Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
hot take, politics (2)
And yes, it's left *or* right, not just 'right'.
With leftist views, it just looks different: "it would be great if we could have <leftist thing>, but others will never agree / that's not economically feasible / that will never happen / etc.", because there the fear is not disapproval of morals (like with right-wing views) but criticisms of practicality
hot take, politics
"Moderate" and "centrist" usually just boils down to "either left or right, but being afraid to speak it aloud due to social consequences and/or group dynamics"
nlpol, question
@Heidentweet I am unsure, but given that it's Wilders we're talking about, I don't think his word on that would be worth anything anyway...
re: nlpol, far right, wilders
@eniko I'm kind of surprised the guy actually went through with his threat of "I will resign if this legally impossible thing does not happen", kind of seems like shooting himself in the foot?
re: selfie, no ec, asking for ideas
@soweliniko Crop top of sorts?
Sven Slootweg
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“Pride isn't a party to celebrate gay marriage, its a fucking rebellion against queer oppression.”
https://bsky.app/profile/kayla-denker.blog/post/3lqmsgw2g722d
#pride #lgbtq #queer
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And, by contrast, imagine investing a mere $0.5B into making linters and lexers and code highlighting and meaningful symbol discovery
... *without* LLMs
because that is the true relevant baseline here. If the AI folks let themselves spend literal billions on these flaky-as-hell tools
Imagine what those of us who *plan* could do
@quinn
Turns out this was never actually a technical argument, huh?
But instead an ideological one, being unwilling to trust other people but being totally fine with trusting a technology regardless of its track record
It's particularly 'funny' how people who have been complaining about dependencies for years and how they're too big a risk and you can't trust anyone to get it right and you're irresponsible if you're use them, etc. etc. etc.
... are now singing the praises of a *known and documented* lying and plagiarism machine that has absolutely no provenance tracing whatsoever, nor any sort of isolation of the third-party code, nor any understanding of the problem domain, nor any way to even *talk about* the unmanaged dependencies it dumps into your code base with a shared language (like you can do with, say, package names)
"LLMs are great at writing boilerplate code that you don't want to deal with!"
Bud, friend, pal, have you heard of this thing called 'dependencies', they're written by people who actually understand the problem domain and you can even update them!
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Also i dunno but it’s just really hard for me to be interested in trying the fancy expensive, high-investment versions of the tools when the free versions are all unfit for purpose. Like not just bad but wrong. There’s a bare minimum of purpose alignment that something has to meet for me to consider investing more deeply in it and ALL of the free stuff I encounter is so unfit as to be actively offensive
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I find that all of this makes me incredibly angry. Like, what the fuck are we doing here. Why are we doing this? Who are we doing it for?
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“You can’t have a take on this if you weren’t using the latest tools last week!” Buddy I _HAVE A DAY JOB_
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a lot of even liberal Germans are weirdly defensive about their dysfunctional, openly classist, evil and 100% indefensible education system 
when you point out that no other country in the world has anything like locking children for life into white or blue collar career paths at ages fucking 10-12 (!!!) and that, therefore, the whole thing with "if you don't improve your grades you'll be kicked down to Realschule" is not just cruel and evil but entirely unnecessary, because, again, nobody else does this 19-century-Prussia-ass class segregation so why do you think only you need it?? nobody else in the world burdens their kids with a lifelong curse like the Abitur why do you think only you need to have such a thing as an Abitur??—it doesn't matter how much evidence you show, it's like hitting a brick wall. They go "yes but it's not meant that way..." "I have an aunt who went to Realschule and she's proud..." "the problem is the lack of money, the teachers are overwhelmed" bitch the teachers are overwhelmed everywhere no, the problem isn't lack of funding the problem is your system is formally sanctioned eugenics.
