Notices by Tim W RESISTS (tim@union.place)

Hey #UnionPlace family! I need your help.

We've got about 230 active users. The cloud hosting bill for the instance is a bit over $500/mo. We're down to about $100/mo of income from people-who-are-not-me.

That means I'm out of pocket $400+/mo to keep this going, and that's not super sustainable, even with my employer's non-profit matching cutting that in half.

I don't want to shut down the instance, but I can't keep up this level of funding either. What does the community think?

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Fellow #MastoAdmin people: if you need to track down all users invited by a particular user, here's an SQL query (disclosure: generated by Gemini, vetted and validated by me): see next post.

The title is, of course, clickbait, but this video from More Perfect Union is a great, balanced, and researched take on the supposed benefits to communities of building datacenters.

https://youtu.be/wLX_w0TtBpY?si=JwrTIH6FiiBthTnd

Shout out to my union relative Shannon Walt! #AWU #Datacenters #UnionStrong #PerfectUnion

Any USB-C PD experts in the house?

For some reason my Anker power brick won't negotiate 15V with my Steam Deck, only 9V. But if I pass through an Anker battery with dual USB-C, it'll give 15V to the deck and take 45W in... using 20V.

Does this adapter just not support 15V and the Deck doesn't support 20V? That seems silly. I have an Apple 61W that seems to act this way too.

Why can't we have nice things?

@lxo @nyquildotorg

> reading books and newspapers instead of doomscrolling

> thinking for ourselves instead of taking GenBS as truth

These are super interesting to dig into, because I would put these into the category of what my historian spouse describes as "we always think the current moment is the worst".

That said, I do think these particular points are symbolic/emblematic of a problematic direction/pattern. But I'm not sure it'll be so clear-cut in 50 years that it was all bad.

@nyquildotorg ah, okay, I missed the point there, sorry.

I wonder if anyone has looked at this type of thing over time. Like, 50 years ago, were we afraid we'd lose the ability to ... I dunno, drive a stick-shift car? And now that people mostly have, does it matter?

To be more specific: I wonder if we're just imagining future trouble that will never materialize.

@nyquildotorg Or I guess a better question would be "is there a tangible example of something we lost from 50 or 100 years ago that we weren't worried about, but now is a problem?"

@eff does it involve turning it off and then on again?

Did you know there's a Labor & Unions Mastodon Starter pack? Check it out!

https://fedidevs.com/s/NTMy/

Got suggestions? I promise I didn't leave anyone out on purpose, just let me know who I'm missing and I'll be happy to take a look!

#Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #UnionStrong

Ugh, saw the Boston-focused "Join ICE" commercials for the first time during last night's Penn State game. Disgusting.

On the plus side, anyone who joins from those ads is someone we don't want in local PD anyway, but, sigh, there's no winning there.

Sorry Disney/ABC, you can backpedal all you want but you've already shown us your spinelessness. You ain't getting me back.

Things you will take pictures of when you're building a house: random holes in the ground.

(Can you tell I'm scrolling through my Google Photos?)

It's back, more #DynDNSHistory !

Looking back through photos, here's a gem from our first "real real" office in Manchester, NH. I recall being so excited to move from CRT to LCD monitors - look at the massive bezels on those things! 2004 was such a different time.

I haven't thought about the laptop bag on the left in years. I loved that bag. Had it forever.

I just learned today that public defenders in Massachusetts are engaged in a #strike over pay, saying they're not being paid a living wage for their work.

If we don't pay our public defenders fairly, how can anything in the criminal justic system be remotely fair?

Come on MA Legislature, pay them what they're due.

#Solidarity #UnionStrong #OneUnion #Unions

@aisling @squeakypancakes but he also burninated the countryside. Which might have been filled with the bourgeoisie!

@aisling @squeakypancakes for the record I was more of a "The System Is Down" kind of guy anyway.

Am I a criminal now?

Double sided tape: seems like a great idea until it's time to take it off.

Does anyone actually want outlets on switches anymore? Like maybe if you have a bunch of front window outlets on a coordinated holiday circuit but just... One per room semi at random?

These USB-A outlets from five years ago sure didn't age very well.