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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So you know how I made a demo at @demoparty_no for a monitor that got damaged in transit in a bag pocket without adequate protection, causing it to produce interesting glitchy colours?
Well, it appears I put the certificate for it in a bag pocket without adequate protection, and… yeah.
My favorite kind of Linux feature is the kind where the documentation says "todo: document <really important thing that's critical to most modern systems>" and then "Last updated: october 12, 2014
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I came out as trans very late, in my late forties, and for various reasons have not medically transitioned. Yet I think about it a lot. I am tall (183 cm) have really broad shoulders, and basically have the kind of body cisgender dudes and maybe trans masc guys consider ideal. I am nearly sixty, but thinking about HRT, facial feminization surgery, and top surgery. So this is a question for trans women who start medically transitioning in their sixties (or later!). How has it been, and is it worth it? I would be grateful if you could share your experiences with me. Also feel free to respond if you are a trans woman 60 or older who has not medically transitioned and have thoughts on the subject. #transgender #hrt #trans
It's annoyingly difficult to find good, comprehensive resources about container network security...
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Frankie Bontemps, a second generation Chagossian in the UK, told the BBC that he felt “betrayed” and “angry” at the news because “Chagossians have never been involved” in the negotiations.
“We remain powerless and voiceless in determining our own future and the future of our homeland”, he said, and called for the full inclusion of Chagossians in drafting the treaty.
RE: https://en.osm.town/@opencage/113243389456455684
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We absolutely need more games that let players play as *creatures*.
Monstrosities, abominations, critters, elder gods, entities, the whole thing.
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Wikipedia now needs to have a "WikiProject AI Cleanup". They should send Sam Altman a massive bill for all their extra, unnecessary work.
I wouldn't be surprised if, on balance, cleaning up after Generative AI produced more cost than using Generative AI ever saved. Unfortunately, probably not for the same people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup
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“After software eats the world, what comes out the other end?”
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/after-software-eats-the-world-what
> This is something that is hardwired into the technology. The more unusual a cultural feature is, the less likely it is to feature prominently in a large model’s representation of the culture.
Turns out that declarative containers are implemented as a pile of bash: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/635c7ea3298176e57716e88ed3d820ce66766c91/nixos/modules/virtualisation/nixos-containers.nix
Which, in hindsight, I should've seen coming.
I have found something where the NixOS manual is the most accessible and readable of any resources I've found: declarative containers!
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ah, money, that thing your evil employer gives you just enough of that you can't imagine a less evil organization being able to employ you without a significant reduction in pay
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resources for how to be successful as a gamedev always say shit like
- don't forget to do any marketing! (contact press and video creators)
- don't forget to put up a steam page to have wishlists
- don't leave your trailer and contacting trailer editors til the last week
and like yeah if you make those kinds of mistakes you will almost certainly not be successful but this is less a roadmap for success and more "how to not ruin your chances before you even get started"
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Billionaire mention
Ethical billionaires are a myth
Bill Gates is no exception
The Gates Foundation is just an exercise in PR for a terrible human and it has done more harm than good
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““Nice Guy” Matt Mullenweg, CEO of WordPress.com Cries Foul and Threatens Me With Legal Action | by Kellie Peterson | Oct, 2024 | Medium”
This is all the yikes 😬
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@dumpsterqueer 'auto scaling' is such an immediate red flag to me now. like 'we have no idea what actually happens in there but we gave the problem a blank check already'
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This "scientific" article from Sony CSL about 15 min cities has been making the rounds in the news those past few weeks, and uhhh
As far as I can tell it's really bad research? It's based on OSM data without trying to compensate for disparity in coverage. It's based on some weird definition of urban areas that in some cases include several acres of uninhabited mountains, which reduce city averages. Basic mistakes.
https://csl.sony.it/project/the-15-minutes-city/
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.03794
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Municipality of Rotterdam this morning: we want to make people aware of the consequences of using drugs, so we rename some streets to have drugs references.
Citizens of Rotterdam this afternoon: oeh, hilarious new street name signs, we want that on our walls at home.
Conclusion: tax money well spend 🤨
health, ~
COVID vaccine acquired; now to feel slightly bleh for a couple days...
medical reference
So many hospital questionnaires to fill in 😒
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Academia has a travel problem.
Attending faraway conferences is ecologically unsustainable, and creates a huge barrier to entry for people who are disabled, have care duties, or lack resources, among others.
One piece of the solution is to create local satellites of major conferences. This idea has been successfully implemented in Paris for #NeurIPS for a few years, and I'm happy to have joined the advising committee of NeurIPS@Paris (Dec 4&5 this year)
Check it out: https://neuripsinparis.github.io/neurips2024paris/
- 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
