Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

kids don’t even know you used to go to the mall and go to a store inside the mall and find boxes that had computer programs inside and you’d look at the boxes and compare them to other boxes and decide which computer programs you wanted to run and pay for them at the counter and take them home and find out they sucked ass. they just don’t know.

The voting for Worst Person In Tech has begun. I thought this would be easy, but there are some real tough choices! https://forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1XV6A8

I love when I'm on the Steam forum and someone quotes me and says "what did you mean by this" and then I reply and tell them what I meant by that and they say "thank you for clearing that up now I understand"

Assembling/Disassembling the car in your mind several times per seconds like a normal person

#mastoArt #artistsOnMastodon #F1AU

I appreciate all of you who provide knowledge or documentation in text based markdown or wiki format. With simple formatting such as headers, paragraphs and bullet points for readability. Only using graphics when it really helps getting the message across.

No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.

"Tortious interference" is the phrase of the day.

Brand Shield and other AI slopware needs to be sued to death for all the damage they cause.

@baralheia Of course do not feed the bigot bucket. But also try not to be openly hostile or rude to the bell ringers. Often they are unhoused or otherwise needy people who are coerced into "volunteering". They're not the ones profiting from bigotry.

Hey USAmerican friends! It's that time of year again and the Salvation Army bell ringers will be out soon... but whatever you do, don't drop anything in their bucket! The Salvation Army organization is openly hostile to the LGBTQ+ community and does NOT deserve your donations. Don't feed the bigot bucket!

"kids these days don't know how to fix anything"

Kids these days have never in their lives encountered anything that was meant to be fixed rather than thrown away.

So a crazy thing happened. In a crime thriller film called Les chambres rouges (Red Rooms, 2023) there is a scene where the hacker protagonist is attempting to purchase a snuff film in online auction. The auction happens via IRC or IRC-like chatting environment and to my surprise there's actually me @rolle and my wife @mustikkasoppa who are one of the bidders.

1) The nickname of my wife is mistakenly written as "mustikasoppa" (with one k) but if I recall correctly she has used a mistakenly written nickname in the past
2) We are both operators and on the same IRC channel as we've been for the past 17 years

This is not a coincidence. One nickname can be made up by accident but not two with these features and definitely not in a French movie. My wife's nick "mustikkasoppa" is Finnish and means "blueberry soup".

Our IRC logs are more or less public because of open source and statistics so I presume the scene has been made with chatgpt which has scraped our nicks from the Internet so that they ended up in the movie. We still chat via IRC every day together.

The era of AI... Do your background check, folks. I'm glad this wasn't a dramatized documentary film but a complete fiction. However my wife and I are real. Mixed feelings.

#OpenAI #Privacy #Movies #IRC #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT

@silvermoon82 It occurs to me that a large part of our surveillance apparatus requires our active cooperation to work. We upload pictures of ourselves to databases that are accessible to law enforcement FOR FUN. We carry personally identifiable transponders wherever we go that share our location 24/7. We use easily traceable payment methods for everything.

It's amazing that once you stop doing that, surveillance just kind of... breaks.

I think it's notable that
1. NYPD actually does have the capability and will to track the shooter from when he arrived in NYC by bus through the shooting until he left the city by bus, all via dystopian camera feeds like in an NCIS:LA episode, and
2. That still hasn't helped them identify him
Like... Massive civil rights questions aside, it seems like it's just not effective?

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RE: https://growers.social/users/jpaskaruk/statuses/113617004385624793

In #OpenStreetMap, we use the dialect of English called ‘British English as understood by Germans”
https://en.osm.town/@TheSwavu/113616514550541488

Moment of peak OSM from the Community forum:

Well, that was my intention when I drafted the proposal. I am talking about “<verb>” in OSM terms, not plain English terms.