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"Well, sure, but anyone can edit code," said the managers who have never read a line of anything more complicated than a 'Hello, World'.
In python.
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US EPA Enforcement & Compliance conducted 3 onsite inspections of Apple's fab facility in 8/2023 + 1/2024. US EPA noted at least *19* potential violations of the RCRA hazardous waste statute.
I just posted US EPA's report for public access. Dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/312oqvretg7yyhfx0ohx4/AGZduVXs0_1geqIyi0NA9nE?rlkey=3aa2tw15ek3trqlbdh7pw9erh&st=e7pg1cpp&dl=0
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After discovering what Apple did, I then spent three months requesting records & digging through regulatory filings to learn more - which led me to file a complaint to US EPA in June 2023. I met with EPA's investigators & sent them everything I discovered.
I told EPA I didn't want my whistleblowing to be anonymous, and instead, that if EPA shows up to inspect the plant, when they do, please have the EPA cops tell Apple: "Ashley says hi." 💀
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- illegally treating hazardous waste
- illegally transporting hazardous waste to disposal facilities
- illegally dumping hazardous waste into the ambient air outside the facility (into the apartment windows)
- leaving stockpiles of extremely dangerous chemicals unattended on weekends
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Because Apple wasn't monitoring its solvent emissions, & had no permit, its unclear just how much toxic waste Apple dumped into our bedrooms.
Also, it gets worse. Between 2020-23, Apple did monitor the air for vapors with an ad hoc, handheld, calibrated gas detector...ONE TIME.
Apple failed to calibrate the tool in all other tests. However, Apple did calibrate the tool a few times, but each time Apple then failed to actually use the tool to test anything. Great work, Apple.
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We previously discussed how Apple didn't change its carbon filters for around five years (per Apple's manifests); so those filters were probably useless and doing nothing to control the gas/vapor emissions.
But there's more! US EPA also noticed that when Apple did start changing the filters in 12/2020 (after I reported my chemical induced illness next to the building), Apple then unilaterally claimed solvent drenched charcoal is not haz waste, & proceeded to illegally dispose of it.
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We're not done, you guys. There's more!! However, if you feel like you just got a strong whiff of Apple's poison gases & you need a moment to catch your breath; I'll just leave this right here as a reminder of how important it is that we look out for each other and feel a sense of duty to the community around us.
It's a tale as old as time that industry will poison communities as much as it can, as long as it can, until every day people come together to demand to not be slowly murdered.
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The US EPA inspector noticed Apple had a 55-gallon container of corrosive liquid chemicals sitting in Apple's "Chemical Bunker," & the container's cap was removed
EPA said: hey Apple, why is that haz waste container left open?
Apple responded: its open so the vapors can vent, you know, so it doesn't explode
EPA said: you need to buy containers designed for these types of chemicals
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If you're thinking, ok that all sounds very dangerous, but I'm sure Apple was keeping an eye on things...
The facility operated 24/7 but only M-F.
On the weekends it was unattended & Apple didn't monitor their waste or waste treatment systems.
Apple also stopped their weekly inspections in Feb 2023 after I learned what they were doing at the factory.
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Finally, lets talk about Apple's factory exhaust into the ambient air next to thousands of homes and two public parks.
Much of Apple's solvent exhaust was vented out "as is" (unabated) from the main system.
The illegal solvent treatment tank exhaust did go through the untested carbon boxes, but then it was released out of a tiny vent pointed *down* at the building. Any gases heavier then air would be directed to the ground level to pool into toxic vapor plumes.
There were no permits.
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My civil lawsuit against Apple includes 2 toxic tort claims for what theyre doing at this factory. I alleged Nuisance + Ultrahazardous Activities. The US Judge is letting me proceed with both claims.
https://casetext.com/case/gjovik-v-apple-inc-1
Apple can keep flailing around, but we're in US court now & they will be forced to face the music. I'm also waiting to hear from US Dept of Labor Judge if I can add RCRA, Clean Air Act, & TSCA retaliation claims.
