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toolbear

@toolbear@union.place

🧔🏻‍♂️ bearded 🐻 burly 👨🏻‍💻 geeky 👨‍❤️‍👨 gay

A @toolbear valence shell focused on #Solidarity, #CollectiveAction in myriad forms, and #TechUnions.

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toolbear, to Russia
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routinely has enemies killed, enabled by the . unexisted a whistleblower. Deans of journalism at universities who decry attrocities are silenced.

This is what living in a state feels like. had it worse in the '90s than we'll have it, but it's the same gameplan: mob corruption, dismantle everything, sell it for parts.

There's no escaping a lot of suffering now. We've been abdicating democracy to unworthy champions. Time to buckle up and do the work ourselves.

toolbear,
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Wasn't a freak crash of Trump casino executives 👉 https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/11/nyregion/copter-crash-kills-3-aides-of-trump.html

Didn't "fall" down her stairs 👉 https://people.com/ivana-trump-death-preventable-friend-says-exclusive-7560997

"The real threat is a mafia state autocracy offering up America to the highest bidders, both foreign and domestic." 👉 https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/last-chance-ride

DeJoy is a dismantler. Buttigieg is a '90s gay Republican. The USPS and NTSB are failing. Compare to the vibrant FTC and remember what to expect from a functional government that serves the public.

toolbear,
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None of this is inevitable. I think the odds are in our favor, but there's no landslide victory of the righteous in my forecast.

The first step is imagining better futures. Never give that up. Make your imagination part of the final inch nobody can take from you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pQb9WM3VVg

Touch grass and soil (it's diverse!) if you can.

skinnylatte, to animals
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Cookie absolutely BEGGING for her meds (compounded into chicken treats)

toolbear,
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@skinnylatte
There are compounding pharmacies for pets?! Yay.

Susan_Larson_TN, to LGBTQ
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+ Can’t Be or at , New state.

New from the strengthens for and in for the first time in 25 years.

https://www.them.us/story/lgbtq-employees-cant-be-misgendered-denied-bathrooms-federal-rules

toolbear,
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@Susan_Larson_TN
Hooray! About time. More Hoorays!

stefan, to workersrights
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Happy #InternationalWorkersDay!

https://map.workingclasshistory.com

#MayDay #labor #WorkersRights

toolbear,
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@stefan
I was recently introduced to the concept of "4/4/4" and "Monday Abolition" that I find to be complimentary to the 8/8/8 movement.

https://srslywrong.com/podcast/444-the-4-4-4-movement/

toolbear,
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@stefan yes, me too :)

parismarx, to apple
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Apple is cutting Vision Pro production as it fails to meet sales targets.

Analysts expected it to sell 700-800k units in 2024, but it could now be as low as 400k. A lower cost model could now be pushed beyond 2025, if it ever arrives.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138487/apple-vision-pro-cut-shipment-forecast-kuo-rumor

toolbear, (edited )
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@parismarx
My guess is that the $3,500 asking price for a developer preview disguised as a finished headset was too high for most of the imagined target market.

EDIT: to be fair, the person I know who has a VisionPro says it's better than a developer preview. I'm being cynical.

jvagle, to random
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Noncompete bans no longer just a California thing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/23/ftc-noncompete-agreements/

toolbear,
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@jvagle
How wild.

washingtonpost(.)com loads the article at the URL that was provided in my own browser on my iPad, but returns 404 to the archive(.)org site. Hopefully FTC sets their sights on fair use countermeasures employed by media companies.

[BASE URL]/business/2024/04/23/ftc-noncompete-agreements/

Notable that there's no tracking ID garbage in that URL. WaPo has rolled out some new paywall enforcement dark pattern whatnot is my guess.

alahmnat, to random
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Speaking as someone with a million things they want to work on, but who has been bouncing off the edge of burnout since early 2020, the new “UBI doesn’t mean people will stop working, they’ll just work on what they want to” talking point is just so very, very exhausting.

If someone needs (or hell, wants) to take a UBI benefit and use it to pay bills while they sleep 14 hours a day and do nothing else because the demands of capitalism have destroyed their brains, that should be fine too. UBI should not be an excuse to perpetuate hustle culture.

toolbear,
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@alahmnat
In Library Socialism the notion of Irreducible Minimum (once we understood it) really spoke to husband and me.

My Library Socialism sources say similar concepts are featured in historic and modern Indigenous cultures.

If @beep doesn't cite Irreducible Minimum directly, he describes essentially that when talking about union members having union protection (I guess with dues paid) but no other expectation.

Learning these (recently) has strengthened my belief in UBI.

toolbear,
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@alahmnat
I was once on the fence / ambivalent about UBI. I don't know if these would help reach someone who was in oppostion (but open minded) or if they need to be moved closer to where I eventually got to on my own which was already pretty receptive to the idea of mutual aid, reperations, redistribution of wealth, etc..

Sharing in case it helps, but not trying to offer advice.

cstross, (edited ) to random
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New blog entry: The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/04/the-radiant-future-of-1995.html

toolbear,
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@cstross
> …What survivors from the glorious-future-that-wasn't would you like to memorialize in this shared fictional nightmare?

