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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Hey y'all, i know you know this, but while you definitely shouldn't use GPTs for legal research, also don't rely on GPTs for RESEARCH, PERIOD.
They are neither giving nor TRYING to give you intersubjectively associated and derived facts; they are not even remixing factual CONCEPTS into new forms.
They are modelling human biases out into digestible bullshit with a statistically-determined high probability of being swallowed.
That is all.
They don't have to be this way, but, at present, the people making them have no incentive to change them. So. Don't lean on them for fact stuff. It's not what they do.
Like, seriously, I would be *so* happy to have a libp2p that a) isn't knee-deep in cryptogrift shit and b) actually worked as advertised
libp2p is a special kind of frustrating; it's full of good ideas that never come to fruition because of incomplete specs, missing documentation, broken links, module incompatibilities, premature deprecations, bad error messages, ...
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I’m creating an open source alternative to the torment nexus
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Any fedi programs out there default to automatically refuse connections from instances with >10k users?
I don't know of any and it seems like an oversight tbh
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Follow up: if you are limiting your participation in public indoor activities, are you considered or do you consider yourself immunocompromised?
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Are you limiting your participation in indoor activities in public due to covid?
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Trackers are standard across all sorts of web products. But we don’t use them.
So when we needed mapping software to display data collected for a recent investigation, we ran into a familiar problem—our main options all had trackers. How we solved the issue in this week's newsletter: https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/05/27/our-maps-dont-know-where-you-are
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Are you just catching up on the bonkers story about the lawyer using ChatGPT for federal court filings? This is a thread for you.
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Anyway, just a reminder that it’s Good to tell people to fuck off if they come to you with bad intentions/motives, no matter how polite they are to your face. These free speech types wanna muddy the water and make it appear Bad to tell them to fuck off. It’s not! Save your energy for something that brings you joy.
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Please consider donating: Help him fight back.
These White cosplayers stole an Indigenous language, copywrite it, & are now selling it back to the Indigenous community at exorbitant rates.
They recorded his grandmother speaking & now they are taking legal action to prevent him from accessing the language & *speaking his own language.* He is a language instructor.
#DataSovereignty
#Indigenous #Native #NativeAmericanLanguage #LanguageRevitalization #RayTakenalive
https://fundrazr.com/takenalive?ref=ab_43u20yPVM2S43u20yPVM2S
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Background articles:
LAKOTA LANGUAGE RECLAMATION PROJECT
Lakota elders helped a white man preserve their language. Then he tried to sell it back to them.
“No matter how it was collected, where it was collected, when it was collected, our language belongs to us," said Ray Taken Alive, a Lakota teacher.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/native-american-language-preservation-rcna31396
#Lakota #LanguageReclamation #DataSoviergnty #Indigenous #IndigenousRights
More articles, Interviews:
https://lakotalanguagereclamationproject.com/
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Ibly 🏳️⚧️ 
i did a funny
nintendo told steam to remove dolphin from their store, allegedly due to it's hardcoded inclusion of the wii common key
so here's a flag that represents the wii's common key, in hexadecimal form :)
EDIT: oops inkscape fucked it up in the export, i fixed it now lol
EDIT 2: fix'd info, everyone was wrong apparantly! doesn't change much but still
meta, politics, centrism
Unsurprisingly, the follower list for the NewsMax account (a fascist media outlet) is a who's who of all the 'centrist' and 'neutral' instances
There's a reason so many marginalized people don't trust centrists and this illustrates it extremely well
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I think it's time that I give up on the JS ecosystem.
The CJS/ESM shitshow is clearly never going to get fixed despite the now several years of confusion and compatibility issues, it's become a competition for who can build the shiniest monolithic framework, and not enough people in the JS world even still care about having a public commons to sustain the ecosystem.
The worst part is that there are no plausible alternatives I know of; basically everything else has a *worse* dependency climate. I guess I'll have to focus on my own language/ecosystem project instead.
(This is NOT an invitation to complain at me about npm, node_modules, leftpad, your personal hatred for JS as a language, etc.)
I think it's time that I give up on the JS ecosystem.
The CJS/ESM shitshow is clearly never going to get fixed despite the now several years of confusion and compatibility issues, it's become a competition for who can build the shiniest monolithic framework, and not enough people in the JS world even still care about having a public commons to sustain the ecosystem.
The worst part is that there are no plausible alternatives I know of; basically everything else has a *worse* dependency climate. I guess I'll have to focus on my own language/ecosystem project instead.
(This is NOT an invitation to complain at me about npm, node_modules, leftpad, your personal hatred for JS as a language, etc.)
In case you were wondering how IPFS is doing: they deprecated their "old" JS implementation - the one that continues to be proudly advertised on their homepage as "a full JS implementation" - and the new implementation that's meant to replace it hasn't actually reached feature parity yet
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fascism, twitter, transphobia
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TIL that the EU (EPSO) has joined the bandwagon of discriminatory, privacy-invading 'remotely proctored tests':
✓ Must show face on webcam at all times
✓ Must show ankles (???), inside of pockets and 360 degree view of room
✓ Must have an empty, dedicated room
✓ Cannot fidget/move/stand up
✓ Cannot use anything other than 100% zoom
✓ Recent macOS/Windows and Chrome only
✓ Must give your data and admin access to your computer to some random US company
- 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
