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A video of my speech to Tri-Pride festival here in Waterloo Region on June 6. Runs about 16 minutes all told, probably 12 of them are me. The other four are a very kind introduction by the MC and former head of Tri-Pride and my good friend, Kamil Ahmed (he/him).
The reference to Jan Liggett and Adam Cooper near the end is to this story:
My speech has a few naughty words in it, so maybe don't put the sound up high if you're gonna be overheard by a prude.
Sorry about the sound quality - the wind was a bit fierce, and I haven't received the second angle we set up yet, which hopefully will have different windy bits.
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.Fullmetal Feminist (YouTube)
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Thanks for sharing your story here! Waterloo Region is fortunate to have benefited from 30 years of your activism. And from your ongoing activism in this municipal election year!
And yeah, the wind noise is something, but your message got through 😀❤️
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Ok, I toss this out every 6mos or so as fedi grows...
I'm gathering local connections of fedi folk in #Guelph and area. Get some low key meatspace hang outs going on.
Walks, masked movie nights or board games, knitting in a coffee shop, hanging out at the library...
I'm hoping to do more structured events at some point but am pretty low energy these days so keeping it simple.
We have a signal group to connect and organise. Hit me up if you'd like an invite.
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On a related note, we should totes do a #fediMeetup here. Comfy chairs in the shade of city hall. Cool trees and water.
*happy sigh*
Give me a wave if you want to make this happen.
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And I am once again looking to hire someone to come in for 2hr/week to help with food prep and house cleaning. Pays $20/hr, DT #Guelph
In particular, we're getting a weekly CSA produce delivery and need help to make sure we use it up. We're two burned out autistics, so aren't great at improvising or meal planning on the fly.
Just need a chill grounded person to help keep the basics under control so we can spend our spoons on building resiliency (and fun, we need fun!) .
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It is 12:50 PM and I have just checked off the last item on my to-do list for the day. This is unprecedented.
Anyone have ridiculous #InternetOfShit examples you're really fond of?
Toasters, coffee machines, or microwaves that don't work without Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. Vacuum, TV, or toothbrush botnets. Preferably something you have a picture of, from first hand experience.
I teach an #EmbeddedSystems class, and it's good to show examples of what *not* to do, in case they pursue the industry. (Boost for reach appreciated)
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My cousin and sister both have Bosch series 4 dishwashers. Sister's has WiFi, cousin's doesn't, and it seems the only other difference between them is that sister must use the app to access certain programs, because the button that activates them on cousin's dishwasher was changed to the WiFi connect button on hers. Because obviously it's so much easier to unlock the phone, scroll to the app, wait for the app to open, scroll to the dishwasher and tap the program there instead of pressing the button on the dishwasher itself.
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Whenever I think of IoT devices, I think of this Mitch Hedberg bit. It's been my guiding principle for all my home automation:
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"An escalator can never break..." 🎤: Mitch Hedberg #shorts
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I don't necessarily know if this holds true everywhere, but at least in my area, #OrganicMaps is really good for planning #cycling routes.
#bicycle
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This probably has something to do with @CyclingGuide (@uxMark can correct me, but I believe they upstream their OSM cycling fixes).
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@flyingsquirrel @CyclingGuide Yes, any fixes we make to OSM data are available to everyone. In general, though, Waterloo Region has an excellent and active OSM community. So @CyclingGuide does benefit from that 😀🚴♀️❤️
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No, you just tried to tab-complete your password. 🙃
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I'm never quite sure what to do when people make the (false) claim that there are no "algorithms" on the fedi/Mastodon. I mostly just ignore it because I don't know how to respond without coming across like a pedantic asshole.
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I'll be pedantic for you. Reverse chronological *is* an algorithm.
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I want to know who's the genius who thought that it was a good idea to put the enter "key" on my on-screen keyboard so close to the make-keyboard-go-away button.
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Picked up a used #bicycle for @Katy Lamothe because the battery on her e-bike is not holding a charge any more. Our car is very small, but it wasn't terribly far so I had her drop me off for the pick-up and I just rode it home while she took the car back.
I am in much worse shape than I expected. We'll be working on that this summer though.
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I feel like this whole Anthropic export ban thing should be a wakeup call to anyone outside the US that if you've been newly developing a dependency on a proprietary US cloud service the government could decide to restrict export access to at any moment, you've made a strategic error and should probably reconsider that.
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Self host, its not that hard to put linux on that old computer and run your own services from your home. #TakeTheInternetBack
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I love it when people decide to just light every single one of my spoons on fire first thing in the morning, especially when they're probably oblivious to the fact that they've just done so.
I got three identical pitchers from the dollar store for making cold brew coffee. Recently one of them broke, so I picked up a replacement from the dollar store yesterday. This morning I noticed that the new one is slightly different.
This does not bother me at all.
Broke the #bicycle out for the first time this summer. I got this thing second-hand from Facebook marketplace a couple years back and never really had it serviced. I know I probably should.
