Andres4NY

Andres4NY, 10 months ago to random

I had misunderstood what "Checks & Balances" meant in my civics education. Apparently it means that the balance is tipped in favor of whoever can write the biggest checks to legislators & justices.

Andres4NY, 7 months ago to climate

That's not "irony." That's exactly the kind of shit that protesters are warning us about.

#ClimateChange #NYC #NYCFlooding

mekkaokereke, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Rapper Meek Mill is wondering out loud if Africans have access to streaming music apps like Spotify, and if so, if they listen to his music.

There aren't enough stories about the Africans working at big tech companies, but there are a lot of us. There are many Ghanaians, South Africans, Kenyans, and Nigerians 🙋🏿‍♂️, working in tech.

I often remind folks that Nigerian 7th grade math curriculum includes binary, octal, hexadecimal, statistics and data, algebra, and geometry.

https://youtu.be/2JTnr9XW-lk?si=D4ch-nw-zDkKNiAe

Andres4NY, 9 months ago to debian

We will be disabling remote attestation (Web Environment Integrity) in #Debian's #chromium package.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/02/self-incrimination/

Andres4NY, 3 months ago to random

Every "we're updating our Terms of Service" email that a company sends out should be legally required to include a link that allows you to delete your account.

Oh fantastic, that free service I used once 5 years ago to RSVP for a party still has my email and now has new Terms? How about you lose my information immediately?

Andres4NY, 7 months ago to random

Correction: faster than our politicians can respond. Infrastructure can actually be modified pretty quickly once you stop prioritizing cars everywhere.

https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/111149268661592084

Andres4NY, 4 months ago to random

publicly-owned (library-maintained?) search engine when?

Andres4NY, 2 months ago to random

A reminder that especially during the anthropocene, blocking highways is a particularly good (and moral) way to protest.

https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/112078277444152886

Andres4NY, 1 month ago to random

Someone wrote this with a straight face, and an editor approved it.

Andres4NY, 1 month ago to random

UGH! I hate when articles act as if kids stopped going outside because parents were afraid of "stranger danger".

Parents were afraid of their kids CROSSING THE STREET. I literally wasn't allowed to cross the street in front of my house (which was a state highway) until I was 11 or 12. The street in front of my house!

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/

Cars, fuckers. Cars ruined our childhoods. Not cable tv and video games. Those were things we used to cope with the fact that we had no independence.

Andres4NY, 3 months ago to random

"Worldwide, there were more than 11,000 reported deaths from COVID between mid-December 2023 and mid-January 2024, and more than half of those deaths occurred in the U.S."

Yeah baby, still punching well above our weight!

chants U-S-A! U-S-A!

https://ecoevo.social/@marcrr/111894833812326536

Andres4NY, 5 months ago to random

This has all the features I look for in a car: compact, fuel efficient, and pasta.

Side view of the car. There's some Italian women in a field eating flat bread and noodles and laughing . As you do.

Andres4NY, 1 month ago to random

prison abolition except for the person who invented blister packs - that asshole can rot

Andres4NY, 5 days ago to random

I don't know about anyone else, but heat makes me super fucking cranky. So it makes sense to me that our heating of the oceans is making aquatic animals extra feisty... https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/112442290068570992

Andres4NY, 5 months ago to Cats

My plans to work on the bike in the living room have been.. complicated. #cats #CatsOfMastodon

Andres4NY, 3 months ago to random

All three things are true in the US:

1. Driving should be a lot more expensive (fewer/no subsidies).
2. Transit should be a lot cheaper (more subsidies, and ideally free).
3. Transit should be a lot more frequent, clean, reliable, and predictable.

https://mastodon.social/@bryanculbertson/111835936839718570

Andres4NY, 3 months ago to random

Time to build: about 45 mins (not including soldering the power supply)
Materials:
(4) $5 Arctic P12 fans
(2) $10 10x20x1 1200D filtrete MERV-11 filters
(2) $7 20x20x1 1500 MERV-12 filtrete filters (pack of 12 off ebay)
duct tape
zip ties
cardboard
12V power supply (free because I soldered a random old adapter, but normally $10 plus $3 or so for a splitter. Or get the fans with built-in splitters)

Total: approx $55, next one will cost about $70.
Roughly 225cfm and extremely quiet. #CRBox

Andres4NY, 1 month ago to OnePlus

This is my #BedroomClock. It's an old android phone (#Oneplus 3 running #DivestOS) with very cracked screen and various kinds of water damage. It's charging using a generic cradle/stand (https://www.ebay.com/itm/333407408496?var=542466415127), and the time is displayed using the following app from #fdroid https://f-droid.org/en/packages/omegacentauri.mobi.simplestopwatch/

I could use alarms and white noise if I wanted, but I don't need that so I mounted it up high, above a window.

Andres4NY, 3 months ago to random

What the ACTUAL fuck, #Gothamist editors?

You know what else is a convenient getaway method for criminals used for decades? Cars. Motorcycles. Heck, the biggest criminals I know use limos and private jets.

Andres4NY, 1 month ago to Costco

Somehow, #Costco was out of carts. I don't know how that happens. There were people waiting at the entrance, trailing other people to their cars to grab their carts.

"No sweat," I told the security people at the store entrance. "I brought my own cart."

#BikeTooter #CargoBikes #CarryShitOlympics #CargoBikeCart

Same bike, but this time the shot from behind the rear wheel. A black pannier hangs from the rear rack. The bike frame is white, with a blue box on a black platform. A hailong battery sits atop the platform. Same groceries in the box.

Andres4NY, 18 days ago to random

With all the news lately from every corner of the country, from state troopers all the way down to campus/private security behaving uniformly like psychopaths, it's almost as if all cops are.. I dunno, bastards, or something..

Andres4NY, 1 month ago to bikenyc

Lol, nope. #BikeNYC

Andres4NY, 7 months ago to random

stop voting cops for mayor progressive cities challenge

Andres4NY, 4 months ago to random

"One editorial opined that the new parkways would, by relieving the traffic load on the Southern and Northern State Parkways, 'Solve the problem of access to Moses' Long Island parks for generations.' The new parkways solved the problem for about 3 weeks. '[...]3 weeks after they opened that I decided to go out to Jones Beach on a Sunday', Paul Windels recalls, '[...]by God it was as jammed the Southern State ever was!'. Moses announced that he had the solution: build 45 miles of new parkways."

Andres4NY, 4 months ago to bikenyc

That's right #BikeNYC, you got beat out in this list by.. squints Raleigh, NC. 😬

https://mstdn.social/@greendesignek/111723160345624156