Finally, its also possible DOJ could pursue criminal charges.
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Apple has $67bn in cash just sitting around. You'd think they could be nice to their neighbors
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Securely store, share, and access your important files and photos. Anytime, anywhere.drive.proton.me
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Please consider signing this letter to the Ontario government to preserve the Ontario Science Centre and, if you are able, attend the rally on Sunday.
https://act.newmode.net/action/evidence-democracy/save-ontarios-science-centre?mc_cid=b6d2536967
Save Ontario's Science Centre
The Ontario Science Centre (OSC) has been underfunded by the government for years. And now its very existence is under threat.act.newmode.net
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I have invented a drink I call the St Lawrence Crossing
It's absinthe with maple syrup instead of sugar. (See - it's a Canadian Ferry and absinthe is the Green Fairy)
It's tasty
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Sunday afternoon June 22nd, at Wells Hill Park, Bathurst and St Clair, #Toronto
12pm-2pm
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@Alex Block @GG I hope you're right.
i'm also hoping Life Labs can shrivel and die because we fixed our broken healthcare
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My brain just thought the words "Etsy but ActivityPub"
Basically just - do ActivityPub, add a shopping cart, and try to manage the bots - so you can have art and craft and so on focused instances with sales inside them. I... have no idea how to make this work non-evilly.
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But ok - if you want to *scale* activitypub with commerce - this means that the question is one of community.
Building a community with a store is really fucking hard. You have all the problems of Ebay, Etsy, and Twitter. This means building spaces like systems for Art, Writing, or whatever. And that means supporting those people. This means figuring out how to discourage advertising and brands, while supporting people who create.
I don't think this is a needle I can personally thread. I should not try.
But someone should. We should try to figure out how to do capitalism without as many siphons in the middle, at least until we can get rid of capitalism.
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Fuck
I just realized that this is literally OnlyFans in a lot of ways. A social network for following creators who can sell things to you easily.
And course that - that immediately got moved toward Sex Work because that's the most tech savvy and mobile group, but I think there's something valuable here.
@Jay Hannah So in this case we're looking at small vendors - so this means that you're probably looking at:
Shipping is going to be integration with the local postal service
API integration with Stripe/PayPal/whatever is pretty simple
If you want to directly take payments that's PCI DSS and also other stuff
But that's all technical detail. I'm not saying it's nothing, but it's all mostly solved problems with very common answers. But the "build a community based on selling without being a hellhole" is not even slightly solved.
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I would like to point out that *there is no way to fix this*.
I don’t mean it’s difficult, or expensive, or we just haven’t scienced hard enough yet. I mean there is literally no way to make an LLM not do this, or an infinite number of similar mistakes, in the same way that no improvement in ladder technology can help you reach the moon.
You’re asking a slot machine what your most likely bank balance is.
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Google Gemini tried to kill mehttps://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1diljf2/google_gemini_tried_to_kill_me/
"I followed these steps, but just so happened to check on my mason jar 3-4 days in and saw tiny carbonation bubbles rapidly rising throughout ... I had just grew a botulism culture"
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![Edit of the " No Take, Only Throw" meme [see: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-take-only-throw] but it says "NO EMBRACE ONLY EXTINGUISH", the dog has the Microsoft logo at the bottom](https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/112/640/723/408/718/162/original/e2878567ec423864.png "Edit of the \" No Take, Only Throw\" meme [see: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-take-only-throw] but it says \"NO EMBRACE ONLY EXTINGUISH\", the dog has the Microsoft logo at the bottom")
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For superhero shows, I reckon one of the best must be The Red Panda Adventures! It has it all!
Realism, cheesiness, action, banter, evil laughter (lots of!), superpowers, pseudoscience, magic, mysteries, more mundane crimes, & history! Gregg Taylor, with costar Clarissa Dernederlandon, makes balancing these disparate tones look effortless!
