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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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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It's very funky that the term "bird brain" comes from the fact that the brains of birds look like they're quite primitive and are missing the structures we tend to associate with higher brain functions. Turns out birds are actually surprisingly smart and their brains just took a different evolutionary path, achieving the same advanced abilities we see in mammals by developing entirely different structures. It's really cool how intelligence can come about in a variety of unique ways ^~^
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Do I know any US folks who have experience hiring independent contractors to do game dev stuff (or to do remote work on computer/art stuff in general)?
I've got two people I'm interested in paying to do normal game development things and one is local and the other lives on the other side of the planet, and can I just like... give them money? or do I have to like fill out a form or something so the government doesn't freeze my bank account? how does this work
@cy @audunmb @baldur While I agree philosophically that copyright is not a legitimate system given the harm that it does, FOSS licenses do serve a real purpose in this context - they're essentially a legal hack that tries to subvert the copyright system. It existed before FOSS did, and continues to exist despite it.
That having been said, I am similarly bothered by how a lot of people seem to see FOSS as the 'ideological peak' of software, as if that's a long-term and complete solution to the problem, when it is really neither of those things and should be recognized as the temporary hack that it is. Useful, but still not a real solution.
@troed @baldur Out of curiosity, have you seen any concrete pointers on basic income (notably, *not* just welfare) being implemented in the near future anywhere?
Because I know that lots of countries are doing 'trials', but they've been doing that for several decades now, and then it never gets talked about again until the next 'trial' that has the exact same outcome.
@baldur You're certainly correct about the npm ecosystem as it currently is, not being sustainable.
It *could* have been, if a few different choices were made (notably ones rooted in governance, that have nothing to do with the technical decisions that people like to complain about), but they weren't, and so here we are...
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“The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus”
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-slow-evaporation-of-the-foss-surplus/
Where I try to explain, as succinctly as I can (which isn’t that succinct), why I’m worried about where FOSS is heading
I'm kind of amazed at how... good Software Inc. is? Apparently developed by a single person over the past 9 years, their first game as far as I can tell, and it just completely knocks it out the park.
Also very amusing how it clearly copied the interior designer approach from The Sims, but then proceeds to blow it out of the water - I find it so much more nice to work with than how it's done in The Sims.
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sometimes i keep thinking things like “I wish Windows had a tiling window manager” and then I remember that Windows’ built-in WM is actually good at tiling
@riley (Out of curiosity, what's that panel from?)
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before my research I hadn't quite realised just how intertwined the discussion of intelligence is with our education system
like, sure, I knew that the education system was caught up in this idea of intelligence and that we can use testing to differentiate these levels of intelligence, but, I didn't realise that intelligence as a metric actually relied so much on performance in the school system too
and so, it's this endless impossible dance of intelligence researchers assuming that the education system is infallible, and education researchers assuming that the concept of intelligence is infallible, and both of them chasing the other concept which doesn't actually exist
like the original intelligence quotient, IQ, was actually this quotient between your "mental age" and your actual, physical age. how did they define mental age? well, of course, by how well you're doing in school, since school progresses at a rate of one mental year per physical year, obviously
like I'm actually disappointed at this point that modern intelligence research isn't just overt racism and instead this frustrating ouroboros that started with racism but ultimately forgot what it was chasing and is just chasing itself
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Fedi, recommend me one of those electric zappy flyswatters that has a mesh fine enough to zap fruit flies and similarly tiny insects pls
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TIL that people with disabilities that prevent them from using print books can get virtually any audiobook at no cost through the "Talking Books" program. I heard about it from a reference librarian with the Maine Digital Library, but it's a national US thing. And people with dyslexia are eligible.
#books #audiobooks #accessibility #dyslexia #libraries
@federicomena I've seen French (and only French!) code every now and then, but don't remember where, unfortunately...
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Picard management tip: When you've gotten enough sleep, an impossible task becomes an interesting challenge.
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The smartest ones arent touching the bubble. Ironically the second smartest ones are tacking it on completely reversibly and separately from whatever they had. Its the people that peg their imagination and make long term plans around the shit that are fucked for good in a way thats already written in stone but invisible from their perspective
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The local language models are not an answer to the platform model, they're the suckers dose given to addict you to the pattern. The promise of free weights is a mirage. This is not a liberatory technology but instead of your pal that loves gambling and pepe memes holding the bag it will be your boss.
- 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
