Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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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You know what phones need? Trackballs. My first smart phone, an HTC Hero (though rebranded by T-Mobile), had one and it was great! It was very useful for highlighting text and precisely pinpointing things where a finger press doesn’t quite cut it.
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here's the deal @mozilla , the only people who care or even know about mozilla at all think this is bad to do. just say you fucked up, own it, and say everyone who uses firefox owes us $50 and we'll pretend it never happened. you took everyone who thought this was a good idea, fired them, and all the money will just be spent on making firefox work good forever and that's that. my fee is zero dollars and you can write that off your executive salaries i think because i am a lawyer too
the "Project 2025" thing, addressing reader
I'm sure that there are many on here that I don't need to tell this. But in case you haven't been following what's going on with the "Project 2025" thing:
It's a plan for a coup, to install a repressive dictatorship and police state in the US. Not metaphorically, not implicitly, but *literally*. Completely deconstructing all checks and balances and centralizing all government power into one person, Trump.
This is an actual, real threat - and a lot of the conservative crap lately ties directly into this plan.
So if you don't normally get very involved with politics, and have to choose only one political thing to care about, let it be this one. This is the fascist coup in the making.
And most importantly, you need to figure out at what point you're willing to use force and potentially violence to prevent this from happening. Figure it out fast.
I can't make that decision for you, but you need to have *some* answer to that question ready ahead of time. Don't leave it as "I'll figure it out when it comes to that", because then you'll be too late to prepare.
@bananas I mean, it is still in fairly early stages of development, so I wouldn't expect it to be super robust yet
#FUSE question: are you supposed to ensure that the contents of any already-open file descriptors remain readable/writable even when the underlying file has nominally been removed from the filesystem? Or how is this supposed to work?
@bananas @davidgerard You have to do some pretty absurd shit to get an Electron app to use 4GB of RAM, though
@davidgerard Not really the point of the toot, but...
> Copilot also doesn’t require many PC resources, with the app just needing 4 GB of RAM
I... what? *Just* 4GB of RAM for an application that is indistinguishable from an MSN chatbot in every way that matters? What are these people smoking?
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New blog post: Why picspam and repost accounts are bad! https://out.flipping.rocks/blog/why-picspam-and-repost-accounts-are-bad
> You've seen them on Twitter, you're seeing them on the fediverse: accounts with names like "AmazingNature8" or "HistoryPix", or occasionally human-sounding names like "Massimo" and "Veronique". Popular topics include nature and wildlife photos, historic images, relatable memes, fine art, and so on.
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> They repost photos or memes that have gone viral elsewhere, like Twitter, Instagram, or Reddit. The text of the post is scraped as well; google a distinctive sentence and you'll turn up a previous post. Credit, if it's ever given, is a handle with no URL or indication of what social network it belongs to. Tellingly, on the fediverse, there are virtually never image descriptions. […]
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> Since I end up having to give this spiel every time I raise the alarm about such accounts, I'm putting it down here in a more permanent place.
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Are there any lawyers in #Ottawa on fedi that will witness me signing my name/gender change forms? So far nobody has responded to my emails.
Edit: thanks everyone, I may have a lead on someone who specifically works with a local LGBTQ+ group to get this done: https://kindspace.ca/idclinic/ 
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practicing solidarity vs demanding unity
what I love about “practicing solidarity” as a frame is that it affords everyone agency, and it acknowledges that this is a set of skills and way of life that requires practice. it’s not a one and done hierarchical demand from on high. it’s a call to the circle of humanity and an earnest ask of each of us: look around, who needs the protection of the group, how can we best leverage our diversity on behalf of our most vulnerable
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Looking for a post/paper I saw noting that the main difference between LLMs is their training data - same data, same outputs. (Because LLMs are lossy text compression.) Does anyone have the post/paper I'm thinking of?
EDIT: this is the one i was thinking of: https://nonint.com/2023/06/10/the-it-in-ai-models-is-the-dataset/
> model behavior is not determined by architecture, hyperparameters, or optimizer choices. It’s determined by your dataset, nothing else. Everything else is a means to an end in efficiently delivery compute to approximating that dataset.
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when you order something as ":3 meowmeowmeow" and the staff still treats the order seriously:
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@aimlessComposer I have no idea whether they actually were federating, to be honest. It's very possible that someone at Facebook just went through every instance they could find to judge its suitability, with no regard for federation status. That approach would make more sense in a corporate context than a reactive defederation approach.
I'm not enjoying implementing a FUSE driver. It seems that every time I make a mistake, it just silently fails without actually telling me what the problem is, and I end up spending an hour meticulously comparing to some known-working code to find *any* difference that might explain it.
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@Pagan_Animist Officially, all it says is "violated community norms" in the defederation list. They don't *say* that it's because of queer content.
But the list sure is a who's who of queer instances, including those with quite strict moderation.
mozilla, venting
Some day I will stop discovering new fucked things that Mozilla has been involved with. Some day. Maybe.
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AMD and ARM (including Apple) keep winning on the CPU market by... checks notes ... Making CPUs that do not explode.
This post is sponsored by the latest Intel CPUs, which explode.
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Is it normal for giant companies to have so poor branding that it takes me half an hour to realise I mistook their logo for another platform? Geez, it's like they don't even try anymore
re: threads
@kescher Oh sure. It's still darkly hilarious that Threads now probably has one of the longest defederation lists of the whole Fediverse, weird techbros complaining about defederation being 'exclusion' notwithstanding
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
