I hope this is allowed. After the untimely demise of the only NSFW Lemmy instance, a Piefed replacement has come along: https://fedinsfw.app/
I hadn’t seen many posts about it, so I thought others might want to know.
By this point I feel like I kinda am too, so this should be interesting.
Then the rules need to change
No Deadline, I’m not allowing ads. Get fucked.
I didn’t get blocked. Here:
EXCLUSIVE: Saturday Night Live‘s send-up of the BAFTA racial slur incident has proved to be no laughing matter for a leading Tourette’s syndrome charity.
In a statement shared with Deadline, Tourettes Action, which has supported campaigner John Davidson and the film I Swear since its release last year, decried SNL‘s intervention.
In the PSA-style skit titled ‘Tourette’s,’ a host of celebrities, including J.K. Rowling, Mel Gibson, Armie Hammer, Louis C.K., and Bill Cosby claim they suffer from Tourette’s, which would explain problematic comments or actions they have been involved in.
“I’m Mel Gibson, and as I probably should have pointed out decades ago, I too, suffer from Tourette’s, which explains a lot of the things I’ve said or yelled through the years,” said the Braveheart star, portrayed by Andrew Dismukes.
The sketch followed Davidson, who has dedicated his life to supporting others with Tourette syndrome, involuntarily shouting the N-word at Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo at the BAFTA Film Awards last month.
Tourettes Action CEO Emma McNally was unambiguous in her thoughts on SNL, turning on capslock in her email to Deadline: “THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.”
She continued: “Mocking a disability is never acceptable. It would not be tolerated for any other condition, and it should not be tolerated by people with Tourette’s.
McNally continued: “The trolling and harassment members of our community have endured in the past few days has been horrific. People have been targeted with threats and humiliation simply for having a condition they did not choose. No one should ever be treated that way.”
A Saturday Night Live spokesperson has been approached for comment. McNally’s full statement is below, but she was not alone in criticizing the video.
NAACP Image Awards host Deon Cole has also been slammed for his joke about Davidson over the weekend. Leading the NAACP audience in mock prayer, he said: “If there are any white men out here in the audience, Lord, with Tourette’s. I advise you to tell them they’d better read the room tonight, Lord … Whatever medicine they on, they better double up on it.”
Over the weekend, Davidson thanked the Tourette’s community for its support. “Whilst I will never apologies [sic] for having Tourette syndrome, I will apologise for any pain, upset and misunderstanding that it may create,” he wrote on Facebook. “This past week has been tough, and has reminded me that what I do raising awareness for such a misunderstood condition, there is still a long way to go and I will keep on keeping on until this is achieved.”
Tourettes Action CEO Emma McNally’s Full ‘SNL’ Statement:
Over recent weeks, our community has faced an unprecedented wave of online trolling, misinformation, and targeted mockery. Following the extremely difficult events surrounding the BAFTAs, many people with Tourette’s have been struggling with fear, shame, isolation and a HUGE need to defend a condition they cannot control.
We had hoped this would be a new week and we could move on but the release of further content online that has been designed to ridicule Tourette’s and reduce our community to a punchline has only deepened that hurt.
I want to be completely clear here THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Mocking a disability is never acceptable. It would not be tolerated for any other condition, and it should not be tolerated by people with Tourette’s.
Tourette’s is a complex neurological condition, of which there is no cure. It is not a joke. It is not a personality trait. It is not a source of entertainment. It is a condition that can be extremely debilitating, causing pain isolation and huge amounts of discrimination.
Videos and posts that deliberately misrepresent or sensationalise tics set us back years. A single video can undo the progress our community has spent years building toward greater awareness. I hope those creating these videos understand that they create real consequences for people in our community: fear, isolation, bullying, abuse, and a feeling among many that they must hide away to stay safe.
The trolling and harassment members of our community have endured in the past few days has been horrific. People have been targeted with threats and humiliation simply for having a condition they did not choose. No one should ever be treated that way.
These recent events have been painful for multiple communities, and I am not for one minute dismissing that hurt, but directing anger and ridicule to people with Tourette’s does nothing to heal that pain and does not move us forward.
What we need right now is people to be kind. We need compassion, accurate information and above all, we need education.
I am asking everyone, content creators, viewers, the media, and the wider public, to please consider the impact of what they say and what they share. Behind every tic is a person. A family. A life. A long standing history of being misunderstood.
