Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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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@joepie91 Most car chargers you can use a paperclip to bypass payment on, by shorting either the 5v rail or the 12v rail that controls the relay, and usually don't have security alarms on the way to access that relay.
Yes, you have to access it destructively. Yes, it's probably not safe. But it's there.
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AGI, actually stands for A Guy Instead (of a computer).
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Not all data are equal
The health *care* system does not create health *research* quality data
These are NOT the same thing
And just having a lot of lower quality data does not magically transmute it into good quality data somehow
And you wouldn't want health *care* resources spent on health *research* because of how incredibly inefficient it would be to re-train every single care provider to have a 2nd focus on research
Just run a goddamn RCT, there's no free lunch, jesus fuck
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I just heard this from my screen reader after editing a post, and... What? Kaliah, Content warning: Long post, in 10 seconds, @Kaliah, Unlisted article 21 of 21. I posted 10 seconds into the future? Shit guys, I'm a freaking time traveler. I didn't realize. Check that out
Let's start a thread about this again. What's something that 'everyone knows' in your field, but that would probably shock the general public if they learned about it? 
I'll start: every 'magical' and 'innovative' service from a tech company that works better than you would expect from a computer, only does so because there's a lot of unnamed people behind the scenes papering over all the broken stuff and manually fixing things. The company just isn't telling you that.
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:ms_deminonbinary_flag: (mastodon)
re: venting, paid software, piracy, etc.
@joepie91 one example of paid software that isn't "every single user must pay" is DeArrow. it's actual purpose can be found on https://dearrow.ajay.app/ but upon installation, you are greeted with a $1 paywall (that gives a license key), with an option to get free access after waiting an amount of time (the amount of time has varied, and is currently about 12 hours). and a trial of course.
that's not the only method to get access. other semi-official methods include messing with the extension to bypass the paywall, using other people's license keys (like mime: Fh0Lk-df841), and third-party key generators (with key gen music). they'll all pretty much exist forever since the developer's intention isn't to price anyone out but to strongly encourage giving some money (so that the dev has money to continue working on the extensions), and the regulation around license keys is explicitly none ("Sharing is caring" is below the license key when viewed in the extension, dev statement, etc.)
in the end, everyone with or without the ability to pay gets access, and the dev gets money from those who have paid, and is a sizeable chunk of money received by the dev. (pie chart from discord guild and 2023)
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It crosses my mind that some fascist ressentiment is from people who literally feel entitled to flying cars.
They grew up with fantasies of metal and plastic and glowing screens, and they've tried to realize those fantasies. When they finally realized they were allegories about industrialization and colonialism and slavery, they decided that's what they wanted.
The joke about the Torment Nexus isn't so funny when you realize they literally advocate torture.
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Anybody in my network ever used an inflatable kayak? We're looking at a really good deal, if it's a good sort of boat.
Relatedly: pay attention to which brands have *exactly* 30% recycled plastic content... they're the ones that are trying to do the absolute bare minimum they are required to.
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chronic illness and pain is a lot like heffalumps. hard to explain to people, but if you know, you know. maybe not the extent. but the dread and exhaustion. and also the incredulity.
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(reposted because somehow i erased all the answers so far, sorry!)
to all the chronically ill and disabled folk in fediland:
how do you feel about posting about how you feel? i do post stuff about illness sometimes, but i also often worry that i'm just boring people or whinging, and that no one cares if i'm incapacitated (again/still). but it's such a MASSIVE part of my life (sigh), so sometimes i feel like i'm ... idk ... not lying? but ... something ... by glossing over it. but equally, i don't want to dwell, because it's not great for anyone to get mired. and it might be boring (and it will be repetitive).
anyway just interested to see what others think.
(boost if you like, but you don't have to.)
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@moonrabbit disabled people talking openly about disability is literally revolutionary praxis imho
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It also has a beautiful scent. For years people eliminated it as a so-called weed doing untold damage to insects which need it like the monarch. Do we really think that left to our own devices we’ll do a fair, equitable and complete job of pollination? Or will we simply build devices which pollinate lucrative and desired crops?
Clearly we need to ensure that our native pollinators survive and thrive for the health of the ecosystems in which we live.
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A piece for Manufactured Ecosystems about the future of pollination about who decides what gets pollinated if humans and our devices are the only pollinators.
The definition of “weed” is usually pretty arbitrary and usually all sorts of native plants get caught up in our human biases. Milkweed is insanely popular with the pollinators in my garden and the host plant of the monarch butterfly. 🧵1/2
#linocut #sciart #printmaking #pollination #future #milkweed #ecology
Dit is toch wel een van m'n favoriete sites: https://www.tabaknee.nl/
Niet omdat ik nou zo diep in dat onderwerp zit, maar omdat ze al jarenlang onverminderd graven in de tabaksindustrie en alles op tafel leggen.
Als activist is het voor mij een hoopvol voorbeeld van hoe activisme er ook uit kan zien.
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None of this is transparent or makes sense in any way
What if there were error messages instead of things just not working
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Like, there's at least two parties involved in every transaction, and if you're only ever thinking about the needs of one of them, what the fuck are you even doing? Because it sure isn't "making sure people have food on the table"!
venting, paid software, piracy, etc.
I'm kind of sick of the way some people talk about paid software, going so far as to call people 'freeloaders' or worse things when they use cracked versions.
Like, yeah, sure, software developers need to eat. But *so do other people* and the reality is that an awful lot of people who use cracked software do so because they literally cannot afford it.
If you care so much about sustainable software development, why does your thought process terminate at "charge a purchase/subscription fee and demand that people pay it", instead of continuing to think about *more inclusive* ways to make things sustainable?
Why do you refuse to think about anything beyond "every single user must pay"?
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- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
