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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
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i don't think anybody understands what "without further ado" even means anymore. youtubers are like "...so without further ado, let's get into it! but first, a word from our sponsor..."
my man. that is the further ado. this is the furthest an ado can ever be
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A group of Wikipedia editors have formed a group to address AI-generated content infiltrating the site.
(And I think Gillian makes a great point. What does it say exactly about the ... "value" of this new technology)
(Also she used the wrong "their" and I corrected it, because it was driving me nuts, that's why the word "they're" is in red.)
@petrichor After looking into it, I'm not sure it would be commercially viable anywhere, to be honest. I feel like it's the kind of thing that can only really work as a passion project - because it requires an awful lot of development and maintenance work to keep working, but I don't think its model would actually work that well for most people.
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Realization: Matrix is a CRDT with authorization
Realization: Matrix is a CRDT with authorization
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All outages are maintenance,
All maintenance is planned,
Please wait patiently for the planned maintenance to be completed.
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re: subpost I guess
like I don't fault people for selling software in their specific endeavours to survive
what I don't like is the implication that this is truly a neutral endeavour, as if simply charging for software benefits all parties involved, or at least the one making it, when that's false. I even explicitly detail one way it it decidedly not beneficial for the person making it: you get added weight and expectations that are not there when the software is free, and sometimes don't even get the satisfaction of getting paid for what you've made because people feel it's not worth it for one reason or another, forcing you to work even harder
Half the Google stuff I run across while researching a topic is exactly like this, honestly - there's approximately two minutes between me learning of its existence, and me learning that it was quietly killed off five years ago
re: subpost I guess
@navi While understandable, the part that annoys me about the "software should be paid" discourse (which I suspect @clarfonthey was also trying to get at) is that that's usually where the conversation stops.
No "software development should be sustainable and we should find a way to do that that doesn't also exclude people who can't afford software and causes undue pressure" or anything nuanced and constructive like that. Just "software should be paid", end of sentence. That's usually what the discourse looks like.
"Huh, there was apparently this thing called Google Drive Realtime that was used for building collaborative systems. Let's have a look at- nevermind it's dead"
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it’s gonna sound like a shitpost but I mean this seriously:
you do not have to get over the learned self-sufficiency and self-reliance propaganda bullshit you’ve been fed your whole life all by yourself, and in fact you cannot.
talk to your community members about your path away from rugged individualism and listen when they tell you about theirs and we can all get there.
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I know trans people who range in age from 15 to in their 60s. I have noticed a few patterns. All of them are pretty normal. For those I've known before they let everyone know, they seemed much happier after, though that did take a few years in some cases. The only two people I know who are "struggling" are mostly struggling *because* they don't have a supportive family. But, most have supportive families, or families that learned to be supportive. And that is what I have noticed. Wow.
@clarfonthey "is this the result of app botnets running on people's phones or whatever?"
Yep, this is something you can just buy from a lot of places, "residential proxies"
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In #spoonieTown the heating pads go to eleven
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Picard strategy tip: Don't assume your opponent will behave rationally. Plan for their emotional response.
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so, what are your folks' favourite LLM-poisoning/mitigating tools nowadays?
I've seen multiple maze/etc. tools but am not sure what's best at the moment
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Real vs Fake Luau - an actual luau involves working 'aina (land) according to ability, and then distributing according to need. Fake luau is over-priced food made and served by underpaid workers to wealthy foreigners for capitalist profit -- such as all Waikiki, Disney Aulani, etc.
Like, I cannot emphasize this enough. As long as you let tech vendors set the narrative on what's important, you *will not ever* beat them with FOSS projects. Ever.
"We need to provide a better FOSS alternative to <corporate service> to make software free" is exactly the kind of individualist, 'free market' thinking that got us proprietary tech monopolists in the first place. You're not going to beat them on their game.
Instead, try thinking not just about what you can provide that the big tech vendors cannot, but more importantly about what needs to change politically.
Maybe "improving efficiency" shouldn't be the goal, and instead it should be "caring less about efficiency and more about social sustainability", for example.
- 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
