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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- 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
language opinions
English is better at accurate technical descriptions (not just for computers) but Dutch is a lot more emotionally expressive, and I prefer using a mix of both depending on the context
Like, come on. If you're going to claim to be a threat detection company or somesuch, preventing false positives is *also* part of your job!
Another day, another "beware of North Korean workers" article that has a list of identification factors that strongly overlaps with "how autistic folks do work" but no guidance whatsoever on how to prevent false positives
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Another PSA to anyone following me from Fosstodon
In light of a new admin likely taking over, I will still be blocking the instance by the end of May.
I haven't seen much from the new admin, but they said they want to keep things "as is". That was the entire issue with the previous admin team. Another person doing the same old, same old, makes no difference.
People of Fosstodon: please find a place with decent moderators.
I know you all want to avoid drama - so do I! The way to do that is to take action when shit hits the fan, rather than turning the fan away so the shit hits someone else.
Was playing X4 Foundations, set ship to autopilot, it steers and faceplants directly into an asteroid... and immediately plays a voice line of the ship computer saying "Autopilot epically failed."
I have so many questions
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Dear software devs: either your installer installs the entire thing, or the installer should be a tiny download.
That’s a STRICT or.
No 2.7 GB installers that then proceed to download the remaining 4.3 GB of required data.
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So I 3D printed a design that I thought would make for a fun pin to put on a backpack or laptop case....but so far no one I've shown it to has recognized this logo instantly...feeling old today.
#3DPrinting #DOS #RetroComputing
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@smallcircles Yeah, in retrospect, "what if we based our economy and our information infrastructure on extractively manipulating everybody all the time" was maybe not a great foundation for society.
CW-boost: LLMs, mention of (decade ago) suicide
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concept: Race the Supercomputer.
pick out a selection of notable supercomputers throughout history. rather than use benchmarks like instructions per second or Dhrystones or Whetstones:
- identify the tasks for which each computer was used;
- make programs for modern computers optimized to do the same tasks; and
- compare performance at those tasks.
so, for example: how much faster can your cell phone search for Mersenne primes than the Manchester Mk. 1? how much faster can your laptop calculate Japanese climatological and meteorological data than the Cray 1? how much faster can your graphics card render a planetarium-like video than the LINKS-1 system from Osaka University?
it would be a ton of work for very little benefit - especially given how many of these systems were used for proprietary or classified applications that we have little info about - but I think it would be really fun.
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"De staat ziet alleen de publiek-private samenwerkingen. Maar er is ook het civiele domein: verenigingen, stichtingen, collectieven. We pleiten voor meer publiek-civiel-private samenwerkingen vanuit de overheid.” - @marleenstikker #StaatVanHetInternet2025 #MarleenStikker
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“Als je kritisch over technologie bent, al is het bij je familie, op werk, in de board room, dan voel je dat je buiten een soort geaccepteerd narratief valt. Je moet het toepassen, je mag niet achterblijven.” - @marleenstikker
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“Ik wil het niet meer hebben over alternatieven, ik ga het voortaan hebben over next generation internet. Als je kijkt naar de NextCloud website, alles ziet er heel mooi uit, ze hebben suites, ze hebben van alles. De alternatieven worden steviger. Het NGI wordt gebouwd, is gebouwd.” - @marleenstikker #StaatVanHetInternet2025 #MarleenStikker
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TIL about the formaction attribute in HTML. How did I never know about this before?!
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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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@joepie91 It's a pretty colonialist belief in a way, like believing the hero's journey is the main story archetype. Story telling in non European contexts can be quite a lot different—and not apply this framework of story telling about singular individuals going on heroic journeys.
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I miss wired headphones where you plug a thing in and it immediately works 100% of the time without having to click on anything or charge anything or wait for anything or sync anything or make sure you don't connect to too many things or walk too far away by accident or
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ChatGPT kent het concept “waarheid” niet. ChatGPT controleert niet of zijn output “klopt”. ChatGPT weet niet wat “klopt” is. Soms passen de ontwikkelaars handmatig iets aan als een levend persoon onterecht als pedofiel werd aangemerkt of zo. Maar dat is handmatig - je kunt dit niet voor alle gevallen oplossen door de techniek beter te maken, want ChatGPT kent het concept “waarheid” niet. Zo is ‘ie niet gebouwd.
- 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
