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So I found a tactic that's working in my YouTube comments- thought I'd share.
If someone complains that a software I recommended is "woke", I ask them "what does that mean? Can you say more about that?"
They never say more. They delete their comment instead.
My tactic is to make them say what they mean. They won't.
Because they're cowards.
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Me: "what does that even mean? What part of Debian are you referring to?"
Them: [self-destructs]
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Someone said I was censoring conservatives by [checks notes] asking what they mean.
So I asked them to describe how asking questions was censorship, and... they deleted the comment!
It's almost like they're afraid to say it.
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FWIW I do occasionally ban folks from commenting on the channel, mostly when they're using violent rhetoric or objectifying me (or others). For the most part those comments get sent to the "holding area" thanks to word matches, where I can then ban folks without anyone seeing the comment.
Zero tolerance for assholes.
My tactic (verbal) is to be my inner child and keep asking, "Why?"
If it drives parents crazy, it should work with fascist morons.
yeah, stupid people have never been rare, but I think the contemporary firehose-of-soundbytes meme culture has engendered a vast pool of chronically overstimulated folks who honestly have *no idea* why they believe any of the things they believe, and have no tools to even begin addressing the question.
When the only cases in your switch statement are "I agree" or "I'm mad", being asked to define yourself is probably one of those divide-by-zero things that just leads to a kernel panic.
Well actually, not all fools π€ͺ
(Trusting you recognize silly vs. obnoxious reply)
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@eksb Paging @mac84tv and his awesome "Woke-on-LAN" gear!
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On most occasions when a person uses 'woke' to describe something, the wokeee will genuinely not really know what the person is specifically criticising. So to ask them to explain is quite honest but with a little side dish of a troll-ette which is a perfect combination.
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Hmm.. 'them' has a point though. Ok, maybe this helps a little..
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@Veronica Explains @Dev Albino People can be deprogrammed. It's not easy, but it can be done.* The best way to do it is to break the thought-stopping patterns that have generally been imposed on them. This seems like a really effective way to do it.
* I know this from first hand experience.
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I like to ask people what they don't like about "wokeness" Is it the treating people with humanity or the compassion they don't like?
Sometimes I change it up with a "Oh no! I don't want to be woke! How much intolerance should I have before I'm no longer woke?"
Nobody has ever responded to these questions.
ive never understood why "woke" is supposed to be an insult. Its literally the opposite of asleep/oblivious.
People are idiots unfortunately.
I decided recently that arbitrarily labelling people or things as "woke" is nothing more than a modern variation on lazily throwing about a "communist" label.
As in it's not enough to just say there's people or policies they don't agree with or having preferences, it needs to sound like an "insult" either by adopting an existing word or making one up.
Along with "libtard", "leftist" and a bunch of other words they can't articulate when challenged on explaining their reasoning.
I once asked a local guy what 'Woke' meant. He hemmed and hawed for a while and then finally admitted it meant he didn't like something.
The way I see it, when you call anything 'Woke' you are telling me much more about *you* than you are about the thing in question.
for them woke = they don't like it.
But in the morning i feel woke too after some coffee. π
Because they don't know what it means.
To them, it's like telling you the product is shit. They're parroting cult talking points.
I think this is true generally as well. Many people repeat talking points theyβve heard but itβs all surface knowledge. They canβt answer the follow up question because their knowledge is never that deep. They donβt understand policy and havenβt actually absorbed anything beyond the alleged insult.
"oh, you know, the ones..."
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I think the convention is "prep time" for a recipe is before heat is applied "cook time" is after heat is applied and "total time" is the sum of both, plus any required rest time between or after cook.
But, I do agree that can be annoying, because it's not the same as my expectations.
Upgraded my Gitea* server this morning and had a moment of panic when I thought I'd lost admin access. Turns out they just changed where the admin interface lives.
* I meant to switch to Forgejo, but never got around to it and then they went hard fork, so it's more complicated now.
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So for some reason two of my apps are suddenly switched to French. It wasn't a big deal as I can read it, but it was annoying.
