Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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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
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Friend: What do you play games on?
Me: I play games on a switch!
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Dear furry artists,
Art is a luxury good, produced by those who have invested time in their artistic skills.
Your prices are only "too high" if you're not getting commissions. Charge more.
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@david@tech.lgbt i really hope that one day there are enough of these self-owns for a dedicated website
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hey is COVID "gone" or is it "here to stay"? is multiple waves per year "seasonal" or does that just "not count"? are we supposed to "learn to live with it (no Not Like That)" or just "live your best life (no Not Like That)"? i'll keep up the precautions until someone can clarify all this contradiction, thanks
LLMs, dark humour
The future is search engines and "AI assistants" that are forever stuck in "the web of knowledge as we knew it in 2022" in a desperate attempt to evade LLM garbage, like we're all collectively stuck in some sort of Wayback Machine world and nobody can find the adjustment dial
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Hey #WritingCommunity, you know you can write off all your advertising expenses, all your editors, and all your paid proofreaders, right?
#TaxDay
hackernews, kagi
It's always mind-boggling how little HN commenters seem to understand about topics that they express themselves so confidently about.
"A small company like Kagi is allowed to spend money on silly things, why is everyone so upset about the t-shirts? It's the business owner's choice how to run the business."
Well, maybe because if you market your subscriptions as "help us build a nice thing by paying for it in an incomplete state" and other participatory slogans, people are going to expect to have involvement in the direction of the company...? And for the money to not be spent on unrelated things?
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Dark Trails: Bats hunting along a tree line, shortly after sunset, with a new moon visible. It was such a pleasant windless night.
The connected trails are from "common serotinus" ("laatvlieger") and the disconnected path is from the smaller, way faster and more agile "common noctula" ("rossige vleermuis"). The horizontal, spaced (thus fast), blurry, big trail in the photo with the moon, is probably an owl.
I have stereo versions! Leave a comment if you want to see those.
Based on video, no AI.
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does anyone know anyone at rushordertees.com? I need to report a critical security vulnerability.
(Not saying that my arguing shifted the public opinion, rather that's just my time reference point)
Like, for comparison, with the cryptocurrency grift I'd been arguing against it for like 7 years (ie. since it became a Problem) before I noticed the broader public opinion shifting? Whereas with LLMs and the like it seems to have only taken 2 years or so
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I strongly feel like capitalism has run out of useful things to innovate and there's nothing left tech companies can come up with other than scams
I am cautiously optimistic about how many people are seeing through the AI hype - I've (consciously) been through a few tech hype cycles and I've never seen folks catch on to the grift this quickly before
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@joepie91 this is something even larger: it was for example one difference between the Greens and the Pirates in Germany:
- The Greens pay the travel and part of the expenses of representatives elected by district groups to go to country-level meetings.
- The Pirates expected them (in the beginning, I don’t know the current state) to come without payment.
The Pirates were initially surprised why mostly well-off men were present at the larger meetings.
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"Consent Mode is off by default" is like the unofficial motto of the tech industry. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/15/24130832/limitless-ai-pendant-wearable-meetings
(Ik geef ook altijd aan dat ik op eigen initiatief dingen zoek om financieel te steunen, en ook dat is niet genoeg om ze te laten verdwijnen, want ze willen die verkoopbonus graag hebben...)
Ook niet heel gek, als je bedenkt dat dit soort werving tegenwoordig uitbesteed wordt aan marketingbedrijfjes die verkopers op provisie-basis op pad sturen... dat zijn al lang geen betrokken vrijwilligers meer.
Ik ben intussen toch echt wel een beetje klaar met hoe er tegenwoordig aan werving gedaan wordt voor institutionele goede doelen. Het begint ondertussen energieverkoper-vormen aan te nemen qua opdringerigheid. Nee betekent nee, en er hangt niet voor niets een sticker bij de deurbel...
(That last bit is not applicable to Matrix, to be clear)
Corollary: if you have a governance problem, and you create a Foundation... you now have *two* governance problems, and one of them is the board
- 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.
- 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
