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
@feld ... no, they are not. We had 'immutable ledgers' decades before we had blockchains, because they are a comparatively trivial technology.
Blockchains, as originally introduced with Bitcoin, were built entirely out of prior work; the only novelty was the particular combination of existing techniques to (try and) achieve that previously-unachieved property of "trustless consensus".
I am well aware that a good part of the tech industry has tried to retroactively redefine "blockchain" to play into the hype without having to actually do anything new, but accepting and adopting those terms is not going to help you to have any sort of actually-useful conversation about blockchains.
Like I said, Minespider have abandoned everything that could let one plausibly call it a 'blockchain'. It isn't one. They, like everyone else with an ounce of sense, eventually realized that blockchains are a terrible fucking idea for this (as described in the original post) and quietly 'pivoted' to something else that's much older and much more established.
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If you’re affected by the IETF LLC’s inaction, or just find the body in charge for designing the Internet we all rely on to be in the wrong here; I invite you to sign my open letter to the board: https://boycott-ietf127.org
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The IETF LLC thinks it’s reasonable to continue holding meetings in the US, whilst the safety of many attendees is in danger there
Discussion starts at 1:57:00 https://www.youtube.com/live/0l_QTKtBN3w
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reminder that whenever the gop complains about "censorship" what they always always mean is "you're making me feel bad about being a white supremacist." when they say that universities shouldn't be able to "indoctrinate" students, what they always always mean is "you shouldn't be able to tell people that white supremacy is bad." it is never a good faith argument and it should never be treated as such
@feld You wouldn't, which is why it's completely absurd to try and use a blockchain for this, which is entirely *about* trustless decentralization.
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“bsky”? wow, the misskey forks sure are proliferating.
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"i'm here, on the severed floor of lumon. i don't know who i am or how i got here."
@nordstadtrockt It almost feels tempting to order a truckload of some particularly spiky tree debris and fill that entire area with it. And see if anyone still dares to park their car there.
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steven hawking's time traveler party is obvious ruse to steal a time machine. if you show up the only thing waiting for you is a detail of goons with baseball bats
re: food mention
@riley Web of Potato
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oi dutch queers i need your input
do you have any recommendations for trans-friendly GPs in Utrecht? i know about the roze in wit website but i wanna hear feedback from others on the doctors
looking to change GPs as my current one is ass and i wanna start the official transition path
thx and boost in advance
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The problem with the whole "Meta has used tens of millions of published works for training LLMs for profit" thing is the "training LLMs for profit" bit, not the "there are irregular channels for accessing books that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive or literally impossible to access" bit.
Like, "piracy" is going to be the only way a lot of people can access a massive portion of the information and media out there until capitalism ends. Whether the act itself is "good" or not, it's necessary for a lot of people.
What isn't necessary is LLM "hyperscalers" doing it industrially.
food mention
From the website of a major frozen fries supplier: "Experience our authentic and tasty skin-on fries. The irregular cutsize gives them a homemade feel."
Someone doesn't seem to understand what exactly "authentic" means...
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a quote from disco elysium, on beauty and lookism
-- "what is beauty?"
-- "when you have the fewest deviations from the norm. i've been told it's a type of mediocrity that i possess."
@helle @budsofstone @wgahnagl (If you want, I can see if I can find a relevant alderman for you if you send me the name of the municipality)
@helle @budsofstone @wgahnagl Oh yeah, I more mean in terms of finding an alderman who would be sympathetic to the cause here (safe needle disposal) and who has some kind of jurisdiction over these decisions, and writing them to ask them to investigate this
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US academics hosting international conferences which are already planned: I'm sure you all have experience pivoting to all online events and don't need the help I'm able to offer. But do DM me if you want to hear about running a large event via FLOSS platform and tools. I'm super happy to help.
I went to strongly encourage you to switch to virtual now. There are significant advantages to this approach including lower carbon, greater participation from Latin American participants and others who are normally excluded by US border policies, and, of course, its a way to protect your reputation and respect your overseas participants.
In person international travel to the US puts researchers at serious risk of arbitrary detention. You owe it to them to not ask this.
By having a virtual conference, you have greater scope for international participation and can maintain the international relevance of your institution. You can still build on networking and collaboration opportunities for yourself and your students.
I can help you organise/host an algorave connected to your event. This could include sonification of data connected to your discipline or other artistic exploration of your topic area. This can include a chat channel and wprknfor networking. The cross disciplinary exploration is often very helpful.
@helle @budsofstone @wgahnagl Ugh :| That seems like something to maybe poke the municipality about? Getting things done on a local government level is often easier than on a national level, if you can find the right person to talk to
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Δ-44203.1 'Carbon' 
query: is the concept of living stratego widely known?
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My endstops broke so while I wait for the new ones I've improvised
#3Dprinting
- 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
