Jayjader

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[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 1 hour ago

I really enjoyed Lain as a work of speculative fiction, especially watching it in 2019 and being able to compare and contrast the portrayal of computer's effects on society with what "actually" happened as we moved more and more of our lives onto the internet.

The "actual" story/plot (message?) only really came together after watching a long YouTube video (actually, I read the transcript / script as a blog post so it wasn't as long for me to get through it). If I had had the patience I think I would have preferred rewatching until I "got" it, but there's so much else out there to experience. Maybe some day I'll sit down and do a "proper" rewatch.

A good part of the initial enjoyment for me was the vibes and letting the different scenes slowly add up onto each other in the back of my mind.

As others have said in this thread already, it's not necessarily the most coherent nor meaningful story as it is conveyed. Being depressed can unironically help it make sense (though I would never ever recommend getting depressed just to better understand Lain or any story really, your mental wellbeing is more important!).

The shots of telephone lines with audio of power line hums and the weird purple/red splotches are probably some of my favorite bits, and they're what I immediately think of whenever Lain gets brought up.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 4 points 3 hours ago

It's a bit clearer in french; "weed" is "mauvaise herbe" which literally translates to "bad herb/grass".

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 3 hours ago

To my knowledge, there is 1 feature that forgejo has that gitea doesn't: it can generate a new ssh key for you at the click of a button that can be used to push repo changes to another git forge.

I have several personal repos on my forgejo instance that are each setup so that they mirror themselves onto my Codeberg account at noon every day.

I also have a gitea instance on a raspi on my local network that itself will push out changes on certain repos to the (public-facing) forgejo instance.

I can push and/or pull to any of the three origins as needed, but usually I just push to the gitea when I'm at home and the forgejo when I'm not, and let the mirroring take care of propagating changes to Codeberg.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 7 hours ago

Some decent comments on hackernews, though the post itself is [flagged].

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 3 points 11 hours ago

Part of the problem is also that, while an acre of land can feed a family of 4, there's no way to generate enough surplus from that single acre to be able to afford a tractor in the first place. So the tractor creates the need for much larger farm plots being owned by a single person, which way up all the supposed extra free time the automation/mechanized tool was supposed to bring.

In the end, less people can work the land to sustain themselves and the only people better off are those who already had more than enough to go buy.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 5 points 1 day ago

And now they're trying to automate community, the last thing we have. Don't let them!

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 5 points 2 days ago

If you have a fediverse account, you can comment on this article from your own instance. Search https://hackers.pub/ap/articles/0197de66-6d9c-7728-abed-b8a4996f3022 on your instance and reply to it.

Very cool to see, now if only those comments could show up here in Lemmy...

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 6 days ago

Dog_with_thousand_yard_stare.jpg except instead of Vietnam flashbacks it's the Ever Given blocking the Suez Canal

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

two back-to-back W.A.F.R.N. posts by the same user that read "rent lowering nsfw boosts" and "gotta keed the tech bros at bay"

I see the tumblr culture is already present, congrats! Although I never personally used tumblr, my understanding is that more than features or functionality it was very much the culture that its users cultivated that made that site special.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 6 days ago

I wonder if they just want some more data they can then sell off to others.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you for that link, it was really helpful.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago

Just as we are creatures of habit, we are creatures of belief. Ritual is belief + habit + (ideally) intent.

To be clear:
I don't argue for abandoning objective reality, but rather that the path to there, from within our own minds, will need to incorporate rituals on some level. The scientific method is really just a very specific kind of ritual. Let's lean into all of our strengths as human beings, not just our capacity for reasoning.

 

This blogpost is close to 3 weeks old and I haven't seen it anywhere on lemmy yet. Pretty decent writeup of not just why but also how to unionize effectively, catered to tech workers in the US.

 

Daddy, what's a train?
Is it something i can ride?
Does it carry lots of grown up folks and little kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house?
...well how could I explain?
when my little boy and girl ask me,
Daddy, what's a train?

When I was just a boy,
and livin' by the track,
Us kids would gather up the coal, in big ol' gunny sacks
Then we heard the mornin' sound as the train pulled into view,
The engineer would smile and wave as she went rolling through

She blew so loud and clear, we had to cover up our ears
And we counted cars just as high as we could go
I can almost hear the steam, those big old drivers scream -
Sounds my little kids will never know.

Daddy, what's a train?
Is it something i can ride?
Does it carry lots of grown up folks and little kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house?
...well how could I explain?
when my little boy and girl ask me,
Daddy, what's a train?

I guess the times have changed, kids are different now -
Cause some don't even seem to know that milk come from a cow!
My little boy can tell the names of all the baseball stars,
I remember how I memorized the names on railroad cars...

The Wabash and the TP, Lackawanna, the IC,
The Nickel Plate and the good ol' Santa Fe.
Just names out of the past, I guess they're fading fast,
Every time I hear my little boy say -

Daddy, what's a train?
Is it something i can ride?
Does it carry lots of grown up folks and little kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house?
...well how could I explain?
when my little boy and girl ask me,
Daddy, what's a train?

We climbed into the car, drove down into town,
Right up to the depot house, but no one was around.
We searched the yard together, for something I could show,
But I knew there hadn't been a train for a dozen years or so.

All the things I did, when I was just a kid,
How far away those memories appear!
I guess it's plain to see they still mean a lot to me -
Because my ambition was to be an engineer.

