Time to download Nearby Glasses

Is gas not included? Cuz that shit is up 50% at least! Can’t wait for May’s report

Bring it! Better vehicles, better pricing, better technology. Oh darn.

Can you mark Flock cameras? I think I saw someone post that before.

Google circa 2002: “Don’t be evil”

Google 2026: “Try to be slightly less evil than the top 5 evil things combined”

Andy Samburg’s face as Jake Peralta

Oh dang I didn’t realize! Thank you!! I was just starting to look at those things myself and wanted to also avoid GH. Plus Gitea was available on Yunohost too. I’ve heard of Codeberg, I’ll see if I can host that instead. It’s too bad other companies don’t move away from GH…

Host a Gitea?

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Nice! That so actually works? Most carrier blocks will stop the calls from ringing but I still get a voicemail from them.

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Fucking idiots!! What about all the VoIP phone apps? What about number spoofing apps?

It’s illegal and happens anyway right now, so how would this actually stop any of them from happening? You know what would probably REALLY actually help?! Stop these fucking companies from buying and selling consumer data like commodities and there amount of phone calls would likely drop. No access to numbers means no way to know what number is active. It’d be a huge waste of time and deter these bad actors probably better than what’s in place now.

For anyone who wants relief: start by switching to a private messaging so like Signal and get your friends/family to switch. Get a new phone number and ONLY share with those who needed it for emergencies. Get a “burner” app # from Burner, Hushed (or hell, even Google voice with a junk account if you must) etc to use for banks, utilities, job applications, etc. Forward those calls through the app to your main number if preferred for calls it send them straight to voicemail.

You can also look into getting a private SIM service from Calyx https://calyx.org/membership/internet if you really don’t want carriers tracking and selling your data, too.

I have a referral link, too, for a free month. https://members.calyx.org/r/iarby

Annke is Hikvision hardware, but direct to consumer, can be viewed directly over IP address over a multitude of apps (including FOSS) or webpage, can directly record to micro SD card so no online cloud or NVR needed. You can configure remote viewing over dynamic domain too.

THEY OFFER UHD/4K/8MP cameras with color night vision even that’s insanely clear.

The downside is they’re typically meant for 10ft+viewing distance. They do offer a special bird feeder camera with a solar panel+battery, but it’s cheaper plastic model. The birds love it though!

Thank you for the correction!! Yeah, it’s basically really bad lol

And just like Jarvis, he’ll have access to that commenters personal data, and so much more! Fuck Google. Fuck a lot of them but fuck Google in particular.

Well, Davies has a point, communicating scale is the difficult part.

So, for those familiar with computers, think Scott this:

A typical Word doc or PDF is several hundred KB’s (kilobyte =1000 bytes) to 1MB (Megabyte 1m bytes) a jpg picture your phone takes, is 3-4MB. A full HD movie streamed online will be about 9GB (Gigabyte =1b bytes) of data. Obviously a movie is thousands of “images” stitched together so is file size with be significantly more. The same goes for that energy usage.

Similarly, Homes are measured in kW usage (technically usage per hour or kWh) on a monthly basis. You might use ~800-1,000kWh per month, maybe 10,000-11,000kWh a year. But let’s call it 1000kW are used, so 1mW or 1 megawatt. This data center would need at least 9,000x more energy per month as it’s gW scale, not mW or even kW… Plus, its power plant will be close by, so you’re creating heat and pollution to make the 9+gW energy and then USING up that energy and dumping 8+gW of heat, so his example calculated 16gW of heat being generated… That’s the equivalent of a good 16k homes, or ~60,000 people use.

THE KICKER that’s just to run the data center, think of the demand for the HVAC and ecological damage to using a lake’s water to cool equipment (water would be coming out over 100⁰F)…

Fuck AI!

I used to be the same way where I utilized LinkedIn and I’ve been on the platform for a long time, but the hoarding of data and now their partnership with Amazon to access that data, I’m just sick of being for sale, especially since we don’t even profit from it ourselves! It’s OUR data from OUR lives, yet we’re not allowed to keep it ours. So, I finally ditched it a couple months ago.

I know it has value, but I’m going to utilize a federated version or stand up my own Domain and link it that way.

What do you do for people with no social media? And I’m not talking its private, or hidden, I’m straight up talking someone does not exist online. I’ve got no SM for 10+ years, within the last year no reddit, Imgur, not even a LinkedIn or indeed anymore. Honestly, when I had LinkedIn, its full of self-righteous assholes, humble bragging, and corporate brown-nosers. It’s toxic work culture IMO.

But say I found a job posting or heard of your company and applied directly on the portal, is that a deal breaker?

You honestly could get a Lenovo tiny PC with 2 bay so-dimm RAM. I’ve got a i5-10500T and 32GB DDR 4 RAM with 2TB NVMe and 2x 2TB SSDs for various stuff. You can loaf A LOT on those since it’s not Windows. Maybe lol into Yunohost for apps, or ZimaOS.

Yeah, let’s build data centers where it’s hot, humid, and affected by severe weather…

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Aww I love Greys!! They’re so smart and have such a wide vocabulary.

We sort of happened upon them from a couple who needed to surrender, but a Blue Fronted Amazon and more recently, a Goffin’s Cockatoo.