Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.

What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.

Cute mask graphics

https://casmarotta.com/mask

OVHCloud suspended my domain after two weeks because I forgot to click on the email confirmation 🥴

If there's one thing I regret from my early political years, it's signing up for ActBlue bullshit. OMG, I kept making this mistake all the way until Bernie ran for the second time, and they auto-sign you up to EVERY fucking democratic campaign in your area, state, country, fucking planet... its forever too. You can unsubscribe, but they've already shared your info with thousands of other campaign orgs completely independent from whatever you signed up to support. Signed up to support Bernie? Well, I hope you care deeply about whatever Nancy pelosi is up to, and like, every person she's ever gotten brunch with is running for office somewhere too, and They. Need. You. Please, NAME, we need you. I'm taking on trump. I'm taking on the republicans. Please, bro, your money... please...

I haven't donated to an ActBlue thing in YEARS, and I deleted my account, but I will never get rid of the emails. At least I'm actively burning this gmail account soon, but I've been working on deleteing this thing for years, and I still get actblue emails... data privacy in the USA is fucking atrocious. I regret ever thinking Bernie could win...

Honestly the only reason I haven't deleted this account is I still have a couple of banking things I need to switch the emails on, but all the banking stuff is in the USA and requires me to fucking call them, in the US, and it's so hard to find the spoons and time... but these shitty actblue emails literally all comes from different emails and they spam me so hard it will fill up my email inbox and I'll have to clear them or I won't get new banking notifications because I refuse to pay for google services anymore. Ugh, this is such a pain in the ass...

This is a comment on “AI”, tech regulation, and fascism all at once because some people only have one fucking playbook and that is to tell the rest to lie still while a bully is kicking them in the head because an actual fight would make more of a scene.

What so so so many people in tech and media forget (or ignore because they simply don’t care) is that not only is it impossible to discuss something with “nuance” when the other side is literally out to destroy you, but trying to “nuance” something clear cut is capitulating to those advocating harm

@joepie91 hope and spicy comments is my favorite programming paradigm

Whenever I go to the hospital in my N95, people back away from me

They sanitize their hands. Some use their sleeve to open a door I’ve touched

Many won’t share the elevator with me

They all share two things in common:

None are masked

They don’t want to get sick

Public health has failed.

Meet Asher, such a distinguished soul, despite recently being found snoring in the sock drawer @PhoenixSerenity

#sillySummerHatting

oops, accidentally infodumped about trains towards the correct kind of humans on this train.

When you're looking through an old forum thread and it hits you with the ol

You don't need to use weird spellings or algospeak for any topics on the Fediverse ("unalived", "seggs" etc). There is no automated moderation or algorithm on here, moderation happens entirely through human beings and posts are shown in chronological order.

In fact it's better that you use the correct spellings for difficult topics so that people with genuine traumas related to them can filter them more easily.

#FediTips

The ubiquitous cargo trikes of #Mexico are starting to electrify. #BikeTooter

Random gamedev thought: I wonder what the easiest way to do Tetris is. One could treat each figure as three hardcoded offset coordinates * four rotations (the rotation point always being the 0,0 non-offset, not needing to be stored.

Then when the block moves L/R or Down, a point/cell collision check is run for the future position of point 0,0 and the three offsets (which vary by figure type and rotation).

Trying to save memory by doing dynamic matrix rotation just seems like unnecessary work.

Every software application has become a website (with mandatory SaaS garbage), and every website has become an app (but still with mandatory SaaS garbage)