Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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.
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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
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You have permission to be happy even now when things are bad. Happiness leads to hope and hope gives us the energy we need to fight back.
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In our marketing-department imagined future of a new technology all harms will somehow disappear (details TBD), but the potential benefits are endless and extraordinary. We could cure cancer! But are any of the AI companies trying to cure cancer, as a primary goal of their work? Well, no…
https://front-end.social/@mia/114000730215089155
Just prior to the start of the LLM boom, I was suckered into accepting a machine learning position at a big pharmaceutical company, with the assertion that we were going to be building out tooling that would assist with the discovery of new, life-saving drugs.
Once I started, it turned out that the things our department worked on were actually used to make marketing communications more effective and to decrease manufacturing costs. Sure, ML could theoretically be used for drug discovery, but that was for the individual research groups to decide and manage, and they had their own engineers and data scientists to hypothetically do it.
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sitting next to a guy on the streetcar who seems to be filming the entire route through the window
part of me wants to ask him for a link because I agree this shit is soothing 😂
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Google is so powerful that it "hides" other search systems from us. We just don't know the existence of most of them.
Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information.
Keep a list of these sites for reference:
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i love when people from places i don't know about make inside jokes about their own country or specific cities or places in it bc it feels like i am taking a peek into what life must be like there
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@pinkflameinthepan Ah ja, dat snap ik ook wel.
Ik heb dit als bijlesdocent ook wel meegemaakt met sommige leerlingen, en wat ik dan zelf vaak deed was de les besteden aan een gesprek over hoe we het oefenen makkelijker konden maken (coaching eigenlijk), of bijvoorbeeld meer tijd tussen lessen plannen. Maar da's weer een heel andere vaardigheid dan lesgeven, en ook niet iedere docent heeft die.
Ik denk dat het enige advies dat ik hier zou kunnen geven, zou zijn om ook niet te hard voor jezelf te zijn, en bijvoorbeeld bewust wat 'verplichtingen' te laten vallen of verschuiven, om ruimte te maken voor de dingen die je wilt doen.
Vaak zijn er toch best wat dingen die minder belangrijk of tijdsgevoelig blijken dan iemand je vertelt, deadlines die eigenlijk niet bestaan, dat soort dingen.
(En soms is het gewoon een kwestie van "nee" zeggen als er iets van je verwacht wordt, en die persoon met een alternatief laten komen)
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Not saying HEPA-grade air filtration isn’t deployed at all. But they’re not nearly deployed enough to prevent waves of airborne disease from spreading. Like, evidently so.
Just like with things like socialized healthcare, public transit, libraries, protected bike paths, and so on — clean indoor air seems like such an obviously good idea. A world without seasonal diseases is not just possible, it is practical!
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Regular reminder that effective, cheap, mass sterilization technology for just about every known and unknown airborne pathogen exists — we just choose not to deploy it.
HEPA-grade air filters are cheap, easy to install, effective, and severely underused. Unprecedented flu outbreak? SARS pandemic? N5H1? It can scrub the air of all of the above quickly, efficiently, and economically.
technische verklaring
@pascaline Ah, die kan ik wel uitleggen! Dat is waarschijnlijk door iets dat 'graylisting' heet. Heel kort samengevat:
1. Bij een 'nieuwe' afzender wordt de eerste e-mail geweigerd, met 'probeer het later nog eens'.
2. De verzendende e-mailserver probeert het na X tijd nog een keertje.
3. Nu is het niet meer de eerste e-mail, dus nu wordt hij wel geaccepteerd.
Het idee is dat spammers die tweede poging niet gaan doen want dat kost weer extra rekenkracht/stroom/enz., en dat is het op die schaal niet waard.
Maar in jouw geval is waarschijnlijk de oorspronkelijke e-mail eerst geweigerd, maar direct daarna was je een 'bekende afzender' dus de reactie erop werd wel geaccepteerd, en een halfuur later heeft 'ie dan nog een keer geprobeerd het origineel te verzenden en nu mocht het wel.
(Dat je zowel afzender als ontvanger bent maakt voor de logica in het systeem waarschijnlijk niets uit)
Something occurred to me. That idea of "not immediately punishing someone but instead discussing the problem with them and giving them room to learn from their mistakes and grow"?
There's exactly one demographic that already gets this treatment from government authorities today.
That demographic is 'corporations'.
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The fun part is that Tumblr is immediately going to turn it into a webm or avif.
Can I just cut out the middleman and upload a webm/avif?
No of course not. That would be Video, which has different rules. Gif isn't video, it's pictures! Animated pictures! Which we store in a video format!
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There is An Alternative!
Humans are not driven purely by materialism and self interest!
All of us are dependent on each other, no matter how hard we strive individually!
When people do shitty things to you or calamity befalls you, justice for you is a collective responsibility!
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Oh, rofl. I just locked myself out of my own forge's web UI for an entire hour.
How? I was curious whether my HackerNews griefing snippet works, so I searched for git.madhouse-project.org on HN, followed a link, got a nice HTTP 418 Teapot, and all was fine.
But then I wanted to toot about this, and mention caddy-matcher-persistent-referrer, a small module that remembers the IP of visitors from a particular referrer, and continues to match them for some time.
I made this #Caddy module to circumvent HNers just copy pasting links after seeing the initial 418, or simply hitting enter on the address bar. With this module, they're locked out for an hour.
...and so am I, because I tested it, with a visit referred from HN.
(Of course, I can ssh into my VPS, reload Caddy, and clear its in-memory cache, which I did. But nevertheless, it's funny!)
@EricChrSmit Ik denk dat ik wel begrijp waarom hij dat standpunt over DPG inneemt, ondanks dat ook ik het ermee oneens bent.
Er lijken grofweg twee gedachtengangen te zijn rondom het onderwerp van macht:
1) Je moet zoveel mogelijk macht verzamelen zodat je meer macht hebt dan de vijand, want als kleine speler kun je niet tegen ze opboksen.
2) Zoveel macht verzamelen maakt je juist kwetsbaar want nu ben je voor die vijand een interessant doelwit, en kunnen ze alles met 1 goed-gerichte aanval overnemen zonder dat je er wat tegen kunt doen.
Ik vermoed dat Joop van den Ende de eerste gedachtengang aanhangt, wat (helaas) vrij gebruikelijk is voor mensen die zelf in een machtige positie zitten.
Mijn kritiek daarop zou zijn dat die gedachtengang een valse tegenstelling creeert, omdat de aanname gemaakt wordt dat je alleen staat (dus "je wint in je eentje" of "je verliest in je eentje" als de enige opties), en de derde optie van doelgerichte samenwerking tussen kleinere partijen volledig genegeerd wordt, terwijl die juist het beste van beide werelden biedt.
politics, activism, Anonymous (3)
(The reason this kind of grift works is pretty much exclusively because of journalists who desperately insist that there MUST be a leader *somewhere* and who simply will not accept "no, there isn't one" and so end up publishing whatever is claimed by the first person who brands themselves as a leader)
politics, activism, Anonymous
For a bit of context for those who aren't very familiar with what Anonymous actually is: this is like someone creating a bunch of accounts named "Anarchists Official", claiming to be the spokesperson of all anarchists worldwide, and then posting a bunch of fascist garbage.
politics, activism, Anonymous
Oh look, the "Anonymous Official" shithead who has been falsely claiming the credit for other people's work within Anonymous (and conning journalists) for over a decade, is posting fascist propaganda now.
Completely unsurprised.
Also, this doesn't mean that you can't extrapolate from a study if you have a plausible reasoning behind it, but *you do actually need to do that part out loud* and draw the distinction between what the study says and what you think!
- 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
