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djsundog

@djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology

Trying to break things that need breaking, deliberately and after much reflection, make things in a likewise manner, and generally reshape the various worlds I inhabit to be slightly more habitable.

into music, retrocomputing, people, caring, and thinking.

dislike capitalism, cryptocurrency, terfs, nazis, fascists, racists, & edgelords.

Support me: https://liberapay.com/sundog/

My posts are licensed CC-BY-NC-ND - see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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djsundog, to random
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if you're an android user and you get a text message from Gemini, Google's oft-renamed bullshit machine, do yourself and the rest of us a favor and

  • long-press the message to select it
  • open the three dot menu in the upper right
  • select "block"
  • leave the checkbox marked to "report spam"
  • submit that shit

send every signal possible to the corporate drones that we don't want this bullshit invading our lives.

djsundog, to random
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good morning fediverse :cofepats:

congratulations on not being banned from all tribal lands in the state of South Dakota unlike that state's shithead governor.

:blobpats:

djsundog, to random
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if I had a centralized single-location non-computer business, my business would be safest if the software I needed to use had absolutely nothing to do with the internet. every time we push small businesses into the cloud we're setting them up for pain.

the cat still running his auto garage in eastern europe on a commodore 64 clone and a dot matrix printer will never ever succumb to ransomware or the whims of a cloud app.

djsundog,
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better a triple-carbon pad, pen, and calculator than a cloud solution to "empower small business"

djsundog,
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offer free wifi. stream soma fm over the intercom system. have damn web browsing kiosks if you want.

but keep your business recordkeeping off the ding dang internet and it won't get ding dang ransomwared or virused or anything. you don't need to spend more money on subscriptions, you need to have something stable and secure that'll work for your record keeping needs for a decade or more.

djsundog, to random
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I was doing a wiki rabbit hole about Tom Morello yesterday to make sure I hadn't missed any of his side projects.

I hadn't.

But I had missed the bit where his father was a participant in the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya and became Kenya's first delegate to the UN, and his uncle became the first democratically elected president of Kenya. And that's not to mention his mom's long history of activist work here in USia.

So yeah, that's how you make a Tom Morello, obviously.

djsundog, to random
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the inverse of "make sure you have working backups of what's important" is "give yourself permission to delete digital detritus that no longer has any value to your life"

you do not need every email you've received for the last decade.

you do not need three copies of every photo you've ever taken with your phone.

you do not need the downloads folder for each of your previous twelve laptops.

you can delete some stuff.

djsundog, to random
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yesterday I crashed pretty hard energy-wise. I've been pushing, trying to get a lot done on multiple fronts, and my body finally called me on it and knocked me back into sleep mid-day to try and recharge a bit.

still tired even after my nap, I decided to listen and go easy on myself and my body.

ended up spending my evening doing something I rarely do anymore: binge watching a video series.

1/?

djsundog,
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I used to watch a lot more video content, and it wasn't unusual for me to spend long stretches of time watching an entire tv series or what have you.

but my attention wanders a lot more easily these days, and I always feel the pressure to be doing something productive, and you know how it is. so, I don't end up watching a lot of video anymore. short pieces, disconnected, light.

djsundog,
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but yesterday afternoon, post-nap, and through the evening, I decided to catch up on some video that I've been way behind on wanting to watch for the last nine months or so. so I did, and the world continued to spin the entire time - phew!

maybe it's not as important for me to feel so tied to productivity on a moment by moment basis, hm?

but this isn't a thread about my feels or my hangups (directly ha) but about the video I was watching.

djsundog,
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y'all have heard me go on about the band I play bass in, Doctor Deathray and Her Implements of Destruction, and my wonderful bandmates - the good doctor herself, drum slayer extraordinaire taxdan, and our keyboard pounding multi-instrumentalist Connor.

but what's not always apparent is how versatile and diversely talented my bandmates are, and how incredibly active they are.

so, let's talk a bit about Connor and his video production work of late.

djsundog,
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Connor's been killing it keeping new content flowing on New Ellijay TV, and nowhere does it shine through more in my opinion than in his ongoing series titled "The Hastening (of the end of imperialism)". The writing, the research, and the production of The Hastening is all headed up by Connor, and while I've had the opportunity and privilege of being on the inside of the conversations about making The Hastening happen, I haven't been good about sitting down to watch it.

that changed yesterday, and it's so overdue.

djsundog,
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The Hastening is one of the most well-researched and laid out looks at the USian empire and its long-term strategies and imperialism around the world and the effects thereof and the impact on our daily lives. It's a look at US history from an angle that US residents do not get in our public or private education systems, and I believe that it's a critical piece in self-educating towards a more humane and just society.

