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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Ik ga even op bed liggen omdat ik vanochtend al aardig wat gedaan heb. Poes sneakt naar binnen en zorgt dat dat “even” lang genoeg duurt om uit te rusten.
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"A new dataset, visualized as maps, reveals the extent to which African workers are indirectly employed in the tech sector, doing content moderation, customer service, and data annotation for AI models, among other jobs."
https://restofworld.org/2025/big-tech-ai-labor-supply-chain-african-workers/
dentist
Polishing teeth smells like burning hair, apparently, which in hindsight should not be surprising to me
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People who moan about Europe not having a Google or Meta. Because of regulation and shit and because (of course) we in Europe don't like success.
It's always funny, because to me, the system is working. I don't want an unregulatable, too-big-to-fail hot mess of a company in Europe.
This may not be 100% intentional and I am not saying that EU regulations are without fault.
I just become increasingly suspicious of people who advocate for slashing them.
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New Blog!
There is lots of RFC1918 space out there, yet most people use the same 10 /24 subnets
I ended up having my OOB LAN collide with someones home network a few weeks ago, and decided to find a new subnet to use that won't collide backed up with actual usage data!
Picking uncontested private IP subnets with usage data
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/picking-unused-rfc1918-ip-space
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Havenarbeiders in Marseille weigeren ‘container met wapens voor Israël’ te laden https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/06/05/havenarbeiders-in-marseille-weigeren-container-met-wapens-voor-israel-te-laden-a4895889?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_term=20250605
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character limit discourse
no value lower than a megabyte is acceptable
philosophically, the argument that long posts are misusing the platform is nonsense, people will make long posts no matter what and keep working around artificial limitations which is far more annoying than just allowing the damn thing
a million characters is enough to post an entire novel in a relatively short thread (which is ridiculous, and that's exactly the point), while still imposing a reasonable limit for the sake of spam control and such
performance-wise, longer posts have significantly less overhead than the same text split up into a zillion tiny posts
no defense of character limits ever stands up to scrutiny
just let people cook, the majority of posts will still be normal microblogging anyway (this network is proof enough)
philosophically, the argument that long posts are misusing the platform is nonsense, people will make long posts no matter what and keep working around artificial limitations which is far more annoying than just allowing the damn thing
a million characters is enough to post an entire novel in a relatively short thread (which is ridiculous, and that's exactly the point), while still imposing a reasonable limit for the sake of spam control and such
performance-wise, longer posts have significantly less overhead than the same text split up into a zillion tiny posts
no defense of character limits ever stands up to scrutiny
just let people cook, the majority of posts will still be normal microblogging anyway (this network is proof enough)
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Dat geeft ook gelijk aan dat uitlegbare AI alleen zichzelf uitlegt en niet de vraag van de onderzoekers zelf kan beantwoorden. Het model weet helemaal niets over de wereld of wat een dode zee-rol is of wat het concept “jaar” betekent. Het koppelt data aan elkaar om zo veel mogelijk verbanden te leggen op de manier die je hem had aangeleerd.
De schrijvers van de dode zee-rollen wisten ook niet dat de linker pixelrij van elke letter belangrijk zou zijn (of zo. Ik verzin dit).
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Wat deze onderzoekers goed hebben gedaan is dat ze het algoritme achteraf altijd vragen “waarom hoort deze score bij dit plaatje?” Dat antwoord kan er bijvoorbeeld uitzien als een kopie van het plaatje waar sommige pixels rood zijn (tellen zwaar mee voor de score) en andere grijs (tellen niet mee) en weer anderen ertussenin. Ik weet niet wat ze hier precies gebruiken, maar dat is een van de methodes van “uitlegbare AI”.
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I'm getting pretty close to 'smoke detector out-of-battery beep', I think
Election-based systems of government wear the clothes of democracy but do none of its work
I'm getting pretty close to 'smoke detector out-of-battery beep', I think
It's kind of funny how I've been essentially doing voice training, not for gender reasons but because it lets me mimick all sorts of animals, powertools, electronic noises, and whatever else, for shitposting purposes
"Learning from history" is great and all, but you do actually need to do the work of figuring out the specific cause-and-effect chain, and not just assume that because doing A once resulted in B, this will now forever be true whenever something like A is tried again, regardless of context or time
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ableism, eugenics, white supremacy
Ableism and eugenics *are* white supremacy. If you are a white disabled person who experiences ableism, you are caught in the crossfire from weapons fashioned to advance white supremacy. If you think disabled people can make more progress by focusing only on disability and not addressing racism, transphobia, homophobia, patriarchy, or any of the other types of oppression entwined with white supremacy, you are self-destructively buying into an utter load of shit.
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Don't reply to tell me what you found by searching that error code, I also have access to Google, I'm looking for people who have actually done it themselves
Has anyone recently (in the last ~ 2 years) fixed a Blackberry Q10 with a bb10-0015 error?
I have the phone but it's bricked and if someone knows how to get it functioning again, I might try to install a server on it rather than buying a new computer-on-a-chip
So even if you've got it to boot into another OS, that counts as "fixing"
Like, I am a tech nerd *and* a supply chain nerd and I still couldn't tell you what the actual manufacturing cost of a lot of tech stuff is, I don't know how anyone else is expected to figure this out
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A year ago today, I came out publicly.
https://techhub.social/@CiscoJunkie/112549479928598694
At the time, I knew I wanted to start taking steps towards aligning my gender presentation with my felt sense of gender. That intent has resulted in a lot of changes, both big and small, and all of them have been worth the effort. This year has been a whirlwind so far, and I'm looking forward to exploring more steps now that things are settling down a bit.
I'd really only settled on the "agender" label a year ago, but I'm wearing so many more gender labels these days: queer, trans, enby, and probably others I haven't discovered yet. I'm wearing a lot of other non-gender labels more openly, too. I love that I finally feel empowered to develop a sense of identity and to think really hard about what *I* want my story to look like.
As we push into Pride Month, I'd invite you all to remember that the Stonewall riots were about liberation and making space for people to exist as themselves. If you're able, I hope you can make some space for the queer folks in your life: genderqueer, neuroqueer, or however else someone might show up against social conventions. Some of us may not look or feel "queer enough" by some reckonings, and those are *exactly* the sorts of folks we should be making more space for.
I love how all these news articles about scams and security problems are always all "if something is too cheap to be true, that usually means there's something sketchy going on"
As if a normal person could possibly have any kind of reasonable idea of what stuff is 'supposed' to cost in this exploitative capitalist hellscape where every company lies all the time including the supposedly legitimate ones
- 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
