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by SamWhited 3y ago
+1 to this; some of the best people I've met in my city are from the local DIY bike co-op. I started out walking in to check it out and see if they had any good bikes, and now I open the shop and teach bike repair there once a week wit
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by SamWhited 3y ago
I've found the local Swing Dance scene to be very welcoming; the same with local bicycle group rides (you see a lot of the same people at different rides and make friends really quick), the local bike repair co-ops where you can learn&
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by SamWhited 4y ago
Exactly. The attack vector that matters in practice is having an internet connection and a bunch of unnecessary built-in spy devices and protecting against that is as easy as not having them and allowing people to make their own choices fro
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by SamWhited 4y ago
Wow, others have said it but they really missed the point. Most of it is just kind of annoying because they're missing the point, but this sentence really stuck out to me (snipped to only show the important parts, there's a bunch
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by SamWhited 4y ago
I mean, I'd love to buy somewhere cheaper, but that would require being even further outside of the city (and further from work) than I already am. Taking a job outside of the city means lower pay, making that place just as expensive a
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by SamWhited 4y ago
I've thought about it, but I don't think that's actually an option. Renting is just going back to throwing money into some asshole landlord making profit off of other people not wanting to be houseless, and everywhere else wh
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by SamWhited 4y ago
"shit period", pun intended? Jokes aside, good luck, so far I've been really lucky and haven't had any major house issues, that's super tough.
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by SamWhited 4y ago
yah, I have the tinniest cheapest house pretty far outside of the city but the mortgage is just too much without roommates (which is how all my coworkers afford apartments), but it's small enough that I really don't want to do tha
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by SamWhited 4y ago
Every job I ever had in tech was basically terrible and I was never diagnosed, but I suspect was clinically depressed for the 13 years or so I was in tech. I did not have the savings to do it, but I eventually quit and became a bicycle mech
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by SamWhited 4y ago
Yes, sadly, there is nothing illegal about being a giant pile of <moderators will ban me for continuing this sentence>. Instead of suing, unionize and take a bit of the power we all ceded to the hedge fund managers back. It won't
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by SamWhited 4y ago
When millions of IDs are lost the chances of your individual ID being used nefariously are pretty low; that doesn't mean that hundreds (or thousands?) of IDs still aren't being used nefariously every day. Lots of people were serio
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by SamWhited 4y ago
A friend of mine asked about one of these recently and they wouldn't give him a salary range, so he reported them to the attorney general and they immediately put one on their website. Can't hurt to ask (although in that case th
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by SamWhited 4y ago
Even if this were just static site hosting (it wasn't, but for the sake of argument let's assume it was), GitHub is in no way "the industry-standard" and lots of Open Source projects need something a bit more complete th
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by SamWhited 4y ago
I don't see this, is there a list somewhere? We're getting a bit desperate to find a host for our project before this goes offline.
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by SamWhited 4y ago
My big concern with this whole thing is that users weren't alerted as far as I can tell. I happened to visit the website for the first time in ages and saw the news, but if I hadn't done that I would never have known until my site
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Fosshost Is Shutting Down(fosshost.org)
177 points by SamWhited 4y ago|143 comments
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by SamWhited 4y ago
Mastodon doesn't have a lack of moderation, in fact, it's architecture tends to segregate people out into instances by interest, making it easy to moderate as long as you keep your instance small (most of the really bad stuff will
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by SamWhited 4y ago
This is great! I've been using Conversations as my main chat client bridged to IRC and my phone number (using jmp.chat for phone and disroot.org or jmp's IRC bridges) for a while, but I can imagine phone and IRC aren't genera
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How to Start a Bike Kitchen(geo.coop)
1 points by SamWhited 4y ago|0 comments
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by SamWhited 4y ago
I feel this, I eventually quit and became a bicycle mechanic. Now I don't hate my life anymore, but there's a decent chance I'm going to lose my house and can't afford rent anywhere in my city anymore, so tradeoffs, I gu
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by SamWhited 4y ago
Some (most?) flavors of anarchy eschew hierarchys, not rules in general. Eg. your local collective or union or guild (depending on your flavor of anarchy) would collectively decide "killing is wrong, here's what happens if someone
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by SamWhited 4y ago
If your state has a loser-pays law then the clause likely isn't enforceable. They probably know this and have a severability clause as well ("if any one clause isn't enforceable, the others remain in effect") and just le
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by SamWhited 4y ago
I work with a co-op that installs these around the city of Atlanta: https://www.ocaatlanta.com/mural-bike-racks-to-be-dedicated-... They look great, but like a lot of the stands in this list they aren't always the most
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by SamWhited 5y ago
I used to use my blog for photography, but these days it's mostly just occasional thoughts and the picture part is largely unused or something meant to illustrate the article and not one of my photos, but the design still revolves arou
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by SamWhited 5y ago
I don't believe I'm being hyperbolic. Maybe everyone else is just smarter than me, but every time I filled it out myself it was extremely confusing and difficult to the point where I gave up and was generally told I'd made
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by SamWhited 5y ago
I believe Disroot is out of the EU and offers free (donation based) email services: https://disroot.org
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by SamWhited 5y ago
I've been a big fan of Fastmail for email and calendars. I've also thought about joining May First Co-op ( https://mayfirst.coop/ ) as they've been around for a bit and offer a suite of services which includes
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by SamWhited 5y ago
That doesn't make it untrue.
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by SamWhited 5y ago
This is just not true. While that is more complicated, it's still stupidly complicated to do something as simple as fill out the W-2 form if you have a single job with a salary, and if you're a freelancer with lots of clients that
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An Introduction to Generics in Go(go.dev)
8 points by SamWhited 5y ago|0 comments

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