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
Like, I am a tech nerd *and* a supply chain nerd and I still couldn't tell you what the actual manufacturing cost of a lot of tech stuff is, I don't know how anyone else is expected to figure this out
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A year ago today, I came out publicly.
https://techhub.social/@CiscoJunkie/112549479928598694
At the time, I knew I wanted to start taking steps towards aligning my gender presentation with my felt sense of gender. That intent has resulted in a lot of changes, both big and small, and all of them have been worth the effort. This year has been a whirlwind so far, and I'm looking forward to exploring more steps now that things are settling down a bit.
I'd really only settled on the "agender" label a year ago, but I'm wearing so many more gender labels these days: queer, trans, enby, and probably others I haven't discovered yet. I'm wearing a lot of other non-gender labels more openly, too. I love that I finally feel empowered to develop a sense of identity and to think really hard about what *I* want my story to look like.
As we push into Pride Month, I'd invite you all to remember that the Stonewall riots were about liberation and making space for people to exist as themselves. If you're able, I hope you can make some space for the queer folks in your life: genderqueer, neuroqueer, or however else someone might show up against social conventions. Some of us may not look or feel "queer enough" by some reckonings, and those are *exactly* the sorts of folks we should be making more space for.
I love how all these news articles about scams and security problems are always all "if something is too cheap to be true, that usually means there's something sketchy going on"
As if a normal person could possibly have any kind of reasonable idea of what stuff is 'supposed' to cost in this exploitative capitalist hellscape where every company lies all the time including the supposedly legitimate ones
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uspol
🐉you can see why with this operation.
If the goal was to catch “dangerous criminals” then why the lucky location? Why the masks? Why the military vehicles for a taco shop? Why were they ready for a riot? Shouldn’t they do this quietly?
All of it wasted on a show of force. If they cared to catch people they’d use their limited resources more effectively.
Resisting deepens the mistake by further wasting their time, energy, prestige, money, political capital. All of that is an expense, and if Trump I’d good at one thing, it’s throwing money in a hole.
Good job 🩵
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🐉this is clearly intended to provoke a response. That’s why they picked a location near where #georgefloyd was murdered.
Resist with intelligence. As seen here. Good job. Do not let the extra twist of the knife make you lose your cool.
If they were succeeding they wouldn’t try to provoke you.
Powerful people do not need to twist knives. They simply use them. Bothering to make it hurt is wasteful if you do not react.
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⚡️shout out to #minneapolis for showing up yesterday to resist #ice
I am proud of you all #minnesota #chingalamigra
https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/03/hundreds-protest-ice-in-minneapolis/
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Just got back from the POSIX rally. Amazing turnout. Thousands of people holding hands and chanting “Better things aren't possible”
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I went back and now I’ve got evidence that I, personally, saw the Safeway trolley in Glasgow on the 4th June 2025
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I’ve seen a lot of weird abandoned objects in my time but this might be one of the strangest: An immaculately preserved trolley from Safeway, the UK supermarket chain that stopped being a thing in 2005
And I’m pretty sure this logo is a few years older than that!
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fosstodon
wow that shithole continues to be a nazi bar somehow
who would've though that replacing two shithead that defended nazi with another shithead who defended the previous two and shifted the blame on us for "reacting too aggressively" would result in the same outcome
no politics my ass
context:
one of newer mods wrote this fashy shit:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250601200137/https...
gina saw it and then accepted him into the mod team, as per her own confession:
https://fosstodon.org/@Gina/114612485062169791
holy shit this smells to high heavens. yikes.
who would've though that replacing two shithead that defended nazi with another shithead who defended the previous two and shifted the blame on us for "reacting too aggressively" would result in the same outcome
no politics my ass
context:
one of newer mods wrote this fashy shit:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250601200137/https...
gina saw it and then accepted him into the mod team, as per her own confession:
https://fosstodon.org/@Gina/114612485062169791
holy shit this smells to high heavens. yikes.
CW-boost: fosstodon, fascism, you probably know where this is going by now
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mh-, re: paranoid, llms
honestly impressive just how badly my mental health is affected by the fact they exist
they make me paranoid about sending photos I take, they make me feel like I'm losing it whenever I'm trying to look something up, the slop they write is so unsettling in some way I can't explain, that I can't read it without risking going schizo for an hour, I am paranoid about data about me ending up in a model and staying there
they make me paranoid about sending photos I take, they make me feel like I'm losing it whenever I'm trying to look something up, the slop they write is so unsettling in some way I can't explain, that I can't read it without risking going schizo for an hour, I am paranoid about data about me ending up in a model and staying there
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Why I'm never going to be cool with Crowdstrike https://medium.com/quinn-norton/how-antisec-died-654abf6aeff7
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Signal (and many other messengers) stores push tokens in their database in plain text. Which allows law enforcement to subpoena them (though signal has never publicly admitted this happening) and then law enforcement uses these push tokens to subpoena apple to get personal information associated with it like your full name, address, phone number etc.
This way Law Enforcement can correlate your personal information with your signal account which means participants in conversations are deanonimzed. (Though content is still encrypted).
If you organize in large signal groups (or any Messaging app using push notifications) there is a high chance law enforcement and intelligence agencies can tell that you're part of a group or not.
I don't understand why nobody is talking about this more. It's extremely problematic.
Apple started publishing stats on how often this happens now. They were gag ordered to not speak about it before but they have changed course (https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments-spying-apple-google-users-through-push-notifications-us-senator-2023-12-06/)
You can find the stats here:
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"As Gaza faces over three months of Israeli blockade, a group of 12 activists is sailing to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid. The Madleen ship was launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and initially planned to sail from Malta last month, but the group’s ship was damaged in a drone attack. The new mission includes the renowned Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who speaks with Democracy Now! live from the Madleen."
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/4/greta_thunberg_gaza_aid_flotilla
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my kid: mimsy help, i cant fit my lunchbox into my backpack.
me: what else is in there, taking up space?
kid: my schoolwork, and a bunch of ducks
me: im sorry, what?
~kid proceeds to scoop 30-40 small rubber ducks out of the bottom of his backpack~
north korea, sarcastic joke
"North Korean smartphone takes automatic screenshots for government every 5 minutes"
Oh look, the NK government made their own alternative to Windows Recall!
- 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
