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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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- 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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@VeryBadLlama I was reminded very strongly of this one I just saw the other day:
re: 37c3 ticket presale rant, ableism
@polygon Yeah, I decided not to go this year for that reason :/
Looking for suggestions for a new personal domain name, that will (among other things) host my blog, something that doesn't include my nickname or variations thereof and is a little more colourful
re: 37c3 ticket presale rant, ableism
@polygon Not surprising unfortunately, in light of their (complete lack of) COVID mitigations...
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37c3 ticket presale rant, ableism
dieser ticket presale ist so ein ableistisches scheißsystem. Da werden menschen mit kürzerer reaktionszeit, schlechterer Internetanbindung oder vielleicht auch einfach Motorik rausgefiltert und nur die schnellsten und "ablen" kommen durch.
I'm out. Fuck this.
#37c3
@twoolie I have already told you exactly where the exploitation happens, and it's trivial to find the remaining documentation on eg. the exploitation of Kenyans involved. That you don't want to hear it is not my problem.
Also, get out of here with this "technology is neutral" rhetoric.
@twoolie Many of these "open-source datasets" are scraped non-consentually. The ones that aren't, result in useless LLMs because there isn't enough training data - people have tried.
So yes, it *does* immediately make them unethical, when *in practice* it is impossible to ethically acquire sufficient training material to make the technology work.
Tabby is trained on non-consentually collected data.
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🔜 NFC
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Feeling very 2016 as today is our 24th of june 2016 and our 9th of november 2016 all rolled into one. Both disastrous results are 7 years ago and haven’t turned out great. You’d think we wouldn’t make the same mistake. But we did and now we have to go through the same pain we saw the folks in America and Britain go through. We weren’t the first western nation to fuck up like this but I hope we’re the last.
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We're all just collectively cool with racialized torture, colonial-type exploitation, boiling the oceans and diverting water from actual need by human people so that we can have repetitive tasks accomplished, but shittier?
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So did anyone ever do anything about the Kenyan workers that they're torturing for $2 per day to make LLM's work, or is that still happening?
@twoolie @pi_crew@chaos.social There is no such thing as "local-only LLMs".
LLMs (it's in the name!) by their nature are trained on an input corpus so large that you cannot really acquire it through ethical means, let alone train it entirely locally. The technology simply cannot work with that little input data.
(That doesn't mean that local-only *autocompletion* cannot be a thing, but that wouldn't be an LLM.)
Ik kan het me moeilijk voorstellen, maar als je bij deze verkiezingen PVV of FvD gestemd hebt, dan kun je me bij dezen ontvolgen.
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so how about that Niagara Falls border crossing incident today, huh
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De belangrijkste conclusie van vanavond is m.i. dat de verschillen tussen rechtse en extreemrechtse partijen in dit land (PVV, VVD, FvD, JA21, CDA, BBB) wat hun electoraat betreft helemaal niet zo groot zijn. En misschien is dat ook terecht, want ze voerden en/of bepleitten allemáál racistisch beleid.
Dat de PVV nu zo significant wint is een klap in het gezicht van moslims, mensen van kleur, LHBTI'ers en andere gemarginaliseerde groepen. Racisme, homo- en transfobie en misogynie worden explicieter en dat ís bedreigend. Maar we moeten niet doen alsof het nieuw is, want dat is het helaas niet.
@arjan Het is in dit geval minder een vraag voor mezelf, en meer een vraag vanuit 'wervingsperspectief' - ik ben van plan om weer meer met mensen politiek in gesprek te gaan over 'hoe de wereld te verbeteren', specifiek mensen die totaal niet betrokken zijn bij de scene.
En ik zoek dus eigenlijk naar e.o.a. site waar ik mensen naartoe kan linken om te laten zien "kijk, dit is waar je allemaal bij mee kunt doen", zonder dat die site gelijk overkomt als "eng extremistisch dingetje" (wat onzin is natuurlijk, maar die vibe hebben veel van die sites wel)
Dus een wat 'respectabelere' site die mensen 'voorzichtig' kennis kan laten maken met wat er zoal georganiseerd wordt, en om die eerste indruk heen werkt
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Deze nog maar een keer.
#PVV #verkiezingen #verkiezingen2023
@jonny Kinda seems like oxigraph is trying to be that, though that's RDF-specific I guess
re: ND relationships, 'friendship decay', advice 
@ellie Yep, a familiar issue... discussing this phenomenon with people explicitly has helped a lot for me there, though, to prevent that from happening
- 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
