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You owe nothing to governments or companies, only towards your community

Like, I was getting kind of tired of most of the music mixes containing the same 100 tracks in a genre, but "every mix is 'new' AI slop that is different yet somehow the same as everything else" is actually *worse*

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Add "music on Youtube" to the list of "shit ruined by AI", I guess

"Dat mensen in rubber bootjes stappen is beleid. Dat mensen niet opvangt, maar langzaam richting de afgrond duwt." (samengevat citaat)
"Zodat ze zelf de sprong wagen, en wij kunnen doen alsof het hun keuze was."
Rake column van Dilara Bilgiç in @Parool
Om razend van te worden.
#vluchteling #asiel #Yemen #nietmijnkabinet
parool.nl/columnisten/aiman-18

Apple’s App Store has become an embarrassment. It’s nearly impossible to find apps that do not expect you to subscribe even to use the “free” features: three day free trial and then you are subscribed. What do these apps do? Convert videos to GIFs. We’re not talking about the labor and creativity of a master programmer here. Pure exploitation.

I'm starting a car rental business. I take cars that are parked on the street and rent them out.

Asking for consent would kill my business.

#aiLogic

@vfrmedia @colapunk @ChrisMayLA6 This reminds me of the phenomenon where corpo lobbyists are overly trusted by journalists and politicians alike, merely because they have a phone number that you can call 24/7 and get a representative to speak to you, while eg. activist groups have no such thing

Today's progress in Project Workshop Density: installed some overhead storage hooks for long things, so that they finally aren't in my way anymore; and installed an auto-retracting hose spool for my compressed air onto the ceiling.

Also worked on the plant tables a bit; cut and added all the ledges that the 'floor' planks will rest on. Assuming it's sufficiently dry tomorrow, I might assemble and install them outside tomorrow! Can't do that in the garage, because once fully assembled they won't fit through a doorway anymore.

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@colapunk @ChrisMayLA6 This is exactly it, as far as I can tell. It's the same dynamics as clickbait - sensation and provocation sell.

today on cursed electronics: a firewire car charger.

looks really complex, right? it has a serial number and all, and i bet this was expensive back in 2000.

...it's two 1n4001 diodes (just for safety) and an led + resistor. firewire is 12v. so are cars.

#spoonieTown has a red light district, but it's mostly people basking under infrared lamps.

The WAPBackMachine works! There are lots of WAP sites in the waybackmachine. It seems that the WBM crawler actually followed links on WAP sites, despite them not being HTML, which means that there is a lot to find if you know where to look!

*uploads on abandoned yt channel after 8 years*
*immediately 6 supportive comments*
you know maybe youtube is not so bad

Today's workshop improvements! Reused an empty 3D printing filament spool as a spool for the long extension card in the garage, installed some hooks to hang my (non-electric) scooter on (finally, it's no longer in my way!), and finally added some nonslip tape to a working surface so that I can safely put stationary tools on it without them moving around and without having to bolt them down permanently.

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I've snapped some crappy (because lack of daylight) pictures of the in-progress woodworking project! As well as the little spacer tool I made to ensure the planks are at the correct distance from each other, and will match up at the ends.

I now have four of these 'half tables', that will then be transported outside and combined per two into a whole table, adding the two missing legs. That's why the spacing is important - it needs to match between all of them, or the point where they get joined won't line up!

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Basically I'm trying to fit everything efficiently in what one might call a one-car garage if one were generous. Efficiently enough that there's actually enough space to work on projects. While also storing gardening tools and a bunch of miscellaneous stuff in there.

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Today's progress in Project Workshop Density: installed some overhead storage hooks for long things, so that they finally aren't in my way anymore; and installed an auto-retracting hose spool for my compressed air onto the ceiling.

Also worked on the plant tables a bit; cut and added all the ledges that the 'floor' planks will rest on. Assuming it's sufficiently dry tomorrow, I might assemble and install them outside tomorrow! Can't do that in the garage, because once fully assembled they won't fit through a doorway anymore.

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Saw this bumper sticker. If every human being obliged this sentiment, the world would level up to infinity.

#Kindness #DoBetter #BeGood

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