If you use the word Microgeneration seriously, I lose all respect for you
Generations are a shitty and bad joke of pop sociology and should be destroyed not obsessed over
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I recognize this is a very long shot, but weirder things have worked out. Does anyone have any photographs from Anchorage, Eagle River, Wasilla, or Palmer, Alaska taken between late 2001 to mid 2002 that might include lamp posts?
I know this is weird as hell, but there is a reason, I swear. I really appreciate the help and the boosts!
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I'm pretty sure on google street view you can set a time rather than get the most current images
It might be worth taking a walk through the streets that way
A St., Anchorage, AK
Looking down A street towards downtown Anchorage, from approximately A St. and Fireweed.Flickr
Can I ask what the poster was about? Band gig announcement? Lost cat poster? Political town hall meeting? Local church BBQ?
If it was on that many lamp posts, then it must have been of interest to *someone* & I bet someone tore one off to keep or took a photo of it.
Could you try contacting groups related to the poster content? Band fans, cat lovers, church secretary, etc.?
Also, were they professionally printed? Could you contact the printer; they might still have the proof!
2001 Iditarod from the AlaskaCam(tm)
The AlaskaCam, a live shot looking east on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska, toward the beautiful Chugach Range.alaskacam.com
Ha, this clip was mostly shot in July-August of 2002 in Anch., AK. You can find a background lamp post or two, but quality is low, low, low. Try 0:01, 0:24-0:26?, 0:39.
Ah, well... I guess Street View vans really weren't a thing back in '01, so that makes sense. Would have been great if they were!
(Also, I had no idea the westmark had shut down, goodness, the city has changed.)
the best I can do is "pictures that look a LOT like what I remember, with the right age cars, that I think were probably around then but there's no dates so they may be 90's not 00's"
I don't know the story on this guy's photos but as a (ex-) local, a few look really familiar. Pretty sure his stuff got picked up for a lot of ads and brochures and such back in that era, so I suspect these photos are from then.
Boosted cuz I wanna hear the story behind this request.
You know ... if you wanna share.
I checked Wikimedia Commons but alas, the sole photo in the relevant category is from 2006. You might still find something on there though
flickr.com/search/?text=AnchorâŠ
I had a short look and there are Alamy and other stock libraries with street photography in Anchorage for the period you want.
You could also ask the Town Halls, local newspapers and local photography societies if there's any street photography for the period.
Flickr and photographers with Alaskan photographs is definitely a good route, I think.
This is an extremely long shot, but some of these Aurora photographers include Palmer and Anchorage, and may have other shots if you were to reach out to them?
spaceweather.com/aurora/gallerâŠ
Flickr also lets you do an advanced search by date taken - I did find a few potentially related ones by searching for "Anchorage" and filtering from 11/01 to 06/02
flic.kr/p/2Dagh
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Earthquake Park, Anchorage, AK
Visiting my parents in Anchorage for Christmas 2001. For contrast: the summertime version.Flickr
I so want this to some sort of new Turing test that proves how AI fails at specific tasks, whereas actual people come thru with flying colors (or Alaskan lamp posts from 20 years ago).
#Turingtest #AI
I went to sign up my kid for the local school's stupid SaaS product that, according to the school, has the main feature of adding a 2.9% transaction fee to all trips and other assorted school fees.
First, they tell me my password is too weak because it's over 20 characters
Second, school-day.com/en/terms-of-use
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poorly programmed with terrible security and management.
I wouldn't want my data in that.
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@Chadee the Dream Witch đ đ It's only supposed to handle data for my child's schooling and payments.
Ya know - nothing important?
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Yeah I've seen so many of these micro service companies.
They see the big money schools get and want a share, and they find a way to save administration time, they just do it very poorly.
I think it's more of a problem that school administrators and staff don't want to do the same work they've always done for their pay which is fair, but this isn't the way.
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Just ask the school if you can do things the old way because that website doesn't look safe.
Maybe if they get enough people doing that they'll cancel their contract.
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you'll love it when your kids receive a Chromebook and do everything in Google Classroom
(oh, and the phone app wants admin rights on your device)
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@Kicou my main problem is that my browsers all replace http with https for me and then don't let me go back without real effort
Also the https version exists, just is a 404
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The capitalist infinite growth mindset ruins everything
Sometimes, things are big enough to work well, fulfill their purpose and make people happy
"growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell"
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We, the moderation and administration of tech.lgbt, are signing the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact in fellowship with our peer communities. (vantaa.black/pact)
There is over a decade of precedent that Facebook will not have users' best interests as their guiding principle but rather profit margins, if it joins the Fediverse.
We at tech.lgbt have long held the belief that corporation owned instances are a threat to the core of the Fediverse: freedom for users to be themselves and to be a part of their communities. The 2010s saw the loss of online freedom when the majority of the Web was consolidated into a few destinations, and Facebook entering here could lead us back to centralization. Furthermore, NDAs for server admins will constrain our sovereignty online by binding us legally from disrupting their business.
