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.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
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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
meta about the libgen LLM thing
I guess I'm going to be learning things about a lot of people soon, by looking at whether they focus their anger on the "libgen existing" part or the "LLM companies using it for profit" part
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If you’re affected by the IETF LLC’s inaction, or just find the body in charge for designing the Internet we all rely on to be in the wrong here; I invite you to sign my open letter to the board: https://boycott-ietf127.org
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The IETF LLC thinks it’s reasonable to continue holding meetings in the US, whilst the safety of many attendees is in danger there
Discussion starts at 1:57:00 https://www.youtube.com/live/0l_QTKtBN3w
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reminder that whenever the gop complains about "censorship" what they always always mean is "you're making me feel bad about being a white supremacist." when they say that universities shouldn't be able to "indoctrinate" students, what they always always mean is "you shouldn't be able to tell people that white supremacy is bad." it is never a good faith argument and it should never be treated as such
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“bsky”? wow, the misskey forks sure are proliferating.
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"i'm here, on the severed floor of lumon. i don't know who i am or how i got here."
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steven hawking's time traveler party is obvious ruse to steal a time machine. if you show up the only thing waiting for you is a detail of goons with baseball bats
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oi dutch queers i need your input
do you have any recommendations for trans-friendly GPs in Utrecht? i know about the roze in wit website but i wanna hear feedback from others on the doctors
looking to change GPs as my current one is ass and i wanna start the official transition path
thx and boost in advance
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The problem with the whole "Meta has used tens of millions of published works for training LLMs for profit" thing is the "training LLMs for profit" bit, not the "there are irregular channels for accessing books that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive or literally impossible to access" bit.
Like, "piracy" is going to be the only way a lot of people can access a massive portion of the information and media out there until capitalism ends. Whether the act itself is "good" or not, it's necessary for a lot of people.
What isn't necessary is LLM "hyperscalers" doing it industrially.
food mention
From the website of a major frozen fries supplier: "Experience our authentic and tasty skin-on fries. The irregular cutsize gives them a homemade feel."
Someone doesn't seem to understand what exactly "authentic" means...
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ACAB
a quote from disco elysium, on beauty and lookism
-- "what is beauty?"
-- "when you have the fewest deviations from the norm. i've been told it's a type of mediocrity that i possess."
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US academics hosting international conferences which are already planned: I'm sure you all have experience pivoting to all online events and don't need the help I'm able to offer. But do DM me if you want to hear about running a large event via FLOSS platform and tools. I'm super happy to help.
I went to strongly encourage you to switch to virtual now. There are significant advantages to this approach including lower carbon, greater participation from Latin American participants and others who are normally excluded by US border policies, and, of course, its a way to protect your reputation and respect your overseas participants.
In person international travel to the US puts researchers at serious risk of arbitrary detention. You owe it to them to not ask this.
By having a virtual conference, you have greater scope for international participation and can maintain the international relevance of your institution. You can still build on networking and collaboration opportunities for yourself and your students.
I can help you organise/host an algorave connected to your event. This could include sonification of data connected to your discipline or other artistic exploration of your topic area. This can include a chat channel and wprknfor networking. The cross disciplinary exploration is often very helpful.
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Δ-44203, 'Carbon the "atomic beeper"' 
query: is the concept of living stratego widely known?
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My endstops broke so while I wait for the new ones I've improvised
#3Dprinting
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I feel somewhat worried about the sentiment "I use Signal because I trust Meredith Whittaker"
that has never ended badly
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
- 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
