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
(Note: you are allowed to exclude medical plastic waste from the calculations, since this usually needs to be handled specially.)
@eloy People have tried!
(And failed)
Since plastics recycling is apparently still a divisive topic, let's make this concrete.
Yes, plastic recycling happens some places, some of the time. Yes, it is nominally a good thing to try to do. No, it doesn't actually work, there is no conceivable way it *will* work in the near future, and it is ab-so-fucking-lutely not a solution to the plastic waste problem.
If you feel differently, then here is how you change my mind: show me that there is a city or region, *any* city or region of 50k or more people anywhere in the world, where >95% of *mixed* plastic waste is recycled. That means not burned, not exported, not used as filler. Actually recycled into new plastic products, in a fully traceable manner, of which at least half must be high-grade (eg. new food packaging). The collection phase must be mixed, ie. not pre-sorted by plastic type by the consumer.
If you can show me that, we will talk. Those are the requirements. They should be easy to meet, if plastic recycling can truly work.
@eloy I think this is unrealistic, to be honest - in the time I have used the web (and that's a *long* time), 404 *has never* been a "pure not found" status code. Practically nobody makes the distinction between 404 and 410, for example, and given that you often also want to hide *whether* you are hiding resources, putting this under 404 (instead of using a dedicated status code) would be the correct thing to do.
Keep in mind that the purpose of technology is to solve people's problems, not the other way around. Something might be the 'correct' thing in a hypothetical vacuum, but if it doesn't actually match how people want or need to use it, then it's not actually 'correct' for any meaningful interpretation of the term.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Asking people about computer questions
People who know something about computers: maybe its caching?? maybe the DNS is routing wrong??
People who know too much about computers: maybe its the internet worms again. i hate it when this happens.
re: matrix.kescher.at shutdown
@kescher Right, so the main problem why Matrix can't (literally can't!) do that is because the entire concept of decentralized rooms relies on all participating servers having an identical view of the rooms internally. They may choose to (not) show things to users, but they must have an identical event graph. If one participant blocks another server's events entirely, their room state diverges and the room breaks for them. That can't be designed around, at least with any decentralization model I know about.
The only way I know of to defederate servers anyway (on a server level, not a room level) is to basically get rid of the 'decentralized' property of rooms, and making them more like MUCs in XMPP, where a channel exists on a specific authoritative server, and if that server ever goes down, the channel is gone. This has historically gone very poorly because people's entire communities just suddenly disappear with no warning, there's no resilience in the system at all.
There are some workarounds in decentralized rooms like "accept their events but only store a redacted version locally, never the contents" that *could* work if the protocol is designed for it, but that won't necessarily be sufficient in 100% of situations, hence why I'm trying to understand the specific circumstances in which defederation might be wanted, to see if such an approach could work here, and make sure I'm not overlooking any details.
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opinionating about NaNoWriMo's LLM shilling
(context: Pivot to AI post describing and criticizing the organization's decision, hat tip to @resuna for linking to the post and quoting the bullshit)
...like, reading this, we're sitting here remembering a post from 2005 by writer Eric Burns-White on the now-only-preserved-in-the-Wayback-Machine blog Websnark, titled "What good is Nanowrimo?" (Content warning for brief description of a historical suicide and some light ableism.) Because it was really that post that made us try NaNoWriMo when we tried NaNoWriMo - made us think that it was worth entering this space where the only thing that matters is that you do write, that you put enough words down on the page.
Because that's what NaNoWriMo was - it was that special space where fifty thousand words of terrible writing counted, because writing counts, creation counts, and every participant is creating something out of nothing. You don't have to write something that's good by anyone else's standards, or even your own standards - you just have to turn a blank page into fifty thousand words and do it in a month, because any act of creation is worth it if you're willing to try.
And with their AI shilling (almost typed "shitting" there, that's very funny), the NaNoWriMo organization is explicitly saying that nah, you always need to be stressing about if your writing is good enough, and probably paying some carbon dioxide manufacturer to tell you that it's not.
It's not just flagrantly unethical in every way that LLMs are unethical, it's also a complete abandonment of everything that made NaNoWriMo good.
Fuck these assholes.
@eloy Okay, but how isn't this already the case for 404 errors today?
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hell yeah, love it when moderation actually happens. got a report of a remote user, opened it right away, and the remote instance had banned them before i could even view their profile lmao
@eloy Okay, but putting aside abstract notions of 'correct' for a moment, how would this technically improve things?
Because as far as I can tell, you'd just be introducing a new HTTP status code that everyone now needs to *also* support and treat like a 404, without adding any new functionality (because it's still just "not found"), so then what is the practical purpose of the new ambiguous status code?
re: matrix.kescher.at shutdown
@kescher Re: purging, do you mean in the sense of "users automatically leave a room if their instance has been unreachable for X time", or something else?
Re: defederating instances, I assume you mean on a server level rather than on a room ACL level? For what reason(s) would they be defederated? (As it's a technical impossibility to literally defederate without breaking rooms, and workarounds are potentially viable but need a more precise problem description to get right)
Re: banning individual known-bad users, I assume this goes beyond room bans, and you (conceptually) mean something along the lines of "defederating between your homeserver and a particular remote user" instead?
@eloy The general recommendation is to just use 404 for that, making it deliberately ambiguous - because any HTTP code that reveals that something is being intentionally hidden (as opposed to not existing) would defeat the point of hiding its existence
re: matrix.kescher.at shutdown
@kescher Tangential question: what moderation features are you missing that you feel Matrix should have had?
(Asking because I'm still working on a protocol fork, and I'd like to get this right from the start)
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like trans folks, there are way more plural folks around than you realise
like, actually, but also as a joke since we're kinda by definition more folks than you realise
re: cryptocurrency, but more generally
@AFriendlyBeagle (Also, none of this is *really* relevant to the point I was making originally, anyway.)
re: cryptocurrency, but more generally
@AFriendlyBeagle I am well aware of all of this - and I have been around usecases like this (often activism-related) for a long time.
The thing that often gets missed, however, is what we had *before* Bitcoin. Because before Bitcoin, there was already an industry of anonymous/"risky" payments that *didn't* use cryptocurrency. Often it was more accessible to people than cryptocurrency is today.
Some examples included UKash, PaySafeCard, Liberty Reserve, and so on. These were absolutely not without their problems, and they were absolutely run by sketchy people, but they fulfilled the exact same requirements as Bitcoin, just without the destruction of climate and communities.
But the hype around Bitcoin ate basically all of them, and now you need to deal with privacy-invasive cryptocurrency exchanges instead of just buying a giftcard in a local shop, like you used to be able to.
Anonymous payments did not start with cryptocurrency, and I would argue that the diversity of them was actually another victim of the cryptocurrency hype.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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So this is what I need to find:
- an on screen keyboard that works with Arrow Key + Enter navigation (to be used with a USB Remote without an airmouse.)
- a wifi configuration utility that is entirely navigable with arrow keys + enter + escape (with OSK for text entry.) Ideally something that can run in a terminal.
- ... I think that's it. If I can find solutions for those two things, I can probably whip up a prototype this afternoon.
cryptocurrency, but more generally (2)
"But then how do we make sure that people can eat and don't become homeless, if we can't do monetization?"
Hi! Welcome to the anti-capitalist movement! Let's get to work.
- 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
