Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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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
tea advice
@dragonarchitect Something that may be worth trying: white tea or even green tea, both of those tend to have relatively little bitterness by themselves, and a more sweet/sour-y flavour. With green tea make sure to let the water cool for a bit before brewing, green tea + boiling hot water = very bitter tea.
re: ableism
@afewbugs @b_cavello Right. That's why I was trying to draw a distinction earlier between that deference to a certifying body vs. learning from the established practices! I certainly think that a lot can be learned from existing practices, even if I don't trust the certifying bodies to have people's best interests in mind, and that a lot *should* be learned from them.
I do feel somewhat qualified to speak on this because I've already been providing informal therapy on an ad-hoc basis in the past, with good results, and have learned a lot from diving into the existing practices. Psychology is somewhat of a special interest that's morphed into a form of activism for me, and I'm also pretty familiar with all the ways in which it can go wrong.
That certainly doesn't mean I'm an expert on everything, and there are problems and topics I absolutely won't touch because I don't know enough about them to know where all the 'mines' are, but I do feel that there's a lot of room for mutual therapy as long as those risks are recognized, especially in currently underserved communities.
(The reason for asking the original question is that I'm looking into making this a bit more of a publicly-offered thing, and also training others on how to provide it, to start up building a different kind of mutual support network that's currently either highly dependent on the state or just completely missing)
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I got an idea this morning and made a thing. Also it's so satisfying everytime to publish a webpage!
@travissouthard Re: creators, that makes sense, though I also suspect it'll cause people to bounce off because they don't know where to start. Perhaps a text along the lines of "at the time of writing in 2024, some good places to look are [...], but this can change over time, keep an eye out on your favourite social media platform"? That communicates the impermanence of the recommendations while still providing a pointer.
Regarding the exploitation, I often point people at https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/ for LLM things as a first read, though there are many such documented cases for different companies (and for the type of generative AI that this site seems aimed at, that may not be the best example?). I recall there being a site that compiles documentation of abuses in the AI industry, but can't recall the URL unfortunately.
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After a talk with @theresnotime here on Fedi, I've released vthttpd on my GitHub!
vthttpd (Very Tiny HTTPD) is a #homebrew #HTTP #server software for #Nintendo #3DS consoles (forked from 3ds-httpd by dimaguy)
It includes *a bunch* of changes (way too many to list here!) and it was originally designed for a personal project of mine
I didn't intend to release this publicly at first, so some of the code might be a bit unpolished
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Lol, I accidentally managed to download the 6.40 firmware for this device, which is normally hidden behind a contract option (which is scummy imo, no security updates for you if you don't pay us yearly!)
Anyway I didn't think much of it, but now after the case has been closed I can't download it anymore LOL... Otherwise I would've downloaded the latest 6.60 firmware
Anyway, for those stuck on old ass firmwares: https://archive.org/details/hpe-msl-6480-6.40 :3
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nlpol
de tweede kamer is een terf armer! de aanleiding is wel wat jammer maar ja
@ari IIRC those registers used to have really specific purposes in the memory segmentation era (for which the names are abbreviations) and then over time, I believe also related to the change in memory model to paging, those registers got repurposed as general-purpose registers but their names never got changed
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I hate how techy people look down on spreadsheets.
People who work with spreadsheets often do fucking magic in pursuit of making the computer do what they want.
And that's the essence of programming: Getting the computer to do what you want.
Is it a "good" environment by professional programmer standards? Hell no.
But it allows people to get shit done.
(and yes, an actual good spreadsheet system is one of my pipedreams (as is version control for regular people))
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ACAB
i took a walk to the university this morning.
almaty is a very different place now than when it used to be 60 years ago. it's vibrant, energetic. a place where the new and the old meet.
today i was looking at those soviet-era panel blocks, from as low as five stories in height to towering highrise residential buildings. they were everywhere, sticking out of the ground, like the ribs of a dead beast buried in the sand, once existing but no more, in the heart of which we have woven a nest.
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for fun, i used ebay's Personal Data request tool to extract out my ebay purchases from 2001 to 2010, so i could get a picture of how prices have changed over the decades when it comes to old computer/video junk
Aug 26, 2003: Ultima Worlds of Adventure: The Savage Empire
$13.49 USD
Currently: $100 USD
May 23, 2003: LC PDS style Ethernet adapter $5 USD
Currently: $50 USD
Apr 12, 2003 Druid: Demons of the Mind $2.99 USD
Currently: $40 USD
Apr 07, 2004 1988 Interplay Commodore C64 / C128 Game Neuromancer $9.99 USD
Currently: $150 USD
Apr 23, 2004 ULTIMA THE SECOND TRILOGY IV V VI BOX SET PC GAME $11.86 USD
Currently: $150 USD
Nov 10, 2004 PRINCE OF PERSIA (SEGA CD) EXCELLENT CONDITION $5.00 USD
Currently: $50 USD
As you can see, it's approximately a 1000% price increase on retrocomputing products since 2002. Without having to show you the entire history, the price stayed relatively flat until about 2010, when it started to creep slowly, and then went up several orders of magnitude by 2015-2020.
It's a silly, bad time to buy old computer games on ebay. prices are still hyperinflated (starting to drop, very slowly).
i've bought almost everything i have locally, for $5-10 each, just by keeping an eye on local listings - and ignoring the people trying to sell at ebay prices.
if you want to see your entire ebay history, you can request it here. it takes about a week to get your history.
https://www.ebay.com/help/account/requesting-personal-data/requesting-personal-data?id=5089
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Hey, does anyone know if there's a way using the itch api to go from a store link like https://yongjustyong.itch.io/catsanddice to the result of https://api.itch.io/games/2884343 without scraping the meta tags from the html?
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is there a good comparison of the server resources required for running different #activitypub servers somewhere? i'm interested mostly in cpu, ram and network traffic
@luke Tea is just plant soup!
*ducks*
computer, mastodon
@jacksonchen666 If you leave the tab open while it is scrolled down in advanced view, it will get slower and slower until you refresh the page, something that doesn't happen if you leave every column scrolled to the top
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I have been reminded of the greatest representation of what it feels like to have ADHD that was ever put to film.
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"The dream of thinking everything out before we act, of making certain we have all the facts and know all the consequences, is a sick Hamlet's dream. It is the dream of someone with no appreciation of the seamless web of causation, the limits of human thinking, or the scarcity of human attention." - Herb Simon (1971), Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World
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I’m not even “anti-AI.” I think there are some really good uses for AI!
However, I think AI should:
-only be trained on information that it has permission for, and those creators should be compensated
-be carbon-neutral
-be required to disclose when & where it’s used
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- 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
