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
that Microsoft AI study
While it is likely true that the 'reviewing' of LLM-generated output involves less critical analysis than doing the work oneself (for reasons that have been well-understood since before LLMs existed) - I don't actually think that a study based on self-reports with no external assessment is a credible source to back that up.
"How does one perceive their critical thinking" is just as prone to cognitive biases as the 'uncritical review' problem itself is.
uspol
@MisuseCase Why wouldn't they be able to afford it? Their fanbase never really cared about adherence to the 'rule of law' to begin with?
CW-boost: uspol, positive, rpg.net
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So grey outside. If you need some sunlight and colour, here's the rest of those 550nm #infrared photos from #Ostia Antica not already posted in December's Art Advent Calender -> https://mastodon.art/@eyeling/113579323904934952
Today in "joepie does questionable crypto design stuff": encrypting an encryption key with itself so that it can be added into a manifest while keeping its hash verifiable but without disclosing the key to anyone who does not already have it
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Edit: It might be done !!!
Original question follows for reference ...
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Here's a really long shot ...
Back in the dark ages ... 1990 ... I published a joint paper with Ron Read, but I'm unable to locate my paper copy, and I'm not sure it ever made it to a digital copy.
Does anyone here have a copy of:
R.C. Read, C.D. Wright,
Computing with three-colourable graphs: a survey,
Ars Combin. 29 (1990)225–234
All information gratefully received.
Thank you.
(If you're interested I can tell you what it was about)
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@Tak what'd he do this time
@rune I regret to inform you that both went through
Mede-anarchisten in NL (en evt. Belgie): hebben we al iets van een onderling distributienetwerk voor (gratis, bulk) stickers enzo? :boost_requested:
Dat als iemand bijvoorbeeld een paar duizend stickers laat drukken, dat we die verspreid kunnen krijgen over het land zonder honderden enveloppen met honderden postzegels in de brievenbus te gooien?
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Hey, you know how when you gotta do something that's so jank it'll only run on windows, you set up a new windows box, what's the first thing you do?
You go into the settings in the file explorer and swear at it and go "Where the hell have they hidden it this time" until you find the option that shows the whole filenames, right? So you don't end up double-clicking on cutekitten.jpg.exe, right? So you can see what the hell's going on in the computer that you bought and that lives in your house? How the hell else are you supposed to use it, right?
Most people don't do that. Hardly anyone does that. You are an outlier for doing that. You are a tiny minority. If someone downloads a zip with file.html and file.css and file.jpg then they only see file, file and file. Most people never change any settings. Most people don't even know that there ARE settings. The joke about the writer who sighs and says "Sometimes I'm sad that I make art.txt not art.jpg," nobody gets that joke, except weirdo computer people like us.
I cannot express strenuously enough how different most peoples' experience of technology is, to how people talk about it on fedi, which is full of the one person in a hundred who fiddle with the settings. But which also seems to have lots of people who are trying earnestly to make Software That Will Change The World.
If you want your software to be liberating, if you want it to be an agent of positive change, then it has to be usable and understandable by a majority of people. Being frustrated at Clueless Users won't change anything, won't help anything, won't do anybody any good. I promise you, these people are just as frustrated at you as you are at them, and you're outnumbered a hundred to one.
Meet people where they are FFS.
@eloy I know it's somewhere in my boosts but I don't have working search :(
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I wish the people who write cookbooks would take into account that the people using the recipes are usually not trained chefs and adjust prep time accordingly. I usually count on twice the time any recipe gives for prep these days.
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Voor een radicale buitenparlementaire oppositie!
#PeterstormtNl
https://peterstormt.nl/2025/02/10/voor-een-radicale-buitenparlementaire-oppositie/
blunt, re: moveout, parents, family stuff
@mynameistillian Aha, that is annoying. I hadn't realized that it's far enough away for logistics to become a problem 😕
Also, somewhere in the back of my head I am growing a suspicion of your parents deliberately burdening you with chores to sabotage or delay the moving out (also re: the toot about chores earlier).
blunt, re: moveout, parents, family stuff
@mynameistillian Speaking bluntly: why is it your responsibility to solve your parents' problem?
Don't get me wrong, I can understand if you *want* to take care of your little brother, but there's no reason that needs to be on *their* terms. Why not move out anyway and offer that your brother can stay over at your place for a while?
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Duck duck fedi, how to become an airplane mechanic in Finland, best case for Finnair since that's like seven minutes by train from home?
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Please don’t dismiss these free 10 minute webinars simply because they came from a makeup company.
I haven’t watched the one regarding what to do if YOU are being harassed, but the webinar about standing up to street harassment as a bystander is really good, it gives tips on how to stand up for people who are being harassed in ways that hopefully won’t escalate the situation to violence.
https://www.standup-international.com/us/en/training/landing
ph+, dentist
Went to the dentist today, and they fixed the tooth (within a matter of minutes, as usual) despite a pretty big chunk having broken off.
Asked them to wear FFP2 masks (I brought some) due to the immunosuppressants, and it was no problem at all, and they first went off to check if they still had any in stock themselves.
It's really nice to have a competent and pleasant dentist practice nearby like this, literally around the corner.
- 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
