Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

"If you do business with billion dollar entities, do not under any circumstances sell anything to them cheaply." -- @bert_hubert

I'm an anarchist first and FOSS advocate second. War criminal and Nazi devs should be ostracized from the FOSS community. Or alternatively, we need an anarchist free software movement

Loss leader is supposed to be used where you need a certain amount of volume to become profitable, and loss leader gets you there faster.

But underpricing can also be used to squeeze out competitors so you become a monopoly and then charge monopoly rents. Rent-seeking is what all capitalist corporations will do if there isn't sufficient competition in a market as a countervailing force.

Guess which version most VC-funded tech companies were doing?

This thread is horrifying I thought it was a spoof
https://bitbang.social/@kalleboo/110851722205437482

I do appreciate some of my comrades beginning to understand that antisemitism is also a problem in left-wing spaces. All I can say is the sooner you act the easier this will be.

The Nazi bar analogy applies here. If you wait too long to kick these bigots out of your movement, it'll be their values that define the movement not yours.

Are your smoke detectors installed and functional? Is your fire extinguisher readily accessible?

No reply needed but y'know, consider it.

If someone from the museum community wants to come to Mastodon, what‘s the best instance to join?
#digitalmuseums #culturalheritage #mastodon #opendata #openaccess 🐘

whenever i play basically any open world game i think about how tiny their towns are, like a town of less than ten buildings and i'm like that's not a real society, there are so many buildings in a city. and i kind of want to know how small a comfortably self-sufficient social unit CAN be. like i guess subsistence farming is a thing but what do societies look like that are a step up in scale from The Humble Yeoman Farmer

Stumbled upon an excellent resource on Google Sites: "Why our family is covid cautious"

https://sites.google.com/view/why-we-are-covid-cautious/home

#covid #covid19 #SARSCoV2 #pandemic #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

"So if you are a family member of ours that has been critical of our cautiousness, rest assured that we will willingly relax our precautions if you can provide evidence that we should. Hurry up."

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If you want to know whether someone is a genuine security expert, ask yourself: *whose* security are they arguing for?

If the answer isn't "the most vulnerable and disadvantaged party involved in the system", then you're not talking to a security expert, you're talking to a defense contractor.

That point where you have put so many things one after the other on Kleinanzeigen (to sell before moving house) that Kleinanzeigen shows you a Captcha because it thinks you're some kind of bot 🤣

This is like the second- or third-pettiest take I have about AI, I'll warrant, but can we just collectively and as a society fuck right off with the idea of "open source AI"? The ideas of "source" and "binaries" don't neatly map onto LLM weights, but to the extent that they do, weights look a lot more like binaries than anything else.

At the very least, open source should in principle be reproducible, but without training data, there's no hope of reproducing LLM weights.

"10 years of Dear ImGui" by @ocornut is great. And a lot of great wisdom that is generally applicable outside of imgui. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/7892