Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @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
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Seattle's big brother camera network is being deployed along Aurora and in two very dense deployments in the Central District (CID) and a swath of Downtown.
16 on Aurora
17 in CID
30 cameras downtown
The police have self reported the locations of sixty cameras so far on the dashboard below:
https://www.seattle.gov/police/community-policing/community-programs/cctv
#Seattle #CID #Aurora #PNW #WA #PoliceState #Privacy #acab #stopcopcity #CCTV #AI
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Gezocht: (elektrische) #step voor een #toneelvoorstelling op 24 en 25 mei in #Nijmegen - en liefst een paar keer daarvoor tijdens repetities.
Beloning: vrijkaartjes voor de voorstelling in de Lindenberg. #dtv
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I think the Doctor Who fanbase has developed the same issue as the Sonic fans: when there are so many different versions of that thing, many successive groups have their particular version that is their first and their favourite, and they're all in the forum threads being upset about the new one not being as good as their favourite era of the franchise.
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If you're worried about the rising numbers of "antifa" - which is to say, anti-fascists - in the world, then *boy fuckin' howdy* are you gonna be upset when you realize how many fascists popped up like mushrooms outta shitpiles over just my lifetime alone.
Remember, "anti-antifa" is a double negative, and as a result it means pro-fascism.
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celebrate earth day by closing a gas station
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celebrate earth day by ribbon cutting your project of turning a parking structure into housing
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celebrate Earth day by making a street carfree. permanently
musk, zuckerberg, activism
Apparently someone hacked a bunch of crosswalk buttons in Silicon Valley to imitate the voices of Musk and Zuckerberg and talk about all of the damage that they're doing: https://www.paloaltoonline.com/technology/2025/04/12/silicon-valley-crosswalk-buttons-apparently-hacked-to-imitate-musk-zuckerberg-voices/
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ethical software licensing, long
There's a problem with non-commercial/ethical/usecase-restricted software licenses, in that it breaks the public commons - everybody is going to have a different set of ethical constraints, and so if people build on each other's work (as they would in a public commons) you will eventually end up with so many different constraints applying to *some* part of the project, that practically nobody can use the whole thing anymore.
But then there's end-user software. Unlike software libraries and such, the end-user software is the thing that has commercial value. And unlike software libraries and such, there are usually no meaningful ways to build on top of it, other than creating a direct derivative of the existing thing (and so sticking with the existing license would be fine).
So how about this: extract as much of the technical logic as you can into stand-alone libraries or packages, and license them under an unrestricted FOSS license. Then publish the actual end-user software (which would mainly be the UI, architecture, data model, that sort of thing) under a more restrictive ethical or non-commercial license.
I don't *personally* think that ethical licenses are very practically useful due to the power dynamics in copyright, but if you want it as another tool in your toolbox anyway, this seems to be the approach with the least collateral damage?
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US travel, in-person conferences
This is not a subtoot, I just don’t want to hijack someone else’s post.
People are asking about the future of in-person academic conferences in the US now that <gesticulates> this. People who are unable or unwilling to travel are going to miss out.
This is not a new problem. People from some countries, notably in Africa, but also South and Southeast Asia, have found themselves arbitrarily denied entry to the US for decades.
People from geographically remote regions must pay significantly more for their longer-haul flights. [Why was WorldCon 2010 so tiny? It was in Melbourne.]
People with disabilities get to play all these games on the Extra Hard difficulty level.
Carers. Queer people. Immune compromised people. Single parents.
In-person conferences _already have been_ selecting against many groups of people.
I commend the organizers of conferences talking about how they are going to retain the attendees they’re accustomed to having, but I’d like them to give a thought to the many participants who have already been excluded.
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We have CEOs telling junior developers to not bother learning how to code, try to vibe code. That’s scary! You don’t learn much with vibe coding. Learning is the best part of the job!
I tell my junior engineers to not outsource their learning. AI can’t do the modeling, the architecture, the understanding. Can it do boilerplate? Sorta! But the job isn’t writing boiler plate.
We knew this way back with the no silver bullets essay on incidental vs necessary complexity.
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Dead Men Don't Rape
When Delilah Bun (aka Lauren Tate, the 20-something front woman formerly of Hands Off Gretel) released a 2022 song called "Dead Men Don't Rape", men wrote all sorts of disgusting things to her on the advertising platform Instagram.
When my angry boys in Dimmu Borgir, the Norwegian black metal band, released a 2023 song called "Dead Men Don't Rape", not a single person attacked them.
Funny that. It's almost as if .. no, I can't quite put my finger on it.
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photography is just amateur radio for the 500nm band
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Whenever some pitches me on an amazing solution to a problem, I usually ask
1. Is this really a problem?
2. If so, is it a big problem?
3. Does this solution actually solve the problem?
It’s amazing how often the answers to one or more of these questions is no.
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I've made a Transfem wallpaper all by myself! 
Made a PC (7680x4320) and a mobile (4320x7680) variant, hope y'all like it.
If someone wants to share or edit it: I've licensed it under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, so go ahead and use it 
Update: I've published a wide desktop (15360x4320) variant of this wallpaper for usage with two monitors here: https://fly.staropensource.de/notes/a6hyefwz8ya60243
(for anyone wondering, the formula is of Estradiol)
#transgender #transfem #wallpaper
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This is what happens when this one does not have access to a hot-air-station >:3
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they're waiting for their first customer of the day ✨ 🥐 
- 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
