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shovemedia

@shovemedia@triangletoot.party

UI engineer & UX, anarchy / anti-capitalism, LEDs

Ran a poetry slam in the 1990s and an arcade bar in the 20-teens. Had fun and lost money on both.

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shovemedia, to random
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Please pre-order my forthcoming ebook
Jumping Jesus On A Pogo-Stick, What In The Cinnamon Toast Crunch Fuck Is This Shit: Thirty Years In Tech, A Memoir

shovemedia, to random
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So I just so happen to be installing Windows 10 (!) on a test box and I have to spend the first dozen or so clicks turning off privacy-violating “options”. Microsoft been like this y’all.

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We should have heard about a wave of Microsoft protest resignations in the last few months from this spyware-as-a-service nonsense, and the fact we didn’t tells you everything you need to know about Microsoft, its culture, and the industry as a whole.

shovemedia, to random
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Happy May Day!

Consider slacking off at work today in honor of workers everywhere

syntaxseed, to mastodon
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Does anyone know how to view the alt text of an image on the mobile website?

I see the little badge indicating alt text exists but if I click it, it just opens the image.

shovemedia,
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@syntaxseed once the image is opened, long-press it

JuliusGoat, to random
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Know your teen slang: “rizz” is short for “reasonable,” used to underscore the younger generation’s reverence for practicality. Someone with “serious rizz” is highly valued for their common sense and probity.

shovemedia,
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@JuliusGoat not only is this subgenre of post hilarious, I’m really enjoying poisoning the well for LLM plagiarists.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Honest question for white people that don't consider themselves racist:

White nationalists have been vocal about their attacks on DEI. These are literally the same people that talk about Charlottesville, Jan 6th, and ethnic cleansing.

They've laid out exactly how they plan to destroy DEI.

  1. Make false claims that DEI is about giving unqualified Black people an unfair advantage

  2. Work with racist politicians to use this as a pretext to make all DEI programs illegal.

1/n

shovemedia,
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@mekkaokereke optimistic of you to suppose my workspace is this diverse 😬

astrid, to random
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i think we should have a trans day of invisibility where all trans people are invisible and thus allowed to commit crimes without being caught

shovemedia,
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@astrid if you see a trans person committing a crime, no you didn’t

aral, to hosting
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Right, I’m back to focussing on Domain* now that another round of dev is complete on Kitten** and, two years after I originally asked the question: does anyone know of a comparable service to Hetzner Cloud (API, affordable, very quick server setup, VPS) that supports CoreOS?

I still can’t find any. And my attempts to get Hetzner to support it have failed (mostly due to lack of interest on Fedora’s side) 🤷‍♂️

https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/1324

shovemedia,
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@aral to solve the setup time issue, would it be possible to create a pool of servers in advance? I could see this being unviable due to additional expense or being beyond the complexity budget.

shovemedia, to random
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I’ve been having a bunch of dental work done over the last month or so, and now all Bad Things (tm) in the world exist on a continuum of pain in which they are compared to a root canal.

monkeyborg, to random
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WYSIWYG was a mistake

shovemedia,
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@monkeyborg more context?

mrcompletely, to random
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MC5 were much, much more important in the revolutionary sixties/early seventies scene than I think is widely realized. Not the cultural psychedelic dropout revolution of San Francisco but the wild, threatening, often physically aggressive, no fucks given, desolate, desperate radical street freak revolution, the people who fought cops and were beaten and killed for it, the part of "the sixties" that modern radicals would actually respect & has therefore been minimized and sidelined in history

shovemedia,
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@mrcompletely I’m not sure this is fair to The Kids These Days. There’s a lot of this story still left to be written.

futurebird, (edited ) to Electronics
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If you have two 1/2Ω resistors in parallel is that 4Ω resistance? How can that be? shouldn’t putting resistors in parallel reduce the resistance?
NEVERMIND I SEE WHAT I DID JESUS
If you have two 2Ω resistors in parallel that’s 1Ω or half the resistence, this makes sense to me. (I feel like I missed some note saying the resistance must be greater than 1)

shovemedia,
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@futurebird 1/R_total = 1/R1 + 1/R2

shovemedia, to random
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Well I’ve only had it on my shelf / desk / nightstand for (I literally checked my notes) five years, but finally cracked open @histoftech Programmed Inequality and dug in

futurebird, to random
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Are you a fancy pants foodie who likes fancy jam?

