Notices by Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐 (gcvsa@mstdn.plus)

I still don't think I understand why it was felt necessary to invent #ActivityPub, when #NNTP already existed and is proven to scale.

Why couldn't we just have an updated HTTP to NNTP gateway front end? #Fediverse

Toni D'Orsay is and has been a tireless advocate for the trans community for many years, and she is a personal friend, so I can vouch for this #MutualAid request for donations to operate a transportation service for the trans and diverse community of Arizona.

#twoc #lgbt

https://gofund.me/aff13e758

@skinnylatte I just caught an Instagram short on fabulous places to eat in Flushing. My family is from College Point, dating back to the 1920s, three generations of us went to Flushing High School. The Flushing of today is nothing like the Flushing I remember from my youth, but wow, does the Chinese food look amazing!

@skinnylatte "You can be a leftist and realize that reckless visas and a lack of incentive to hire in your own country is a problem."

Ummm. UMMMM. NO, you cannot be a leftist and think these things. This is literally the antithesis of leftism.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @skinnylatte I am extremely skeptical of unionism, due to its extensive history of racial and sex/gender discrimination in America, and I don't regard unionism as leftist, either.

Unionism may be necessary to counteract the power of management in many cases, but what it really is, is using a monopoly on labor to counterbalance a monopoly on land and capital. The better solution is doing away with all monopoly power and leverage.

@MamaLake So many of the things that people think they want #robots to do for them are tasks that really don't need to be done, in the first place, and wouldn't need to be done in a society that is structured around human well-being and self-actualization, rather than accumulation of unearned wealth and power.

Or, they are human #care jobs which robots cannot perform adequately, no matter how dextrous or strong they are because they are not humans and cannot "care" in any meaningful sense.

OK, #fediverse #hivemind, here's a #question.

I want to put #VPN gateways at my house and my mother's house 500 km away, so I can have remote access to both home networks.

Given everything that's going on in the consumer router market, what would you suggest?

I was at one point considering the D-Link DSR-250V2. Is there anything else out there that's reasonably priced and reasonably secure? Are there any #FOSS solutions for this? #networking

@skinnylatte omg ikr? when I went to the PH with my father and brother to visit our family, within two days, I had perfect skin. I miss that so much!

@cyberlyra Literally my posts from just yesterday.

@cyberlyra We call them "Canadian Wildfires" only because they are located in Canada, not because they are necessarily Canada's fault. That being said, Canada is also not entirely without blame. Canadians rank significantly higher in total energy consumption per capita than Americans.

Of course, in overall impact, yes, there are many more Americans, so as I actually said the other day, we Americans bear the majority of the blame.

@skinnylatte I honestly would be careful of that statement, because a very large number of Americans have actually lived and worked in Dubai, and about 40-50K at any given time, according to various sources, making it one of the largest American expat communities in the world.

Much of the criticism of the "boringness" of Dubai comes from the laws regarding alcohol and other "vices", which Americans are accustomed to being able to access freely.

@skinnylatte When we went to visit our family in the Philippines, that was the first time I ever tasted mangoes the way the universe intended them to be experienced, and it was mind-blowing. We get two varieties of mangoes in the US, and neither are very often in prime condition by the time they get to us.

@skinnylatte @Andres4NY @meganL COBRA is paid for by the employee, by the way, not the employer. What it does is allow you to retain your previous coverage for up to 18 months *at your expense*.

If anyone is requiring an NDA, then that must be in order for them to pay for it. COBRA is a government program, not an employer program.

https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/health-plans/cobra

@skinnylatte Don't get me wrong, as a Filipino American, I'm sympathetic to this idea, but that doesn't make Korean Japanese food the same thing as Japanese Japanese food.

@skinnylatte this is wisdom. work out more to eat more

@skinnylatte I got my Panasonic SR-3NAL rice cooker, because I heard it's popular with Japanese airliner cabin crews, since it fits in a suitcase and can be used to make fresh rice in a hotel room overseas in places where access to rice might not be easy. It's designed for up to 270 mL (1.5 gō) of uncooked rice. I actually have two, and kept one at my office, when I still had an office on the other side of town. Perfect for lunches!

https://shop.panasonic.com/products/rice-cooker-1-5-cup-uncooked-capacity

"#Punk" doesn't mean "cool", it means "fundamentally disrupting the systems of oppression that brought us to where we are right now."

#PunksNotDead #DIY

@steter My father was a physician (MD) who also played chess, classical guitar, and piano. My mother was a nurse (RN), who didn't play any instruments, but who loved classical music. I started classical piano lessions at age 5.

I remember that one of my greatest musical regrest was when my piano teacher asked me at age 7-8 or so, if I wanted to study classical or jazz. Not knowing anything about jazz, and knowing my mother liked classical, I chose classical.

I should have chosen jazz.

@steter My father's cousin is Michael Dadap, a classical guitarist and composer, who is married to Yeou-Cheng Ma, who is the elder sister of a cellist you might have heard of, Yo-Yo Ma.

Yeou-Cheng is herself a physician (a pediatrician) and violinist. Their daughter Laura is also a musician (and a bassist!), but she probably spends more of her time running the family hot sauce business, now (Djablo Filipino Hot Sauce).

I didn't pick up guitar until my late teens, totally self-taught.

RE: https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/@steter/116467573312988627

Ellen is awesome, so I'm excited for her debut album! She makes me wonder how different my life might have been, if my parents didn't push me into classical piano. I didn't start playing bass until I was about 25.