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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
Yes, 'vibe coding' is a completely absurd and irresponsible idea, but "it's just as bad as having lots of dependencies" is just as terrible of a take, and it's not achieving what you think it's achieving.
The whole point of dependencies is that you can inspect them and see what they do, that you can test them, and that they have a development history that encodes the problem space and the work that people have collectively done to address it!
You know why people use LLMs for programming? Because then they don't have to figure everything out from scratch. Which just so happens to be *the problem that dependencies solve responsibly*. Dependencies are not "just as bad", they are *the responsible alternative.*
Treating programming LLMs as an opportunity to complain about dependencies is doing literally the opposite of "convincing people to stop using LLMs". Fuck's sake.
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in retrospect it's kind of incredible how many people fell for the ponzi schemes from a place called "silly con valley"
Hand soap and sand turns out to be an *excellent* combination to get rid of half-dried paint on your hands
There's a lot left to do here, but I'm very happy to finally have the whole thing in a usable condition, at least! Instead of having to constantly navigate around all kinds of crap scattered on the floor (instead of being stored where it belongs).
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This is, in my opinion, a good April Fools day joke.
It's a joke.
It's a funny joke.
It's labeled as a joke, so there's little danger of it becoming disinformation.
It's a joke that doesn't really hurt anyone, other than possibly the manufacturers of non-repairable devices.
It is, I stress, actually funny, and got me for a fraction of a second before I realized.
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The organization behind #NaNoWriMo is officially dead.
As a long-time fan of the event, I couldn't be happier.
Problems came up, and instead of addressing them, there was assorted pointing of fingers and a turning away of all who wanted to help.
The acting executive director burned all remaining good-will to the ground. (She even took a strange pro-GenAI stance for absolutely no reason.) Of course, her last message to the community was barbed and basically blamed the community for shuttering NaNoWriMo.
Over the past year or so there have been a lot of new writer communities pop up. There are plenty of places for writers to network and challenge each other.
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The iOS contacts app has a pronoun field, and it actually comes with presets. I only filled in "ze" and it filled in the rest. I wonder where they got this list from. I had to edit it tho because my friend uses a different variation of "ze".
Additionally, it correctly gives a 2nd person and 3rd person field for Chinese, with no declension.
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Wanted: a patched phone operating system which instead of having permissions for apps returns them all random data, unless I have allowed them access to the real thing.
Randomly generated address books, location coordinates, WiFi network names, picture folders full of noise, battery levels that fluctuate wildly.
Fucking poison the data gathering well. Make it looks pretty realistic. My phone has enough storage and compute to create realistic looking names and telephone numbers. Let the advertisers think I'm traveling back and forth on the Orient express.
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TIL (because I was using some tools to hack on the files) that Wing Commander 1 lipsyncs the dialogue in the briefing scenes, and it does it by having a second copy of the line that's spoken in the dialogue file, but it's a simplified pseudo-phonetic version:
Text="We've got a lot of work to do, people, so let's get to it."
LipSyncText="wevgotalotofwerktodopepulsolesgettoit"
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fedi meta
A pattern I keep seeing: some guy gets defederated, banned from their instance, or even just told "no" by people, for very good reason, and then spends month going around in every other social venue telling anyone who will listen about how "you can't say anything on Mastodon" without ever mentioning the reason for their grudge.
When asked for examples, they bring up their own situation, and misrepresent it as if the reason were something trivial and ridiculous, rather than the usually much more severe thing they've done and/or the pattern of shitty behaviour over a long time that they *actually* experienced consequences over.
fedi meta
A pattern I keep seeing: some guy gets defederated, banned from their instance, or even just told "no" by people, for very good reason, and then spends month going around in every other social venue telling anyone who will listen about how "you can't say anything on Mastodon" without ever mentioning the reason for their grudge.
When asked for examples, they bring up their own situation, and misrepresent it as if the reason were something trivial and ridiculous, rather than the usually much more severe thing they've done and/or the pattern of shitty behaviour over a long time that they *actually* experienced consequences over.
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COVID Cautious Folks, EXTREMELY IMPORTANT
https://zeroes.ca/@EricCarroll/114263873071499337
So uh the folks that certify that your masks filter just got fired for those of you using those types of masks.
If possible, go buy some masks and figure out where you can get equivalent mask filtering in case RFK Jr. makes this no longer a thing. You may have to pay more in shipping. I personally am willing to help a few folks cover the increased cost of shipping.
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It's been 5 years. We could've had widespread indoor air filtration by now. But what we have is widespread brain damage instead
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Poll 📊
If you’d know a university degree is completely LLM-free, would you think more of it, less of it, or the same?
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@joepie91 ah yes projects where I can’t help but wonder if it’s technically still woodworking if the end result is more than 50% resin by volume
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ADHD is amazing cause I’ve got more projects than I can finish in two lifetimes and I’ll ponder them for weeks to then do a handful in a rush whilst pushing off things that would take 5mins
The two genders of woodworking video:
1. "Here's how I turned a free pallet into a $5000 coffee table (using $8000 of equipment and $2000 of consumable supplies that I didn't mention)"
2. "Here's a 15 minute ad for my woodworking plans that pretends to be an educational video but leaves out crucial details"
Today's project was clearing out and reorganizing the garage, so that it is actually usable for projects again, and I can actually reach my tools and supplies properly. Pictures forthcoming, probably tomorrow! Battery too empty to make them now.
Yesterday's project was trying to finish my plant table - basically a large table that'll sit in front of the living room window, so I can put seedlings and such there so that they get a lot of sun.
It's made from some reused wood from old (no longer usable) shelving units, and some garbage-tier hardware store wood for the frame; the new hardware store wood is actually *worse* than the reused wood in many ways...
Anyway, I've almost finished it; I just had to wait for the glue to dry, then flipped it upside down, and now I still need paint the top... and then it's completed!
(It doesn't look particularly nice but that's okay - this is more a practice project than anything, to try out different techniques and see what works, and if something doesn't work, oh well - it's just a plant table anyway)
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
