Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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
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Speaking as a software dev, you should take note when users start building their own software to work around intentional limits in your application. It's a sign that you've made a terrible mistake somewhere.
RE: https://social.growyourown.services/users/FediTips/statuses/114624857663236436
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#Spotted at a Second-Hand Book Fair in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A woman (60s?) wearing a sequinned black beret and a fluffy pink jumper is showing a friend her cookbook finds. She says: "I LOVE cookbooks. I don't often make the recipes but they're so good for ideas even if you don't follow them."
A young human (7?) is inspecting $1 mystery novels as Mum selects a generous stack. He asks: "How do you know if they're good ones?"
His mum shrugs with a grin: "I don't! I'll give them a read and see. That's a part of the adventure. I never know where I'm going to go next!"
A woman (70s?) is inspecting cookbooks over her reading glasses. With raised eyebrows she says: "French tarts, I wonder what they're like." Her friend cackles wickedly and says: "Come on Daph, with the colourful life you've led I'm sure you've had your share."
A brisk woman (60s?) in a blue cardigan is volunteering at checkout. A man (80s?) approaches and she says: "Ah! You've got a dictionary. You're a man after my own heart."
He looks down at it, then up at her with a serious frown: "I find the words mean more if they come in a heavy book."
A man (70s?) walks up next to his partner who is browsing art books. He pecks her on the cheek and says: "Take as long as you want, love. The science fiction selection is excellent this year and I may be some time."
The typos spotted in this post are a bit under this weather this morning. If spotted, send them back to bed with a lemon honey and a hot water bottle.
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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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anyone from Switzerland or somewhere has academic access to this PDF so that I get to graciously read works of my own culture kindly appropriated and paywalled by Swiss academics?
https://yareta.unige.ch/home/detail/d3724499-2c21-4103-b188-e274f798b3b2
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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
- 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
