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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The fediverse is inter-operable with itself.
We should simply not invite megacorp players to the table.
They are devourers, not helpers.
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anyway what's the next grift big tech is going to come up with for using all those GPUs they bought when they thought bitcoin was going to be good
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hackers are really rational people who truly think for themselves, unlike all other people
(don't ask about Club Mate, Lenovo ThinkPads, Engelbert Strauss and Paulaner Spezi)
@unlobito Thing is, in eg. NL, ID cards *are* very common... and driver's licenses are *still* a valid form of ID. And I have heard the same from other places that do national IDs.
It's actually *really* weird that driver's licenses, specifically, are seen as a valid form of government ID in a lot of places.
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> Maybe it’s useful to know that Sam Altman uses a knife that’s showy but incohesive and wrong for the job; he wastes huge amounts of money on olive oil that he uses recklessly; and he has an automated coffee machine that claims to save labour while doing the exact opposite because it can’t be trusted. His kitchen is a catalogue of inefficiency, incomprehension, and waste.
more of this, please. you can learn who a person really is by how they do housework and carework.
https://www.ft.com/content/b1804820-c74b-4d37-b112-1df882629541
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If you can stomach an AI generated placeholder image, this post about WiFi only working when it's raining is similarly hilariously strange, again with a logical explanation.
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My apologies, it was 500 miles. Anyway, if you haven't seen this story you owe it to yourself to give it a read. It's absolutely absurd, and yet there's a perfectly logical — if strange! — explanation.
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When I see something like this, or the "I can only send an e-mail 300 miles" post, or the "my wifi only works when it's raining" post, it's tempting to think of ordinary computing as being something like AI: subject to mysterious and seemingly random behaviors.
The difference, though, is that these *incredibly strange* bugs all have explanations rooted in an understanding of how computers work. You can go find those explanations by using logic!
@mynameistillian (That is, assuming that they haven't changed the design/materials over time, as IKEA is sometimes prone to doing)
@mynameistillian I've repeatedly washed mine (normal color detergent, 40 celsius, high-speed spin cycle) and it's been no problem. It'll need a lot of time to dry properly and even longer to fluff up properly again, but eventually it'll be back to normal.
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Seems like I'm not the only one noticing an uptick in channer and nazi memes being boosted.
Is something specific going on? Or is it just the normal ebb & flow?
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Baby steps.
I made a little #rustic step-ladder for the living room using a maple yoke piece that I ripped down the middle. And I added a removable slide for the junior woodworkers to have a some indoor playground fun.
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I don't think #spooncarving will ever be my main thing but it's such a nice way to practice and experiment. This little spoon is for the sugar bowl. It was a piece of birch around a knot that I almost threw in the compost but then I thought it might be worth trying to work that swerving grain.
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In retrospect, maybe organizing the whole world via Teen-Chat and Celebrity-Quip products was not a good idea.
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And there are lots of other examples where folks seem to bargain with extractive technologies and avoid the debate about environmental damage by talking about the good intentions and organization of the makers.
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An organic, fair-trade, community-governed, collectively-owned, open-source oil rig is still an oil rig.
Intentions, governance, ownership, etc. are all super important, but you also need to be honest about what the thing does and the consequences.
I'm lookin' at you "Open-Source Local LLMs".
@jacksonchen666 You could use another filterable product search thing, like the Tweakers Pricewatch or Geizhals? (Though the listed parts will vary by local availability for their respective locales of course.)
There's also icecat but IIRC its search is garbage
- 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