Have you been sad because your jam got mold after only a month or so?

That's how fancy jam works, no preservatives. You pay the price, but I've found a solution that's worked for years:

After you crack the jam open and use it (always with a clean knife, minimize time it's open! Don't let spores in!) Pour a thin layer of honey over the top of the jam. This will prevent mold. It's yummy too.

(What's your food preservation tip?)

shovemedia,
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@futurebird In high school biology, we used a torch to sterilize the container opening of any spores that did get in. Just a quick wave of flame over the edge. My group had the best results because I made everyone do a leave-the-lid-on practice run first to help us minimize open-to-air time.

sarajw, to Typography
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I have this idea that you can have slimmer font weights in dark mode (light text on dark background), than light mode (dark text on light background), and for them to still be nicely readable.

Is this a thing, or just my personal preference?

shovemedia,
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@sarajw 100% a thing. The Germans created a new font for their highway signage a number of years ago and did a ton of real world testing. The result had different weights for light-on-dark vs dark-on-light. In their case, the effect would be exaggerated due to headlight reflection, but it’s still a thing!

shovemedia, to random
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After gobbling up four Vonnegut novels in a row (and a Baldwin anthology before that), I’m taking a break from fiction and wading into Davids Graeber and Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything

shovemedia, to random
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I just found out the guy who does landscape paintings of banks on fire is a bitcoin bro and goddamn it yall

18+ monkeyborg, to random
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Is Trump an insurrectionist? Yes.

Should he thereby be banned from holding public office? Yes.

Is there anything undemocratic about that? No.

Some people are not eligible to run for office, and if that doesnʼt include people who incite rebellion, I donʼt know who it does include.

Thatʼs common sense.

But common sense is not law, and there is a real question whether the courts can declare Trump an insurrectionist without citing a specific act of Congress.

I expect SCOTUS to nix it.

shovemedia,
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@hypolite @monkeyborg counter-counter-point: left-wing figures don’t have any chance of holding high public office already

shovemedia, to random
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Free band name

the_etrain, to random
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I've never seen Thelma & Louise. Can someone give me the Cliff's Notes?

shovemedia,
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@the_etrain be gay; do crimes

rechelon, to random
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The most wacky batshit impossible scifi future I can imagine is one where this -- gestures widely at the entirety of US social, cultural and infrastructural forms that have been largely static since the 70s -- persists.

Where there is no technological or political disruption to wildly new forms of life, nor a collapse to the past, but just like enough tech and political stabilization that people are doing some variation of eg "high school" not much different from an 80s film centuries from now.

shovemedia,
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@rechelon you and I will live to see the end of suburbia; decades, definitely not centuries

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THATS IT - HTTPS://DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

shovemedia,
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@dasharez0ne count yourself lucky

futurebird, to random
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I'm hardly Christian these days, but I consider myself "Culturally Southern Black Baptist" through and through. Gotta love the churches that organized people to fight for their civil rights.

And so maybe that's why when these evangelicals compare Trump to Christ (or really any mortal man, but him more-so) it makes my gut turn.

It's not just silly, it's ... sacrilegious. I'm not the first to point this out, but somehow... it doesn't register.

Very very odd.

shovemedia,
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@futurebird co-signed this southern baptist preacher’s kid

jenn, to random
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developer pals: what kind of corporate merch do you think is the least uncool

shovemedia,
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@jenn If you can slide it past corporate? 80s-style sweatbands and rolling papers

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