starless @starless@pixie.town

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I've met a few folks who are physically disabled that use them. They don't like, nor support cops, but it was inexpensive and lets them let friends in without needing to spend five minutes trying to get to the front door.

A few queer friends in a rougher area have one, too, presumably because it makes them feel safer to be able to see who's on the front step without getting up.

These things provide real benefits to the humans who use them. 95% of the time, ring cam users are conservative nut jobs, but like.. I dunno, people are human. Sometimes we buy unethically produced t-shirts, sometimes we waste meat, sometimes we use technology to make our lives more pleasant, even if there is a scary cost.

IMO, this is an argument for why legislation is a more effective tool to combat a police state than 'dollar democracy', but I guess maybe that's just me. For the record, I, too, hate ring doorbells. Just, like, idk, careful about generalizing there, cuz like, the important thing is humans, right, and not the tech or its abuse. The abuse only matters because people matter.

Anyways, uh, I'll get down off this soap box. Nice to meet you, I'm Starless. 😅

So we gave up on media over temple, and instead set some wifi (wled) enabled lights and changed them via plan 9. Successfully, eventually. All six of us cheered when we got it.

Layer Zero, our physical space, has craft night tonight. We're all in very good masks, etc, and are up to date on our security patches.

We're working on setting up a media station, but realized we needed an os. Someone had temple downloaded as a joke, but that's all we had. We're trying to get it on the media laptop now, just because.

We are delighted, joyful children in a sandbox and this feels silly and fun.

@alex other, kind of? Had exposure, got very sick, but in March 2020, so no tests available and no loss of taste or smell.

Y'all wanna talk poly? For science?

Here's a link to the announcement tweet:
https://nitter.net/AllyRoseSOC/status/1483862137982365696#m

Here's a link to the 10-15 minute survey:
https://uofsc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_42g2mvB0Ihbf5oq

Have a link to an article about the intersection between classic 1930s cartoons, racism, and the game Cuphead. It talks about the harms of sanitizing art built on racism, and touches on the utter dearth of racial diversity in modern big-budget video games.

I found it helpful and fascinating.

https://unwinnable.com/2017/11/10/cuphead-and-the-racist-spectre-of-fleischer-animation/

@thegibson@hackers.town iirc, this is a common setup for industrial operations that use third party hardware/machines that an outside vendor provides support for.

@adam @teh_dude @thegibson@hackers.town basic thought, but it might've been accessing Bluetooth, which can look like GPS access because of some Android thing. If not, carry on, just worth maybe mentioning.

@polymerwitch this sounds a lot like what we had in mind with Cyberia, too. We're not exclusively leftist, but we're definitely primarily leftist.

You're welcome to poke around our matrix and see what you like / what you don't like about it, and if it's easier, too just vibe with us. :)