Dare

@dare@kamu.social
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An RPG and adventure sports enthusiast and speculative fiction writer. Making a living as a sysadmin but has unrealistic daydreams of being a full-time novelist.

Lives in Helsinki. Dabbles in a lot of different stuff, so not exceptionally good at anything.

Politics of a tofu eating pinko heathen. Social skills of a hermit crab. What on earth am I even doing on social media.

they/them/seriously why does language have genders what is this madness, like life isn't difficult enough

LanguagesFI, EN, (DE), (SV), (((FR)))
Websitehttps://blog.karmavector.org/
Author on Goodreadshttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14673849.Dare_Talvitie
@husku Itävalta on kyllä paljon kivempi paikka vierailla kuin Saksa. Tää tulee toki vuoristoa ja seikkailuharrastuksia rakastavan tyypin perspektiivistä. Wienissä en oo vielä edes käynyt.

Fediverse is still the most lively social network I have ever used, since MySpace in 2003. It is better than Twitter or any commercial social media platform ever was. Absolutely love being here.

The most profound thing about it is the international coverage. After the first wave of enshittification in 2010, algorithms took over, and suddenly as a polyglot I was labeled as Finnish. No more visible international posts, people only saw the Finnish ones.

I've noticed the same effect in commercial AI. It ignores the fact that I use English online 99% of the time and still replies to me in Finnish despite all instructions. Algorithms and AI label you. They assign you a language, a status, a certain type of person. There's no changing that.

The Fediverse and Mastodon are delightfully mine, yours, and truly open source - respecting privacy. Nobody's machine can tell you, "You are this, and this is why we do that."

Fuck labelers and the fog machines. Let me be me. Here, on my own server, I can embrace my weirdness and post however I want, how often I want, whenever I want, in whatever language I choose - without constantly worrying about how my identity will be perceived by a machine.

#SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse

@sunguramy Yikes for your buddy 😬

I've found it is possible for me to swim in SRT kit, if I have a reasonably thick wetsuit and hiking boots instead of wellies. Still I'd rather not do that for long, or at all, if alternatives are available.

It's hard to swim in wellies and full SRT kit, so this is where my partner and I had to turn back in #GrotteDeGournier in #Vercors. We got right next to Salle Chevalier, meaning we'd covered about one third of the length of the passage. Next year, hiking boots & thicker wetstuit.

#caving

I love it!

Seen in a post by @bruces

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Turku Pride kaipaa vapaaehtoisia marssin ja puistojuhlan järjestelyihin. Yritin vakuuttaa porukoita, että homma voisi helpottua, jos niin tiedotusta kuin vapaaehtoisten kommunikointiakin ei olisi keskitetty Metan alustoille. Ja että Mastodon voisi olla alusta, josta voisi löytyä oikeanhenkistä porukkaa. Joten ajattelin kokeilla: jos olisivat täällä, seuraisitko ja voisitko harkita vastaavasi vapaaehtoiskutsuun?

(Saa mielellään jakaa, että tavoittaisi enemmän ihmisiä)

#pride #TurkuPride

Seuraisin
87.5%
Voisin harkita vapaaehtoistumista
12.5%
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Rigging an intro-level cave for our SRT students. Even though the cave and rope work may be introductory level, deploying the ropes is a bit more advanced.

#caving #GrotteDesEymards #vercors

ICYMI: 🎮 In this blog post, I introduce the field of archaeogaming:

1️⃣ Studying games as archaeological artefacts (hello, E.T. cartridges!)
2️⃣ Exploring how archaeology is represented in games like Tomb Raider
3️⃣ Applying archaeological methods within games—like in No Man’s Sky

I believe this interdisciplinary approach offers valuable insights into cultural heritage, ethics, and digital worlds.

🔗 https://itsmoreofacomment.com/2021/07/30/archaeogaming-an-overview/

#Archaeogaming #GameStudies #DigitalHeritage #Archaeology

@WeirdWriter ... that email is a joke, right? A joke of such magnitude that mere mortals will likely never comprehend it. A joke that is written clearly, concisely and with machine-readability in mind? 🤔

"cognitive DDOS" on tähänastisista termeistä paras kuvaamaan sitä ku jengi jakaa kielimallien tuotoksia muokkaamattomana ratkaisuehdotuksina ongelmiin, tai yrittävät perustella jotakin semmosella "AI sanoo että..." kulmalla.

Varsinkin jos tämmöset tulee ihmisiltä joiden kanssa tekee töitä, niin sun pitää lukea ja sisäistää ne viestit joka tapauksessa. Huonot speksit ja toiveajattelu oli toki ongelma aiemminkin, mut nyt on entistä helpompaa tuhlata toisten aikaa epäolennaisuuksilla.