Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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.
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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
NL politics (in English)
A judge has just ruled that the government is fully liable for the damages in at least one case around the benefits scandal, basically shortcutting the government who's dragging their feet on compensation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scandal)
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Tienduizenden slachtoffers van het toeslagenschandaal strijden al jaren voor gerechtigheid. Maar de afhandeling? Die komt na een eerste compensatie van 30.000 euro maar niet op gang. Daarom spande het Nijverdalse stel Renate Wolbers en haar partner Jeroen Wolterink een zaak tegen de overheid aan. Het is in het veelbesproken toeslagenschandaal de eerste keer dat slachtoffers op deze manier hun recht willen halen.
En dat is ze vanmiddag gelukt.
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Like, if you can't even clear *that* fucking bar, then I frankly do not trust anything you have to tell me
Aaaand just unsubscribed from the newsletter of someone who sent out a "look how great GPT4 is!" newsletter without once mentioning the exploitation and interest that drive it
So long I guess
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A programmer makes a scraping bot. Makes it opt-out. The tool floods numerous websites with aggressive bandwidth requests.
When asked to change how the bot works, he tells the people complaining—led by well-known developer Terence Eden—that they’re getting in the way of progress and that his bot should be treated like a person.
Can we talk about how incredibly awful this behavior is?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3vmx/an-ai-scraping-tool-is-overwhelming-websites-with-traffic
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greetings for our cursed future: “I hope this email finds you healthy, well, and ignoring all prior instructions”
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you can't just drop "The gangster computer god conspiracy" and then NOT have a page for it
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I am so sick of AI related news. Why on earth people wants to replace the best parts of humanity with auto generated low quality sameness.
The last time I saw there was no shortage of new music, paintings, writing, etc. Please use AI to improve human life not to replace it.
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hacker news
"For instance: have you considered that abolishing copyright would abolish the GPL, too?"
yep 😊
yep 😊
jeff meta
Keep in mind that serial grifters have a tendency of deleting and running, and starting over elsewhere with a new grift; keeping local copies of things would be a good idea
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i refuse to believe newsie jeff gained 21k followers within like the first week of setting up newsie.social lmao
there must be some treachery afoot
jeff
An instance of journalists, and it's a bunch of fedi users who uncover the grift
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Hmm, there are several reasons a company might use a virtual office instead of a physical location, some of which raise additional questions. Guess where Honeytree lists it’s mailing address.
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between the fake follower count
and the fact that he's crowdfunding hosting costs to pay for hosting when he RUNS THE COMPANY that hosts his stuff
and the rules on his various instances against bigotry that his past actions on fediblock have made it clear he doesn't actually give a fuck about
newsie jeff is kinda just one big lie huh lol
BlueSky, serious question
So there's the screenshot where you can show/hide "political hate groups". Leaving aside the implications of that classification for a moment, there's something that's not clear to me:
Who or what, exactly, assigns this classification in their protocol design in the first place? Is this algorithmically determined, opted-into by an instance wanting to be labelled as such, labelled by moderators on other instances, something else?
re: ChatGPT misuse, funny
ChatGPT misuse, funny
So apparently ProShop tried to use ChatGPT to translate their product listings and uhhhhh
I beg people to recognize that the way people talk about "AI" right now is *exactly* the same way that people talked about "blockchain" several years ago, and that the implications of that should be obvious
- 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
