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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- 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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Ga niet naar Amerika. Je mooie Westerse paspoort is niets waard. https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/114094666462646092
@existential1 There are a number of 'local models' (ie. not running on someone else's server), but they're most likely all still trained through labour exploitation and mass scraping of other people's work (though of course the vast majority of them don't tell you what they were trained on to begin with). The energy levels required are different between models, but still very high for all of them.
I'd say that there are no good options, only slightly less bad ones, and that this will likely remain true forever due to the fundamental technical requirements of LLMs as a technology (namely, training data at a scale that cannot credibly be obtained ethically).
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Hey folks, there has been a fair bit of discussion this week regarding what the community expects from data dumps, and I've realised that obfuscating WiFi AP identifiers may actually be interfering with what the community wants: portable, open data - not some restrictive binary blob.
How would people feel if AP MAC+SSIDs were plaintext in the dumps, instead of obfuscated like originally planned? If an AP moved, it would still be blocked from the database for at least a year to prevent tracking.
@existential1 In my last evaluation about a year ago, zero open-source LLMs that actually worked existed (although plenty existed that *claimed* to be open-source, but weren't)
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Man, I fucking hate LinkedIn.
It feels even more performative and inauthentic than most social media which is a staggering achievement. Maybe I'm just not on other social media anymore.
The only good thing I've ever seen on LinkedIn is @vilmibm's profile which is damned art:
politics, abstract
There's this argument that you shouldn't expect people to be ideologically perfect because they don't need to be, and that is true, but it applies just as much to not expecting this from movements as a whole, which also means that "internal bickering" is not anywhere near the problem that people like to claim it is
@Thesassywolf @Geoffberner Looking at the petty bickering going on within actual operating governments, this doesn't seem to be a disqualifying factor, at least.
I would really like to read more *good* research into programming languages and code quality, instead of the usual "poke it once and three methodology problems fall out" garbage
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your outie is terminally eepy
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R.I.P. James Harrison, Australian hero, whose blood contained a rare antibody used to create medication to protect babies from a rare blood disorder. Having the antibody was just luck. What made him a hero was donating plasma every two weeks without missing one appointment for 60+ years. There's power in just reliably showing up for other people who need what only you can give them.
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@joepie91 will post wee woo exactly 3 hours later next month for opsec
slightly spicy political take (not related to current events)
@mynameistillian Right, but this is exactly my point; people who appear as leftist but do not hold a leftist value system only appear like credible leftists to people who judge "left/right" by looking at policy points.
People who judge it by underlying values, and how those expose themselves through one's behaviour, rhetoric and introspection (and who actually pay attention to that), are going to catch on pretty quickly when someone's talking leftist but not walking leftist.
C++ drama
@hazelnot I do have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised by the comments to this on r/cpp
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Hello! We thought we'd freshen up our introduction!
Every day women have, and are, making history. We're a project that posts every day with what women did #OnThisDay. We're all about highlighting #WomenInHistory.
Women in history are, just like men, complex. Sometimes a woman who has achieved something amazing was not a nice person.
Follow us to find out what happened on this day, and carve her name.
re: uspol, us cloud providers, request for feedack
@polyfloyd I would also recommend Bert Hubert's recent articles about government cloud in general; they tend to be pretty heavily sourced, so there's probably more useful arguments in there
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Things that I was formally taught in school that I'm pretty sure have been removed from the curriculum since then
* What the computer filesystem is
* How to operate a sewing machine
* How to use power tools and basic woodworking
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uspol, us cloud providers, request for feedack
I have a meeting planned with the head of my department to voice my concerns about using Google Cloud.
I have two points that I would like to make:
* Ideological, about whether we should sponsor Google, which was so quick to step in line with Trump and Elon
* Operational, about the risk we take by relying on a platform that is easily weaponized in a trade conflict
Are there more arguments to be made against US cloud that could be compelling?
uspol, us cloud providers, request for feedack
@polyfloyd Probably the privacy argument? https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/maar-is-het-legaal-om-persoonsgegevens-in-de-us-cloud-te-zetten/
slightly spicy political take (not related to current events)
The "authoritarian left" can only exist if you treat "left" vs. "right" as being about what policy positions someone holds while disregarding the underlying motivation; because you can argue for *any* policy position in an authoritarian manner.
But if you treat "left" vs. "right" as being about the value system that someone lives by (equitable collaboration vs. competitive hierarchy), then the "authoritarian left" is a fundamentally impossible concept, because any kind of authoritarian stance is incompatible with equitable collaboration at a very basic level.
When people are in conflict about whether leftists can be authoritarian, it's because some of the people involved only consider 'values-neutral' policy positions and not value systems or societal outcomes. Which is why this so often happens with centrists in particular.
- 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
