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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- 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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The recruiter spam on LinkedIn seems to have switched from "revolutionizing the Whatever with Blockchain" to "revolutionizing the Whatever with AI" in the past few months 🤔🙄
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@erikcats yeah I meant as in feeling guilty for enjoying something! it's something I used to do a lot since I felt my interests were considered 'lame' or 'childish'. no such thing. i will play with toy robots and swoosh around my model airplanes as much as I want and anyone who objects can get the finger.
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In case anyone was still in doubt, Google is not at all interested in "organizing the world's information" (despite that language still being in their mission statement). Mixing non-information, LLM-extruded sludge in with authentic information is actually the opposite.
https://www.404media.co/google-news-is-boosting-garbage-ai-generated-articles/
laughing at Slack bug
Customer Slack currently has 1 (one) singular message where the action buttons (like 'add reaction') do absolutely nothing when clicked. Persists after reload. Every other message works fine.
How does this even happen??? This is a baffling failure mode
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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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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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I think making it clear that the stories of fascists are just that, empty promises of a better, uncomplicated world, is one of the main ways to undermine them. But you also have to prevent them from telling simplistic stories in the first place.
Thanks, @bastianallgeier, for telling your history. 🫂
Some inspiration for Deutsche Bahn, perhaps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTvTfNLqjAA
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Nightshade was just released. Poison your art before you post it so that AI scrapers choke on it https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/
(Further edit to stress that I did not make this product and I have nothing to do with it so please don't assume I did)
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Help us Sad Bastards!
Amazon in all its wisdom has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook. They won't tell us why. They won't tell us how to fix whatever tripped the algorithm. They won't seem to let us appeal. Reaching a human at Amazon is a Kafkaesque experience that we haven't yet managed to do.
Not only does this affect our ability to distribute it free to depressed, disabled, and broke folks, but the paperback is a big source of income for us. Anyone fought the 'Zon and won? Help!
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I know this may seem counterintuitive, but perhaps we're not living our best lives in this patriarchal, billionaire-led society.
re: moderation subtooting
This community is, to put it mildly, not one that only consists of white dudes, so y'know
moderation subtooting
Watching someone get banned in a community (seemingly on their own request) and unsurprisingly every single person joining the moderation discussion room to "inquire" seems to be a white dude
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@sieri I still don't know why HDMI is the de facto standard instead of DP, cause they do the same things but HDMI is always somehow worse
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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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- 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
