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
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I need a browser extension to detect news articles that are just "[other publication] reports that..." and automatically take me to the original breaking article so I can see the original quotes and not a rephrase.
The problem with society/political simulation games is that games are difficult to make fun without balancing, and the real world generally isn't balanced
Automattic criticism
A lot of people seem to have a positive view of Automattic (the owners of Wordpress and Tumblr), but uh...
Are you aware that they use predatory business models, and have been doing so for years?
Like how when you want to move your 'free' blog from wordpress.com to somewhere else, they will charge you somewhere in the range of $10-$25 a year for *just a redirect*.
If you don't pay, then you'll essentially lose your entire existing audience when moving, and they'll SEO-drown your new blog in search results unless you shut it down.
None of which you are told in advance.
FOSS projects learn to organize non-commercial communal infrastructure challenge 2023 (impossible)
re: Docker, rant
I particularly "love" how people write angrily about Docker's changes and then... suggest moving to *another* free service from a for-profit corporation
I can see no problem with this whatsoever
Docker, rant
To put it bluntly, y'all got suckered, *again*, particularly the "Docker Captains" who did volunteer marketing work for a for-profit corporation.
How often does it need to be repeated? Corporations are not your friend, corporations are not communities, and doing free work for them means you're getting exploited.
"Free" shit from corporations is never truly free. It only exists for as long as necessary to have you do free marketing and grow their company for them. A corporation will 100% leave you for dead once that's been accomplished and they no longer need you.
When will people finally learn from this, and the thousands of similar failures before it, and stop defending corporations or buying into their "free for open-source" marketing?
I would be a lot less salty about this if I didn't get an absurd amount of backlash from weirdly defensive nerds every time I tried to warn people against predatory marketing schemes. Y'all are *part of the problem*.
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Docker Inc would like to thank the open source community for making registry successful.
As a token of appreciation open source organizations are invited to subscribe to the paid version in the next month, or their data will be deleted.
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Do you live in Napa county and have fruit trees with more fruit than you can use?
St. Helena High School's Environmental Club has been active in the local fruit gleaning effort, helping harvest fruit which would otherwise go unused. The fruit is donated to the St. Helena Food Pantry.
If you'd like to participate in the fruit gleaning program, call 707-696-0530.
Ugh, seems that Fight for the Future is on fedi
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consent violation tech
Like I'm pretty savvy. I'm also tired as hell today, and damn near clicked the big glowy button to make shit go away. I try to be vigilant, but it's emotionally exhausting to always have to treat every part of being online with such weariness.
Again, I hate what the web has become.
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Welp here we fuckin go. GPT-4 is launched.
Back in the run-up to this release, four whole days ago, a bunch of people were talking over on the birdsite about their reactions to the pronouncements of those who'd gotten beta access, and MSFT's own discussions of what they believed it was going to be like.
Everybody in the gpt-4 trend was talking about how much faster it's reported to be, how many more things it can supposedly be applied to, all while blithely glossing over the fact that MSFT itself said that it is *Still Very Often Wrong* (https://www.rockingrobots.com/gpt-4-to-be-released-this-week/).
And that? That is the problem with our technoculture, in a nutshell.
And today, as seen in the image below, we have have these just… incredible scenes, live from OpenAI's GPT-4, where, when Chris Nicholson asked GPT-4 to give him a syllabus and mnemonics for learning Spanish pronunciation, not only did GPT-4 *Get Most Of The Pronunciations Wrong*, but— and I genuinely do not know which of these is worse— *the New York Times Reprinted The Exchange Without Calling This Out*.
I just… Holy shit y'all.
And then add to ALL of that the fact that MSFT just laid off their entire "Ethical A.I." team, in favour of their increasing the workload and making increasingly nebulous the remit of their "Office of Responsible A.I." And they did this right before this the GPT-4 release announcement went wide, specifically citing the pace of development as the reason they were laying their ethicists off (https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-ai-ethical-ai-bing-chatgpt-layoffs-1850223358).
Let me say that again:
Microsoft is laying off their whole "ethical A.I." team specifically BECAUSE they are increasing the range of integrations of their "A.I." tool throughout their *Widely-Used-By-The-U.S.-Government* product ecosystem.
…Which tells me they woefully misunderstand both "Ethics" and "A.I."
I mean this is damn near beyond parody at this point. If I were going to craft a list of shit to absolutely NOT DO in a time like this, it would look pretty much exactly like what OpenAI and MSFT are doing, right now.
Things are about to get real bad, real fast, and you can feel free to quote me on that.
Who just spilled an entire bag of washing powder over their fresh laundry? Definitely not me
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facebook, medium, and cloudflare: we're going to join the fediverse!
me:
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Ok so I joke but actually it's asinine that we don't just use fractions for common angular measurements.
"Alright kids today we're gonna learn about angles! They're just like fractions, but for Reasons you always have to either multiply the fraction by 360 or by 6.2831853072 depending on arbitrary context."
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Police are an absolute menace.
How I got arrested for being a pedestrian. | by HarryTheTallCyclist | Mar, 2023
https://medium.com/@harrythetallcyclist/how-i-got-arrested-for-being-a-pedestrian-a66bd3c86472
- 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
