Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
Above all the interior is a total failure. These oscillations of the window blinds and the associated rattling noise are really frustrating.
Pro tip: pull the blind down 5cm and it stops the worst of the rattling but not all of it.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
Ok, but, like, adult-sized playgrounds and jungle gyms would be cool as hell.
Like, not necessarily all colourful and stuff, but letting people enjoy some novel physical activity, ya know?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
💾
groundhog day but every day the fediverse chick appears
What on earth is this 404 page? Is there a reference I'm not getting here?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
Thinking about the recent point in history where women's clothing shifted, corsets went out of style, clothing became more revealing, and at the same time standardized clothing sizes replaced tailoring, and there was greater pressure to diet and exercise to make your now-exposed body the "right" size.
Because I think something similar happened with social media, but to people's minds instead of their bodies.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
Social media has given us an unprecedented opportunity to share our innermost thoughts and feelings with the world, but along with that has come a new pressure to make all the private parts of our mind correct. Even when weirdness is fashionable, you're expected to be weird in the acceptable way.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
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/
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
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.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
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.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
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.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
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.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
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.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
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.
- 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
