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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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totally normal thing to happen in 2025:
I have plenty of tractor-feed printer paper, but no copy paper for my laser printer.
Ratchet & Plank
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Surely the Eurotunnel has got to be the train line with the most road surface per train
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The idea that some tech company is being benevolent by "giving you a platform for your community" while pocketing the ad money themselves to supposedly "keep the servers running"...
... really isn't any meaningfully different from the myth that employers are benevolent by "giving you a job" and you should be glad to have it, when in reality it's *your* labour that sustains them.
The 'platform economy', especially where it involves people voluntarily creating media and content on those platforms, is just the same old worker exploitation with a new coat of paint.
If it were truly about 'supporting communities', then the platform wouldn't be run by a for-profit company.
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You may remember the trailcam footage of a porcupine that hated getting its paws wet in the small woodland stream we have on the property. So my wife built a tiny bridge which it promptly started using.
Since then a bunch of furry friends have used the bridge, often going out of their ways to get across.
So enjoy this little skunk crossing the “mighty river.” 😊
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US pol, kidnapping
Something just occurred to me.
Right now, in the States, it'd be really damn easy for just any random asshole to disappear pretty much anyone off the street.
A couple friends in suits and masks, or even cheapass POLICE or SECURITY t-shirts, rent a black SUV, and you can pretty much just walk up, black-bag your victim, and spirit them away.
Nobody will look twice. Nobody wants to risk interrupting ICE, or anyone who sort of looks like ICE.
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the fediverse is great because we get one spammer every few years and they're the main character
software grumbling
@ssundell I noticed something similar with a message from weeks ago suddenly appearing at the top of the Threads view
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Say what you will about the Fediverse Chick, but it's rare that a spam attack becomes a subcultural touchstone.
software grumbling
For a company that was all "look at how complex and well thought out our notification system is" on their blog, they sure aren't very good at actually, y'know, delivering notifications
@silvermoon82 Ah yeah I can 100% relate to that
software grumbling
What the hell, customer's Slack suddenly didn't treat a channel ping as a notification anymore? So now I missed a relatively important notification from two days ago...
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I'll try to think of some examples of what I mean, but basically lists of typical scales for things to help people understand what those units mean.
• 200 bytes: size of a typical text message
• 3000 bytes: most you can store in a QR code
...
• 2 million bytes: one second of Netflix video
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Is there a good site to help illustrate orders of magnitude for various units, trying to help out lay folks with understanding what it means when a surge protector says it handles up to 3kJ?
@silvermoon82 This is how people become The Guy, I think
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This story has a happy ending! The person who thought an LLM could be used to analyze survey results looked more into the data, did come to realize that what the LLM was giving them was junk. They, and others, stepped in and did actual correct cleaning and analysis of the data. People can in fact change their minds about this stuff.
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"we just need to prompt it better" is the 2025 version of yelling "ENHANCE" at a photo
@Dee I have started buying N of anything to reduce the incidence of this
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politics generally
@xgranade One litmus test for any political proposal, which I keep coming back to because it never seems to stop being relevant, is simply: would you want your worst political enemy to have what you are proposing?
Doesn't matter who (or what party) that is. If you're left wing, think right-wing extremists. If you're right wing, think die-hard communists. Or whatever.
Surprisingly often, the honest answer is "no".
So why do politicians keep proposing and passing such things!?
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it's actually really interesting - and really *bad* - that the general public feels that database software that a huge number of organizations use is so arcane and so boring that it's not worth a two-sentence explainer in a mainstream newspaper. it's a clear sign of the formation of a priesthood, in my opinion
i feel similarly about the lack of interest people tend to show in, say, water treatment, waste management, and manufacturing processes. it's good and important to know and care about the way your life is built and maintained
and especially for us middle-class white people in the imperial core - we have more power than most in re: these systems, and it's incumbent upon us to understand them to at least some degree for that reason
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
