Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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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politics, personal PSA
Just a personal heads-up for everyone I interact with: we've reached a point where if I see you in *any* way aligning with Trump or Musk, you are immediately going on my mental 'fascist' list with no further discussion and I will not speak to you anymore.
I don't care if you "didn't know how bad it is". The time for learning that is well past, so if you still "don't know", then I'm going to conclude that you didn't *want* to know and decide accordingly.
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Time for the - I guess yearly by this point... - toot again:
No, I will not be at #38c3. I *could* have squeezed it into my schedule despite an upcoming transplantation, but they have *once again* failed to implement any COVID safety measures.
A few days of Congress is not worth the risk of brain damage or (in my case) severe illness or death.
If you want to see me at your event, push for appropriate safety precautions like sufficient ventilation/filtering and (particularly where that is not possible) mask distribution and ideally masking requirements.
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PSA: personal health, surgery and risks, availability
If all goes to plan, I will be receiving a kidney transplantation on November 12 (2024), followed by an unknown recovery period. What to expect:
After the transplantation, I will not be around online for a while; this could be anywhere from a few days to a few months depending on how well (or not) the surgery goes. Even after I return, I will likely be avoiding stress for a while, which also means I may drop out of things unannounced.
In the time leading up to the transplantation, I will become less and less consistently available, and you may see me around less, as I deal with the preparations for the surgery.
I'm receiving a kidney from a living donor, under pretty much best-case circumstances (no dialysis), so the chance of success is high, and the chance of complications is low, but it is not zero. Likewise, survival chance is high but not 100%.
If the transplantation succeeds, I will be able to live a mostly normal life, but I will be on immunosuppressive medicine for the rest of my life. Among other things, this means that you're probably only going to see me at (hacker) events that take sufficient precautions against COVID and the like.
So if you want me and other immunocompromised folks around at those events, ask organizers to take those precautions! Ventilation/filtering and CO2 measurement is a good baseline.
If you have any questions about all this, feel free to ask, but I may or may not have the spoons to answer them.
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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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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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Quick poll:
Whether you are one or not, do you know what a "spoonie" is?
Boosts appreciated for broader sample size. Danka!
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faschist saying "checkmate, liberal" won't work on me because:
1. im not liberal, im anarchist
2. im not playing chess, im playing piñata with fascist's body
1. im not liberal, im anarchist
2. im not playing chess, im playing piñata with fascist's body
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Wetenschappelijke data redden is simpeler dan je denkt (en ook jij kunt iets doen)
Nu in Amerika belangrijke wetenschappelijke data dreigen te verdwijnen, is een grote groep Europese wetenschappers begonnen met het dupliceren en opnieuw verspreiden van die data. Initiatiefnemer Henrik Schönemann richt zijn blik zelfs verder:…
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Covid mention
@psychicparrot42 not masking in hospitals is completely absurd. literally killing people for emotional comfort
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Covid death
Poor guy fell, went to hospital for an injured arm, and that's where he caught Covid. The Covid caused pneumonia and killed him. Could have been avoided if people were wearing masks. Who knows how many more go like this because of the unmasked / capitalism / useless governments. In some countries these Covid-related deaths aren't being tracked at all, but in the UK I'm told Covid will appear on the cause of death certificate and in stats.
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Snow leopards scared of cucumbers.
Lions carrying their upset kids around by the scruff in their mouth because fuck your tantrum momma's got shit to do.
Jaguars sitting in refrigerator boxes with *no visible iris whatsoever.*
Tigers that're just *blazed* out of their gourds, purring without realizing they're doing it.
Jungle leopards so intent on basking in the sun they fall off what they're laying on.
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Your password must contain two characters who talk to each other about something other than a man
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A lotta mutuals seem to be having a bad time, so before I go to bed, I'm gonna post this baby wombat in hopes that it helps a little.
