Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

ok brain, new day, let's go, useful thoughts

brain:
"#define printf(...) putchar('f')"
":)"

Medium article: "Coding won't exist in five years. This is why."

First paragraph: "once upon a time, in a world not too different from ours, handmade clothing was the norm."

Comrade. Friend. I really need to tell you that clothing is still hand made. We just exploit people in the global south to make tons of it cheaply.

nothing makes be believe in empty internet theory more than when I look for a solution for a particular problem I have, and the only real solution is a blog post by someone I know

(everyone from the top down does it, and anyone buying anything related to adtech needs to realise that they're wasting their money)

Nobody wanted to listen when I said "the blockchain is fucking stupid" and "self-driving cars will never work," so I expect nothing out of this, but:

LLM based "AI" is godawful and will never truly work and will harm people with its brokenness. You can just... not build it, and not use it, and the world will be a better place. You can do literally nothing and have a positive impact.

Got a hobby website? Webcomic? Knitting patterns? Blog? Recipe page? Any web-1.0 website that you've made yourself? I'll run a free ad for it on the formerly-world's-most-popular text adventure Improbable Island, no catch, still over a gigabyte of text served per day:
https://www.improbableisland.com/hobbysites.php

Context:
https://mstdn.social/@ifixcoinops/109639352494996644

Reminder that most models trying to "explain" autism or ADHD are actually explaining what's "wrong" or "different", from a neurotypical perspective.

They fail to explain what a neurodivergent brain actually is, and how it manifests itself.

#adhd #autism #autisme

I feel like a lot of the hype for "machines are conscious now" even by smart people is the wish to be part of something big that's not just the climate catastrophe and crumbling infrastructures. It's a weird kind of futurism.

remarkable to watch the curve of computing go from "it will do exactly, precisely what you ask of if" to "here's a few heuristics for less well-defined problems" to "self-driving is good enough, give us billions of dollars" to "we put autocomplete on our search engine to generate a whole fictional website about what you're looking for but we don't really know why"

did someone set the locale to unicode?

Seeking photo: Does anyone have a good photo of the National Library of Thailand, preferably inside (showing books) that they'd be willing for me to use on a blog post?

Hot take: So, #AmateurRadio is cool and all, but by having an easily accessible public registry containing names and addresses linked to call signs, it remains mostly off limits to folks who have legitimate concerns about stalkers, swatting, and violence.

I've thought about getting into it multiple times and keep being reminded that I need to agree to publicly dox myself to do it.

it's a small thing but the fact that you can set the "this instance is administrated by" account to one on another instance makes for some really weird dynamics

Adding something on sport and disability:

Don't ever force any disabled folk to practice any sport!

It really depends on each one of us. Even if we share the same disabilities as someone who can, we all live our chronic illnesses differently.

Sport can cause more harm, develop worse chronic pain...

A disabled person practicing a sport isn't better than one who doesn't.

Being able to practice a sport doesn't erase our disabilities either.

It's really important to keep all this in mind!

Capitalism does not "create new technology". *Workers* create new technology. Capitalism creates DRM, walled gardens, spyware, and subscriptions for heated seats

Is there a hashtag for people who've experienced tech layoffs to connect with each other, share resources, commiserate, etc? And for community to support?

Could also be used to share opportunities, like job openings, or people who want to form coops together, or people who want to organize against future layoffs.

If there's nothing yet...maybe #LayoffSolidarity or #StandUpToLayoffs or #LayoffSupport or #TechSupport or #TechSupporters idk I'm spitballing.

Just want to connect&help. <3

Who called it messaging in dark mode when inverse matrix was right there.

so uhm thank you to those of you using CWs. it’s a hell of a thing being expected to just carry on at work like everything is normal while news is happening.

it was my least favourite thing about twitter, no matter where in the world it was, whether i could actually do anything about it, i had to know about this awful thing that happened to trans people, every day. so thank you to those making an effort to not turn this place into a daily nightmare

Pro tip:
Don't make snow angels in the dog park.