timorl

[Eh~, this bio is kinda outdated in some ways, I updated only the most egregious stuff. One day I'll update it properly.]

Programmer and researcher,. Ended up working with all the current buzzwords: #ai #aisafety #ml #deeplearning #cryptocurrency

Other interests include #sewing, reading #hardsf, playing #boardgames, nonhierarchical ways of organizing (yeah, #anarchism I guess) and omitting stuff on lists. This list used to contain #lesswrong, but I no longer feel fine affiliating myself with this movement, considering what it has become – if you consider yourself LW and would like to know why I would love to talk.

Oh, and trans rights, duh.

Header image by @WhiteShield@livellosegreto.it.

Heheh, gentoo, heh, nonbinary, heheheh... I'm so easily amused sometimes.

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2025-01-13 10:14:56

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@nprofile…m4h6 Coś jest fiku miku na patyku tylko jeśli bierze w tym udział Hatsune Miku, w przeciwnym razie to ino dylu dylu na badylu z bąbelkami.

2024-09-30 17:18:39

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@npub13n4…3h2h Can confirm, Savaged By Systemd is just the hot naked truth. :blobfoxsmug:

2024-07-27 17:06:52

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@npub1dew…y3tr Jak ostatnio sprawdzałom to właśnie już nawet strony nie było, więc projekt bardzo nie żyje. No nic, może ktoś kiedyś coś spisze, a jak nie to zniknie w mrokach historii.

2024-07-08 16:30:28

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@npub1dew…y3tr Do kompletu polecam jeszcze widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style który zmienia kształt, ja mam pjenkne prostokąty.

2024-05-20 17:35:50

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@npub1dew…y3tr “pinch” → “szczypanie”? Chciałom napisać “szczyptanie”, ale się zorientowałem że na to jednak jest słowo o tym pochodzeniu(?) już. xd

2024-04-25 06:59:52

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@npub1lxt…wnka > They chanted “Itbah al -Yahud”
Who did? It’s not clear from your post.

2024-03-23 14:15:34

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@npub166y…6dc6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czupryna fyi

2024-03-09 08:08:57

My family recently noticed that the sound quality of the jitsi instance we are using dropped dramatically on weaker devices, and now they want to switch to some different conferencing software. Anyone know what might have caused this (within the last couple of weeks)? Some update that fiddled with encoding? I don’t wanna have to install zoom. :blobfoxcry2:
#jitsi

2024-02-02 12:08:11

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@npub1dew…y3tr Całkiem spoczko. Dobry dzień na to, bo dziś jest też Bandcamp Friday, więc jak się kupi na https://valeofamonition.bandcamp.com/ to cała kasa idzie do nich.

2024-02-02 08:10:52

I just made the decision to write a piece of code in a way that is readable rather than an extremely elegant one-liner. I hope someone will appreciate my sacrifice.

2024-01-08 18:21:30

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@npub16nc…aett
✅Rozpad tradiční rodiny nenastal
:blobfoxsad:

2023-12-09 17:37:52

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 I think I’ve spotted the confusion here. All the terms under the LGBTQ+ umbrella are mostly about personal identity, so what people call themselves and want to be called. This is the context in which “queer” very much makes sense, either for people who haven’t yet figured out the details, but know they don’t fit the cisheteronormative default, or for those who did not end up fitting into any of the other boxes fully (plus some political meaning, but that’s kinda separate).
If you want to be specific and precise when referring to a group then there are almost always better terms – at least in medical, law, and social contexts, I cannot think of any other relevant ones. The specific division you advocate for here is extremely rarely appropriate anyway – you almost always want to refer to a strict subgroup of one of the groups you described, or to a group that encompasses people from both groups.
Having said that, while I can argue that the division you propose is bad on purely practical grounds, I have to also point out that categorizing humans has an extremely fraught history to say it lightly, so ignoring the political implications of any proposed categorization is, in my opinion, extremely unwise.
You seem to be somewhat confused about the gender/sex distinction. In this context “sex” does not refer to just genes, but general biology, including hormones and the phenotype, while gender expression (I have to specify the second part here, since “gender” can, confusingly, refer to at least two other concepts that are very relevant to the discussion, but fortunately not to the distinction here) refers to social indications of gender (behaviour, dress, etc). Thus being intersex is purely about sex, regardless of the specific syndrome. Some people have argued this is a reason why they shouldn’t be included under the LGBTQ+ term at all, but it turns out that their interests politically align with the group often enough that they usually are.

2023-12-09 16:31:06

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 Ooof, you should be careful with that, LGB is mostly used by transphobes who want to divide the movement. LGBTQ+ (or any of the other commonly used acronyms) are in a non-insignificant way a descriptor of a political movement/group that has shared political interests, it’s not a coincidence that a lot of the activism was done by all these people together, that they have common symbols etc. Other than the political connection there is also the fact that gender and sexual attraction are pretty strongly connected for most people, so it even makes sense to lump them together from a purely categorization perspective.
If you dislike the acronym then “gender and sexual minorities” is a pretty neutral way of referring to the group, although if you try to split them it gets blurry. I personally like “queer” as a descriptor, but it cannot be used for the whole group, since some members find it offensive.
Oh, and being intersex isn’t in any way about gender expression, and being trans and being a crossdresser are about gender expression in quite different ways.

