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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feeling horrible ?
MEOWS
M - taken your Meds ?
E - Eaten ?
O - been Outside ?
W - drunk Water ?
S - Slept enough ?
easy. just made this acronym for myself but maybe it will help others lol
the amount of time iv been in downtime because of one of these simple things is embarrassing
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Are there any actual fediverse servers hosted on alibaba, or is it all b2b garbage? (meaning I can block their whole ip range)
"Text extruder" is such a good word for LLM garbage
Considering making "how are conflicts in the community handled?" my new initial screening question when evaluating new tech and projects, instead of anything about the tech itself
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The longer I live, the more convinced I am that I personally hold abundant hope for humanity - perhaps especially right now - precisely because I've lived in places that are neither rich nor white.
White anti-culture (and its preferred economic weapon, capitalism) is a profoundly effective creator of despair... by design.
It is not, however, any kind of meaningful indicator of human nature.
Life has not forgotten how to live. The scourge of white supremacy can be unmade and healed.
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I can't explain my brain but it managed to give me exactly one word I could put into my instance search field to find the toot I was looking for
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@cthos a bit of hard data from a point of view AI companies don't want to talk about: @iocaine
Daily stats from my crawler defense system, showing 7-8 million requests a day, against the very small and niche sites I host.
98% of my traffic is crawlers. It is their cost, which they try to push onto others. It's completely ridiculuous.
Even if the energy use of training and generating would be zero, the crawling cost, paid by literally everyone else, is not. This cost is easily demonstratable.
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The fact that the GenAI industry isn't providing actual data about their energy usage should make you _very_ skeptical about their claims of "it's fine".
And I'm a little disappointed in seeing folks I generally respect being like "oh no, it's not as much as you think" - y'all need to show me hard data.
Also, I would fucking hope a text extruder uses less energy than serving 4k video, the fact that it presently *isn't* is a travesty - nevermind its other travesties.
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So, re: LLMs and the "jury is out on energy usage", I just want to point out a couple of historical things.
When studies came out linking smoking to increased risk of cancer, the Tobacco industry paid for and produced studies that said "nuh uh".
When Obesity and heart disease rates increased in the United States and the problem was linked to sugar intake, the sugar industry produced studies saying it was fats.
@ifixcoinops Ah, I know this company. They're a big supplier of pet products of dubious quality over here in Europe...
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@joepie91 like actual installments or like using Klarna on a burrito
@robinsyl There's a point where it starts showing the installment price in the search results and it was that point :p
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I built a new work table for my garage today! Sort of! There were already two half storage racks there with some planks haphazardly on top, serving as a makeshift worktable; so I sanded the edges of some very thin plywood of sorts, varnished it, then nailed it to the top. And now it looks a lot nicer!
I also made a little tray hanging on the wall, to hold my glue and spray cans and such.
You know you're in trouble when the AliExpress search results start telling you the price of things in installments
I swear, every single track opiuo puts out is a banger
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YouTube Support,
I wish to appeal my ban on the grounds that death threats are acceptable greetings among my people.
Worf
@gsuberland@chaos.social Thanks, that helps. I'll mill this over for a bit.
... and I suppose that another reason I dislike working with #Rust, is that it's always "you can use this feature X except in cases where Y" and for every X there's a different Y, there doesn't seem to be a restricted set of basic code organization techniques that you can universally apply, you always have to learn a million edge cases to get anywhere
sweet food
@mynameistillian Tiramisu!
- 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
