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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

It's not mining it's the dig economy
— 💚Andro Audrey💚 (@dronkus23) November 29, 2019

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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

lmao if you start at "the children of billionaires shouldn't get free college" and decide the problem is free college and not the existence of billionaires, I don't know how to help you
— Parker Higgins (@xor) November 29, 2019

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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

This should be the standard, class actions for data laundering

Microsoft should not be including statements which falsely give the impression that someone has given actual consent for what Microsoft is doing with the data.

If MS wants to run everyone's pics through facial recognition, they should accept the class action filed against them.
— Chris Vickery (@VickerySec) November 28, 2019

@Catalin Cimpanu @timdavoren

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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

This is what Microsoft is trying to pass off as "consent".

It's data laundering.

They should be ashamed (and fined) for doing this.
Microsoft knows 0% of users are likely to have consent of all people in a personal photo or video collection. pic.twitter.com/vfvMPIxtWy
— Chris Vickery (@VickerySec) November 28, 2019

Kothas

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

2019/1336: "If we ever meet an advanced extraterrestrial species, they will undoubtedly know about perfect circles, right triangles, modular curves, and differential equations ... But they will not be using AES, SHA256, or ECDSA." 1/2
— Christopher Patton (@cjpatton_) November 29, 2019

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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Want to generate boring white cards with text?! Do I ever!https://t.co/idVVdonU1l
— Silverwizard (@HippyWizard) November 29, 2019

Pax Tharkas

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Sysadmin interviews are developer interviews but the interviewees have a different skillset than the interviewer

DevOps as a concept has made this worse

Software developer interviews are terrible because we don’t know how to assess the skills we claim we care about. Companies don’t invest in getting better at this, despite how important effective hiring is. https://t.co/D8MR7Qw76P
— Lorin Hochstein (@lhochstein) November 29, 2019

Pax Tharkas

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

PinePhone keyboard case? Someone else needs to have thought about this?

Sad Town

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Want to generate boring white cards with text?! Do I ever! https://git.obscuritus.ca:3000/silverwizard/CardGen

Solinari

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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

FUCK YES! I have managed to write a tool to take a YAML file and make cards out of them
Even will let you add art

Next plan is to make them into a printable PDF compatible with drivethrucards

The Trough

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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Of course, you need to figure out how to install Image::Magick

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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Your periodic reminder that GNU, which is still run by Richard Stallman, collects shitty people. https://t.co/pWGzraOsGT
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) November 28, 2019

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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Fuck Amazon & every corrupt motherfucker who bows to them. pic.twitter.com/8wp4i3JSIJ
— Lana Del [on] Holiday. 🍂🍁 (@TasteThisSass) November 28, 2019

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Joseph Teller 9 months ago diaspora

Person posting on Twitter is reacting to a 2017 News Story which was about a failed attempt by Chicago to Woo the Amazon 2nd HQ location. Amazon didn't ASK for the deal being offered in regards to taxes.

This is old dead news revived by someone who saw an old article and didn't bother to look closer at it.

It also would not have been legal.

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

I think it's a bad idea to call news from two years ago about corruption in government and corporations "old and dead"

We obviously all knew the HQ2 stuff was finished over a year ago

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Joseph Teller 9 months ago diaspora

The Offer by whoever was making the negotiations would not have held up in court. If you follow the news back to its source (a Columnist in The Chicago Reader) it was the then Mayor and then Governor that were behind the offer. Neither one is still in office, as far as I can tell with a quick check on their names online.

Neither is now in office.

Sorry but I'm not a hyper reactionary like the poster on Twitter. She seems to specialize in outrage for its own sake to gain retweets and followers from a glance at her posts.

As someone who has been involved in activism I approach news stories, carefully. I take EVERYTHING that I see that originates on Twitter with a heavy shaker of Salt as it is the most manipulated of all mediums and full of the most bots and uneducated people of any social platform.

We need to concentrate on the problems of the now in activism, and target the right people.

