Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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
"Text extruder" is such a good word for LLM garbage
Considering making "how are conflicts in the community handled?" my new initial screening question when evaluating new tech and projects, instead of anything about the tech itself
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The longer I live, the more convinced I am that I personally hold abundant hope for humanity - perhaps especially right now - precisely because I've lived in places that are neither rich nor white.
White anti-culture (and its preferred economic weapon, capitalism) is a profoundly effective creator of despair... by design.
It is not, however, any kind of meaningful indicator of human nature.
Life has not forgotten how to live. The scourge of white supremacy can be unmade and healed.
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I can't explain my brain but it managed to give me exactly one word I could put into my instance search field to find the toot I was looking for
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@cthos a bit of hard data from a point of view AI companies don't want to talk about: @iocaine
Daily stats from my crawler defense system, showing 7-8 million requests a day, against the very small and niche sites I host.
98% of my traffic is crawlers. It is their cost, which they try to push onto others. It's completely ridiculuous.
Even if the energy use of training and generating would be zero, the crawling cost, paid by literally everyone else, is not. This cost is easily demonstratable.
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The fact that the GenAI industry isn't providing actual data about their energy usage should make you _very_ skeptical about their claims of "it's fine".
And I'm a little disappointed in seeing folks I generally respect being like "oh no, it's not as much as you think" - y'all need to show me hard data.
Also, I would fucking hope a text extruder uses less energy than serving 4k video, the fact that it presently *isn't* is a travesty - nevermind its other travesties.
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So, re: LLMs and the "jury is out on energy usage", I just want to point out a couple of historical things.
When studies came out linking smoking to increased risk of cancer, the Tobacco industry paid for and produced studies that said "nuh uh".
When Obesity and heart disease rates increased in the United States and the problem was linked to sugar intake, the sugar industry produced studies saying it was fats.
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@joepie91 like actual installments or like using Klarna on a burrito
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I built a new work table for my garage today! Sort of! There were already two half storage racks there with some planks haphazardly on top, serving as a makeshift worktable; so I sanded the edges of some very thin plywood of sorts, varnished it, then nailed it to the top. And now it looks a lot nicer!
I also made a little tray hanging on the wall, to hold my glue and spray cans and such.
You know you're in trouble when the AliExpress search results start telling you the price of things in installments
I swear, every single track opiuo puts out is a banger
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YouTube Support,
I wish to appeal my ban on the grounds that death threats are acceptable greetings among my people.
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... and I suppose that another reason I dislike working with #Rust, is that it's always "you can use this feature X except in cases where Y" and for every X there's a different Y, there doesn't seem to be a restricted set of basic code organization techniques that you can universally apply, you always have to learn a million edge cases to get anywhere
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Do you want to easily publish your 3D models on the Fediverse?
We're looking for volunteers to beta test the flagship public Manyfold instance, which will be launching very soon!
Send us a private message to get the link, and join us in Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#manyfold:matrix.org
I think I've worked out one reason I dislike working with Rust. Consider this phrase:
"For example, there is no way to write this function in a way that is generic over the Container trait"
This kind of phrasing is very common in the Rust world. But what does "generic over a trait" *mean*, exactly? I can look up what a trait is just fine, and 'generic' too, but 'over' is far too generic of a word to find anything helpful.
This is just one example, and it's not really about this specific question - more that Rust documentation often uses words in ways that are ambiguous to me, with no clear path to figuring out what is meant there.
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my hatred at JavaScript isn't that much about the language itself, its kinda okay, its more at just how OVER RELIED ON its on every single website
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Had another of those weird moments where I was trying real hard to pinpoint someone's dialect until it hit me near the end of the conversation that they were speaking Swedish >.<
I wonder how much of the 'usability' disaster in software development can be attributed to software developers thinking about usability in terms of 'intelligence' and similar ableist views rather than in terms of 'time and effort available to spend on it', because I suspect it's a pretty big chunk...
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Voor alle NS abonnees die een mail van Koolmees hebben gekregen: beoordeel de mail met een 👎 en vul in dat je achter de staking staat.
Al dan niet aangevuld met iets over solidariteit en klassenstrijd en zijn salaris. Zie bijvoorbeeld hier @apenkop https://mstdn.social/@apenkop/114703480484242182
- 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