VRML. VR chat catches on; it works well enough over the 9600 baud network and chatting with blocky avatars across the globe is novel enough that the VR market never goes fully bust.

And Java. Except it's called Oak. It runs on cable set top boxes and VR headsets and DVD players.

Monkey's paw: global disinfo and political polarization via VR chat; OakWorms malware

toolbear, to Youtube
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query about why a isn't deterministic.

OBSERVATION:

Download the same video multiple times using yt-dlp URL. The contents aren't the same even minutes apart. The SHA256 hashes don't match.

QUESTION

Why does this happen?

SPECULATION

  • yt-dlp doesn't strip out sponsors in a deterministic way

  • YouTube tweaks the bitrate on the fly despite requesting the highest quality

  • YouTube adds steganographic fingerprints to thwart downloaders via state violence

talzag, to SanJose
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Transit advocates in the South Bay: we need to be shouting this from the rooftops!

San Jose had the lowest daily average VMT per person of the top 100 largest metros in the country.

#SantaClaraCounty #VTA #PublicTransit #SanJose
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/04/16/see-it-how-much-or-how-little-driving-is-going-on-in-americas-top-metros

toolbear,
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@johnlogic @talzag
> sourced by mobility analysts at Streetlight Data, which compiles anonymized travel information from millions of cell phones, connected vehicles, connected infrastructure, and other sources that the company verifies against traditional traffic counters and surveys and runs through a proprietary algorithm.

(emphasis added)

That "proprietary algorithm" is giving me bad vibes that this is some AI backed company and that this article is mostly an ad for the company above.

jalcine, to random
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By8o5Uz3El22TDBqckNEdFMzQzQ/view?usp=drivesdk&resourcekey=0-eXv1vCB6_a0wX7rfsQY1jw

toolbear,
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@jalcine
On our media server soon to be watched. These links will complement that viewing nicely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXNMF1laZJI

batkaren, to random
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Sucks you can’t wander the night wood clad only in white gossamer set aglow by moonlight anymore.

Climate collapse really fucked shit up.

toolbear,
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@vieuxnez
Not far back enough. Gotta prevent Nixon's pardon and tell neoliberalism to fuck off, then we can have the future I was promised during my '80s childhood.

I will also plug Plan B: reverse the political damage, regain democratic control of local and state government, and build a practice of low-key & continuous political engagement:

https://statesproject.org/

toolbear,
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@vieuxnez
👆
(Plan B.1)

(Plan B.2)
👇

https://runforsomething.net/

toolbear, to internet
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The "Low Data Mode" features to the contrary — NO the tech companies don't actually care NOR did they actually solve the problem for folks on metered connections. They checked a compliance box and called it done. The assumption that bandwidth and data are so cheap and limitless as to be free permeates my industry. Always on is assumed and folks who try and deviate suffer.

A single misconfigured device autodownloading an OS or app or game update will blow through a monthly allotment.

toolbear,
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For example, only began caring about low-bandwidth and metered use cases (and finally implemented an offline viewing feature) ONLY after deciding to focus on the market in India.

It is impossible, without having a tech savvy helper, to operate a home network that WON'T blow through your monthly bandwidth allotment. You need a personal network engineer.

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toolbear,
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Where always on is assumed you exceed your allotment you get shunted to an artificially limited bitrate. The majority of the Internet for your market becomes unusable. YouTube literally disconnects slow connections. NO downloading for later viewing for you, Madam or Sir!

The bloat promugulated by Web frameworks du jour ensure that a sizeable chunk of websites are nothing you care about; your content is rendered last after React has reconstituted itself in your browser VM.

3/3

toolbear, to random
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Does anyone have a list of instances run or taken over by "The Fourth Estate" folks or that Jeff character?

I didn't have journa(.)host blocked on this account until just now and it reminded me that Jeff had tried a few other Masto instance shell games.

toolbear,
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@polarweasel
I remembered more of the context and then I could find the thread I was thinking of:

https://dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem/111207249818336843

And it was a bit of a lazyweb / lazyfedi request on my part. I can reread Zeku's thread and follow some of the trails to answer my OP probably.

/cc @ZekuZelalem

toolbear,
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@polarweasel
I relaxed most of my domain blocks on this and my other ALTs a while ago, but these I kept in my denylist. Reviewing that list is what prompted me to post in the first place.

toolbear, to random
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Crummy that uses dark patterns to try and get you to buy Ken Burns documentaries that are available to stream or download from their own site. It's one thing to promote DVD merch or provide a link to it on iTunes. It's a whole different thing to intentionally bury the free public access.

Persist and find the Season 1 list and you're on your way to finding the episode page where you can stream it or download via:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

toolbear,
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I've got S01E01 of "The U.S. and the Holocaust" ready to go in my home media server. Hopefully this works for the other Ken Burns docs since I don't trust PBS to resist disappearing these for real someday.

https://www.pbs.org/video/us-holocaust-episode-1-the-golden-door/

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