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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"why do people download x instead of streaming"
I dunno man, why do you buy clothes instead of just assuming the clothes shop will always be there
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Hetzelfde geldt voor een bericht over het laatste ziekenhuis voor hart- en kankerpatiënten in Gaza, dat volgens NOS 'onbruikbaar is geworden' in plaats van verwoest door Israëlische bombardementen. [3/5]
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Als NOS zegt dat er vorig jaar Tropisch regenwoud ter grootte van Ierland 'verloren ging' wekt dat de indruk dat het zomaar gebeurde. Zo blijven de oorzaken en de daders buiten schot. [2/5]
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Nieuws moet een eerlijk beeld geven van wat er aan de hand is. Dat betekent dat berichtgeving zorgvuldig en duidelijk moet zijn, en er geen plaats is voor misleidende frames. Helaas staan NOS-artikelen er vol mee! [1/5]
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It's baffling how many applications lock up, balloon in memory use, continue doing something in the background (with the UI now missing) once you 'cancel' it, provide zero immediate UI feedback, or otherwise completely break as soon as a remote server is a bit flaky or slow to respond.
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Parents arguing for smartphone bans always feels like an admission of impotence to me, a cop-out that releases them from having to deal with the actual problems involved, such as the addictive design and dark patterns they are also subject to themselves.
It delays having to deal with the unhealthy work habits that demand that they are always connected, and 'productive'.
It certainly does not do anything about the fact that a large percentage of adults has simply no critical internal review of what kind of information they consume, where it comes from, and so forth, as evidenced by how deeply mis- and disinformed they are.
@benjojo Oh wow, it really *is* like those e-mails...
@liw I mostly agree, but I'd say that there's one notable exception: the "FOSS" projects with glossy marketing that are planned from the start to eventually become proprietary or otherwise extractive systems, once they've eaten the other FOSS projects, often with false marketing claims. Though initially they're often framed as community projects.
The JS world (and seemingly also Go?) gets particularly many of these, for some reason.
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By and large, free and open source software projects don't compete with FOSS projects. If your project has more users than mine, than we both win.
Even if a project is developed and "owned" by for-profit companies, that doesn't necessarily hurt other projects.
Non-free software is the competition. Possibly even the enemy.
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@kdj8 KDE Plasma 6.4 officially released, here's what's new:
- Improved performance with wobbly windows (they are wobblier)
- Improved HDR support
- Button in a single application that's only visible when a specific feature is enabled is now a rounded button. This has been a pending feature request for 7 years. Millions rejoice
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«It showed that, when there is non-promotable work to be done, women volunteer to do it 48% more often than men.
But they also found that men volunteered less because if they waited, they knew that a woman would volunteer. In all male groups, they had no trouble getting volunteers. If there were no women there, men volunteered just fine.
The even more interesting part was that, when managers were asked to choose someone to do thankless work, they asked women 44% more than they asked men.»
Now I’m pissed https://www.noidea.dog/glue
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𝔈𝔦𝔫𝔥𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔱𝔳𝔦𝔢𝔯𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔳𝔦𝔢𝔯𝔷𝔦𝔤𝔓𝔯𝔬𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔰𝔦𝔳 ♦️
This is my favorite piece of mis-design.
It's basically saying "Don't throw it on the floor! DO throw it into the ocean, let it swim with the turtles!"
@GrapheneOS @J3317 @evilcookies98 @darkyen This was about espeak, not RHVoice; and to my knowledge, espeak is algorithmic in nature and not trained on a massive dubiously sourced set of training data, which means it does not suffer from the same problem.
I have my doubts that this discussion is going to be moving in a productive direction for either of us, so I'll leave you with this comment:
The way you've responded to this situation has damaged your reputation in my eyes *far* more than that article ever could have.
You've yelled at a blind person for expressing their frustration with being excluded, you've threatened pausing development on accessibility entirely (which feels rather "look what you made me do!"), you've repeatedly refused to take responsibility for your decisions by framing them as if they are out of your hands, and you've confirmed the long-standing rumours that you call all criticism "attacks" (which is something I'd remained undecided on until now because I didn't have enough information, but now got to see first-hand).
You yell a lot about how that article has "harmed the project", but if you're concerned about harm to the project, I think that you need to be looking inward instead, at the way you interact with criticism.
@GrapheneOS @J3317 @evilcookies98 @darkyen Once again, this is still just "we do not want to do it", regardless of how justified you feel your reasons for that decision are. But it is not that you *cannot* do it, so don't present it as if it is.
@GrapheneOS @J3317 @evilcookies98 @darkyen Like, to be clear: depending on circumstances, "we do not think this is worth the cost for the gain we get" *can* sometimes be a reasonable point.
But then be honest about what you're actually saying, take responsibility for your choice, and don't frame it as an impossibility that is out of your hands.
@GrapheneOS @J3317 @evilcookies98 @darkyen As I have brought up before, that system appears to be based on LLM/GenAI tech and models, which means it cannot ever be open-source.
And what the author of the article decides to do frankly has no bearing on my arguments here. You are still presenting "do not want to do" as "cannot do", which are two very different things.
@GrapheneOS @J3317 @evilcookies98 @darkyen (Which, incidentally, is *exactly* what the original complaint was about.)
@GrapheneOS @J3317 @evilcookies98 @darkyen That is just a lot of words to say "we do not want to do this, we do not think that accessibility is worth doing this".
@GrapheneOS @J3317 @evilcookies98 @darkyen I have literally suggested a solution for this several posts up, that would absolutely work.
"Do not want to do this" is a very different thing from "cannot do this".
- 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
