Context is important. I see people saying Agriculture destroyed the world all the time, as if this one component is the singular issue. Are there issues with it, certainly, I agree with that, but there's this idea that if we go back to some kind of Hunter Gatherer Society we will all be happier and healthier, when in reality we would most likely just be dead. I don't know, maybe you want to go trekking in the woods any time you get hungry, but I like making a sandwich. The reality is everything is much much more complex than we think. Simple blanket statements don't solve real problems. I mean, other than Tax the Rich.
I've got a few snapcast nodes spread around the house as "points of listening" for my web-based interface to mpd via mopidy and iris, and while it's got a number of things I'd change none of them are consequential enough for me to put the effort into changing them
except one node that would just not hold a consistent connection to the source node
until I went in and deleted the wpa_supplicant config so it would stop connecting over both wifi and ethernet and choosing the worse of the two to use as its route
so now, now it's pretty good (modulo above mentioned things)
In the September election some of the tabulators ran out of paper while printing the tapes, which caused "mass hysteria" (trainer's words, not mine) at city hall. We've therefore added slides to the training to show how to replace the tape roll. Presumably that means there will be replacement tape rolls included among the election supplies sent to each precinct? I hope they don't mean they'll courier tape rolls to the precincts only after they run out! #pollWorkerTraining
People with disabilities have the right to vote in Massachusetts. They are allowed to ask poll-workers for assistance or have someone of their choosing accompany them to assist. There is an "AutoMARK" machine which assists visually impaired people via magnification and hearing impaired people by reading the ballot out loud. When should speak directly to the voter, not the person assisting them. #pollWorkerTraining
Polls close at 8pm. If there are people in line at 8pm they need to be allowed to vote. The police officer should station themselves at the end of the line at 8pm and not allow anyone else to get in line. We should keep our tabulators turned on until at least 8:10pm in case the election department shows up last-minute with a final batch of absentee / mail-in ballots. #pollWorkerTraining
@TCatInReality@rbreich to which I say: voting blue no matter who is an exploitable flaw by republicans to change parties to (d) while being in line with maga.
Don’t just vote because they are blue: vote for the truest blue you can find - which is a lot more work.
Rated choice allows us to vote for progressives without conceding to the spoiler effect giving republicans votes.
Had Mozilla set out on this mission a decade ago - unburdened by years of increasingly controversial feature additions to Firefox - they might have been able to sell it - we also knew a little less about the the fundamental limitations on aggregated privacy back then, and people would have trusted Mozilla to be an honest-if-curious aggregator.
I come from a world where "user agent" still has a meaning. A tool that works on my behalf, not subject to the bidding of other forces.
And a world where building such agents is still subject to a code of ethics which precludes allowing others to extract data from such a tool for their own benefit - certainly not without explicit opt-in - and even then, not without a significant upside for the actual user.
This is an _incredibly_ convincing phishing email from #Microsoft. I have to give the people who sent it credit, this one is really good. The From line shows a Microsoft logo and microsoft.com domain. The message passes DKIM (HUGE problem!). All of the links in the email are real Microsoft links. The scam is designed to get people to call the "Sales Team Helpline" where the real fraud will take place. You can spot a few red flags if you look really carefully. 1/4 #phishing#infosec
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