Anyhow, the brakes were feeling kind of off, so I decided to have a look at them to see if it was a simple enough problem that I could fix myself. I don't know the first thing about bike repair, but after a few moments of following cables and using my eyes and brain, I was able to determine that whoever last did the brakes on this thing knew even less about what they were doing than I did.
Long story short, my rear brakes actually work now—though I should probably have someone who knows what they're doing have a look at it. I just lack the funds to do so at present.
Also, bike repair is less scary than I originally thought.
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Mine was built from parts found on a day out scavenging around.. it works and has never cost me a penny.. build them from what you find
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Had to do a purge of the stuff in my bag. I was in denial about it, but it was starting to throw my shoulder out. Nothing in it was that heavy, but the cumulative weight was getting excessive.
Hard decisions had to be made.
Purging *any* possesions needs to be done on a regular basis for a myriad of reasons. It is a cleansing process.
@a.k.a. low-profile It's not that I'm getting rid of anything—apart from the dried out disposable lens wipes I found in the bottom of tje bag. It's about not carrying them on my person at all times.
I don't get rid of things easily, but on the flip side, I don't acquire things easily either.
So, is there a free or very inexpensive alternative to Let's Encrypt? It's one of the last US-based services I'm dependent on.
The mere service of creating certificates isn't an issue - you can do that yourself. I did before Let's Encrypt existed.
The problem is that you need to use a service that is authorized by an authority trusted by major browsers - and all of the major browsers have strong US ties. So even if you could replace Let's Encrypt as such with a service that, in itself, isn't US-based, it wouldn't really solve the problem of being dependent on US-based entities.
Had to replace my glucose monitor because it turns out that they expire (who knew?)
Anyhow, I officially hate the new one. It's clunkier, has a worse interface (everything is pictographs instead of text), requires more blood, is slower, and the first reading I got from it was very decidedly wrong (presumably because I hadn't applied enough blood). It said 3.2 mmol/L. I'm pretty sure I'd be, if not dead, at least feeling a little off at that reading. Did a second test (with more blood) and got a more reasonable result.
Life pro tip: when charging your devices, it is helpful to ensure that both ends of the charge cable are connected.
In other news: I guess I'm using my spare earbuds today.
Aaaaand my #ADHD meds are back ordered... so that's fun.
moral of the movie: AI in education is going great #monsterdon
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Damn it!
I heard my alarm, silenced it, acknowkedged what it was for, and then proceeded to not take my pills. 🤬
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#Monsterdon You know, schools are just buildings.
If there's a lawless zone surrounding the school building, you could just hold school somewhere else.
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#Monsterdon In every lawless zone, there's always one gang member who decides to wear a top hat.
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#Monsterdon This is such an old-man premise for a movie.
The kids these days. They're out of control! Not respectful like we were back in the olden days.
If this continues we'll need to use institutional violence to keep the kids in line!
Who is this movie for?
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#Monsterdon This movie is like a right wing teacher's fantasy come to life.
Just watching it I can feel myself getting older.
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#Monsterdon If only teachers had a predictable schedule, this could have been avoided.
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#Monsterdon Is he trying to do a "tough" voice?
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#Monsterdon She's a small wonder!
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#Monsterdon If I was in charge of converting war robots to teachers, I'd probably have removed the ammo from their rocket launchers.
To prevent damage to the facilities if nothing else.
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#Monsterdon "It's ok, It's ok."
It's really not, though.
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#Monsterdon The other robots had a machine gun and a rocket launcher, this guy gets he claw from a claw machine.
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#Monsterdon It's weird how military robots always keep their brains in their heads.
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#Monsterdon If I ran a high school in the LAWLESS FREE-FIRE ZONES I wouldn't leave the fire axe on the wall.
That's just asking for trouble.
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#Monsterdon Is this supposed to be parody?
Or are we not supposed to notice this scene is a Terminator rip-off?
#Monsterdon Well, the second half was better than the first half.
I mean, it was still very stupid, but at least it wasn't a conservative old man's fantasy about how kids today don't have any respect.
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#Monsterdon This movie does raise an interesting philosophical question though.
How many gang members can die to save a single preppy girl and still be considered a happy ending?
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You are supposed to notice...in current fandom, it is recognized as an "homage"
(Hollywood stealing)
Still better than Steve Guttenberg doing Batman voice in 2 Lava 2 Lantula
Seriously, though. They could have waited a bit longer for the gangs to thin themselves out.
@Ben Ramsey @Andy L. Yeah, that made zero sense to me too. I mean, it's not exactly as though there was a whole lot about this movie thay made sense to begin with.
Now that we've set them at each other's throats, rather than letting the problem resolve itself, let's just kill them all.So, what was the point of this whole ruse then? I take it all back.
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There's literally one damn place in this whole classroom they could possibly be hiding, but let's search in the opposite direction, because reasons. #monsterdon
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Do these things even have value as military weapons if they can't determine who they're supposed to kill? #monsterdon
Hey fedi,
I want to do some experimentation with #sixels. What's the simplest graphics format that I can export from #krita that I can then write a tool to convert into the sixel format?
