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Infoseepage

@Infoseepage@mastodon.social

Interests:
-Castles and British history
-Vintage computing
-Gadgets
-Photography
-Horror films
-Snorkeling

I'm a Covid cautious person doing my best to avoid plague carriers. Splitting my plague era between Maui and the PNW.

I've been a one man tech support guru for ages. I mostly do managed solutions / sysadmin type stuff for small businesses and remote tech support for end users, chiefly in the greater Seattle area. I like being exposed to a wide range of technical challenges.

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Infoseepage, to random
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The US has not airdropped any food over Gaza since May 9th. The total dropped by the US in total since March 2nd is 1220 ton. By the second week of the Berlin Airlift, the US had delivered more and by week three was dropping more tonnage daily than the US has dropped in total in more than 2 months. In fact, at its peak, the US and the UK were dropping close to 13000 tons A DAY to supply West Berlin with its food and fuel needs.

Infoseepage, to random
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Per US Centcom, the US doesn't appear to have done any airdrops of food since the 9th. The effort was always meager in the extreme, but right now essentially zero aid is flowing into Gaza.

Infoseepage, to Iceland
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Hörður Kristleifsson posted another of his 360 degree aerial panoramas of the eruption site in Iceland. This one was taken right after the eruption officially ended and you can seen down into the splatter cone, now devoid of lava.

Very cool and neat tool for getting an idea of the ground coverage this cycle of eruption produced.

Everyone is waiting to see what happens next.

https://kuula.co/post/5CrzJ

Infoseepage, to Iceland
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The Icelandic Met has issued a new bulletin about magma buildup in the Svartsengi area. Their current estimate of magma buildup based on surface deformation/land rise is 14 million cubic meters, which is equal or greater to the amounts which previously triggered eruptions in the area. They're advising that another eruption may be imminent and with very little warning, as the ground is already heavily fractured.

https://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news/volcanic-unrest-grindavik

dansup, to random
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I'm debating reviving my official pixelfed hosting service idea, it's not a regular host service though!

Rather you'd bring a S3, Hetzner, Linode, DigitalOcean API key to our service

We would provision or otherwise manage (1-click updates, automated backups) your instance while allowing you to maintain total control over ownership of the underlying server and data

I'm thinking $5-20 a month for this, and it would allow admins a new level of peace of mind while maintaining total control

Wdyt?

Infoseepage,
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@dansup I really like this idea. I've been a longtime Flickr user and have invested a lot of time pushing my photos to there, but it hasn't kept up with the times and has gone through a whole series of corporate acquisitions and pricing changes such that I no long upload photos there. It's a dead archive for me.

I love the idea of small "sovereign" hosting where I'm not going to get jerked around by the whims of the corporate world.

Some_Emo_Chick, to random
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Infoseepage,
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@Some_Emo_Chick I think I lost the ability to rely on my judgement as to whether something was real or satire in relation to Trump (based purely on the content) when they held a press conference at Four Seasons Landscaping.

timonsku, (edited ) to random
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Was more sparing with indoor masking on my last days and got the prompt receipt🫠

E: please no advise, I know everything you can possibly think of. It's my first infection and masked on any indoor thing past that one time where I likely got it (crowded restaurant)

Infoseepage,
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@timonsku I watch people try to bargain with this virus all the time. They tell themselves things like "cases are low right now and I really need some fun." Then the masks come off and they get the dreaded red line.

I hope it proves inconsequential for you, but know that it might not for someone else if you pass it on. Please isolate. Might want to get on some Paxlovid and Metformin stat to minimize your Long Covid chances.

TonyStark, to random
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I’ve said this before but apparently it hasn’t sunk in but if you say “Biden has lost my vote”, don’t expect anyone to listen to you or be surprised he’s not out gunning for it. The election is 6 months out. If there’s no way you’re voting for him, nobody fucking cares what you want.

You can enjoy likely a 7-2 or 8-1 conservative SCOTUS that will be grinding down our rights for the next generation or three. Enjoy that.

Infoseepage,
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@Pineywoozle @rohaq @jeff @TonyStark Your condescension is clear. I'm not voting for Biden in November. Many liberals for whom Biden's actions are absolutely beyond redemption won't either. He's already likely well beyond the margins for victory. The Democratic party needs to deal with that and deal with that promptly or they're going to lose massively in November. That isn't my fault, that is theirs.

ChrisPirillo, to random
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cool there's a new ipad that's pretty much the same as old ipads

Infoseepage,
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@ChrisPirillo Yeah, but the new one is even thinner and more breakable if you dare subject it to being put in a bag! This is clearly the feature that every user was asking for, for their $1000+ devices to have the rigidity of disposable aluminum grocery store cookware. 5mm thick is just stupidly thin. My Ipad Mini is 18mm thick in the case I got to make it actually real-world use survivable.

anirvan, to random
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"The music industry has been silent on Palestine. Star athletes, so central to the Black Lives Matter movement, have largely been too scared to speak. Most of Hollywood has kept quiet. I know artists and athletes who want to speak up for Palestine but are correctly concerned that they would be putting their careers in danger."