If you have a hate on for Bezos, target his cutting of Employee benefits for "part time" employees in his Whole Foods Properties a few months after stating he'd been improving employee benefits throughout the Amazon Empire. This kicks in on Jan 1 for employees that have less than 30 hours a week working for the company.

Focus on Real Targets. That is how you do effective Activism.

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Amazon as a whole is a real target.
The belief that a corrupt city deal wouldn't have held up in court basically ignores the entire legal history of the US's mess of cities

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Joseph Teller 9 months ago diaspora

I live in one of the most Litigious and Liberal Cities in the Country (Cambridge MA, Home of Harvard University, MIT etc). Our City and City Council are Constantly involved in long controversial court battles on a local, state and federal level. The courts limit the power of the city, regularly, as does the state legislature.

The Legal system is flawed, but there are limits they will impose that violate other points of the established law or it will move its way up the food chain.

Joseph Teller 9 months ago diaspora

As for targeting Bezos or Amazon you need to target where you can make headway. Some 2 year old Kerfluffle isn't going to do them any harm at all. Its a waste of time to center on it.

Take a target that is current. Take a target that has LOCAL implications. The employee treatment thing can be brought up in places where NEW Whole Foods operations are being planned for or where Amazon is negotiating to purchase land and set up warehouses or other businesses. Parcels that can be targeted in Zoning board arguments, city council meetings, publicity events etc speaking up, getting other locals involved in oppositions before votes and decisions, is where you can make a difference, not random posts on the internet about ancient history that you cannot use to cause change.

Really, this is how effective activism happens. Small local targets not random national complaints or ineffective boycotts. Supporting Strikes by employees and their picket lines when they happen, contributing if you have money to legal funds or things like the ACLU or helping with unionization efforts to bring management under control (and if within the company, making sure that the union laws are followed to the letter and revealed publicly to the proper agencies when they are in violation of state and federal law regarding unionization etc).

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Social media isn't activism
It's where you say the things that drive activism

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Joseph Teller 9 months ago diaspora

Social media can be used as a tool.. It allows actions and activities to organize or people to make local connections. It brings out big issue efforts in to the hands of the individual.

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Yes, but not in the ways you outlined as valid activism

Just because you think things that are older than a cutoff aren't worth mentioning doesn't mean I don't

Joseph Teller 9 months ago diaspora

The ways I outlined are the ones that work. My wife works as the accountant for a non-profit that is heavily involved in public activism. I have been involved in 10,000 petition efforts in the past year.

Do What you want. Its your time and effort to waste. I'd rather be effective.

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

And I think time on social media is not my primary activism time, but I will boost and say things that are political

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

I have tried to "cpan install Image::Magick" on three separate OSes, all of them with perlmagick installed

And all of them are broken the same way

WHY?!

Solace

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Andrew Hewus Fresh 9 months ago mastodon (AP)

Image::Magick always makes me sad.

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

One day I am going to use a sensible graphics language

But for the most part, frontends are not my thing, but someone wrote a pretty good tutorial for exactly what I want, and it seems easier to debug cpan internals than figure out graphics

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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

I hate that people dislike unroll apps because they are publicly boosting *content* which is actually a public post

I also hate that the unroll apps are definitely predatory

I also hate that *content creation* has to be a thing to make people work in industry

Pax Tharkas

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

For those wondering, the fact that those German jewels disappeared on the same week as my engagement is a complete coincidence 😇 pic.twitter.com/GDzqPW0bt1
— Jek Hyde (@HydeNS33k) November 28, 2019

Tarsis

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Hey folks. Indie tabletop abuser and man-sized used toilet brush Zak Smith is currently suing his ex for speaking out against him. If you can chip into the defense fund I'd appreciate it https://t.co/yvWjfuE7P7
— Boneless Ettin (@Ettin64) November 29, 2019

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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

how did it breach geographical containment?

how did it breach TEMPORAL containment to become over a week long?
— ⛅ w chance of bears (@tjrobotham) November 29, 2019

Skullcap

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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Flight attendant: Is there a hacker on this flight?

