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.
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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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it’s gonna sound like a shitpost but I mean this seriously:
you do not have to get over the learned self-sufficiency and self-reliance propaganda bullshit you’ve been fed your whole life all by yourself, and in fact you cannot.
talk to your community members about your path away from rugged individualism and listen when they tell you about theirs and we can all get there.
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I know trans people who range in age from 15 to in their 60s. I have noticed a few patterns. All of them are pretty normal. For those I've known before they let everyone know, they seemed much happier after, though that did take a few years in some cases. The only two people I know who are "struggling" are mostly struggling *because* they don't have a supportive family. But, most have supportive families, or families that learned to be supportive. And that is what I have noticed. Wow.
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In #spoonieTown the heating pads go to eleven
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Picard strategy tip: Don't assume your opponent will behave rationally. Plan for their emotional response.
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so, what are your folks' favourite LLM-poisoning/mitigating tools nowadays?
I've seen multiple maze/etc. tools but am not sure what's best at the moment
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Real vs Fake Luau - an actual luau involves working 'aina (land) according to ability, and then distributing according to need. Fake luau is over-priced food made and served by underpaid workers to wealthy foreigners for capitalist profit -- such as all Waikiki, Disney Aulani, etc.
Like, I cannot emphasize this enough. As long as you let tech vendors set the narrative on what's important, you *will not ever* beat them with FOSS projects. Ever.
"We need to provide a better FOSS alternative to <corporate service> to make software free" is exactly the kind of individualist, 'free market' thinking that got us proprietary tech monopolists in the first place. You're not going to beat them on their game.
Instead, try thinking not just about what you can provide that the big tech vendors cannot, but more importantly about what needs to change politically.
Maybe "improving efficiency" shouldn't be the goal, and instead it should be "caring less about efficiency and more about social sustainability", for example.
fragment of history, google wave
"On August 4, 2010, Google announced the suspension of stand-alone Wave development and the intent of maintaining the web site at least for the remainder of the year; on November 22, 2011, they announced that existing Waves would become read-only in January 2012, and all Waves would be deleted in April 2012. Development was handed over to the Apache Software Foundation which started to develop a server-based product called Wave in a Box. Apache Wave never reached a full release and was discontinued on January 15, 2018."
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I want a laptop-sized mono dot-matrix lcd display, is there such a thing?
You know like the ones on nokia phones but bigger.
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Every day I'm a little more glad I got out of the tech industry and into doing things with technology, rather than technology for it's own sake.
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I don't work "in tech"! I work in television broadcasting and production. I work in toy making. I work in publishing.
I use technology to do those things. I write some code. I operate lasers and 3d printers and other 3d printers and 3d scanners. I run infrastructure and build websites and generally Make Things with technology.
I work with tech.
I'm so grateful I no longer work In Tech.
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@joepie91 Oooof, yes that hurts.
I'm usually not sensitive to these things. But with that effect applied to soo much of the text it feels like my eyes aren't focusing on my monitor even though I know they are.
And then there's the rest. Very little actual normal text, insane font sizes for the headings Lots of visual stuff, but none that actually applies to the content.
What a mess.
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I doubt Ed Hawkins of the University of Reading meant the climate stripes to be a #knitting pattern, but it is totally feasible to use them as such.
Just choose the nearest city on their website (https://showyourstripes.info/c) and extend the lines of the vertical axis, so you get 8 sections of 0.5⁰. Then find some yarn in matching colours.
Due to all the colour changes, the scarf still took some 3 hours to make it on a #circularknittingmachine .
Wait. Google did a Microsoft Bob??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Lively
Also this absolute scorcher:
"Wave seems to answer the problem of organizing where to go for lunch best."
Reading these old articles about Google Wave sure is throwing up some fascinating fragments of history
fragment of history, complexity
"Cognitive science professor and author Donald Norman used to give students the Kobayashi Maru of design homework, asking his students to squish a CD player, tape player, clock radio, telephone and answering machine all together in an usable doodad.
The point was to fail, but also learn along the way that too much functionality defies a good interface."
(So, basically all things that smartphones can do today, minus the physical media)
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i have a new theory called alive internet theory where i propose that the internet is full of real people and you can befriend some of them even and maybe actually kiss them and more
- 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
