Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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.
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- 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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straight men on reddit were asked for the weirdest thing they had been told was gay
multiple people said "eating soup"
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i'm interested in knowing how folks who use computers a lot and also deal with chronic pain/fatigue/illness set up their home workspaces in ways that are designed to support their needs. i've heard of things like monitors being suspended/tilted to use while lying down or reclining. are there good resources/forums for this kind of thing? i'm also interested if anyone wants to share a picture or description of your setup. (boosts ok)
NixOS, forks, etc. etc. etc.
I suspect that this doesn't really need to be said around here, but given that the same people are apparently still waffling on loudly in the usual places about how the folks forking Nix are "bullying project leadership":
Read their claims carefully and check if they mention anything, literally *anything at all*, about the community dynamics prior to the Nix fork, and how those relate to the fork happening, ie. the history of the past 10 years or so. That should tell you roughly how much of the story they are actually leaving out.
Don't think there's really much more to say on the topic that isn't a colossal waste of time, to be honest.
mildly spicy take, FOSS and forking
"Forking" as we know it today really just doesn't achieve its stated goal, and is trapped in the ideology of pseudo-meritocracy; the concept really needs a lot more development to be useful, and it's not a serious option for resolving governance problems today, even as a last resort (but still the only one we have).
The current model of how "forking" is supposed to work, completely ignores natural network effects, startup cost, power imbalances, sponsorship agreements, and a whole lot of other things that are necessary to account for to successfully diverge a project.
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(1/6) Ich muss mich jetzt mal über die Nix(OS)-Community aufregen, also um genau zu sein das Gatekeeping in dieser Community. Seit über 3 Jahren bin ich jetzt schon dabei und versuche auch schon so lange Contributions zu den nixpkgs zu machen, was aber nun mal faktisch nicht wirklich möglich ist, wenn man keine Committer persönlich kennt.
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10 lines long post
Mastodon: *shows 10 lines*
11 lines long post
Mastodon: *shows 2.5 lines*
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Where are you, other transmasc people?! I can't seem to find very many AFAB trans people on the fediverse yet 
We have to be somewhere. I have to find others like me... There have to be other trans masc people who like art or Baldur's gate 3 or animal crossing or trains or tamagotchis or vegan stuff or anarchy/leftist stuff or maybe even all of those things. I can't be the only one. There's no way. I'm just so new though, I have no idea where we are. 
I will now use a bunch of tags in attempt to find you all. Please, boost and/or follow me, and I will follow you, and we will be a big trans family. Bonus points if you're nonbinary :3
No minors as sometimes my art is NSFW (always behind a content warning though).
I originally said I wanted people who also liked things like kubernetes, python, and linux, but I decided to keep that stuff on my main account. Please feel free to DM me for that account if you wanna be moots on tech stuff too. :)
**updated to include a couple of other important notes x2
#transmasc #ftm #trans #transmasculine #transguy #transdude #AFAB #nonbinary #bg3 #tamagotchi #vegan
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I have today discovered that if you dump a handful of of low value coins into a sainsbury's self-checkout system, you can fairly reliably get a windows ‘application not responding’ pop up and kill the POS host application from there
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Short reminder: Tonight, Europe switches from DST back to regular time. The US will not switch until *next* weekend.
So check your calendars whether regular appointments have suddenly moved. Everything scheduled in European time will be 1 hour later for US folks, everything scheduled in US time will be one hour earlier for Europe folks.
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The issue with unmaintainable code is that every time someone has to touch it for maintenance it become a little bit more unmaintainable.
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I really detest seeing all these Ground News sponsorships on YouTube where they imply the average of right-wing and left-wing media gets you the truth. I’m not even going to explain how wrong that is.
So one thing I'm noticing with my search engine crawler is that the vast majority of robots.txt rejects come from... platforms run by Twitter and Facebook.
Not personal sites. Not Mastodon instances. Nope, it's primarily Twitter and Facebook who blanket-refuse access to a new search engine crawler.
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Last year at least half of Iceland's workforce worked 32 hours per week with no reduction in pay. Iceland's economy expanded by 5%, a growth rate second only to that of Malta among rich European economies.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/business/iceland-shorter-working-week-economy/index.html
Found a neat generative thing (and it's not LLM shit!): https://23.itch.io/palladio
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De overgang van zomertijd naar wintertijd is een mooi moment om aardlekschakelaars te testen.
Aardlekschakelaars kunnen levens redden.
Wanneer heb jij je aardlekschakelaars voor het laatst getest?
(Relatedly: consider why this same standard of evidence never seems to be expected from regressive policies)
Whenever you see 'promising results' about some kind of 'trial' of a more progressive policy around work or money, you should take a moment to think about whether it's actually a new finding.
The vast majority of these 'trials' are re-testing things that were already shown decades ago, we already *know* that it works, and the only reason it hasn't become policy yet is politicians and their exploitative interests. There hasn't been a genuine 'scientific debate' about it for a long time.
A good question to ask is "okay, so when will this actually be implemented?", but perhaps a better question to ask is "why isn't it already?"
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Fascinating article about the as yet unpredictable changes AI brings to complex knowledge work. Here the case of radiology. The early predictions of displacement of humans by machines have not come to pass (though, as always, they have simply been pushed into the future).
For me, this is the most interesting part, and one that I think applies quite generally.
"Still, I have reservations about AI in radiology, particularly when it comes to education. One of the main promises of AI is that it will handle the “easy” scans, freeing radiologists to concentrate on the “harder” stuff. I bristle at this forecast, since the “easy” cases are only so after we read thousands of them during our training—and for me they’re still not so easy! The only reason my mentors are able to interpret more advanced imaging is that they have an immense grounding in these fundamentals."
If you automate the easy stuff, it's much harder to gain experience necessary to do the harder stuff, This applies to any craft and all creative/knowledge work as an important element of craft to it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/187203/ai-radiology-geoffrey-hinton-nobel-prediction
In hindsight it shouldn't have been that surprising, but I was quite surprised a few years ago to learn that a company will just ship you a pallet of something if you pay for a pallet of something, even if you're just some rando ordering stuff off the web and you're clearly not a business (and it also ended up being cheaper than buying half that quantity as loose items)
- 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