> Gymnasium children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Hauptschülerin, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Realschule kids. Realschüler*innen are stupid. They all wear green. Oh no, I don't want to play with Realschule students. And Sonderschüler*innen are still worse.
the only difference with Huxley is that you think it's progressive because you abolished uniforms. at least in Brave New World they gave kids drugs to ease the pain, children in a literal dystopia were considerably happier than in the German school system
nlpol, question
How do people feel about Wilders fucking off? Good thing, invitation for worse fascists to show up next round of elections, something else?
@elilla From the description, that unfortunately sounds very similar to the school system in the Netherlands (which yes, is very much classist and discriminatory in several other ways too...)
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Met het vallen van kabinet schoof is nederland verlost van de wurggreep van wilders. Het is nu aan andere partijen om zich niet weer te laten gijzelen door fascime, racisme en ego.
Het is tijd dat klimaatnoodtoestand wordt uitgeroepen en dat daarnaar wordt gehandeld, dat israel sancties krijgt voor de genocide die zij pleegt in palestina, fossiele subsidies worden stopgezet. Het is tijd voor een koersverlegging: van een cultuur van haat en dood naar een cultuur van het leven.
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Teken de petitie 'Tanks? No Thanks: ik wil vrede en echte veiligheid!'
Wij willen échte vrede en échte veiligheid. Dit betekent stoppen met alle militaire escalatie en het kopen van steeds meer wapens. Dat maakt ons niet veiliger. Het maakt alleen wapenbedrijven en hun rijke vrienden rijker.
Iedereen wil veilig leven en in vrede samenleven. Maar grote wapenbedrijven en hun vrienden in de politiek verdienen veel geld aan angst en oorlog. Gewone mensen hier in Nederland, maar ook in Palestina, Oekraïne, Congo en Sudan, wij betalen de rekening. Als je kritiek hebt op meer wapens kopen, word je vaak de mond gesnoerd. Zo zien we niet wie er echt aan verdient.
Kijk naar de feiten: Europa is militair al 3 keer sterker dan Rusland. Rusland is economisch even sterk als de kleine Benelux. Toch wil Rutte dat we gaan bezuinigen op onze pensioenen, op onze zorg en op ons onderwijs, zodat we in Europa 200 miljard kunnen uitgeven aan militarisatie en escalatie. Dat geld gaat vooral naar grote Amerikaanse wapenfabrikanten.
Wij zeggen: Tanks? No thanks! Trump en zijn Amerikaanse vrienden worden steeds rijker en machtiger terwijl wij de rekening betalen en straks naar het front worden gestuurd!
Deze petitie markeert het begin van onze Tanks? No Thanks! campagne voor vrede en echte veiligheid. Juni staat voor ons in het teken van bevrijding, rechtvaardigheid en solidariteit! Met op 22 juni een grote demonstratie voor vrede en rechtvaardigheid in Den Haag. Samen kunnen we een stem zijn die durft op te komen voor vrede, rechtvaardigheid en échte veiligheid, niet alleen voor enkelen maar voor iedereen!
Teken de petitie via: https://bij1inactie.nl/
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re: LB (on community health)
this is something i've been mulling over for a while now, but i think never actually posted. in short: community health is not just an individual responsibility, but also a community one.
there is an individual responsibility to communicate and seek treatment, like the people did in this example. let people you're cuddling with know that you have a weird rash or itch, doctors said it's probably just an allergy but just fyi. and then when someone else starts getting one (like person b and c here), they have an opportunity to connect the dots.
but there's also a community responsibility. to normalize talking about things, like this post, so we can learn from each other. to think about how infectious disease spreads in our community and about ways we can act.
we keep ourselves safe. we keep ourselves healthy.
(more posts to come but i need a break. it's the same with covid etc.)
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PSA, Scabies and why it's not always that easy, ph
"You should just immediately know when you got scabies and make sure not to spread it!" You think that's easy? Let me tell you our little tale of woe!
It's February Person A notices some itching and a few spots on their hands. As there's been a few fedi posts about scabies, they panic and think it's scabies, so the next day when they're home they try to contact a Dr. Unfortunately, there's no general practitioner with a quick appointment
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
