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Directory Structure Checking Script
This is a script to check if my photo archives conform to my naming rules. My archives look like this: Right now, it’s approximately 65,000 files totalling 96GB, so it scales up okay for me. It might not work for you. This script has a bunch of exceptions and slack coded in, because my archives…
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
During the WGA strike of 2023, I was shitposting saying the WGA should have their own AI, because studios were threatening to use AI to eliminate writer jobs. Though I was a newbie with Large Language Model (LLM) chatbots, and I’d only read cursory descriptions about how they worked, it was pretty obvious that they…
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
Remembering History: the Era of Assassinations Luigi Mangione is not an anarchist, but his assassination attack reminds me of the historic period of anarchist bombings and assassinations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Propaganda of the Deed was an ideology promoted by Mikhail Bakunin, during the mid to late 19th century, when labor…
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
I have been listening to Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff, and Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine, so I’m extra paranoid these days. I’m moving my work to Proton and Cryptpad.fr. This document describes how well it’s going. What’s migrating? Email ProtonMail provides built-in importers for both Gmail and Outlook.com (the web-based version, not the Exchange…
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2024 Election Battlegrounds
Polling in Battleground States Harris and Trump are very close in the battleground states (obviously – that’s the definition of a BG). Florida is usually up in play, but this year, it’s going for Trump. Georgia usually goes Republican, but this year, it’s up in play; likewise Arizona. ->->-> Harris continues to win the national…
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Computer Shopping
Need to upgrade. Want something with full HD display, 12GB RAM. No HD (will use existing). Current main computer, a laptop, which I want to replace. Dell Inspiron 3537, 12GB RAM, 1TB SSD, i3-4010U CPU 1.7GHz, 720p display lshw output, edited: /0 bus 0GN6RH/0/0 memory 128KiB BIOS/0/4 processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4010U CPU @ 1.70GHz/0/4/9 memory…
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Cascading Failures Due to Failing RAID1 on Linux
I recently had a partial server outage due to a failing RAID, but the problems were due to a cascade of software-based dependencies failing.
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UK Race Riots and Organizing; Tipping; Masking in Our Community Spaces; Video Channel Links
I’m so unhappy because I lost a day of links. This video about the UK racist riots had a lot to say about community organizing and the Left: I’m not sure if there’s a Black Breadtube, but here are a few creators I sometimes watch: FD Signifier, lil bill, Kat Blaque, This is Revolution. (I…
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AOC, Gaza; Disappearing Japantowns; Ilhan Omar and Uncommitted
AOC’s DNC Speech Was a Betrayal of the Gaza Movement by Kareem Elrefai Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s decision to lend her credibility to the Biden-Harris administration’s false narrative around Gaza was a stinging slap in the face. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/aoc-dnc-speech-gaza So much election drama. Lost Kinjo: Disappearing Japanese Neighborhoods California once thrived with more than 40 different Japanese American…