathering or something and there are two conversations within earshot, it's not my choice which I listen to. My brain switches more or less at random between listening to either. It's a big part of the reason I don't like bigger social gatherings. I can't participate in a conversation because it is impossible to follow all of it.
Do some people NOT experience that?
Facebook people apparently wrote a generic ESTree-to-Babel-AST converter and it's buried somewhere five levels deep in a react-native package instead of being published as an actually-usable standalone tool, and this kind of shit is a great example of why I don't like tech company "open-source"
CW-boost: uspol, censorship, actionable
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institutional transphobia, Germany, incarceration
Cleo, a black trans woman in Germany who was a Berlin resident, has been held (per my understanding) without charge on "general suspicion" for over a year and on little to no evidence. She has been transferred to a men's prison despite objections from Cleo and her community. https://www.instagram.com/priderebellion.berlin/p/DILwz5oMgtk/?img_index=3 https://innn.it/justiceforcleo
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Boost if appropriate!
Fediverse: suggest me the best (introductive) political philosophy book that I can binge on instead of doomscrolling.
Bonus point if it includes indigenous philosophies and bonus bonus points if it includes women philosophers or scientists!
I'm already familiar with reading secondary texts on philosophy, as I've read a fair amount of will durant and have been 'trying' to read A.C Grayling.
I'm loosely familiar with anarchism and Marxism purely from being affiliated with communists and anarchists online, but haven't read both the philosophies thoroughly.
Thank you fedi, stay kind and swag
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hot take, all I gotta say is people should take criticism of fedi seriously, even if it's wrong (this is a sign that something wasn't communicated well), because not listening will honestly make things stagnate
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No single person suggests making a logo that resembles an anus, but when everyone's feedback gets incorporated, that's what often emerges.
... if some European countries abolish DST but other countries don't, wouldn't that mean that radio-controlled time stops working? As that's, for the most part, a single signal originating from Germany.
And like, I'm not expecting people to take on a million projects at the same time. I just want a place that leaves room for other people to take on other such projects, and that desires to collaborate with them.
The places I'm complaining about here, instead, practically run you out of town for suggesting different things, declaring them "offtopic" or saying that "we can't take on that project" (even though you never asked them to and even explicitly said that you don't expect that).
It really annoys me how there are a bunch of nominally cool projects by people to radically improve some aspect of society, computing, etc...
... and then you discover that they *only* care about that one aspect, and refuse to consider that anything else should maybe also be different, and staunchly insist on doing it the 'traditional' way.
I would really like an (explicitly-defined-to-exist) community that cares about organizing to 'radically improve things' in general, with an open and constructive stance to new ideas by default.
Oh man, James Dingley has worked out which fonts and letters are best for building structural beams out of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azDaPm13CT8
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A collection of innovations by women in the fields of computer science and technology.
No Web Without Women
https://nowebwithoutwomen.com/ #HerStory
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Helpful guide to linus’ home network:
192.168.42.1 is the router
192.168.42.2 is the pi with the enviro board
192.168.42.3 belongs to domi please leave it alone
192.168.42.4 is the mac mini
The roomba changes its address at will. It’s a lot like a cat, really
- 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
