weilawei

weilawei, 3 months ago to accessibility

Nicely done. /s

#a11y #accessibility

A picture of a LEGO person in a wheelchair on its back, unable to fit inside a building made of LEGOs. Caption: "Absolutely incredible accidental commentary by making him not fit in any of the buildings"

weilawei, 1 month ago to random

People say crime is down, but that's not strictly accurate. Crime is down among working class people.

Crime is up among billionaires and politicians and corpos and cops.

weilawei, 9 months ago to fediverse

Dear #fediverse, looking for new-to-me angry/driving #music. Not heavy vocals, just angry. Please spam me with #song #suggestions (preferably ones I can find on YouTube).

weilawei, 3 months ago to random

Burn it all the ground is not a plan. Burn it all to the ground is a fit. Uncoordinated violence has a very low historical success rate in producing stable civil society.

If your idea is "burn it all down", but you aren't ready to supply how we move from "pile of ashes" to "society", you should probably just contact the FBI and ask them for help, if you aren't already employed by them.

Online strangers asking you to join their terrorist cell are cops.

More actionable plans, less ash piles.

weilawei, 6 months ago to random

"Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."

• Eugene Debs, on trial in Cleveland, Ohio, September 14th, 1918

weilawei, 3 months ago to random

(anyone know the original source?)

weilawei, 1 month ago to random

It's impressive that Russia is so deeply entrenched in our government, we can't even arrest sitting politicians who we know take money from them as they vote to undermine US aid to Ukraine and badmouth the idea of NATO and allies.

weilawei, 3 months ago to random

Mass layoffs are the clearest sign that our world doesn't have any room left for corporations in their current form.

They reject us; reject them.

Society is for humans, not corporations.

weilawei, 2 months ago to random

If the cost of 950 investigations was $8 million, that means that the maximum risk exposure (magnitude of cost wrt probability of occurrence) of a company across the industry is $8421/child at the worst. If they're catching 1% (I'd be shocked if they investigated more than that.), that means it effectively costs $84.21 to use a child for illegal labor.

https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/alabama-company-fined-117175-over-15-year-olds-fatal-fall-on-first-day-of-work.html

weilawei, 2 months ago to random

I just want to say that, if you talk about improving your website's accessibility;

but then tell me that my increasing the text size isn't as important as some hypothetical strawman you've invented,

you're a jerk, and your website's not worth the hassle of fighting your fixed-pixel width columns.

"But I don't like ems because hypothetical person might not like it."

Yes, tell me, the person who does the thing, how people who do the thing I do won't like it.

"Designers" these days.

weilawei, 2 months ago to random

It was really tough, but I picked my fantasy sportsball #MastodonCabinet finally.

President: @chargrille
VP: @mekkaokereke
Staff: @the_etrain
DCI: @blair_fix
STEM: @pluralistic
OMB: @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes
SBA: @carnage4life
CEA: @FluentInFinance
UN Ambassador: @LALegault
Trade: @Moira
DNI: @alissaazar
EPA: @ajsadauskas
Culturrr: @LRRRonEarth

#USPol

1/2

weilawei, 6 months ago to opensource

Seen many #OpenSource devs, some who apparently work on significant infrastructure projects, claiming they use a #LLM to plagiarise code from other open source projects without complying to the copyright of each project used for training data.

This is going to completely destroy any ability to rely on that software because now it's a legal landmine.

LLMs you didn't exclusively train on properly licensed data are plagiarism. Claiming someone else trained it or it was permissive is a BS excuse.

weilawei, 23 days ago to random

"The police action against protesters comes exactly 58 years, to the day, after Columbia called in NYPD to break up a similar occupation of Hamilton Hall in protest of the Vietnam War. The university has since denounced its own decision to call in police at that time, which resulted in over 700 arrests."

But tonight they commit state violence so they can sell a class on how awful they were and then grade new students before beating them.

weilawei, 1 month ago to random

Iran's response was very clearly calibrated to be a show of force, not an actual "let's make a bunch of people dead" attack. All the advance warning, choice of weapons, etc. etc.. It was for the media.

They even said they considered it concluded. I don't think Iran wants a war either, but they had to produce a response to Israel attacking their embassy.

weilawei, 1 month ago to conspiracy

Boeing really shot themselves in the foot: their reckless attitude toward quality might sink the company, and there may be criminal charges over failing to adhere to quality and documentation procedures that were instituted as part of a settlement and deferred prosecution agreement after similar corner-cutting caused... checks notes ...two fatal crashes, one in 2018 and one in 2019.

https://invidious.jing.rocks/watch?v=_Ak8IrEyPtc

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/the-justice-department-is-meeting-with-the-families-of-those-who-died-in-the-boeing-737-max-crashes-as-it-considers-a-criminal-probe/ar-BB1l05M8

#boeing #fraud #conspiracy

weilawei, 1 month ago to random

Capitalist pigs are like,

"We respect your privacy except for these 792 people we sell all your information to. Oh and also, you're 3 days pregnant. We're sending the Texas National Guard in a cross-border raid to kick in your door, murder your dog, and incarcerate you in Human Resource prison until you carry the baby to term. Then we'll execute you for thoughtcrime and put the baby into the cradle-to-slave pipeline."

#ThingsAreBad #RealBad #SomethingsGottaGive

weilawei, 1 month ago to random

YouTube really is going to force us all to use PeerTube aren't they...

weilawei, 26 days ago to random

Leave the phone at home, turned on.

Don't get rides from people who didn't leave their phones at home turned on.

If you get into it with the cops, you're a) not going to want to unlock your phone and b) not going to get to use it to make a call.

I hear the, "but what if...," and the answer is not to do the broken thing; it's to work out how else you're going to communicate.

Tell people where you are and will be, and where to meet if you get separated, ahead of time.

weilawei, 22 days ago to random

The "but not all Boeing aircraft" person: tell me you don't know the first thing about manufacturing without telling me you don't know the first thing about manufacturing.

When a company acts like this, it's from the top-down. It gets into -every- product, because this is a cultural issue driven by the owners and managers.

weilawei, 18 days ago to random

Israel murders honest journalists and then bans them.

Should tell you everything you need to know about that government.

weilawei, 1 month ago to random

When Godwin said the comparison between Hitler and Trump was valid, did everyone ignore -why- he said it was valid, taking it as an axiomatic truth because of an appeal to authority?

""You could say the 'vermin' remark or the 'poisoning the blood' remark, maybe one of them would be a coincidence," Godwin said. "But both of them pretty much make it clear that there’s something thematic going on, and I can’t believe it’s accidental.""

The truth has nothing to do with Godwin saying it.

weilawei, 27 days ago to random

When people say that defunding the police will lead to a wave of crime, I have to ask:

What about the wave of crime we wouldn't have been experiencing for centuries if we hadn't given "police" powers to slavers?

This mess is -because of the cops-.

No more standing armies in the street. It's way past time America got actual freedom and representation.

weilawei, 2 months ago to random

There will be no security without peace.

weilawei, 23 days ago to random

Well, that was a surprisingly fascist take. Blocked I guess..

The police don't need you to apologize for them putting snipers on the roof to intimidate students. Don't carry water for the fascists.

weilawei, 18 days ago to random

Whatever algorithm Steam is using to validate downloaded game content is terrible.

It's going at ~0.5 MB/s. I don't know what algorithm they're using, but that performance is garbage.

This machine bottlenecks on the drive at ~6 GB/s, RAM at ~18 GB/s, and a CPU core at 126 GB/s (if you're making use of all the AVX2 ports).

The same thing applies to when Steam launches. I get a full 5 minutes of cursor stuttering and the system is unusable.