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.
- 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
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Poll for people with only one eye (two eyed people please boost):
Do you suffer from motion sickness?
I want to better understand how people decide to donate to things. Therefore, a little poll! 
Do you donate to people/projects through Patreon, or through other services? Why or why not? (Please elaborate in the replies if you can.)
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Hm.
So if you think about it, if you're looking down at a map, it's easy for you to see the shortest path between two points, but it's hard for a computer to, because it has to walk all the way from point A to point B to see how far it is.
Which makes me think, are all graphs of dimension N more easily solved if they can be viewed from N+1?
@Dylan Ik - en vele anderen - hebben je in een vorige reactie al uitgelegd dat dat gebrek aan engagement en bereik een logische uitkomst is als je er zelf geen moeite in steekt. Met een algemene reactie als deze die, zonder daar op in te gaan, vooral het probleem bij Mastodon probeert te leggen, lijk je dat beeld eigenlijk alleen maar te bevestigen.
De enige andere manier waarop ik dit kan interpreteren is eigenlijk "we willen vooral dat anderen ons het bereik op een dienblad aanreiken zonder er zelf wat voor te doen, en aan die verwachting voldeed Mastodon niet", en die conclusie zou inderdaad kloppen, maar dan zou ik me ook afvragen waar je als publieke omroep dan eigenlijk nog mee bezig bent.
Is het niet jullie taak om dat bereik te *creëren*? Is dat niet specifiek de reden dat jullie als overheidsdienst bestaan?
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In school we heard "you won't carry a calculator around all the time" as reason for doing math on paper. OK, that was a total goof, because now we all have phones that, potentially, can serve as arbitrarily powerful calculator anytime and anywhere.
But that's not the gotcha you think it is. I don't think teachers were just blind to technological progress here, they were fully aware of one thing that they neglected to teach: it's a tool, and a tool is only as powerful as the mind that uses it. If you don't know how something works, you fall back into a magical understanding: you throw in ingredients on one side, and a solution pops out on the other side. There is no way for you to tell if the result is reasonable, or the magical process completely goofed out. Also, you will be completely dependent on the tool where a little understanding could show you shortcuts that make things easier for you, or at least feed the machine easier.
We're now in a worse situation like this concerning LLMs. They are branded AIs, advertised as machines that give answers, and if you don't know the shape of the answer already, and have no idea about the facts, you are completely at the mercy of a magical process that tells you fairytales. When things don't work with that answer, you are completely adrift with no idea how to fix it. Because a tool is only as powerful as the mind that uses it.
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Ik weet niet hoor maar dit vind ik dus Heel Verdacht! Heel!
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remember, when you're giving to Indigenous mutual aid today — and if you have money, you ought to be — as tempting as it might be to write "death to America" in the note field, this helps nobody and puts a target on two people's backs.
payment processors are not the place to leave radical messages.
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Hallo allemaal, we zijn verhuisd van server. Voorheen kon je ons vinden op social.npo.nl, vanaf vandaag zit Pointer, het journalistieke onderzoeksplatform van KRO-NCRV op mastodon.nl.
Ook hier delen we onze onderzoeken, nieuws en oproepen voor tips, deskundigheid etc. Heb je tips voor iets dat we moeten uitzoeken? Deel je ervaring hier op onze site (https://pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/deel-jouw-ervaring) of schiet ons aan hier op mastodon.
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Study (N=6K) finds single women are not miserable spinsters. Women may have more social support beyond romantic relationships. Single men are unhappier. Inequitable household labor="more rewards for men & more costs for women in heterosexual partnerships." https://people.com/single-women-are-happier-than-single-men-study-says-8739240
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Zo geinig.
Al jaren denk ik elke keer als ik de naam van het merk Jean Bâton zie 'Jan Stok'. Want ik houd van versimpelen.
Maar 😬
Ik leerde gisteravond dat de man achter Jean Bâton dus eh, Jan Stok heette 😂
En ik denk terug aan de man van een vriendin van mijn moeder die ook Stok heette. Wim.
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Absolutely wild to me that things that didn't exist when I was a kid are now common place:
- wifi that can do 100MB/s
- external gpus that can play AAA games
Technology is so cool and it makes me so sad that it's used to harm so many people all the time.
What are things that excite you? 
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I made a quilted winter cover for the AC in my living room (in lieu of taking it out), and also a very silly joke.
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I have seen high school essays that are more comprehensive...
"A comprehensive guide with examples"
... article has 3 paragraphs and 3 short bits of example code
subtoot, negative, vague
Every once in a while I am not so subtly reminded that "appears nice and not actively malicious" does not make one an ally or even someone you can count on for minor support against oppression
@eloy "Proprietary" is generally a descriptor that applies to the restrictions stated by the maintainer/owner/etc.,, so yes, it's proprietary.
Even if it may be legally defensible to derive from it, they still *claim* that it's not, and that's what makes it proprietary. And that is not just pedantry, because it also means a chilling effect on people actually doing so.
(Interoperability is just one part of an open format; the ability to take it and improve upon it is another, for example, and that is not permitted according to RAR's terms)
@popcar2 @godotengine There's a very long history of 'security' companies putting out panic pieces like this that essentially boil down to "the thing that is designed to run code, can also run malicious code if you download that" despite it not being a remotely new technique. It's a marketing tactic, trying to market themselves as "the company that found the new thing".
The only real 'insight' here is "this file type can contain executable code". Which isn't *useless* information, but also not really deserving of any more mention than a line on its Wikipedia page or, in this case, a warning on mod portals...
- 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
