Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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- 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
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Press attention for the surveillance camera walk https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Pieter%20Vander%20Vennet/diary/405672
@monk I don't know what to do with this question.
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an example of a "social rule" in the terminal is that if you have a noninteractive program, you can generally expect that `Ctrl-C` will stop it, programs can do whatever they want but it would just be kind of rude for a noninteractive program to not respect `Ctrl-C`
(there are different social expectations around how to quit interactive programs)
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I haven't totally sold myself yet on this "what are the secret rules of the terminal?” framing but it feels like a reasonable way to talk about how, even though “the terminal” is a lot of separate things working together, it "feels" like a cohesive environment that has a lot of rules that you can generally expect to be true.
Some of those rules are Unchangeable Facts and some of them are just Vague Social Rules but understanding the vague social rules is just as important as knowing The Facts.
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Mistodon: @teksttv has drawn a #teletext adaptation of Charles O'Rear's Sonoma vineyard photograph 'Bliss', famously used as the default wallpaper for #WindowsXP & likely the most viewed photograph in human history. This screen was included in the MIST1121 artpack collection.
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Generative models are not remotely close to being good enough to match even the most mediocre local news production
This is likely a regional monopoly (or duopoly at best) for local news. If you have a lock on the market and don't have to worry about regulators the easiest way to juice profits is to destroy labour
This is intentional scuttling the product to make more money because they know that neither the workforce nor the consumer have any recourse
This is what generative models are for
feedback over waarom het misschien niet verspeid wordt, indien gewenst
@heleenkuiper Ik had deze zelf nog niet eerder gezien, maar ik heb wel wat concrete suggesties over hoe dit soort dingen aan te kondigen zodat ze ook beter verspreid worden:
1. Er is momenteel geen alt text, en een hoop mensen op Mastodon retooten dingen simpelweg niet zonder alt text uit principe, omdat het een deel van de gemeenschap buitensluit. Dus dat kan een reden zijn.
2. Het is uit de poster niet echt duidelijk wat het doel is, of zelfs wat de insteek is; een feest, een protestmars, alleen een ontmoetingsplek, iets anders? Dat kan mensen afschrikken, want dan is het maar de vraag of het meer dan symboolpolitiek is.
3. Uiteindelijk moeten mensen er ook vertrouwen in hebben dat het evenement bij kan dragen aan een oplossing. Nu weet ik niet wie de 'politiek bewuste mastodonners' in je toot precies zijn, maar veel mensen die ik ken zouden direct afknappen op de framing dat het probleem 'polarisatie' is, aldus de website (ik heb het even opgezocht), omdat we ons er maar wat van bewust zijn dat dat meestal een opzetje is om te doen alsof er geen systemische discriminatie in het spel is.
Dit alles is niet per se bedoeld als kritiek op het evenement, voor de duidelijkheid, meer als 'ondertiteling' van waarom het hier misschien niet zoveel vaart loopt. In mijn ervaring gaat het verspreiden een stuk beter met heel concrete aankondigingen a la "er is probleem X, we gaan ding Y doen, kom naar plek Z op die en die tijd".
(Overigens lijkt het evenement inmiddels vol te zitten dus is aanmelden om erbij te zijn sowieso niet meer mogelijk, maar dat is weer een ander verhaal.)
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If I bought a CD every time an Estonian underground metal band offered me a CD on the streets, I had two CDs. Which isn’t much but it’s funny it happened twice.
An hour of optimization later, and my algorithm for merging gappy sequences is *much* faster - for a testing set of 200k values (split up into a few separate slices and then re-merged into one), it went from several minutes runtime and 90MB heap use, to under 200ms runtime and 9MB heap use!
(This is for my Matrix client, for merging server responses into the local message cache)
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Calling all #Blind #Windows users! 🖥️👥 I briefly tried #Beeper after seeing another blind person recommend it, but it didn't seem the most accessible with the #JAWS #ScreenReader. Do you use any all-in-one social media apps like Shift, Franz, Ferdium, or Beeper on Windows? I'd love to hear about your experiences with #accessibility and usability. Please share your thoughts! #AssistiveTech
#tech
@mastoblind @main
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So, anyway, whenever you read "some scientists think", think about me and recalibrate the lower end of your expectations accordingly.
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'I cannot tell you when the current mania will end and this bubble will burst. If I could, you’d be reading this in my $100,000 per month subscribers-only trading strategy newsletter and not a public blog. What I can tell you is that computers cannot think, and that the problems of the current instantation of the nebulously defined field of “AI” will not all be solved within “5 to 20 years”.'
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“Have you got anything to declare?”
“Yeah, five imported functions and one global variable. It’s an array, hope that’s alright”
re: elememoment
@kloenk I'll definitely post about it here when that happens, for now there's just a small sneak preview of what I'm going for in terms of UI: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/113515698069931949
re: elememoment
@kloenk I wouldn't be surprised if a big part of the jank in existing clients is purely due to this problem, to be honest.
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@kloenk I've mostly been working so far on some UI stuff and a sensible internal representation of the message cache, which as far as I can tell, 0 of the existing clients have (all either depending on server responses, or suffering from jank in the way they merge server responses).
It's turned out to be a surprisingly difficult problem to solve performantly, though I think I have a working implementation now.
@artemist Those weirder problems are deterministically weird though!
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now that we've concluded that other species we share this planet with use language amongst themselves similarly to how we use language it makes me wonder if any of them use language for the enjoyment of riffing on language quirks the way we do.
do crows meme about the crow equivalent of jorts? has a crow ever uttered "shiny thing wife, shiny thing life" to raucous laughter?
I really do wonder.
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@kloenk I'm working on my own client now, which will be done any day now 🙃
- 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