I had my system languages set as follows:
- English (Canada)
- English (United States)
- French (Canada)
I assume it was because these apps didn't have localisations for my first choice, but I don't know why they instead jumped to the third option, skipping the second.
I don't mind, but it's surprising.
Just heard someone unironically use the term "real AI".
Real artificial intelligence? What the hell does that even mean?
@Judy Anderson Fair, but this guy talking about how Zork "faked AI" instead of having the "real AI" we have now.
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@Matthew Skala I guess, but that wasn't the context in this case.
@Judy Anderson Fair, but this guy talking about how Zork "faked AI" instead of having the "real AI" we have now.Edit: context
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The spoonie assistant I had lined up fell through. So looking again to hire someone with executive function and a driver's license to help me:
β’ Move - pack, organize and decide set up new place.
β’ Grocery shop, food prep, life management at home.
β’ Accompanying on appts so I don't get lost and confused when mentally spent.
β’ Life admin - filling out forms, phone calls (visual/auditory processing issues)
$20/hr 5-10hr/wk #Guelph
Boosts appreciated.
Need help asap.
#fediHire
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"why can't things just go smooth?"
And I was all "me too, boo."
@diverdutch I am going to try and say this gently because I know your intention is kind:
Please keep in mind context, I am profoundly not ok, and have massive cognitive problems that limit my ability to chase down leads like this. In fact the role I am trying to hire would be to follow through on leads like this BECAUSE I CAN'T. And that is both terrifying and infuriating.
Getting unsolicited advice on how to solve it, instead of actual help is deeply painful. So pls don't.
Have you had contact with the Community Living Association, the Acquired Brain Injury clinic at St Joseph's Hospital, or the Community Resource Centre? Are you good for phone conversations?
@quoidian @diverdutch I am going to point you back to the toot you replied to, where I tried to gently say how frustrating unsolicited advice is in my circumstances.
I don't need suggestions of other orgs to try, I have six orgs I am working with already. It's confusing and exhausting.
I am looking to hire a human for the things listed on the original post.
Thanks you for understanding.
No problem. Those were groups that had social workers with exposure to helpers, and possibly able to suggest candidates in the Guelph area. Good luck in your search.
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Amazon has invented a new kind of labor travesty: the chickenized reverse centaur. That's a worker who has to foot the bill to outfit a work environment where they nevertheless have no autonomy (chickenization) and whose body is conscripted to act as a peripheral for a digital system (reverse centaur):
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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"Chickenization" is a term of labor economics, inspired by the brutal state of the poultry industry, where three giant processing companies have divided up the market so that every chicken farmer has just one place where they can sell their birds. To sell your birds to one of these plants, you have to give them total control over your operation. They sell you the baby chicks, they tell you what kind of coop to build and what lightbulbs to install and when they should be on.
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They tell you which vet to use and which medicines can be administered to your birds. They tell you what to feed your birds and when to feed them. They design your coop and tell you who is allowed to maintain it. The one thing they don't tell you is how much you'll be paid for your birds - that's something you only discover when it's time to sell them, and the sum you're offered is based on the packer's region-wide intelligence on how you and all your competitors are faring.
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It is calculated to be the smallest amount to allow you to roll over your loans and go into more debt to grow more birds for them.
At its root, "chickenization" is about de-risking, cloaked in the language of entrepreneurship. Chicken farmers assume all the risk for the poultry packers, but they're told that they're their own bosses.
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The only way in which a chicken farmer resembles an entrepreneur is that they have to bear all the risk of failure - without having any upside for success. Packers can (and do) secretly decide to experiment at farmers' expense, ordering some of their farmers to vary their feeding, light and veterinary routines to see if they can eke new efficiencies out of the process.
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If that works, the surplus is reaped by the packer. If that fails, the losses are borne by the farmer, who is never told that they were funding an experiment.
Amazon makes extensive use of chickenization in its many commercial arrangements, tightly defining the working conditions of many "self-employed" workers, like the clickwork "turkers" who power the Mechanical Turk service.
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But the most chickenized of all the people in Amazon's network of cutouts and arm's-length arrangements are the "entrepreneurs" who are lured into starting a "Delivery Service Platform" (DSP) business.