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developmental hypothesis //
@octopus ah! I think this is one of the roots of the “burnout gifted kid” phenomenon—adults see a kid who passes a many-category test and think “ah, this kid must not need ANY support then” because we are so education/STEM-brained
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developmental hypothesis //
I think young people can start hitting "functioning adult" or even "advanced functioning adult" levels of expertise in topics they have special interest or exposure much earlier than older people want to admit
like, a teenage climate activist probably has studied more climatology than a random 40y/o. it's not that impressive to know more math than your philosophy teacher or more political science than your math teacher.
so it's a mistake to treat young people as less developed than adults in every measure, b/c that's simply not true
but it's also a mistake to look at the topics someone (such as yourself) is strongest in, see that they're more advanced in those areas than most adults, and figure they're probably at or above adult average more generally — b/c there are *so many* aspects of life and ppl don't know what they don't know. people and especially young people have more gaps in their knowledge than they realize. kids with adult-like competencies still need scaffolding everywhere else.
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LLMs, politics //
okay but consider: LLMs in the workplace as the perfect tool for a saboteur who wishes to retain plausible deniability.
lots of ppl want to see their shitty (evil, destructive, anti-democracy, etc) workplaces fail, few are willing to risk drawing attention to themselves. working sloppily & priotizing the appearance of productivity over maintenance are real and accessible sabotage techniques. even if nothing goes boom, soaking up resources and introducing sources of error adds up.
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re: "cw politics" //
accepting that everything is political, I think the "political" posts that people have in mind when asking for cw: politics tags have the commonality that they are
asking the reader to have an emotion or form an opinion (or even asking the reader to take action) about something
and I think it's reasonable to want to be able to use social media and retain agency in when you're positioned as a game piece to be knocked around by someone's pinball bumpers and flippers
(the other category being "current events related to political entities")
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"cw politics" //
it's true that everything is political in ways that cannot be escaped
even "look at this cool thing I made" embeds either "…which I could do b/c politics hasn't [yet] outlawed me existing or making things" or the very pointed negation of that
but I don't think that's what people are asking for when they ask for content warnings / notes / subject lines on "politics" ?
(or maybe they are, I think a difficulty w/ this debate is that different people ask for the same thing for different reasons, and different people assume different motivations for the same request)
I think for a lot of folks it has to do with a *hypervigilance* about the political — not the privileged wish to be secure in ignorance, but the folks who can't be ignorant or secure trying to manage the when & how & how much of their anxiety intake in order to remain functional, to protect their ability to take action to protect themselves & others.
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the autism/ADHD/AuDHD thing is important to know b/c ADHD is a much easier/clearer diagnosis to get — being *outwardly* divergent in ways that annoy teachers can get one put in front of a psych faster than being quietly divergent in ways that impair yourself much more significantly
so there's a lot of ppl with an ADHD diagnosis who "coincidentally" have a bunch of sensory processing issues, difficulty intuiting emotion or intent (of self or others!), muscle pain/damage from too-flexible joints…
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aperiodic reminder (hi new followers) that probably everyone who follows me is some flavor of autistic (imo ADHD / executive disfunction impairments are a color in the autism spectrum) just in case you've been struggling in a way it seems like most people you went to school with aren't and you don't have a name for what's up with that
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It's so funny in games when you move between two areas and you see the colour grading change before your eyes, and then you turn back and the place you were just in now looks completely different
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You know, I could write a whole blog post about this—and I might—but I think we need to start addressing the very likely possibility that the *entire thesis* that “UI should get out of the way” and “apps should focus on content” is wrong.
Apps aren’t just for looking at photos or videos. They’re for navigating through these things, organizing them, editing them. The tools to do those things should not get out of the way. They should be clearly defined and separate from the content.
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connecting to the internet in 2025 feels like being a hunted animal
Time for another episode of "how is the ESM migration in Javascript going?"
There are still 7 times as many recent downloads for the five-year-old version 6.6.2 version of p-queue (the last one to support CommonJS) as for the most recent (ESM-only) 8.1.0 release from five months ago.
Looking at all versions inbetween, the 6.6.2 version still has about 4.5 times as many recent downloads as *every ESM-only version in the past five years combined*.
- 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.
- 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
