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
@arianvp I'm actually kind of wondering, is there anything about Nix that makes this fundamentally impossible to fix, even with weird hackery?
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Our website has a new links section: started a cute button wall :D
https://www.enkisoftware.com/about#links
I encourage everyone to start one and I'd love to add your button to our collection. Let me know if you have one!
@bamfic @zens@merveilles.town While this is true, what is also true is that *any* unconventional license scares the shit out of many corporations. I've seen much the same response when using the WTFPL, which from a legal perspective is pretty much the polar opposite of the GPL. So I don't think you really need the GPL or even any copyleft license to achieve this result.
(I also slightly prefer it over stuff like the pirate license above because it has the same uncomfortableness effect on Respect The Law people due to being very-not-legalese, but it still is technically a permissive license and so won't get in the way, legally or otherwise, of anyone who can be Reasonable about licenses)
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Today is my std testing day - friendly reminder if you don't and are doing silky gay or non gay things: consider
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Now that shapeways is dead, is there a good place for metal 3D printing in Europe? (Preferably including jewelry type metals) #help #3dprinting
@zkat I've been trying to have that RMS discussion with people quite a few times over the years and yep, every time people immediately started desperately searching for reasons why it could be dismissed.
I was reading the introductory section of the report which pretty much boiled down to "I have taken away any kind of ignorance you could try to hide behind, because I am sick of people doing this, you can no longer pretend not to know" and I rarely read things that resonate with me that much.
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I know a lot of y’all are probably reeling from that Stallman report and I’ve even seen people remarking on how no one was listening until now.
What you need to understand is that the things in that report have been known, widely, for many years. They are not “open secrets”. They are things people have actively tried to address, at significant scale, many many times. Some of those times even resulted in (brief) consequences.
The man Is like a cockroach in more ways than I care to describe and what we should all be noticing here is the how incredibly impossible it is to remove an influential white man from power and have him face real consequences. He’s not even remotely rich.
The people defending him aren’t turning a blind eye. They are actively, knowingly enabling him. And that’s not because they care about the movement…
…it’s because they know they are like him, and if he suffers consequences, they’ll be next. And that just won’t do. They don’t give a shit about a “movement” that’s basically petered out by now.
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@eniko (is this re: the RMS thing, or did I miss something else?)
@5225225 Wouldn't bother with public-domain-trained LLMs because they consistently perform like crap from what I've seen (the whole 'tech' basically cannot work without mass nonconsensual scraping of data and conversations).
Perhaps something from the ELIZA era? Essentially just pattern matching and perhaps rudimentary knowledge graph processing, which can produce pretty acceptable results AFAIK.
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"you cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit"
— Edward Said, a Palestinian-American academic and postcolonial scholar
🇵🇸
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Today 2K Games and 31st Union join the growing list of organized workers in Spain 🔥
At a time when individualization prevails and we only hear talk of profit margins, losses, and layoffs, we believe that the only way to assert our interests as workers is by standing united.
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it's kind of messed up to just use an ai transcription service and then leave it at that. you gotta at least go through and edit that thing meticulously. i'm tired of seeing videos put up with lazy captions. the hard of hearing deserve better and it's useful to everyone else too
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As an adult I am embarrassed to say that I learned very late how to care for my teeth.
I wrote this short post to share what I have learned.
@jacksonchen666 I feel like this would both create interesting results (something perhaps philosophically closer to the "site of the day" lists that used to exist on the early internet?) and be relatively easy to run a custom variant of on a cheap server, for anyone with a few bucks to spare, moreso with an even smaller index!
Would probably need some unusual scraping logic though, like for example preferring following a random external link on a site instead of an internal link, if there are any, so that most sites would only have one or a few pages actually indexed
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Idea: a web search engine that has an index of exactly 256GB. As soon as it's full, it starts throwing away old index data and replaces it with new items. The same query might result in completely different results the next day.
@whreq I imagine their index is a little bigger than 256GB though!
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It's okay to be a bit broken sometimes. I believe we all are at various points in our lives. It's not a permanent state. We can work on healing if we want to.
It's not okay to be unaccountable though. When you won't take responsibility for your words and actions, that's when you do irreparable harm to those around you. That's when repair takes a back seat and people have to protect themselves from you.
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Good morning. Today I got a very interesting response to a freedom of information request from Transport for Wales.
They pay almost £800,000 per year to an external contractor for "revenue protection" (which means enforcing ticket fines).
They earn ~£80,000 per year from ticket fines and penalty fares.
Which means they're paying ten times what they're making back from this process.
Edit: petition in thread
- 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
