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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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
@lex I'd say that a much bigger issue is that schools generally *aren't* safe/trusted environments for a lot of students, and "your identity and self-expression is tied to a hierarchical organization that holds power over you" (ie. a school) seems like... not really an improvement over the big social media platforms.
It's not without reason that the common advice among students back in my high school days was "don't ever use your school e-mail for anything personal, because the school can read everything".
@aurynn It's not *exactly* federated, but something I've been working on experimentally is seekseek.org (more details: https://seekseek.org/technology)
The basic idea is to move away from generic keyword search and instead collaboratively maintain search engines for specific purposes, that pull from known-good sources.
"Known-good sources" can be pretty widely defined there, and vary from search domain to search domain. It'll plausibly involve some amount of collaborative manual index maintenance at some point (along the lines of Wikidata, OSM, or Open Food Facts).
This doesn't exactly solve the *same* problem as generic text search engines, but it should be strongly resistant to SEO and similar bullshit, and make for much more accurate searches within supported 'search domains'. And to be honest, I think there are way more interesting possibilities *outside* of the "let's just clone what Google does" space anyway.
Federation isn't currently a part of it (and I haven't yet seen a spam-resistant model proposed for that either!), but being locally replicable and divided into domain-specific search systems sort of naturally encourages for different groups to run different parts of the ecosystem.
It's still pretty early days, and I'd love for more people to get involved! But the basic concept seems to work so far.
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When people misuse the words concrete, asphalt and gravel, it's just cementics.
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Anne C.A. Baanen
this is pretty much exactly my gender most of the time
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JFC, I'll take a slew of half baked 2000s era Under Construction 🚧 websites any day to this utterly barren internet wasteland of search results that are machine generated copies of other sites that are machine generated copies of other sites that are machine generated to only appear in my search in order to attempt to sell me something.
@mrtazz@chaos.social They know. They're not investing in "AI" because of "advancement of society" or anything like that. They're doing so because it is a means for them to further entrench their power over society. In that context, it makes complete sense.
@technomancy @apLundell@octodon.social I feel like at that price point, you could probably just get a tape deck with auto-rewind... :/
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I get so tired of academic publishing. I am trying to get something peer reviewed ( https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/807693v2 ) that I spent a huge amount of time writing and typesetting to make readable and accessible without all the dogshit we do to papers, like hiding away all the detail in supplements that you have to flip back and forth from to understand anyway. That means that the document ends up being like 45 pages, but that's because the text is 2/3 width with 1/3 for margin figures and margin notes, lots of whitespace, about 100 diagrams, figures, pictures, etc. interwoven with the text to support the reader!
If I render it in the typical reader-hostile way, remove all the parts where I'm trying to make it accessible to nonprogrammers, remove all context that informs the state of prior art and the motivation for the work, and remove all the figures except the ones plotting data it is normal paper length.
I can't get it reviewed! It's "too long" and it's a "user guide, not a paper." So now I have to chop it back up, shoehorn it into typical paper format, make it worse to read and harder to understand. That, or I guess I could do the usual perfunctory 5 page code paper that just says "we made a package to do experiments, here it is doing experiments" without any effort to contextualize it or describe how and why it works that way.
Is this really how we want it to work? Only things that hew exactly to the traditional style are allowed to exist, if you try and experiment with new document forms you're just wasting your time, the only thing that matters is that it "looks like science."
re: flexitarian food
@maya It varies (nowadays my macaroni mostly consists of leftover ingredients) but I'd say that garlic + onion + mushrooms + carrots is definitely a good base.
@Rairii Feel like that's maybe a bit late to the party for most people :p
re: flexitarian food
@maya Whoops, forgot to mention: adding some sort of tomato *something* to the macaroni is pretty crucial for the taste. Either paste+water or passata is fine. For paste, make sure that it gets a while to cook.
re: flexitarian food
@maya Alright :) Two things that I've found to work very well to freeze-and-microwave, as batch meal prep options:
1. Macaroni with a bit of minced meat (real or substitute) and, crucially, 'tough' vegetables like carrots or broccoli or even green beans (no pre-cooking), everything except the macaroni fried in a single frying pan.
The 'tough' vegetables make it so that there's still some crunch to it after microwaving. Fried mushrooms also survive a freeze/microwave cycle pretty well, if you like those.
Relatively easy to adjust the 'dosage' of meat, you can just fill it with more crunchy vegetables and mushrooms instead.
2. Sauerkraut mash with a little bit of diced bacon. Basically just boiled potatoes and boiled sauerkraut (boiled short for a more sour taste, boiled long for a more neutral taste), and then add in pan-fried diced bacon afterwards. The grease of that should be enough that no other animal products need to be added.
This one is a bit more subject to personal taste preferences, I think - it's a dish I personally love, but some people really hate it. It freezes-and-microwaves extremely well though, as long as you 'flatpack' it (in eg. a sealed freezer bag) and don't freeze it as a chunk, or it'll never heat equally.
Both are pretty low-complexity to cook, needing one normal pan and one frying pan each, with high margins for error. Pretty much any vegetables can go into the macaroni, though crunch really does make it a lot better (pre-cut works fine too).
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@maya Are you open to recommendations?
@cgranade Well... the HDMI folks *did* just recently rename HDMI 2.0 to HDMI 2.1, which was previously a wholly separate spec version
@cgranade They seem to be in a competition with the HDMI folks on who can make the most confusing naming scheme, it seems
@cgranade Oh and all of these are separate from the 'marketing names', which are SuperSpeed USB, SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps, and SuperSpeed USB 20 Gbps.
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Is there a place where people developing third party tools and clients for Mastodon are hanging out?
@cgranade Oh, it gets worse. Previously, it was called USB 3.1 Gen 1. Before that, it was USB 3.0. All the same spec, now called USB 3.2 Gen 1.
The other 'variants' of USB 3.2 are Gen 2 and... Gen 2x2.
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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
