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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
Some things (not exhaustive) I'm thinking of that would be useful:
- Manuals, schematics
- Part numbers for replacement parts (and where to get them, or what their equivalent part numbers from other brands are, etc.)
- Internal tools for flashing new firmware or unbricking devices
- Historical firmwares
- EOL information
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mental chillness, is this anything ?
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Griping about academic awards; Strong language
I kind of hate academic awards
Institutions often point at them to waive off legitimate criticisms that they aren't providing financial support to people who need it
Just say you don't give a shit and be done with it
#AskFedi: Is there already a wiki or something that tracks old devices/models (of anything, not just one category like phones), and documents how they can be repurposed/liberated/unbricked/etc. to prevent them from becoming e-waste?
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oh my god
one of my male coworkers sent me a slack message saying "good job on making your PR. You may have felt a bit of impostor syndrome, which is normal" and then linked to the wikipedia article on impostor syndrome
I have been working at this company for three years, and have opened several dozens of PRs on this repo
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Tech grumbling
Anyway, it's not at all terrifying how techbros so often just casually turn to eugenics to justify their privileged place in the world as their darling hype bubbles keep bursting
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I love these emotionally honest shows (like Shrinking, or Star Trek Discovery). They help me process.
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Generative AI
> So far, AI hasn’t been profitable for Big Tech
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/so-far-ai-hasnt-been-profitable-for-big-tech/
Getting closer
Reminder that it was specifically Facebook that popularized the myth that "real-name policies" prevent people from misbehaving on the internet
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it would be nice if it were actually as easy to contribute to free/open source software as the developers and maintainers of such software claim it is
but meritocracy is a lie, and bullshit policies and procedures (see: "real name" policy) scare away minorities who might otherwise do important work
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knowing that the actual robots now solve them faster than humans, I hate captchas even more than before.
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The wizard will now install your software
Artist: MaximumR3x
#art #furryart #furry #fantasyart #fantasyart #fantasy #dragon
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I remember over a decade ago reading a rant against google adsense (that was before the current tracking and targeting era, when adsense ads were only based on the site hosting the ad) because they would naturally only be ads for your direct competitors since that's the most likely thing for visitors to be interested in
anyway, yeah
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when valve finally releases the source code for their famous proprietary engine - call that open source
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Also, if it somehow missed your radar: a huge curl vulnerability has been announced and will be fixed tomorrow. The update should drop at 6am UTC. Daniel Stenberg, the founder of the curl project, self-described it as "probably the worst curl security flaw in a long time".
https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/12026
PSA for anyone who has a Stadia controller: if you want to prevent it from becoming e-waste, you should update it to Bluetooth mode *now*, even if you don't plan on using it yourself anymore - that way it can be used as a stand-alone controller in the future. 
This update is possible until December 31: https://stadia.google.com/controller/index_en_US.html
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There's a reason all those who believe in trickle-down are already at the top
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turns out GitHub Copilot runs at a loss - charge $10/mo, cost $20/mo avg up to $80/mo for heavy users
wonder how hard it would be to automate hitting it as hard as possible
"social contract", re: decentralization and power dynamics
Thinking about it more, I think my intense aversion to the framing of a "social contract" is for the same reason.
Defending government policy with "the social contract" does the exact same thing - it doesn't actually do anything to distribute power over that decisionmaking, but it *does* diffuse the accountability to "everyone".
The politicians had the power, but they "can't be blamed for doing what the people want, they were voted in". The people themselves do not actually have the power to influence policy in reality, but they are pointed at as the party to blame.
End result: nobody is *actually* accountable for the choices made by a select few.
- 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
