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Today's screams brought to you by Omnivore (open source) giving its entire hosted userbase two weeks to get their data out before they exuberantly drown themselves in the service of an Andreessen Horowitz-funded AI voice company co-founded by a Palantir person.

blog.omnivore.app/p/omnivore-i

(The two weeks' notice went to my spam folder, so I'm grateful someone mentioned it here and I happened to see it.)

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"Het is dit jaar 10 jaar geleden dat actiegroep Kick Out Zwarte Piet (KOZP) haar eerste acties organiseerde. De acties maakten veel los en hebben een belangrijke bijdrage geleverd aan een nieuwe golf van anti-racisme in Nederland.

Dit jaar heeft #KOZP aangekondigd dat ze, na 10 jaar strijden voor bewustwording over racisme in Nederland, de boodschap duidelijk hebben gemaakt dat racistische stereotypes en beeldvorming niet langer normaal zijn. Het wordt tijd om het stokje over te dragen aan de samenleving."

Wanneer? Vrijdag 15 november 2024
Waar? Bijlmerplein 140
Tijd? 19:00 - 22:00 uur
Entree? €7,50 (Opbrengst wordt gedoneerd aan KOZP)

theblackarchives.nl/10jaar-koz

#BlackArchives #antiracism #Blackface

So you got a vague interest in what might be a new hobby or something that you need some equipment to do, whaddaya do, you check out the various forums for it right?

Save you some time: find the posts from people new to the thing asking what kinda gear to buy, and check the replies. See how long it takes before someone gives the only correct answer

🐿 Hey I'm new to this, what kinda badger comb should I get?
->🐁 BrushBoi 2000. Anything less is trash. You'll waste your money.
-> 🦊 BrushBoi 6000 costs a couple grand but it's well worth it
-> 🐺 Ignore these guys, DapperLad makes WAY better badger brushes
-> 🦌 TBH this is an expensive hobby and most people bail real quick, just get a cheap one off Amazon, it'll suck but you're probably not gonna stick around anyway
-> 🐧 Hi, welcome to the hobby! I'd start by checking the secondhand markets, badger brushes haven't really changed much in the last 30-odd years and you can spend the same money on a really good Tangle-B-Gon from the 90's or on a brand new cheap one that won't be nearly as good but will still basically get the job done. Good luck and happy brushing, show us what you got when you find a deal!

This forum has a Shite Index of 4, that is four awful responses before the only correct answer

LB: (botsin.space/@muffinista/11339)
So, with botsin.space shutting down, what's the next best place for bots to live on Fedi?

(Though for their in-person events, like that VR tour of the potential new train interiors, they really need to fix their compensation - a second-class off-peak ticket is really kind of a shitty compensation when you're asking people to sort out their own transport to get there... you're a train company FFS, could you really not afford to pay for the tickets of your survey panel???)

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Sidenote, if you're in NL, and you're a rail nerd, sign up for the survey panel! Details about unreleased/non-final plans for the railways show up there with some regularity

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Ok so @techwolf12 and I were talking about blu-ray, and we suddenly found out about the existence of "BD-Live".
Basically as far as we can find, this was a feature that certain blu-ray discs had that allowed for additional online features to be provided.

Some examples I can find online are honestly quite extreme, like having a chatroom during the movie? What?

I'm super intrigued but can't seem to find /anything/ about this standard or what options it had.

Also?? Does this mean you can run code on your blu-ray player through this??? Can you boot linux? Do we have blu-ray linux?

So many questions!!
Anyone that knows more about this on here, or can link us to a bit more technical specification of this feature?

#bluray #hacking

Just got a request from the Dutch railways' survey panel to update my personal information, to make sure my profile was still up to date - and I noticed that several of the questions had been improved *a lot*, leading me to suspect they had it reviewed by someone neurospicy (eg. some traditionally-vague-in-NL survey questions were clarified a lot).

Of particular interest was that aside from a man/woman/other/prefer-not-to-say option, they had an *additional* "how do you want to be addressed" field... which is freeform text input!

And near the end of the survey, it explicitly stated that they are working on better accessibility, both for physical disability and also things like neurodivergence, and whether they could ask some additional questions about that. So I guess that confirms my suspicion.

Just a reminder that #rescueTransRescue is still ongoing! (so go check it out if you haven't yet!)
Thanks so much to @inherentlee for all the work hosting this great fundraiser!
@trans_rescue is such a great organization doing really good work!
rescue-trans-rescue.glitch.me/

medical, positive, injection 

Today will, hopefully, be my last epo injection!

On my blog: One weird trick to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friend(s)

delroth.net/posts/spoofed-mass

Summary of my adventures from last evening, as read in this Mastodon thread: mastodon.delroth.net/@delroth/

#infosec #networking #tor

Journalists: And where did this polarization come from? Why are both sides, and not me, to blame???

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A320 cockpit 

I was trying to sneak photos of the cockpit and the pilots saw and just invited us in to see it and stuff, was so cool omg

Okay by this point I'm *convinced* that Mastodon is eating a bunch of my favs. I'm *certain* I've favourited things that now show up as not favourited.

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