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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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
@hugh Weird. The return machines here either have near-360-degrees scanners, or they rotate the object until they find a barcode. I haven't had a rejection (of an undamaged bottle or can) in years, I think? And I just put them in at a random rotation.
subtooting NixOS community stuff
You'd think that "if your community conflicts constantly end up at an accountability black hole, there's probably a problem with your decisionmaking structure that you need to fix" is a pretty obvious take, but here we are
@hugh Huh, you have to insert things into that return machine in a specific orientation/rotation? That's one finicky machine...
The plant table is done and installed! Quite happy with the result, considering that it was a practice project and all the wood involved was crap 😄
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We hope everyone enjoyed our April Fools' joke. Torment Nexus is, of course, not going to be worker-owned.
A note to our employees: your level of enthusiasm for this idea was noted, and will be discussed at your next performance review.
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I can genuinely say that no piece of portable hardware I've ever owned has got as many questions or compliments as my @mntmn Pocket Reform.
@rune cunning linguists
If you let Google Translate guess the language of "croissant", it guesses English
@squeakypancakes There's a page on the OSM wiki with tools for this (outlining what features each has): https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_on_Paper
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I've also finally installed a garden hose box, because I am sick and tired of my garden hoses laying on the ground outside and getting damaged and needing replacement all the time (storing them inside is impractical because of frequent use and being wet)...
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"LLM did something bad, then I asked it to clarify/explain itself" is not critical analysis but just an illustration of magic thinking.
Those systems generate tokens. That is all. They don't "know" or "understand" or can "explain" anything. There is no cognitive system at work that could respond meaningfully.
That's the same dumb shit as what was found in Apple Intelligence's system prompt: "Do not hallucinate" does nothing. All the tokens you give it as input just change the part of the word space that was stored in the network. "Explain your work" just leads the network to lean towards training data that has those kinds of phrases in it (like tests and solutions). It points the system at a different part but the system does not understand the command. It can't.
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Also, you know, the classic thing of Consent and Control.
I consent to joining a voice chat. I control when it ends.
A phone call either happens to me with limited if any warning or I call someone due to some need. And I can't really get out of it without specifically establishing both sides have fulfilled their criteria *and* I can't be explicit about my desire for its termination.
@domo (It mostly seems to be possible now because my physical energy levels have increased a lot since transplantation!)
@domo To me it feels like going through a year+ old todo list that's been sitting around for too long but I guess you're right 😅
I've also finally installed a garden hose box, because I am sick and tired of my garden hoses laying on the ground outside and getting damaged and needing replacement all the time (storing them inside is impractical because of frequent use and being wet)...
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How can one engage in algorithmic sabotage to poison "AI" scrapers looking for images when one is running a static website? Thanks to @pengfold, I've implemented a quick and easy way for my own blog:
https://tzovar.as/algorithmic-sabotage-ii/
Also thanks to @rostro & @asrg for the pointers and discussion!
- 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
