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
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Trying to explain to someone in 2010 that the entire IT industry has stopped focusing on making their products work and instead pivoted to putting cleverbot into a live chat window wherever possible
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The scoop we use to put detergent in the washing machine fell behind the machine. While trying to get it out, I almost invented a new variant of the *stuck inside the washing machine" trope by getting stuck behind the washing machine
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greenwashing
apparently linkedin updated their app icon to a globe for earth day
microsoft supports several earth-friendly endeavours such as their pledge to only drain half the earth's water supply by 2030, instead of all of it
You know, maybe we should all just start saying "bribes" instead of "lobbying". It's functionally the same thing anyway, and removes the cloak of respectability.
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As someone who has been employed as a janitor I’m always struck by how the handwringing over the sanctity of gendered toilets never seems to consider the men who clean women’s loos and women who clean men’s loos. I suspect because cleaners are not considered real people.
[Muting as this has spread way out of my zone, but happy that it's resonating.]
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@schratze Docs 🤝 Governments
“Please click here to see more about how to do this.”
(clicks)
“We assume you have already done this. If not, click here to see how to do it.”
(clicks)
“Please click here to see more about how to do this.”
(Throws computer out of window)
"Privacywaakhond: Maak op tijd bezwaar tegen trainen van Meta AI met jouw data" - https://www.nu.nl/tech/6353640/privacywaakhond-maak-op-tijd-bezwaar-tegen-trainen-van-meta-ai-met-jouw-data.html
Als de privacywaakhond mensen moet gaan adviseren om mee te gaan in een onwettige constructie, i.p.v. de AVG te handhaven (want opt-out mag niet), dan heb je als overheid echt totaal gefaald in je werk.
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Now that #GoToSocial v0.19.0 is out, we're going to start the process of transferring our coding workflow from Github over to #Codeberg (@Codeberg), to get away from Microsoft's endless parade of crapola.
This means that some time in the next week or so, we will "lock" the Github repository so that only superseriousbusiness.org members can create new PRs and issues etc (similar to what we do when we're on holiday).
Then, we will migrate the repository over to Codeberg, using Codeberg's migration functionality to keep issues, pull requests, comments, etc intact.
Once we've validated that everything is in order, we will mark the Github repository as a read-only mirror of the Codeberg repo, and start using Codeberg for issues, pull requests, CI/CD etc.
To avoid breaking people's automated builds that rely on that Github repo, we are planning to keep it as a read-only mirror for a while (eg., 6 months or so, not sure yet) . At some point though we will fully remove it, to avoid contributing our code to Microsoft's "ai" garbage. But we will warn in advance about this so that people can update their scripts and stuff in time.
There will probably be some turbulence in our CI/CD pipelines and workflow and whatnot during this transition period, but nothing that should affect end users of the software: releases up to v0.19.0 will remain available on Github and Docker as normal, and snapshots should remain up to date on our Minio S3 bucket and Docker.
We're looking forward to the move, and to putting the sloth in its new home and seeing it wander around sniffing the furniture and exploring 
Thanks for reading!
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Today I got a personal message from a co-worker that was in large parts written by AI. We had a short back and forth.
My concerns regarding personal messages that are written with the help of AI:
Who wants to read what somebody else didn’t want to write? It feels like receiving a birthday card with no handwritten notes on it.
In our culture, we value authenticity. What does that mean in the age of AI? It feels like receiving a serial letter.
When receiving a text that seems personal, I feel betrayed by the part that was written by a machine. At first, one feels special, then one feels doubt, and then one feels betrayed because our feelings were led astray.
How do we feel about people who want to make their personal interactions more efficient? It feels somebody who would like us to invest more into the relationship with them even though they don’t want to invest much. It feels exploitative.
How do we feel about getting a message that required a lot of extra energy to make it longer for all the wrong reasons listed above? As the Earth is burning? All of the electricity demands, economic disruptions, exploitation of the creative and the poor, and many more things besides, all to deliver the kind of message I didn’t want.
Don't write your personal messages with the help of AI.
@sofia@chaos.social Is all of this actually about *artificial* intelligence, though? Because it reads more to me like it is about augmentation of natural intelligence.
(Aside, "AGI" is a term that didn't exist until pretty recently, and it's what "AI" used to mean originally, also in modern AI research)
@silvermoon82 I feel like this elides the much more important question: why do we need this? Why aren't we instead building better (technical and social) structures for the experts we *already have* and who *already* want to help others, to provide that kind of assistance?
@raito It doesn't, though; unless there is a way for people to live without a job, all it will do is artificially increase competition for the same jobs, putting human workers into a worse negotiating position (= worse pay, worse work environment).
Military drones don't move the losses to artificial 'humans' either; the casualties on the other end are still just as human, and the scale of them increases as automation is applied.
@virtulis But we already *have* less squishy and less biased systems; computers can do that just fine, given careful application.
So why do we need "AI"?
Especially considering that trying to recreate sentience is more likely to *reintroduce* bias, because biases, however frustrating, do actually play a role in survival and development.
@raito This seems like it just circles back to "labour exploitation" again, honestly.
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How is Mozilla doing you ask? Firefox VCS has completed the move from their own infra to checks notes oh yeah, GitHub dot com
@raito The thing is, I don't see why point 1 would be in any way desirable, and point 2 doesn't seem to be what people actually are doing - instead they're trying to 1:1 emulate how human brains work, warts and all.
@eloy @linus This feels like the logical next step after they were planning to move away from IRC, and "Discord" was a serious candidate in the running...
The rationale back then was something along the lines of "running our own comms is not our core business and we just want something that requires no effort to keep running" and that was pretty much already the point where Mozilla was dead to me, because clearly they were unwilling to build the kind of world they claimed to want to see.
I might expect that kind of answer from a tech corporation. It has no place in an organization that ostensibly exists for activist purposes.
Serious question: why would we want to create artificial intelligence?
And I mean the actual meaning of the term, not "a bunch of algorithms in a trenchcoat" and *definitely* not LLM grifts, but something that you could plausibly consider a form of genuine sentient life.
Why is this even a goal worth chasing? What does anyone hope to actually achieve with this?
@z This looks a lot closer than most, thanks! From a quick look it's a bit too restricted for what I'm looking for (being tiling-only) but it's definitely quite close to the category I'm looking for.
Honestly, Aging Wheels feels like Top Gear but not run by shitheads
- 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
