+1 for PBS streaming. It’s a great value and highly underrated.

Title got my hopes up for Bezos. Guess this is better than nothing, though the damage is already done.

“All ran towards their chains, believing that they were securing their liberty.”

Thus its dependency on frontiers: “new” land, new tech, new cars, new trends, dot com, surveillance capitalism, mars, VR, crypto, ai, etc.

This looks awesome! I’d just been collect my GPS data thinking one day I’d analyze/visualize it on my own-- not expecting anyone else to make a such a comprehensive program. The UI looks really slick. I’m looking forward to testing it out. Hopefully this weekend. Thank you for this!

Few things that make my blood boil like Trump saying “J-6 hostages.”

Is a server a requirement? I haven’t tried myself but localsend (p2p) comes to mind.

If you have an old laptop sitting around, put a linux server or NAS distro on it and start tinkering. There can be a lot of analysis paralysis with this stuff. Sometimes it’s best to just try and fail and learn and try again. More likely you’ll try and succeed and realize other wants and needs and redo it a year later. I think that’s why it makes for a great hobby. Lots to learn and improve upon.

Start small, on your local network. Maybe something like paperless-ngx: not very demanding of resources, and (I assume) easy to backup/migrate. You could see about putting it on truenas to get a sense of what that process is like. I personally like to keep a nas and server separate, then mount the nas on the server.

I’ve found owncloud a bit complex and prefer dedicated solutions. For the seas, servarr apps come up a lot. Paperless ngx for docs. Immich (or ente) for photos/vid. If you’re just starting out, installing on linux and/or using docker is going to be your shortest path to success. proxmox or other VMs can complicate things if you’re not familiar.

100%

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

- Marshall McLuhan, Culture is Our Business (1972)

Bill Gates the farmer?

Just trying to find a decent link led me past so many deceptive headlines like Bill Gates owns a lot of American farmland, but not the majority.

So… he’s the largest private owner of US farmland , but he doesn’t own a majority-- What a relief /s

What nonsense? Look it up in a thesaurus.

Yes, people want skilled professionals. Who says they shouldn’t? They should also care about a system that favors a dominant class largely because of historic access to (stolen) capital. After all, that would reduce competition and competency.

What’s being implied by bringing up “merit” as antithetical to DEI is that you can’t trust people outside of the dominant class to do the work competently. If that were the case, the problem is not DEI, it’s upstream: fair access to education and opportunities, but I don’t hear DEI opponents crying about that.

Reminder that “merit” is a synonym for “supremacy”

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“But it’s so convenient to not have the means of production,” says the person who has seen enough ads to become an ad themselves

December vibes. More places should just take the month off. Surely the data shows how unproductive most are. Now’s the time to get cozy and rest.

Even in death they’d be causing sea levels to rise.

I think about this often-- followed by Homer Simpson’s voice saying, “Better say something or they’ll think you’re stupid.”

right? holy jpeg artifacts! Is this the record holder for “longest chain of screenshots-of-a-screenshot”?

I would say there’s been a mass migration from Twitter to Mastodon and from Reddit to Lemmy. The current numbers are still a small fraction of the original services, but the federated services have reached a critical mass where they now offer comparable value. YouTube hasn’t been ubiquitous for that long and it’s already pretty enshittified. I see a lot of people who are fed up with it and looking for an alternative. The peertube platform is there, I think with more people and content and it’ll join the ranks.

Me if that happens:

jk, i barely use YT as it is. I’m waiting for the YT ToS update that causes a mass migration to peertube