Me: *Shuts laptop*
— Luke Stephens (hakluke) (@hakluke) November 28, 2019

Pax Tharkas

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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Since I am Canadian, today is the only day this week I am not baking

Kothas

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

This tweet is such a great example of how companies like Tesla actively shape and limit our ability to imagine the future. Instead of extensive high speed rail networks and walkable cities, this twitter user is imagining a future where we must decide between two stupid trucks. https://t.co/J15GRYYlJ4
— Sean (@Willetton) November 27, 2019

The Trough

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Can we all agree this is fucked? https://t.co/YgmHPOqFXv
— snipe 🐾 time harlot (@snipeyhead) November 28, 2019

Ansalon

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

This is important to say aloud, and a problem. Computers are power and cost a lot, so people want to get money from computers. So all DIY is flavoured by money.

Even modern open source.

Sociologists Examine Hackathons and See Exploitation

A study finds that hackathon sponsors take advantage of free labor to create "fictional expectations of innovation that benefits all."

^{www.wired.com}

Hedge Maze

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

They are murderers. Prosecute them. Seize their assets. Save what’s left of the world pic.twitter.com/3dNiOZczcv
— Butt Praxis (@buttpraxis) November 22, 2018

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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Sydney power outage now 5 days - this is Ausgrid which the government just sold for $16 billion.#sydneystorm https://t.co/HftF8tE9UI
— Paul Thornhill (@PWThornhill) November 28, 2019

#sydneystorm

Ansalon

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Are you auditioning to be Canadian Mitch McConnel?

I know you should be holding Trudeau to account, but... tone

I am very proud to introduce my @CPC_HQ Leadership Team, including our Deputy Leader @LeonaAlleslev. This is the team which is going to help us hold Justin Trudeau to account every single day. WATCH LIVE: https://t.co/4sLyD65yRf
— Andrew Scheer (@AndrewScheer) November 28, 2019

@Conservative Party @Leona Alleslev

Ansalon

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

This is really interesting. This feels like a very explicit statement of "harming queer people is so bad for a business that you need to alienate your customer base in order to fix it" .

Which is amazing

If true, @ChickfilA has badly lost its way. Millions of Christians have been proud of ChickFilA’s courageous stands for religious liberty. To fund those who hate your customers is just sad. https://t.co/fF8Po4eu8l
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 28, 2019

@Chick-fil-A, Inc.

The Trough

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Yes, I know, this is Breitbart and Ted Cruz's facts, I don't know anything about if it's real.

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

BUT! While he's disappointed that he couldn't save that guy, he doesn't mope or beat himself up, but grieves in a healthy way and tries to diminish the suffering of the man's survivors. (My version of Superman has, as his primary power, "not burdened by human psych BS.) 3/3
— Greg Stolze (@GregStolze) November 28, 2019

@Jess Nevins

Silvanesti

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Michael W (Warren) Lucas

2019-11-27 22:39:38

Well, since you asked...

Prohibition Orcs - it's the modern year of 1927, and orcs still have to put up with elvish bullshit https://mwl.io/fiction/fantasy#po1

Immortal Clay - because John Carpenter's "The Thing" didn't go far enough https://mwl.io/fiction/sf#ic

git commit murder - if Agatha Christie ran Unix cons https://mwl.io/fiction/crime#gcm

Butterfly Stomp - Beaks steals from the rich and gives to everyone - FREE https://mwl.io/fiction/freebies#bs

Best-selling satirical Linux erotica https://mwl.io/fiction/romance#sbs

Hedge Maze

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Seriously, pronouns in bio
Pronouns on con badges
Pronouns on your company's chat
Put your pronouns everywhere
And, if you are cis, be the first person in your space to do this!

when only trans ppl have their pronouns in bio, then having yr pronouns on display indicates that yr trans. when cis ppl do it as well, it normalizes it & helps as to not single out trans folks for simply existing.
— ♡chloe♡ (@cosmicchlo) November 26, 2019

