Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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
(The whiteboard has been removed now but it took a solid few minutes of prying to get it off the door)
Looks like the hypothetical removability of the tape I used for the whiteboard was largely hypothetical indeed
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@zens I've really liked pop os for these reasons, like everything can be done through GUIs that are actually put together nicely (except the pop shop, like zamn it sucks but there's going to be a completely new one for cosmic so that's exciting)
hopefully we'll see more software move towards simpler installation and GUIs when possible
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had to use the internet without ublock origin for like five minutes the other day and was horrified about what an ad-infested shithole it is, i can't believe regular people just live like this, it's like some horrible dystopian parallel universe
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as if the web's degradation from public forums into little walled gardens with only limited search capabilities (discord, facebook groups, whatever) wasn't bad enough, the best sources of obscure technical information are being wrecked prematurely in order to help fuel automated generation of wildly inaccurate 'information' in the form of LLM vomit.
I should probably archive everything useful I read from now on
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One side effect of the current corporate AI fad is website users deleting their posts and accounts in protest. One prolific user of a site was responsible for posting sooooo much information that I've used to learn 'retro gamedev' on multiple platforms; and they've killed their account and every post as part of a wider protest against the site's new policy to explicitly scrape all posts for LLM training data 😢
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We need to be working together to solidify our abolitionist and disability justice politics and fight attempts to push eugenics and squash dissent.
This means returning to masking as a regular, everyday practice, as centring the most vulnerable continues to be our best path forward to liberation.
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I wrote about receiving an AI-written email from a friend:
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I completely forgot I uploaded VistaPro 3.20 (the scenery renderer) to the Internet Archive, where you can run it from your browser. For those sudden urges of wanting to create some landscapes.
https://archive.org/details/vistapro320
Includes the MakePath tool.
Don't forget to take screenshots of your creations! Nothing can be retrieved from the disk the in-browser DOSBox keeps, as far as I know.
(Please be patient with the Archive's speed, they're dealing with persistent DDoS attacks at the moment)
programming grumbling
(I don't really give a fuck about companies deciding to build on unpaid labour and getting burned in the process, but this stuff affects other people too, building community projects - often people who do *not* have copious amounts of time on company dime to fix and replace things later!)
programming grumbling
Corollary: don't make your project website look like "a project that's in it for the long haul" if it's just meant to be a short-lived hobby project. Again, hobby projects are completely fine, but you need to communicate that that is what it is!
programming grumbling
Please stop making "alternative to <other thing>" projects with no further information! Why does it exist, what is different about it, when and why might I want to use it instead, when and why should I not?
It's okay if the answer is just "it's probably not better, I just wanted to make my own thing" but then *say so*! Don't leave me and many others guessing what the purpose is, spawning all sorts of imagined differences and other misinformation as people try to explain away the existence of two options
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Billionaires should be regularly publicly mocked and ridiculed. If they don't like it, they can stop being a billionaire.
"activism" scam
Yet another bunch of people trying to make a quick buck off selling scammy products by misusing activist and anarchist aesthetic and rhetoric: https://activiststoolbox.com/
These same people are advertising on the website of the The Light paper, a fascist conspiracy rag in the UK.
Fuck people like this, honestly. Going off some of the text on the website, I'd not be surprised if they are trying to draw people into conspiracy shit *within* activist movements as well, so probably keep an eye out for them.
I swear, every time I see people bringing up 'spirituality' within supposedly leftist activist movements, it's some thinly veiled bullshit like this...
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Despite buzz, generative AI tools Like ChatGPT see minimal daily use, survey finds
https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/05/29/despite-buzz-generative-ai-tools-like-chatgpt-see-minimal-daily-use-survey-finds?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Sci-Tech @sci-tech-euronews
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Open Database of Design Salaries: a list of salaries of designer, across industries, experience level and geographic location.
There’s less data outside of North America, so people, they need you to participate!
CNBC, this ostensibly economics-focused broadcaster, has a series of videos on YouTube analyzing why companies went to shit, and it's kind of funny how the conclusion is basically "because capitalism" every time
Once again I am being baffled by the Rust compiler giving me errors that make no sense because it seems to be doing some sort of implicit interpretation but isn't telling me what, so I can't reason about it
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Premier van alle Nederlanders zijn is zoiets als de beste ergens in zijn: als je het erbij moet vertellen, ben je het niet.
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Regarding last boost, you may recall I have warned people to be wary of any accessibility content in posts at Google’s web•dev.
My simplest example is this 1½-year-old report on an egregiously wrong tool-tips post that its author, and site editors, have chosen to simply ignore:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/298296173
- 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
