Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
food, vegetarian
@clarfonthey It definitely was!
food, vegetarian
Today's dinner; almost entirely vegan, though my burger (out of 4) has dairy cheese rather than vegan cheese. Contains mushrooms, onion, bellpepper, cucumber, some chard leaf from my own garden(!), and a nice well-spiced sauce!
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This has been said many times, but it's worth reiterating...
Dysphoria is a pretty counterproductive framework for identity exploration. It mostly tells you *that* something is wrong, but usually not *how* it's wrong. It can be unclear where to even go from there.
Euphoria, on the other hand, tells you *how* something is *right*, which also implicitly tells you what's wrong. This gives you a lot more information, and is much more useful in finding your identity beyond an abstract "not this".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPT-1327
> However, TETRA, with its enhanced encryption capability
well, yes, I guess if you compare it with nothing
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Asexual person kicked out of the casino for having five aces
("Residential proxies" are the thing that they use to come at you from home user IP addresses when you block their servers, to try and evade your block and become undetectable)
It occurs to me that even if we can't *prevent* LLM companies from scraping by blocking their IP ranges, doing so en masse will certainly make it very *expensive* for them to continue scraping, because residential proxies are not cheap
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Don’t call the messenger (transitous) “trash” please, especially since the träwelling database now has sooooo many more services
Words have consequences, and if you’re framing a community-maintained data source built from the hard work of a few individuals “garbage”, it won’t get any better - rather you’re putting people off from fixing the issues!
It’s especially annoying to see this from techy folks, especially those close to open-source projects, or those who use them - don’t make the space more toxic than it is ffs
Looks like I now have early bumblebees enjoying the raspberry plants 🙂
@awoo I usually get my laptop batteries in general from 123accu (as I know that they will sort it out if it doesn't work correctly for whatever reason), but they only seem to ship to the Netherlands and Belgium - they do seem to at least have a generic x230 battery
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The "Trending now" on my instance knows exactly what it's doing.
@eloy There's definitely a bias going on there, but I do think there is a certain kernel of truth to it - *a lot* of FOSS culture really does revolve around chasing the currently-hip proprietary thing with a FOSS 'alternative' rather than working to build new, better things that can stand on their own merits.
To my never-ending frustration, because it can be really difficult to find people willing to put work into trying new things 😕
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a bias I started to notice on Wikipedia recently: open source projects that are described like "offers similar features to $proprietary_service" while the proprietary service is just described as what it does
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ACAB
what do astronauts in space do when their nose gets itchy
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Het losse feit dat je een miljard hebt zegt dat je een slecht mens bent. Punt. https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Hope4All/114540363317403748
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I'm starting to really like 'vibe coding'...
I've now had several clients come to me to take over projects that another agency was working on because the other agency started using generative AI. Apparently there was a real drop in product quality. I wonder why.
Basically vibe coding is making me money specifically because I'm not using it.
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Hi everybody! Welcome to the fediverse.
If you're new here, you might not have seen my dating site yet:
https://ben.lubar.me/dating-site/
Have fun! I hope you find the date you are looking for.
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@baldur this number is only so low because there are so few well-regarded tech execs.
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Thought about linking to one of the few well regarded tech execs writing halfbaked bullshit with a tag along the lines of “This is halfbaked bullshit.” But then I remember that he searches social media for links to his site and mentions of his name and tries to argue with people, and he gets all offended when I reply that I’d rather not, if I’d wanted to debate him I’d have mentioned him directly
Instead comfort yourself knowing there are at least a dozen different dudes this could apply to
- 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