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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Ug, I am writing fantasy fiction set in a universe I know everyone but me will hate (our world, but with magic, but it's just normal, it became normalized at the tail end of the Roman empire, but like, the setting is modern San Francisco and there's our modern broken startup scene), but I really am enjoying writing it, but I want to share it, but I know most of the people I share stuff like this with will be put off that *introducing magic to the modern world would change it*

And that sucks

I hate it

I know I don't have to consider audience for personal writing, but if I don't consider audience, I can't get others excited

Temple of Kiri-Jolith

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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

I don't want to *brand*, I don't want to publish, I just want to make people excited

And the problem is that I am, according to several people, the best local GM. Meaning if I want to get friends invested in my stories, I just need to run them as RPGs

But this is stuff I don't want to do it with a *party*, it's stuff I want to do with a single protagonist, and it's stuff I want to *write*, not tell

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

I really love the idea of folk magic, magic that works, but is weird and strange. And, importantly, magic that is unreliable

Why can't you make magical computers? Well, most computers are made in China, and so you would probably be affecting the Chi of the computer, setting the proper energy flows, but of course, in Europe the Telluric energies run through ley lines, meaning the feng shui done to the computers will be forced along existing lines, and that energy will disappate

Magic doesn't work, it's not reliable, and it's cultural. Cultural magic means that colonization and assimilation mean something about how the world works, how people do things, and how things respond

Keeping your magic alive, or importing your magic matters

But also, magic is always personal, and science is always impersonal. Sure, you can empirically measure results of actions, "standing in a circle with a triangle facing the rising sun, and a cross facing the setting sun keeps away the other world", but then you add caveats "only in cultures that went through the Hermetic modification of European Abramic magic, and that is only as effective as a circle of salt in British colonies, but not Spanish ones"

Werekat 9 months ago mastodon (AP)

I'll be a reader. :) I love folk magic stuff, and so very few people do it!

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

It's getting popular, and I am excited about that! I am so glad we live in a post-post-D&D world! It means magic is getting *magical* agin!

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Hypolite Petovan 9 months ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

Just go for it man. If you just need to write, you don't need anyone but yourself to like it, and you have to account for the fact that you are probably wrong about the expected reception.

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Yeah, I know, just, tired and hating that I don't trust the thing I am doing

Hypolite Petovan 9 months ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

Fair enough, just open a text editor/take a pen and start writing. Everything else you are thinking will work against you.

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

I am like 20K words in >.< it's just... I want to share my weird mutant fantasy with people as excited

Hypolite Petovan 9 months ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

See, it's working against you. Just publish the damn thing. People will get excited or not, but it shouldn't bear any weight on your decision to publish it or not. You don't need hype, you just want it to assuage your insecurity about what you're writing. Now quit whining and publish it already. Or don't, but this in-between is hard to watch.

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Yeah, but now I need to figure out how to make the middle work!

20K words isn't written, it's just all doing research into different spiritualities and how they work.

This is *mid project* stress, not end of project stress.

Hypolite Petovan 9 months ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

Fair enough, but then your complaint about people potentially not enjoying your thing that is far from being made feels even more remote!

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

I feel like they wont engage with the setting! Making it feel like a hurdle to cross to finish!

Hypolite Petovan 9 months ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

You're just making this hurdle up! If you feel like you need to know people will enjoy a story that doesn't exist yet, it feels to me that you just are needing validation and it has no relationship to your work.

And yes, you're perfectly valid and no matter what you put out, some people will enjoy it.

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

It's the hurdle of "I don't know if anyone I would talk to about this would enjoy it, and so is it worth finishing"

And yes, that's just common writer stress, which I feel I am allowed to vent at 3am

Hypolite Petovan 9 months ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

If it's worth finishing to you, then it is worth finishing. That's it. Really. It doesn't have to be worth finishing for you and it would still be okay. But nothing about the potential reception is worth factoring into the perceived worth of your project.

