Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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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here's your periodic holiday reminder that FUCK THE SALVATION ARMY
they're a queer hate organization. don't fucking donate to them. only shoplift from their stores. tell their solicitors to eat rocks
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mental health medication (+)
Me before starting ADHD meds: "but without being legally allowed to drive how will I live in this city 😭"
Me after starting ADHD meds: "wow I sure am walking a lot more lately"
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Reminder: Users have _availability_ and _utility_ requirements in addition to their needs for privacy and security. If privacy and security were all they needed, they would just stay off the internet.
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The "all the major journals are just letting blatantly LLM generated papers through" thing should be a way bigger wake up call that science is broken than the daryl bem 2011 ESP paper, but since the obvious prescription is "abolish the whole fucking racket" the response is tellingly tepid.
#OpenScience was all fun and games when it was purity tests and window dressing, but when it comes time to refuse to publish in prestige journals and rebuild anti-profitable human-led communication systems, there isn't much appetite for it.
twitter, internet archive
Incredible, someone seems to have succeeded at pissing off literally *all* of Twitter, regardless of political affiliation, by bragging about attacking the Internet Archive
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ad copy talking about how company X must fight of 100000 cyberattacks every day are so funny like you can just tell that they count every instance of „someone tried to ssh in as root“ as a „cyberattack“ to make things sound dramatic
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I made a histogram of wealth distribution in the United States, using the Forbes 400 list that just came out. Almost the entire US population is in the red line at the left, one pixel wide. To fit Elon Musk on the graph, each pixel is $500 million wide. In other words, from the perspective of the very rich, $0 and $500 million look the same.
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(Source of that photo is unfortunately very vague about who made this specific picture, it's one of the people listed in the header of https://www.looopings.nl/weblog/26947/Fotos-vaandels-en-borden-maken-het-gebied-rond-Danse-Macabre-in-de-Efteling-compleet.html)
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I don't know why the internet is so full of sites that are happy to let you add alt-text to their images but don't understand that you should probably not put the textbox to enter that alt-text OVER THE FUCKING IMAGE.
I can't transcribe the image if I can't see it, guys!
Very looking forward to Danse Macabre, though realistically I probably won't have a chance until quite a while after my transplantation...
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For a company that has spent years talking about how important the "Open Web" is, this is some petty bullshit.
Two little business bros couldn't work their shit out like adults and now it's everybody's problem.
Pathetic.
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is there a good (open source) tool for enumerating installed software on Windows?
there is a list in the Windows Registry but that only includes software installed in the "proper" way
it excludes portable software or just any random package cloned from GitHub
basically: any software that is in between the typical project SBoM and InstallShield™ installers.
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Vlaanderen: We willen een B-Ticket.
Ook Vlaanderen: Er mag in het kader van een B-Ticket geen cent van elders naar Vlaanderen, of een cent vanuit Vlaanderen naar een andere regering of deelstaat vloeien.
Conclusie: Er komt geen B-Ticket.
subtoot of many, frustrated (3)
And yes I *will* bite if you try to take this thread as an invitation to continue arguing the point, and you are going to get the unfiltered version of my criticism, so you should make very very sure that that is actually what you want before trying to dispute this
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AI hellscape gripe
@researchfairy YES! Such a big part of generative AI motivation is consent avoidance
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AI hellscape gripe
Saw an ad with a Black person in it that was AI generated
Now I'm thinking about the "digital blackface" aspects of AI image generation
You can have them in an ad to hawk your products, make them participate in your sexual fantasies, make them endorse your ideas
You don't have to hire a Black person, no one has to even look them in the eye to ask them to pose
You can still have bespoke photorealistic video of them doing your bidding and it costs pennies if anything at all
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AI hellscape gripe
And this isn't just about not paying a Black person, although that's definitely part of it
It's also about how easy it is to just type a prompt and make a digitally generated image of a Black person doing something that might cross a line or where it would be difficult or infeasible to arrange if you had to convince models, actors or artists to do it
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Dot-tk was a rough lesson, but that was a long time ago now.
(They offered free .tk domains in the aughts, got super popular with spammers and malware, and ISTR there were colonization factors as well?).
Is this going to be a generational thing, where every couple decades we get a large-scale public learning experience? .tk, now .af and .io, so in 2040 I dunno, the "union services" .us websites will all be seized for communism or something.
- 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
