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
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I found out a feature on android called "Dynamic System Updates" that lets me load Generic System Images (GSI) Android Open Source Project ROMs temporary with no data loss. So I loaded the latest android 15 ROM and its so cursed.
on the homepage, there's an old google search widget with their old google logo that looks like its from 2011. most of the material design apps look like they haven't been updated since 2017. the calendar app looks like it hasn't been updated since android 4.
@elilla I feel like we (as in, anti-fascists in general) should have something of a rotating schedule of who keeps an eye on the fascists, to be honest, as it doesn't really feel sustainable to be 'tuned in' 24/7. Formal schedule or otherwise.
(Having experienced much the same problem of "watching trouble" grating on my mental health)
NaNoWriMo, "AI"
@Rhube@wandering.shop Aha. A Generative AI sponsor. Guess that explains why they're suddenly so pro-generative-AI... I'd been wondering why they made that statement.
(Not that they apparently didn't already have a sketchy reputation, but this sure is an obvious connection to make)
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Linktree is maybe the saddest modern platform to me. Linking-as-a-service as a workaround to instagram's link-hostile dark design to discourage using the rest of the internet. Productivizing the failure.
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I like when the element app gets two progress spinners when you press "jump to unread", it's like "wow so much progress is being made right now"
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REALLY tired of people saying, "Why are you still worried about covid? It's endemic."
"Endemic" does NOT mean "harmless & without risk".
It DOES mean "here to stay" which means the RISKS of covid are here to stay, which means we're all living with a HIGHER baseline of risk which means governments & institutions & people should be making PERMANENT changes that address that risk.
I curse the journalists & "let it rip" "experts" that made people think "endemic" = "harmless".
@marlies Yep, they've had that one for quite a while already! I think at least a year.
@marlies Is this the Action one, or are they available for this price elsewhere now as well?
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Bij @delijn onderaannemer Autocars de Polder in Antwerpen is vandaag een onaangekondigde staking uitgebroken, maar geen enkele nieuwsmedia weet eigenlijk waarom er wordt gestaakt 🙃
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NaNoWriMo AI crap
So NaNoWriMo is using the language of progressives to redirect a whole bunch of money to rich people.
I haven't seen anyone fall for it on here yet, but mark my words: people will fall for this shit. People always do. That's why corporations keep doing it; it works. If people don't fall for it quick enough, the corp will pay some folk to loudly and publicly fall for it.
They'll pay folk to Start A Conversation about it, rather than dismissing the whole idea with extreme prejudice and an appropriate amount of mockery. Some easy marks will go along with it without even needing to be paid, and this whole thing will turn into a Serious Conversation rather than the ridicule that this whole thing deserves.
Don't fall for the "Let's Have A Discussion" stage of making this acceptable - withdraw your labour, then point and laugh.
@eloy "Perpetual refactoring" is the opposite of that
Tweedehands 10 bar tankcompressor, gratis op te halen in Rosmalen als je er een (anarchistisch of vergelijkbaar autonoom) goed doel voor hebt. 
Gebruikt, maar niet heel veel. Is vervangen i.v.m. geluidsniveau - let op, je hebt echt gehoorbescherming wanneer deze ingeschakeld is! Compressor zelf in goede staat, slang/luchtpistool ontbreken, filterbehuizing moet gelijmd/vervangen worden (beiden standaard koppeling, volgens mij).
Specificaties in foto/alt-text. Stuur een DM als je interesse hebt!
(Note: you are allowed to exclude medical plastic waste from the calculations, since this usually needs to be handled specially.)
@eloy People have tried!
(And failed)
Since plastics recycling is apparently still a divisive topic, let's make this concrete.
Yes, plastic recycling happens some places, some of the time. Yes, it is nominally a good thing to try to do. No, it doesn't actually work, there is no conceivable way it *will* work in the near future, and it is ab-so-fucking-lutely not a solution to the plastic waste problem.
If you feel differently, then here is how you change my mind: show me that there is a city or region, *any* city or region of 50k or more people anywhere in the world, where >95% of *mixed* plastic waste is recycled. That means not burned, not exported, not used as filler. Actually recycled into new plastic products, in a fully traceable manner, of which at least half must be high-grade (eg. new food packaging). The collection phase must be mixed, ie. not pre-sorted by plastic type by the consumer.
If you can show me that, we will talk. Those are the requirements. They should be easy to meet, if plastic recycling can truly work.
@eloy I think this is unrealistic, to be honest - in the time I have used the web (and that's a *long* time), 404 *has never* been a "pure not found" status code. Practically nobody makes the distinction between 404 and 410, for example, and given that you often also want to hide *whether* you are hiding resources, putting this under 404 (instead of using a dedicated status code) would be the correct thing to do.
Keep in mind that the purpose of technology is to solve people's problems, not the other way around. Something might be the 'correct' thing in a hypothetical vacuum, but if it doesn't actually match how people want or need to use it, then it's not actually 'correct' for any meaningful interpretation of the term.
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Asking people about computer questions
People who know something about computers: maybe its caching?? maybe the DNS is routing wrong??
People who know too much about computers: maybe its the internet worms again. i hate it when this happens.
re: matrix.kescher.at shutdown
@kescher Right, so the main problem why Matrix can't (literally can't!) do that is because the entire concept of decentralized rooms relies on all participating servers having an identical view of the rooms internally. They may choose to (not) show things to users, but they must have an identical event graph. If one participant blocks another server's events entirely, their room state diverges and the room breaks for them. That can't be designed around, at least with any decentralization model I know about.
The only way I know of to defederate servers anyway (on a server level, not a room level) is to basically get rid of the 'decentralized' property of rooms, and making them more like MUCs in XMPP, where a channel exists on a specific authoritative server, and if that server ever goes down, the channel is gone. This has historically gone very poorly because people's entire communities just suddenly disappear with no warning, there's no resilience in the system at all.
There are some workarounds in decentralized rooms like "accept their events but only store a redacted version locally, never the contents" that *could* work if the protocol is designed for it, but that won't necessarily be sufficient in 100% of situations, hence why I'm trying to understand the specific circumstances in which defederation might be wanted, to see if such an approach could work here, and make sure I'm not overlooking any details.
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opinionating about NaNoWriMo's LLM shilling
(context: Pivot to AI post describing and criticizing the organization's decision, hat tip to @resuna for linking to the post and quoting the bullshit)
...like, reading this, we're sitting here remembering a post from 2005 by writer Eric Burns-White on the now-only-preserved-in-the-Wayback-Machine blog Websnark, titled "What good is Nanowrimo?" (Content warning for brief description of a historical suicide and some light ableism.) Because it was really that post that made us try NaNoWriMo when we tried NaNoWriMo - made us think that it was worth entering this space where the only thing that matters is that you do write, that you put enough words down on the page.
Because that's what NaNoWriMo was - it was that special space where fifty thousand words of terrible writing counted, because writing counts, creation counts, and every participant is creating something out of nothing. You don't have to write something that's good by anyone else's standards, or even your own standards - you just have to turn a blank page into fifty thousand words and do it in a month, because any act of creation is worth it if you're willing to try.
And with their AI shilling (almost typed "shitting" there, that's very funny), the NaNoWriMo organization is explicitly saying that nah, you always need to be stressing about if your writing is good enough, and probably paying some carbon dioxide manufacturer to tell you that it's not.
It's not just flagrantly unethical in every way that LLMs are unethical, it's also a complete abandonment of everything that made NaNoWriMo good.
Fuck these assholes.
- 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
