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sb, 5 months ago to random

Help is out there if you or your organisation are wanting to transition off of dangerous and socially irresponsible (and sometimes downright evil) corporate web services! Regain autonomy of your data, and stop supporting #capitalistDestruction at the same time!

We can help you transition away from:

• Substack
• Twitter
• Facebook/Instagram
• Dropbox, iCloud, etx
• Amazon/Audible
• Google
• Almost anything else!

You're in the right place already! Just pop up your hand and let us know what you need!

Let us help empower you and your community!

#fediHelp #cutTheCord #deCorporatise

sb, 8 months ago to mastodon

I got carried away creating #mastodon #bots to fill in the missed presence of our municipal and provincial services which still post to Twitter like it's 2009, but aren't on the #fediverse.

After 5, I decided to make a quick tool to rapidly spin up bots based on a template and create a systemd service/timer to run it.

I wrote a little tutorial to go along with the code, in case anyone else is looking for a speedy way to generate basic bots quickly w/ PHP.

https://seanboyer.uk/sbjournal/mastodon-bot-generator

sb, 7 months ago to legal

Any #longcovid #support groups on here? I'm having a pretty seriously hard time and could use some LC-experienced folks to talk to.

sb, 3 months ago to mecfs

My last day at work has been scheduled. In just 3 shifts, my 25 year career in #proAudio comes to a screeching halt while I enter the terrifying world of #disabilityInsurance.

All this because I caught #covid19, once, at work, in June 2022, despite having 4 vaccines.

The first 12 weeks were bad. Then I got a little worse each week. My weight tanked. I am 6' 3 and was a little over 200lbs (my normal weight). A year and a half later, I presently weigh 145 and dropping.

I was diagnosed with #meCFS, #PEM, #POTS, and am still having tests (CT, gastroscopy, biopsy) done on my GI.

#LongCovid is very real, and has robbed me of the luxury of clear though, easy movement, and a "normal" life.

Don't get Covid. Don't get Covid again. #WearAMask, please.

sb, 8 months ago to filmsFr

Many of the shows you go to (likely unmasked) are run by #techs who are struggling with #LongCovid. Trust me. I'm one of them. And I'm not the only one of them in this room.

Please, if you go into crowded public spaces like #concerts and #films, #WearAMask.

It's a nightly devastation to be one of only a handful of masked people at a sold-out show.

The artists you love and your fellow fans deserve better. YOU deserve better.

#FansMASKUP

sb, 6 months ago to NewBrunswick

Since our government won't do it, I have created an account for the #NewBrunswick #RespitoryWatch #dashboard which contains a weekly report on #covid, #flu, and possibly others in the future.

It includes the number of death, hospital & ICU admissions, # of outbreaks and a few others.

Follow it at @nbrespwatch

#covidIsNotOver #wearAMask

sb, 5 months ago to movies

Last night I saw #OnTheBeach staring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner.

At first, life seems pretty swell for the hip-set military crowd at the onset of the middle sixties, but an ominous undertone begins to surface, revealing the hideous reality that life on earth was about to become extinct - in waves, no one entirely sure when - but certain of it's arrival.

Through the course of the film we follow several different relationships, and a plethora of reactions to the impending cull - all meant to hold a mirror to some facet of ourselves, desperate to remind us all: "there's still time, but it's running out".

Just as applicable, only a little more real, and a lot more urgent, this 65 years later.

You can watch it for free, legally, below, thanks to #InternetArchive!

https://archive.org/details/on-the-beach

#film #ILoveFilms

sb, 4 months ago to disability

Any experts on the #canadian #disability system?
It looks likely that I will be looking at #LTD and the death of my audio career. I need some advice and a rundown of what it's actually like to go through.

Bonus if you have navigated the system with #cfs or #longcovid, as that's what's got me.

#help

sb, 7 months ago to random

We need something like this in EVERY community!

People helping people.
People doing what governments should.
People not letting other people sink.
People lifting people.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/group-neighbours-helping-homeless-encampment-1.7019732

#harmReduction #housingFirst #housingCrisis #homelessness

sb, 5 months ago to acab

Another #cop has murdered an African-Canadian teenager in #winnipeg.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/officer-involved-shooting-winnipeg-1.7072134

#acab #careNotKilling #defundThePolice #policeAccountability #enoughisenough

sb, 5 months ago to nature

#Nature pulling no punches here, recommending we all do more #directAction, learning from and extending on the #nonviolent tactics that worked for #civilRights and other movements to achieve traction in the fight against #climateDestruction.

> [...] The general public is usually marginal to the policymaking process. In practice, that process is typically dominated by powerful industries and state institutions that exercise preponderant influence over both government and media. This asymmetry is especially well documented in the case of the United States but is also true, to varying extents, of all capitalist societies.

I LOVE that phrase: "preponderant influence". Well said.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-023-02507-y

Via https://social.rebellion.global/@ExtinctionR/111712007125987653

sb, 4 months ago to random

There are brutal takedowns, and there there's this interview!

As #JelloBiafra often said: Don't hate the media... BECOME the media - and that is exactly what the good doctor is doing here.

If we are to be heard, we must speak. Loud. Refuse to acquiesce to condescending rhetoric.