The bulk of the show ran 2005-2015, & was set in 1930s Toronto, Canada. Expertly capturing the reality & fiction of the time!
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@silverwizard Something that strikes me on relistens: He barely uses narration! Except ofcourse for the title sequence.
Few other audioshows get away with telling their stories near-exclusively through banter...
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When I was at a LARGE customer, we'd regularly get excited about RDS item A. We'd get on a call to talk about A with our AM and the engineer. Three weeks later our AM says 'oh, BTW, engineer is leaving so your FREQ is dead.'
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Last boost: Another reason why I get irrationally angry about software that knows what is going wrong but refuses to actually say anything about it.
It trains users to be overly trusting of software asking them to do stuff for vague or completely unspecified reasons. This makes people vulnerable to inadvertently installing stuff they shouldn't
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Back in the day malware had to provide something actually compelling like "click for funny pictures"
Now, thanks to everyone suffering from Apple/Google brainworms you can apparently get people to download malware just by saying "uhh, something didn't work I guess 🤷♀️ "
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GitHub - Dante-Leoncini/Blendersito: Una version de Blender creada desde cero para Symbian
Una version de Blender creada desde cero para Symbian - Dante-Leoncini/BlendersitoGitHub
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Personally my favorite era of mobile phones is the period 2007-2008 just before Android and iOS took over this entire market.
There was so much innovation happening with cool OSs and shit. There's a lot of phones from this era that can do things that even modern phones can't do, like physical keyboards and such.
That said SailfishOS is quite neat, used it 2016~2020.
That said gnome1 era is nostalgic to me, first desktop that I used.
Also works in a Nokia E90 so more like Symbian than N95-specific I guess.
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Welp, I have just been let go.
I call myself a Senior Systems Developer and Administrator, having being on both sides of the fence and on the fence itself. My full CV is here https://www.grulic.org.ar/~mdione/ except for the post I'm leaving now, which was titled SRE, but included security, systems architect, devops and IT guy. You can also have an idea about what I have been doing by checking the #til tag.
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I'm trying to collect what #XMPP clients are usable with screen readers.
weirdwriter recommended:
Windows: MirandaNG
iOS: Monal and Siskin,
Android Conversations is rumored to be decent.
Web: Conversejs
So does anyone else have experience with using jabber clients with screen readers on Android, OS X, or Linux? Does that match other screen reader users experiences?
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While I belive that #Conversations_im mostly follows the 101 of accessibility (label all your icons) I reckon that the devil is in the details.
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Holy fuck
I just want to upload some files to Google Drive from the CLI.
How the hell is this so hard?!
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Ya, it will pull the latest binary from rclone.org repo and overwrite the existing one
You may want to back up the original binary file beforehand
@Kicou nah, the server doesn't live longer than a few hours
but ok, this might make me not claw out my eyes
This anti-pattern is the thing that makes AWS EC2 the most user hostile IME. I never want to click "Copy To Clipboard", because I often want to *select the text* which is made harder because by clicking the text changes it. I often want to put it into another clipboard than my default - but maybe I have different goals than everyone else.
And I don't want to "Open Address" most of the time. Why would I want to open it on the web! It's a brand new VM?!
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@Rye yeah! I'm at the noodling stage
I just my first main cert so feel like people can take me seriously, am dreaming about my next steps because I feel like the company I work for is about to collapse, and I want to do something that feels good
this all adds up to figuring out grant writing, where to look, and more yeah, I just need to, figure that out
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watch adb shell wm reset and then start wiggling the cable until the screen unfucks itself.
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ayup. Pisses me the fuck off. It's so clearly and obviously counterproductive.
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•wednesday i heard a microsoft guy say, in one breath:
responding to a chatgpt prompt demands on average 25% more energy than a standard search.
and
generative ai is a huge part of our green initiative…
incoherent shitheads.
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anything I post publicly like that is fair game.
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