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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Since it's that time of year where people everywhere start asking me whether I'm coming to #37c3, here's my answer:
No, it is not possible for me to come, because the orga has chosen not to implement any COVID safety precautions, forcing me to choose between "keeping my kidneys working" and "attending a hacker event".
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Why I do not like hanging around liberals anymore
Because they're like oppression lootboxes.
The liberal viewpoint is not one of intersectionality; they might sound very progressive and recognize one or more types of oppression, but do not (wish to) recognize the way these interact, or the structure and patterns that underlie all of them.
This means that it's only a matter of time before I hear them say some extremely shitty and/or bigoted stuff about a topic that they don't recognize as a form of oppression, but I can't know upfront which topic it will be, or when it'll happen.
With my intersectional friends, I could then just point out that it's a form of oppression, and they will take it seriously, introspect, and work (over time) to understand it. Mistakes happen, but they will try to learn. All I need to do, is remind them.
With liberals, however... they do not recognize it as another occurrence of the same thing, and so I am left having to "prove" from whole cloth that yes, it really is a form of oppression, before they are even willing to put in *any* effort to understand the problem.
Every time this happens, it takes hours of my time, and energy that I do not have to spare.
I am already running on fumes most of the time, and I honestly just don't really want to hang around people who put that sort of price on not being shitty.
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Why don't you just use XMPP?
(Leaving this here as a FAQ since I get this 'question' entirely too often.)
Because every single time I engage in a discussion with an XMPP proponent, it takes less than 5 minutes to get to "XMPP is fine, you just need to adjust your expectations/requirements", and this FOSSbro attitude is *exactly* why I jumped ship from the XMPP community years ago.
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A reminder that if you are on hackers.town, mstdn.party, or mstdn.social (and a couple other less common instances), I will not see your replies!
These servers are silenced here because while there are a fair amount of nice folks on there, they *also* have moderation issues or a set of policies that's just not compatible with that of pixie.town.
If you want to make sure that your replies arrive here, I would recommend moving to a smaller instance with better moderation and vibes :) Preferably one where you (can get to) know the people running it!
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I've actually been here for a while already, though mostly inactive! The Birdsite Situation prompted me to pop in here again. And I'm terrible at writing introductions, so I usually just say "I do stuff on the internet".
But uh, I do all sorts of activist-y stuff, work on radical FOSS (see http://cryto.net/~joepie91/manifesto.html), write (educational) stuff, am more or less a lonely polyamorous gender blob of indeterminate sexuality who likes both cuddles and kinky things, and I always have 10 times as many projects as I have time for, as is customary with ADHD brain :) Sometimes I even finish some of them!
While I'm an introvert and need plenty of time to myself, I *am* happy to meet like-minded people and spend time with them, and as long as you're not a bigot or apologist, you should feel free to interact with me and/or follow me!
Also, I live in Rosmalen (near Den Bosch) in the Netherlands, and honestly would like to get to know more local folks, and I also have some vague intention to start a queer hackerspace around here if I can find enough interested people. Eventually!
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I'm curious, both academically and out of self interest: throw enby/androgynous names at me. Rules:
- Sam, Alex, and Max (plus variants) are out for overuse
- preferred if it works in Germanic languages but not a requirement
- must at least be kinda recognisable as a "normal" ish name for both binary genders in either German or English
- should at least kinda be a "normal" name (that is to say, "substantially less out there than just going by phoenix as a legal name")
I'm not particularly set on actually replacing my legal name (I don't mind it that much) but I kinda wanna try some names and found options to be woefully lacking beyond a handful obvious and overused ones
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Oh btw you can actually download any file from Google Maps in full resolution (and with original file name 💀) easily
All you need to do is to click "Report a problem" in the dropdown menu next to image's author
File loaded on the page that will open is a raw uploaded JPEG with just the metadata stripped lol
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We fundamentally believe every program, app, and operating system should always and unconditionally act in favor of it's user.
We don't think that is that bold or controversial of a statement yet none of the mainstream ones do in any way do so
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here's the little guide for modding Fallout: New Vegas on Linux that I wrote in about 1/5 the time it took for an 11gb file to download from Nexus Mod Manager
https://proto.garden/notes/computers/configuration/modding_new_vegas
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Het lijkt ook ieder jaar wel erger te worden...
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If you are supporting an Autism group, like Autism Speaks, that uses the puzzle pieces, please be aware, these organizations are actually anti Autistic persons. they are the equivalent of conversion therapy for autism!
If you truly want to support autistic persons, look for groups who are led by autistic people...
you might start with Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)
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Ik word echt schijtziek van die pagina's aan affiliate-link-rotzooi voor boekhoudsoftware wanneer je probeert iets op te zoeken over je belastingaangifte.
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Playing with internally lit cubes, wrapped in colored washi paper. These are USB powered and use 4 two inch long LED strips. I love them because they look totally different (but still cool) when they are not lit up.
