Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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.
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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
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ChatGPT heeft het hele internet gelezen en is toen conclusies gaan trekken. Zoals: oh, als mensen “recept” zeggen zeggen ze ook vaak “pan”. Als mensen “Amsterdam” zeggen zeggen ze “Anne Frank” en “Rijksmuseum” en “Halsema is een hoer” en “Dit mag je niet missen” en “tram”.
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ChatGPT (en andere generatieve AI) is geen zoekmachine. Het is niet een vriendelijk schilletje over Google heen. Het is iets *fundamenteel* anders.
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Bij iemand in mijn vlees-en-bloed omgeving bleek nogal een misverstand te bestaan waar we tijdens een gesprek terloops achterkwamen. Op Mastodon wordt het ook wel eens genoemd dus ik dacht, laat ik het hier ook even uitleggen.
I was always taught in school that books must have protagonists and antagonists, and it occurs to me that this is a very hierarchical belief that just isn't true.
Like the Bunker series by Jordan Rivet for example, which involves plenty of conflict - but which frequently switches perspectives between the *parties* to that conflict. None of the parties is actually an antagonist!
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ACAB
on politics, doomerism, misanthropy, and desire for omnicide
as someone who spends a lot of time online in leftist circles i keep often seeing people be openly misanthropic and doomerist about other people and humanity in general, and all i want to say is that you cannot in good conscience be an anarchist and communist without believing that people deserve a chance or have potential to do good, even if it is often left untapped. (5/?)
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i am going to drop a hot take here and say that misanthropy is never a condemnation of all people as a whole, no matter what people say. it's always about the condemnation of the other. it's all the other people who are ignorant and selfish and murderous, not you. they're all walking in circles but you "know the way". it's a hierarchy, it's antithetical to equality and freedom.
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and when you start believing that capitalism or climate change are happening because "humans are the virus" or "naturally selfish and bad" or whatever, you don't end up with a revolution. you end up with a crusade. you end up with a gulag and the thoughts that my friend just burped out without any reflection on themselves. because the entire premise of there being "essentially irredeemable people" is what leads to this. (8/?)
Am I missing something or are *all* EmulationStation forks relying on the freeimage library, which hasn't seen a release since 2018 and has accumulated several (unpatched!) arbitrary code execution CVEs since then?
Also, this isn't a case of "better something than nothing".
Any kind of 'stricter enforcement' for copyright that gets called for and instituted as a result of LLM companies, *will* be weaponized against the powerless (independent artists and others alike) in the future.
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We *all* want to choose where we live, where we work, who we live with.
We can *all* imagine finding a job or a school that we'd do great at - and moving to get to it.
We can *all* imagine meeting someone, falling in love and moving to be with them.
We can all imagine visiting somewhere and feeling so at home there that we plan to move there.
We can *all* see how live-changing it could be to move home - and how awful it would be to be prevented from moving.
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It's always tempting to counter anti-immigrant discourse by pointing out how much value migrants contribute to their new country, what "we" gain from having migrants in "our" communities... And I think we should resist the temptation to make arguments from this basis.
I see a lot of people responding to the LLMs-and-copyright situation with calls for stricter enforcement of copyright, and honestly I think that's a terrible take.
Not because these LLM companies shouldn't see consequences (they should!), but because there's a much more important observation to make: this situation demonstrates how the whole "copyright protects artists" has always been a myth.
If copyright truly protected artists, there would have been swift enforcement against these LLM companies, in the same way that there's swift enforcement when you start a piracy website in eg. the US. But there wasn't.
And that shows what copyright *really* is; a tool of power for those with a lot of money to spend on legal warfare. It's always been like that; granting power to those who already have lots of it, and taking it away from those who have very little of it.
That's why these LLM companies seem immune to copyright law - they have money, and you as the artist do not.
Copyright is a fundamentally bad solution to protecting artists, it's designed to benefit the rich and powerful. You don't solve that by doing more of it! What we *should* be talking about is better solutions that *do* actually work.
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@schratze Philosophical texts have titles like research papers. Maybe we need philosophy journalists covering new releases and blogging about them like with every room temperature super conductor that peeks its head out a lab somewhere
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One thing to understand about coffee as a hobby is that specialty coffee is not as expensive as it may initially seem, especially if getting coffee at a cafe is part of your daily routine.
Like sure, it seems extremely extravagant to get a small bag of beans for 70pln (€16.5, which is on the high end of what I'd normally buy) but even then you're only paying something like €1 per doubleshot espresso and adding milk increases the price only marginally. An espresso at Starbucks is 3 times as expensive and 10 times worse (I don't know who actually drinks espresso at Starbucks, the beans they use are low key charcoal) and any basic milk drink is gonna cost you almost 5 times more. Even at the most generic cafes you're going to pay a lot more per cup than if you make the coffee yourself even when using beans from some of the fanciest roasters.
What I'm saying is, if you get your daily fix of caffeine at cafes, switching to specialty coffee at home is actually gonna be cheaper and tastier.
Osu! is currently being played on the TV in the living room, using an air mouse
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Wij kunnen max 3 kwartier bezoek hebben (hier gaan we regelmatig overheen maar dan is het wel betalen de dagen erna) wat voor mijn schoonouders vanuit Friesland natuurlijk ondoenlijk is. Dus die zitten nu een week in een huisje in de buurt en komen elke dag vertellen waar ze hebben gewandeld en welk museum ze hebben gezien 🥰🥰🥰
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Australia: Best of luck! 😆
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"High-speed internet":
- France: 8Gb/s
- Poland: 2Gb/s
- Germany: 100Mb/s
:neocat_floof_explode:
- France: 8Gb/s
- Poland: 2Gb/s
- Germany: 100Mb/s
:neocat_floof_explode:
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Why can't people designing pyramid schemes stop drawing pyramids
- 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