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/macklemore-hinds-hall-palestine/

Infoseepage,
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@anirvan Good article, I just wish they'd have mentioned why the Columbia students renamed the building to Hind's Hall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab

w7voa, to random
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In CNN interview, President Biden says he’ll stop sending bombs and artillery shells to Israel if they launch major invasion of Rafah. https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/08/politics/joe-biden-interview-cnntv/index.html

Infoseepage,
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@w7voa Someone should really ask him for an exact accounting of how much of everything he's sent him, particularly artillery shells, mk82, mk84 bombs, jdam kits, tank shells, etc.

I think the American public deserves to know just how much of the razing of hundreds of thousands of buildings in Gaza was done with American bombs.

Israel could have never acted against Gaza in the way that it has without the full bodied support of Joe Biden over the last 7 months.

faraiwe, to Russia
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"Hi, I am [ ], I lve in warm waters oblast in Amerika. I am Amerikan voter. I will not be voting for Biden"

Infoseepage,
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@faraiwe Hi, I'm an actual real live American Democrat with a traceable internet history going back decades. I will not be voting for Biden and I'm not a Russian stooge. I arrived by my convictions quite independently of any Russian influence operations. Thanks.

Infoseepage,
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@mu I'm against genocide. I'm against the murder of women and children. That's who I am at my core.

Infoseepage,
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@mu @t The choice in front of me is between two evils so dark I can't see a bit of grey between them. They're differently black voids. The outline is different, that is all. A man who can treat the lives of millions with such casual disregard like Biden has no bottom. I will not put that back into a office for a second term.

Infoseepage,
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@mu He's had leverage over Israel since the beginning. He's refused to use it. He's been a "concerns" troll for more than half a year while quietly sending them hundreds of weapons shipments of stuff like mk84 2k pound unguided bombs, which are grossly inappropriate for use in an urban environment. He didn't have to give them the tools to do this and could have at any point stopped. That was within his power and within the law.

Infoseepage,
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@mu He could have conditioned aid in any number of ways, not least of which is unrestricted US humanitarian aid, which is required explicitly in at least two major US laws under which arms transfers to Israel have been authorized. He didn't. IMO, he's been breaking both international law and US law, in violation of his presidential oath of office and the faithful execution clause of the constitution.

Infoseepage,
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@mu He's been the single biggest backer of Israel's genocide.

His airdrop effort has only ever operated as a PR exercise. I think Joe Biden is quite content to hand weapons to Israel and give them a free hand, even after seeing what they've done with them. He's only ever been concerned about the political fallout, and I think he and the whole party have massively misjudged how big that was going to be.

Infoseepage,
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@mu I'm evidence of that. I'm a long registered D voter, D donor and D volunteer who will not vote for him.

I think the number of liberal Democrats he's completely alienated put him well beyond the margin of victory.

Infoseepage,
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@mu My choice at this point is to double down and try to so spoil the electorate on him that he's forced to suspend his re-election campaign as LBJ did in the face of blowback from Vietnam.

If we get a clean candidate, untainted by genocide out of the convention, I'll vote for that person.

Infoseepage,
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@mu No, I think he's got too much ego to bow out gracefully. We wouldn't be in this situation if not for his ego. He was elected as "He's not Trump" and a whole lot of nose holding went on to check that box the first time around. Instead he's adopted this "Only I can defeat Trump" attitude, but polling is showing that his incumbancy and what he's done in office is hurting him in key demographics he needs to win.

Infoseepage,
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@mu People within the D establishment need to see the writing on the wall and get him to step down. Whether he'll listen is doubtful. He and other D's don't actually seem all that concerned about a Trump victory, truthfully. I think a lot of them see themselves as some sort of untouchable political class, above the fray.

Infoseepage, to Iceland
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In Iceland, they're in the process of building a second set of magma defense berms on Grindavik's eastern flanks. The primary berm system has been overflowed twice in recent weeks and lava piled up behind the existing berms is taller than the berms now across much of their length.

The new berms will be 6 meters high and offset from the original ones by about 120 meters.

Infoseepage,
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The problem as I see it is there isn't really a way for this new berm system to rechannel/divert lava which spills over elsewhere. It's more forming a "catchment basin" with with a fixed dimension and volume. When it's full, it's full.

Right now, it's what they can do. Mother nature doesn't argue, she simply does what she does. Will she keep spewing out lava in this location for years?

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2024-05-06-sex-metra-hair-gardarnir-fullklaradir-innan-thriggja-vikna-412022

Infoseepage,
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Looks like we're starting to see a lot of small but very shallow tremors in the vicinity of Svartsengi. Svartsengi has continued to see significant land uplift even with the outflow of magma in the area, indicating significant and rising magma levels below the surface. How much longer until the area sees another significant eruption?

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Infoseepage,
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Looks like none of the usual webcams are focused on the new berm construction, but one of the time-lapse cameras does appear to be catching it:

https://www.almannavarnir.is/eldgos/myndavelar/borgarfjall-sudur-sudaustur/

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