My naïve guess would be bitmap, but knowing the formats of that era, I'm willing to bet there are at least a half dozen different incompatible .bmp formats.
So yeah, I was right about the technical debt present in .bmp, but all is not yet lost. I have a solution.
It turns out that GIMP supports exporting to the QOI format, which is actually pretty reasonable. It's an extra step, but hey, whatever works.
"You know that #ADHD meds are addictive, right? They're basically speed!" 🤡
Listen... if I were in danger of getting addicted, I wouldn't need daily reminders to keep me from forgetting to take them. 🤦♂️
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Previous person I dated didn't believe ADHD was a real thing. I hope she got the ADHD diagnosis and medication she obviously needed.
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Has literally anyone at literally any point ever offered a logically-sound rationale for said nonsense?
Because I am f***ing baffled as to how it became popular to say “your disorder in particular is fake” about ADHD of all things.
I don't have it myself, but as far as I can tell, it's a neurological disorder like any other, and I don't see anybody sounding off about epilepsy or Parkinson's being fake.
@argv_minus_one I suspect people are uninformed about most things that don't affect them, and many things that do. That's my best explanation. They once heard someone say something and that's all they know about that thing.
@argv_minus_one another part is that some neurological disorders aren't obvious and people don't believe what they don't perceive.
@ARGVMI~1.PIF @Shae Erisson I think it just stems from neurotypicals not being able to comprehend the notion that other people's minds work differently from their own. I don't have this issue so much because I've spent my life surrounded by neurotypicals, so I see this fact first hand every day.
Because they fail to grasp this concept, they're led to the conclusion that we're lazy and/or simply lack willpower, and it's our fault for not just "buckling down". Sadly, they end up inadvertently gaslighting us as a result. I've had to work very hard to try to reverse this conditioning.
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Just had a (very brief) power outage, but despite the modem rebooting, all my TCP connections seem to have remained intact. Wireguard is kind of cool.
when teaching I describe TCP as a shared dream between two computers.
I also teach how to keep coffee shop Wi-Fi fair when one person is trying to steal all the bandwidth.
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@Katy Lamothe and I went out for a walk in a little wooded area near the apartment, because... you know... health. We were immediately eaten by mosquitos, so we pulled the plug and came home with an emotional support pizza.
This was kind of the antithesis of what we were going for, but hey, I get to eat pizza. Thus, I'm going to call it a win.
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BBOARD and the read new posts command is now scanning the REQUESTS board. Time to make a coffee, I guess.
"a quick google search would have answered your question" mfs when i arrived at the reddit post from a google search
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Glad to see that my country has decided on a soverign snake oil policy. We can't be dependent on foreign nations for our snake oil supply!
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@Jonathan Lamothe fuckfuckfuckfuck this is catestrophic! This is really bad. This holy fuck. Holy fuck. This press release is a doomsday scenario.
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Now that we've replaced our (long overdue) mattress, it's only served to reinforce what trash our pillows are.
Damn it. 🤬
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Reading up on Sixels.
My god, some of the stuff hardware/software engineers came up with in the 80s was elegant AF.
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@fedops 💙💛 The intended use case was for being able to use graphics over an SSH connection from my mobile (Android) devices. I'm currently using Termux. The options there are... sparse.
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Did I mention that this week is SYNTH WEEK on Dubious Goals Committee?
Tune in every day at 19:30 UTC to anonradio.net/ and hear live patching and music!
In North America:
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And:
20:30 London
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Interesting article on the whole phenomonon of AI replacing human workers:
cbc.ca/news/world/ai-agents-te…
I loved the marketing spin from an AI company that said:
She outworks everyone. And she’ll never ask for a raise
What this really means:
We don't have to ask for a raise. We'll just wait 'till you're dependent on our product and then jack up the price because you won't be able to do anything about it at that point.
If it weren't for all the people who are going to lose thir jobs over this nonsense, it'd be amusing to watch.
@Darcy Casselman Yup. That's more or less it. I'm just waiting for the inevitable massive price hike when these AI companies decide that maybe they should stop just lighting so much money on fire.
So, I've struggled with restless leg syndrome for years. It always happens when I'm getting tired, and, frustratingly, makes it difficult to sleep. I thought it was something I'd just have to live with. It turns out, sleeping with a weighted blanket makes a huge difference.
Maybe that can help soneone else.
Also, it turns out I just really like the feeling of sleeping under a weighted blanket.
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I experienced restless leg for #LongCovid and can imagine, so I'm glad you found something that makes a huge difference! I'll keep it in mind if RLS comes back or if other friends mention it.
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The USS Enterprise has been granted the simple but unavoidable honor of ferrying key guests to Betazed for a cultural ceremony.Cassandra Rose Clarke
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Everything's getting sloppified. It's kind of making me want to just throw my computer into the ocean.
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#monsterdon #ultraman #PreShow
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