krusynth

krusynth, 5 months ago to random

Seriously everyone should just cancel their Prime membership rather than supporting the ongoing streaming wars fuckery. Providing less good service for a constantly-rising price is unacceptable. So much for the invisible hand.

I’ve spent the last week setting up Plex and I’m going back to ripping DVDs, I’m done with this bullshit. Also 🏴‍☠️

mheadd, 5 months ago to accessibility

Being compliant with Section 508 and other requirements is the minimum we should be doing to provide modern digital services to people that need them, and that currently face challenges in accessing them. Time to start thinking beyond just being compliant.

https://adhocteam.us/playbook-accessibility/

#Accessibility #DigitalServices #Delivery #CivicTech

krusynth, 5 months ago to random

I’m struggling to deal with this version of the internet, where hosts are removing people for voluntarily nudity, but not removing nazis.

And a big part of that is because banks & credit card processing companies won’t allow nudity and sex stuff but are totally ok with hate speech.

From a risk perspective this is asinine - very few people have ever died as a result of naked tits, while we’re watching people be murdered in hate attacks daily.

Everything is fucked and backwards.

krusynth, 5 months ago to random

I found this piece by Cory Doctorow on the AI bubble interesting, but I worry we're underestimating the amount of chaff that the AI buzz is creating.

The speed at which these tools are able to generate content, which is largely noise, is exponentially outpacing the ability to filter noise. Ironically, many of the companies most heavily invested in developing content-generation tools are also in the search business - although it is not their main business anymore!

https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/

krusynth, 5 months ago to random

One of the main reasons I have my Digital Policy website for government is that I spend at least a third of my work time explaining to folks that the permission they have is not the permission they need to do the thing they want to do. (Today is one of those days.) https://digitalpolicy.us/

(Also it's open-source so please contribute back if I've missed key information!)

krusynth, 6 months ago to random

My amazing friend Jacs Fishburne, who is an incredible artist/model/teacher/generally amazing human, is about $550 short to pay their bills this month. This includes medication for their pup Riley. Please consider buying a print or donating to them!

(CW: NSFW, some artsy nudes in here!)

https://www.jacsfishburne.com/

JFishburne on Paypal

Email them about purchasing a print of any of the art you see on their site! This one hangs above our dinner table:

#MutualSupport

liztai, 6 months ago to writing

It is 100% hilarious but it never occurred for me to mirror my content to #Medium until @justin wrote this.
As a reader this makes a lot of sense as I can financially support as many authors as I can with one payment. I wish more #Substack writers will consider mirroring their content to Medium so I can help support them.

#Writing #WritingCommunity

https://justincox.com/blog/2023/11/its-time-we-discuss-medium/

krusynth, 6 months ago to random

A reminder that Spotify continues to find new ways to not pay smaller artists while simultaneously paying hundreds of millions of dollars to white supremacists like Joe Rogan.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/masonbissada/2022/02/17/joe-rogans-spotify-deal-allegedly-worth-200-million-doubling-initial-report/?sh=4de75c9c2c39

https://loudwire.com/spotify-payouts-less-smaller-artists/

Please consider other ways of getting your music.

krusynth, 6 months ago to random

Katsu is the biggest baby and insists on sleeping in my arms even if I’m on the computer.

krusynth, 6 months ago to random

Cristin Milioti Is one hell of a dramatic actress, but damn I kinda wish something good could happen for one of her characters in a movie/show once in a while.

krusynth, 6 months ago to random

A ransomware organization exploited a financial services organizations, and when they didn't get paid, they reported the breach to the SEC themselves. Incredible.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ransomware-gang-files-sec-complaint-over-victims-undisclosed-breach/

krusynth, 6 months ago to random

I have technical issues with the Fediverse-as-designed, ActivityPub being a noisy, push-based system that I despise.

But the bigger issue is that Mastodon and its clones continue to fuel the instant-gratification, attention-stealing, all-consuming internet of shit.

A better internet must go back to being slow and thoughtful, less laden with tongue-in-cheek irony and sarcasm and hot-takes.

We must relinquish our obsession on consuming each other's time, so instead we can share time together.

krusynth, 7 months ago to random

If you need any further proof that the internet has truly become bloated garbage, look to weather.com, where the last thing to load on the page, almost a minute after first byte, is the current weather. 😒

krusynth, 7 months ago to random

Well Waldo started it, so let's keep it going! For this week's #FridayPlaylist, it's those cold, raining, autumn day songs.

I will admit that I was late to discovering Warpaint, and even later to learning that Shannyn Sossamon was one of the founding members. Heads Up is one of my most frequent go-to albums on days like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1BqwONm4TE

krusynth, 7 months ago to random

https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages

"A plaintiff must prove that 'his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation' has been threatened."

The current state of data privacy in the US is abysmal.

krusynth, 7 months ago to random

I updated my jobs board to add a GS filter and I’m kind of in love with how I did the radio buttons for it. I even redid the other filters as checkbox inputs to match, making the JavaScript way simpler https://billhunt.dev/jobs/

skinnylatte, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Personally I am excited about a world where consumer tools are powerful enough to make art. They just shot a whole Hollywood movie on $3000 cameras (The Creator on FX3), and I can do with my iPhone what I could have only dreamed of 10 years ago.

Whether an amateur can make cool things with consumer stuff is different from whether enthusiasts and professionals can use consumer stuff as one of the tools. I think we will see different video forms shot in a one-person ‘run and gun’ setup.

timbray, 7 months ago to apple

Don’t give a #### about M2 vs M3 but a black laptop would be cool. I had the last Blackbook, very early in the Intel era, 2007 or so, and on top of looking cool it was a truly great little machine.
#apple #Mac

harrisj, 7 months ago to random

@krusynth it’s time