After having recently restored some stuff from an aging external hdd, i’m seriously considering getting a few dvdr discs and burning the important things every now and then.

I know they don’t last forever either, but - just as a random example that has definitely never happened to me hahaha - you can drop them from a height of 3 feet and still get files off them!

I mostly agree - however there are physical/mechanical reasons behind the use of some of those. For example, Phillips head screws will ‘cam out’ (driver will slip out of the screw head) rather than get over-torqued, which is useful in various situations - although TIL this was not actually an intentional design feature!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam_out

Hex keys are better than a Robertson (square head) in tight spaces with something like an Allan key, and, in my experience anyway, Robertson can take a fair bit of torque, so they’re great for sinking into softwood - and also for getting out again, even when they’ve been painted over.

Flathead screws, on the other hand, should launched into the sun

This is horrible.

It would be reasonable to assume that the lack of LTC supply is at least partly because it’s not profitable to have extra spaces you’re not using.

That lack of supply makes it more likely that seniors would have to look at places further away.

Plus, the people profiting off LTC are folks like former Conservative Premier Mike Harris, who not only used to be chair of the board of Chartwell Retirement Residences, but has also owned millions of dollars in company shares (as of 2022, Harris no longer controls >10% of the company, so he doesn’t have to file public disclosures of his holdings).

https://burlingtongazette.ca/its-time-that-we-take-the-words-private-and-profit-out-of-how-we-care-for-our-seniors/

While premier, Harris also pushed hard to privatize the industry that he would later benefit from.

This looks like another case of Ford making sure his buddies rake in as much money as possible, even if it causes human misery.

Unfortunately, Meta is listed as one of their partners

Would be very interested to know if Meta (listed as a “partner” organization) is providing financial support, like how fellow partner the Ford Foundation lists a $50k grant[1] in February 2024 to the Exchange Point Institute, which is the “fiscal sponsor” of the Social Web Foundation[2]

[1] https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/awarded-grants/grants-database/exchange-point-institute-149412/

[2] https://socialwebfoundation.org/donate/

Not to mention that their napkin math is wrong by a factor of 12

No replies yet so I’ll give it a try - feel free to ignore if you solved this already

Are you using pipewire? I would think that either helvum or qpwgraph would be able to route the audio from youtube into bitwig but I haven’t tried to do this.

You may want to double-check that math ;)

Did no one in the replies happen to notice that this is a loan

Corporations and surveillance?

Yep absolutely, and even those numbers likely represent raw emissions figures vastly lower than the true impact these data centres are having on global emissions.

For example, that Google report talks about EACs - here’s a great podcast episode that explains why these kinds of accounting methods are a complete disaster:

Reveal: It’s Not Easy Going Green

https://revealnews.org/podcast/its-not-easy-going-green-update-2023/

This move, at least on the face of it, seems to privilege the cloud giants over say, a company that maintains its own servers. That’s effectively a handout of public resources to those already fabulously wealthy and powerful corporations.

That’s where I drew the conclusion from

Isn’t technofeudalism great?

1 Ape = 1 Ape

I would like to hear you say it

What’s strange about defending people’s freedom to be themselves?

Why not do both?

What’s the problem with drag queens reading to kids, exactly?

Very cool! Yeah I will definitely need to crack open some more of these tools and just keep playing, I haven’t even tried most of them yet, will have to explore that select-4 module first though

Also that strip on your controller looks like fun to use!

I don’t have a video to share but one of the things I discovered was, if I use the note expressions to randomize velocity a bit, and then map velocity to the likelihood of transposing notes up an octave… now every time a midi chord plays, I can get a different voicing. Got a feeling I’ll be using that technique a lot

Like it or not, things sometimes become symbols for other things, and especially given the political climate, it makes sense for people to get their guard up if they see something that looks like one of those symbols that represents, say, an utterly toxic ideology.

Not wanting to make others navigate that stuff unnecessarily is a sign of thoughtfulness and pro-social tendencies, not weakness.