Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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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.
- 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
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It's very funky that the term "bird brain" comes from the fact that the brains of birds look like they're quite primitive and are missing the structures we tend to associate with higher brain functions. Turns out birds are actually surprisingly smart and their brains just took a different evolutionary path, achieving the same advanced abilities we see in mammals by developing entirely different structures. It's really cool how intelligence can come about in a variety of unique ways ^~^
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Do I know any US folks who have experience hiring independent contractors to do game dev stuff (or to do remote work on computer/art stuff in general)?
I've got two people I'm interested in paying to do normal game development things and one is local and the other lives on the other side of the planet, and can I just like... give them money? or do I have to like fill out a form or something so the government doesn't freeze my bank account? how does this work
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“The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus”
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-slow-evaporation-of-the-foss-surplus/
Where I try to explain, as succinctly as I can (which isn’t that succinct), why I’m worried about where FOSS is heading
I'm kind of amazed at how... good Software Inc. is? Apparently developed by a single person over the past 9 years, their first game as far as I can tell, and it just completely knocks it out the park.
Also very amusing how it clearly copied the interior designer approach from The Sims, but then proceeds to blow it out of the water - I find it so much more nice to work with than how it's done in The Sims.
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sometimes i keep thinking things like “I wish Windows had a tiling window manager” and then I remember that Windows’ built-in WM is actually good at tiling
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before my research I hadn't quite realised just how intertwined the discussion of intelligence is with our education system
like, sure, I knew that the education system was caught up in this idea of intelligence and that we can use testing to differentiate these levels of intelligence, but, I didn't realise that intelligence as a metric actually relied so much on performance in the school system too
and so, it's this endless impossible dance of intelligence researchers assuming that the education system is infallible, and education researchers assuming that the concept of intelligence is infallible, and both of them chasing the other concept which doesn't actually exist
like the original intelligence quotient, IQ, was actually this quotient between your "mental age" and your actual, physical age. how did they define mental age? well, of course, by how well you're doing in school, since school progresses at a rate of one mental year per physical year, obviously
like I'm actually disappointed at this point that modern intelligence research isn't just overt racism and instead this frustrating ouroboros that started with racism but ultimately forgot what it was chasing and is just chasing itself
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Fedi, recommend me one of those electric zappy flyswatters that has a mesh fine enough to zap fruit flies and similarly tiny insects pls
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TIL that people with disabilities that prevent them from using print books can get virtually any audiobook at no cost through the "Talking Books" program. I heard about it from a reference librarian with the Maine Digital Library, but it's a national US thing. And people with dyslexia are eligible.
#books #audiobooks #accessibility #dyslexia #libraries
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Picard management tip: When you've gotten enough sleep, an impossible task becomes an interesting challenge.
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The smartest ones arent touching the bubble. Ironically the second smartest ones are tacking it on completely reversibly and separately from whatever they had. Its the people that peg their imagination and make long term plans around the shit that are fucked for good in a way thats already written in stone but invisible from their perspective
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The local language models are not an answer to the platform model, they're the suckers dose given to addict you to the pattern. The promise of free weights is a mirage. This is not a liberatory technology but instead of your pal that loves gambling and pepe memes holding the bag it will be your boss.
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The crypto crash was fast and not very sad. The LLM crash will be long and slow and painful and a lot of beguiled suckers will have a decade of their life pulled out from underneath them when the free compute dries up and the platform logic switches from seize territory to exploit
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I don't normally ask for boosts, but I have just LEAPED out of my comfort zone and set up my own gamejam, specifically for users of the Fediverse, and I'm scared shitless that nobody else will join, turning this into one giant embarrassment for me.
So if you want to do me a giant favor, please boost (and even better: join!) this: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@fedi_jam/113035512940511485 PLEASE! 🥺 🙏
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Related- “Needle-free COVID-19 intranasal vaccine provides broad immunity, study finds” - https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-08-needle-free-covid-intranasal-vaccine.html
When I open a Reddit thread about "how do I create my own desktop environment" and all the comments from different people are some version of "don't, we already have too many of them", it makes the whole supposed promise of "fully modifiable, let a thousand options bloom" in Linux-land feel rather hollow.
Like, where's your enthusiasm? Your curiosity? Your pointers? Your constructive criticism?
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You know
It is possible to be against an unjustified imperialist land-grab AND not extend xenophobia to every person who happens to live under the government that is carrying about an unjustified imperialist land-grab
It's not that hard to be normal about Russian people, they didn't do anything
Something I still don't understand after all these years, is why all the conversation around #NixOS treats it as a "use it as-is" distro (which it really just isn't very good at!), and not more people are talking about what it could uniquely offer as a technical foundation for an actual end-user OS.
- 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
