Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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- 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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Credit where it’s due: the overhead racks in this train are *massive* - among the best designed I’ve ever seen
fedi meta, light-hearted
If Nicole's goal was to become fedi-famous, I would say that she has definitely succeeded at that, albeit probably not quite in the way she'd hoped
Looks like advertising industry ghouls are looking to show ads on parcel tracking pages now: https://gls-group.eu/NL/en/Spotlight/
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If you use eBay, they’ve just updated their T&Cs to say that they may train generative models (AI) on your personal data. Opt out here, if you’re in the EEA, UK or Switzerland: https://accountsettings.ebay.co.uk/ai-preferences
"Verschillende medewerkers van een bedrijf aan de Middenweg in Moerdijk zijn woensdag onwel geworden door een nog onbekende stof die vrijkwam. Rond elf uur laat de brandweer weten dat de stof niet meer vrijkomt."
... als je niet weet welke stof het is, hoe weet je dan precies dat die niet meer vrijkomt...?
health, negative-ish (2)
That I tested positive for COVID really wasn't a surprise at all, to be honest; housemate tested positive on a self-test earlier, everyone else had also gotten sick shortly after (though to varying degrees), and there were no other credible sources of infection, so we pretty much already knew.
health, negative-ish
Test result is in: yep, I've got a COVID infection. Still have a fever, everything hurts, nose is constantly clogged. So far my blood pressure (the main risk factor here) seems to be okay.
Feeling slightly better now than yesterday. Still feel like crap though.
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Whaaa, you launch a fast train between Amsterdam and Brussels and the slower train is the faster and cheaper option 😂
health, negative
Well, I have a 39 celsius fever now, which is Not Good. It's very likely I caught Covid too, which fucking sucks given that I am immunocompromised.
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Arcade dude messages to say hey Dan how many minutes d'you think this Portal pinball machine will remain functional, and I gotta go find the thread where I clown on the worst pinball machine I've ever seen until the CEO emails my workplace and tries to get them to sack me https://mstdn.social/@ifixcoinops/109955814730889853
health, negative
Yep. Covid has entered the house.
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I used to have a coworker who said things like "Today morning" or "Today evening".
It just turned my world upside down, like, "Actually, you're right. Why in the world do we not say it like that?"
And I've put the whole language on notice since then.
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Soo, when are people going to open a class action suit against the LLM organizations doing large scale attacks everyone's Internet infrastructure?
If scientology could ruin somebody life for running a ddos tool surely there is precedent? And it's not exactly hard to find first hand accounts of Internet infrastructure taken down by these bots until mitigations fought them off.
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Complaining about LLMs
"Okay but AI could be used to-"
okay but we WON'T, though.
You get that, right? This isn't the Star Trek future where people use technology with potentially dangerous applications for purposes which promote social good because they understand the responsibilities they carry. This is the corporate raider present where people will tell you they have a legal duty to ignore all consequences in the pursuit of profit.
politics, reference to US politics
Did you notice how Trump and Musk, in several weeks time, managed to convert pretty much every single punitive government system and structure into something oppressive that furthers their personal agenda?
If you are not in the US, please learn from this for your local politics. This is why you want to avoid having punitive systems (and systems that otherwise control or restrict people) as much as possible. They are like catnip to authoritarians; they're a big cannon that they can point at anyone they don't like.
That includes prisons, border control (yes, even tourist visas), intelligence agencies, cops, and so on.
A healthy governance system is built out of systems and structures that *lift people up*, that take care of them, that encourage positive contributions to society. Those systems cannot be as easily subverted, and they also produce consistently better outcomes (just look at basically any research on this topic).
Build systems that support and inspire, not systems that restrict and control, and then your government won't be so vulnerable to the first ambitious authoritarian that happens to pass by.
It's really only a single small step from "keeping out illegal immigrants" to "deporting all Jewish/Black/trans/disabled/etc. people". You've already built all the infrastructure for them.
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spamming fedi is so funny can you imagine a literal worse demographic to have pissed off at you than a bunch of tech nerds who built their own social media infrastructure out of glue and spite
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You have a good heart, but please don't hyperfixate on consuming. You have to do more than that. Work stoppages, malicious compliance, supply chain failures, and forming strong, resilient local communities will do way more than going without what you need hoping it hurts them more than it hurts you. Organizing strategic protests, drafting legislation, going after shitheels trying to get away with breaking existing laws. How about carpooling? Less people need to buy cars, then!
CC: @xankarn@mastodon.online
CC: @xankarn@mastodon.online
making fun of LLMs, links to Twitter
how it started: https://x.com/leojr94_/status/1900767509621674109
how it's going: https://x.com/leojr94_/status/1901560276488511759
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In case you thought I was clever
Now if these were DIVERTERS, that'd be slightly more sensible, if you had 3 devices that could send water either one way or the other then you could arrange them in a pyramid with the outputs of the top connected to the inputs of the two beneath and you could drive four hoses with three coils, but I sent the hamster at the back of my brain on a mission to try and do this with valves and then I sat down with my pencil and graph paper and said OK brainhamster what'd you think of while I was doing other stuff and the hamster went 🐹 boss if you send me on another of these wild goose chases I swear to god
- 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
