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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- 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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The thing about riots is they work
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Question for the young people
When you say, "Wow your lunch looks fire" or similar
In your mind, is that written as:
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#AskFedi: Is there a list of (software) projects which have knowingly accepted "AI" contributions, or actively use or encourage "AI" for development? :boost_requested:
(Not looking for lists of *suspicions*, just the cases where it's documented and known and intentional)
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Ink and Switch wrote a nice blogpost recently talking about "Malleable Software" https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/
It resonated with me a lot. The idea of building software that has an on-ramp that keeps on-ramping, guiding a user to not only become an expert, but to make the software their own, really resonated with me.
It's felt for a long time that Gnome has gone in the opposite direction. Trying to make something easy and clean, but end users aren't part of that journey.
(And no, Powershell and Nushell are not solutions to this, they still try to implement the same fundamental model)
Like, there's so much potential for terminal-like interfaces that just nothing is being done with because people insist on hanging onto an emulator design for a 50 year old terminal, and we're all losing out on so much possible accessibility and functionality as a result of it
I feel like some day I'll end up making a terminal/shell just to get something I actually *enjoy* using
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How come we call them fursuit makers when we could be calling them tailers send toot
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@schratze my dad has a mug with a full graph of how to do what in vim printed on it. Unfortunately, and probably intentionally, the mug is too small for the size of the graph, so in downsizing the writing is pixelated and very hard to read
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have you ever considered multi-colour STN-Displays? They look fantastic and make for great macro shots!
If I’m not fully mistaken this is a so called CCSTN display that doesn’t use a filter to colour the pixels, but rather an optical effect called birefringence. This display does not dim when a different voltages are applied across its pixels, but change colour! So cool and such weird tones :3
Depending on the camera and light angles used, the colours and contrast fully change
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This just in: mild protests and a couple of fires don't have the destructive capacity to level Los Angeles
And yet a very significant amount of project maintainers and even community managers genuinely believe this
"Technical projects shouldn't have non-technical chatrooms because that'll just create drama" is such an incredible failure to understand where community conflict comes from
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this article is objectively the truth: "Pl@ntNet is the world’s best social network"
https://qz.com/1615237/plntnet-is-the-worlds-best-social-network
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Pl@ntNet far outperforms iNaturalist anyway both in identification success and in being generally usable and nice (e.g. doesn't pressure you to log in unless you want to submit stuff, doesn't do shady AI, publishes papers on their machine learning models and makes the API available, etc.).
one of the few remaning apps on my phone that I enjoy using. I only open iNaturalist when i want to identify something which is not a plant, but 95% of the time I'm looking at plants so
I think we need a name for the category of technology that seeks to remove people from their roles in organizations or society, such as (but not limited to) GenAI things that are meant to replace people's jobs; how about 'displacement tech'?
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twitter trauma
i think some people on fedi just haven't realised the fact that they haven't healed from twitter. i openly admit that fact. in fact, i will do so now. i still have trauma relating to twitter that makes me feel physically sick every time i encounter it. i also still have the thing where i have to reply to people who are blatantly wrong (i'm getting better at it though). at least i understand it and try to deal with it healthily, whereas some people use fedi as a direct replacement to twitter minus fascists. they still use quotes to make fun of people, and still misinterpret people's arguments on purpose so they can ratio them because they hold interaction count higher than genuine interaction which is what the whole point of me talking to people on this is
- 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
