Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- 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
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@baldur this number is only so low because there are so few well-regarded tech execs.
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Thought about linking to one of the few well regarded tech execs writing halfbaked bullshit with a tag along the lines of “This is halfbaked bullshit.” But then I remember that he searches social media for links to his site and mentions of his name and tries to argue with people, and he gets all offended when I reply that I’d rather not, if I’d wanted to debate him I’d have mentioned him directly
Instead comfort yourself knowing there are at least a dozen different dudes this could apply to
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Velotunnel-Eröffnung am Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2025! Wir besammeln uns um 18:00 Uhr am Louis-Favre-Platz in #Zürich (Ecke Josef-/Hafner-/Zollstrasse). 🎉🚲
Die #Stadttunnel-Runden fahren wir im Uhrzeigersinn (d.h. Zollstrasse—Hafnerstrasse—Konradstrasse—Velotunnel—Lagerstrasse—Langstrasse).
Obacht, das ist keine Velodemo – es gilt das Strassenverkehrsgesetz, also: Nebeneinanderfahren erlaubt bei dichtem Veloverkehr sowie in Gruppen ab 10 Personen. ✌️#velozh
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On the relationship between Qt and KDE
Volker Hilsheimer, chief maintainer of the Qt project, says he has learned lessons from the painful Qt 5 to Qt 6 transition, the importance of Qt Bridges for using Qt from any language, and the significance of the relationship with the Linux KDE desktop.
↫ Tim Anderson at Dev Class
Qt plays a significant role in the open source desktop world in particular, beca
https://www.osnews.com/story/142401/on-the-relationship-between-qt-and-kde/
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Boost with CW, LLM nonsense, education
AI meta musings
@rune (Tangentially, I've noticed that people in general seem to have a very accurate sense of when something feels "off" and is suspicious, but a very *inaccurate* sense of whether others share those feelings, often wrongly believing they are the only one or conversely that they are wrong for disagreeing. Which can also create some *weird* dynamics around controversial topics...)
AI meta musings
@rune I think a lot of this can be explained by people's spidey senses going off on something being sketchy and therefore speaking out against it, but not necessarily having a solid technical understanding of the thing itself.
I've noticed a very similar thing with eg. the blockchain hype, where people correctly concluded that it was an environmental disaster, but incorrectly based their entire reasoning on "every transaction costs X amount of energy", which is false as the energy use of the network is influenced by exchange rate and not by transaction volume.
I feel like this might just be unavoidable with the kind of hype that deliberately poisons the public discourse with false information and needless complexity to hide the grift...
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The squirrels I planted are finally starting to come in. #Gardening #Zone5 #ClayPot #Squirrel
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@eloy @theresnotime@fox.nexus It dates back to... 2012 or thereabouts, I believe?
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Gardening update! Over the past weeks I've been slowly planting various things, and organizing my backyard.
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"I was given this game for free to review on my Twitch or Youtube, and I feel like someone owes me money even though I didn't pay for it. Early Access or not, a game should include, at the bare minimum, gameplay."
"I've worked in a warehouse for over a year, and I've been driving semi's for a year and a half now -- I didn't think it could be made any less fun. :-)"
"You can take the warehouse out of the man, but not the man out of the warehouse. No really, I tried to leave the warehouse to complete an order and it wouldn't let me out. What in the holy flaming forklift is this? For what could be a neat game Warehouse Sim's a hot mess. The majority of reported bugs as well as those shown in early streamer preview videos are still present...unlike the developers."
Something tells me this is not a very good game
@bean I think that's why firebombs were invented?
"I was given this game for free to review on my Twitch or Youtube, and I feel like someone owes me money even though I didn't pay for it. Early Access or not, a game should include, at the bare minimum, gameplay."
"I've worked in a warehouse for over a year, and I've been driving semi's for a year and a half now -- I didn't think it could be made any less fun. :-)"
"You can take the warehouse out of the man, but not the man out of the warehouse. No really, I tried to leave the warehouse to complete an order and it wouldn't let me out. What in the holy flaming forklift is this? For what could be a neat game Warehouse Sim's a hot mess. The majority of reported bugs as well as those shown in early streamer preview videos are still present...unlike the developers."
Something tells me this is not a very good game
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LLMs exist to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.
There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.
EDIT: I should have expected this post would attract the deliberately obtuse shills, but my goodness
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If we could admit the following, it would save many lives:
COVID is airborne
COVID is not over
COVID is a social justice issue & everyone deserves access to vaccines, respirators and clean air
COVID can impact everyone, not “only the vulnerable”
Lastly, the “vulnerable” deserve protection too. We are not expendable.
- 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
