Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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.
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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
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politiek, gl/pvda (3)
Om het even toe te lichten voor de mensen die er niet zo bekend mee zijn: "solidariteit" gaat er voornamelijk om dat je elkaar helpt *buiten* je gebruikelijke sociale kringen.
Dat mensen die elkaar misschien niet zo goed kennen, elkaar toch ondersteunen. Dat organisaties met een andere koers en andere waarden, toch gedeelde doelen vinden waarop ze elkaar kunnen helpen.
Niets van dat alles is hier van toepassing. Als je je partij combineert met een enkele gedeelde koers en besluitvorming, dan ben je nog steeds alleen maar aan het 'ondersteunen' binnen je eigen kringen. Dat is nauwelijks solidariteit te noemen.
politiek, gl/pvda (2)
En dit moet dan doorgaan voor een spicy take binnen de contreien van GL/PvdA. De partij die maar door blijft praten over 'solidariteit' en, afgaande op hun meest recente schrijfsels, een partijcombinatie ziet als de implementatie daarvan...
Die hebben het dus echt niet begrepen.
politiek, gl/pvda
Dit artikel laat mooi zien wat mijn probleem is met de gevestigde 'linkse' politiek, maar niet helemaal op de manier die de auteur bedoelt: https://www.wetenschappelijkbureaugroenlinks.nl/onderzoek/linkse-samenwerking/een-nieuwe-linkse-beweging-verdient-nieuwe-waarden-en-woorden
Als je het artikel aandachtig doorleest, wat ontbreekt er dan? Wat wordt nergens genoemd, en op sommige plaatsen (zoals de politieke veranderingen rondom klimaat) zelfs schijnbaar bewust buiten frame gehouden?
Juist ja: alles dat er bestaat buiten de electorale politiek. De protestbewegingen, de participatieve organisaties, alles dat er niet uit ziet als een verkiesbare politieke partij.
Het hele artikel is geschreven alsof al die dingen simpelweg niet bestaan, en geen enkele rol spelen in de politieke wind in Nederland.
Alsof de partij het enige is dat telt.
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Me 15 years ago on fairs:
"Oh they have USB drives and pencils."
I usually don't write much by hand and the USB drives were usually too slow to be practical.
Me now on fairs:
"Oh they have folding meters and reusable bags from cotton/jute"
Much more practical, you can't have too many "meters" (especially when working on a house) and cotton bags are great too.
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feeling horrible ?
MEOWS
M - taken your Meds ?
E - Eaten ?
O - been Outside ?
W - drunk Water ?
S - Slept enough ?
easy. just made this acronym for myself but maybe it will help others lol
the amount of time iv been in downtime because of one of these simple things is embarrassing
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Gezocht in #Groningen: een kamer voor mijn leuke #dochter die hier gaat #studeren. Er zullen niet veel studenten op Mastodon zitten maar you never know…
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Are there any actual fediverse servers hosted on alibaba, or is it all b2b garbage? (meaning I can block their whole ip range)
"Text extruder" is such a good word for LLM garbage
Considering making "how are conflicts in the community handled?" my new initial screening question when evaluating new tech and projects, instead of anything about the tech itself
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The longer I live, the more convinced I am that I personally hold abundant hope for humanity - perhaps especially right now - precisely because I've lived in places that are neither rich nor white.
White anti-culture (and its preferred economic weapon, capitalism) is a profoundly effective creator of despair... by design.
It is not, however, any kind of meaningful indicator of human nature.
Life has not forgotten how to live. The scourge of white supremacy can be unmade and healed.
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I can't explain my brain but it managed to give me exactly one word I could put into my instance search field to find the toot I was looking for
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@cthos a bit of hard data from a point of view AI companies don't want to talk about: @iocaine
Daily stats from my crawler defense system, showing 7-8 million requests a day, against the very small and niche sites I host.
98% of my traffic is crawlers. It is their cost, which they try to push onto others. It's completely ridiculuous.
Even if the energy use of training and generating would be zero, the crawling cost, paid by literally everyone else, is not. This cost is easily demonstratable.
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The fact that the GenAI industry isn't providing actual data about their energy usage should make you _very_ skeptical about their claims of "it's fine".
And I'm a little disappointed in seeing folks I generally respect being like "oh no, it's not as much as you think" - y'all need to show me hard data.
Also, I would fucking hope a text extruder uses less energy than serving 4k video, the fact that it presently *isn't* is a travesty - nevermind its other travesties.
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So, re: LLMs and the "jury is out on energy usage", I just want to point out a couple of historical things.
When studies came out linking smoking to increased risk of cancer, the Tobacco industry paid for and produced studies that said "nuh uh".
When Obesity and heart disease rates increased in the United States and the problem was linked to sugar intake, the sugar industry produced studies saying it was fats.
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@joepie91 like actual installments or like using Klarna on a burrito
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I built a new work table for my garage today! Sort of! There were already two half storage racks there with some planks haphazardly on top, serving as a makeshift worktable; so I sanded the edges of some very thin plywood of sorts, varnished it, then nailed it to the top. And now it looks a lot nicer!
I also made a little tray hanging on the wall, to hold my glue and spray cans and such.
You know you're in trouble when the AliExpress search results start telling you the price of things in installments
- 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.
- 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