We are not products. We are people, and we do not welcome Facebook in this space.
#meta #FediPact #facebook #project92 #mastodon #fediverse #FediBlockMeta #FediAdmin #p92 #MastoAdmin
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So if Reddit is manually opening subreddits by replacing the mod teams
Do you think the scab mods are paid or doing it for clout?
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That's all I know - and I don't know if it's a real thing - but subs do appear to be opening up
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How to build an NNTP frontend that isn't too complicated for normal users:
Get funding from Y Combinator where it's just obvious it's got good UX
How to make one that's impossible for the average user:
Build the same thing but open source it
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We're seeing a large influx of new users, so here's some helpful Mastodon tips:
1. Liking a post does not affect its visibility. Instead, use the like button to let a user know that you find them to be irresistibly attractive and would like to become their internet soulmate.
2. Instead of saying orthodontist on here, we say mastodontist. This is important to know.
3. Tell us about yourself! Write either "pro-cannibalism" or "anti-caniballism" in your bio to avoid simple misunderstandings.
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So on cannibalism I am staying with:
It depends.
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If I'm playing #Skyrim then yes: the Ring of Namira is *essential* for a Vampire Lord!
If I'm playing #fallenlondon then I avoid strange voices from wells and would rather avoid swallowing my own teeth.
Otherwise I would avoid the brain- too much cholesterol and can carry prions such as CJD. Otherwise pair as you would with pork (a good hearty claret or ale or perhaps a Cider, depending upon seasoning).
Them: Pick a side! Are you pro-cannabilism or anti-cannibilism?
Me: oh stick a fork in it
Them: ....
Me: I said what I said
what if you're pro cannibalism but very concerned about the forever chemicals and such in your foodstuffs?
What if you prefer billionaires because of their lack of such chemicals?
Our legacy product's main thing it uses went down, AWS is being half down, and my power has been bad (one outage) all day
So that's great
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Kitchener-Waterloo, #kwawesome, the Uptown West Neighbourhood Association has got word that a Syrian refugee family being sponsored, who have been waiting YEARS to get cleared to come to Canada, will be arriving July 11th!
There is an urgent need for an affordable, 2-bedroom residence for this young family and we would like if at all possible to settle them in the Westmount Public School catchment, as the children have cousins already attending that school.
DM me if you can help or have tips!
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@Memos from Lofwyr Is there a standard gift saying "we're sorry you woke up and had to chase us , but we also really don't want you to know who we are?"
preferably Evo/Russian dragons
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I just envisioned the most Canada dish ever
1) you make some chocolate donut holes (and call them Timbits)
2) you make a lemon creamcheese icing
3) you drizzle the icing over a bowl of the timbits
You can it Timbit Poutine
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Mockito, Lombok, Checker Framework, JIRA, Bitbucket, Git, GitHub, Maven, Gradle, Postman, SonarQube, SourceTree, Selenium, Docker, AWS, a year of development with a solar monitoring company, and a handful or projects on github: github.com/EDemirsoz?tab=repos⊠Hoping to help this young person take the next step in their development journey.
EDemirsoz - Repositories
Software Developer. EDemirsoz has 16 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.GitHub
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problem: add the integer results of func1 and func2
engineers: what user data do i need to collect to solve this problem
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One day a week at work, nobody should be be able to ask us for anything, so we can actual work in the things asked for earlier.
This should probably occur on that mythical no-meeting day.
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People need to understand that "economic growth" is killing us, and we need to oppose it.
It's been a fundamental misunderstanding in much of the left for generations. Economic growth means greater exploitation, always, and that's the problem.
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@PrincexOfCups Completely false. In practice and in theory, the Communist Party sought to accumulate capital by increasing exploitation of labor and natural resources. Lenin himself described it as state capitalism, though he imagined it as a temporary state of affairs.
You can see the logic playing out in Lenin's enthusiasm for Taylorism, maximizing worker output through time and motion studies, and his push to suspend factory committees and replace them with one-man management.
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@silverwizard I thought it went like this:
- Q1: January, February, March
- Q2: April, May, June
- Q3: July, August, September
- Q4: October, November, December
Although there may be difference between calendar year and fiscal year đ€·ââïž
@Hypolite Petovan Ah but we have decided to move our calendar so that Q4 ended at the end of May
I don't understand
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As someone who really dislikes the mega-containerization approach and has been unhappy about it since Docker came in with a splash about a decade ago, I'm happy to see a pretty well written criticism of the idea that conatiner systems like Flatpak, Docker, etc are doing a good job of making things easier or more secure for users or devs. They aren't. blog.brixit.nl/developers-are-âŠ
So here's me speaking favorably about Debian, Arch, Guix, Nix, etc. And all of those can use Guix or Nix as a userspace package manager.