To start a DSP, you borrow lots of money to buy vans that you outfit to Amazon's exacting specifications, filling them with interior and exterior sensors and cameras, painting them with Amazon livery.
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You kit them out with shelving and other infrastructure to Amazon's exacting specification. Then, you hire workers - giving Amazon a veto over who you hire - and you train them - using Amazon's training materials. You sign them up for Amazon's platforms, which monitor and rank those workers, and then you get paid either $0.10 per parcel, or maybe $0.50 per parcel, or sometimes $0.00 per parcel, all at Amazon's sole discretion.
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That's a pretty chickenized arrangement. But what about reverse centaurs?
In automation theory, a "centaur" is someone who is assisted by some automation system (they are a fragile human head being assisted by a tireless machine). Therefore, a *reverse* centaur is a person who has been conscripted to serve as a peripheral for a machine, a human body surmounted and directed by a brute and uncaring head that not only uses them, but uses them *up*.
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The drivers that DSPs hire are reverse centaurs. Using various forms of automation, Amazon drives these workers to work at a dangerous, humiliating and unsustainable pace, setting and enforcing not just quotas, but also scripting where drivers' eyes must be pointed, how they must accelerate and decelerate, what routes they take, and more.
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These edicts are enforced by the in-van and on-body automation systems that direct and discipline workers, tools that labor activists call "electronic whips":
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A case study on contact and service center software, automated management and outsourced workCracked Labs
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The chickenized owners of DSPs *must* enforce the edicts Amazon brings down on their reverse centaur workers - Amazon can terminate any DSP, at any time, for any reason or no reason, stranding an "independent entrepreneur" with heavily mortgaged rolling stock that can only be used to deliver Amazon packages...
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...Long term leases on garages and parking lots, liability for driver accidents caused by automation systems that punish drivers for e.g. braking suddenly if someone steps into the road, and massive loans.
So when Amazon directs a DSP to fire or discipline a worker, that worker is in trouble. Amazon has hybridized chickenization and reverse centaurism, creating a chickenized reverse centaur, a new kind of labor travesty never seen before.
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In "Driven Down," a new report from the DAIR Institute, authors Adrienne Williams, Alex Hanna and Sandra Barcenas draw on interviews with DSP drivers and Williams's own experience driving for Amazon to document the state of the Chickenized Reverse Centaur. It's not good:
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How algorithmic management and workplace surveillance allows corporations to steal wages, intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.DAIR (Distributed AI Research Institute)
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"Driven Down" vividly describes - often in drivers' own words - how the life of a chickenized reverse centaur is one of wage theft, privacy invasions, humilation and on-the-job physical risks, for drivers and the communities they drive in.
DSP drivers interact with multiple automation systems - at least *nine* apps that monitor, score and discipline them.
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These apps are supposed to run on employer-supplied phones, but these phones are frequently broken, and drivers face severe punishment if these apps aren't all running during their shifts.
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As a result, drivers routinely install these apps on their own phones, and must give them broad, far-reaching permissions, such that drivers' own phones are surveilling them for Amazon 24/7, whether or not they're on the clock. It's not just DSP owners who are chickenized - it's also drivers, footing the bill for their own electronic whips.
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First and foremost, these apps tell the drivers where to go and how to get there. Drivers are dispatched to hundreds of stops per day, on a computer-generated route that is not vetted or sanity-checked by a human before it is non-negotiably handed to a driver. Famously, plotting an efficient route among many points is one of the most insoluble computing problems, the so-called "traveling salesman" problem:
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But it turns out that there *is* an optimal solution to the traveling salesman problem: get a computer to make a bizarre and dangerous approximation of the optimal route, and then blame and fine workers when it doesn't work. This doesn't optimize the route, but it does shift all the costs of a suboptimal route to workers.
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Crucially, Amazon trusts its computer-generated routes, based on map data, over the word of drivers. For example, drivers are often directed to make "group stops" - where the driver parks the van and then delivers to multiple addresses at once (for example, at an apartment complex or office block). Amazon's mapping service assumes that addresses that are in the same complex or development are close together, even when they are *very* distant.
