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miclgael

@miclgael@hachyderm.io

Official toot-space of the front-end specialist with a beard and glasses, living and working on Boonwurrung country. (he/him)

📮 Migrated from https://mastodon.au/@miclgael
🦌 Using https://elk.zone
♻️ Only boosting images with descriptions
🧠 Neurospicy
🎵 Running a record label → ohsilence.com

Avatar alt: photo of Michael laughing, against a colourful wall.

Hero alt: a colourful wall, painted with cool toned geometric shapes.

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miclgael,
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@calhoon2005 @StudChud ahh the unhomed millions must feel nice and cosy at the thought of some space technology

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to tech
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My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

#tech #technology #Google #enshittification #youtube #video @technology #capitalism #film #television #cinema #art #arts #SocialMedia #business #economics

miclgael,
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@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology Enter /r/datahoarder ?

DJDarren, to random
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Ten minutes and you too can be a Live Clive!

/ @labr / https://labr.online/
https://mendeddrum.org/@DJDarren/112551900885017971

miclgael,
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@DJDarren Catching the last 20mins at 6:41am 😝

cory, to random
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Oh cool thanks!

miclgael,
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@cory -_-

JoeRess, (edited ) to random
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I couldn't resist. (sound required)

miclgael,
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@JoeRess What is the sound? For those that don’t know?

miclgael,
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@JoeRess Ah that is the missing context 👌

That might be a better alt text too - since that’s what’s in the video that you can’t see. ❤️

cory, (edited ) to random
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Now: a personal assistant in your pocket.

Soon: a used car salesman in your pocket.

miclgael,
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@cory both of those became my phone in June of 2010 (iPhone 4)

ajsadauskas, to climate
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General rule of thumb: Low gross emissions are better than net zero or net negative emissions.

Especially when those low gross emissions are across scope one (on premises), two (off-site energy), and three (supply chain).

Doubly so if those net zero/negative emissions are due to carbon offsets.

#ClimateChange #Climate #Environment @green #GlobalWarming #CarbonEsmissions #NetZero

miclgael,
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@ajsadauskas @green Holding my thumb up to a toot to gauge things from now on

miclgael, to random
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I now know of 4 friends who left Optus and got prepaid aldi sims. 3 immediately after the big breach, and one waited out their contracts and has just left recently.

You can opt to keep your number, but I chose to start fresh (given the breach and all) - and it’s my preference because it stops scams dead in their tracks.

You’re really mostly getting scam calls / texts because your number has been on the dark web for years and years. And probably is marked as “answers” or “replies”

miclgael,
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  • a few years ago I left one of the major banks for a smaller one. Great move, no regrets.
  • I changed ISP’s. Great move, no
    Regrets.
  • I’m boycotting Coles and Woolworths. Great move, no regrets.
  • I self-host my music and media apps.*

I started thinking about this stuff more after listening to the Pineapple Project a few years ago. https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-pineapple-project/the-psychology-of-money/101655370

*edited because this one has been a big one over the last 6 months.

#selfhosting

miclgael,
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That breach was a great thing for me, because it forced me to look at different options and think about how I use this device differently.

I went from a high data $80/month contract to a $15/month low data, leave whenever I want burner.

Change is seems scary but it can be done!

timrichards, to auspol
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There's something deeply wrong with Labor's careerist politicians, if they think this is a reasonable way to act against asylum seekers. Sick tabloid-obsessed people.

"Marketing yourself as 'tougher' than Dutton, as someone keen to be more punitive than Dutton, more eager to rob people of their liberty than Dutton, is base politics. It does O’Neil no credit."

Labor’s migration bill: Marketing herself as ‘tougher’ than Dutton is a mistake by Clare O’Neil https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/marketing-herself-as-tougher-than-dutton-is-a-mistake-by-clare-o-neil-20240401-p5fgki.html

(maybe paywalled) #auspol

miclgael,
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@timrichards maybe it is a marketing mistake but at least it’s honest.

joelanman, to random
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cmd q to quit an app is poor design, when cmd w (close) cmd 1 (select first tab) cmd a (select all) cmd s (save) are all so close.

I've remapped cmd q to something else at a system level

miclgael,
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@joelanman 🧠

cory, to ai
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🔗: Blockin' bots on Netlify #AI #WebDev https://www.jeremiak.com/blog/block-bots-netlify-edge-functions/

miclgael,
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@cory A reminder if my content is found to have been used for training I am owed one million dollars;

https://www.michaelgale.dev/privacy#on-ai-and-machine-learning

cory, to random
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Deftones is an awesome band. Loathe sounds a fair bit like them and are also an awesome band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB02OI9W6Yk

miclgael,
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@cory 10/10

miclgael, to random
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Happy Friday peeps. 🐥

I have a good feeling something nice will happen today and if you notice it I’d love to hear all about it. 👇

miclgael,
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#ThreeGoodThings

  1. Got my crappy, low-speed, 2013-era-liberal-government compromise internet connection sorted at my new apartment. (never forget, #auspol)
  2. Finished pulling up all the carpets, grippers and nails ready for flooring.
  3. Ate a really delicious ham and cheese baguette for lunch
dave, to random
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@actusllyautistic

Here's another example of masking sensory preferences because they're considered "childish":

One of my comfort foods is PB or Nutella sandwiches. While in Italy, I found a loaf of sliced white bread that has no crust, and I was shocked at the difference in my experience between this and normal bread with crust. It's so much more enjoyable and less stressful to eat a sandwich without crust.

It made me recall, as a kid, forcing myself to eat the crust because I would be mocked and shamed for cutting it off.

Even now, writing this, I feel a little self conscious. Like someone is going to say, c'mon, is the crust really so bad? How can eating crust possibly be stressful? You're being a wimp/making a big deal out of nothing.

In reality, it's a small thing. Yes, I can force myself to eat it. I've been doing that for 30 years. But all of those little small instances of masking add up.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I actually have a very specific way of eating a sandwich to minimize the discomfort of eating the crust.

Well... lesson learned here: find bread without crust back home, or don't feel shamed for cutting off the crust.

#ActuallyAutistic

miclgael,
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@dave @actusllyautistic good on you. 🖤 @actuallyautistic

miclgael, to auspol
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“Will you bite the hand that feeds you?
Will you stay down on your knees?”
—NIN (2005)

#AusPol

miclgael, to random
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> "*The guilty don't feel guilty - they learn not to." *

  • NOFX

Nothing is ever going to change, so everything needs to change.

miclgael, to ai
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To turn off "duck assist" #ai you can go to settings#duckassist and switch it off manually. Doing so will set 2x cookies; "be" and "bd" in your browser.

#DuckDuckGo #Ai #Enshittification

https://duckduckgo.com/settings#duckassist

miclgael, to CSS
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You want border-color: transparent; not border: none;

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/you-want-border-color-transparent-not-border-none/

miclgael, to skateboarding
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https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/gabriel-summers-no-white-flag-zero-part/

This part shreds harder than documents in an afp coverup

#skating #skateboarding #zero

miclgael, to random
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Thinking about this Benn Jordan video again as Spotify phases out monetization for songs with under 1000 plays.

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

miclgael, to random
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Using @elk you can configure Mastodon experience to not really have any content feed.

This is in addition to well-being tools, like hiding boost and like counts and making the whole UI grayscale.

And access tools like UI scaling and other tweaks like always showing the ALT label.

Anyway this is my mobile experience for now. I can compose, I can see my notifications and respond to people - but I only see the feed when I’m at my desk.

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