symmetrizer

@symmetrizer@kolektiva.social

D-Beat - It's a lifestyle!

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I work in medtech. In my spare time I dream about anarchism, listen to crust punk and read books.

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coolandnormal, to random
@coolandnormal@aus.social avatar

I love that everyone on this website said 'can we just not?' on April fools day, then we just didn't. No notes. Ideal social media experience.

matthew_d_green, to random

This thing Facebook did — running an MITM on Snapchat and other competitors’ TLS connections via their Onavo VPN — is so deeply messed up and evil that it completely changes my perspective on what that company is willing to do to its users.

jepyang, to SynthDIY
@jepyang@wandering.shop avatar

Fun fact: the hardest thing about and DIY electronics is not soldering (takes practice but most folks can do it) or knowing how electronics work (a lot of it can be approached like building LEGO or following a recipe).

The hardest part about DIY electronics is the fit and finish. (Not even aesthetics or an intuitive UI, though that’s all hard too!)

Just getting it all in a box such that it’s enjoyable to use and not in danger of falling apart.

grafton9, to random
@grafton9@post.lurk.org avatar

High Frontiers, Reality Hackers e Mondo 2000.
Le collezioni complete su Internet Archive

https://archive.org/details/
https://archive.org/details/

cover. Mondo 2000 Magazine

afewbugs, to repair
@afewbugs@social.coop avatar

Rather a lovely series of interviews with people who run or attend cafes.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/12/theres-a-real-joy-in-fixing-something-the-rise-of-the-repair-cafe

thopan, to random German
@thopan@norden.social avatar

Heute Abend ist so ein Anne-Clark-Abend.

Leaving

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=d7MV_UJKpsc

thopan,
@thopan@norden.social avatar

Anne Clark – Wallies

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=OUQ7PNMJr1Q

Toastie, to random
@Toastie@journa.host avatar

Facts about car culture:

Car weight has risen by 34% since 1980.

Bigger cars safer for their occupants endanger anything smaller, a phenomenon known as “crash incompatibility.”

For every life saved by a driver switching from car to SUV or pickup, 4.3 other drivers, pedestrians and cyclists are killed.

An SUV is 28% more likely than a regular car to kill another car’s occupants.

An SUV going 24 mph would have twice the impact as a sedan on a pedestrian’s brain.

https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-3/the-wests-hazardous-highways/

madeline, to photography

#Photography

estherschindler, to random
@estherschindler@hachyderm.io avatar

We thought we knew how Voyager would end. The power would gradually, inevitably, run down. The instruments would shut off, one by one. The signal would get fainter. Eventually either the last instrument would fail for lack of power, or the signal would be lost.

We didn’t expect that it would go mad.
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/02/19/death-lonely-death/

starshine, to random
@starshine@woem.space avatar

every new user being shocked that DMs aren’t actually private is kinda scary because it means that everybody just assumes DMs on other platforms are private

because they aren’t. the only difference between fedi and other social media is that fedi admins don’t have a vested interest in making you think DMs are private

dinosaurgerms, to retrocomputing
@dinosaurgerms@furries.club avatar

In the first Terminator film, a few scenes from the Terminator's perspective display 6502 assembly code onscreen. This implies the Terminator runs on the same microprocessor used in the Apple ][, Atari 2600, etc, and I think that's Pretty Neat™
[Source: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=64]

#RetroComputing #Movies #Film

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
@BlackAzizAnansi@mas.to avatar

"During the Jan. 8 hearing in Fulton County Superior Court, Fowler argued that a cellphone in King’s possession on the day of their arrest, which he characterized as a “burner phone,” should be admissible as evidence of wrongdoing, even though it contained no data. He went even further to suggest that not possessing a cellphone at all also indicates criminal intent. Judge Kimberly Adams agreed to admit evidence of King’s cellphone."

https://georgiarecorder.com/2024/02/12/georgia-ag-claims-not-having-a-phone-makes-you-a-criminal/

chairman_meh, to random

I learned secondhand that there's been a big spam surge in the fediverse. Thankfully, I'm amongst responsible and competent anarchists, so whatever may have made it's way in here appears to have been promptly dealt with.

