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
Was playing X4 Foundations, set ship to autopilot, it steers and faceplants directly into an asteroid... and immediately plays a voice line of the ship computer saying "Autopilot epically failed."
I have so many questions
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Dear software devs: either your installer installs the entire thing, or the installer should be a tiny download.
That’s a STRICT or.
No 2.7 GB installers that then proceed to download the remaining 4.3 GB of required data.
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So I 3D printed a design that I thought would make for a fun pin to put on a backpack or laptop case....but so far no one I've shown it to has recognized this logo instantly...feeling old today.
#3DPrinting #DOS #RetroComputing
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@smallcircles Yeah, in retrospect, "what if we based our economy and our information infrastructure on extractively manipulating everybody all the time" was maybe not a great foundation for society.
CW-boost: LLMs, mention of (decade ago) suicide
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concept: Race the Supercomputer.
pick out a selection of notable supercomputers throughout history. rather than use benchmarks like instructions per second or Dhrystones or Whetstones:
- identify the tasks for which each computer was used;
- make programs for modern computers optimized to do the same tasks; and
- compare performance at those tasks.
so, for example: how much faster can your cell phone search for Mersenne primes than the Manchester Mk. 1? how much faster can your laptop calculate Japanese climatological and meteorological data than the Cray 1? how much faster can your graphics card render a planetarium-like video than the LINKS-1 system from Osaka University?
it would be a ton of work for very little benefit - especially given how many of these systems were used for proprietary or classified applications that we have little info about - but I think it would be really fun.
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@neil Not *directly* a solution to what you're encountering (as they don't sell individual books) but I've been quite enjoying getting books from StoryBundle lately, as they're always DRM-free epubs and there's a lot of lesser-known but interesting books in there. Maybe something you might find interesting too?
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"De staat ziet alleen de publiek-private samenwerkingen. Maar er is ook het civiele domein: verenigingen, stichtingen, collectieven. We pleiten voor meer publiek-civiel-private samenwerkingen vanuit de overheid.” - @marleenstikker #StaatVanHetInternet2025 #MarleenStikker
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“Als je kritisch over technologie bent, al is het bij je familie, op werk, in de board room, dan voel je dat je buiten een soort geaccepteerd narratief valt. Je moet het toepassen, je mag niet achterblijven.” - @marleenstikker
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“Ik wil het niet meer hebben over alternatieven, ik ga het voortaan hebben over next generation internet. Als je kijkt naar de NextCloud website, alles ziet er heel mooi uit, ze hebben suites, ze hebben van alles. De alternatieven worden steviger. Het NGI wordt gebouwd, is gebouwd.” - @marleenstikker #StaatVanHetInternet2025 #MarleenStikker
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TIL about the formaction attribute in HTML. How did I never know about this before?!
@aral To clarify (after giving the ruling a quick read): it's specifically the IAB's mechanism of a 'consent string' that's ruled illegal, because it itself is identifiable/fingerprintable, rather than the consent popups themselves being ruled illegal.
At least that's how I understand the ruling, as a native Dutch speaker.
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I was always taught in school that books must have protagonists and antagonists, and it occurs to me that this is a very hierarchical belief that just isn't true.
Like the Bunker series by Jordan Rivet for example, which involves plenty of conflict - but which frequently switches perspectives between the *parties* to that conflict. None of the parties is actually an antagonist!
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@joepie91 It's a pretty colonialist belief in a way, like believing the hero's journey is the main story archetype. Story telling in non European contexts can be quite a lot different—and not apply this framework of story telling about singular individuals going on heroic journeys.
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I miss wired headphones where you plug a thing in and it immediately works 100% of the time without having to click on anything or charge anything or wait for anything or sync anything or make sure you don't connect to too many things or walk too far away by accident or
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ChatGPT kent het concept “waarheid” niet. ChatGPT controleert niet of zijn output “klopt”. ChatGPT weet niet wat “klopt” is. Soms passen de ontwikkelaars handmatig iets aan als een levend persoon onterecht als pedofiel werd aangemerkt of zo. Maar dat is handmatig - je kunt dit niet voor alle gevallen oplossen door de techniek beter te maken, want ChatGPT kent het concept “waarheid” niet. Zo is ‘ie niet gebouwd.
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Is dit bedoeld als anti-chatgpt? Nee. Ik wil er best voor uitkomen: ik ben met kopjes gooiend woest over het bestaan van ChatGPT en z’n vrienden, die ons water opslurpen, meer stroom verbruiken dan sommige natiestaten, bijna alles wat ze als bron gebruiken hebben gestolen, en lappen tekst produceren zonder waarheidswaarde die het hele internet beginnen te vervuilen. Maar het gaat me hier om wat ze zijn, wat ze doen. Zodat als je ervoor kiest ze te gebruiken je weet wat je krijgt.
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ChatGPT doet niets met het concept waarheid. Waarheid is geen variabele in het algoritme. ChatGPT geeft altijd antwoord en zegt nooit “dat weet ik niet”, want ChatGPT weet sowieso helemaal niets. Behalve welke soorten woorden vaak samen voorkomen.
“Anna woont in Haarlem” en “Anna is tot ons verdriet vorige week overleden” zijn allebei combinaties die heel plausibel zijn en als je ChatGPT de ‘goede’ vragen stelt zal je dat terugkrijgen. Is allebei niet waar.
- 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
