Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- 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
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@joepie91 That would require a whole ass industry admitting that's it's a giant fucking scam, based on meta-science with barely any actual data (when deployed in practice) to back it up
Every time I see a new attempt at selling something as "open-source" while subtly keeping a crucial component proprietary, I feel like "yeah, this is why commercial use should never have been considered a desirable or supported thing for FOSS"
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Health check for broad reach on bsky vs masto (and I guess I'll check Threads too but expect it to get buried)
If I ask nicely for folks to boost this post, how far does it go?
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do y'all ever think about how wild the french word for fox is
like the tales of reynard the fox were so popular that they just call foxes reynards now
it's like if a book series about steve the donkey came out today and was so widespread that we just all started calling donkeys steves.
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MIND BLOWN:
If you write on a dry-erase whiteboard with a permanent marker and leave it to dry completely so that no amount of elbow grease wipes it off, if you just draw over it with a dry-erase marker, when you wipe THAT it all comes off totally cleanly.
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@kouhai so the people selling ads would like to lock modified browsers out of the internet? Yeah that ain't sus
Okay, what in fresh hell is this?
(From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm_o4ZsD01M, 7:02)
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You know what would make the web much, much safer, for everyone, regardless of what device or operating system they are on?
Not serving malware in the form of ads, not injecting many kilobytes of minimized spyware into everything in the name of "analytics", not mining everything in sight for "AI", and definitely not poisoning the entire web with all of the above.
That'd buy us a whole lot more than whatever this "Web Environment Integrity" thing is.
Just saying.
This is not to say that "trusted computing" is *always* malicious, but... you better be prepared to come up with hard evidence that it isn't, if you're going to propose it, and a solid plan on how to keep it from turning *into* something malicious
Ah yes, browser DRM: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity
This sort of shit is why I distrust any sort of "trusted computing" shit and rhetoric by default, because it is so often a front for DRM
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H/t @emilymbender
""...Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender have echoed Cameron's concerns — they have long argued that AI systems like ChatGPT & Google Bard lack the capacity to comprehend the meaning or significance of the words they process..."
Excuse me Business Insider if there's any echoing to be done he is echoing OUR concerns not the other way around smh. One can always count on the discounting of women's expertise.
https://www.businessinsider.com/james-cameron-ai-scripts-regurgitated-word-salad-2023-7
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Manager: "Ok.... THIS time we don't need documentation. It's obvious that users have seen this before and know how to use it."
Me: 🤔
ableist language?
How do people feel about terms like "crazy" or "insane" being used as a *positive* adjective? Like in "that's crazy fast!"
And yes, fixing this includes dropping the inane "reporting requirements" and "milestones" and "monthly meetings" and whatnot, and just letting people do a thing that you already have an indication that they want to do anyway, and trusting them to do so at their own pace
Deal with it, and stop trying to fucking minmax every part of the process
If your grants system primarily funds already-well-off people in privileged positions and a lot of social/professional connections, and it so often does, then your system sucks
There are so many "Twitter things" that I'm still in the process of unlearning... like how I don't need to write defensively against bad-faith interpretations here, or how I tend to overextend myself in "amount of started conversations" because I'm used to barely anyone seriously engaging with discussions
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Mijn non-binaire vlag voor de Pride Walk a.s. zaterdag is binnen! 
🎉
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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meta, my two cents
this is hardly the first time i've disagreed with the babka team's judgement on Israel-related issues and what constitutes bigotry and been like 🤨
scattered thoughts:
- as an trans Asian anti-Zionist Jew, this is why I am not even going to bother with a Jewish space unless it's explicitly anti-Zionist, secular-friendly, and anti-racist.
- some of my fellow diasporic Jews resent being involved in discussions about Israel/Palestine but, like, I don't think it's always inherently antisemitic or irrelevant. As long as Israel wants to be The Jewish State, defenders claim criticizing it is antisemitic, and diaspora communities and organizations pour resources into Israel, it's every Jew's problem.
- some things SHOULD be polarizing. Jews are divided over this! We've always been! If we're not going to fight about THIS, what the hell are we going to fight about, gefilte fish recipes?
ok that's all i have actual work to do
- 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