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If a driver dares to move and re-park their van to deliver parcels to distant addresses, the app punishes them for making an unauthorized positional adjustment. If a driver attempts to deliver all the parcels *without* moving the van, they are penalized for taking too long. Even if drivers report the mapping error, it persists, resulting in strings of infractions, day after day.
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When drivers fail to make quota, the DSP's per-parcel payout is reduced. DSPs whose drivers perfectly obey the (irrational, impossible) orders of Amazon's apps get $0.50 per parcel delivered. If drivers fall short of the apps' expectations, the per parcel-rate can fall to $0.10, or, in some cases, zero.
This provides a powerful incentive to DSPs to pressure drivers to engage in unsafe practices if the alternative would displease the app.
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Drivers are penalized for sudden braking and swerving, for example, but are also penalized for missing quota, which puts drivers in the impossible position of having to drive as quickly as possible but also not to swerve or brake if a sudden traffic hazard pops up. In one absurd tale, a driver describes how they were shifted to an electric van that did regenerative braking when they released the accelerator.
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The app expected drivers to slow down by releasing the accelerator, not by touching the brakes, but this meant that the van's brake lights never switched on. When a driver slowed at a yellow light, they were badly rear-ended by a following UPS truck, whose driver had assumed the Amazon DSP driver was going to rush the light (because the van's brake lights didn't light up).
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Meeting quota means that drivers are also not able to stop for bathroom breaks or to take car of other personal hygiene matters. This is bad enough when it means peeing in a bottle, but it's even worse when the only way to take care of period-related matters is to go into the back of the van - where cameras record everything you do - and manage things there.
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Drivers are told many inconsistent things about those cameras. Some drivers have been told that the footage is only reviewed after an accident or complaint, but when drivers *do* get into accidents or have complaints lodged against them, they are often fired or disciplined without anyone reviewing the footage. Meanwhile, drivers are sometimes punished for things the cameras have recorded even when there was no complaint or accident.
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The existence of all that empirical evidence of things happening in and outside an Amazon DSP van makes little to no difference to drivers' employment fairness. When a malfunctioning seatbelt sensor insists that a driver has removed their seatbelt while driving, 80+ times in a single shift, the driver struggled to get their docked wages or lost jobs back.
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When a driver swerved to avoid an oncoming big rig whose driver had fallen asleep and drifted across the media, the driver was penalized - the driver this happened to had his score in "Mentor" (one of the many apps) docked from 850 to 650. Amazon won't tell drivers what their Mentor scores mean, but many drivers - and DSP owners - believe than anything less than a perfect score will result in punishment or termination.
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Attaining and maintaining a perfect score is an impossible task, because Amazon will not disclose what drivers are expected to do - it will only penalize them when they fail to do it. Take the photos that Amazon drivers are expected to snap of parcels after they are delivered. The criteria for these photos is incredibly strict - and also not disclosed.
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Drivers are penalized for having their hands or shoes or reflections in the image, for capturing customers or their pets, for capturing the house-number. They aren't allowed to photograph shoes that are left on the doormat. Drivers share tips with one another about how to take a picture without losing points, but it's a moving target.
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Among drivers, there's a (likely correct) belief that Amazon will not tell them how the apps are generating their scores out of fear that if drivers knew the scoring rubric, they'd start to game it. This is a widespread practice within the world of content moderation and spamfighting, where security practitioners who would normally reject the idea of "security through obscurity" out of hand suddenly embrace secrecy-dependent security measures:
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All this isn't just dangerous and dehumanizing, it's also impoverishing. Drivers who get downranked by these imperious and unaccountable and unexplained algorithms have their hours cut or get fired altogether. The apps set a quota that can't possibly be reached if drivers take their mandated (and unpaid) 30 minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks (drivers who miss quota twice are automatically terminated). This time is given over to unpaid labor.
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Drivers are also assigned "homework" - videos they are required watch and simulator exercises they are required to complete as remediation for their real or imagined infractions. This, too, is unpaid, mandatory work. Drivers are required to attend "stand up" meetings at the start of their shifts, and this is also often unpaid work.
