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
technology, bleak, potential existential dread
@serapath I repeat: we do not have 'capable AI'. We have a bunch of useful algorithms and a bunch of not-so-useful word soup and lie generators. That's it.
It is irresponsible to respond to concerns about the current state of technology with "well maybe things will get better in the future".
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technology, bleak, potential existential dread
One of my more 'ambient' concerns about technology, as it stands today, is the degree to which it makes social development and evolution impossible.
Computer systems require for everything to be encoded in standardized formats, to function. Standardized formats require exhaustively defining the space of all relevant information and concepts that can exist.
Which means that we're rapidly locking ourselves into an ossified, immutable society where everything must forever work how it does today - organic development of novel and better things rapidly becomes impossible because its outcomes are not representable in the computer systems that now run our world.
Even leaving aside the question of "who defines the space of possible things that can exist", the mere fact that this must be exhaustively specified *at all* is, I think, a potentially existential risk for humans' ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
technology, bleak, potential existential dread
@serapath We don't have "capable AI" to begin with (and it's not clear that we ever will).
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De #groteKleinLeedVerkiezing zoekt het kleinste leed, want groot leed is er al genoeg.
Doe even alsof je een laptop en een kantoor buitenshuis hebt (mocht je een daarvan of beide niet hebben) en overweeg: welke van deze vier dingen vind ik het MINST erg?
(This inspired by a conversation I was just having with someone)
The future is mutable, history is not
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Loving art but hating artists is akin to Loving Black Culture but hating Black People. (I'm saying this as a Black person artist.)
AI Image Lovers want to remove "the artist" from the equation in the same way that people want to use Black culture but remove Black people from the equation.
I have been trying to wrap my tongue around the words as to why this "AI Art" boom is so rotten and this is one of the reasons! 🥴
technology, bleak, potential existential dread
One of my more 'ambient' concerns about technology, as it stands today, is the degree to which it makes social development and evolution impossible.
Computer systems require for everything to be encoded in standardized formats, to function. Standardized formats require exhaustively defining the space of all relevant information and concepts that can exist.
Which means that we're rapidly locking ourselves into an ossified, immutable society where everything must forever work how it does today - organic development of novel and better things rapidly becomes impossible because its outcomes are not representable in the computer systems that now run our world.
Even leaving aside the question of "who defines the space of possible things that can exist", the mere fact that this must be exhaustively specified *at all* is, I think, a potentially existential risk for humans' ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
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wayland window with a drop shadow that changes position depending on the time of the day like a sundial
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Hot take: Pirating music is MORE ethical than using Spotify. The artists don't get paid either way, but at least piracy doesn't support exploitative corporations.
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OH: "remove the GitHub stale bot from your head, no matter how long you've had this you deserve it to be solved" (in the context of "oh i am too old to do trans things")
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TIL that the 'Daleks In Colour' mix of the Delia Derbyshire Doctor Who theme has the Pertwee title sequence in the spectrogram.
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today I set all the git repositories on my personal forgejo server to private because llm crawlers were thrashing my server
when you ask chatgpt a silly question to see the silly answer, or prompt midjourney or whatever for a funny image, or use copilot or claude to vibe code, you are complicit in this
It kind of baffles me how I've tried to get Storybundle to send me e-mails about new bundles several times now, and I am still not getting any.
"Not getting the spam I asked for" sure is a new one for me
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is there a nice tool to expose an arbitrary bitmap over VNC?
wonder how long it will take until exposure on VNC resolver
NixOS community/governance
@KFears Yeah, that was pretty much a predictable outcome once so many competent maintainers left over the handling of things, honestly.
I also think it was pretty much inevitable. The departures were a bit louder because of the outspoken community conflict, but I suspect that those who left would've otherwise quietly burned out instead.
NixOS community/governance
@KFears The one thing I'd sort of disagree with would be that the Zulip wasn't productive - it established beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no singular NixOS 'community' with a cohesive system of values, and that the fragments of community that do exist are fundamentally irreconcilable in a number of ways.
That's not the outcome that I'd hoped for, but it certainly helped to get a clear and unambiguous answer to "is there a way out of this swamp without drastic measures", that answer being "no".
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𝕛𝕦𝕝𝕖𝕤 
The year is 2098.
Nobody knows anymore what an arch or a linux is, but for historical reasons it still is the only wiki documenting operating systems accurately
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I’m just saying that if you think you can’t do shit because it’s “too weird,” nothing you can do will ever be as weird as the fact that we all exist at the same time together.
Do your weird little thing, friend.
- 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