I was always brought up with the motto that if you have nothing nice to say, then say nothing and to always, always be kind.
To those in the Tourette’s community:
Please know you are not alone. We are here for you. I know times now are causing extreme pain but please don’t feel like you need to hide away. Reach out to us for support.
To the wider public who want to support:
Please share our educational content, help us dispel the myths and help our community get one step closer to acceptance.
We will continue advocating, educating, and standing together as a community. #TogetherWeAreStronger
Business as usual on
It is really nice indeed
I’d hate to meet the kind of person who would spend time there, but at least they threw Microslop around enough to get the place shut down.
Time to register MikeRoweSlop.com…
I know wikis have been discussed here before, but I wanted to add my two cents after shopping around for a wiki at work and for personal use.
Other wikis I’ve tried but not to the same extent
IDK, I don’t know much about this one, but don’t like the workflow of making new pages.
Really simple, which is both good and bad.
A lot like Gollum. Doesn’t indicate when you link to a nonexistent page. No support for article tags.
Looks cool but it’s abandoned
Steep learning curve but pretty versatile. It’s a single HTML file so you can host it on something like Neocities. Really rudimentary search functions
A little bit of both. I ran a private wiki for writers to collaborate on for a project. I was doing other tech stuff for the team so it was my job to deal with it. Keeping it updated was a chore and actually using it was finicky.
For example, there was an issue we ran into where we wanted a dynamic table that pulled from other pages. Think of a shopkeeper inventory or something similar where each item was another page. Displaying an item worked fine the first time you pulled it, but if you updated the item’s page it wouldn’t push that to any page it’s displayed on. We ran into issues like this constantly. Some solutions worked, others didn’t.
After a year or so we migrated to something else. It’s free and it’s great that it exists, but it just has a roughness to it that we didn’t have the resources to deal with.
UPDATE:
I see Bookstack mentioned a lot, so I decided to try installing it. I took the better part of a day and I still can’t get it working. Pity since it looks a lot nicer than Dokuwiki and has access control unlike Mediawiki.
It’s freedoom, awesome project!
Looks like Freedoom.
I had a small media library for myself, and wanted to automate it a bit more, so implemented arr stack (prowlarr, radarr, lidarr), it seems to work but I’m not sure how to pick indexers. I have no experience with it, and I initially just picked a public one, but it barely ever seems to download something.
I’m a bit confused about it, should i just pick as many as I can? Or join a private one? But no idea where to start there.
Any advice or push in the right direction would be appreciated.
Having a few public indexers shouldn’t hurt. However you probably don’t want to add a ton otherwise you will likely end up being overloaded by duplicates.
But really you should invest in getting into private trackers. Even an entry to mid-tier tracker will get you far better and more reliable results than public. Also the content will generally be much better seeded and more reliable.
I use Prowlarr with Flaresolverr.
Setup the Flaresolverr indexer proxy in Prowlarr: - Tags: flaresolverr - Host: http://flaresolverr:8191/ (or whatever host+port your flaresolv
And then I use these: - 1337x (Add Tags: flaresolverr) - TorrentDownload - Knaben
It’s not the best and Knaben is mostly just TPB + Rutracker. But this setup gets me everything I need. Everything wrong is filtered as I made my setup look for HEVC with specific bit rate ranges. Invalid file extensions are filtered out.
For actual downloading I use RDT Client with the TorBox debrid service.
Sometimes some indexing services time out but I’ll get the content later.
In my experience, with this setup, I really don’t need Usenet or private torrent trackers.
I like to think of myself as someone who takes responsibility. I pay my taxes. I walk my dog. Perhaps most importantly, I vote. So, when I look at the state of the country, I don’t point fingers. I look inward, back to the pivotal moment when I was told what would happen if I voted for Kamala Harris, fully aware that I was setting certain things in motion, and I voted for her anyway.
Iran is a great example. Viewing the latest war footage had a way of clarifying cause and effect. I was told in no uncertain terms what my vote would unleash. I then cast that vote for Kamala Harris, and today, as the world map again looks like a supercharged holiday display of twinkling critical alerts, it’s hard not to recognize the throughline from my ballot to cable-news chyron.
