@sam@social.coop
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sam

@sam@social.coop

Cooperator :TwinPines:, neo-luddite 🔨, Atlantan, solidarity forever 🌹, probably wants to be out swing or blues dancing 🕺, backpacking ⛺🥾, climbing 🧗, or mountain biking 🚵.

#biking #bicycles #climbing #bouldering #coops #backpacking #Atlanta #nobot #nobridge

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sam, to random
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Be a real shame if this marketing-cloud opt-out website that's hard to find got shared far and wide. Or if someone wrote an email-harvester bot that just submitted them all to this form: https://sites.nielsen.com/legal/privacy-statement/exelate-privacy-policy/opt-in-opt-out/

evelyn, to MountainBiking
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How would you park your at a low rack like the one in the photo? 👇

1️⃣ Front wheel in, no lock
2️⃣ Front wheel in, wheel locked to rack
3️⃣ Rear wheel in, no lock
4️⃣ Rear wheel in, wheel locked to rack
5️⃣ Rear wheel in, wheel and frame locked to rack

In the photo, the bike is parked 1️⃣ front wheel in and not locked at all.

(Just realized we can't have a photo and a proper poll in one toot.) @bikes @mastobikes @fedibikes

sam,
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@evelyn @bikes @mastobikes @fedibikes I stick the rear wheel in, it's more stable that way. Someone recently told me these style racks are called "wheel benders", which makes sense. I hope you have a chain lock, good luck!

sam, to Atlanta

More specific ask: I've been looking at commercial real-estate around and there are a lot of old abandoned apartment buildings that are ripe for fixing up. Do I know like 10+ people who would want to cooperatively buy one, fix it up, and live in it? It would be a lot of work, but I think we could do it for a lot cheaper than getting a mortgage on a normal condo if we got enough willing hands to pitch in.

sam,
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@nemobis @sam @kanthaus I'm not sure how kanthaus works, but the description I read makes it sound similar to an apartment/coworking place near Auburn Ave that I can't for the life of me find the name of now… TL;DR they give you a subsidized 6 month or 1 year lease on a place, you can use the co-working for free, and the idea is that you can live there and bootstrap your small business. Housing is subsidized by non-members who subscribe to the co-working and they do business development events.

sam,
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@nemobis @sam @kanthaus But they don't offer full time housing, I don't think; it's just 1 year of super cheap rent and office space. I think they have some small test store-fronts that the businesses can use too.

sam, to random
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Do I know anyone who's a money advisor who could give me a little (free, sorry :( ) consultation on what options I have for getting money out of retirement accounts and how taxation would work? I need to use some of that money now, desperately, but I have no idea if I'll just have the IRS garnering my wages later and be in an even worse situation if I use it. Doesn't have to be a major long thing, just a quick call or something.

JoeRess, to random
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Podcast recommendations please.

sam,
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@JoeRess I'm a big fan of "Dear Old Dads" (you don't have to be a dad, I'm not and it's still great) and "The War on Cars" (https://thewaroncars.org/)

sam, to random
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Is there any fediverse compatible local-business-review site? ie. Yelp except federated and not full of horrible anti-patterns and sketchy business practices? I feel like this would be a good fit for a federated model since you could have servers for individual cities, districts, or even neighborhoods.

sam,
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@smallcircles @michael @ShmosKnows thanks! I'm not familiar with this project, but it looks promising!

flancian, to random
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@Matt_Noyes @emi @sam the oncall schedule for July as per the meeting earlier today:

7/3 Matt

7/10 Eduardo

7/17 Sam

7/24 Emi

@sam can you take that week or would you prefer a swap?