I've been there too. Everyone who even put something out has been there, and how people could react to any work still shouldn't have any bearing on whether to publish it or not.

Byllgrim 9 months ago mastodon (AP)

Sorry for intruding, but I'm too curious. What is "feel I am allowed to"?

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

I am just saying I think it's a reasonable thing to post stress at 3 am sometimes, and he was being all "Just do it" while I was clearly doing

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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Thanks! Makes me excited to hear, it still might suck

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Nah, it's mostly me being stressed that I hate my work

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Damnit

But did you know that the history of the Iberean Penninsula is Punic and therefore similar to late Roman (to the point they have characters that got folded into Hercules) and then it's Moorish, then Catholic, so there's less exciting and new here. And Californian indigenous spirituality doesn't use dreams except for as prophetic? Their spiritual belief is centered around an underworld and a supernal world, with the primary form of terror being underworld monsters.

Meaning that California Dreams genuinely only exist as a concept that you can magically engage with through the lens of colonization (specifically the dominate colonizers, and the displaced and subjugated colonizers can't, without going into Catholic magic). Meaning trying to mystically engage with the myths of Silicon Valley is hard to do without using western magic.

Which just... sucks, because that woulda been awesome

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

So, wait
The government made a university
The government got the university accredited
The government issued visas based on enrollment in that institution
The government accepted payment for services it did not offer (courses)
The government then arrested the students?

This story is WILD

ICE created a fake university, then:

- enticed foreign-born students to attend
- charged them money
- arrested them
- deported them

Students had come legally on student visas, but since the school was fake the visas weren't valid https://t.co/N39KWZTFV0
— Lis Power (@LisPower1) November 27, 2019

Gods Row

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

I'm gonna tell my kids this is Mr. Rogers because I'm not a fucking LIAR. pic.twitter.com/wZlS6RZ0jD
— PushingUpRoses 🦇 (@PushinUpRoses) November 28, 2019

Sad Town

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

If you are hiring for a role, put. the. fucking. salary. on. it. This is not a hard concept to understand. None of this "competitive" or "dependant on experience" rubbish. You clearly know the numbers, be transparent.
— Phil Lennon (@frontendphil) November 26, 2019

Straights of Schallsea

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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

#OpenBSD's lack of Bluetooth support has finally started to be a painpoint, and that sucks

#OpenBSD's

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tomix 9 months ago diaspora

Actually you can use bluetooth on OpenBSD, just search for it on the net how.

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

The last bluetooth support was 5.5 to my knowledge

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

😂🤣😂 OK this is perfect. pic.twitter.com/PI4XH2bGhu
— Just Another Nerd (@NicoleBeckwith) November 28, 2019

Barren Hills

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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Your friendly reminder to *not buy a Ring doorbell camera* even if it's on sale https://t.co/WdmGhdw2fD
— Internet of Shit (@internetofshit) November 27, 2019

Abanasinia

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

The evolution of the truck is here. Guaranteed shatterproof 😬 pic.twitter.com/RocTEkzzwI
— LEGO (@LEGO_Group) November 27, 2019

Mithas

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

I get the feeling that some developers were so preoccupied with whether or not they *could* that they didn't stop to think if they *should*.

Running AWS API commands via Slack terrifies me on many levels. https://t.co/OnpDQeQSIN
— Colin Percival (@cperciva) November 27, 2019

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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

GMail wants to believe my RPG thread is spam I think

Image/photo

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trashHeap 9 months ago mastodon (AP)

Even if you don't it only solves the problem for yourself too, right?

A lot of it's is problem it's network effects. I self host email, but im always sending emails to gmail users.

silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Yeah, and *mostly* my spf-fu passes their bullshit, but also, mailing lists in general get *eaten* by google

I *really* wanted to use convenient.email for personal mailing lists, but gmail

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silverwizard 9 months ago friendica

Rather than a "microblogging service" Twitter will now just be a chat room that can get you fired
— mcc (@mcclure111) November 26, 2019

Pax Tharkas

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