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
LLMs, academic papers
Reading a preprint of a paper, noticing that the language is strangely breathless and superlative about the system under test... I scroll down and sure enough, "we used OpenAI to improve the text".
FFS, stop doing this fucking shit.
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I’ll let you in on a secret: I love sporadically updated weblogs. I subscribe to over 1200 feeds and most of them are sporadic or even technically “inactive”. Months often pass between updates
It means that every post published was important to the writer
Back in the days of snail mail, letters that began with “It’s been a while since I last wrote to you” were the ones people cherished the most
You don’t need to post every day or even every week to have a blog that matters
(I'm basically just reinventing triplestore mechanisms in PostgreSQL by this point, and it is Not Fun)
I really need to switch over my search engine indexer to use Oxigraph or something... but there are no Node bindings...
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Goedemorgen vanaf station Tienen. Het is de eerste dag van de astronomische lente en het weer belooft een spektakel te worden. Een mooie dag voor een #SpoorLangsWandeling in de Haspengouw, de grootste fruitstreek in België. Dit is aflevering 3 van #Egeil en ik ben onderweg naar de eerste tussenstop Ezemaal.
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As a straight middle-aged white dude who worked for decades in tech, my superpower is admitting that I don't know enough about something to have an opinion.
You could also develop this superpower.
[muting this, because yikes, there's a lot of y'all. and yes, yes, this statement has limitations and boundaries.]
I'm entirely serious about that, by the way, this is not a joke or hyperbole - and it is admittedly very good for that purpose
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No students stood down or suspended. Yay!
Result!
#nzpol
#AoNZ
Freyberg High School's David Seymour haka: Thousands sign letter supporting students | RNZ News
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/512114/freyberg-high-school-s-david-seymour-haka-thousands-sign-letter-supporting-students
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I feel like the funny thing for me with the Tiktok ban is that a lot of Americans, on either side of the debate, don't seem to realize that Tiktok feels to Americans like every single social media platform feels to people outside the US. You're telling me the app is located outside your country and your government's control, and you don't know how its data gets handled in that country? That's every app, to me.
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DHL is firmly convinced that since they've loaded the parcel onto a delivery vehicle on 20th (today) they can make the delivery on 19th (yesterday).
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bash is so fucking funny. the fact that [ is a command and if [ $a -eq $b ] is actually calling the command [ with args $a -eq $b ] and checking its exit code is so fucking hilarious
like literally run which [ and you get /usr/bin/[
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This is the best and funniest piece of performance art this year. A whole-ass court case brought by a man who doesn't seem to understand the piece of art he is complaining about.
The main purpose of Twitter for me now, is to look for someone's account on there and see if they're willing to do or say fascist shit when the environment encourages it
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remember, don't get scammed! only do your banking from our official website, bankname.com!
... also bankname2.com
... also accountservices4me.com if you're dealing with your credit card
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ACAB
sometimes a fanfic is a love letter to the canon, sometimes it's a polite rejection, and sometimes it's the 95 things that canon did absolutely wrong nailed to the wall with crossbow bolts
personal advice
@mynameistillian My first instinct would be to be loudly yourself, and see how they respond. If they respond with bigoted commentary, tell them that the commentary hurts you, and see what they do with it.
If they still consider themselves your friends, they will learn from that and adapt - they might just need a better reference in life.
If they insist on continuing their behaviour, downplaying your concerns, then they are not really your friends, even if they were in the past - and I would tell them upfront that you don't really want to hang around them if they are going to be like that.
You ultimately don't owe anyone anything except for a fair chance. If they decide not to take that chance, then that is their choice, and the consequences are theirs too.
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Θ
Hey, time to check if your backups:
Actually are being made
Are restorable
For me, my backup machine had a funny issue where the backup disks didn't mount - so the backups filled up a small root partition instead due to a configuration issue... Oops.
But this is fixed now ^-^
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re: silly response
@RussSharek @joepie91 what about neuromami ?
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silly response
Potential issue: poll lacks neurosour, neurosalty, neurosweet, and neurosavory options.
- 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
