Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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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- 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
Seriously considering reviving a project from 14 years ago
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weird nd things
Today i feel like eating my pasta seperate from the sauce
"So why didn't LLMs happen sooner?"
Because for it to happen, two things needed to be true:
1. Someone needs to be sufficiently unscrupulous to exploit labour to this degree
2. They also need to have a big enough bag of money to actually make it happen
... and it takes a while for both of those conditions to occur together, and the result was "OpenAI"
Reminder that the "innovation" in LLMs is really just the willingness of techbros to do labour exploitation, not an advancement in technology
It's always interesting to see people who previously were all "why is everybody doing identity politics", now describing themselves in gender-less terms in casual conversation
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misinformation
Remember, since next year is a leap year, Microsoft Office 365 will cease functioning on February 29. If you want to use Office that day, you'll need to upgrade to Microsoft Office 366.
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Kijk. Het kan dus wel gewoon. In een land waar de biljonairs niet de dienst uitmaken en waar de regerende politieke partijen zich niet louter bezig houden met korte termijn bedrijfswinst kan dit wel gewoon.
Hier hebben we een premier die in het kader beeldvorming wat zit te zwetsen over barbecueën en politieke partijen die moeilijke beslissingen oneindig voor zich uit schuiven, in de hoop dat meeste mensen vergeten wat het probleem was en wie het veroorzaakt heeft.
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this no-terraforming run has gone terribly, horribly wrong
#OpenTTD
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I'm joining the war on adblock, on the side of adblock
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@soatok Personally, I'm of the opinion that more blogs and writeups should have pictures of cartoon animals in them. It would certainly be more pleasing to the eye than when I have to read through extremely dry RFCs and whitepapers
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Looking to reinstate Improbable Island's wiki and noticing that Someone or Someones has been updating a What's New page for me, for YEARS, tooting the Island's horn Way Better than I ever did
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The Rust Foundation has repeatedly said "no, but you see, we have to offer paid promotion to defense contractors and cryptocurrency startups because we're legally obligated to."
_I_ don't have to offer paid promotion to Helsing and Parastate. How in the hell did you fuck this up?
bluesky
Why are media still calling Bluesky "decentralized"? Why are journalists so goddamn gullible?
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Are you an educator who wants your students to use botsin.space? I'm absolutely begging you to contact me directly so I can give you an invite code for your students, and I don't have to approve 100 signups.
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Hey everyone! See that thing happening with Chrome, where Google seems to be using their de-facto dominance over the mainstream browser environment to try and outlaw user-agent content filtering, AKA ad-blockers?
May I suggest you take a long, hard look at VSCode and GitHub and have a little wonder about those and where they might be heading a few years hence?
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For everyone in the EU currently being spammed with black friday sales:
Check if they hiked the price to fake the sale
If they did, they're violating an EU mandate that started this year, that the "before price" HAS to be the lowest of the last 30 days. Fines can go up into the millions, so you really don't want to mess this up :>
Feel free to send them a gentle reminder if they do. I have zero sympathy for the practice or the companies doing it. Stop leaning on psychological warfare for sales
- 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