But lord have mercy. Don't use these mega black box systems. You're just accruing a gigabyte sized ball of technical debt for every component in your operating system if you use those.
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I remember telling my professor in university who was a Linux sysadmin how I was frustrated because I couldn't use the latest version of things because they all required different versions of the same library. I asked him how to solve it and he kind of just shrugged.
I checked out gobolinux.org/ but I didn't stick with it for some reason. The nix store is about what I was fumbling for. †#Guix
i think it is worse. Most of them did not work.
It is not that they do not compose. Docker and co exist to solve the python and C packaging tools being broken. That is their main use.
Flatpak, Docker, etc are doing a good job of making things easier or more secure for users or devs. They aren't. Don't use these mega black box systems. You're just accruing a gigabyte sized ball of technical debt for every component in your operating system if you use those.
I couldn't agree more. I have had nothing but bad experiences with Docker, and distributing software to customers as docker images. Nix (and Guix) has always been hard for me to use, mostly because there are so many ways to configure software dependencies, especially when using multiple programming languages, and it isn't always easy for me to figure out what code is setting what environment variables. But it really does build the most minimal system possible for any given software application.
And it can even build Docker images for you if your customers demand them.
While ago, I installed Docker and a container full of dev tools and cross compilers for a project I got involved with - then uninstalled the container a week later and just compiled the thing natively.
But months after I uninstalled Docker and that container I still get my antivirus exploding several times an hour with malicious requests TO the now nonexistent docker address. So something in that container painted a big "exploit target HERE" flag on my computer.
Not impressed.
Was once putting a service up. It was a quick and dirty job without much at stake.
Relied on a heavily used Docker container for a database thingy (I honestly forget what).
Thought I'd check that the auth configs were working. For some reason the "admin, password" default admin was still active (contrary to docs). Dig in to the container, see most of it is just taped together by bash scripts that contain a basic error that fails to ever remove the default admin credentials. Oopsies!
(I know you already know this, but as part of the larger discussion) Debian + guix using guix shell -C -F and some careful binds into the container (or just running it from a careful location) has "containerized" a LOT of things very successfully, for me. I've built a few manifests for particular purposes, and use them very happily.
I would like something a bit lower friction for "always run this app in a container, with these auto-binds" like Flatpak does, but without the flatpak.
I'm wondering if this could also solve other packaging woes (read: Python).
By now, #Guix has become the de facto package manager for #Guile libraries. So much so, that it barely makes sense to code in Guile without maintaining your installation via Guix.
Had the Python community chosen a similar approach earlier on, maybe maybe many of their current packaging travails would have been easier to overcome.
@acousticmirror
For #python IMHO it's a bit more nuanced than that because:
- Python has been around for a long time. Packaging went from zero to easy_install to pip to (pdm/poetry/hatch) so there's been an ongoing evolution.
- Python packages can be libraries with downstream dependencies *and* they can be end user applications
Interesting criticism of flatpak and by extension containerization.
I recently have started subconsciously/vaguely thinking about this re: flatpak and whether they are a net positive.
I'd be interested in reading any counter-arguments, as well.
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The frequency at which I look at a project and their install instructions are just, âuse the docker containerâ infuriates me. Frequently these projects have minimal documentation on what their dependencies actually are.
Containers are the right choice for some thing but, pulling random containers to run a an app definitely isnât it.
For whatever reason, Docker seems to be ubiquitous for SBCs, and it's okay -- except it makes configuring services more complicated.
I don't like seeing proper package management systems undermined.
I'm glad to know that I'm not the only developer complaining about Flatpak. I made a rant some time ago about the issues I encountered as a Firefox developer in both Flatpak and Snap (because you can't really separate the two at this stage).
fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/âŠ
Funnily while we still have plenty of problems with them that aren't present in packaged versions of Firefox we solved many... by punching holes in the sandbox:
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Oh but fuck
Hear me out
How did we manage to make:
Cool fucking VR facemasks
Private Digital Money
Interesting AIs and ML stuff
And make them boring and horrible and things I personally hate
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@Hypolite Petovan I know
In fact - because all my loves are things from Cyberpunk Dystopia so it's not like I didn't see this coming - but it's also fucking dumb
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It's only a podcast if it was produced in the Podcast region of the RSS 2.0 Spec
Otherwise it's just a sparkling phonograph
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So there's a massive debunk of the "AI Drone Killed Its Operator In Simulated Test" story going around!
You see, the simulated test was simulated!
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Bad at posting and dropped off the face of the fediverse for a good 6 months, but excited to be making a book for my 4 yo starring him and based on his current favourite book series. This is a picture of the cover I've made so far. Seems to warrent a post :)
Somebody please tell me if I did alt text correctly or tell me what I'm doing wrong if I didn't... I have never managed to get it right đđł
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