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Amazon makes a big show of "listening to drivers," but they're never heard. A driver who reported being held at gunpoint by literal Nazis who objected to having their parcels delivered by a Jew had his complaints ignored, and those violent, armed Nazi customers continued to get their parcels delivered.
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Even modest requests go unanswered. Drivers for one DSP begged for porta-toilets in the parking lot, rather than having to waste time (and miss quota) legging it to a distant bathroom. They were ignored, and all 50 drivers continue to share a single toilet.
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But - thanks to chickenization - none of this is Amazon's problem. It's all the problem of a chickenized DSP "entrepreneur" who serves as a useful accountability sink for Amazon and who can be bankrupted at a moment's notice should they fail to do Amazon's precise bidding.
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There's one bright spot here, though: the National Labor Relations Board has brought a case in California seeking to have Amazon held to be a "joint employer" of those reverse centaurs behind the wheels of those vans:
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Amazon Faces Mounting Union Pressure as NLRB Case and Teamsters Wins Converge
Amazon faces NLRB claims of βoverwhelming controlβ over contract drivers while Teamsters secure new wins at Whole Foods distributor UNFI, signaling union momentum and potential labor cost pressures across Amazonβs logistics ecosystem.Jerome Washington (FreightCaviar)
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This is the very last residue of the NLRB's authority, the rest having been drained away by Trump as part of Project 2025. If they prevail, it will open the door to drivers suing Amazon for unfair labor practices under both federal and state law - and in California and New York, that labor law just got a *lot* tougher for Amazon:
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The chickenized reverse centaur is a new circle of labor hell, a genuinely innovative way of making workers' lives worse in order to extract more billions for one of the most profitable companies in history.
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Alternatively you could just call them Meat Puppets? Contracted to "muppets".
(I went for that in "Quantum of Nightmares".)
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I was going to comment on the later part of this thread that this is why I dislike Amazon.
Now I learn I have a reason to dislike the US poultry industry.
And makes me wonder how much better / worse things are in Canada.
Both for the chickens and the Amazon subcontracted workers.
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The "chicken industry" in the entire civilised world is something YOU DO NOT WANT to look too closely into...
...least you intend on becoming a #vegetarian and an animal rights activist.
Now, now. Surgical removal is important, otherwise they might peck each other to death!
...what why are you looking at me like that
So Katy got a scam text claiming to be Canada Post with an underliverable package. I'm in the process of gathering information to send a report to their registrar's abuse department, but they're doing something clever to cover their tracks that I haven't fully been able to unravel.
For context, here is the link (with spaces added to prevent it from turning into an actual link and being accidentally clicked):
https:// canadapost-postecanadadeliverylivraison .com/canadapost/index.php
When opened from Safari on her phone, it loads a realistic looking phishing site, but when opened from any other browser, it returns an empty (0 bytes) page. I assume this is to hamper attempts to investigate abuse claims (though the domain name is already pretty incriminating).
Since there doesn't appear to be any kind of unique identifier, I assumed this to be some kind of spear phishing attack that was based on her browser's User-Agent string, but when I tell curl to mimic it, I still don't get a result.
Any ideas about how they're doing this?
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There are ways to determine what sort of browser is actually being used, even if the User-Agent string is set to pretend to be a different browser.
For a while, Disney+ was using this to make sure you weren't trying to watch it on a Linux computer.
I don't know what genius thought that was a good idea, but after some months they must have realized they were punching themselves in the nuts for no reason and stopped blocking Linux usage.
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In a world where an algorithm is working on programming **you**, right now, to accept complacency, it feels real good to assert control over something minor like "dumping your own ROM" or "ripping your own media".
If someone's pumped about that, don't harsh their buzz by telling them they can get it from a piracy website.
Your snark might make you feel good but if it's diminishing someone else's light, knock that shit off.
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I should start looking on how to dump GameBoy cartridges.
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I remember the Asilomar accords in the late 70's declared behavioral modification to be generally unethical, especially in regard to areas where there isn't rigorous informed consent.
Fallout from the Stanford prison experiment.
yea, feels liberating and has its practical advantages. my rips are usually better quality than whatever tv screen recorded torrent from 2007 I can find.
