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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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- 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
Linux suggestions
@mynameistillian I'm not @flesh, but: if you're looking for a new hobby, NixOS (or realistically, what comes out of its community fork-wise, like Lix and such) is an interesting option.
If you want something that Just Works, I've noticed that the Pop! OS folks have by far the best attitude when it comes to "if it doesn't work like people expect, that's a bug, even if it was designed that way", but I haven't actually had a reason to *use* it myself so I don't know how far they've gotten from a technical perspective
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Het uitzicht van een ingelast #Pauzebankje vanmiddag (voor een preventieve blarenpleister).
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If someone wants to summarize what I said with an LLM I think the only reasonable response is to pepper the training dataset with GO FUCK YOURSELF signed by me with my real name addressed directly to you. Maybe that way your dramatically overfit surveillance bot confuses its attention matrix with confidence and gives me direct control over your fucking home thermostat or morning alarm clock. In biological signaling we say "a costly signal is a true signal" and you signaling this hard you trust your life to a suggestible text-based advertising machine suggests I would truly be able to dominate your perception of truth with like $20 of google ad spend.
Two hours of first-person footage of firefighters responding to a major forest/heath fire in the Netherlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiwPuEkh810
(CW: It can get pretty scary/intense at times)
@nico In the current situation, there is exactly *one* valid discussion to have about LLMs: and that is one that recognizes that it is a fundamentally exploitative technology (not in the least due to its training data demands that are impossible to meet ethically), and where the discussion revolves around how to most effectively remove it from society.
Any other kind of discussion - and that *especially* includes "devil's advocate" type arguments - only serves one purpose, and that's to provide cover to the fascists running the show. And I will not engage in that. Its exploitative nature is not up for debate.
@nico And no part of my original post was about laws.
I really have no interest in chasing goalposts. If you're not going to engage with the actual point I'm making, then please don't engage at all, because I certainly am not going to go off on a million irrelevant tangents.
I've spent the better part of a decade chasing these sorts of 'discussions' about other hyped technologies and none of them have *ever* resulted in any kind of useful outcome. I do not intend to waste any more time on this.
re: uspol, israel, europe, tech companies
@feld The problem probably isn't where the mail gets delivered. It's the entire system of integrating it into their existing setups.
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> being plausible but slightly wrong and un-auditable—at scale—is the killer feature of LLMs, not a bug that will ever be meaningfully addressed, and this combination of properties makes it an essentially fascist technology. By “fascist” in this context, I mean that it is well suited to centralizing authority, eliminating checks on that authority and advancing an anti-science agenda.
@shauna Which keynote was this?
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Dus #RTL wordt óók al onderdeel van #DPG. Voor mij had de @acm hier niet akkoord mee hoeven gaan. Ik houd niet van zulke machtige bedrijven.
Laten we vooral ook niet vergeten dat DPG vorig jaar de Big Brother Award won voor grove privacyschendingen. (Betalend) abonnee van een van hun 70 mediatitels? Je wordt getrackt, je persoonlijke data worden verkocht en tot 10 jaar bewaard.
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🥳🎉
keep signing though. it must have a million *valid* signatures, and some percentage is always found to be invalid, so we should ensure the petition has enough wiggle room
@pascaline Will have to see if it's in the packages yet :) May take a few days before I get it
@pascaline Ahh, I'm still on 138.0, that's probably why!
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Morgen is de Rave voor de rafelranden voor de derde keer. De gemeente maakt het de organisatie moeilijk.
De tijden zijn aangepast, het eindpunt verplaats naar letterlijk een rafelrand van Utrecht. Geluid eerder uit.
Mocht je morgen naar de rave komen, neem vooral protest bordjes, vlaggen en spandoeken mee. De gemeente vind de demonstratie niet politiek genoeg, dan maken wij het politieker.
Dat gezegd hebben, de organisatie heeft een front banner en ze zoeken nog mensen die kunnen helpen met dragen van de front banner. Het is dat wij al andere taken hebben, anders we het wel op ons genomen.
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Ugh, my two favourite posts about autism self-diagnosis are now "Member-only stories".
https://medium.com/neurodiversified/self-diagnosis-is-valid-d96d41cfb02b
https://devonprice.medium.com/from-self-diagnosis-to-self-realization-852e3a069451
Any #ActuallyAutistic folks have any alternatives to recommend?
uspol, israel, europe, tech companies
Well, it's happened. The International Criminal Court's e-mail services (specifically those of the head prosecutor) at Microsoft have been shut down, most likely as a result of the sanctions that Trump applied to the ICC after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant.
The prosecutor now cannot do their job anymore.
The danger of relying on US-based tech companies is no longer hypothetical now.
@pascaline Hmm, I'm on 138 but I don't seem to have the feature. What's the exact version you have?
@smveerman Niet alleen in Oost-Brabant. Toen ze nog in Dordrecht reden vroeg ik me ook regelmatig af waar ze hun wagenpark in godsnaam bij elkaar gesprokkeld hadden...
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Kindergarten children dropped seeds in the crack of the sidewalk to see what would happen 💕 More photos: https://streetartutopia.com/2025/05/16/kindergarten-children-dropped-seeds-in-the-crack-of-the-sidewalk-to-see-what-would-happen/
- 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
