Notices by Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org), page 56

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Anger

#smbc #comics #saturdaymorningbreakfastcereal
posted by pod_feeder_v2

This looks cool/awful:

https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition

#face_recognition #facialrecognition #python

https://twitter.com/harikondabolu/status/685929052536999936

#harikondabolu #capitalism

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_W0zqm5zMdc

#lizzo #humor #music

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Real Life

#smbc #comics #saturdaymorningbreakfastcereal
posted by pod_feeder_v2

I set up a Gitlab CI job on my pod_feeder project to do an actual test post on every commit, using a real RSS feed and posting to a real D* pod, so I can see the results for myself. Gitlab even stores the credentials for my test account so I don't need to hard-code them in the repo. I'm impressed. The tools keep getting better and keep staying free.

#gitlab #git #ci #testing #automation #programming

My python re-write of pod_feeder is now in a usable state. I'm going to begin testing it on some of the feed accounts I control. If anyone else would like to do the same and give me feedback, that would be greatly appreciated!

This new version should be much easier to debug thanks to the use of the excellent feedparser and diaspy python libraries. I was able to complete this script so quickly because 75% of the work had already been done for me :)

#pod_feeder #pod_feeder_v2 #diaspora #rss

#conservative #christians #trump #jesus

I've decided to re-write pod_feeder from the ground up in python3. The original perl version works (mostly), but it's kind of a mess, and there are some outstanding issues that would be annoying to fix.

If you'd like to follow along, here is the repo. If you have any feature requests, get them in now!

#pod_feeder #diaspora #rss #python

How is it that I've only just encountered Trout Mask Replica for the first time?

#captainbeefheart

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eDRmZz8gMsQ

#somemorenews #codyjohnston #satire #trump

True story.

America is not "polarized": it's a land where a small minority tyrannize the supermajority

"Writing in the New York Times, Tim Wu (previously) describes the state of American politics after decades of manipulation dirty tricks and voter suppression, where policies with extremely high levels of public approval like higher taxes on the super-rich (75%), paid maternity leave (67%), net neutrality (83%), parallel importation of pharmaceuticals from Canada (71%) and empowering Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices (92%) are nevertheless considered politically impossible."

"Of course the thing that all these policies have in common is that they would make life vastly better for nearly all of us, while making the super-rich a very little worse off."

"As Wu points out, this is not a picture of a 'heavily polarized' nation, as the pundits would have it. These policies are wildly popular and are outside of the political mainstream because a minority have figured out how to suppress the will of the supermajority."

#inequality

Drip-acclimating some cherry shrimp.

#aquariums #shrimp #neocaridina

Lest we forget.

https://theintercept.com/2019/03/05/republicans-and-democrats-say-their-criticism-of-ilhan-omar-is-about-anti-semitism-theyre-gaslighting-you/

#trump #republicans #antisemitism

It bothers me a lot when "news" outlets use superlatives with arbitrary qualifiers for everything. ex:

This is the worst x in modern history.

"Modern history"? When does that begin? At whatever date justifies your factoid?

This morning I heard a reporter claim that the tornado in Alabama was the "worst in US history since 2013". WTF kind of statement is that? It's like saying "These are the worst eggs I've ever eaten... since breakfast yesterday". Why can't things just be good or bad? Why does every event have to be framed as the "best" or "worst" or "deadliest" since some arbitrary cut-off?

Sigh.

4 week update on the 5.5 gallon dry-start re-scape. As the S. repens has been growing I've been snipping off the tops and replanting them. It propagates them faster and causes them to grow bushier.

#aquariums #plants #dry-start

I have a shitty old hot tub in my backyard. It came with the house, but it wasn't well taken care of and the internal plumbing is cracked, so I was thinking this summer of turning it into a fish pond. The inside is a light gray (ugly) and I don't know what chemicals may have been used, so I was thinking of coating it with spray on truck bed liner. Has anyone done something like this before? Any thoughts?

#aquariums #fish #hottub #pond #diy

https://theintercept.com/2019/03/04/common-defense-congress-forever-wars-pledge/

#commondefense #veterans #militarism #foreverwar

https://youtube.com/watch?v=JtUAAXe_0VI

#kurzgesagt #standards #trust

Near the end, about the only thing that kept me on facebook were a couple of tropical fish hobbyist groups. I miss those. So, as an experiment, I set up a "community" on Movim, and I'm hoping some people from D* will want to join me to talk about fish stuff.

https://movim.gibberfish.org/?community/pubsub.social.gibberfish.org/federated-fishkeepers

I also set up an accompanying chat room which you can join in Movim or using an xmpp client.

If your pod has chat (xmpp) enabled, you can sign in and subscribe using your D* account. Otherwise, you can get a free xmpp account at https://chat.gibberfish.org:9091/plugins/registration/sign-up.jsp or many other providers.

Who's up for it?

@brunus@[Brunus](/people/b9ad7330f8e1013353572a0000053625) @[mʕ•ﻌ•ʔm jeSuisatire bitPickup / [italic] ~ irony](/people/e0a5bbf04f3c01364ed42a0000053625) @[John Munt](/people/2ea036a0aed401364748005056268def) @[Dave Sutton](/people/6bb5dc50e50b0136fff2005056264835)

Anyone else?

#aquariums #fishkeeping #tropicalfish #movim #xmpp #chat