Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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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me: ok so i need a web browser
opera: hell yea here you have one
me: damn now if only i knew where to find predatory loans
opera: you are not going to believe this
opera: hell yea here you have one
me: damn now if only i knew where to find predatory loans
opera: you are not going to believe this
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Labor organising, bad news, US politics
This is extremely bad news. Basically, the US supreme court decided that unions can be held accountable for damages caused by strikes. This means that strikes become somewhat useless, since the whole idea is to inflict losses to demonstrate the importance of the workers for the company.
It's also extremely disappointing that the purportedly progressive judge Sotomayor appears to have sided with the company suing the union in this case.
Union power was one of the few remaining remedies we still had to the rule of the wealthy, so it's not a surprise that moneyed interests are trying to break it.
Supreme Court rules against union in labor dispute, will ‘erode’ right to strike warns dissent | PBS NewsHour
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In practical terms LLMs turn out to be a kind of idea reinforcement device. The more often an idea is expressed in the corpus, the more likely it is to be expressed by the model.
"Stochastic parrot" is a good shorthand, but parrots repeat verbatim. LLMs are more like a convert, something indoctrinated. Like a wind-up evangelist.
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in this volume of maya getting mad at the atlantic, drugs
"But the harm-reduction model holds that we should keep reviving people who overdose and then do nothing more than hope they come to their senses and opt into treatment."
"nothing more"
who told you this is what the harm-reduction model holds and what was his badge number
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why does everyone want to own the libs
as an open source developer i own multiple libs
i would happily pay people to take them from me
you do not want to own libs. its so much work
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@elilla
date idea: attach "vegan" labels to all the most obvious vegan things to starve carnists
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Shlee fucked around and
Reddit is experiencing the VC dilemma.... Your startup is allowed to have core features and limited growth, and the end user experience is generally better that way in the long term...
VCs require infinite growth and that's unsustainable, so once the users run out.. they look to find cash any way they can like the privatisation of the APIs.
Patreon had the same problem. It had one job, then it suddenly started posting about microloans.
VC money, not even once.
health ???
My estimated kidney function has gone up?? Somehow??? This is not supposed to be possible with my disease
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happy pride month! remember you are valid and you are allowed to be who you want to be and love who you want (and don't want) to love, and noone can tell you otherwise! 
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So apparently WASIX is from the wasmer dude and sheesh, that sure explains the bad vibes I got off the project
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Hard drive seeds have sprouted. They should add a platter every few weeks, and the outer shell usually forms by late September.
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can we just collectively agree that any primarily obfuscated code is just malware and should be considered such
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hearing that someone's writing an ads plugin for Mastodon
and I gotta say
any instance that runs that, I will defederate immediately.
Edit: Adding some clarification on what I think "ads" means, and why I have this stance, in replies.
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Gigabyte been selling motherboard with hidden backdoors that can download and execute software, more than 270 models affected https://www.wired.com/story/gigabyte-motherboard-firmware-backdoor/
- 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
