Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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Ah ja, als je arm bent heb je geen recht op privacy:
"Waarom moet ik een extensie installeren als ik de aanvraag op mijn computer doe?"
"Het indienen van de aanvraag gaat via een digitaal proces waarbij je DigiD gebruikt. De extensie zorgt ervoor dat je gegevens op een veilige, snelle en betrouwbare manier worden opgehaad. De overheidsorganisaties waar we gegevens ophalen zijn het UWV, de Belastingdienst en Toeslagen."
Waarom kan ik niet gewoon de papieren indienen, digitaal of per post?
A construction in someone's backyard down the street caught on fire like a week ago, and I have to give props to the demolition company that removed it, because I didn't even notice that they'd been demolishing it until I saw the dumpster full of burnt wood sitting on the street.
That was a very quiet demolition!
@Heidentweet @amro It is at least better than petroleum-based plastics but that's about all the positive things I can say about it
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Being a joke, it's not *perfectly* accurate, there's plenty of amazing research that's been done over the years under the moniker of AI. At the same time, there's a pretty sizable germ of truth to it all.
If an ML product just works, it used to be that no one would ever call it AI, because that's just the internals as to how the thing works. E.g. spam filters, medical imaging, any thermostat that's even slightly more complex than a PID controller, ...
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The old joke throughout grad school was that machine learning is statistical inference that doesn't work, and that AI is machine learning that doesn't work.
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Has anyone written some sort of comprehensive analysis of how protocols were designed to be used, how people ended up using them instead, and what lessons can be drawn from it?
Across multiple different case studies, ideally, not just one protocol.
@Heidentweet I don't know the exact numbers, but it does need a temperature for some time that home composting doesn't reach, yeah.
It kind of annoys me how Matrix core devs never seem to acknowledge a fundamental risk in their protocol design: that untrusted third parties can trigger intensive computation on other systems (by creating complex state graphs).
It's not that there's no way to (sufficiently) mitigate this, but you do actually need to acknowledge that this problem exists, instead of fucking around in the margins with 'making stateres more efficient'.
As long as the graph complexity isn't forcibly bounded in some way, this is going to keep being a problem.
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Fedimeta, pol, defederation
I think the news are already out for some time, so I won’t repeat it here, but fosstodon.org got infected with an active fascist among their mod team and they openly state they’re happy with it.
#fediblock will commence in 24h if the action isn’t taken and public apology isn’t provided.
I recommend #fediadmin-s to look into that and make a decision as well. This is a dangerous precedent and how fedi reacts is important.
Upd:
https://fosstodon.org/@mike/114394345053697948 - thread is located here
#fediblock will commence in 24h if the action isn’t taken and public apology isn’t provided.
I recommend #fediadmin-s to look into that and make a decision as well. This is a dangerous precedent and how fedi reacts is important.
Upd:
https://fosstodon.org/@mike/114394345053697948 - thread is located here
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got up and ran into my cat in the hallway, who looked at me wide eyed, screamed, then ran away
good morning to you too, cat
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Mijn dochter is geen kostenpost. Het pgb is geen speeltuin voor oplichters.
Uw uitzending zaait wantrouwen, stigmatiseert ouders, en mist elke nuance.
Ik schreef u een brief. Als vader.
Lees hem hier:
#pgb #wederhoor #menselijkheid #zorg
https://kanteldenker.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/ik-ben-woedend/
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Why does everything in tech have the UX of stepping on a sea urchin?
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like I don't know man. even if what someone said was inane, or obvious, or missing the point, they still *said* something. they reached out—used their divine spark of will to try to make a connection. I think it's fine to point out the inanity or the obviousness, but I don't think it's fine to say the person was wrong to try to reach out.
reading that back though, I realize this is a bit of a rosy picture. everything with nuance, I try to say. I suppose if you're getting a lot of unwanted attention, and there's no tools to reduce that attention, something's got to give.
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I think the introduction of the *concept* of a "reply guy" has had a chilling effect on people's willingness to reach out and engage
re: Fedimeta, pol, defederation
@byte Thanks :)
re: Fedimeta, pol, defederation
@byte (Do you have a link to more details or so? I'd missed this somehow)
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@shine The melting point is 150-160C for PLA, it would probably weaken at boiling temps but I don't think that's an issue as I think its only purpose is to keep the paper fibers together
So Lipton is now claiming on their tea boxes "no plastic film around the box" and "the teabags are plant-based, made from paper and cornstarch". Clearly trying to imply that the product is plastic-free, but not quite *saying* it.
So you might think, why is there cornstarch in the bags?
Well, from cornstarch you can make... PLA! A type of plastic. And indeed, the other side of the box talks about composting the bags, but specifically mentions "industrial compost" - because that's the only type of composting that can process PLA.
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
