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
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Why does everything in tech have the UX of stepping on a sea urchin?
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like I don't know man. even if what someone said was inane, or obvious, or missing the point, they still *said* something. they reached out—used their divine spark of will to try to make a connection. I think it's fine to point out the inanity or the obviousness, but I don't think it's fine to say the person was wrong to try to reach out.
reading that back though, I realize this is a bit of a rosy picture. everything with nuance, I try to say. I suppose if you're getting a lot of unwanted attention, and there's no tools to reduce that attention, something's got to give.
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I think the introduction of the *concept* of a "reply guy" has had a chilling effect on people's willingness to reach out and engage
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So Lipton is now claiming on their tea boxes "no plastic film around the box" and "the teabags are plant-based, made from paper and cornstarch". Clearly trying to imply that the product is plastic-free, but not quite *saying* it.
So you might think, why is there cornstarch in the bags?
Well, from cornstarch you can make... PLA! A type of plastic. And indeed, the other side of the box talks about composting the bags, but specifically mentions "industrial compost" - because that's the only type of composting that can process PLA.
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You know, maybe we should all just start saying "bribes" instead of "lobbying". It's functionally the same thing anyway, and removes the cloak of respectability.
Has anyone written some sort of comprehensive analysis of how protocols were designed to be used, how people ended up using them instead, and what lessons can be drawn from it?
Across multiple different case studies, ideally, not just one protocol.
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Reminder that your hilarious Ai prompts and resulting garbage are burning up the planet and wasting a shit load of water
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@joepie91 I think in Dutch "smeergeld" is a good one.
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It is kinda funny. Terminal applications are always seen as too clunky and unwieldy for average non-nerds to use but that's exactly what chatbots are: Command line apps with unspecified parameters and outcomes.
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Good interfaces derive their structure from the task the user is trying to solve and the expected knowledge and domain model that user has. This is not how most "AI" solutions' interfaces are built.
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genuinely the median IT product has never been more broken than it is right now and no one has any plans to fix that
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Trying to explain to someone in 2010 that the entire IT industry has stopped focusing on making their products work and instead pivoted to putting cleverbot into a live chat window wherever possible
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The scoop we use to put detergent in the washing machine fell behind the machine. While trying to get it out, I almost invented a new variant of the *stuck inside the washing machine" trope by getting stuck behind the washing machine
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greenwashing
apparently linkedin updated their app icon to a globe for earth day
microsoft supports several earth-friendly endeavours such as their pledge to only drain half the earth's water supply by 2030, instead of all of it
You know, maybe we should all just start saying "bribes" instead of "lobbying". It's functionally the same thing anyway, and removes the cloak of respectability.
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As someone who has been employed as a janitor I’m always struck by how the handwringing over the sanctity of gendered toilets never seems to consider the men who clean women’s loos and women who clean men’s loos. I suspect because cleaners are not considered real people.
[Muting as this has spread way out of my zone, but happy that it's resonating.]
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@schratze Docs 🤝 Governments
“Please click here to see more about how to do this.”
(clicks)
“We assume you have already done this. If not, click here to see how to do it.”
(clicks)
“Please click here to see more about how to do this.”
(Throws computer out of window)
"Privacywaakhond: Maak op tijd bezwaar tegen trainen van Meta AI met jouw data" - https://www.nu.nl/tech/6353640/privacywaakhond-maak-op-tijd-bezwaar-tegen-trainen-van-meta-ai-met-jouw-data.html
Als de privacywaakhond mensen moet gaan adviseren om mee te gaan in een onwettige constructie, i.p.v. de AVG te handhaven (want opt-out mag niet), dan heb je als overheid echt totaal gefaald in je werk.
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Now that #GoToSocial v0.19.0 is out, we're going to start the process of transferring our coding workflow from Github over to #Codeberg (@Codeberg), to get away from Microsoft's endless parade of crapola.
This means that some time in the next week or so, we will "lock" the Github repository so that only superseriousbusiness.org members can create new PRs and issues etc (similar to what we do when we're on holiday).
Then, we will migrate the repository over to Codeberg, using Codeberg's migration functionality to keep issues, pull requests, comments, etc intact.
Once we've validated that everything is in order, we will mark the Github repository as a read-only mirror of the Codeberg repo, and start using Codeberg for issues, pull requests, CI/CD etc.
To avoid breaking people's automated builds that rely on that Github repo, we are planning to keep it as a read-only mirror for a while (eg., 6 months or so, not sure yet) . At some point though we will fully remove it, to avoid contributing our code to Microsoft's "ai" garbage. But we will warn in advance about this so that people can update their scripts and stuff in time.
There will probably be some turbulence in our CI/CD pipelines and workflow and whatnot during this transition period, but nothing that should affect end users of the software: releases up to v0.19.0 will remain available on Github and Docker as normal, and snapshots should remain up to date on our Minio S3 bucket and Docker.
We're looking forward to the move, and to putting the sloth in its new home and seeing it wander around sniffing the furniture and exploring 
Thanks for reading!
- 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
