Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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.
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- 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
NGOs stop using "anarchy" as an ignorant insult challenge (impossible)
@adnan @Shrigglepuss (Also the real problem with Mozilla is their leadership anyway, not their income)
@adnan @Shrigglepuss Yeah so here's the thing. Mozilla is supposedly an idealist project, that has a commercial arm for fundraising purposes.
That means it cannot just act like any other company, nor that it can be defended with "well they have to make money somehow". I expect them to find a way to do so that *doesn't* compromise on their stated values.
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Mozilla please stop trying to make Firefox into an "experience" I just want to look at stuff online
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Inventing a new type of person in my head, they’re in their late 30s, devopsy and they fucking love capitalism and also think mastodon is a brand new toy just for them, that nobody else had discovered til November 2022
re: meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
@hazel It's truly depressing.
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meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
@joepie91 some people have truly learned absolutely nothing about inviting corporations into open source projects
@Min75 If it's meant as an 'educational' account, I'd make it a separate account - not just because people can then separately follow it, but also because you can mark it as "archiving/scraping allowed" (as this is very useful for educational content!) without catching your personal posts in the crossfire.
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meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
Heads-up for any folks on hachyderm.io: I would recommend picking a different instance, as it seems likely that it'll get defederated from quite a few places at some point.
They seem to not only be happy with corporate accounts[1], but also apparently seek to "introduce trust with corporations" [and draw them to fedi?], which uhhhh yeah no.
This is a space for people, not for corporations. Let's not repeat the errors of the FOSS community (that eventually led to near-total corporate capture of FOSS) by inviting corporations into our spaces, not even "as long as they play nice".
[1] https://github.com/hachyderm/community/blob/main/accounts/corporate-accounts.md
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homophobia discussion
Actually having queer friendships and relationships, participating in queer culture, and learning queer history have proven time and again to illustrate how the bigots and hate mongers of our world have either completely misunderstood us, or have willfully obfuscated the reality of who are and what are about.
They are forced to misrepresent us, because their arguments wilt when faced with the truth.
re: systemd
@rallias Worth noting that it's probably not worth doing this with anything Chromium or Electron based, since AFAIK those automatically offer themselves up to the OOM killer
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systemd
Want something to be the sacrificial lamb in the event you run out of memory?
OOMScoreAdjust=1000 makes Linux think of your process first when it brings out the OOM killer.
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Frustration with cishet white men. Yes I know I'm yellibg into the void.
Y'all need to learn a few key things, as a demographic.
1. Your good intentions don't matter for shit. Stop using "I didn't mean any harm" as an excuse for not taking responsibility for the effects of your choices.
2. Your ignorance has zero excuse. No, not even that excuse. Zero. It is not the job of everyone else on the planet to educate you. Shelve your sad little egos and put in some effort to learn under your own power. I know not having the universe handed to you for being you are feels scary and unfamiliar. I promise working on yourself won't kill you.
3. Your bubble of privilege gives you no right to invalidate the experiences of literally every other group of people on the planet. See also number 2. Not knowing something is part of being human. Willful ignorance is part of being a shitty person.
4. Quit whining when the rest of us have had enough of your childish bullshit and decide to dump your ass in the cold. Just because not all of us are fortunate enough to be able to escape from you doesn't mean anyone deserves to be subjected to you.
Sincerely,
~ Basically everyone else on Earth.
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Babe, wake up, a new #JWST image just dropped.
Light from the protostar L1527 escapes above and below an edge-on protoplanetary disk (the dark line at the center of the image), creating an hourglass shape. This illuminates the cavities carved as ejected material from the star collides with the surrounding, dusty nebula.
Dust scatters shorter wavelengths of light, so blue areas are where the dust is thinner and orange areas are where the dust is more dense.
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2022/news-2022-055
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LGTM is an ancient spell used to ward off bugs and edge-cases
re: long
@dan_turner @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange I don't have any *comparative* data there - this was all tested in the context of my 1:1 teaching approach, which is always project-oriented (project entirely chosen by student) and always involves a sort of interactive quizzing from my side (though different from typical 'classroom quizzes').
So I *can* conclude that active recall didn't fix the issues with video/tutorial formats, but I have no data on how the situation changes *without* active recall at all, unfortunately.
Aha, forgot that UNION also does a uniqueness check. Changing it to UNION ALL fixed that.
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This is... not entirely surprising
"Overall, we find that participants who had access to an AI assistant based on OpenAI's codex-davinci-002 model wrote significantly less secure code than those without access. Additionally, participants with access to an AI assistant were more likely to believe they wrote secure code than those without access to the AI assistant."
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@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange So I should note that my background is in teaching software development and all the associated practices (not just architecture but also eg. interpersonal stuff). With that said:
I've found that videos are exceptionally good at making people *feel* like they've achieved something, learning-wise, but the actual retention is disastrously bad. In other words: it's a dopamine machine. Which probably also explains their popularity.
I've actually tested this with quite a few students, polling their understanding after watching a tutorial video vs. after reading a technical article. Pretty much without exception, retention after the video was nearly zero. Best case they could repeat some of the points verbatim, but showed no conceptual understanding of them.
To some degree, this seems to have to do with "do X, then Y" tutorials themselves, regardless of whether they are videos ("following an IKEA instruction manual makes you feel accomplished but doesn't actually teach you any furniture design"), but video as a format definitely seems to worsen this problem further.
There's a special case here for videos that explain specific topics (!= tutorials) that requires heavy visualization - here, videos seem to do better than typical written articles. However, written articles with interactive in-article visualizations seem to be optimal here.
(This is the short version of my answer; I have... feelings about the way software development is taught, and how depressingly few people seem to actually be interested in the didactic aspects of it...)
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Anti-transmasculinity, transphobia, death, TERFs
On Aug 27 2022, a transgender activist named Malte C. was beaten to death for defending two lesbians against homophobic abuse. On cue, TERFs mocked him for dying and claimed that he would have been able to fight back had he been born male. The transandrophobia cult reflected the same sentiment. I won’t forget Malte’s sacrifice. What happened to him could have happened to anyone, but he is the one who chose to act. I think about this a lot.
- 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