2023-11-13 21:13:02

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@npub1vz5…qdta Oh, that one I know! Move the army that protects the illegal settlements in the West Bank to protect the border, easy. @npub1k7x…9d0w @npub1w8s…hlh6

2023-10-21 19:41:49

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 Looks good on my phone. @npub18c9…uyhq

2023-10-10 06:19:50

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 Wait till you learn the irl US nuclear codes. :ablobtonguewink:

2023-10-06 07:09:54

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@npub1kpw…xzz4
Finally back to the topic. You haven’t answered my questions directly (this would be helpful for the future) but since you write
Any time he has been asked to side with a party or a part of the political spectrum he never has…
I assume that means you disagree with MLK being a democratic socialist. So for quotes you can have a whole collection here, but you can also check the sources of the Wikipedia page for MLK. The latter also contains quotes where he clearly states he at least mostly voted for Democrats (and he was even planning to endorse one, only a political assassination stopped him), and no indication whatsoever that he ever voted for a Republican – imo that’s much less interesting than his actual political views, but also disproves the other part of your statement about not siding with any of the parties.

2023-10-06 06:33:56

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 I have the feeling you are ever so slightly strawmanning communism… but, more importantly, you are clearly avoiding the topic of the conversation. I’m not arguing whether being moderate is good or bad, but whether MLK can be accurately called a centrist.
So, do you disagree with any of the below?
MLK was a democratic socialist.
Democratic socialism was and is to the left of both US parties.
By 1 & 2 calling MLK centrist is wrong.

2023-10-06 06:12:36

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 You could say the same about poverty or militarism – they are clearly evil, and MLK was also explicitly speaking out about them (well, in the quote I’m thinking of, he was saying “capitalism” rather than “poverty”, but that hardly helps your case). But you are arguing the less important part of the argument – MLK was clearly not a centrist, because he was to the left of both parties in the US, do you disagree with that?

2023-10-06 05:59:28

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 His arguments against “white moderates” are perfectly applicable to any other kind of political moderate though. Why do you think he only applied them to race politics? Plus, he wasn’t writing about “moderately racist people” – the letter was about people who, through a misguided vision of being moderate, kept insisting that his goals were just (so they weren’t really personally racists, just, as we would say today, insufficiently anti-racist), but the timing was wrong, a mantra that is oft repeated in many political contexts when some group wants change for the better.
Amusingly, I kinda agree that he was a moderate, since he only advocated democratic socialism, which is a moderate position from my perspective. It was, and continues to be, to the left of any of the US party positions though. He was also to the left of both parties on race, quite obviously. That’s why I vehemently disagree with calling him a “centrist” in the US context, although feel free to call him a moderate if you consider democratic socialism moderate.

2023-10-06 05:29:21

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 Are you seriously suggesting that race was not a (if not the!) political issue then? o.0 Not to mention it still is now.
Besides, you might want to read some of his later writings, where he explicitly advocates socialism. Due to how the party system in the US looks, no socialists (or other left ideologies) particularly like any of the parties, but I don’t think you would call them centrists, no?

2023-10-06 05:19:22

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 Uh, “centrism” doesn’t mean not being for one of the parties, there is quite a lot ideological space that’s not between the US parties. And this is kinda insulting, considering what he thought about moderates.

2023-09-28 06:27:36

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@npub1v53…7k8g @npub1kpw…xzz4 Wait, 100 pages? I thought the claims that filling taxes in the US is too complicated were somewhat exaggerated, but this really is ridiculous.

2023-09-21 07:16:15

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1fc8…2ur4
Considering the first court found a significant portion of the allegations to be true, it doesn’t seem like lack of evidence was a problem there, so this kinda doesn’t add up. But I haven’t followed that whole situation that closely. :blobshrug:
@npub15ph…2722

2023-09-21 07:14:14

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 There are also some verified SMSes in which he admits to at least one of the instances. @npub15ph…2722

2023-09-21 06:56:31

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@npub1kpw…xzz4
Neither of the cases was about rape (I don’t think anyone even alleges any rape around this, just general abuse), they were both defamation/libel cases. As is often the case, Wikipedia has a decent summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Depp#Legal_issues .
@npub15ph…2722

2023-09-21 06:46:56

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub15ph…2722 That’s almost correct:
The accusations happened a couple of years ago, the investigation only now got to a point when the evidence has been made public. I suggest taking a look at the publicly available evidence before saying anyone acted hastily, it might change your mind.
Perhaps relevantly Brand switched to championing much more right-wing cases after the accusations have been formally made, so a couple years ago. It might be a coincidence though, since he mostly came in there from the direction of COVID-related conspiracies.
And, in relation to another of your posts in this thread, you might want to be aware that the Depp situation is far from clear cut – he lost the cases in the UK and won the case in the US.

2023-07-14 16:03:17

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@npub1408…n07u @npub15zu…s7lx I used to admin a Discourse forum for my uni department, it was quite pleasant and it seemed like reasonable software in general.

2023-05-07 20:19:17

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 The responses about mixed strategies are on-point mathematically/from a game theory perspective, but if you are talking about real-life scenarios (where no one really uses “optimal” strategies due to information constraints etc.) it might be convenient to use gaming terminology. In this case you could say you are “playing the meta[game]” – most people use a strategy currently considered very good and you find a strategy that might be bad in a vacuum, but counters the specific one everyone uses. Quite common in competitive e-sports, whether SC2 or Dota or whatnot.

2023-04-20 16:55:19

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#[0] I'm pretty sure that sentiment is already expressed there as well, since the last message is "submitting your data to the NSA". :p #[1]