@sxan@midwest.social
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

sxan

@sxan@midwest.social 

<span style="color:#323232;">       🅸 🅰🅼 🆃🅷🅴 🅻🅰🆆. 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 𝖋𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖓𝖊𝖍𝖆𝖚𝖌𝖍 
</span>

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

I can only imagine the only CEOs they’ve spoken to on the phone are the self-titled CEOs of private, 5 employee, local car shops.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Your edit is spot on. Google is trying to annoy people out of using VPNs and other tracking blockers. In most cases, I allow one CAPTCHA, and if that fails, I go somewhere else. If it’s Google search, where I go next is Bing, just to punish Google.

When I must use Google, I do so in a dedicated container on Firefox. That way, Google knows who I am, but the only thing they ever get is what traffic I’m sending to them.

One thing I have yet to do is randomize my VPN exit node for Google; I’ve noticed that they correlate exit nodes to device trackers, and if I visit somewhere outside of my Google container, they can tell it’s me by correlation. I may start using Firefox’s VPN for Google connections, or just fire up Tor for Google connections.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

I’ve experienced that, too. That’s what prompted me to simply give up and try something else after the first CAPTCHA.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

I feel as if spheres are more boring than cubes, especially in space. The universe is filled with spheres; not so many perfect cubes.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

The sphere is the most efficient use of volume in space. Rectangles are only convenient for humans, and the Borg should not be concerned about convenience.

If the Borg were really about efficiency, they’d build spheres. But spheres are more boring, which comes back to my original point.

Cityshuttle's 6-Wheeled E-Cargo Bike System Is Like A Pedal-Powered Semi Truck - CleanTechnica (cleantechnica.com)

It looks like a tiny semi-truck and trailer, with the driver sitting in an enclosed cab and pulling a spacious cargo trailer behind, but instead of burning fossil fuels for power, the Cityshuttle ePack is pedaled like a bicycle. This zero emission light goods vehicle could be a key element ... [continued]

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Honestly, though - how much energy is that guy contributing to the demand of that rig, percent-wise?

There needs to be a way to only get one push notification for every new message in a group chat

I dont know about others, but sometimes I am not able to check my phone, or be fully present in a conversation that I’m part of. Maybe I’m concentrating on work, or driving, and not able to look. It gets distracting when my phone is constantly buzzing and chiming for 5 minutes straight. Muting the chat can help, but if you...

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

It should be mostly possible with ntfy, except everything would have to use it, and most apps just use one of the centralized push notification services.

I have a mildly smart home, and the server sends a push notification via ntfy. I have one of those mobile automaton tools on my phone that plays an mp3 when it sees that kind of notification. Then I have audio notifications turned off in the ntfy app my phone. With sufficiently advanced rules, I think you could set up something like you suggest; if not, a custom app could do it - one notification, and then there rest are silent until you dismiss it.

It’s not a complete solution (unless you use Matrix, which can be configured to send notifications via ntfy), but my point is there’s little technically preventing a solution being hacked together with existing tools. Except for those apps that only use Google or Apples push notification systems. Which is most of them.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Yeah, it’s not ideal. I feel you; when group texts get chatty, it gets really annoying and you have to mute it. Good luck in your quest, though.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

No. I know it was something I configured in FluffyChat, and for that to work it must have sent the configuration to the Synapse server; my account is on matrix.org. This is in the Notifications settings of FluffyChat:

https://0x0.st/XZiE.jpg

Tusky (Mastodon) can also use ntfy, so Mastodon server(s) must support it too. Ring, most (all?) of the Futo communications apps, like Circles. I think ntfy is common for the fdroid/OSS app developers; I see it a lot in OSS apps, like Home Assistant.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

I’m not on kbin, just federated, but the posts I’m seeing are concerning. Spam is way down, do that’s good.

Hope you guys are OK over there.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Yeah, that doesn’t help. I’ve played the tabletop RPG, and this still doesn’t make any sense to me.

Granted, it was many years ago, and I only played a couple times - not my cup of tea - but, even so.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Oh Ents, as in Tolkien. OK, that helps a bit.

I’m a huge believer in fast-and-loose. I went through a process over the years of seeking increasingly more technical realism in RPGs - from floating clouds of hit points; to damage affecting abilities; to hit locations and affects… eventually, I ended up running games in Phoenix Command. Have you ever played Phoenix Command? We once had a larger group in teams heading across a small town toward each other to fight; it took the better part of a day, and then when they did make contact, nearly everyone involved in combat was taken out in the next 20 minutes. It is a fantastically realistic, and utterly horrible game.