#FreePalestine #ceasefireNOW #DontHateTheMediaBecomeTheMedia

A rip of an Instagram video of a clip from SkyNews where the two anchors cannot get a word in with the guest.

sb, 7 months ago to NewBrunswick

How wonderful... the "doctor" who burned down #NewBrunswick's #covid #pandemic response, who needs her arm twisted to even partially admit that #CovidIsAirborne - is vying to become the head of #CanadianMedicalAssociation.

This is horrible news.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/jennifer-russell-covid-19-pandemic-response-political-preferences-decision-making-legislative-committee-1.7016095

#covidIsNotOver #wearAMask #noOligarchs #vote #resist

sb, 6 months ago to php

Experienced "jack of all" developer in #php, #c++, #c#, #java, #js, #dart, etc looking for full-time or long-term project work.

Experience in large websites, webapps (small/med biz), mobile apps, dashboards/dataviz, audio/video processing/streaming, APIs, #as400, automation, etc.

Has worked Fortune 500, much prefer non-profit.

Would love to work on a team, and would be happy to maintain a legacy project.

Fully remote, located in #canada, flexible hours.

#fedihire #fediwork #devForHire

sb, 1 month ago to mastodon

Unless you #selfhost your own #mastodon instance, or you're a #mastoAdmin, you have likely taken #fullTextSearch for granted.

Behind search for masto is a resource-hungry #java application called #elasticSearch. Sure you might be able to get Masto to run on a #raspberrypi4, but you won't be running elastic search with it.

Having recently moved my instance to a much more powerful system, I now run ES, and WOW what a difference being able to search post makes! Soooo many times I wanted to reference a toot that had scrolled by but had no way of finding it. Now I do!

Even though I've put some serious resource limits on ES, it's bar none the most resource intensive service running (out of around 25).

Please consider sending a few bucks to the #MastodonAdmin of your instance. Better yet, if you can afford it, sign up for a monthly donation. They need it.

sb, 1 year ago to fediverse

I just realised I forgot to do my #introduction here! I'm a long time #ActivityPub user with @nextcloud, but only started playing with #PixelFed and #Mastodon last year, when I decided to begin deactivating, and stop consuming ALL corporate social media, and as much from #BigTech as possible. All power to the people!

I'm also a #musician - #drums, #guitar, #bass, #tenorSax. I've played in dozens of bands over the last 25 years but am now retired as "a grumpy #soundtech, but I ain't grumpy!

sb, 3 months ago to random

Our schools can't afford HVAC or HEPA filters or c02 monitors, but they can somehow afford this! Remember that the next time your child dies or becomes disabled from #covid19.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/anglophone-west-vaping-detectors-1.7117845

sb, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Wrong headline again #cbc...

"Fascist former oil executive publicly endorses hate crimes"

sb, 2 months ago to opensource

Do YOU have experience designing #usb3 or #usbC circuits? How about implementing I²S audio?

I'd love to chat, and/or work together on an #openSource, budget-friendly, and VERY high quality (24bit/192K) 8 channel #usbAudioInterface.

I'm basing the front-end on the incredible differential instrumentation amplifier #INA217 by #burrBrown. We're talkin' #midas competition #preamps into a BB #adc 😎.

I could really use help with the usb implementation.

#circuitDesign #electronics #i2s #hardware

sb, 1 month ago to debian

I hooked my GNU/Linux-loving son up with an old #lenovo #thinkcenter mini-PC that I picked up at a used AV store for about $50. For another $20, I upgraded the ram to 12GB.

He's got it setup it up with #debian as his first home server, with which he's now hosting a few static websites and an internet radio station for his friends and family. He's got loads of resources to spare for when he gets into running larger services.

You don't need to spend $30+ a month on cloud services when an old recycled office PC will more than suffice.

The best part? Helping him troubleshoot his problems with #DNS and #nginx and all that fun stuff. I've already made every mistake possible over the decades, and he gets to benefit from that. That how it should work!

#gnuLinux #selfhosting #disenshittify #eff

sb, 25 days ago to humanrights

Did you know the largest gold mine operation in the world - #barrick - is #canadian? Did you know they have a mile-long record of #humanRights violations, including multiple massacres?

https://financialpost.com/commodities/mining/barrick-gold-lawsuit-ontario-tanzania-mine

sb, 17 days ago to linux

I see a lot of posts on here chiding people for suggesting #linux as a solution to the surveillance capital tool know as #Microsoft #Windows.

I understand their point to a point, however, the solution to windows spying is, ultimately, to not use windows.

If you would like to not use windows but don't know where to start, I'd be more than happy to have a chat with you to help get you started on your journey.

It's really not that bad, folks. If you're ready to stop paying hundreds of dollars for the pleasure of having all your data stolen, hit me up, and let's figure something out for you, today!

#fediHelp #disenshittify #mutualAid #controlYourData

sb, 5 months ago to random

How about just this once, we all allow ourselves a pass and just vote for the one that is the least the worst, to make sure we AT LEAST keep our democracies.

It will be much easier to fix if our baseline is democratic rather than fascist. It's taken hundreds of years to get this far.

> More than 50 countries that combined are home to half the planet's population are due to hold national elections in 2024, with huge implications for human rights, economies, international relations and prospects for peace in a volatile world.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/world-elections-2024-1.7080392