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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
software grumbling
What the hell, customer's Slack suddenly didn't treat a channel ping as a notification anymore? So now I missed a relatively important notification from two days ago...
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boosted
I'll try to think of some examples of what I mean, but basically lists of typical scales for things to help people understand what those units mean.
• 200 bytes: size of a typical text message
• 3000 bytes: most you can store in a QR code
...
• 2 million bytes: one second of Netflix video
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Is there a good site to help illustrate orders of magnitude for various units, trying to help out lay folks with understanding what it means when a surge protector says it handles up to 3kJ?
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This story has a happy ending! The person who thought an LLM could be used to analyze survey results looked more into the data, did come to realize that what the LLM was giving them was junk. They, and others, stepped in and did actual correct cleaning and analysis of the data. People can in fact change their minds about this stuff.
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"we just need to prompt it better" is the 2025 version of yelling "ENHANCE" at a photo
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politics generally
@xgranade One litmus test for any political proposal, which I keep coming back to because it never seems to stop being relevant, is simply: would you want your worst political enemy to have what you are proposing?
Doesn't matter who (or what party) that is. If you're left wing, think right-wing extremists. If you're right wing, think die-hard communists. Or whatever.
Surprisingly often, the honest answer is "no".
So why do politicians keep proposing and passing such things!?
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it's actually really interesting - and really *bad* - that the general public feels that database software that a huge number of organizations use is so arcane and so boring that it's not worth a two-sentence explainer in a mainstream newspaper. it's a clear sign of the formation of a priesthood, in my opinion
i feel similarly about the lack of interest people tend to show in, say, water treatment, waste management, and manufacturing processes. it's good and important to know and care about the way your life is built and maintained
and especially for us middle-class white people in the imperial core - we have more power than most in re: these systems, and it's incumbent upon us to understand them to at least some degree for that reason
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i am begging journalists to become even a little bit interested in the systems of organization that are rapidly becoming the underpinning of our entire society
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uspol, passports
given the recent shitshow i think we really should stop pushing for X gender markers and start pushing to strip all gender markers from ID documents in general, the netherlands was weighing it recently-ish, not sure where thats gone. anyway all it does is give bigoted officials a free pass to go "well you don't look like insert gender here" or worse
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Ask yourself this: will fares in self-driving cabs be cheaper? Will subscriptions to vibe-coded SaaS cost less? Will tickets to see model-generated movies be a fraction of the current price?
Or do all these technologies just solve the problem of having to pay people, with no benefit to anyone else except shareholders?
And then ask yourself this: if nobody's getting paid, who's hailing the taxis, using the SaaS and watching the movies?
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my union rep* says it's time to clock out of work
*my cat who wants dinner
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"Burnout, I’ve come to believe, isn’t just about time or tasks. It’s about purpose, alignment, and whether you believe the system you work in deserves your sacrifice."
via @wingo boosting https://mastodon.social/@CdnCurmudgeon/114228687712438487
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ACAB
on furnal equinox and their fascist bs
and like let’s be fucking real lol - this was always going to happen because we kept pretending the fandom wasn’t political. in many spaces i have been in there's an air of politics being this unspoken taboo that nobody talks about. as a result we have chosen to willingly commodify and gentrify ourselves.
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on furnal equinox and their fascist bs
fascists and bigots, unlike many assert, *thrive* here. yes, they fucking do, and many of them do not wear the "furry raiders" type beat pawprint badges. people in this fucking community are so afraid of conflict and politics that they let everyone walk over them. the white, cis, male, abled majority refuses to take a stand, dismissing every attempt to call this out as "drama" or "discourse." it’s cowardice dressed up as neutrality, and it’s killing us.
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Putting out a bounty on the person who implemented this infuriating lift display.
Bring them to me dead or alive - I just want their laptop with the source code
Wat is dat toch, dat als je kritiek uit over het bestaan van politie/defensie e.d., dat mensen er gelijk van uitgaan dat je gewoon "naief" bent en "niet snapt waarom het bestaat"? Echt vermoeiend, zo kun je nooit eens een fatsoenlijk gesprek erover voeren.
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thinking shit like "i will forget if i dont remember"
Surely the Eurotunnel has got to be the train line with the most road surface per train
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