I still prefer a little more than “Balls of HP”, and I know modern D&D addresses this; frankly, I think Traveler nailed it. At one point I made some rules (haven’t we all?) based on the premise of The Last Action Hero: characters are Main Characters, and get a bunch of bonuses; NPCs are extras and don’t. Combat is otherwise more or less as lethal as in real life; it’s just that major characters get saves that turn most damage into superficial wounds. But by that time I had realized the rules matter less than the setting and story.

And that brings us back to Ents with comms tech! Whatever makes things interesting and fun, because it’s a game and not a chore.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

This seems like a pretty good measure of the quality of lawyers Trump can afford, or who are willing to represent him.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Many of us already are. And I know there’s selection bias at work, but a lot of my fellow vet friends are siding with the left.

I worry most about companies like Blackwater (now Academi in an attempt to dodge the negative press); those guys tend to be right-wing, and unlike the rest of the fascist militia wannabes, they’re actually trained and with good supply chains, and younger than us old-timers. That’s why I’m personally focusing on sniper-style training than run-and-gun; I can’t compete with those young bucks in stamina anymore. I’ll be more effective at camping.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Netanyahu’s govt is more evil, if you just go by bodycount of innocents, and methods of murder. Hamas hasn’t starved any children.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

What are possible uses for these elements?

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

I promise that I’m not the kind of person who looks at a tree and his first thought is, “let’s chop it down!”, but I really wonder - with that name - what the wood is like.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Hey, nice reference source! Thanks!

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Dr. McCoy has (had? Will have?) opinions.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

😆 that’s a good one! I haven’t seen it before, and I thought I’d gone through all of them (to date)! Cheers!

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

I have never seen that! I wish I could upvote you twice, you wonderful person.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

I mean, I’m not about to go swimming in alligator-infested waters, but if I were forced to share a cage with any alligator or a crocodile, I’ll pick the alligator.

Nile and saltwater crocodiles in particular have notoriously dangerous reputations.

Oh! Oh! This seminal video explains all you need to know about crocodiles!

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Yup! Weight loss is a secondary (off-label) use.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Yeah, something went wrong. Probably PEBCAK, but let’s blame the software, shall we?

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

OK, now a serious response.

What you are describing, to me, is how people should vote. It’s normal voting behavior. In realty, there are dozens of issues people care about to varying degrees, and you can assign values to each issue (how much it matters to you), add them up, and vote based on that.

My issue is that single-issue voters assign infinity to one issue and vote based on that, which is both usually lazy and stupid. There are cases where it’s reasonable, but they’re rare; if Trump supported Palestine and Biden supported the genocide (which tells you which side I’m on on that topic), then yeah; I think genocide is a reasonable single issue to make a decision. But in this case, Biden is pro-Israel, and Trump is pro-genocide (he’s said he thinks Israel isn’t going hard enough), so pro-Palestine voters should vote Biden.

Going back to your example: if two candidates do have the same position on issue X; and candidate A supports Y and Z; and candidate B doesn’t support Y or Z, then even if your single issue is X, you don’t just not vote. You have an opinion about Y and/or Z, so you vote for A or B based on that. And in your specific example, first: there is no candidate C in the US; there hasn’t been since Abraham Lincoln. Voting on the US is fucked up, and a vote for a third party is a wasted vote: not a protest vote, but a wasted vote, b/c C has zero chance of winning, and you’re taking your vote away from one of the other candidates, one of whom is more aligned - even if only slightly - with you values. Second, it would be unusual if you cared about X, Y, and Z equally, so one of those two candidates is going agree with you on one of those topics which is more important to you, and you should vote for them. Or - and this is the real situation in the US - two candidates are very similar about a half dozen issues, but widely differ about another dozen pretty important topics. And although that long tail of issues may not be your triggers, the weight of all those issues should make it clear which guy (and, so far, it’s always a guy) you prefer.

Biden and Trump agree on Palestine, although it’s clear Trump is the worse choice for Palestinians. They agree on big business. The differ about many other important topics:

  • A woman’s right to choose
  • Supporting Ukraine in its defense against the Russian invasion
  • Universal healthcare
  • Environmental protection
  • Worker’s rights
  • Nepotism in government
  • The peaceful fucking transition between administrations
  • Minority rights
  • Whether black people are humans or not
  • Whether women have the right to not be molested

and many other “lesser” topics. Saying that you aren’t going to vote because Biden is only less bad about Palestine is making a decision about a single issue, and it is a problem; it’s thoughtless, and lazy.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • JUstTest
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • thenastyranch
  • magazineikmin
  • InstantRegret
  • GTA5RPClips
  • Youngstown
  • everett
  • slotface
  • rosin
  • osvaldo12
  • mdbf
  • ngwrru68w68
  • megavids
  • cubers
  • modclub
  • normalnudes
  • tester
  • khanakhh
  • Durango
  • ethstaker
  • tacticalgear
  • Leos
  • provamag3
  • anitta
  • cisconetworking
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •