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
@the_lemonaut This is great!
Would it be okay for me to print these out a couple of times in zine-y format, so that I can give them to others and/or leave one in a few places? (At no charge to them)
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A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other thing 1/2 ☀️
Felt compelled to make this. It will finally stop floating around in my head 🎉
Podcast over here if you're interested: https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts
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corporate culture, suicide of a worker
Anyone up for a bet on how many Koa applications are unknowingly running with this default configuration being used for authenticating users?
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programmers are always posting like "worked on tracking down an issue with a Flurble deployment for twelve hours. the problem wasn't in Flurble at all - it was in the Gumbies install. It turns out if you install Gumbies 3.0 over Gumbies 2.7 and don't do a cache flush on all the client spiders they'll get stuck in the crystal maze." then you look up Gumbies and the site is one of those scroll scroll scroll types with one sentence per page, like
"GUMBIES is a lean, expressive sharding sandcube for testing and deploying large scale Woodchips playgrounds.
GUMBIES automates and streamlines away watersliding phases, meaning your team can get right to the chipping.
See why Microsoft, OpenAI and Bloingo have embraced GUMBIES in their Woodchips workflows."
and you get to the bottom and you're like I want this I guess but I still don't know what it is
"Simple session middleware for Koa. Defaults to cookie-based sessions and supports external stores. [...] The session is stored in a cookie by default, but it has some disadvantages: Session is stored on client side unencrypted [...]"
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[pop-up while you are trying to use a website]
WOULD YOU LIKE A COOKIE
[you click yes]
[your CD tray opens revealing a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie]
Anyone here know what happened to Ektoplazm, by any chance?
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Linux suggestions
@mynameistillian I'm not @flesh, but: if you're looking for a new hobby, NixOS (or realistically, what comes out of its community fork-wise, like Lix and such) is an interesting option.
If you want something that Just Works, I've noticed that the Pop! OS folks have by far the best attitude when it comes to "if it doesn't work like people expect, that's a bug, even if it was designed that way", but I haven't actually had a reason to *use* it myself so I don't know how far they've gotten from a technical perspective
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Het uitzicht van een ingelast #Pauzebankje vanmiddag (voor een preventieve blarenpleister).
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If someone wants to summarize what I said with an LLM I think the only reasonable response is to pepper the training dataset with GO FUCK YOURSELF signed by me with my real name addressed directly to you. Maybe that way your dramatically overfit surveillance bot confuses its attention matrix with confidence and gives me direct control over your fucking home thermostat or morning alarm clock. In biological signaling we say "a costly signal is a true signal" and you signaling this hard you trust your life to a suggestible text-based advertising machine suggests I would truly be able to dominate your perception of truth with like $20 of google ad spend.
Two hours of first-person footage of firefighters responding to a major forest/heath fire in the Netherlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiwPuEkh810
(CW: It can get pretty scary/intense at times)
@nico In the current situation, there is exactly *one* valid discussion to have about LLMs: and that is one that recognizes that it is a fundamentally exploitative technology (not in the least due to its training data demands that are impossible to meet ethically), and where the discussion revolves around how to most effectively remove it from society.
Any other kind of discussion - and that *especially* includes "devil's advocate" type arguments - only serves one purpose, and that's to provide cover to the fascists running the show. And I will not engage in that. Its exploitative nature is not up for debate.
@nico And no part of my original post was about laws.
I really have no interest in chasing goalposts. If you're not going to engage with the actual point I'm making, then please don't engage at all, because I certainly am not going to go off on a million irrelevant tangents.
I've spent the better part of a decade chasing these sorts of 'discussions' about other hyped technologies and none of them have *ever* resulted in any kind of useful outcome. I do not intend to waste any more time on this.
re: uspol, israel, europe, tech companies
@feld The problem probably isn't where the mail gets delivered. It's the entire system of integrating it into their existing setups.
- 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
