Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Do you have a vacuum desoldering station? Tell me what you like/dislike about your model and/or vacuum desolderers in general :) (Please boost for visibility!)

The closer I get to this stuff, the clearer it is to me that "addict/surveil/extract/sell" biz models have ruined the internet really are wrecking mental health, propagating disinfo, dissolving social cohesion, etc. with very little real compensating upside. I think the case for this gets stronger everyday. But there is a TON of resistance to this among "tech people" generally, even those who work for places that would benefit from the demise of surveillance capitalism.

So you get real discomfort from tech people around even pretty weak proposals for beefed up privacy protections. You get this kind of squirming uneasiness even from tech folks who DO see that surveillance capitalism biz models are problematic. They still find it hard to reconcile themselves to the idea that nearly their entire industry, and their own wealth, is based on companies following the money within a legal structure that left basic rights unprotected against new technical capabilities.

“You always told me it takes time. It has taken my father’s time, my mother’s time, my uncle’s time, my brothers’ and my sisters’ time, my nieces’ and my nephews’ time. How much time do you want for your ‘progress’?” —James Baldwin

#BlackFriday #Mastodon #BlackMastodon #JamesBaldwin

@thufie With those 'calls for unity' in general, it sure is interesting how they always come from the folks with lower standards or less ambitious goals, and it's never *them* who are willing to compromise on that, it must always be other people.

Important

I think one of #rust #rustlang 's greatest contributions to the field isn't the borrow checker--it's that marginalized folks openly participate, front-and-center, and are celebrated as they do the work. We are visible, appreciated, and often in leadership positions, and this is all facilitated by the community and the community standards that were set up from the get-go.

Compare to how most of our field works, where so many of the women or PoC we appreciate only get appreciated many years later, when someone digs up an actual story of their contribution that had been buried by, frankly, cis white dudes that sucked the air out of the room for so long.

Meanwhile, you throw a rock and you'll hit half-a-dozen absolutely-essential-and-foundational Rust developers and leaders and everyone knows about them already.

Some journalists will believe Bing is a living being deserving of dignity and rights before they'll believe it about trans people

Edit: I love you all but I gotta mute this (plz like/boost notifs bundling when?)

How does article 17 of the GDPR ("right to erasure") apply to trained LLMs?

Could I request that my personal information be removed from ChatGPT's trained weights, if it exists?

Would they realistically be able to comply with that request? What happens if they can't?

I don’t understand the attraction of being able to talk to computers using breezy casual conversational language; I’ve been telling these little digital bastards what to do for decades using extremely precise formalised language and they still get it wrong

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