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.
- 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
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Add this one to your deck immediately (https://nashhigh.itch.io/fedi-cardmaker) #fedicard
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Yeah, getting screen readers to work on Wayland is really important.
Distros shouldn't default to a display manager that breaks accessibility features for the visually impaired.
Distros (at least the large ones) should give the user the choice between X11 and Wayland at install until this is fixed.
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AI and tech rant
@researchfairy Also a helpful qualifier: "Better at what exactly?" and "Better at fulfilling *whose* needs and requirements?"
And the answers to those may not be the ones they are hoping for / assuming.
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AI and tech rant
"Tech always gets better" has very "evolution means life is moving toward perfection" energy
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AI and tech rant
I just heard someone on the radio say of AI that it will only get better and
Do they know anything about tech at all?
Have they used Google search in the last year?
Tech gets worse all the time
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It's hard to explain to people that AI is extremely dangerous, but not in the way they think it's dangerous.
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my biggest complaint about AI is we didn’t ask for it. zero popular movements took to the streets to demand AI. no one sat around kitchen tables lamenting how hard life is without AI.
what people want is health care, housing, climate change solutions, etc We sit around kitchen tables wondering how to pay for college, get loved ones the psych and addiction support they need, or help the people on our streets who need homes
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honestly we didn’t need an app for everything in 2010 and we don’t need AI for everything now. all we have ever needed was to tax the rich and take care of people
@jacksonchen666 Like how it claims "without user IDs" as if that is the real privacy/anonymity problem, but if you actually look at their 'whitepaper' there's nothing except a pinky promise to prevent servers from associating conversations with individual clients/peers, so the social graph can still be mapped out
@jacksonchen666 Last time I evaluated this, it looked like snakeoil marketing; lots of big claims with very little evidence or rationale to support them, and it's a startup
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(I am seriously considering just closing PR functionality on all my repos, telling people to file an issue instead, and working to find a better model of collaboration)
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Like, it seems to be a widespread problem that the review and processing of PRs ends up taking up more time than it would have taken to implement the feature by oneself, which seems to defeat the point of collaboration?
"But drive-by PRs are a really important way to get new contributors involved!"
Okay, but if we're relying on an unscalable, net-labour-cost model of interaction for attracting contributors, then what does that say about the health of our communities...?
I have trouble believing there are no better and more sustainable ways to achieve collaboration
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I'm becoming more and more convinced that pull requests, at least in the "from random people passing by" sense, are just overall a terrible idea
legal advice, sort of
@elilla Ran across this thing: https://abmahnbeantworter.ccc.de/ - judging from the footer, a lawyer was involved in creating this, at least
legal advice, sort of
@elilla I don't know what the current situation over there, but 'scareletters' are very common in this industry, where they will threaten you with legal action so that you will settle for an absurd amount of money, even though they never intend to take the case to court because they would lose... so check carefully whether this is actually something that requires action on your part
(I am seriously considering just closing PR functionality on all my repos, telling people to file an issue instead, and working to find a better model of collaboration)
Like, it seems to be a widespread problem that the review and processing of PRs ends up taking up more time than it would have taken to implement the feature by oneself, which seems to defeat the point of collaboration?
"But drive-by PRs are a really important way to get new contributors involved!"
Okay, but if we're relying on an unscalable, net-labour-cost model of interaction for attracting contributors, then what does that say about the health of our communities...?
I have trouble believing there are no better and more sustainable ways to achieve collaboration
I'm becoming more and more convinced that pull requests, at least in the "from random people passing by" sense, are just overall a terrible idea
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I'm collating #evidence, studies, and journal articles refuting the bogus claim that porn causes harm to women and encourages violence towards women and girls, so we can cite evidence to Baroness Bertin in the #porn enquiry tomorrow. Please spam me with anything you've got. We need everything we can get our hands on, especially recent references.
- 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
