Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @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
@ktemkin@chaos.social Hey, it still has a minimum length of 1!
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In a classic for our local community Facebook group folks were getting all concerned about youths in hoodies stealing bags of clothes that folks had put out for charity collection. Turns out they were the charity collectors though.
@mattgrayyes@chaos.social @eta Err, correction, Embedded theme*, not Royale Blue; that one was lighter!
@mattgrayyes@chaos.social @eta I think it's Royale Blue? Obscure, but was actually an official Microsoft theme!
re: matrix, rant
@vidister@chaos.social I don't think that's really the case, to be honest. To be clear, I agree that the stewardship of the project has been very poor, and there are a lot of serious issues with both the protocol design and reference implementations. (There's a reason I've been working on a fork...)
But I was also there *before* Matrix became a Thing, and back then the federated messaging space was already in a very bad state, arguably worse than it is now - despite Matrix's issues, it *has* drawn in a whole new crop of folks interested in building out federated messaging systems.
I think a lot of it is going to come down to whether those folks have a more productive place to go, or whether everyone is going to be stuck in the swamp of Matrix bureaucracy under the current leadership forever. There are plenty of people who could make it better, but who just haven't been given the space to do so.
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Huh TIL that Source's physics engine was implemented all the way back in 1999, they licensed Havok before it was even bought by Havok, it was called Ipion Virtual Physics at the time
Also apparently Source 2 ditched Havok for Valve's custom engine though, and I wonder how much of that is Valve building on top of Havok like Bethesda's Creation Engine building on top of Gamebryo, and how much is actually completely original
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All of us who blocked Threads when they announced fediverse integration saw this.
We told you so.
https://www.macstories.net/stories/lgbt-and-marginalized-voices-are-not-welcome-on-threads/
@LordCaramac You seem to be missing the part where these systems are built on the backs of exploited artists who never got a say in the matter and labour exploitation in poor countries in particular.
Making labour exploitation more accessible is not a good thing, actually.
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@spacehobo It is! I get people's old laptops given to me sometimes so I refurbish them and donate them onwards to a few local charities I'm in contact with.
I have 0 need for them, but a person being supported through homelessness can do a course and their admin on it if it can browse the web and do word processing still. There's simply too much tech out there now, and distributed all wrong
Update: I am now at the 'deleting code until it no longer annoys me' stage
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In which I get mad about sloppy use of AI in a way that can actively endanger people!!!
https://thisisimportant.net/threads/ai-duty-of-care/
(thx to the American Alpine Club for their amazing work publicizing climbing and mountaineering accidents and identifying patterns in the causes)
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Hello privacy-forward friends. You might want to uncheck this checkbox that comes pre-checked in the latest iteration of Firefox (if you are still using it. I realize you may not be, yes I still am). The vibe I get is that it's like "cookie trackers lite" and still not cool.
What Firefox says: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution
Hat tip and read more from @mcc https://mastodon.social/@mcc/112775362045378963
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Mozilla shuts down its location services because of a patent troll : :ablobdundundun:
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Every time you reduce diversity and increase centralization you introduce choke points, bottlenecks and single points of failures that *will* come back to haunt you.
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A #degooglification lesson, AKA "centralization is bad" even when the Good Guys™ do it because it makes you less resilient:
One of the key piece of many (but not all) degooglified Android systems is a tool called "microG". It basically "pretends" to apps that you have Google Services installed, emulating the many system APIs basically all apps depend on.
One of these APIs are Location. In fact, you used to be able to install "add-ons", download a CSV of cell-towers and run mobile cell tower-based approximate geolocation fully locally. Well…
https://github.com/Helium314/Local-NLP-Backend?tab=readme-ov-file
> Note that microG has stopped supporting UnifiedNlp backends with 0.2.28.
https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/releases/tag/v0.2.28.231657
> The new location stack does not support UnifiedNlp modules anymore. This was a step necessary to take to get locations properly working on latest Android versions. […] For now, the new locations stack is relying exclusively on Mozilla Location Service for network based location.
You know what comes next? 
(This is *still* the crawling backend for seekseek.org - I've been really unhappy with the performance of the existing version, and I've been reworking the whole thing to a better storage model, but switching to RDF requires a whole lot of redesigning assumptions...)
I am re-refactoring this codebase which is a rewrite of a refactored project.
I may be having some trouble with the architecture on this one...
- 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
