Cards Against Humanity formed a super PAC to show how easy it is for corps to influence the election. ❤️
How is this not illegal??? Cards Against Humanity is PAYING people who didn't vote in 2020 to apologize, make a voting plan, and post #DonaldTrumpIsAHumanToilet—up to $100 for blue-leaning people in swing states. I helped by getting a 2024 Election Pack: www.Apologize.lol
If you're reading this, please #boost so I can get back to being federated with the #fediverse. Unfortunately, the data center I've been hosting with for years and years encountered some serious issues. I had to move suddenly, losing almost everything. I took the chance to change the software I use. But I've still lost all of my followers, all of my federation, etc! It's also taken down rblind.com, my passion project to get more #blind folks off #reddit. I'll be bringing that back over the coming days. In the meantime, hi! I'm a blind guy who uses the #NVDA #screenreader, loves #accessibility and works in the field, and reads tons of #fanfic, #litrpg, and #sciencefiction and #fantasy in my spare time. Nice to meet you!
LB: I don't understand why nobody else seems to have a 1 strike and you're out policy for mobile app push notifications. The only thing I allow to do push notifications on my phone is texting. Not even Discord gets to send me push notifications. Apps dictating when you look at them? Fucking ridiculous
Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend! CFP is now closed. Onto the hard part.
In the meantime, check out our site (jawncon.org), join our discord, connect to our AOL AIM server, listen to the jams from DotOrNot, play with some of the con servers (0x1.jawncon.org), and make plans to come on out! This one is gonna be fun!
What are some like...either mesh based or otherwise local community tech resources y'all can name? The kind of thing I'm thinking about is like...as I said I've been playing with Meshtastic, I also remember hearing some time ago about some sort of Raspberry Pi project that had offline Wikipedia and a bunch of other educational/useful resources for offline use. I'm thinking things that could be helpful to the local community in an emergency situation or internet outages to have hosted from or broadcasted from my house. I know I've seen several neat projects like this before and I'm blanking on most of them.
Great news everyone! I finally talk about AI hype. Someone finally mentioned LLMs one time too many, and the reckoning is upon us:
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/
@AnarchoNinaWrites I'm very pissed that for generations some of us have been telling everyone that the Right is on a trajectory to fascism.
We were shouted down and marginalized as alarmists. Now it's plainly obvious and we're still blown off like we weren't right the last 40+ years, the rise of fascism is somehow proof we shouldn't have told them so early.
Now we have voices like this being treated like heroic whistleblowers instead of the Johnny come latelys that they are.
With 1 #transistor, I can make an inverter, a switch, or a not-very-good amplifier.
With 2 transistors, I can make a differential amplifier, a cascode, or a latch.
With 3 transistors, I can make a fairly good (Wilson) current mirror, or a Lorenz chaotic system.
20,000 transistors made a #computer that navigated spacecraft to the Moon and back.
But 10,000,000,000 transistors make a computer that's brought to its knees if it tries to interpret the Javascript used to load one #ad on a web page.
"How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)"
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
Article has been translated in French, Spanish, German, Italian and now Turkish by @ErcanErdemArdal :
https://www.tumblr.com/kendime-analizler/734980560912531456/dagitik-bir-ag-nasil-oldurulur
Thanks a lot everyone!
My biggest pet peeve is restaurants/gigs/events or venues of any kind which have a social media page instead of a website. I don't have fucking instagram, so I literally can't see your menu/lineup? Even if I had instagram, it's an entirely inaccessible format so would be fucking useless? These platforms are for promotion, not for hosting vital information.
I like bikes and beers and locks and sometimes computers.