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
@accretionist@techhub.social And just to make this complete: please consider what it means for you to assume that "if it's available, that means it's there for me to do with as I please".
@accretionist@techhub.social That is called "being an asshole and violating people's consent", when it's already made clear that this is not wanted.
@accretionist@techhub.social @thiswomanswerk Dude, take a fucking hint. And no, you do not have "equal right to engage". It was pretty clearly communicated that such engagement was not wanted.
You are not actually *entitled* to a conversation of any kind, regardless of whether you disagree.
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Interesting paper about #adblocking that I just found out 
Energy Conservation with Open Source Ad Blockers
This study, although preliminary, clearly showed enormous potential for open source ad blockers to reduce consumer time waiting for Internet ads to load as well as the electricity needed to run their computers (and other electronic technologies) during that time. In addition, the externalities (including premature fatalities) associated with fossil-fuel-based electricity spent using computers by eliminating ads during Internet browsing and video streaming would be reduced.
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/8/2/18/htm
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@joenepraat @x_screamodeath_x @Ravotr @Jo It's not just them, though, that's my point. I generally don't see this stuff being improved by the people talking about solidarity and mutual aid either.
There should be a list of "music podcasts that do not have someone talking through the music"
@joenepraat @x_screamodeath_x @Ravotr @Jo Oh, I know it's not specific to anarchist circles. But anarchists are the ones where this most obviously violates the stated ideology.
"Interference" is the "it's always DNS" of hardware design
@sofia@chaos.social Yeah, I would agree on that.
@perigee I likely caught it at the very start of the pandemic, back when there was no testing infrastructure yet - which is why I simply don't know :/
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I love itch.io as a platform, and I can understand if they need to serve ads when people download stuff for free, but this is not okay -- they are serving what's most likely a type of malware in an ad that's designed to trick people who are trying to download the project. I honestly don't think I can stay on the platform if they keep doing this -- I don't want to put people who download my projects at risk.
@joenepraat @x_screamodeath_x @Ravotr @Jo Unfortunately that largely hasn't translated into *actual* safety measures for COVID, though.
I'm still almost every time reading about an announcement for some nominally anarchist event, and then be unable to find any information whatsoever about what COVID precautions they have taken.
Or consider meetings; sure, hybrid meetings are a thing. But what if you can't do online meetings due to auditory processing issues, *and* also are particularly susceptible to COVID?
That would be me, and I continue to feel excluded from a lot that's going on. Ableism is still widespread, despite it being called out at times.
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-> yassie_j@labyrinth.zone
“It’s all about parents’ rights”
A parent’s right to what?
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Really feeling the exhaustion of living in a world where the default is that I will be misunderstood and judged.
LLM stuff, "public good"
Arguing that LLMs are a positive development because they can be used for public good is all well and good, but that would be a much more credible argument if people were actually appropriately credited and compensated for the labour that went into the training data used for that
Like, this discussion would look very different in a society where there's eg. universal basic income, capitalism has been abolished entirely, or there's some other "everyone is taken care of" solution, but that's not the society we live in and that should raise some Questions about any "public good" argument, because exactly whose "public" are we talking about here?
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Remembering that one time I saw something really stupid.
Soo at school there was a PSA about online safety and 1 of the tips was "give your parents your passwords to all accounts"
They're not even being subtle about it anymore
re: Wildebeest (making fun of)
@kescher "We're totally in this for the long run! For the health of the fediverse! It's totally not a cheap shot at taking things over that we will abandon at the first sign that it might fail to successfully scale up to be a monopolist!"
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Where does all of this leave the Firefox browser. Surman argued that the organization is very judicious about rolling AI into the browser — but he also believes that AI will become part of everything Mozilla does.
I can't wait to find out what will happen when all the Firefox evangelists wake up to find an LLM baked into their darling.techcrunch.com/2024/01/03/whats-next-for-mozilla/
- 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
