Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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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Convo I had to have about using ChatGPT in our research
Imagine that it does work exactly the way you want. Now you have invented a machine that converts clinical trial protocols into structured diagrams, but every time you use it, someone calls a Kenyan worker the n-word 100 times. How do you feel about your invention?
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TIL: there are languages that have inclusive and exclusive forms of first person plural.
Like, you can say "we" in a way that means "we with you" or "we without you", which is a semi-common thing to happen in e.g. English and German.
"we're going to have to fix this" – "wait, we as in we or we as in you?"
Mandarin for instance:
wǒmen (us, but not you)
zánmen (us, including you)
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PSA: Enable browser.urlbar.suggest.calculator in your firefox about:config so typing math expressions in the address bar shows the result with an option to copy
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New "blog post": To Audio & Back Again — what if an audio codec were used as an image codec?
meta, blocklists
A way in which mechanically shared blocklists could *reduce* incorrect listings (if implemented correctly): retractions can propagate or at least notify automatically, rather than having to manually distribute updated information and hope that it reaches everyone who originally blocked.
(Not just for cases where the block recommendation turned out to be a mistake, but more importantly for instances that were correctly blocked but have cleaned up their act over time)
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genitalia mentioned
so I made a test block called testicle_block, just to see how different it was registering blocks between 1.20 and 1.7.10
If I renyame it to anything else it breaks.
I am stuck with a testicle_block
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#OpenAI is so dedicated to AI safety that as far as I can see, they don't even have a way to report misuse which contravenes their Usage Policies https://openai.com/policies/usage-policies
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You may not realise because you may not be looking at the bigger picture, but there are people from what we call 'alt fedi', which is where the racist channer shitheads hang out, who love any excuse to bash on Black folk, particularly Ro because he outs them constantly, and they see you all shit-talking The Bad Space and Ro and they love it. They LOVE that shit. So they push it, and you buy into it because right now it suits your narrative.
It is toxic and you are feeding the racist trolls.
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@ipg tell you one better: windows programs running in wine can execute linux syscalls with no restrictions
Even though I rationally understand how it works, it still feels weird to see "aged 12+ months, consume within 5 days" on a block of cheese
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Bonus
iOS file manager: What, you wanted to see the file system?
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re: meta meta, blocklists
(I'd invoke the concept of lateral violence here, but in this case it's a bit more complicated because getting the approach to blocklists wrong also risks causing *actual* additional harm)
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@welshpixie Running a conspiracy is for neurotypicals whose lives have gone wrong, everyone else is busy or tired.
meta meta, blocklists
It occurs to me that a lot of the discourse around blocklists can get extremely heated without ever talking about the role of the malicious instances *getting* blocked.
That doesn't mean that there aren't legitimate concerns about the usage of shared blocklists or lack thereof, but when folks become angrier at folks discussing the merits of blocklists than at the shitty people who necessitate all the blocking in the first place... that doesn't seem like a desirable outcome.
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the arguments there must be really funny
>"no this fighter jet has a third 36-J engine"
>"nuh-uh"
>102856428-MITSUBA6-CL.pdf
>"yuh-uh"
Well, today sure has been A Day.
(Most of it wasn't on fedi)
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Mac OS file manager: What, you didn't want me to vomit .DS_Store files all over everything?
Linux file manager: What, you wanted to choose your own bookmarks?
Windows file manager: What, you didn't want advertisements in your file manager?
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Periodic reminder for y'all kids, teens & 20-somethings 'growing up gifted’: find and do something you have a legit chance of failing at. Ideally, a few times. Practice failing.
If you coast through life because it's comparatively easy (you're gifted!! yay!) you will not have a useful mental context when failure inevitably happens, and that's Bad!
(There's a corollary in here about self-worth/esteem vs effort expended, but maybe I'll save that for a blog post.)
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A common argument I come across when talking about ethics in AI is that it's just a tool, and like any tool it can be used for good or for evil. One familiar declaration is this one: "It's really no different from a hammer". I was compelled to make a poster to address these claims. Steal it, share it, print it and use it where you see fit.
https://axbom.com/hammer-ai/
#AiEthics #DigitalEthics
https://axbom.com/hammer-ai/
#AiEthics #DigitalEthics
- 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
