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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- 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
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De negen schapen die eind augustus werden gedood bij een veehouder in Luttelgeest, zijn niet omgebracht door een wolf.
Dat blijkt uit dna-onderzoek. De schapen vielen ten prooi aan een hond. https://www.destentor.nl/noordoostpolder/dna-onderzoek-maakt-duidelijk-het-was-geen-wolf-die-9-schapen-doodde-in-weiland-bij-luttelgeest~a2955d6d/
Maar ondertussen is de wolf wel weer zwart gemaakt.
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Unity bullshit update #3: So I'm a contractor for a startup that does VR healthcare software. Our biggest partner is part of the US government, and have done some user testing, but don't really pay us. (I think we paid them actually...) After explaining that to Unity they still said, "that counts, pay us $4500/year for Industry". Also we are using the 2021 LTS whose license should precede all this bullshit.
DO NOT USE UNITY TO START A NEW PROJECT. THEY WILL TURN ON YOU TOO.
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Periodic reminder in light of the #nyt strike that #wordle started life as a free, vanilla javascript website with no DRM and not owned by the nyt, and I packed it into a single html file that you can download and run offline or from any site, like this: https://jon-e.net/wordle.html
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🍉❗️ IMPORTANT WARNING for when you are in #Amsterdam (incl. region) this week (incl. the weekend):
"This Thursday, Ajax has a football match against Tel Aviv (starting at 9:00 p.m.). The Amsterdam police are expecting a large number of Zionist football hooligans in Amsterdam and are also concerned that some who are also IOF soldiers may cause issues. So, please be cautious if you are wearing a Keffiyeh or a Palestine shirt.
Everyone on the streets should pay attention to personal safety. ESPECIALLY THIS WEEK." (source: Week.4PalestineNL)
They expect 2600 Haccabi Tel Aviv fans in the Johan Cruijff Arena (Ajax stadium). It's a real scandal that Israel is allowed to participate in EUFA matches, but now it's even become dangerous for locals. This weekend a peaceful protester was already beaten into hospital by a visiting Zionist. The @gemeenteamsterdam exposes its residents to a lot of danger. This football match should have been forbidden beforehand.
So please stay safe people! ❤️
#Ajax #EUFA #Israel #Haccabi #TelAviv #IDF #Gaza #Palestine #StopTheGenocide
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I can joke about "cursed" food all day long but in reality it seriously is none of my business what people enjoy eating. Your preference is yours and that's okay.
Also on that note, if we were to strictly sick to traditional dishes and ways of preparing them, no cuisine would ever evolve because every new thing deriving from the traditional form is "cursed" until it isn't anymore
CW-boost: palestine, anarchism
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"Is funding this thing with philanthropy okay?"
And
"Should we give control over this thing to an unelected rich person who has no reason to act in the public good?"
Are exactly the same question
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Medical stuff and wearing masks
I spent half the day at the emergencies because my body went into overdrive and they needed to calm it the fuck down. And they had to ensure I didn’t develop an infection from the wounds it caused. So that’s a kinda stressful situation for me the patient, even though medically speaking it’s not really remarkable. It just needs handling according to standard protocols.
Normally, whenever I go to a medical facility, I go in masked. Today I couldn’t, because I couldn’t have anything touching my skin without causing significant pain. Putting on and taking off clothes was not fun.
But with everyone else bollocksing the mask wearing, I now get exposed to a waiting room full of people coughing their longs out from influenza, COVID or whatever else they had.
I didn’t make a “personal choice” not to mask, I simply couldn’t. But about 95% of people there could, but chose not to. It would’ve been safer for me and every other patient, the staff and their kids that they dragged along with them if they’d just put one on.
The fact that nobody at the emergencies provided them with masks and insisted they put them on also keeps baffling me.
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kink joke, polyamory
is it really relationship anarchy if all of the relationships are D/s
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*Ada - Np-93/237 
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I'm thinking a lot these days about how gender isn't just a personal identity, it's a site of interaction and negotiation with various power structures, the gender of white womanhood was constructed to be a supporting beam of white supremacy, voting patterns like these aren't white women voting against their interests, it's actually an act of gender affirmation.
more detail, LLMs and productivity
@arubis @eniko Sorry, I should've probably been a bit less concise/flippant there. Specifically the problem I see time and time again is that the people claiming it "makes them more productive" are developers who hold no responsibility for how well the end product works, and therefore are not factoring the externalized costs (and the costs of fixing the problems caused by it) into their assessment.
And on the other side of the wall that their code is being thrown over, there's the team leads, senior devs, etc. who are expected to fix (and in some way 'pay for') the results of insecure, unreliable, unmaintainable etc. code, who seem to pretty much universally feel that LLMs are *harming* the overall productivity of the team. Meanwhile there seems to be no objectively measurable evidence of LLMs increasing productivity, just a lot of marketing puff pieces.
So as far as I can tell these claims of 'productivity' are purely marketing, aimed at those who can afford to ignore the externalized costs.
@eniko This framing reminds me a lot of https://xkcd.com/1425/, except it being weaponized to sell people bullshit hype... 😐
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I hate how all AI hype is predicated on "if we can just make this not be broken then it would be an amazing product"
And because AI produced things look kinda close to the real deal people buy it. Cause it feels like it just needs a small improvement, even though its flaws are a fundamental part of the technology
Just don't draw the weird 6th finger. Just don't make up things when you don't have a real answer. Just don't change the environment in an AI generated game entirely if the player turns around 180 degrees
These things *feel* like they're small, solvable problems to people who don't know better. We could easily fix those things if humans were doing the work!
But AI can't. It will never be able to. It can't because not doing those things means it couldn't do anything else either. Like self-driving cars, the solution to these issues will always be 2 years out
CW-boost: description of disease, politics
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@hazelnot A variant of this, that works especially for lower 'chore loads', is to not keep a 'todo' list but only a 'done' list, where you track per day what you have done that day, but there's no queue of stuff to do. This mainly helps to fight the sense of "I've done nothing today" (which very often is your brain playing tricks on you and not actually true) by keeping an explicit record of achievements.
This doesn't work as well when many external obligations are placed on you, though, as it will not help you ensure you're not missing anything.
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@hazelnot The important part here is that the end of a day's todo list is the point where I no longer have an obligation (to myself *or* others) to do any further chores; I have done my part for today, there is another day tomorrow. In other words, I know where the end of the work queue is, so it doesn't feel perpetual.
- 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
