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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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netherlands, embedded systems student (attempting to), he/him, 29 years old, programming, devops, rust, embedded development, retro computing, procrastinating

politics and gen ai are depressing, but i can't not talk about them. i do my best to cw them.

currently working on fedilite, a server-side rendered simple mastodon api client
git.sijman.nl/vijfhoek/fedilite

Location
netherlands
Birthday
1997-01-18
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he/him (EN), hij/hem (NL)
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
1mo
i swear the ✨ emoji awakens some murderous feelings inside me
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1mo
if i want to use chatgpt i go to chatgpt dot com
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
1mo
i'm so fucking done with mozilla. i don't want your freaking ai bullshit. mozilla why are you so dead set on alienating your extremely limited audience
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
1mo
owiebackhurts
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
1mo
@privateger @snow @lanodan i mean big tech has it all figured out

if message.source not in {google, microsoft, icloud}:
message.drop()
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
1mo
@snow and i'm all for using llms for spam filtering. it's actually a great application for that.

just don't freaking send all your e-mail to big tech for crying out loud
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
1mo
@snow yeah this gets more tempting with every passing second
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
1mo
@snow lmao we were considering switching from spamassassin to rspamd at my study association, guess that's off the table
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
1mo
imagine we are a fallen civilization, and all future historians can go off is popular music, and they find shit like

"It's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes"
-"I am getting so hot, I wanna take my clothes off"

totally a normal human interaction
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
1mo
nvm, it was firefox
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
1mo
twitch?
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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@privateger oh good
the space in "Check Disk" somehow gave me bad vibes
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
1mo
@privateger mighty sus tbh

sure that ain't malware?
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
1mo
@bert_hubert Ik kan hier echt pislink van worden. Zoals gewoonlijk wordt het energiegebruik van de industrie op de gewone mens afgeschoven, zodat zij hun verantwoordelijkheid niet hoeven te nemen. Niet tijdens de bitcoin-bubbel ("ja maar pintransacties gebruiken ook stroom!!"), en nu niet tijdens de AI/LLM-bubbel ("ja maar je foto's!"). En laten we nog niet eens beginnen over wegwerpplastics, vervoer of je lichten aan laten staan...
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
1mo
@joshix @natty big tech is exempt from new and scary
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@Ronflaix
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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@eloy "300MW Computing Power" that's... not something to brag about
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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@natty but it's wayland and it's new and scary, so we must hate on it /s
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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@DJGummikuh @0xabad1dea it could be either in this case - there's no real word for zerstören. the similar looking dutch "verstoren" is more like "disturb" (or the german "stören")
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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@DJGummikuh @0xabad1dea one of my favourite words is "vernietigen" voor "to destroy". almost as good as the german "zerstören"