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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- 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
Inspired by a few posts I've seen recently that complain about everything having become IP, and then TCP, and then HTTP, and there being nothing left in the rest of the space...
Another way to look at this, is as an organic, emergent, permissionless process of people figuring out exactly where the boundary is between "application-specific requirements" and "generalizable requirements" in a network protocol.
And so far, it seems people have largely settled on "a way to transmit discrete arbitrarily-sized messages with an ordering guarantee, built-in support for meta-headers, and serialization of arbitrary labelled data consisting of keys, primitive values, lists, and maps".
Or in other words, HTTP+JSON.
And sure, one way to look at it is "we're neglecting all these other protocol features". But I think it's more constructive to draw insights from this about what people *actually need*, completing that model from the complaints about things people find lacking in HTTP+JSON, and iterating from there in future protocol development.
personal vent, empathy
"You can't care about everyone's fate, it's too much for one person to bear, you need to learn to let things go"
Well, it would be a hell of a lot easier to deal with if you people didn't insist on making an uphill battle out of every solution to the issues in question!
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@joepie91 this was in my ereader and I guess I read it too hard 😑
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Another bloody SD card dead, ho hum
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*Please Boost*
Sharing this on behalf of a friend to try and find this doggo a home. Please boost it, I'm sure there are people on fedi local to the area who can help.
Location: USA, Southwest GA but can be driven anywhere in GA
They picked up this beautiful boy at an intersection. Their local shelters are all full. No tags, no chip, and no-one has claimed him in response to the post at the shelter.
They need to find his owners, OR find him a home as they can't keep him -
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LLM and GenAI rant by Drew DeVault
"We are experiencing dozens of brief outages per week, and I have to review our mitigations several times per day to keep that number from getting any higher."
"If you personally work on developing LLMs et al, know this: I will never work with you again, and I will remember which side you picked when the bubble bursts."
https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html
Holy shit, Drew has _had_ it.
And this, folks, is why some of us are so passionately hating LLMs and generative AI.
(Yes I know that they are banking on some percentage of people never cancelling, but that strategy generally only works if cancelling is either a hassle or requires a waiting period. To my knowledge the former is banned here, and the latter, well, they *say* "any time"...)
Spam from a lottery:
"Did you find a gold card? Enter your win code at <URL> and play in <lottery>, and immediately see which of the prizes you are guaranteed to receive, at least a JBL speaker worth 45 EUR. You pay 15.50 EUR per draw, and there are 15 draws per year. You can cancel at any moment."
I wonder what the grift here is, exactly? I can't imagine them giving away 45 EUR worth of stuff if you can cancel at any time (ie. after a single payment of 15.50 EUR), so what's the catch that makes it profitable for them?
Related gripe: people *seriously* need to learn to deal with criticism in a healthy way.
Yes, you are sometimes going to be told "no". You are sometimes going to be told that something is expected of you that you don't like, if you want to participate in a community. You will sometimes get an unfriendly or hostile response if you wrong someone in some way.
These are normal parts of life, normal products of social interaction between people with different backgrounds. What's *not* normal is expecting every single word uttered to you by someone else to be friendly or polite, or to always get the benefit of the doubt.
And I see this in so many other places too. There's very little that gets you framed as a dishonest person faster than showing empathy towards people you don't (all) personally know.
And that is fucking depressing and, IMO, an indictment of everyone engaging in that kind of dismissive behaviour.
The most disappointing thing to me about alt-text discourse isn't that people aren't putting alt-text on their images.
It's when I see people talking about it dismissively, framing an expectation of alt-text as "policing", or as if it is some bizarre request with no practical purpose, some demand that people make just so they can be difficult about something - not even *entertaining* the possibility that maybe people have a very good reason for expecting it, and there's something to be learned from it.
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their news post today really has me wondering wtf plex’s business model is anymore. can’t help but wonder if one of these days my lifetime plex pass is gonna end up devalued
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Here is a post I was gonna make to the #NixOS discourse, but I realize that I don’t actually care about speaking to people on that platform anymore.
I mainly just wanna outline why I think nothing has changed, and what is preventing it from changing.
Anyone in Nix governance please DNI
As seen here, it is quite clear that many agree that we should urgently ban and denounce Determinate Systems, and most of the private messages I’ve receiving also indicate that basically everyone wants this, even if they’re scared to say so out loud.
So why isn’t this happening? What’s the point of having people in charge of governance that are scared to actually take the actions that both they and the community want?
And what’s the actual point of having a moderation team that seems solely focused on minimizing criticisms of things that actually matter, while doing a type of moderation that seems to mostly stoke the flames of pointless debates? Isn’t the point of moderation to be able to have topical discussions like the one I linked? If their solution is to just shut it down, that’s like a doctor killing their patient to cure them of an ailment…
I think it’s quite clear that to many people in power in this project, they prefer the status quo, why else would they keep it running the same way as always? I guess if we started holding some people accountable, we’d have to hold many others accountable as well. And so it’s simply not in their interests.
Complaining here won’t amount to much — the inevitable fork may, if not full of the same cultural problems. It’s to me just a final proof that the steering committee fails to represent me and other people in the project, the moderators fail to create space for actually productive conversations, but rather destroys it at every turn, and that the project in general isn’t one of merit or transparency, but one of critical information being kept to DMs, full of long drawn out conspiracies and plans that never amount to anything, and even if they did… if the people that take over the project are conspirators, what’s the point? It’s gonna be the same problems with a new face. That’s what the Steering Committee currently is.
I expected more of you all.
nlpol, dependency on US tech
In case you missed it: a day or two ago, the House of Representatives in the Netherlands voted in favour of *every single* 'digital sovereignty' proposal for reducing and even removing government dependence on US tech companies and cloud services.
This is a major change from the Dutch government's past view of the US as a trustworthy ally; now, they are being talked about like an adversary, "they could use our tech dependency to apply political pressure".
Several of the proposals were approved *unanimously*, not just across all parties, but across every. single. sitting member of the House.
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ACAB
why are music radio bumpers so oversaturated with sound effects for no reason
they be like *vinyl scratch* *riser sound used for trailers* *cymbals* *automatic gunfire* WELCOME TO 42.0 FM, WHERE WE PLAY REAL ROCK MUSIC *loud elephant* *nuclear explosion* *vine boom* *sounds of tortured souls dragged to dante's inferno*
imagine dragons starts playing
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@joepie91 I'm pretty convinced this goes way down the rank into middle management where the pay scales are already so blown out of proportion no one will ever tell you what they make
There are a lot of good arguments for why CEOs and other executives shouldn't be paid more than workers, but I think the one I like best is this one:
If you don't earn more by being an executive than by being a worker anyway, the position becomes unattractive to the kind of ghoul who thinks in categories of 'lesser' and 'better' people.
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remember when blockchain hype was everywhere and people kept saying things like "oh I know it's so silly and overhyped but there will still be niche applications like tracking and securing supply chains"
and then it never fucking happened because the tech was crap and slow and expensive and error prone and difficult to manage and basically just worse than the existing solutions in every possible way
keep that in mind when people say "well it will have SOME good uses" about the tech fad du jour
- 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
