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.
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- 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
#FUSE question: are you supposed to ensure that the contents of any already-open file descriptors remain readable/writable even when the underlying file has nominally been removed from the filesystem? Or how is this supposed to work?
@bananas @davidgerard You have to do some pretty absurd shit to get an Electron app to use 4GB of RAM, though
@davidgerard Not really the point of the toot, but...
> Copilot also doesn’t require many PC resources, with the app just needing 4 GB of RAM
I... what? *Just* 4GB of RAM for an application that is indistinguishable from an MSN chatbot in every way that matters? What are these people smoking?
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New blog post: Why picspam and repost accounts are bad! https://out.flipping.rocks/blog/why-picspam-and-repost-accounts-are-bad
> You've seen them on Twitter, you're seeing them on the fediverse: accounts with names like "AmazingNature8" or "HistoryPix", or occasionally human-sounding names like "Massimo" and "Veronique". Popular topics include nature and wildlife photos, historic images, relatable memes, fine art, and so on.
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> They repost photos or memes that have gone viral elsewhere, like Twitter, Instagram, or Reddit. The text of the post is scraped as well; google a distinctive sentence and you'll turn up a previous post. Credit, if it's ever given, is a handle with no URL or indication of what social network it belongs to. Tellingly, on the fediverse, there are virtually never image descriptions. […]
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> Since I end up having to give this spiel every time I raise the alarm about such accounts, I'm putting it down here in a more permanent place.
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Are there any lawyers in #Ottawa on fedi that will witness me signing my name/gender change forms? So far nobody has responded to my emails.
Edit: thanks everyone, I may have a lead on someone who specifically works with a local LGBTQ+ group to get this done: https://kindspace.ca/idclinic/ 
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practicing solidarity vs demanding unity
what I love about “practicing solidarity” as a frame is that it affords everyone agency, and it acknowledges that this is a set of skills and way of life that requires practice. it’s not a one and done hierarchical demand from on high. it’s a call to the circle of humanity and an earnest ask of each of us: look around, who needs the protection of the group, how can we best leverage our diversity on behalf of our most vulnerable
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Looking for a post/paper I saw noting that the main difference between LLMs is their training data - same data, same outputs. (Because LLMs are lossy text compression.) Does anyone have the post/paper I'm thinking of?
EDIT: this is the one i was thinking of: https://nonint.com/2023/06/10/the-it-in-ai-models-is-the-dataset/
> model behavior is not determined by architecture, hyperparameters, or optimizer choices. It’s determined by your dataset, nothing else. Everything else is a means to an end in efficiently delivery compute to approximating that dataset.
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when you order something as ":3 meowmeowmeow" and the staff still treats the order seriously:
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@aimlessComposer I have no idea whether they actually were federating, to be honest. It's very possible that someone at Facebook just went through every instance they could find to judge its suitability, with no regard for federation status. That approach would make more sense in a corporate context than a reactive defederation approach.
I'm not enjoying implementing a FUSE driver. It seems that every time I make a mistake, it just silently fails without actually telling me what the problem is, and I end up spending an hour meticulously comparing to some known-working code to find *any* difference that might explain it.
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@Pagan_Animist Officially, all it says is "violated community norms" in the defederation list. They don't *say* that it's because of queer content.
But the list sure is a who's who of queer instances, including those with quite strict moderation.
mozilla, venting
Some day I will stop discovering new fucked things that Mozilla has been involved with. Some day. Maybe.
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AMD and ARM (including Apple) keep winning on the CPU market by... checks notes ... Making CPUs that do not explode.
This post is sponsored by the latest Intel CPUs, which explode.
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Is it normal for giant companies to have so poor branding that it takes me half an hour to realise I mistook their logo for another platform? Geez, it's like they don't even try anymore
re: threads
@kescher Oh sure. It's still darkly hilarious that Threads now probably has one of the longest defederation lists of the whole Fediverse, weird techbros complaining about defederation being 'exclusion' notwithstanding
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Threads defederating from pretty much all of queer fedi because it "violates their community guidelines" but only having "privacy policy" as the reason for defederation from gleasonator (with no mention of community norms) kind of illustrates what's going on there, doesn't it
threads, slightly dark humour
@nileane @macstories Can't help but notice, in light of all the weird nerds defending Meta and complaining that blocking Threads is 'exclusionary', that Threads itself may possibly have one of the largest defederation lists in the entire Fediverse now
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LGBT and Marginalized Voices Are Not Welcome on Threads https://www.macstories.net/stories/lgbt-and-marginalized-voices-are-not-welcome-on-threads/
Here’s a story that I wish I didn’t have to write. But it’s high time that we make this a central point anytime, anywhere Threads is pictured as a decent alternative to Twitter and Mastodon. It is only that if you’re a straight, white male.
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Mozilla, re: labour exploitation
A quick follow-up: digging into the history of CrowdFlower a bit, this exploitative data labelling company claimed Mozilla as one of its customers: https://web.archive.org/web/20170515113522/https://www.crowdflower.com/success-stories/
The same Mozilla that is now loudly talking about "ethical AI", and seems to have never spoken about their past dealings with this company. It's also not clear whether they still do business with them (it's part of Appen now).
Now it's not *certain* that this claim is true - tech companies, especially of the techbro kind, are certainly not beyond embellishing their customer lists to look more respectable. But this certainly raises some questions - especially since CrowdFlower legitimately has at least some large companies as its customer.
- 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
