Diane @alienghic@octodon.social
Bioinfo developer in ENCODE project, Python developer, Debian Developer. I'm trying to work on XMPP.
@hoodieak we got tired of trying to keep IM gateways working? Is gatewaging content with facebook different from a yahoo IM gateway?
@MightyBigCar you discover a captive portal with a simple message board labeled hello neighbor with no internet access.
Reading book on resisting dictatorships and hit this in the introduction.
"The population has often been
atomized (turned into a mass of isolated individuals) unable to work together to achieve freedom, to confide in each other, or even to do much of anything at their own initiative."
Somehow sounds very familiar.
https://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/FDTD.pdf page 3
Imagine, you see an SSID called hello.local in an apartment complex it is an open, unencrypted network.
What would you do?
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I followed a link to a proposed bill and saw this at the start of the PDF.
G:\M\15\ENGEL\ENGEL_101.XML
Now I'm wonder how and why US House bill templates use XML.
Watching people who aren't affected by racism talk about racism. Show more
@Are0h (fellow white people he's right.) And also omg its so easy to find information on voting suppression. Slight harder but still findable is the role of the "justice" system and money bail in keeping black people in poverty. Eg. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-bail-reform-20180622-story.html
@Zarffyn Click all the things, find all the water.
Oh and sensor towers help scan faster.
grumble pulse... Yes its buggy.
The things I've found that helps me pavucontrol exposes two mute buttons, one on playback and one on output devices. Somehow one or the other gets toggled. I frequently forget to check the other.
The other thing is when it fails to detect my USB sound card is to kill the pulse daemon owned by my user.
@OutOnTheMoors
Thank you.
As for resisting tyrrany I found this Washington Post article which lists several resources.
I got a good way through http://hardymerriman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/A_Checklist_for_Ending_Tyranny.pdf before time to go home.
@OutOnTheMoors What are a couple of good books about how South Africa changed?
Though works that discuss resisting tyranny and/or successfully toppling autocracies while avoiding anarchy are especially relevant to me right now.
@Zarffyn The first phase has you landing drones and exploring.
I saw advice to take your time in that phase, and not to feel pressured to build a dome and send people.
uspol, link to late night satire on recent executive order Show more
@OutOnTheMoors 😀 I was fishing for a link to an essay I could read after work.
I'd say its pretty easy to misunderstand such a situation based on half-remembered, biased news reports.
So do you have any newer references talking about how south africa managed to improve its treatment of black and still seem to be mostly a democracy?
I should probably be working right now instead of talking on a social network.
There's perhaps a place to discuss ethics and power, but place is off over around where Cornel West is criticizing President Obama.
@OutOnTheMoors Could you explain that more?
I was worried about what happens if one gets power. There are many stories of revolutionaries who abuse power once they have it.
I realized those here on mastodon are so far from places of power to stop worrying about what they're doing.
@Are0h I really hope you and your instance continue to do well.