Thanks, #kolektiva users and mods!

nonlinear, to random
@nonlinear@praxis.nyc avatar

Anyone knows a legit to converter, with , not these free "install my malware app" or "stare at my spinning wheel for hours for nothing"?

It can be mac, windows, online, anything.

stopthatgirl7, to ai
@stopthatgirl7@famichiki.jp avatar

100% agreed. #AI

autonomysolidarity, to random German
@autonomysolidarity@todon.eu avatar
i0null, to random

Meanwhile in Canada

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
@Adam_Cadmon1@mastodon.online avatar

A robot police force has been the wet dream of every fascist for as long as I can remember. They're nearly there now.

JimmyShelter, to diy
@JimmyShelter@dice.camp avatar

I want to make a small zine in my native Dutch about making zines to spread at my local library and community center.

I have a rough list of things I want to include, but I'd love more ideas.

Do you have any favorite resources about making zines?

HeavenlyPossum, to random

You might have noticed that contemporary society is very complex.

There are a lot of people in the world—a staggering 8.1 billion people—which means a lot of potential relationships between people and a lot of potential interactions.

One consequence of this complexity is the need for lots and lots of information to manage it all. The world produces, processes, consumes, and stores an unimaginable amount of information every single day.

And, perversely, the production of all that information generates the need for yet more information, more management—and, thus, more complexity.

More information? You probably need more digital storage, which means more production, more serial numbers, more inventories. You might need more archivists, more documentation, more indexing. You can see how this snowballs.

1/10

https://explodingtopics.com/blog/data-generated-per-day#

HeavenlyPossum,

David Graeber made a closely related point when he asked where the flying cars are—ie, why has the modern world stopped delivering on the promises of technological progress and advancement that we once took for granted?

Graeber notes that, when he was a kid, science fiction imagined future technologies that science eventually delivered—space travel and nuclear-powered ships and lasers and what-not. But, at a certain point, science stopped delivering. We never got our flying cars, our colonies on the moon. We have viagra but not a cure for the common cold.

What we did get was an increasingly sophisticated facsimile of scientific progress in the form of special effects. We’re very good at creating the illusion of a more sophisticated future. And we got a lot of investment in technologies of surveillance and control. But not so much the stuff that was supposed to make our lives easier or better or more fantastical:

“For most of human history, the top speed at which human beings could travel had been around 25 miles per hour. By 1900 it had increased to 100 miles per hour, and for the next seventy years it did seem to be increasing exponentially. By the time Toffler was writing, in 1970, the record for the fastest speed at which any human had traveled stood at roughly 25,000 mph, achieved by the crew of Apollo 10 in 1969, just one year before. At such an exponential rate, it must have seemed reasonable to assume that within a matter of decades, humanity would be exploring other solar systems.

Since 1970, no further increase has occurred. The record for the fastest a human has ever traveled remains with the crew of Apollo 10.”

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit

9/10

runarcn, to random
@runarcn@wetdry.world avatar

Alright, so my headphones got stolen from backstage during one of our sets this weekend, and I desperately need a pair to do my work as a musician when travelling. Which ones do y'all recommend that I get?

It needs to have:

  • Bluetooth
  • Over/around ear
  • 3.5mm AUX output
  • Not die without good reason within 4 years

Boosts are appreciated

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
@BlackAzizAnansi@mas.to avatar

Can we start a chain of brick and mortar stores that only sells open source electronics?

atoponce, to coffee
@atoponce@fosstodon.org avatar

Add #coffee stains to #LaTeX documents.

https://ctan.org/pkg/coffeestains?lang=en

Screenshot of the second page of a PDF with a coffee stain.
Screenshot of the third page of a PDF with two coffee drip stains.
Screenshot of the fourth page of a PDF with a coffee drip stain.

Trilobyter, to photography
@Trilobyter@mastodon.world avatar

Welcome to the Thunderdome.

#FensterFreitag #stpetersbasilica #vatican #photography #Rome #Italy #TravelItaly #travelphotography

krakenbuerger, to random German

To those celebrating the New Year today: Have a wonderful time with your loved ones, a peaceful new year and hopefully lots of amazing food! 🎉🧧🧨🎊

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