Sven Slootweg @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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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
@rune The big lifehack for me (back when this still mattered for work) was realizing that if you line-dry your clothes instead of tumble-drying them, nobody is going to complain that you didn't iron them
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Bee orchids used to grow at our old work yard. Many other wildflowers too.
The new commercial tenants cut the grass short all year round though.
I have no authority over any of this, but I'm going to try and put it right.
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robot gf who has to help its human gf solve a captcha since they became unreasonably hard yet still are not effective against bots
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captchas are just supposed to tell computers and humans apart right? so what if the intended mode for captchas by now is just succeeding for bots and failing for humans?
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@venite mijn favoriet is als je in een reflex op Esc drukt om de autocorrect te annuleren, en daarmee het hele formulier sluit
re: vienna public transport PSA
@navi FWIW this can be something as trivial as someone falsely hitting the fire alarm, those are often wired directly into the station evacuation system AFAIK
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Ga niet naar Amerika. Je mooie Westerse paspoort is niets waard. https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/114094666462646092
@existential1 There are a number of 'local models' (ie. not running on someone else's server), but they're most likely all still trained through labour exploitation and mass scraping of other people's work (though of course the vast majority of them don't tell you what they were trained on to begin with). The energy levels required are different between models, but still very high for all of them.
I'd say that there are no good options, only slightly less bad ones, and that this will likely remain true forever due to the fundamental technical requirements of LLMs as a technology (namely, training data at a scale that cannot credibly be obtained ethically).
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Hey folks, there has been a fair bit of discussion this week regarding what the community expects from data dumps, and I've realised that obfuscating WiFi AP identifiers may actually be interfering with what the community wants: portable, open data - not some restrictive binary blob.
How would people feel if AP MAC+SSIDs were plaintext in the dumps, instead of obfuscated like originally planned? If an AP moved, it would still be blocked from the database for at least a year to prevent tracking.
@existential1 In my last evaluation about a year ago, zero open-source LLMs that actually worked existed (although plenty existed that *claimed* to be open-source, but weren't)
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Man, I fucking hate LinkedIn.
It feels even more performative and inauthentic than most social media which is a staggering achievement. Maybe I'm just not on other social media anymore.
The only good thing I've ever seen on LinkedIn is @vilmibm's profile which is damned art:
politics, abstract
There's this argument that you shouldn't expect people to be ideologically perfect because they don't need to be, and that is true, but it applies just as much to not expecting this from movements as a whole, which also means that "internal bickering" is not anywhere near the problem that people like to claim it is
@Thesassywolf @Geoffberner Looking at the petty bickering going on within actual operating governments, this doesn't seem to be a disqualifying factor, at least.
I would really like to read more *good* research into programming languages and code quality, instead of the usual "poke it once and three methodology problems fall out" garbage
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your outie is terminally eepy
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R.I.P. James Harrison, Australian hero, whose blood contained a rare antibody used to create medication to protect babies from a rare blood disorder. Having the antibody was just luck. What made him a hero was donating plasma every two weeks without missing one appointment for 60+ years. There's power in just reliably showing up for other people who need what only you can give them.
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Still can't find the work phone but found a couple of pentium 3 xeon CPUs in my car lol
- 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
