Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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- 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
google antitrust case, mozilla
So. What's our contingency plan for Mozilla losing Google's funding again?
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Any recommendations for an #Android app for keeping track of taking medicines/vitamins? Reminders etc.?
I used MediSafe for years, but they've enshittified it, now wanting 50€/yr to keep track of 3+ medicines/vitamins.🙄
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.medisafe.android.client
Huh. One of the last non-electrified rail lines in the Netherlands (the Maaslijn) is finally getting electrified!
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I see so many adults and professionals talking about how they are using LLMs to deepen their understanding of things, but I think this ultimately dives headlong into the “Gell-Mann amnesia” effect — these people think they are learning, but it only feels that way because there are ignorant enough about the topic they're interested in to not detect that they are being fed utter bullshit.
How shall we answer this? I think it speaks most urgently for people who actually know things, those with "intellectual power", to democratise our knowledge, throw aside the totems that make our fields inaccessible and obscure, and open the gates to the multitudes who wish to learn.
At first it seems like it would be easy to compete with LLMs (because they say only bullshit), but to actually compete with LLMs we need to produce educational materials that actually explain things properly. Any 'proof by intimidation' will immediately send our student to the LLM. The moment you rely on something that you haven't explained, same deal. So it may be that this era has a silver lining: we must finally teach mathematics properly.
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When you make something yourself
You want it to be a little janky
Not so janky that it's ugly or unusable
But just a couple spots where people can tell that it's homemade
feedback over de NPO op mastodon (ongezouten)
@Dylan Dat is erg jammer. Het is me in de afgelopen maanden, wanneer ik een bericht van een NPO-omroep tegenkwam, opgevallen dat er vanuit de omroep nauwelijks op reacties ingegaan werd, en dan verbaast het me niet dat men op een gegeven weinig moeite meer doet en je dus weinig engagement ziet. Het moet wel van twee kanten komen.
Als ik het gelinkte artikel lees, dan lijkt daar ook een verwachting in uitgesproken te worden dat mensen in de reacties *met elkaar* in gesprek gaan, maar dat is m.i. geen redelijke verwachting - het gaat hier niet om een debatplatform waar de omroep een onderwerp specificeert dat mensen dan onderling moeten bespreken, maar om een gemeenschap waar ieder bijdraagt, ook de organisaties en bedrijven die er onderdeel van willen zijn.
Met andere woorden, als de omroepen van de NPO graag gesprekken willen zien onder hun berichten, dan zullen ze die gesprekken toch echt zelf aan moeten gaan, voorbij het posten van een linkje en een samenvatting, en niet enkel moeten verwachten dat kijkers en/of lezers dat voor hen doen. Er zijn enkele organisaties op de fediverse die dit wel doen, en die zien dan ook vele malen meer engagement.
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More specific to the broadcaster I'm subtooting here: in their parting statement, I am reading a subtext of "we were hoping that people would start conversations with each other under our posts"
And like... what?? That is not how any of this works. You're not a debate moderator who assigns the topics to speak about and then lets others do the work. You need to actually participate in the conversation yourself, if you want it to be had!
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There's like a 1:1 correlation between "organizations whose experiments of being on fedi failed" and "organizations which treated fedi as a write-only bullhorn"
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"We're ending our experiment on fedi because we were not getting very much engagement"
I mean, yeah, you were dumping what amounted to an RSS feed for your site to fedi, and not engaging with the few replies you did get, so I'm not sure what you expected from this place?
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just saw a neat feature on someone's wireless headphones. it has a removable battery so you can quickly swap it out for a spare, but it also has either a second internal battery or a supercap so the headphones stay powered and connected while you're swapping the battery over. no idea of the make/model, was just observing someone do the swap and noticed it didn't power off.
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If you heard how Unity stiffed the startup I work for with a $5k/year per person license, and thought “nah, it’s because they are making weird VR software. I’m safe.” You should think twice! They even go after people you’ve worked with!
Do NOT start a new project with Unity. They have a division tasked with making you regret it.
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my friend @rail_ told me they really liked this picture so i'm posting it
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Maintenance tip for possible design flaw for Framework 13 laptops
I own a Framework 13 (i7-1260p) laptop which on rare occasions suffered from agonizing slowness. This was usually fixed by a reboot so I always thought it was some quirk with Linux.
However, it was not.
A few weeks ago I while I was playing Factorio, the performance suddenly dropped from one moment to the other. A reboot did not help.
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Question:
On an x86 (or x86_64) system where the Linux kernel already was working, has the Linux kernel ever required end-users apply a BIOS or UEFI update for it to continue working with newer releases?
I'm looking for precedent, or lack of precedent I suppose.
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While we'll celebrate Indigenous Feast Day it's also The National Day of Mourning on Thursday.
Educate yourselves. Educate your children. Educate your family.
You have a lot to be thankful for but it comes at our expense.
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"Where can I shove a blockchain in?"
Please don't.
Blockchains are about establishing consensus in a world where you can't trust anyone. They're a libertarian macho bullshit fantasy that also boils the oceans.
If you can't imagine a way to build consensus with your community without relying on a technology that is actively harmful to the future, then you lack imagination and creativity.
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One of my low-key convictions is that for all the fanciness of the modern web we've still never really achieved the potential of hypertext
- 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
