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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this whole post is great but the last line KNOCKED ME OUT
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Any Mastodon instance that is acquired by a for-profit organization should get an immediate fediblock.
#fediblock pawoo.net
@drmaddkap By a cryptoshit company, no less.
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@mhoye and also with a litany of references of the historical usage of that phrase, because "nobody wants to work anymore" has been in newspapers and many other places for a good couple centuries at least.
It's the fundamental litany of capitalism, trying to guilt people into accepting less than their labour's worth.
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One thing I will say about that chart going around that shows monkeypox in rapid decline:
I can't help but notice that all the media outlets that bought into the gay disease panic narrative are reeeeeeeeeeal quiet about how effectively queer community mobilized to shut that danger down.
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I would love to see someone list general-interest tech media which published articles describing Mastodon/the fediverse as complicated and confusing, a couple of months after assuring readers that crypto wallets and apps were “not that hard to get the hang of”.
@kim Yes! Also the internal design of the GBC is so good, it was clearly designed for hand-assembly
@kim Most likely original shells but I can't be 100% sure - they're all broken units imported from Japan, basically. I'm not too concerned about *exactly* equivalent replacement parts tbh, main goal is to make them properly playable again and look nice :)
It's a budget-neutral hobby so to say, to fix these up, with the cost of broken+parts being about equal to the local price for a working one
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long post on accessibility advice from a blind screen reader user
OK #Mastodon. I've seen several toots on #accessibility for #screenreader users, however, I've not seen one from a screenreader user (as far as I know). I've used ZoomText, Outspoken, JAWS (AKA JFW), Supernova, NVDA (Windows), and VoiceOver (both on Macs and iPhone). I don't have experience with Windows Narrator or TalkBack. I would like to rectify and clarify a few small things.
First off, any awareness of accessibility issues, and endeavours to make things more accessible is great. Keep going!
But…
Blind/low-vision people have been using the internet as long as everyone else. We had to become used to the way people share things, and find workarounds or tell developers what we needed; this latter one has been the main drive to get us here and now. Over the past decade, screen readers have improved dramatically, including more tools, languages, and customisability. However, the basics were already firmly in place around 2000. Sadly, screen readers cost a lot of money at that time. Now, many are free; truly the biggest triumph for accessibility IMHO.
So, what you can do to help screen readers help their users is three simple things.
1. Write well: use punctuation, and avoid things like random capitalisation or * halfway through words.
2. Image description: screen readers with image recognition built-in will only provide a very short description, like: a plant, a painting, a person wearing a hat, etc. It can also deal with text included in the image, as long as the text isn't too creatively presented. So, by all means, go absolutely nuts with detail.
3. Hashtags: this is the most commonly boosted topic I've seen here, so #ThisIsWhatAnAccessibleHashtagLooksLike. The capitalisation ensures it's read correctly, and for some long hashtags without caps, I've known screen readers to give up and just start spelling the whole damn thing out, which is slow and painful.
That's really all. Thanks for reading! 😘
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machine learning is just incredibly reckless.
from a moral viewpoint:
we're freely spreading code that generates content almost inconceivably different (at times) to that produced by humans, but without any sense of morality involved during the generation process. also the obvious existing systemic issues we have being embedded deep into the datasets and models.
from an an existential view point:
our grasp on consciousness, whether our own or other animals, is limited at best. in relation to that we have no idea how this generated code matches up in relation to that. not to mention the generated code is essentially a blackbox. now I'm not saying anything definitive with this, like that we've already created some semblance of sentience, but in what way is what we're doing not reckless?
this isn't to say that all machine learning should be stopped. but come on there's a fucking middle ground lol
@kim Nah, this is just a refurb, one of many, I'll probably install an IPS panel on one once I run across a unit with a completely busted screen
Oh, and a whoooole bunch of cleaning of course, took the shell apart entirely, scrubbed away for a good while at some discolouration, etc.
Things fixed:
- Replaced dinged-up plastic lens with a new glass one
- Battery area and button contacts were corroded, removed corrosion and replaced the battery bridge contact
- Wouldn't read game cartridges correctly; fixed by cleaning out the cartridge slot with isopropyl alcohol
(This one was originally listed as "junk, doesn't work")
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
pov you're catsitting cats who are known to try eat everything that looks edible, especially when it's still in packaging, and you hear crunch crunch crunch coming from the kitchen
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Been seeing a lot about #ChatGPT lately and got my first question at the library this week from someone who was looking for a book that the bot had recommended. They couldn't find it in our catalog. Turns out that ALL the books that ChatGPT had recommended for their topic were non-existent. Just real authors and fake titles cobbled together. And apparently this is known behavior. 😮
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Goo Truther 
Hey website boy? Can I make a humble suggestion for upstream? I think it really suits the new brand push for better marketing data for our new journalist friends.
@joshuafoust "We won't be open-sourcing GPT-3 because of its abuse potential, therefore we will act as its gatekeeper instead"
- OpenAI, like a year ago
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Nieuwe blog … 📣
*Mastodon is geen revalidatiecentrum voor white innocence*
https://blog.joenepraat.nl/mastodon-is-geen-revalidatiecentrum-voor-white-innocence
"Wat een eer! In het zoveelste artikel over #Mastodon staat mijn #mastofittie (hierbij als nieuw woord gelanceerd) met ene Caroline (what's in a name). Zelfs Todon.nl wordt in het zonnetje gezet! 🎉 Helaas word ik wel gemisgendered (ondertussen op mijn verzoek online gecorrigeerd). 🙄
De context was dat op 19 november jl. de bus van #KOZP (waar ik in zat) net daarvoor was belaagd door (inderdaad) fascistische terrorboeren in de buurt van #Staphorst. Tijdens de terugreis naar de beschaafde wereld maakte ik in een sarcastische toot/bericht met een (uiteraard) fake motie om dat zwaar gereformeerde dorp om te toveren tot een Natura 2000-gebied. Een manier van mij om deze afschuwelijke ervaring te verwerken. Dit werd door vele mensen zo begrepen en gewaardeerd, dus ging die trending (ja dat hebben ze ook op Mastodon) en kwam het op het beeldscherm van deze Caroline terecht. Die kwam hier op Mastodon voor haar geprivilegieerde rust 🤦🏻 en dacht een activist die nog vol met adrenaline zat de mond te kunnen snoeren (tone policing). …"
#StaphorstKanHetNiet #ZwartePietNiet #ZwartePiet #activisme #solidariteit #blog #Volkskrant
Edit: Ik had door alle euforie het misgenderen over het hoofd gezien. 😢
- 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
