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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- 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
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What the fuck I just found out that Linux can't support FreeSync via HDMI or HDMI 2.1 in open-source drivers because the HDMI Forum won't let AMD put it in cause they want the HDMI spec to be fully proprietary 💀
robot-onzin
Ik ben overigens ook wel een beetje klaar met die marketingpraatjes over hoe robots ingezet moeten worden in verzorgingstehuizen om eenzaamheid tegen te gaan...
Zitten de mensen die daar wonen daar ook op te wachten? Of willen ze vooral graag, dunno, contact met een medemens? Je weet wel, de menselijke factor? Die een TTS engine op wieltjes dus niet heeft?
the cis are not okay
"Meteen bij het binnenkomen in de hal, zie je ze al staan. De ene robot heeft een stropdas om en de andere een sjaaltje. “Dit is onze mannelijke en dit onze vrouwelijke."
Is het nou echt nodig om zelfs je *robots* in binaire gender-vakjes te gieten? Kom op zeg...
@alda I actually ended up putting a clause into my terms that states that anything I develop will be open-source and I retain IP ownership, and that the customer just gets a special license for use (which is functionally equivalent to the open-source license anyway, minus a potential attribution requirement).
Surprisingly few customers have objected to this. It's just another contract term to them, apparently.
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reading “2019 was 5 years ago" has just done untold psychic damage to me, i might not recover from this
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@awoo but... they're not KISS units...?
Relatedly: if you think that "everybody should be building simpler software", maybe help out on addressing the capitalist conditions under which the current development practices have developed?
Like, these practices did not come from nowhere, and there's a *reason* that decades of "just do better" blogposts have not led to meaningful improvements in development practices
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Look if you _don't_ want your generative AI theft machine poisoned you can just gain consent from the artists.
Tell your artist friends and spread the word. "AI" is _not_ inevitable.
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/
#Glaze #Nightshade #AIArt #TTRPG #EthicsInAI #AIJobs #BenZhao
I wish people would stop conflating "dependency complexity" with "dependency count". It's ruining a lot of otherwise legitimate arguments, for no other reason than 'number high'.
There is no meaningful complexity difference between 1 dependency that does 10 things, or 10 dependencies from one author that each do 1 thing.
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criticizing activists
(This is the English version of https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/111227961313694045)
After 10+ years of constant complaining about activists, I'm very much done with this, and my patience for it is running lower by the day.
As an activist, whatever you do, it'll always be wrong - you're too violent, you're not violent enough. Everybody has an opinion about it, and they won't hesitate to voice it.
There is absolutely zero recognition that activism is a skill like any other, and that perhaps the people who have been doing it for years, might actually know what they're doing.
Instead, people who wouldn't recognize a protest if it hit them in the ass and certainly have never been involved in one, will lecture you about how "you won't accomplish anything this way".
You walk a protest march? "Nobody will give a shit anyway, you're just disrupting people's lives"
You go to court? "Hopeless, you're just wasting the time of the legal system"
You block a road? "You're just bothering innocent drivers, and creating dangerous situations"
You wreck shit? "You're violent, and you should go through the correct channels instead, go into politics"
You decide to go into politics? You'll be laughed out of the room, and constantly ridiculed about how "you can't possibly be expected to be taken seriously".
Well, what the fuck do you want then? How, exactly, do you think that problems are going to be solved? By yelling some shit from the sidelines, and hoping that the situation will magically change?
By relying on the "steady march of progress"? Which, by the way, is driven by activism?
If you're not willing to make a concrete contribution to activist campaigns, fine, but then *shut up*, do not meddle with them, and leave the job to the people who actually understand how activism works beyond gut feelings. Acknowledge that it is a skill, and it is not yours.
Take a step back, withhold comments and opinions, and instead amplify what activists are saying. Provide them with support in the manner that they request.
Or if you *do* want to get involved with activism, then that's also fine - but then you need to take the time and effort to understand why campaigns work how they do, why *activists* do what they do, and what the long-term effects of this might be that aren't immediately obvious to you.
@jacksonchen666 (Or well, I might still suddenly vanish for a few days every once in a while, but not for that reason)
@jacksonchen666 Oops, nope, unpinned, thanks :D
hot take, anarchism/communism/etc.
Expecting people to 'read theory' to participate in your movement is classist and ableist, actually
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normalize cuddling anyone, anywhere, for any reason (with consent)
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I thought hard about this... but I think I found a way to get more funding again to De Lijn!
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@researchfairy I miss when universities ran their own services on site. Among other reasons, for the selfish reason that I wanted to do that for a living.
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TIL in some matrix clients there is a command like /converttodm to fix this issue where some direct chat is actually a group...
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McGill: Microsoft says server farms are destroying the planet, so we're limiting the institutional cloud disk space we're giving you to 20 GB only
CIHR: You're still required to keep all your original data sets for all your research until 5 years after the end of the grant though
Me: If you and Microsoft want to actually do something about the planet, maybe pull the plug on OpenAI instead
McGill: If you have questions about the new policy read the email again good luck bye!
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I often have trouble expressing appreciation after someone shares their favorite thing with me, be it an interest, music, yiff, video that I might not have that much of an interested in, but I never want those people to stop sharing those stuff.
I love when people share their stuff with me, when they trust me with sharing what they like, when they express themselves this way. Our favorite things make us who we are, and I want to know my friends.
Y'all are very unique and I like you just the way you are. Obsession over trains or not. 
- 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
