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.
- 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
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oi dutch queers i need your input
do you have any recommendations for trans-friendly GPs in Utrecht? i know about the roze in wit website but i wanna hear feedback from others on the doctors
looking to change GPs as my current one is ass and i wanna start the official transition path
thx and boost in advance
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The problem with the whole "Meta has used tens of millions of published works for training LLMs for profit" thing is the "training LLMs for profit" bit, not the "there are irregular channels for accessing books that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive or literally impossible to access" bit.
Like, "piracy" is going to be the only way a lot of people can access a massive portion of the information and media out there until capitalism ends. Whether the act itself is "good" or not, it's necessary for a lot of people.
What isn't necessary is LLM "hyperscalers" doing it industrially.
food mention
From the website of a major frozen fries supplier: "Experience our authentic and tasty skin-on fries. The irregular cutsize gives them a homemade feel."
Someone doesn't seem to understand what exactly "authentic" means...
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a quote from disco elysium, on beauty and lookism
-- "what is beauty?"
-- "when you have the fewest deviations from the norm. i've been told it's a type of mediocrity that i possess."
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US academics hosting international conferences which are already planned: I'm sure you all have experience pivoting to all online events and don't need the help I'm able to offer. But do DM me if you want to hear about running a large event via FLOSS platform and tools. I'm super happy to help.
I went to strongly encourage you to switch to virtual now. There are significant advantages to this approach including lower carbon, greater participation from Latin American participants and others who are normally excluded by US border policies, and, of course, its a way to protect your reputation and respect your overseas participants.
In person international travel to the US puts researchers at serious risk of arbitrary detention. You owe it to them to not ask this.
By having a virtual conference, you have greater scope for international participation and can maintain the international relevance of your institution. You can still build on networking and collaboration opportunities for yourself and your students.
I can help you organise/host an algorave connected to your event. This could include sonification of data connected to your discipline or other artistic exploration of your topic area. This can include a chat channel and wprknfor networking. The cross disciplinary exploration is often very helpful.
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Δ-44203, 'Carbon the "atomic beeper"' 
query: is the concept of living stratego widely known?
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My endstops broke so while I wait for the new ones I've improvised
#3Dprinting
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pol
I feel somewhat worried about the sentiment "I use Signal because I trust Meredith Whittaker"
that has never ended badly
Inspired by a few posts I've seen recently that complain about everything having become IP, and then TCP, and then HTTP, and there being nothing left in the rest of the space...
Another way to look at this, is as an organic, emergent, permissionless process of people figuring out exactly where the boundary is between "application-specific requirements" and "generalizable requirements" in a network protocol.
And so far, it seems people have largely settled on "a way to transmit discrete arbitrarily-sized messages with an ordering guarantee, built-in support for meta-headers, and serialization of arbitrary labelled data consisting of keys, primitive values, lists, and maps".
Or in other words, HTTP+JSON.
And sure, one way to look at it is "we're neglecting all these other protocol features". But I think it's more constructive to draw insights from this about what people *actually need*, completing that model from the complaints about things people find lacking in HTTP+JSON, and iterating from there in future protocol development.
personal vent, empathy
"You can't care about everyone's fate, it's too much for one person to bear, you need to learn to let things go"
Well, it would be a hell of a lot easier to deal with if you people didn't insist on making an uphill battle out of every solution to the issues in question!
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@joepie91 this was in my ereader and I guess I read it too hard 😑
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Another bloody SD card dead, ho hum
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*Please Boost*
Sharing this on behalf of a friend to try and find this doggo a home. Please boost it, I'm sure there are people on fedi local to the area who can help.
Location: USA, Southwest GA but can be driven anywhere in GA
They picked up this beautiful boy at an intersection. Their local shelters are all full. No tags, no chip, and no-one has claimed him in response to the post at the shelter.
They need to find his owners, OR find him a home as they can't keep him -
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(Yes I know that they are banking on some percentage of people never cancelling, but that strategy generally only works if cancelling is either a hassle or requires a waiting period. To my knowledge the former is banned here, and the latter, well, they *say* "any time"...)
Spam from a lottery:
"Did you find a gold card? Enter your win code at <URL> and play in <lottery>, and immediately see which of the prizes you are guaranteed to receive, at least a JBL speaker worth 45 EUR. You pay 15.50 EUR per draw, and there are 15 draws per year. You can cancel at any moment."
I wonder what the grift here is, exactly? I can't imagine them giving away 45 EUR worth of stuff if you can cancel at any time (ie. after a single payment of 15.50 EUR), so what's the catch that makes it profitable for them?
Related gripe: people *seriously* need to learn to deal with criticism in a healthy way.
Yes, you are sometimes going to be told "no". You are sometimes going to be told that something is expected of you that you don't like, if you want to participate in a community. You will sometimes get an unfriendly or hostile response if you wrong someone in some way.
These are normal parts of life, normal products of social interaction between people with different backgrounds. What's *not* normal is expecting every single word uttered to you by someone else to be friendly or polite, or to always get the benefit of the doubt.
And I see this in so many other places too. There's very little that gets you framed as a dishonest person faster than showing empathy towards people you don't (all) personally know.
And that is fucking depressing and, IMO, an indictment of everyone engaging in that kind of dismissive behaviour.
The most disappointing thing to me about alt-text discourse isn't that people aren't putting alt-text on their images.
It's when I see people talking about it dismissively, framing an expectation of alt-text as "policing", or as if it is some bizarre request with no practical purpose, some demand that people make just so they can be difficult about something - not even *entertaining* the possibility that maybe people have a very good reason for expecting it, and there's something to be learned from it.
- 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
