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
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Diese Woche war so stressig, da habe ich ganz viel Zeit in meinem Nest gebraucht. Tatsächlich habe ich erst dieses Jahr den Begriff “Autistic Nesting“ gelernt, obwohl ich den Mechanismus seit meiner Kindheit nutze.
Kennt ihr das auch und wenn ja, wie sieht euer Nest so aus? Ich wünsch euch einen erholsamen Sonntag! ❤️
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mickey mouse, copyright
In addition to what's already been said about the racist background of Steamboat Willie, please remember that there's not much worth celebrating here - the copyright laws that made this a problem to begin with are still very much there, and even as a symbolic victory it is a hollow one.
The fight is not over until #copyright is abolished.
(No, I will not argue "reform vs. abolition" on this thread. That is a discussion for another time, and one I will only have with people who have done the work of asking themselves what *demonstrable* benefits copyright actually has. Do not argue about this in my mentions.)
New Worakls Orchestra concert
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNq6eAr_wIo
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"Aan water geen gebrek momenteel, maar wel aan schoon drinkwater. Het zuiveren ervan kost waterbedrijven steeds meer moeite. En daarom gaan de tarieven omhoog. [...] Leverancier PWN schat in dat een gemiddeld huishouden per jaar ongeveer 10 euro meer kwijt is. [...]
De waterbedrijven zijn genoodzaakt om de tarieven te verhogen vanwege de extra kosten die ze moeten maken om water te zuiveren. Dat is moeilijker omdat er steeds meer bronnen van verontreiniging zijn, zoals pfas of medicijnresten. Of mest en bestrijdingsmiddelen."
Veel duidelijker dan dit kan het niet worden, toch? Bedrijven vervuilen, en de maatschappij draait op voor de kosten.
@quincy@chaos.social This is exactly now I feel about it. The only reason I'm still evaluating it is because it happens to be a near-exact match for what I was looking for (whereas other things are not), but they are really not doing themselves any favours with this approach...
And as far as I can tell from my investigation so far, aside from some shaky (but probably fixable) architectural issues, I don't see a reason why they *couldn't* be transparent about it, so I just really don't understand why they're not.
re: on fetishising autism
@flesh I think a big difference for me would be the underlying worldview that is implied - whether someone more broadly recognizes autistic folks as autonomous beings that space should be made for in society and communities, or whether they revert to ableist and exclusionary views outside of a sexual context.
I think that correlates a lot with the *way* in which it is fetishized.
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Disabled folks at UC are constantly told the public university we pay for with our taxes, tuition, and fees finds accessibility "too expensive".
Yet when they raise >$7B dollars, where do they prioritize that going to? More goodies for abled people. #UCAccessNow #Ableism #NeoliberalHellhole @academicchatter @disability
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A reminder that Mickey Mouse is thinly coded minstrelsy. A tune in Steamboat Willie, “Turkey in the Straw,” has a previous title so racist I won’t note it here. Minstrelsy is a long scar on our cultural landscape, one of the most popular forms of entertainment for a century, and its vestiges and symbols remain with us.
Happy New Year!
[Updated to correct error about where “Turkey…” appears; link to song details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_in_the_Straw ]
@quincy@chaos.social Veilid honestly frustrates me because the idea and the philosophy are great, and then... the community is on Discord, there are no usable docs, lots of unanswered architectural questions, little outward communication about what people are doing with it
Like, they got 90% of the way there and then just... didn't??
@quincy@chaos.social Veilid?
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happy fuckin new year, let's kick the fascists to the curb
@eater Yeah but you can do that with range requests, and that saves you a lot of DHT entries
The more I try to look into the question of "why does IPFS chunk files", the less convinced I am of its usefulness: https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/300 (but maybe I'm missing something?)
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In 2014, I made a steampunk submarine costume for my son's wheelchair. When the chair was in motion, the pinwheel twirled, the wheel's design spiraled, and the periscope was retractable. Made entirely from cardboard and random stuff, including paper tubes, pill container lids, altoids tins, wallpaper, duct tape, and a clear plastic salad bowl rescued after a catered event. #wheelchair #disability #OpulentMobility #wheelchaircostume #submarine #cardboard #upcycling #steampunk
(Note that I am only asking about deduplication here, not about parallelization of downloads and such; because there are other ways to achieve that)
#AskFedi: the usual explanation for why #IPFS splits files into small-ish chunks is that it's more efficient because it can deduplicate across files.
But is there any actual data on what the *real-world* efficiency gains are in real-world usage of IPFS? Does this actually make a meaningful difference in practice?
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Most posts about #37c3 were published on the Fediverse.
I found 11.130 posts on the Fediverse (known to chaos.social or mastodon.social), 2.620 posts on X/Twitter and 1.069 on ATProto/Bluesky. Published between 2023-12-23 and 2023-12-31. (I haven't figured out how to collect posts on Threads, but I have found 150 there. Maybe there are more, but they don't show up in the search results.)
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Ik heb net de pomp uitgezet van de beregeningsinstallatie van molen de Salamander.
Weinig molens hebben dit, maar wij hebben sproeikoppen aan de buitenkant van het riet zitten, waarmee we dat rietdek drijfnat kunnen maken.
Dit kost zoveel water dat we het uit de vliet pompen, en de nevel lijkt verdacht veel op witte rook die uit de molen lijkt te komen.
Vandaar dat we de brandweer waarschuwen voordat we deze installatie aanzetten.
De molen zou nu tegen verdwaalde vuurpijlen moeten kunnen.
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The funny thing about LLMs is they’re not good for knowledge work because they sometimes make up stuff that doesn’t exist and they’re not good for creative work because they sometimes make up stuff that does exist.
- 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
