Canadian software engineer living in Europe.
The Guardian has effectively got rid of 100 journalists. We actually leave the building next week. And shortly afterwards, it signed a syndication deal with OpenAI. Or as I think of it, it married its rapist
That’s from the tail end of Carole Cadwalladr’s recent TED talk called This is What A Digital Coup Looks Like.
Wait, what?
*its
We shouldn’t be in Eurovision. If the UK had any self respect, we’d be boycotting it like Iceland, Ireland, The Netherlands, Spain, and Slovenia.
All the pearl-clutching about how the product you receive may not adhere to good quality standards ignores the fact that “legitimate” companies like Hobbycraft were selling asbestos-laden products to kids right out of the brick and mortar stores until about a month ago.
You know, I read that book as a kid 'cause my grandmother came to visit annoyed that I’d published a book and not told her. I think was 17 at the time.
It was one of those books that really got to me though. It changed my entire worldview and I still think of it from time to time. I’m now 46.
You have to be deliberate about where you live. If you don’t want to be car dependent, you have to move somewhere that isn’t car dependent or you’re gonna have a Bad Time™.
I grew up in a car-dependent suburban shithole called Langley, and moved to Vancouver at the earliest opportunity where I could commute via transit, scooter, or bike. Every time I moved after that (7 different cities so far) it’s been to places where I can safely walk, cycle, and/or take transit because not being car-dependent was a high priority for me.
I should also point out that this decision, while resulting in higher rent & mortgages than if I’d chosen suburban life, has meant I’ve not spent the roughly $10k annually to maintain a car, which meant that I could afford a to buy a good-sized home in a bike-friendly city. We expect to pay off the mortgage this year.
Car-free really is what it says on the tin: freedom.
To add to your list:
Delegating of a task to a third party allocates control of how that task is done to said party. They can:
“Hey robot, build an app that helps people fight fascism”
LOL no.
From a read of that issue, it looks like it never was.
This is just an attempt to avoid jury nullification verdicts on cases like Palestine Action and JSO.
Is this the same service where someone pointed out that the skills library was riddled with malicious code, and the response was akin to “yeah, nothing we can do about that”?
I think he meant that if the US had just taken the entire continent rather than having to share it with Canada, they would have been even more ruthless in their genocide than we were.
He’s probably right, but saying it that way betrays how truly broken his worldview is.
Absolute hero.
The thing is, none of the suggested alternatives can do what pickle does, and the article focuses on a narrow (albeit ubiquitous) use case: serialisation of untrusted data.
There are still legitimate use cases for pickle, especially when storing, caching, or comparing objects that can’t easily be serialised with say, JSON or TOML. It’s a question of using the right thing for the right job is all, and pretending like JSON is a comparable alternative to pickle doesn’t help anyone.
FUCK YEAH! LET’S DO SOME MOTHERFUCKING SPACE STUFF!*
*To be clear, I say this unironically.
Lemme guess: still no assistance for purchasing e-bikes or cargo bikes?
This might be useful: https://ffmpeg.app/
They’re on Mastodon too if you’re looking for a fedi-friendly link: https://mastodon.social/@warandpeas
Honestly, I’d buy 6 external 20tb drives and make 2 copies of your data on it (3 drives each) and then leave them somewhere-safe-but-not-at-home. If you have friends or family able to store them, that’d do, but also a safety deposit box is good.
If you want to make frequent updates to your backups, you could patch them into a Raspberry Pi and put it on Tailscale, then just rsync changes every regularly. Of course means that wherever youre storing the backup needs room for such a setup.
I often wonder why there isn’t a sort of collective backup sharing thing going on amongst self hosters. A sort of “I’ll host your backups if you host mine” sort of thing. Better than paying a cloud provider at any rate.