Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @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.
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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
"We don't need XMPP or Matrix, IRC works fine now" is an especially frustrating claim because that new development of IRC features seems to be a direct consequence of XMPP and especially Matrix threatening to eat IRC's lunch (ie. would not have happened without them), and for the longest time IRC proponents would refuse to accept any sort of complaints about IRC having become unusably outdated
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Respect yourselves. Stop letting people tell you that the reason kids sleep twelve hours and can't remember breakfast is from missing a few months of school years ago, and not from sitting in rooms full of filthy air, cycling a degenerative plague back and forth for years after.
"immunity debt"
"desocialized"
You should be livid that you were ever expected to believe such bald-faced bullshit. You should be livid for the life they stole from all of us, and especially, from your very sick kids.
@lilian "But we want to give users quick feedback if they enter stuff into the wrong field!"
Check for an @ character existing, done
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the touch bar on the macbook pro is so useless. i have no idea what to do with it. i put my dock there and now i have a worse dock. cool ? is this good
@schrottkatze I bet that's a wrongly abbreviated display of some flatpacked app for reading documents, or something
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The mainstream media have been bleating more frequently of late about how the Millennials and Generation Z are uniquely enamored with getting filthy rich and the trappings of wealth, but I just don't see it.
Most of the people I know from these generations, and I myself, have super modest ambitions.
Daydreaming about hitting the jackpot is, for most of us, less about luxury cars and huge mansions - and more about finally being able to escape precariousness, to know that we can live in our little house and know that the meat grinder's tendrils can't touch us in quite the same way any longer.
To support ourselves - and to be in a position to provide genuine, lasting support to the people we care about.
@thunfisch@chaos.social The site does unfortunately include ads (in the form of non-signposted affiliate links)
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This polycule is incomplete; you can help by expanding it
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hm, so there's a topic I'm interested in reading existing research on, but I don't know exactly what to search for.
Specifically, I'm looking for examples of or research about visual programming languages where the for making gui programs, where the language is also the program's own UI. The only example that comes to mind for me right now is the one in Nintendo's Labo games.
Fascinatedly observing how the 'subtitles' setting in many games is moving out of the Accessibility settings and into the Audio or General settings
@marlies Wow. That's impressively bad.
@bert_hubert "Open-source" klopt hier niet echt, helaas - het achterliggende model dat daadwerkelijk het werk doet is het Whisper-model van OpenAI dat (voorzover ik heb kunnen vinden althans) niet open-source is en alleen verkrijgbaar als pretrained model, dus een binary blob.
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Fascinated by this paper by Yudhoatmojo, Blackburn, & De Cristofaro looking at how reddit/4chan discuss pre-prints.
After studying how pre-prints are used to justify misinfo, they suggest an alert system to notify scientists about pre-prints that are getting attention they can be rapidly peer reviewed.
This is one of the deepest concerns I have about pre-prints, and I'm intrigued by the hope that peer review can be organized so quickly.
cc @petersuber @ct_bergstrom
https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/4426/researchers-look-at-how-e-prints-add-to-or-detract-from-online-discussions
@falcon Unfortunately yes
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"Why bother with Fedi if there's no built-in monetization?"
Have you considered that maybe this "monetize everything" mindset has been making large parts of the internet and society worse?
@marlies .. wait, how does it not work on trains?
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@mekkaokereke There are also lots of disabled people willing to work if employers allow for some flexibility. Remote work was great and could be fantastic if executives didn't insist on people going to offices when it's not necessary for most situations.
@marlies Wait, which product is that?
- 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
