Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

graffiti in video games almost always completely lacks the panache of real world graffiti, but if I were a graffiti artist I'd be tempted to copy some of the really baffling tags from games sometimes for irony. like hell yeah let's just write the word "crime" on the side of a real building in extremely clear bubble text lol

i am tired of these ideas. how many times do i have to say it? SUFFERING IS NOT GOOD. SUFFERING IS NOT NEEDED. IT'S NOT NECESSARY NOR IS IT GOOD.

"pain makes you appreciate pleasure more" all it did is make me feel suspicious of pleasure and gravely afraid of experiencing pain and stress ever again to the point of sending me into a panic attack. yall need to rehash your ideas

we know how institutionalism fails to meet the moment, time and again, so it's not a surprise to us that nobody has stepped up to fund remote conferences. any thought that we might be headed towards a world that tries to grapple sincerely with this stuff left us a few years ago, when conferences that had gone full-remote for COVID stopped having remote options

again, not to call out anyone in particular. every conference did this. every professional organization did this.

"Why did you come to this time? To warn us?"

The time traveler laughed. "Why would anyone listen to me?"

"You're from our future-"

"No, I'm from a different timeline, a different future. I'm a refugee."

"To here? Now?"

"It looks fucked right now, but this is the timeline that pulls through."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

We need to stop fucking falling for the narrative of the maverick programmer creating a Better Internet Thing from his garage that now needs a bunch of money or subscribers so let's help him become another Fuckerberg and never you mind about all the clear evidence he's not worth your trust, it won't make it into the script of the Hollywood movie anyway.

After plenty of experimenting, I'm leaning towards using my own project (iocaine) over #nepenthes, mostly because I want to be more offensive than Nepenthes allows me to be.

While Nepenthes is meant to be running alongside a site, and provide a path into an infinite maze, I want to run my garbage generator in front of my site. I want my reverse proxy to replace the real site with garbage if an AI agent is seen.

This has the downside that I need to redirect explicitly, so unknown agents will not be trapped (while they will be caught in Nepanthes' maze!). On the other hand, it means that my content is unavailable for AI crawlers in the first place - at least to known ones.

I don't want to slow down crawlers on the generator level, either. I want the generator to spew out garbage as fast as it can. I'll rate-limit the crawlers on the reverse proxy level instead.

There are also subtle differences: I don't use a pre-shared seed to provide stability across restarts and nodes, but derive the seed from the original URL of the request instead. There is no database, no persistent storage apart from the configuration file, a wordlist, and the markov chain training data.

Training is also done on startup, rather than by POST-ing to an API endpoint - I don't need runtime training, and on the servers I run, training with a few megabytes of text (which is plenty to generate garbage from!) takes a few seconds only.

So I guess this is an announcement of Iocaine!

welp. threads is getting ads. and from the look of the screenshot theyre just normal posts like other platforms do. so defederate threads unless you want ads in your global.

Oh hi, it’s me. I’m exhausterwhelmulated 🥹

I would like to see more posts talking about actionable things that people can do to fight fascism in the US, and way less posts reporting on what awful thing Musk or Trump has done today, because that is really not at all helpful and tells nobody anything new

Computers are a trap. You love computers right up to the point that you learn slightly too much about computers, and then you hate computers

Once again, I'm warning about the LGBTQ Kakuma Refugee Camp mutual aid/crowdfunding scam.

It is a con which abuses the Fediverse culture of mutual aid and preys on our broad support for queer folks. Posts will often use photos manipulated to include pride flags/merch or new text on signs using "handwriting" fonts.

They link to a variety of GoFundMe pages with creators in Italy, Germany, England, France, Canada, USA, and more.

Many accounts use the names Justice Mayanja or Lukwago.

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Ah yes, a totally normal Friday evening on Fedi. One being is breaking certificate providers by requesting certs for .arpa domains, the other being is installing a Fedi server onto their car… lets just see what comes next