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@futurebird Here's a cautionary tale.
One Central Park in Sydney was an award-winning green development.
From Vogue in 2014:
"Sydney’s One Central Park complex says a lot about the possible future of our architecture: that buildings needn’t be a strain on the environment, that more high rise doesn’t have to mean less greenery, and that tall buildings may even be able to improve rather than diminish their surrounds. Designed by Atelier Jean Nouvel, One Central Park in Sydney’s Chippendale has been given 12 awards since its completion in December 2013: it took out the title of overall winner as well as taking out Sustainabilty Award at the international LEAF awards, and has just been awarded ‘Best Tall Building Worldwide’ by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) in Chicago."
More from ArchitectureAU here: https://architectureau.com/articles/one-central-park/
Then, in 2022, the planter boxes literally fell off:
"2022 saw a planter box fall to the footpath below, with local Council calling for repairs to protect the public to take place immediately. Structural engineers have been assessing the safety of other planter boxes that adorn the biophilic building, with some boxes supported by ropes to mitigate risk, while 33 have been removed."
https://www.architectureanddesign.com.au/news/cladding-planter-boxes-concern-one-central-park
Oh, and it also turns out the planter boxes are flammable:
"Category A and B cladding – the two most flammable – were found on the doors, structures (Cat A) and planter boxes (Cat B) respectively, with the dispute currently before the courts after the Planning Department issued an urgent fire safety order in January in the wake of the cladding inspection."
More details here: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/a-planter-box-fell-off-broadway-s-green-building-that-was-just-the-start-of-its-problems-20231110-p5ej40.html
The building itself is beautiful — I used to work nearby and visited a number of times.
But beyond flammable planter boxes, the bigger problem with the building becomes apparent on street view.
That building on the right, covered in plants, is One Central Park.
It's on a congested six-lane stroad filled with cars and trucks.
Too often, we silo off architecture, urban planning, and transport.
But what we need is green cities.
A green building won't help the environment much if people born fossil fuels in their cars to get there.
#urbanism #architecture #planning #UrbanPlanning #cities #sustainability
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Just checked and yes, the screen reader is still broken in Fedora 40. (Cannot be controlled; keyboard shortcuts/modifier key doesn’t work.)
So this is yet another release where the screen reader is broken by default.
It’s amazing to me that this is not a showstopper.
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More LLM grumbles
Large language models are like "What if your computer was powered by torturing Black people in another country? And what if every time you bring this up in academia, someone hand-waives your concerns away condescendingly"
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sometimes a measure becomes bad bc it was made into a target. but sometimes it was just a bad measure to begin with
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] Cacofren 
🔎: how to start a queer socialist commune and make sure it doesn't turn into a cult
Boosts appreciated! 
If you know (or are!) the person who got hold of the pronoun.is domain after it dropped, please message me! Either a DM here, or an e-mail to admin@cryto.net.
I'd like to get in touch with them - there's a couple of folks who want to work with them on bringing the site back up properly(tm).
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Reminder: mass layoffs usually trigger a cycle of dysfunction. So, to take a hypothetical example, if an already dysfunctional car company lays off 10-20% of their staff—much of which will be sales staff—odds are that their overall numbers a year from now will be much worse, not better
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self hosters and homelab owners be like: "idk it's not that great I mean sure I run a full redundancy kubernetes cluster and everything is automated into detail and I have CI pipelines set up to automatically integrate the latest code into my services 10 seconds after the update got released and all but like, I don't know it's not that professional or anything"
Professional companies with a lot at stake be like: "We are currently experiencing an issue" (cert/DNS expired) https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112148837765000872
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This also looks “so frontend development.”
For 15–20 years we’ve been looking at how big companies are solving their big problems, instead of learning how those of us with small problems (individuals and SMBs) best solve their small problems.
That’s our Occam’s razor why frontend devs know Bootcamp/Tailwind, jQuery/React, bundle/deploy, and have every 10-visitor site sit on all edge servers—but for whom HTML is `div` and CSS is broken.
The craft died in Big Tech.
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An uncomfortable large set of "interesting facts" I've learned in my lifetime has turned out to be urban legends, misinformation, bad science and statistical errors 😬
I wonder how much of what I now believe to know about the world, I'll realize was false in 10 years 🤷
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The students occupying Siemens Hall at Cal Poly Humboldt have won control of the building, at least temporarily.
According to local media, as of 10:50 pm,
"All law enforcement have left from in front of the building and appear to be leaving the campus. Scanner traffic appears to confirm that law enforcement has left the scene. One officer said that law enforcement is being 'disbanded.' Students are currently pouring in and out of the occupied building."
https://kymkemp.com/2024/04/22/pro-palestinian-protesters-occupy-siemens-hall-at-cal-poly/
For the second time in a week, students have successfully held territory against the full force of police raids.
- 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