Daddy, what's a train?
Is it something i can ride?
Does it carry lots of grown up folks and little kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house?
...well how could I explain?
when my little boy and girl ask me,
Daddy, what's a train?


Une de mes préférées de son album "all abord!", le dernier qu'il a fait avant de perdre la vie. Tout l'album est dédié a son amour des trains, souvent coloré par une tristesse sur leur disparition du paysage états-unien.

 
 

Je découvre ce titre aujourd'hui 😇

 
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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Jayjader@jlai.lu to c/forumlibre@jlai.lu
 

réf a mon poste

 

95,350,331 documents from at least 17 data breaches and had a total size of 30.1GB

“This database is dedicated to compiling information from multiple French-related data breaches and includes previously known and unknown leaks,” researchers said.

L'explication donnée par l'article me parait correcte, mais j'y connais rien a ce genre de fuite.

Parmis les fichiers du leak, le seul truc que je reconnais est le suivant:

ldlc.txt. Points to an alleged compromise involving LDLC, a French online electronics retailer.

LDLC pwned ? :(

 

Je lisais des fils dans !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com et suis tombé sur une n-ième discussion concernant les chars, les ours, et la dés[t]alinisation du développement du logiciel lemmy (dsl pour les jeux de mots enfantins mais c'est pas la partie importante de mon message et je ne veux surtout pas relancer de sujet à leur propos).

Non seulement des discussions assez intéressantes politiquement (et pas que sur les logiciels du fédivers), mais surtout j'y découvre qu'il y a plusieurs tentatives de fork de Lemmy en ce moment, ainsi qu'apparemment sublinks se voudrait être capable de fonctionner directement avec une ancienne db de/pour lemmy.

Le commentaire qui en parle dans la discussion : https://jlai.lu/comment/10577392

Perso, je préfère investir mes efforts sur mon projet de client activity pub multi-services^[0], donc je ne vais militer dans un sens ni l'autre. Ça me semblait juste pertinent de partager cette info au cas où ça aiderait la réflexion (si elle n'est pas déjà résolue).

[0] : pour l'instant ça sait afficher des objets AP lus sur une URL en json brut, et si toi tu lui dis qu'un objet particulier est un pouet masto il l'affiche alors un peu plus mis en page. Si un jour j'arrive a en être satisfait de sa capacité "client Lemmy/piefed/etc" je reviens volontiers en faire la promo, mais c'est pas pour demain!

 
 

J'ignore comment rendre justice à l'expérience qu'à été ma lecture de ce livre.

Dévoré en quelques jours. Le dernier tiers en particulier m'a retenu éveillé jusqu'à 3h du matin, le récit tellement fort que je ne pouvais me convaincre d'attendre le lendemain pour le terminer.

Un certain ressenti de découvrir le livre que j'aurais écrit, dans une autre vie, si j'avais choisi un parcours "littéraire" et non "scientifique". Un renouveau de rage écologique maintenu sous contrôle, presque étouffé, par un calme fataliste qui n'est pas pour autant un lâcher-prise. Si Les Soulèvements De La Terre était une religion ceci serait sans doute un de leurs textes sacrés, et Powers un de leurs prophètes (bien que Bouddha serait plus apte comme label). Heureusement, ce n'est pas une religion, et ce livre n'est pas un texte divin. Au contraire, je le trouve profondément profane, et humain.

Au-delà du "contenu" (cad les thèmes abordés, les arcs narratifs et péripéties suivi(e)s) la forme est remarquable. Powers écrit avec un style de narration qui, tel la conduite d'une auto à boite de vitesse dans une contrée vallonnée, change de trajectoire et d'allure dès qu'on a avancé une centaine de mètres. Et tout comme cette conduite, l'expérience qui en ressort n'est pas une succession d'interruptions qui nous laisse sur le qui-vive, mais un état de conscience profonde qui s’imprègne simultanément de chaque détail séparé et du mouvement de l'ensemble. Il y a des phrases qui donnent l'impression que le livre entier a été écrit et construit autour d'elles.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Arbre-monde

 
 

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/10771034

n’hésitez-pas à me demander de traduire certains passages de mon post en français si besoin

Personal review:

A good recap of his previous writings and talks on the subject for the first third, but a bit long. Having paid attention to them for the past year or two, my attention started drifting a few times. I ended up being more impressed with how much he's managed to condense explaining "enshittification" from 45+ minutes down to around 15.

As soon as he starts building off of that to work towards the core of his message for this talk, I was more-or-less glued to the screen. At first because it's not exactly clear where he's going, and there are (what felt like) many specific court rulings to keep up with. Thankfully, once he has laid enough groundwork he gets straight his point. I don't want to spoil or otherwise lessen the performance he gives, so I won't directly comment on what his point is in the body of this post - I think the comments are better suited for that anyways.

I found the rest to be pretty compelling. He rides the fine line between directionless discontent and overenthusiastic activist-with-a-plan as he doubles down on his narrative by calling back to the various bits of groundwork he laid before - now that we're "in" on the idea, what felt like stumbling around in the dark turns into an illuminating path through some of the specifics of the last twenty to forty years of the dynamics of power between tech bosses and their employees. The rousing call to action was also great way to end and wrap it all up.

I've become very biased towards Cory Doctorow's ideas, in part because they line up with a lot of the impressions I have from my few years working as a dev in a big-ish multinational tech company. This talk has done nothing to diminish that bias - on the contrary.

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