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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ACAB
on politics, doomerism, misanthropy, and desire for omnicide
i am going to drop a hot take here and say that misanthropy is never a condemnation of all people as a whole, no matter what people say. it's always about the condemnation of the other. it's all the other people who are ignorant and selfish and murderous, not you. they're all walking in circles but you "know the way". it's a hierarchy, it's antithetical to equality and freedom.
(7/?)
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and when you start believing that capitalism or climate change are happening because "humans are the virus" or "naturally selfish and bad" or whatever, you don't end up with a revolution. you end up with a crusade. you end up with a gulag and the thoughts that my friend just burped out without any reflection on themselves. because the entire premise of there being "essentially irredeemable people" is what leads to this. (8/?)
Am I missing something or are *all* EmulationStation forks relying on the freeimage library, which hasn't seen a release since 2018 and has accumulated several (unpatched!) arbitrary code execution CVEs since then?
Also, this isn't a case of "better something than nothing".
Any kind of 'stricter enforcement' for copyright that gets called for and instituted as a result of LLM companies, *will* be weaponized against the powerless (independent artists and others alike) in the future.
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We *all* want to choose where we live, where we work, who we live with.
We can *all* imagine finding a job or a school that we'd do great at - and moving to get to it.
We can *all* imagine meeting someone, falling in love and moving to be with them.
We can all imagine visiting somewhere and feeling so at home there that we plan to move there.
We can *all* see how live-changing it could be to move home - and how awful it would be to be prevented from moving.
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It's always tempting to counter anti-immigrant discourse by pointing out how much value migrants contribute to their new country, what "we" gain from having migrants in "our" communities... And I think we should resist the temptation to make arguments from this basis.
I see a lot of people responding to the LLMs-and-copyright situation with calls for stricter enforcement of copyright, and honestly I think that's a terrible take.
Not because these LLM companies shouldn't see consequences (they should!), but because there's a much more important observation to make: this situation demonstrates how the whole "copyright protects artists" has always been a myth.
If copyright truly protected artists, there would have been swift enforcement against these LLM companies, in the same way that there's swift enforcement when you start a piracy website in eg. the US. But there wasn't.
And that shows what copyright *really* is; a tool of power for those with a lot of money to spend on legal warfare. It's always been like that; granting power to those who already have lots of it, and taking it away from those who have very little of it.
That's why these LLM companies seem immune to copyright law - they have money, and you as the artist do not.
Copyright is a fundamentally bad solution to protecting artists, it's designed to benefit the rich and powerful. You don't solve that by doing more of it! What we *should* be talking about is better solutions that *do* actually work.
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@schratze Philosophical texts have titles like research papers. Maybe we need philosophy journalists covering new releases and blogging about them like with every room temperature super conductor that peeks its head out a lab somewhere
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One thing to understand about coffee as a hobby is that specialty coffee is not as expensive as it may initially seem, especially if getting coffee at a cafe is part of your daily routine.
Like sure, it seems extremely extravagant to get a small bag of beans for 70pln (€16.5, which is on the high end of what I'd normally buy) but even then you're only paying something like €1 per doubleshot espresso and adding milk increases the price only marginally. An espresso at Starbucks is 3 times as expensive and 10 times worse (I don't know who actually drinks espresso at Starbucks, the beans they use are low key charcoal) and any basic milk drink is gonna cost you almost 5 times more. Even at the most generic cafes you're going to pay a lot more per cup than if you make the coffee yourself even when using beans from some of the fanciest roasters.
What I'm saying is, if you get your daily fix of caffeine at cafes, switching to specialty coffee at home is actually gonna be cheaper and tastier.
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my hot take about open source is that any sufficiently overcomplicated open source is indistinguishable from closed source freeware.
Osu! is currently being played on the TV in the living room, using an air mouse
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Wij kunnen max 3 kwartier bezoek hebben (hier gaan we regelmatig overheen maar dan is het wel betalen de dagen erna) wat voor mijn schoonouders vanuit Friesland natuurlijk ondoenlijk is. Dus die zitten nu een week in een huisje in de buurt en komen elke dag vertellen waar ze hebben gewandeld en welk museum ze hebben gezien 🥰🥰🥰
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Australia: Best of luck! 😆
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"High-speed internet":
- France: 8Gb/s
- Poland: 2Gb/s
- Germany: 100Mb/s
:neocat_floof_explode:
- France: 8Gb/s
- Poland: 2Gb/s
- Germany: 100Mb/s
:neocat_floof_explode:
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Why can't people designing pyramid schemes stop drawing pyramids
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Welk huishoudelijk klusje vinden jullie gewoon ronduit leuk?
Ik kan erg genieten van een pan schrobben met staalwol. Zou soms bijna iets ervoor aan laten branden.
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Tumblr reminded me of how totally bullshit it is that the aspd criteria is almost entirely based on surveying prison populations. Like, zero acknowledgement that uhhhh maybe it’s a problem that we seemingly have a large amount of disabled people being imprisoned? because of their disabilities? no? nothing?
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Saneism, personality disorders, bitching about how ridiculous the stigma against them is
Every time I talk abt this, I have to hold back so much from giving surface level critiques of it. & by that I mean saying “you’re just jealous I’m better at degration than you are.” It does nothing at all to say that, but god do I want to
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Saneism, personality disorders, bitching about how ridiculous the stigma against them is
It’s so fucking apparent to me that that’s what it is, cuz I know from personal experience that it is. I had adults straight up argue that my abuse was justified because I was “difficult” & “talked back.” Am I supposed to just sit there & not ask questions? You can’t expect to raise “good people” then get pissed off when they stand up for what’s right. You don’t actually want the world to be better atp, you just want to virtue signal that you’re a “good person” by pretending to raise your kids with morals. All the while, following white supremacist nonsense, & other oppression systems below it.
I genuinely cannot understand how people who can’t assimilate themselves into an unjust society are the “bad guys.” Or why so many people on the left will actively continue that narrative while also espousing that you can’t work within the systems that be. Like. You’re so close to getting it buddy. Maybe stop calling sociopaths “monsters” for 5 seconds & you’ll realize the type of person you’re talking about is the type of person you’re aspiring to be, but can’t be, bc you haven’t yet unlearned the false moral playbook you were given.
- 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
