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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, 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, 6 months ago to tesla

Wow... #Tesla open-sourced all their patents!

That was smart of them to release the charging equipment patents, so that it will become the defacto (it's technically better than the alternative in most respects anyway).

But... ALL of them? Did not see that one coming.

Good on them - I'll still never, ever, erver [sic] buy one.

#openSource #ev #diyTeslaKitsComing2024

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

sb, 5 months ago to random

Ok this caught me off guard...

I was having an internet search for "adult tinker toys" and came across this online shop. Ah! Pro tinker toys. Cool. I look around, and it's not what I want - mostly memorabilia.

And then there's the FAKE MASKS section.

Ummm, what? This is something people are doing? They're PAYING for a pretend mask?

Just... what?

https://protinkertoys.com/en-ca/collections/fake-masks

#covid19 #covidIsReal #germsAreReal #covidDenial #whatTheFuckHaveWeBecome

sb, 5 months ago to random

I always forget that I know #perl. It has been YEARS since I've even looked at a line of it. Wow.

sb, 1 month ago to random

Have you seen the #MikeJudge film #idiocracy?

Have you seen it since 2020?

It doesn't hold a candle to today's supernovae of stupidity.

Less than 3000 "people" (billionaires) have done this to 8,000,000,000 struggling human beings.

sb, 3 months ago to random

I'm still seeing at least a half-dozen #substack links being shared around here per day.

It's really pretty sad to see so many people just shrug it off and stick to the status nazi-supporting quo.

sb, 1 month ago to random

Is anyone putting groups together to protest outside of #loblaw stores during the #BoycottLoblaws?

sb, 10 months ago to fediverse

https://fediverse.to (which is one of the first search results to come up for "fediverse" links on their homepage to far-alt-right Masto instances.

I was looking for a good entry point site for beginners to link to from an article. Certianly won't be fediverse.to!

#fediadmin #fediverse

sb, 6 months ago to python

I'm several decades familiar with many, many programming languages, but have about a half-dozen that I'd consider daily driver languages. #python is not one of them.

I'm writing a lil' thing in #py, and have to keep looking up what modules to include for basic things... and every single time, the answer is exactly what I would have intuited.

"What would I call my datetime module if I were me? I'd call it datetime." It's datetime.

"If I wanted today's date, I'd want 'date.today()'". Yup.

I guess that's why it's so widely recommended as a starter language. Not starter because it's lacks advanced features, but because it lacks unnecessary confusion!

#pennyForMyThoughts

sb, 6 months ago to NewBrunswick

I know there aren't a lot of folks from #newBrunswick #canada on here (yet), but that doesn't stop me!

I have created a #bot to post #powerOutage information for the province of #nb

Get up-to-the-minute info on outages across the prov, or just your region via custom #hashtag

@nbPowerOutages

You can also follow my #NBPower system tracker with info on power consumption and source.

@nbpowersysinfo

All my bots are #foss and #MIT licenced, source code provided.

sb, 4 months ago to fediverse

Inspired by @meshe, I have begun moving my back catalog of ~100 "music videos" and live performances from their various corners of the interwebs into a #Peertube instance that I own and control.

If no one is going to see my stuff it had may as well not be seen on MY platform, rather than theirs!

I'll be talking about PeerTube a lot in the near future. In the meantime, here's a video from the archives:

https://tube.sbcloud.cc/w/7YzRRdtnauFHwYzpmeG6Bs

#music #newMusic #indie #theCars #newBrunswick #decorporatise #cutTheCord

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, 5 months ago to meta

Don't invite #meta back into your life.

I'm here to get away from them. I'm here because I want control over my presence. I choose not to support #genocide, so I do not support #meta.

I will be blocking anything that attempts to put meta into my timeline. Same goes for Google and Microsoft.

sb, 5 months ago to NewBrunswick

Wake up #NewBrunswick! The real honest-to-goodness US-style #christianRight is back, and they're coming for all of us.

Keeping this horror out of our #government is up to the people of #Hampton, #NB - a beautiful river community, generally thought to be quite granola. They're about to get a taste of heavy racism, misogyny, bigotry, hatred & intolerance.

It is so, incredibly vital to keep this destructive force away from our laws, our reproductive organs, and our #lgbtq selves, family & friends.

Please share on other social media where folks from NB are likely to be.

#FuckOffFaytene

#vote #resist #noBillionaires #noOligarchs #noFascists #noChristoFascists #noBiggots #noLiars #noCPC #noUPC #noConservatives #cdnPoli #nbPoli

sb, 4 months ago to PostgreSQL

Inspired by @jerry, I decided to get my (#backup) act together for my #postgresql cluster. Finally installed and set up #pgBackRest - a utility to make the horrible and painful job of backing up, restoring AND upgrading #pg slightly less so! Where has this thing been all my life?!

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, 3 months ago to scifi

There's practically no "fi" left in #sciFi... The last decade has churned out one limp sci-fi wetdream after another. Hoverboards (that don't hover), self-driving cars (that can't), civilians in space (read: billionaires), AI (that is anything but), and now - the long-anticipated and almost entirely useless see through display.

The result of spoiled tech billionaire babies skimming a century of science fiction's implicit warnings of the ramifications of unchecked technology with societal inequality. They have failed to ingest any of the point.

https://www.theverge.com/24082244/lenovo-concept-transparent-laptop-mwc-2024-drawing-tablet

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, 6 months ago to Electronics

Here's a condensed video I made earlier this year of a 1940's #US department of education video that explains how to #solder.

It covers all the core concepts, as well as execution and even best practices - and all in under 9 minutes!

I'll bet you a #canadian dollar you can learn to solder by watching this 75+ year old video once.

#fediShare #electronics #plummbing #diy #newSkill

This condensed educational film visually demonstrates the process of soldering using live technicians in a lab, as well as animations to illustrate various concepts. The film is narrated by a man who explains all that takes place.

sb, 3 months ago to random

Fascism: get used to it, canada.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/italy-meloni-trudeau-1.7129309

sb, 6 months ago to Theatre

We recently received a replacement for our dysfunctional #bluray player at the #theatre

A #Tascam #MP4K, which has #xlr balanced audio out, as well remote control it via #rs232, or #tcp !

No one has written anything for it that I could find, so I wrote a #FOSS library/cli-in-one in #php, and call it Tasnet!

With it you can:

• power on/off
• open/close tray
• play/pause/stop
• change display time (remain/elapsed)
• even more!
• hack away (copyleft/MIT)

https://gist.sbcloud.cc/sb/d54f9c4facd349b7ad2fa0f11831a488

sb, 1 month ago to random

I don't see this mentioned as a symptom associated with #LongCovid, but since it's onset I've been plagued with powerful fits of hiccups that come on instantly and usually only last about a minute.

They seem to be triggered by changing position from sitting to standing. They seem to be more likely if I've had anything to drink while seated.

Any other #longHaulers with this, or just me?

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