You can, of course, watch it on New Ellijay TV here: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/p/fJ5N6WqaZwUJ79UbUH7raK - it's fediverse native video powered by peertube. Righteous.

djsundog, to random
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we gon do what they say caint be done

djsundog, to random
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it should infuriate you that thousands of people in the world manage to make life virtually unlivable for billions of people for no reason.

whitequark, to random
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found some extremely Normal code in one of my projects

djsundog,
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@whitequark jesus

djsundog, to random
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I'd like to thank our younger cousins who are patient with us older cousins who are bitter gen x kids that took on high doses of premium-grade propaganda as we detox. A bunch of us are doing the work, and we're trying to get it to spread, but as y'all have already clued into, it's damn pervasive and entrenched. We'll keep going and we've got your back.

ajroach42, to newellijaytv
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I have no intention of advertising on Facebook, but Facebook notified me a few days ago that I was no longer allowed to.

I appealed, curious as to the reason.

They said it was becuase of sensitive political content.

We got banned from advertising for producing The Hastening for @newellijaytv

djsundog,
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@ajroach42 @newellijaytv we should make a nice commemorative plaque!

stefan, to ai
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Oh wow.

"To develop AI/ML models, our systems analyse Customer Data (e.g. messages, content and files) submitted to Slack as well as Other Information (including usage information) as defined in our privacy policy and in your customer agreement."

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

Via https://awscommunity.social/@Quinnypig/112452921509401306

djsundog,
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@stefan because who doesn't want their internal business communications fed into one or more of their vendors' poorly conceived "AI" projects

djsundog, to random
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Okay can I get a prototype or three for New Ellijay?

https://newatlas.com/transport/monocab-self-balancing-monorail-commuter-pods/

djsundog, to random
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I would have uploaded this directly but the video came in at a half gig and by the time I got it small enough to appease mastodon it was even shittier than what the goog does with it, so here ya go:

a demonstration of the strength of a wisteria vine (and your chance to hear me narrate a silly short video if you've been curious as to what I sound like (this title has gotten long suddenly, yet nowhere near as long as a fiona apple album title probably, but whomst count))

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=bM8NfFTBPmk

djsundog,
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for a more thorough yet less entertaining update about #StormageddonInSundogistan2024 I've put another half-day into limbing and analyzing and limbing some more and finally got to take the top ten meters off tree #2 (the hemlock directly in front of the garden shed, to the left of the one in the video) and most of the supporting branches removed as well, so once I get another ten meters off the top I'll revisit the supporting branches bc they're under hella pressure and I'm tryna finish this without being tree-bucheted (listen, it's funny, I'm gonna re-use it once in a while)

djsundog, to random
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the sun is chasing out the deluge of rain and clouds and the sky is lightening.

hail the damn orb. that fucker sure comes through.

djsundog, to random
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Let's talk a little about Philippe Kahn.

This cat founded Borland, makers of Turbo Pascal and friends.

This cat cobbled together the first digital camera+cell phone combination, to share pics of his newborn child.

This cat developed rudimentary sleep trackers so boat crew could maximize their power naps.

djsundog,
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In 1990, after taking Borland International, Inc. from a nickel-and-dime nobody to a Brand Name taking on Microsoft for developer mindshare, apparently Kahn felt the need to flex some of the non-tech stuff swimming inside him.

This led to the release of the only album I know of that was published by Borland Musical Craftmanship, a division of Borland International.

Catalog number BMC-1001.

Philippe Kahn's "Pacific High", published in 1991.

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