Spot on.
holy based
We have an old Prius we rarely used that has needed a new battery for…I’m too embarrassed to say. It’s more of a project than it sounds like for several reasons.
First, without a working battery, the rear hatch does not open normally. The only way to open it is to crawl through the interior into the back, then find a small opening with a manual release, then figure out how to get it to actually release. And if you don’t apply upward force on the door while you do that, it will immediately latch itself closed again. Adding to the fun, the release is below the rear deck, so you have to lift it out of the way, when you would prefer to be sitting on it. It is awkward.
Second, getting to the battery requires you to remove a lot more than anyone would reasonably expect. To take out the small section of floor above it, you first half to remove the main floor and the storage tray underneath it. Then you finally have access to the battery. You have to unscrew the contacts and the bracket the holds it in place down inside a narrow well that’s just big enough or the battery. It does not easily fit ratchets or even screwdrivers at the angles where you need them. It is also awkward.
Third, it’s a simple thing, but lifting a car battery out of a narrow hole when you have nothing to hold onto is surprisingly difficult. The battery that was in there no longer had any kind of a lifting strap, so I had to lift it out by pressing my fingertips around the sides of it. It was awkward and also somewhat painful.
Fourth, lifting in the new battery was easy, but putting everything back together was every bit as much fun as it was t take it apart. See “Second” above.
It would have all been a lot easier if I weren’t 65 and seriously overweight. I’m still fairly strong, but I am not nearly as flexible as I used to be and I don’t fit into small spaces well.
I wasn’t at all sure the car would start, even with a new battery, but it did start right up. Now I just have to do some basic cleaning and I can take it to CarMax to see what they’ll give me for it.
I’m claiming victory, if only a small one.
My other car is a Subaru Outback. It is the car that was designed by engineers. And it is wonderful.
Every technical aspect has been thought through in every direction until it made the most sense. Everything from the functioning of the drivetrain through the style and positioning of the readouts provide a lot of useful information without being cluttered. The seats are comfortable and the control are egonomic. Things are easy to access, both inside and outside.
It handles like a much smaller car, but it’s wide enough to lean into corners without reducing traction on the inside tires. There is plenty of power and the symmetric all-wheel drive puts it wherever it needs to go. The active safety features provide useful guardrails and emergency backup to the driver, and they make long-distance driving easier and more comfortable. It even gets surprisingly good fuel efficiency.
Finally, I was once in a really bad accident with my previous Outback. A driver T-boned me, in the middle of a busy intersection, right on the passenger door, while doing around 50 mph. It rolled the car two full times, and it only stopped because it hit a van while vertical and bounced off the side.
The outside of the car was thoroughly destroyed.bbThe passenger compartment was untouched, except for all the windows breaking. The airbags kept everything firmly in place instead of flailing around. The curtain airbags, in particular, kept my head from bouncing off the pavement through the broken side window as it rolled.
When it finally stopped, my passenger and I were a little dizzy, but otherwise perfectly fine. Our most serious injury was an eighth inch cut on my hand from a piece of glass. We received immediate medical attention, but after thorough exams, they were surprised to admit that we were not injured. We walked away from it. Needless to say, I replaced that car with the exact same model.
Subaru has consistently added new technology as an option, then made it standard after it proved itself. That’s how they have acquired all-around disc brakes, symmetric all-wheel drive, anti-lock braking, “Eyesight” collision avoidance, and any number of other small, but useful features. While other car companies win awards for design, Subaru has won a lot of awards for their engines and drivetrains. Engineers.
I think that’s a pretty big assumption, I think if you asked most engineers what ux research says about most design patterns they wouldn’t know, and theyd have to go and research stuff most designers could tell you off the batt
The three mile island catastrophe was largely a UI design problem that happened because they failed to consider a human had to operate and respond to the problems presented by the control room’s interface. Engineers were involved in the project, I’m pretty confident designers weren’t.
At the end of the day we both want the same thing. But I feel user hostile design patterns are as much implemented by engineers chasing costs as demanded by management as they are by designers making things shiner for marketing (like massive car touch screens, which are much cheaper to manufacture than proper physical controls, and literally any designer could tell you as soon as proposed that thats gonna kill people), and I guarantee you, both would jump at the chance to make something they think is actually just a good thing without someone over them ruining everything about it
No one goes to school excited to produce a return on investment to shareholders, be it engineering school or design school