Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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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Let me be very clear. I do not advocate for violence. I am a pacifist at heart, and I believe we will accomplish more through peaceful yet “loud and proud” advocacy along with class solidarity.
Regardless, Generative AI is tied at the hip to fascism (do the research if you don’t believe me), and it pains me to see pointless arguments over what constitutes “vibe coding” overshadow the reality that all genAI usage is anti-craft and anti-humanist and in fact represents an extreme position.
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Centrale database met wie waar behandeld wordt, vult men nu al
zorgictzorgen.nl/centrale-database-met-wie-waar-behandeld-wordt-vult-men-nu-al
Centrale database, de verwijsindex, met wie waar behandeld wordt, vult men nu al. Zonder dat de Nederlander er iets van weet. The post Centrale database met wie waar behandeld wordt, vult men nu al appeared first on Zorg-ICT Zorgen.
Er wordt ons aangeleerd dat de regering en bedrijven "de wil van de bevolking" weerspiegelen, en dat ze alleen maar dienen om dingen efficienter en effectiever te maken.
Intussen zamelt de bevolking ruim een ton in om een Efteling-reisje voor asielzoekers te betalen, terwijl de overheid dat reisje probeert te saboteren.
En wordt Gert Regterschot financieel ondersteund door studenten en collega's voor zijn werk als docent, terwijl de TU Eindhoven hem compleet laat vallen.
En dat zijn nog maar twee voorbeelden uit een hele grote stapel.
Dus wat is er dan eigenlijk nog waar van dat sprookje over het nut van bedrijven en de regering?
If you look at LLMs - a technology created through exploitation, for the explicit purpose *of* exploitation - and you conclude "well there might be legitimate uses", then your judgment is frankly garbage and you're looking for excuses not to have to take a real position
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Griping about academics and journalists being gullible about the AI grift
Insufferable centrist: But maybe there's a middle ground, a "responsible" way to use ChatGPT—this is definitely a serious intellectual position to hold and not just a complete spineless cop-out
Everyone else: (Nods sagely, as if they said something insightful)
The materials quality of MARKUS chairs has really gone downhill...
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🚗 Deel een auto met de buurt: slim, groen en goedkoper!
Amsterdam test een proef voor autodelen. Buren kunnen samen auto's gebruiken via een coöperatie.
🌿 Minder kosten, schonere lucht en meer ruimte voor groen en spel!
Meer weten? Ga naar https://amsterdam.nl/autodeelgroep. Samen maken we de stad groener en leuker!
polycule household management
We've now instituted a policy of doing a 'stock check' once a week on a fixed day, 1.5 days before the online groceries order deadline, and it's really helped a lot to make sure that we don't unexpectedly run out of stuff!
Literally just a list of "thing, minimum we should have, maximum we should buy up to, where to buy it", and then printing the whole list and going through it marking how much we have of each. What we can (plausibly/affordably) order online, we do; the rest we get from the store in person.
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duckduckfedi did someone made some "real 12v PD" pcb where you are not dependent on power supplies that support 12v negotiation by down stepping 20v?
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whenever i see the chatgpt icon somewhere i think it’s element (from matrix (the protocol))
Huh. A recall notice from an importer that openly admits they imported a fake product (with a dangerous level of phthalates), and actively encourages people to tell others about it so that they can bring back theirs as well.
Not used to that kind of transparency, usually it's "the bare minimum that the regulatory agency said we need to do"
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eurovision, politics, gaza
idk why still people watch eurovision after their pretty vocal support of war crimes
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I found a significantly misshelved book I need for a class tomorrow by knowing its height, approximate thickness, and binding material, and just looking at the shelves until it announced itself to me. BEHOLD I AM A LIBRARIAN WIZARD.
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The bit that jumps out at me about this thread is the Inevitable Forum Post Derail
Yaknow that thing, in any open-source project, where in any thread where someone posts a bug or requests a feature, That Guy turns up and goes "These people are working for free, code it yourself" and then there's like a ten-post pointless back-and-forth derail that everyone who got here with a search engine has gotta read through in case there's anything useful tucked in there, even though we've read the same conversation a hundred times?
Can we put that to bed? Like, can we just put a banner at the top of open source forums that links to the same conversation from like 2002 and say WE KNOW and then just delete those noiseposts, or move them to storage somewhere?
Like, as a guy who writes programs and uses programs but also occasionally has to search for a problem about a program, can we please just shorten those derails to "Standard Code-It-Yourself Derail was here, moved to Standard Derail containment subforum" for the sake of our future selves when we're searching to try to track down a bug, or for the sake of those who come after us, FOR THE SAKE OF OUR CHILDREN,
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for too many people "we need imperfect allies" means ditching people who want to be educated and helpful in favor of keeping people whose flavor of bigotry they think of as incidental background noise
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@joepie91 this is such an interesting thing because i feel its so hopelessly tied to the whole flemish/dutch cultural gap
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If any Mastodon instances are having trouble with their costs growing out of control, ping me and see if I can help lower your bill.
Apparently a recently closed instance was paying $300/month for hosting which is insane to read considering how small of an instance it was. When we had 40k monthly users I was paying about $120/month so an instance with less than 400 total users (not MAU) should be super cheap to run even with a few TB of storage and bandwidth.
It hurts my heart to read instances closing down over costs and finding out they’re paying more than instances 10x their size. 😢
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Dear nonprofits and political candidates, the only thing fundraising email subjects like "Please read before deleting" tell me is that your team is on A/B testing autopilot and utterly detached from the work you do.
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Tangentially, Flemish seems a bit *more* emotionally expressive to me than Dutch, but I don't really speak it
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
