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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- 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
angry, caps, data breach
Jesus fucking christ. I just got a letter from Infomedics, basically the company that does every healthcare provider's invoicing in the Netherlands (so you can't choose not to deal with them).
It was a data breach notification. For a breach that happened *FOUR FUCKING MONTHS AGO*. With zero details on how it could happen besides "ransomware at external supplier". Containing *MEDICAL DATA*.
What the actual fuck. Why is this company still allowed to operate? Why am I only hearing about this now? Why are they being cagey about consequences? Why have they not been fined out of existence yet?
nuanced answer, re: racism poll
@so_treu (As meta-commentary, I think that nuance is really only worth mentioning because it can help defuse "but it's just criticism" arguments from white people, by explicitly setting all of the conditions that would need to be true for that so that they cannot set their own.)
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If a Black trans woman on the internet is smeared as a terrible person by white people, to the point that they turn her name into a slur,
And Black people who never followed, interacted with or even met this woman have the slur extended to them, just because they talk about racism in public,
Is that an act of antiblackness/racism/a racial microaggression?
nuanced answer, re: racism poll
@so_treu Nuanced answer for the first part: very likely "yes", only "no" if the person in question is genuinely egregiously and knowingly harmful to others, *and* the criticism is precise, legitimate, and entirely devoid of any sort of racist or racism-adjacent rhetoric and behaviour, explicit or otherwise, as determined by Black folks.
In practice those conditions are so vanishingly unlikely to be true that I do not ever expect to see them in my lifetime, and so the simple answer is "yes".
The second part is much simpler: yeah, that is very clearly racism.
Hey, did you know: many libraries have online catalogs for looking for resources about a specific subject (eg. look at https://search.worldcat.org/) and they are not vulnerable to SEO grifting and LLM spam like the web is
@mischk @mynameistillian If it's anything like with the IRC network, they are calculating cost in terms of salary for the people maintaining it
@daedalus @mynameistillian Sure, but that doesn't help if the library then has to close down 🙃
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ACAB
mozilla withdrawing from mastodon due to a lack of funds but having enough money to finance shitty ai research is like finding out your local library closed because they spent all their money on an inflatable dinosaur exhibit
Tech shit, software development
@freakazoid This is one of those things which *would* be very convenient, but the fact that there's no community governance of where it is applied, is what makes it problematic...
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queers forming polycules for mutual support instead of benefiting from generational wealth is us favoring composition over inheritance
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only in portland: the organizers of the annual “portland world naked bike ride” decided to take a year off
so another group decided to run a “world naked bike ride” in portland, instead
now the “portland world naked bike ride” folks are mad at the “world naked bike ride” folks and they’re duking it out in local blogs
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Dear 
, why does this bus exist? An hourly bus doing a very large round through every corner of Wasmes, a village of 11.632 inhabitants without a train station. Why is there not a direct bus to Mons? 
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seeing pushback against procedural generation as a result of alleged "AI" and that's really fucking sad
good procedural generation is hard. good procedural generation is bespoke and intentional. good procedural generation is artistic and creative. please don't lump it in with the slop generated through machine learning 😞
EDIT: procgen is not AI, it's a 40+ year old game design technique, see: https://peoplemaking.games/@eniko/113158903401769257
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in case it's not clear: procedural generation is a term used in game design whereby a human-authored algorithm takes a random seed value (a big random number like 123908516 for example) and deterministically generates game content from that. this does not involve training a neural network, these algorithms are painstakingly crafted by hand to create the desired output, do not require anyone else's content to make, and this technique is over 40 years old
it's used in games like nethack (1987) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetHack, elite (1984) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game), minecraft (2011), dwarf fortress (2006) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress, rimworld (2018) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RimWorld and many, many more
the fact that people are conflating procedural generation in game design which has a long and treasured history with "AI" slop is fucking tragic
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Twink death this, twink death that - take care of yourself and age gracefully. You'll transcend the boundaries of body archetypes and stay beautiful.
@VincentTunru As a thing to be aware of, in my experience most people by this point seem to believe that Servo is either dead or still a Mozilla project, and this will probably hamper funding. I think I've spoken to like, 2 people in the past 2 years who actually knew about its current status before I told them...
It's funny how whenever a consumer rights TV show in the Netherlands turns up at a physical office to speak to an executive, they're somehow always unavailable because "they are working from home today", and yet in most of those companies everyone else seems to be expected to come to the office
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This is glorious.The best time to burn a bridge is when you never, ever want to cross it again. #genai (Edit: This is a notice explaining why somebody is shutting down a long-running project to measure word frequencies.) https://github.com/rspeer/wordfreq/blob/master/SUNSET.md
- 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