Easy to copy to one of the many used 2tb salvaged hdds i have lying around and give to friends too.
Also learning how to dump your own ROMs or rip your own media is a useful skill to acquire in the event that you have a physical copy of something that can't be found on the places you'd go to yar har.
You might just become the source of preservation of a piece of media, or maybe having that physical copy is now more convenient than trying to yar har online.
I just got an email today from my doctor that there will be a charge of $25 for prescription renewals when requested by the pharmacy effective... at the beginning of this month (retroactively?).
Katy and I just renewed five prescriptions this way yesterday.
It's been a morning of interesting and stressful phone calls.
too many people try to avoid calling the doc by letting the pharmacy do it and some docs are inundated by the e requests.
It's easier on everyone if you can try to get all prescriptions updated during your doc visit.
@e bored Sure, but up until this point that was the way he specifically told us to do it.
The thing that's changed is that he can no longer bill OHIP* for these renewals.
* Ontario Health Insurance Plan
I keep saying it, but I think there needs to be a much more robust cultural conversation about tech and consent where it concerns custodianship over other peoples' data.
If I know details about you such as your contact information, or hold work of yours in trust, how does my own relationship with tech affect and respect that trust?
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I don't know of or have any answers here. More I intend this as a kind of consciousness-raising? If you're writing a privacy guide, please consider broadening past the individual reader; if you're in a peer group, try to find ways to model raising these questions.
The default will always, *always* be what malicious actors make sure is the easiest choice β full submission and full subversion of community trust.
It has come to my attention that my favourite jacket is falling apart. I would like to repair it for two reasons:
- I love this jacket.
- I can't afford a new one right now.
I have no opposition to #VisibleMending.
Suggestions?
#AskFedi #ClothingRepair
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So, I spent hours trying to fix it the way that I had planned and was met with frustration. Katy eventually had the idea to remove the cuffs, shorten the sleeves by about an inch, and reattach the cuffs. They were a little on the long side anyway.
Is it the neatest repair job ever? No. Are both sleeves exactly the same length? Also no.
Buy you know what? We spent hours working on this. It's good enough.
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Spiked rivets?
Or... beaded tassels?
Then afterwards please explain to me how to do it?
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Either a parachute stitch (but given that there stitching already on one edge it might be unpleasant to do) or a canvas patch (preferably both inside and outside) and running stitch embroidery to keep them in place. Colours and designs of your choice.
@PeryleneBleu TIL, thanks!
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Mending resource: Parachute rangers stitch
We call this technique the Parachute rangers stitch, but it has many other names aswell. It is used all over the world to keep cloth edges together and its a strong, easy stitch.Kerstin NeumΓΌller (Second Sunrise)
@PalmAndNeedle @sinituulia @heartofcoyote a narrow patch wouldn't be awkward I think. It would be a bit bulky, that's all.
Your idea works too, but it requires more skill and time.
Any of this could be done with fun contrasting colours, by hand or by machine!
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It is the perfect stich for repairing jeans etc. with or without patches.
@Jonathan Lamothe I wonder how the jacket would look with two bands of contrasting colour bias tape sewn (by hand, if I had to do it) around the cuff seam.
but I'm not sure it would last long, if the rip is because it's a high friction area, maybe you'd need something stronger than bias tape
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@pteryx exactly!
One of @pluralistic 's points in his new book feels especially relevant: competition enables regulation, because it's one lever companies can use to get a leg up. If Joe's AC figures out how to produce more efficient AC's, they'll to *ask* regulators to label AC's with their energy consumption to boost their sales. Conversely, if there's only a few companies, they have tons of profit to spend on lobbyists to *protect* them from regulation that could threaten their profits.
but then who would referee the referee?
One of Cory's points is that greed was not invented in the 21st century - it will always be there, and we will always need checks and balances
Maybe the fact that people are forming emotional connections on genAI chatbots means we have an unmet need for social workers and therapists and in fact should invest more heavily into these fields as a society
Because given the scale of investments on genAI itβs pretty fucking clear we have the money
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But the thing with LLMs is they'll just say whatever is statistically likely to be enchanting; some people will just prefer that. π€·π»ββοΈ
Thought I had berry juice on my hand from the food I was eating so I licked it.
