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.
- 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
@tuban_muzuru @landelare @eniko Fuck off with your LLM boosting.
@petrichor FWIW, there's a pretty sizeable collection of purpose-specific BitTorrent modules in the JS ecosystem (especially the stuff underlying WebTorrent). Might make it easier to build a custom thing out of easily modifiable/replaceable parts?
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I got threatened and had to settle with some lawyer for a few hundred bucks because a catsitter torrented a movie on my wifi network. Yet Anthropic just got away with torrenting the entire Internet and got away with it.
Copyright is a fuck. The fact that the Bavarian gov allows cooperations to bully individuals is a disgrace to the rule of law
A tip: a lot of those price increases for food and other stuff are happening at the lower end of the pricing scale.
It's worth reevaluating for yourself whether that difference between 'the cheap stuff' and 'the more sustainable/fair expensive things' is still as big as it used to be, or not. It just might have become an option.
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being obsessed with programming and computers my entire life, then learning everything about them and having that as a job is really funny
because now i don't rally feel that way anymore, but still find it fun?
it's like being a jaded wizard, someone asks me about the magic of how any of this works and i sigh and say "ah, yes of course, DNS"
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Whenever I mention that boycotting is a privilege, I inevitably get people trying to explain how wrong I am.
How “easy” it is to find alternatives.
How “important” it is not to support big businesses like Amazon.
How “lazy” it is not to shop local.
They talk over me, condescend and accuse me of not fighting for the cause.
Disabled people need your support and solidarity.
We’re all in this fight together.
When we tell you something is inaccessible, believe us.
Most of us already feel guilty we can’t do more, but there’s many things that aren’t “easy” for us.
Survival is resistance. It’s not “lazy” to utilize a service that will keep you alive.
Fight the fascists. Not one another.
Game tip: if you liked Tavern Master, this is also a neat game to try out: https://www.gog.com/en/game/winkeltje_the_little_shop
Doesn't seem to be well-known, but very much scratches that same itch with the satisfying gameplay loop, and seems to have a bit more meat on the bones too!
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I'm looking to commission a sticker design! Details inside
Theme: anti-AI, focusing on the labour exploitation aspect.
Style: must draw attention and be colourful; otherwise it's up to you!
License/attribution: must be possible to redistribute under CC-BY or CC0 (your choice). Feel free to add your name/handle into the design if you want.
Technical: to be offset-printed (full-colour) as an 85x55mm sticker, so must have a decent 'non-critical margin' that is covered by the design but contains no essential elements, as sticker cuts will be inaccurate.
Obviously, no "AI" must be used in its creation.
If you're interested, please respond with some examples of past work that you feel are relevant, and a price estimate (can be adjusted later based on revisions etc.). Either reply or DM works.
Note that I'm often low on spoons so I will only be able to respond to the offers that look most relevant to me. I'll star every reply as an indication that I've seen it, but can't guarantee a response beyond that!
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@joepie91 This is a great example of the wiki integration :)
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ℹ️ Your driver, Geoff, is arriving in 4 minutes. Look for a Green Stradler Class 93 Locomotive.
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The Seine in Paris has been declared clean enough to open swimming spots again.
Swimming in the river had been banned since 1913 due to ship traffic increases and water quality decreases.
#GoodNews (hopefully)
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Trans mascs deserve to be recognized and have our issues addressed. Doing so doesn’t take anything away from trans fems.
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hey i am currently at a black sabbath goodbye web concert and slayer is one of the opening acts and i never listened to them before...are slayer nazi sympathetic? i kinda skimmed the wiki article and they seemed really weird
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@cshlan it would be the more pleasant explanation, for sure. the thing is that, like, short-term incompetence is a thing that happens in large organizations, but this much of it, for this long, starts to be implausible.
it's not as if the people running the big international papers are clueless about the fact that their role comes with significant power to nudge the direction of world events. what we're seeing, is how they're choosing to wield that power. it's the simplest explanation.
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the old line "the revolution will not be televised" is attempting to make the point that mass media are a tool of power and will not, under any circumstances, tell their stories in a way that truly challenges that power
the editorial boards of the world aren't asleep at the wheel, they know what they're doing by portraying the situation as less horrible than they is, and by not describing protests in ways that encourage more protests.
@landelare @eniko (When talking about these topics, I am always reminded of this article: https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-the-expert-beginner/ -- because the phenomenon described there is almost exactly how LLM technology works)
@landelare @eniko The problem with that type of reasoning is that LLMs have not fundamentally changed anything about this equation; they are not a 'step in the right direction' or whatever.
A sudden breakthrough has *always* been possible, for as long as there has been technology. It does not necessarily become more or less likely as other technologies come to exist; those other technologies only affect the likelihood if they can be built upon.
And that's the problem with LLMs: it's a dead-end technology. There is no path towards improvement, because it has always been entirely smoke and mirrors, there was never any legitimate technical advancement (towards anything people actually care about) underlying it.
In other words: a sudden breakthrough is exactly as likely today as it was 15 years ago, because LLMs never actually advanced the state of the art; they just created an effective *illusion* of doing so. But you can't build on illusions.
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neat trick about age for people in the back half of their twenties & working on a quarterlife crisis or whatever
think in dozens, not decades
chapter 1: years 0-12 are developing from a neural scream potato into something that can think, plan, & act — minimally functional human.
chapter 2: years 13-24 starts with a brain as the baseline & is all about how to be simultaneously more socialized + more independent — minimally functional adult.
chapter 3: only now does the main story begin ❤️
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General reminder that in the U.S., the anti-Critical Race Theory agitation is what laid the groundwork for transphobia to become a successful mainstream political movement for both parties in a way that it failed to be back in 2016-2017
Antiblackness is the foundation
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Origin of "spoonie"
Sharing the link to the OG blog post that started off all the spoonie lingo for anybody interested:
https://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/
- 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
