Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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.
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- 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, Firefox
I have not yet confirmed this, but it seems that a Firefox Nightly (Larch) build has popped up with some kind of "generative AI" integration...
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I just want you to know that I don’t know a single #trans person who isn’t suffering mental health concerns over the sheer volume of hate being sent our way.
Many of us might be putting on a brave face, but those same folks are much closer to not being here any more than many of those folks would admit. Including me.
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And I can understand it, questioning authority is a good thing, and I guess most of us have so little control over our lives nowadays that people want to push back where they can - if you have no control over how much rent you pay, can be no-fault evicted with little notice, your bus service no longer runs, your job gets made redundant and your benefits get sanctioned for no discernible reason I guess any attempt to restrict where you can drive your car feels like something you can resist
@jana Ahh, the curse of "now *everything* must be NixOS"
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So, question for #Blind Masto users:
So, I'm doing a comic. I care about accessibility. For alt text on a whole comic page, with maybe six to eight panels a page and lots of text, what is best of the alt text.
NOTE: I have access to the full range of search engines. Please only comment from lived experience as a comic artist or blind user.
amazon "AI" shops, LLMs, etc.
It's kind of incredible how everyone seems to have completely forgotten about how IBM claimed that Watson was a general AI and then it all turned out to just be smoke and mirrors, and how people are uncritically believing in every new iteration of this exact same scam
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I'd like to get off Kagi. What search engine should I pay for?
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Concept: A 3D printer that prints something that can be instantly and completely recovered to be re-3D printed into something else, so you don't end up with a landfill worth of junk
@capjamesg@indieweb.social Here's a list of all the ones in the Netherlands: https://nieuws.ns.nl/een-echte-goudse-piano-op-station-gouda/ (and Gorinchem is supposed to get one apparently, but not sure if that has already happened)
@eb I remember running into a large ecommerce site a while ago, that turned out to be entirely built out of XML + XSLT... forgot which one it was though. Something sports-related?
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Reported to the landlord a while ago that there seemed to be birds nesting on the roof, under the solar panels. Contractor just showed up, and determined that I do not, in fact, have birds under the panels.
But every other house in the block does
community management, "self-organized moderation"
"Self-organized moderation", ie. trying to preferentially resolve moderation issues among peers rather than using power structures is a good thing to strive for, but...
You don't achieve that by telling people "we won't moderate, tell people yourself if you have an issue with them", you achieve that by codifying that boundaries of others must be respected and make it clear that you will step in if they're not.
If you just tell people to do it themselves, but you never actually provide the supporting infrastructure to do so, nor build the social culture necessary... then all you've done is declare open season on marginalized folks.
Reported to the landlord a while ago that there seemed to be birds nesting on the roof, under the solar panels. Contractor just showed up, and determined that I do not, in fact, have birds under the panels.
But every other house in the block does
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This toot is testing the above hashtag.
Please boost.
I'm seeing how many people will respond to it. Zero would of course be the ideal number.
@riley Wha. FiiO is making analog gear now?
I remember when they still just made budget portable speakers...
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@foone It always frustrates me that the modern design mantra of modern hardware/software appears to be “we’ll streamline it all and tell you what the experience is that you want” rather than “here are some parts and a good first guess at a good interface, have fun!”
Especially when folks making the locked down/vertically integrated pieces of tech all cut their teeth on open ecosystems that enabled or even encouraged mucking about in internals.
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My attitude to hacking proprietary software/protocols/hardware has always been:
this should be open/documented and it should be easy to produce software/hardware that interacts with it with no problem.
But it's not, so you can't blame me for getting out the crowbar and breaking in.
politics
@baldur Hm. I more or less agree with the article, but there's one sentence in particular that bothers me: "If only we knew how."
The answer to this has been known for a long time already, and lies precisely in the findings of those "critics on the left": mutual aid and grassroots organizing.
It's endlessly frustrating how people insist on reinventing this wheel when the answer to this problem was already known decades ago, but repeatedly buried due to being politically inconvenient.
(It's even the same mechanism that's already accepted at a smaller scale - it's fairly widely accepted that openly discussing salaries helps to reduce salary inequality, for example, and the mechanism is the same for escaping from these bubbles in general)
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@joepie91 it's like that thing where bands go on a 'world tour' and the world tour in question is just america, canada, a handful of european cities, and australia
- 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