(I intend to add this to https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/calendar/p/KG92DPwX3ww442AD/dayGridMonth next week once I'm back home where I have my mayfirst password :))

sam,
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@flancian @Matt_Noyes @emi that works for me, sorry I missed the meeting, as usual :(

sam, to random
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If you haven't already, everyone (and men in particular) should go listen to this excellent interview with Nick Offerman on @TheWarOnCars. He does a great job unpacking a lot of things I've struggled with when thinking about masculinity and my own relationship to it and I couldn't recommend it more: https://thewaroncars.org/2023/06/06/106-nick-offerman/

sam, to random
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Sold my truck yesterday and already I have two things I need to move but can't :( I love going motorcycle only, but I really wish I could find a group to just split a cooperatively owned truck with.

sam, to random
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Does anyone know of a co-op/mutual bank that has a presence in both Europe and the U.S.? I need to get paid for a job in the EU, but my local credit union doesn't have an IBAN or SWIFT number or what not. I don't really want to open a new account, but if I'm going to have to I'd prefer to use something co-operative.

sam,
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@nemobis I don't have anyone doing that, unfortunately, my understanding was that normally it's pretty easy

sam, to random
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Idea: anyone want to start a book ring? Eg. I have a book that I really like and think others might like. Each person in the ring has the next persons mailing address (or we can probably mail packages General Delivery if that's not something someone wants to share with a stranger online). I mail the book to the next person, they can either read it or not, then they pass it on to the next person. If someone really likes a book they can keep it, but they inject another book into the ring.

skye, to random German

honestly while we’re at it, let’s just revive too, why shouldn’t we? because that’s the thing about free software, isn’t it? you can’t kill it. it’s literally not possible as long as the code is still available somewhere.

so bringing THAT back at the same time as they try to repeat their strategy, that would really drive the point home, wouldn’t it?

so, who here knows any good XMPP servers? or is the kind of person who can just set one up on a whim?

sam,
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@skye I'm happy to help you set one up if you need a hand! conversations.im has good free hosting, or I think @snikket_im has a beta service that will be paid at some point. Hit me up on XMPP at sam@samwhited.com if you need a hand later on (or on here until you get one setup)!

sam, to random
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People keep acting surprised at the direction Reddit's taking, but it seemed inevitable. If you try to build community on a platform that's not owned by that community this will happen every time. You can protest, you can even attack the bottom line (which is the only thing that will get you anywhere), but at the end of the day you have no power and they'll just block you and re-add your deleted posts. Don't trade community ownership and power for convenience or you'll get burned every time.

sam,
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@KewlCat You can still build community there, but you're definitely also just a content producer for them. These two things aren't mutually exclusive. The point isn't "you weren't building real community on Reddit anyways", the point is that if you build community on Reddit (or wherever) you'll lose it because community without power can be destroyed. It doesn't make their connections any less real or important though; if we don't understand that, we won't ever convince people to move.

sam,
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@KewlCat yes, exactly, that's the part that's the problem. Not the actual communities people built. If the power resides with a few managers, err, Reddit execs then the community can be dissolved at their will. Instead we should be building somewhere where the power resides in the actual community itself.

sam, to random
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@tchambers hi! I'm working on shutting down a service that was hosting a few projects and am making a list of potential replacements. Indieweb might be a good home for some of them. I was wondering: does the service have a Code of Conduct or similar, what is the bus factor as far as administration of the servers, service itself, moderators, etc. and is the service sustainably funded (and thus likely to stick around)? Thanks for doing what you do and hosting this great service!

sam,
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@tchambers thanks! I forgot to askz what's the governance like? Who makes decisions/how?

chris__martin, to random
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I accidentally stumbled upon an intro-to-programming explanation of what a text editor is, and

https://www.theodinproject.com/lessons/foundations-text-editors

Rich text editors, such as Microsoft Word and Libre-Office Writer, are great for writing a paper, but the features that make them good at creating nicely formatted documents make them unsuitable for writing code. A document created with these rich text editors has more than just text embedded in the file. These files also contain information on how to display the text on the screen and data on how to display graphics embedded into the document. In contrast, plain text editors, such as VSCode and Sublime, don’t save any additional information.

... I no longer understand this. Why the heck is "nicely formatted documents" necessarily "unsuitable for writing code"?

sam,
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@chris__martin It's the same problem as optional features: you're introducing a meta-level if information encoding that not everyone will be able to see or interpret the same way. I'll leave the comment "all super special security stuff that you should't touch is in bold" but your editor won't support that feature and now we've got greater potential for unnecessary confusion.

Sheril, to books
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Looking to get lost in a great story?

I’m currently these two wonderful & highly recommend both.

sam,
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@Sheril I absolutely loved children of time (except when the good spider bits kept getting interrupted with boring human bits), but haven't heard of the other one, sounds great, thanks!

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