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
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@daedalus
"We are currently experiencing high call volumes like we do every moment our lines are available, but we refuse to employ more staff as this would cut into the profits"
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"Your call is so important to us, we have fired all the humans and replaced them with a terrible automated system that cannot understand you.
Please hold while we pay our executives another bonus for some reason.
Did you know you can use the Internet to discover our website can't answer your question?"
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One of the very odd things about living with a disability or chronic conditions is that the reaction one gets to even just /sharing stories/ even if they’re not heavy or littered with ableism is shock.
Not out of any ill intent, but because our stories are not known.
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Activist en hacker Rop Gonggrijp heeft een zorgwekkende boodschap: in Nederland laten wij niet écht tot ons doordringen hoe snel de Verenigde Staten afglijden in fascisme. ‘Ik weet niet wat er nu nog zou moeten gebeuren om ons tot actie over te laten gaan. Dat vind ik beangstigend.’
Lees hier het nieuwe verhaal van correspondent Maurits Martijn: https://corr.es/ddd074
And like, this is not some obscure change. This is happening *all over the place*. If you are in the EU, and you have eg. some cosmetics or soap for which you have both a recently purchased bottle and also one that's a few years old... compare them.
Chances are you're going to find one of them being LDPE or HDPE, and the other being PET. Regardless of what brand or store it came from. Regardless of price point.
Similar deal with LDPE/HDPE getting swapped over to PP for foil packaging (laundry powder bags, wet wipe packs, that sort of stuff). If you've noticed the plastic getting a bit more 'crispy' and a bit less flexible at some point, this is why.
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this photo came out *so* damn sharp 
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Can anyone recommend a permanent marker that works on the waxy paper of a sticker album? I've heard Edding 780 might be a good choice, but I don't know
Manufacturers have long claimed that it's not really possible to make packaging out of recycled plastic, because the plastic quality degrades with every recycling step.
Now the EU is starting to require many types of plastic packaging to contain at least 30% recycled plastic, and what do you know, suddenly manufacturers are all switching their plastic choices from eg. LDPE to PET, because PET is more recyclable. In some cases with 100% recycled plastic.
Turns out it was possible all along.
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nothing like a fascist dog whistle at a WWII remembrance, commemorating the absolute scum of the earth and cowardly NSB, while of course ignoring the atrocities in Palestine
https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/114450201429429818
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My fucking *gods*, you can't even give a survey about whether someone likes ice cream or not without needing help and approval from an IRB.
That's a good thing! Experimenting on other people's state of mind is a big fucking deal! Sure, we've normalized nonconsentual experimentation with innocuous-sounding language like "A/B testing," but AI products show that for the lie it is.
We're now seeing how devastating the results of those uncontrolled and unsanctioned experiments are.
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If you put this shit in a product and put that in front of people, please for the love of unholy fuck recognize what you have done: you've subjected the users of your product to an uncontrolled psychological experiment with no informed consent, no pre-planned experimental methodology, and no oversight from any experts in psychological ethics.
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Claims that a team generates 40% of their code "at lightning speed" are, again, never backed up by any verifiable evidence.
And do they specify, test, review and merge that code "at lightning speed"? The quickest way down to the ground floor is to jump out of the window.
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mozilla
@joepie91 I'm not sure anyone has mismanaged that much free money so hard before. They literally wouldn't exist if Google didn't need cover from anti trust lawsuits
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Ik kijk vanavond naar de dodenherdenking van “4 mei inclusief”:
(via de livestream, Den Haag is een beetje te ver voor mij)
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Ik kijk naar de herdenking en voel me droevig en boos, want ondanks al dat herdenken, elk jaar weer, hebben we niets begrepen noch geleerd. Een mooie toespraak die onbegrijpelijk genoeg door de spreker (ja, die) niet in verband wordt gebracht met de huidige toestand in de wereld en in Nederland, en dat er hier iets moet worden gedaan tegen het opkomend fascisme.
If you remember my toot from a while ago, encouraging people to go and support Servo by contributing to it...
Well, this is why I posted that.
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It's like they think they're more important or something... 
mozilla
So Mozilla just outright admits now that they cannot exist without Google's search deal money: https://www.theverge.com/news/660548/firefox-google-search-revenue-share-doj-antitrust-remedies
So exactly how is Mozilla 'competing' with Google again?
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"I prefer white supremacy to racism precisely because it says that we're all being socialized to think along certain dualistic lines, and that the notion of that which is light or white being better, that which is dark or Black being worse, bad, inferior is something that everyone in the culture is socialized to think."
– bell hooks
- 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
