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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- 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
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in case it's not clear: procedural generation is a term used in game design whereby a human-authored algorithm takes a random seed value (a big random number like 123908516 for example) and deterministically generates game content from that. this does not involve training a neural network, these algorithms are painstakingly crafted by hand to create the desired output, do not require anyone else's content to make, and this technique is over 40 years old
it's used in games like nethack (1987) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetHack, elite (1984) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game), minecraft (2011), dwarf fortress (2006) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress, rimworld (2018) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RimWorld and many, many more
the fact that people are conflating procedural generation in game design which has a long and treasured history with "AI" slop is fucking tragic
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Twink death this, twink death that - take care of yourself and age gracefully. You'll transcend the boundaries of body archetypes and stay beautiful.
It's funny how whenever a consumer rights TV show in the Netherlands turns up at a physical office to speak to an executive, they're somehow always unavailable because "they are working from home today", and yet in most of those companies everyone else seems to be expected to come to the office
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This is glorious.The best time to burn a bridge is when you never, ever want to cross it again. #genai (Edit: This is a notice explaining why somebody is shutting down a long-running project to measure word frequencies.) https://github.com/rspeer/wordfreq/blob/master/SUNSET.md
lewd, hookups
So, when are we getting a neurospicy hookup app/site that isn't hot garbage?
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Apple is like "iOS update time!" with all the energy of Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes declaring "new rule" mid-Calvinball game except the new rule is that your battery only charges overnight 3 times out of every 5 and also autocarrot is worse in ways that defy explanation
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Computer opinions
I wish that people who design websites, apps, desktop environments, etc. cared about making it clear what things are and whether they can be interacted with and how, instead of trying to conceal those things for aesthetic reasons
Is it text? Is this an image? Is it a link? Is it a button? Is this area scrollable? How much area? Where are the edges?
The iOS podcast app is maybe the worst—will it start playing? Will it open the podcast or the episode?
But GNOME is also terrible
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The fun part of the "A.I." hype cycle is watching it slowly dawn on businesses that none of it's true, and they're gonna need those people they aren't hiring and/or training after all.
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I'm not a Mozilla insider or anything but I took a look at their bylaws and afaict they have a self-perpetuating board, which means they're not formally accountable to anyone.
I prefer a member elected board (like the PSF has). It's hard for leadership to stray too far from member values when they're elected by members.
I know too many self-perpetuating boards who destroyed what they were supposed to be safeguarding, or even enabled abuse.
Governance matters.
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Here's a headline:
"Gatwick train cancelled after squirrels board and 'refuse to leave'"
dating/hookup meta
I should've known that the night shift folks on here would be way more fun...
Some day I will learn this lesson. Maybe.
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Mozilla deciding to put an end to its Fediverse investments while simultaneously going all in on AI tells you everything you need to know about what it has become.
People talk about skeuomorphism being 'obsolete' but have you ever listened to not-computer-touchers talking about computer problems? They absolutely still describe them in terms of physical analogies
I will believe that Mozilla is a principled organisation once they actually start acting the part.
politiek
Vredestijd: "we hebben geen geld voor het welzijn van de bevolking, want we moeten 'investeren' in de economie"
Oorlogstijd: "we hebben geen geld voor het welzijn van de bevolking, want we moeten 'investeren' in het leger"
Waar ben je dan in godsnaam mee bezig als politiek? Wat hebben we er dan nog aan?
dating/hookup meta, cheating
"Bi, discreet, manly, cannot host"
uh-hu.
dating/hookup meta, cheating
Oh man, I completely forgot about that thing in neurotypical gay dating spaces of guys who are obviously cheating on their wife but can't just say it out loud
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“Your AI code generators are your new net-negative developers”
https://blog.thirstybear.co.uk/2024/04/your-ai-code-generators-are-your-new.html
I'm really glad I'm freelance these days. The last boss I had is now well into "AI" so it's likely I would quickly argue myself out of a job if I were still working for him.
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Maybe Google shouldn't strip non-ascii characters when training AI
- 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
