Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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
LLM venting
Congratulations, LLM bros, you've figured out how to destroy online 'third places'. Basically any public social venue on the internet is now vulnerable to getting flooded in bullshit that takes even more orders of magnitude to refute than to post.
I would not at all be surprised if in a few years, nearly all online social interaction has moved to private groups, and the idea of the internet as a public space is dead. If so, I guess we know what was the last nail in its coffin.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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fitness, biohacking, foss, data mining,
Ok, I've been on a #biohacking research kick lately.
There's been some amazing fitness tracking stuff out there..
And it's all proprietary! It's all apps that phone home! The cost of me getting to know the details of what's happening with my body seems to be ..my bio data +whatever they're charging for the app, whether that's "free" or not.
Which made me wonder. Is there a #FLOSS / #FOSS biohacking community out there? There's gotta be some overlap right?
#askfedi #boostswelcome
Can anyone connect me to the zany projects that are hacking continuous glucose monitors or those weird body measuring suits or whatever other super cool stuff that's costing us our data to get at?
Idk if I have skills that can help any of those projects, but I'd like to know if they exist!
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"This firehose appears to be distinct from any direct data sharing deal with Midjourney and OpenAI, in part because the documentation makes clear that data being sold via this firehose is not limited only to posts on WordPress.com, but also can include posts on self-hosted WordPress.org websites that use Jetpack, a wildly popular plugin that millions of sites use and that users are encouraged to install when setting up a WordPress site."
https://www.404media.co/wordpress-firehose-allows-ai-companies-to-buy-access-to-a-million-posts-a-day/
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Remember. When AI "works", there is usually a very underpaid and very overworked gig worker behind it. The general output of AI is random. Human labor civilizes it and makes it good enough for you to use for code, art, creative and professional uses. That they have to work and you have to proof it means some AI purveyor is getting paid to make humans (you and the gig workers/sweatshop workers) fantasize that the AI is doing all the work when actually it's mostly you and the exploited, hidden gig workers.
This is why using AI is anti labor, and more exploitative capitalism. Look behind the curtain.
@Dee inductive charging
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Hi Fedi, tell me all about active scrapers you are aware of that don't adhere to the opt-in principle :3
I promise I will only fuck with them a little bit :3
(no need to inform me about contentnation, they've already blocked CatCatNya~)
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@eniko I do grocery shopping for a living right now, and I mask every time I go out. Even if it weren't a matter of caring about myself, the people in the store, and the people I'm shopping for (who are often elderly or disabled), there are sometimes other people who DO mask in the store (again, often elderly or disabled) and you can see the relief on their face when they realize they're not the only one.
That by itself is worth it.
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It baffles me each time I remember you literally can take a tram from one side of Utrecht Centraal to the other side.
(I may or may not have a project on the shelf for a public transport planner)
Basically planning train itineraries for people with minimal-stress transfers, late departure times, and so on
Starting to feel like "train travel agent, for neurospicy folks" by this point
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Guess what % of plastics have ever been #recycled? No prizes :(
And guess who knew about it all the time?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/15/recycling-plastics-producers-report
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Halsema die speecht over Navalny, PVV uitgenodigd en CIDI in het organisatiecomité. Dit is de #Februaristaking van 2024?
In dit land herkennen we fascisme niet al zou het naakt de polka voor ons dansen
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WAAR ZIJN DIE MONDKAPJES EIGENLIJK GOED VOOR?
We zijn in een samenleving aangeland waarin je laten besmetten verplicht is. Daar werk je toch niet aan mee? Antikapitalisme is ook een strijd voor ons aller gezondheid en zorg voor elkaar!
https://jokekaviaar.nl/2024/02/09/waar-zijn-die-mondkapjes-eigenlijk-goed-voor/
subtoot, "AI"
"We should be appreciative of the effort that the developers have put into this."
No, I am not in fact going to be appreciative *or respectful* of "a bunch of techbro developers taking the path of least effort and just glueing in a labour exploitation API that generates misinformation, because they can't be bothered to respect other people's labour"
@jonny Wait, this is from the Homebrew dude? The same dude who went "you know what open-source supply chains need? more blockchain reward schemes"
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@noracodes one thing I discovered running a cute fandom thing for a long time, including many years of depression-breaks,
is that user communities develop huge expertise at the level they best understand
when I leave something broken for a while, people create rigorous knowledge in how the system actually works, and share intricate practices for how to work around it
and it’s often for a bug that would take me half a day to fix if I only had the half-day; but I don’t, so they find their way without needing me
idk I think a lot of engs would be surprised how many people have developed deep technical expertise in the system they built and its bugs and limitations, and deep workflows they’ve never conceived of—because users often don’t have access to the same tools, but refuse to be beholden
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2-BE-Cleaner, een open source alternatief voor Alklanet
https://forum.revspace.nl/t/2-be-cleaner-een-open-source-alternatief-voor-alklanet/220/1
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If you're not too keen on supporting streaming services like Disney+, Netflix and Apple TV, remember that your local library has a decent selection of DVDs and Blu-ray discs.
And while a subscription on streaming services is upwards of $15 per month, a library membership is anywhere between $0 and $50 per year.
In addition, employees there are usually super helpful and nice.
- 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
