Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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
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De huisgenoot ging een keer klussen bij vrienden en riep toen “zet even iets op je oorkleppen zodat we weten dat ze van jou zijn”. Hij bedoelde m’n initialen. Ik dacht meer lieveheersbeestjes.
Nu, meer dan 10 jaar later, hebben ze hun eindvorm bereikt.
"AI", legal news, copyright
So, as expected, copyright laws have failed to prevent "AI" companies from abusing authors' work at scale: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/a-federal-judge-sides-with-anthropic-in-lawsuit-over-training-ai-on-books-without-authors-permission/
Things sure are rapidly moving towards the point where "literally burning down the HQ and datacenters of every AI company" is the only remaining option, huh?
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Just in case anyone out there is wondering whether you should post pictures and reports about your pets, crafts, garden, homemade food, happy relationship, or personal insight while the world is on fire --
The answer is YES, please, keep posting all that stuff!!!
I wanna see more squirrels and squashes. It's not trivial. It's the actual beautiful life we're fighting for. 💜
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I did a little experiment today and figured out a new painting technique: using a (very wide) putty knife to paint a desktop!
The goal was to get a smooth, even layer of paint down, with no visible strokes; on top of a desktop that was already in quite poor shape, with some bits bulging out slightly.
Will have to see how it dries, of course, but so far the results are looking very promising!
#woodworking (well, barely, it's an old IKEA desktop so it's more cardboard than wood probably)
Guess that's what happens when you have two decades of austerity neoliberals
Lovely. Just learned that we may get planned blackouts this winter due to the electrical network being over capacity.
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So, there’s much to be said about these vulnerabilities…
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-2025/
First, thanks to fellow Nix and Lix hackers for sending us a heads-up, for sharing Snyk’s detailed report, and for coordinating with us. 👍
I did a little experiment today and figured out a new painting technique: using a (very wide) putty knife to paint a desktop!
The goal was to get a smooth, even layer of paint down, with no visible strokes; on top of a desktop that was already in quite poor shape, with some bits bulging out slightly.
Will have to see how it dries, of course, but so far the results are looking very promising!
#woodworking (well, barely, it's an old IKEA desktop so it's more cardboard than wood probably)
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"Dekkend In 1 Keer" En 101 Andere Leugens Van De Bouwmarkt
"Dekkend In 1 Keer" En 101 Andere Leugens Van De Bouwmarkt
(And also it is in fact the source of the bug I was trying to track down, and it isn't the first time that a bughunt lands me at a FIXME from past-me either)
Well, dear reader, it turns out that past-me's spidey sense was on point, and it does in fact introduce race conditions
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End of 10
If you know someone, friend, family, colleague, etc, stuck on windows 10, and you are nearby Amsterdam, De Versterking can help you switch to Linux at their anarchist repair café!
Tuesday, 24 June, 2025 - 18:00
"Support for Windows 10 is ending in October, and many older computers cannot upgrade to Windows 11. Installing Linux on your old computer can prolong its lifespan and help reduce e-waste. Bring your computer and we'll help you with the installation process."
https://radar.squat.net/en/event/anarchist-repair-cafe/2025-06-24/end-10
#endof10 #windows #linux #squat #amsterdam #permacomputing #mkz
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Thinking about how everything is constantly happening so much
And we all have to have an opinion on it instantly, or we're a part of the problem
And your response to everything is broadcast worldwide, so backing down or digging in your heels after a mistake both come with costs
And even if you do land on the right side of some issue
If you get the right answer but for the wrong reasons, god help you
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It never ceases to amaze me how much my mood is affected by the weather. Warm sun with a refreshing breeze is an instant +50% mood boost. It's ridiculous
Debugging a bug in my async streams code, and ran across this comment I left for myself a couple months ago:
"FIXME: Verify that this doesn't ever introduce race conditions"
Guess it's time to do that verification now!
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It’s the same anger I feel whenever I see someone calling themselves an “entrepreneur.” To me, that word will always mean “I look for ways to exploit labor and customers, so that I can personally enrich myself at the expense of others.”
It is an anathema to everything I believe in.
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I think what makes me so incredibly angry about AI is that it’s not there to reduce *your* work. It’s there to reduce the amount of labor that CEOs have to pay for.
There’s no world in which doing *your* job a little faster is worth the trillions of dollars in investment; this is entirely predicated on eliminating working class jobs.
And *no one* should be excited about that, except for billionaires.
- 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
