Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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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"Ethics in AI" issues that seem to always get forgotten FOR SOME REASON
Your AI isn't ethical if:
* You boiled the oceans to manufature the hardware it runs on
* Running its data centres consumes the entire water table
* Curating its training data corpus is traumatizing workers in lower income countries for starvation wages
THESE ARE ETHICAL ISSUES TOO BUCKO
Why aren't you talking about them?
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What's the cheapest mini-PC I could use as a media PC (i.e. slap Linux on it and hook it up to the TV permanently)? I have this ASUS stick PC thing but it's running on an old Atom CPU so it's not fast enough to be able to properly handle HD video decoding
I looked it up online and seems like the cheapest ones are like, 300€? Which isn't a lot-a lot but it's still kind of a lot for me 💀
(Note: this is about untangling already-broken governance with long-standing issues, not about providing your feedback on things that are yet to be decided, of course!)
Moral of this story: please *do not* try to involve yourself in governance discussions unless you can commit to being in it for the long haul, because otherwise you will likely just slow down solutions
The problem with trying to solve governance issues in public, is that there's going to be a parade of variably well-intentioned people unfamiliar with the background who nevertheless try to contribute to "solving" them, but who in practice mostly just end up taking energy from the people who have been working on it for a while, because they have to explain things over and over again
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Local Cat Hivemind 
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#Social.coop has been discussing whether to disable images on May 16 and October 10 for #WorldSightDay, as suggested here https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112275637561897034.
One concern raised about this proposal is that it is symbolic and might not do anything to improve the lives of people with visual impairments.
I would like to hear perspectives from people with visual impairments on whether this kind of action is helpful.
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Anne C.A. Baanen
In the family we say to someone complaining that they don't want to go out in the rain: "You're not made of sugar". Is this a common thing elsewhere too?
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@NanoRaptor as an European I always thought that "quiet quitting" meant "do the bare minimum for not getting fired". I was surprised when I realized that American colleagues defined it as "do your job but without enthusiasm", this is what I just called "working"
If there ever was a case study in "having a legal structure does not automatically safeguard your project governance", well, the #NixOS situation is probably it.
It's also quite bizarre to see people *already* rewriting history to claim that the project is failing because "it's anarchic and there is no leadership" when the hierarchical side of the project *literally is the root cause of the problem*.
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i made mastodon for the nintendo 3ds :3c
A piece of advice regarding #NixOS: You know how it's really difficult to find something similar to replace it with?
That also means that if worst comes to worst, a fork is very likely to happen - because there are going to be many other people *also* looking to replace it.
I would recommend not panicking yet, and instead keeping an eye out for further developments. Even if NixOS dies, that doesn't mean the community does.
And I mean "that they know nothing about" very literally - making statements and inferences that are obviously factually incorrect in the first sentence to anyone who has actually been involved in the events.
I am growing increasingly impatient with random people who have never been involved in governance discussions before, suddenly feeling like it's their duty to start relitigating circumstances that they know nothing about. #NixOS
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"I heard someone at the market say there are monsters walking along us."
"Monsters?"
"Masked, trying to appear as normal as you or I!"
I keep my expression neutral. "Yes, there are people wearing masks, but they're not the monsters."
"Then who are?"
"Those who make masks needed."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories #NotAboutRespiratoryMasks
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Estrogen, help wanted
The twice per week schedule of patches just isn't working for me, does anyone know of a type that is taken daily and does not have the long term risks of pills?
- 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
