Sven Slootweg @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
In summary, I guess, the critiques of Walkaway reveal a lot of interesting things, but more about the readers than about the book
Another frequent observation is people complaining about the characters being "too perfect" even though the book goes into quite some detail about their imperfections - and I'm wondering if there's some misperception going on here, in the sense that the reader kind of missed the imperfections because the overall tone is focused on "that doesn't make them awful people" rather than the "did something weird or wrong once and is now irredeemably tainted" narrative that you'd find in most stories
Loosely related, I can't help but notice that a lot of critiques of the story basically boil down to "it's unrealistic because it's not full of horrible people".
And like, nobody making that critique seems to have caught onto the part where the culture selects for people who aren't horrible, and gives people in general reasons to be supportive and collaborative... instead just assuming today's cultural norms and the hierarchy expected from that, even though that hierarchy is specifically what the story contradicts
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Listen, I'm so friggin disgusted over what is probably happening over at Automattic (Tumblr, WordPress dot com) so, if you have a blog over at WordPress dot com, I will help you migrate to a self-hosted WordPress install. Yes, for free. From a professional web dev.
Email me: aimee@foundationwebdev.com or send a contact form submission at www.foundationwebdev.com/contact/
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Not to mention this is also bad for video game preservation. Years from now, the servers meant to handle your account creation will probably cease to be, and the games will be unplayable unless someone cracks them. The shortsightedness of this industry never fails to amaze me.
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Any Dutch person tried to report unaddressed advertising before? The stichting reclame code requires me to contact the sender first before reporting it. Which is bullshit because they're just gonna say they won't do it again, and nothing changes.
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enabling secure boot, kernel lockdown, etc only for a security researcher to discover a hardware vulnerability in the intel Binkleforden subsystem that lets anybody telepathically gain ring -3 access to your system by perceiving its existence
I'm reading a post by someone about Walkaway, the novel by Cory Doctorow, basically expressing skepticism about society's ability to work that way, and remarking that the story fails to explain how such-and-such mechanism would function in practice.
And I just realized: that someone is *expecting* such detail from what is explicitly a work of fiction, suggests that it is already a credible enough view of the future that it doesn't require suspension of disbelief to engage with it, and that it doesn't register as "obviously fiction".
That is in and of itself quite hopeful, actually.
"But then we have to comply with all sorts of auditing requirements!"
Precisely, and that is a problem... why, exactly?
Like, other forms of incorporation exist, yes they can be more complicated, yes they can be imperfect, but they sure don't have "extracting private profits" as their defined primary objective, so... I don't know, you should probably have a pretty damn good reason not to be using them
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Capitalism interprets resilience as inefficiency and tries to erode it. Capitalism will not stop until every aspect of society is so "just-in-time" that an unexpected stiff breeze causes widespread shortages.
"If your goal really is to improve society, then why did you structure it as a for-profit company?" is a question that should be asked way more often and way more publicly
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UK allies and disabled people! We are mobilising on 4th March in the streets and online, and we need as many people as possible. It is particularly vital that non-disabled people get involved: our protests simply do not get the numbers that turn out for other causes because so many of us cannot safely protest ourselves.
If you feel helpless in the face of how cruel a place the UK is, here's a way to change that. Please share with everyone: #disability #UK
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dpac-returns-to-the-streets-for-active-resistance-to-dwp-cuts/
LLM venting
Congratulations, LLM bros, you've figured out how to destroy online 'third places'. Basically any public social venue on the internet is now vulnerable to getting flooded in bullshit that takes even more orders of magnitude to refute than to post.
I would not at all be surprised if in a few years, nearly all online social interaction has moved to private groups, and the idea of the internet as a public space is dead. If so, I guess we know what was the last nail in its coffin.
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fitness, biohacking, foss, data mining,
Ok, I've been on a #biohacking research kick lately.
There's been some amazing fitness tracking stuff out there..
And it's all proprietary! It's all apps that phone home! The cost of me getting to know the details of what's happening with my body seems to be ..my bio data +whatever they're charging for the app, whether that's "free" or not.
Which made me wonder. Is there a #FLOSS / #FOSS biohacking community out there? There's gotta be some overlap right?
#askfedi #boostswelcome
Can anyone connect me to the zany projects that are hacking continuous glucose monitors or those weird body measuring suits or whatever other super cool stuff that's costing us our data to get at?
Idk if I have skills that can help any of those projects, but I'd like to know if they exist!
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"This firehose appears to be distinct from any direct data sharing deal with Midjourney and OpenAI, in part because the documentation makes clear that data being sold via this firehose is not limited only to posts on WordPress.com, but also can include posts on self-hosted WordPress.org websites that use Jetpack, a wildly popular plugin that millions of sites use and that users are encouraged to install when setting up a WordPress site."
https://www.404media.co/wordpress-firehose-allows-ai-companies-to-buy-access-to-a-million-posts-a-day/
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Remember. When AI "works", there is usually a very underpaid and very overworked gig worker behind it. The general output of AI is random. Human labor civilizes it and makes it good enough for you to use for code, art, creative and professional uses. That they have to work and you have to proof it means some AI purveyor is getting paid to make humans (you and the gig workers/sweatshop workers) fantasize that the AI is doing all the work when actually it's mostly you and the exploited, hidden gig workers.
This is why using AI is anti labor, and more exploitative capitalism. Look behind the curtain.
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Hi Fedi, tell me all about active scrapers you are aware of that don't adhere to the opt-in principle :3
I promise I will only fuck with them a little bit :3
(no need to inform me about contentnation, they've already blocked CatCatNya~)
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@eniko I do grocery shopping for a living right now, and I mask every time I go out. Even if it weren't a matter of caring about myself, the people in the store, and the people I'm shopping for (who are often elderly or disabled), there are sometimes other people who DO mask in the store (again, often elderly or disabled) and you can see the relief on their face when they realize they're not the only one.
That by itself is worth it.
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It baffles me each time I remember you literally can take a tram from one side of Utrecht Centraal to the other side.
- 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
