Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @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.
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- 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
"AI" image generators
@kitroe @susan77 That is not how this technology works. If you were to train it only on your own work, it would produce useless output. It *requires* training on massive datasets (that are impossible to collect ethically) to work well enough; the images you give it yourself are the prompt, not the training data.
In other words: by the time you download an image generator, someone else has already done the training on unethically collected data. The code in and of itself doesn't do anything, it's the training data that makes it work.
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You know what would be nice?
An "open firmware" project, where people produce and share FOSS firmware for common household devices, replacing the manufacturer's firmware with a decrapified version.
A smart TV? Reflash it with FOSS firmware, which removes tracking, calls to the manufacturer's servers, and any Internet-connected services that you don't want?
A printer? It's now yours. No ink subscription, or need for an app to print remotely.
And so on.
A man can dream, eh.
@jscholes Glad to help :)
@jscholes (Source: Googled the phrase, ended up on the Clicks website, went to their front page, saw a photo of their product in the background that showed the keyboard with the 'globe button' in that position)
@jscholes On the Clicks keyboard (which is where this seems to come from), it seems to refer to the second button from the left on the bottom row of keys. The CMD key is the third button on the bottom row.
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there is not a wall more impenetrable than the one separating people's minds from realizing that the world doesn't have to be full of torment to be full of meaning
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:ms_deminonbinary_flag: (maybe jackson edition?)
Would you consider rickroll and/or green text to be channer behavior, considering both came from 4chan?
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"But they still wouldn't be able to afford it even if they reduced executive pay! Look at my calculat-"
I don't care. Go fix the pay inequality. I give zero fucks about the finances of corporations that mistreat their workers.
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You know, going forward I'm just going to ignore any kind of "but how could they possibly afford that" argument whenever discussing companies where executives get paid meaningfully more than workers.
Go fix that, and then we'll talk.
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It'd be okay if people let us actually live, or even SHARE how FUCKING SCARED this bullshit makes us feel.
But no. Whenever we do go "oh, hey folks, this is kinda scary" we're told to shut up or to stop being political.
I'm not going to lie. I'm not okay.
#LGBTQ
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They want us dead. They want us dead and everyone who says "Oh, it's not so bad," or “you're just overreacting" is aiding this kind of abhorrent infringement on the rights of #LGBTQ people to exist.
I... am not sure what my future looks like. I cna't return to the UK. I can just hope that Oregon doesn't throw people like me under the bus.
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🥗 TIPS TO "NOT GET SICK" AT CONS 🩺
*because ANE is during a heavy respiratory illness season
1️⃣ Wash hands/use hand sanitizer frequently
2️⃣ Eat! 🍣 🍕
3️⃣ Sleep 💤
4️⃣ Mask up in public spaces (inside and outside the con space)
5️⃣ Listen to your body - if you feel sick, take proper precautions
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It's incredible how much space is given to a few people in motor vehicles vs so many more people on foot or wheels. It's a vast inequity.
Nowhere is this more stark than #ShibuyaCrossing; the world's busiest pedestrian crossing with as many as 3,000 people crossing at a time. Compared to around 12 cars fromone direction of the junction in one sequence. #Urbanism #CitiesForPeople
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vanta rainbow black: bassist once more this is tomorrow!!!!! a furry rave at freeway park
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One thing I love so much about Mastodon is that you can just right click to copy any link and it just works as god intended. Almost all other social media sites hijack links with their trackers or make copying a pain in other ways
- 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
