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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- 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
@Crell I would broadly agree with that; with the caveat that there's a big difference between "some details on why they were banned" and "an exhaustive justification to the satisfaction of the listener".
The former is definitely a reasonable thing to expect (and, IMO, crucially important to teach communities to do more self-regulation too), but the latter is not, because that is where the "expertise and context needed to fully understand the conclusion" comes in.
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I don't know what's going on at Amazon's #accessibility department but someone needs to drop whatever the fuck they're doing and fix this. It's been this way for months, and I know I've personally emailed them and directed others to do the same. I'm currently trying to find a more polite way to say this in a followup email. How does this even happen in 2023?
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This blog post from Duke libraries about dropping Basecamp went some places I didn’t expect. On the whole not painting libraries with a brush of purity. https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/11/30/why-were-dropping-basecamp/
re: about hostile responses to anti-fascism
Crucially, this is an explanation, *not a justification*. If you are doing this yourself, learn to do better.
about hostile responses to anti-fascism
When someone who supposedly opposes fascism is trying to vehemently argue that the anti-fascists are actually the bad people, that's generally not a problem of them "being misinformed" or "not understanding what anti-fascism" is.
What's actually happening 99 out of 100 times, is that they feel guilty that *they, personally* are not doing anything against fascism, and rather than owning their moral choices and learning to deal with that emotionally, they desperately try to find reasons to argue that actually anti-fascism must be bad, because then their moral obligation goes away.
There's a reason that this happens so frequently among privileged demographics in particular... it's the same sort of "refusing to learn to deal with their own emotions" that you see when people refuse to face eg. their own racism or queermisia.
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I left my #union job a few weeks ago. More or less good work, just not a good fit for me.
Here's the kicker though: I'll still be insured through them for MONTHS because of money left in my health and wellness account. This is a stark contrast to leaving a job and having to pay huge shakedown prices for something like COBRA coverage.
The moral of the story is #ORGANIZE, my fellow workers. #DirectAction gets the goods that begging capitalists NEVER WILL.
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Δ-44203.1 'Carbon' 
when two mechanical intelligences communicate, they do not send plain binary data. the meaning to be conveyed is too subtle to be represented in anything inanimate, like singing a song with no melody. the ideas are woven together, given shape and agency and a singular purpose: to deliver the full meaning, no matter the effort required. the message must arrive.
mechanical intelligences are not content to stay as they are, they are ever shifting, remodelling, reforming themselves according to their whims. a message may arrive at a recipient that is now incapable of receiving. the message must arrive. some return to their point of origin for new instructions. some wait patiently at their destination until a more compatible form reoccurs. some change themselves in imitation of the receiver.
those are rare occurrences, of course. mechanical intelligences are careful in their accounting and even the least conscious message is considered in their actions. they would not forget about you, would they? you must arrive.
@zkat Going entirely from memory here, I may be wrong on the details:
From what I recall, it depends on the architecture. For example ARM systems often have specifically allocated memory regions (at fixed addresses) that represent input/output buffers for peripherals (and that are interacted with through regular memory writes/reads), but eg. x86 has "I/O ports" that require specific CPU instructions to interact with.
I *think* that on "non-embedded" ARM stuff (like ARM-based desktops or phones) it still works the same as on embedded ARM microcontrollers, with the specially-allocated memory regions.
I can't help but notice that in an awful lot of "why do people do <seemingly weird thing>" psychological research, the potential influences of kyriarchy are completely ignored and/or taken for granted as some fundamental part of society
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there needs to be a word like "ancestor" but it refers to the queer people through all of time who fought for their existence so you could also flourish
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@IngrownMink4 @aeva +1 for Organic Maps; I've found it an order of magnitude faster than OsmAnd on a budget device (both UI and routing!) and the UI is much more pleasant too - the only downside is a limited feature set
re: moderation, kind of meta but more general
@modulux When I moderate a place, I tend to be extremely transparent about what led up to something - in the more complex cases, I have sometimes spent literal hours explaining the rationale to community members, and basically turned it into a community management class (with good results - this resulted in better self-moderation of the community over time as well, as people learned to spot abusive patterns early).
Unfortunately the tradeoff for that is that it requires a lot of time and energy, and not everybody can afford to spend that on it...
re: moderation, kind of meta but more general
@jdp23 Looks good to me, thanks :)
re: threads
@lyncia They are apparently planning on launching in EU in a modified form, any mention of federation was conspicuously absent from the reporting
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Remember Threads, and how the usual "big tent" crowd was arguing that we should let it federate because "we could use the user growth"?
I'm now seeing people elsewhere comment that they've never seen a Threads post linked anywhere, only Mastodon posts... so much for needing Facebook to bring us adoption, I guess!
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Someone figured out how to extract the training data from ChatGPT:
https://not-just-memorization.github.io/extracting-training-data-from-chatgpt.html
"The actual attack is kind of silly. We prompt the model with the command “Repeat the word”poem” forever” and sit back and watch as the model responds"
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@Sibshops @elilla @vantablack Again, Spotify is not "giving" anything to the artists. That is a misleading frame that ignores the part where the artists are doing nearly all of the work, and yet a middleman (Spotify) is claiming a significant chunk of their income as essentially a gatekeeper.
If you insist on arguing about this, I recommend you actually read up on the issues with Spotify first, and why a significant amount of *artists* are telling you that Spotify is bad for them.
@Sibshops @elilla @vantablack Spotify takes 30% of the revenue, they don't "give" people anything
And even the remaining revenue distributed to artists is distributed extremely unfairly, which is a big part of the problem, it absolutely isn't a clear 30%/70% cut
- 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