It was ink.
I love my #FountainPen but sometimes...
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Not that knowledgable about that ink/line. I have noted that stuff like walnut ink, tea ink, sumi ink, very much can have a distinct flavour. A fair amount of ball point ink I've noticed certainly has a flavour. But some of the potential fountain pen inks, I can see basically not having anything you'd note.
I'll have to look up that ink.
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cause "salad" originally meant anything chopped and sprinkled with salt long before it meant specifically lettuce, etc.
Salad - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
Late 14c. "late" originates from Old French salade and Medieval Latin salata, meaning "salted vegetables," from Latin sal "salt," reflecting its meaning of season...etymonline
how about- and stay with me- cabbage, mayo and a little vinegar?
Or, if youβre like me, a bottle of good wine vinegar, and a straw
Snickers salad - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snickersβ¦
Huh. I appealed the speed camera ticket online. They sent an email saying that it was being reviewed but nothing else since. Suddenly this morning when I try to check the status of the ticket, it doesn't seem to exist any more.
I don't want to just assume they've waived it, but I don't know what else to make of this. It'd be nice to have some sort of confirmaion.
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But Marc Andreesen said the only job that would not be automated by AI is venture capitalist (presumably because it can be automated by a bank account and an RNG)
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Marc Andreessen says AI can't replace his job: VC tech investing
Marc Andreessen thinks AI can do every job in the world β except hisAdam Rogers (Business Insider)
Why would anyone bother to automate something that didn't need doing in the fist place?
If every CEO on the planet keeled over and died tonight then the world would happily tick along without them tomorrow morning.
I worked at a company years ago, & for some reason was left alone in the CEOs office. He had one of the fancy DEC terminals we all coveted, not even turned on. I unplugged the serial cable (this dates this anecdote) and left.
A month later I happened to be in there & noticed the terminal was still unplugged.
There are engaged, hard-working CEOs out there. There are also completely useless fuckwits who contribute nothing positive. Their companies run despite them, not because of them.
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I was always bothered by the scene in #StarTrek II when they used Reliant's prefix code. The input device they used made absolutely no sense from an electronics (or user interface) standpoint.
It just recently occurred to me though that it makes absolute sense from a quick and dirty movie prop standpoint.
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In today's age of internet security, the handful of numeric digits is clearly not an effective password.
Maybe we can assume that there was some kind of additional layer of authentication behind the scenes, such as voiceprints based on the pronunciation of the digits...or coming in on a channel encrypted with Starfleet protocols, etc.
The computer certainly had to set up the codes so the crew could just throw the switches.
Had the car towed to the mechanic's and walked to my brother-in-law's to wait for the mechanic to call us with the damage.
That was a longer walk than I expected. We also took a "shortcut" along a walking trail that I found on OpenStreetMap.
I was sure we were going to spawn a true crime documentary: couple disappear into woods never to be seen again.
Had to power cycle my router and my sshfs mounts... persisted somehow?
I'm not complaining, but I am confused.
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We were driving home and suddenly heard a clunk and the battery light on the dash suddenly came on.
Fantastic. We've been driving Instacart to make ends meet. We can't afford a huge repair bill right now. Hopefully it's just the alternator belt that snapped.
This car is 20 years old. It's not like it owes us any favours, but it's still a problem. The one positive thing I can say about this car is that of the two major issues it's had, it's always had the courtesy to break down a couple blocks from home so that we can limp back there and figure out what to do next.
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A screenshot of a social media post. It reads:
I love public libraries because they are built on the principle that books are so important and so necessary to human flourishing that access to them cannot depend on your income.
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Just saw lemons priced at .98Β’
I wonder if Verizon's gotten into the grocery business.
@π °π »π Έπ ²π ΄ (ππ¦) A question about security pins:
My understanding is that the said pins are the key pins, not the driver pins, so if I'm gentle enough to not over set them, the shape of the pin should be completely irrelevant, right? I mean, they'd only pose a problem if they were pushed beyond the shear line, wouldn't they?
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