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works w/ youtube, soundcloud, twitch, twitter (gifs and videos), tumblr (video and audio), and most other websites you're probably lookin to download stuff off of.
for anyone wondering about privacy and whatnot, i'm happy to say that the developers are pretty committed to have 0 trackers and 0 data retention. you can read more in their "about" section, but here's the basic important stuff:
Hey this let me download the videos of my band from a skate shop's instagram that I've been trying to get for like six years.
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i can’t believe this is real
not the source for the screen cap but here's a WSJ article (sans paywall)
Per previous tags--
In this model of Tesla, apparently—get this—according to the Tesla manual, you do it on a touchscreen.
Did a human being just die because of swiping the wrong way?
...And then, when you're in the water and the car's power systems (which operate the doors, because of course they do) have all gone down, how do you get out?
You partially disassemble the door and pull out one specific wire. The image via Warren Terra at Bluesky.)
...I don't know about the rest of you, but I am never getting into one of these alleged vehicles. Ever.
...you know, we've been saying that these things are deathtraps, but holy SHIT
I feel compelled to point out that the diagram above is for the back door. I still don't know where to find the wire to open the front doors.
This is why anyone who actually works in tech (being a tech ceo does not count as working) is wary at best about making things "smarter". The failure mode for a computerized mechanism should be functioning as a non-computerized mechanism, but very often the failure mode for a fully-smart device is undefined behaviour that the manufacturer doesn't intend for you to ever see. And that means there's no recourse in situations like this.
For any non tech folk, the concept discussed above is called fail-open vs fail-closed protocol and it’s an immensely important and well established consideration in tech. This applies to everything from firewalls to smart devices to anything else that has a computerized system(and some things that don’t but that’s a different topic).
The question is, “if the computer/network part of this fails, how much of this do I want to work, or break?”
There are some things where fail closed is important. Security devices/systems for example! If your security system fails, there is logic that dictates that it should fail closed because it would be better for people to lose access than to leave it open. Some security parameters advertise a fail close only model for this reason. Others like firewalls let you choose how your device fails.
Another example would be like. A system that is in highly specific motion, like a centrifuge. If the computer breaks or loses sync with the software running it, I want the whole thing to stop moving. This may seem obvious that it would happen but it’s not, and you can guarantee that manufacturers take it into account when making the hardware and software.
Then there are some things, many in fact, that you want to fail open. Anything where the ability to use it is more important than the “smarts” behind it. Including. For Dog’s sake. A CAR DOOR. Like if a computerized system blacks out, I do NOT want human beings trapped in the vehicle. The fact that they’ve removed the handle on a fucking car door is insane to start, if they’re going to do it, it should be fail open, not just for water but for ANY malfunction. If you get trapped in a car, you’re dead in MOST scenarios where a computer might fail. Heat? Oh idk what might cause that maybe FIRE. Dead battery? Hmmmm I wonder if you might be IN A SURVIVAL SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. Water? Duh.
This is an inexcusable failing on the engineering team because F/O vs F/C is something that has been discussed for decades, and I cannot imagine what scenario they put themselves in where a fail closed model is the right call here. Go hire better people.
Anyway all of this to say, when buying smart devices, it’s a good idea to go d out how they work in terms of F/O F/C. Does your thermostat have a default it reverts to? Do the smart vents you bought for it close or open if they lose power, or do they stay where they were? Does your automated faucet (yes they have these, yes they’re super fucking cool, they regulate the temperature and volume of the water I WILL geek out) allow water through it when it’s glitching out?
And as always, if you’re buying smart devices, it’s a good idea to set up a segregated IoT SSID for them so they aren’t coming in contact with your informational devices.
This has been a couple of PSA’s!
The good news is that since this is killing billionaires we can expect stricter safety laws to address this sort of thing soon
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“So how does it work?” Wu Shi asked. He had peeled off his female form with his wet socks and now leaned on his elbow and scratched Xiaogezi’s head as Han Yiming wrote his update. Han Yiming halted halfway through an unusually complex character as he tried to remember if he had missed a radical. “What works?” he asked absently. “The pigeon. You say we can leave in the morning, but there’s no way for a pigeon this size to get to Hangzhou and back overnight.” “Of course it's not going to get back tonight. It'll find me on the way to the Talent-Gathering Pavilion.” “It can find you wherever you’re at?” The top of the character did look a little bare. But what would go there? “Obviously. It is my pigeon.” He decided to grind some more ink and buy a little time until asking for help. Wu Shi tilted his head to look Xiaogezi in an eye. “It’s a spiritual pigeon, then?” “No? It’s just a pigeon. This kind, with the black feathers and white collar, it comes from Great Liao, I think. They are pretty smart, aren’t--” Wu Shi stood before Han Yiming got halfway through, and before he finished speaking Wu Shi grabbed the brush out of his hand and finished the character with an easy scrawl. “I’ll be downstairs getting drunk with the girls. Keep Sinner Sun away from me, yeah?”
what we in the writing business like to call lampshading
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if you found out that your dad has 120k followers on tiktok what would it be for? what would your dad's tiktok niche be
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Listen Up Columbia! — Portraits from a campus in crisis Photographed by Gabriella Gregor Splaver
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USA Cultural Regions Map
theoneandonlydeadrobin
This is super cool
For non-Americans: this is actually accurate and reflects how Americans understand ourselves and regional identities. These aren’t official labels, but they’re not totally made up either.
you know how pokemon have types they’re weaker and stronger than? american regions work like that
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an angel on letterboxd just dropped a whole playlist of films free on youtube I was filled with so much love and light I had to share with you guys
it also includes short films, animated movies, documentaries of every genre, full recordings of live performances. all spanning different decades from different countries. YOU DONT EVEN FUCKING KNOW
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[Image ID: The poem “One Source of Bad Information”, by Robert Bly. There’s a boy in you about three years old who hasn’t learned a thing for thirty Thousand Years. Sometime it’s a girl. The child had to make up its mind How to save you from death. He said things like: “Stay home. Avoid elevators. Eat only elk.” You live with this child, but you don’t know it. You’re in the office, yes, but live with this boy At night. He’s uninformed, but he does want To save your life. And he has. Because of this boy You survived a lot. He’s got six big ideas. Five don’t work. Right now he’s repeating them to you.
/end id]
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happy one year anniversary totk !! 🥳
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Fuck, this may very well be the end of Eurovision as a cultural force in Europe.
What’s going on:
- The Dutch artist have been showing some mild unease at the Israel presence there this year during the past week. The Irish ones have been forced to change their looks because it included the words “ceasefire” and “freedom for Palestine” in ancient gaelic script.
- Yesterday, someone from the Israel delegation joked about the dutch artist’s father death (the Dutch song is dedicated to him) and there was “an incident” (undisclosed, but the rumor-mill says the Dutch guy may have punched the jokester)
- Eurovision have disqualified the Netherlands from today’s final.
- The Dutch broadcaster association (those who pick who to send to EV) posted this a few hours ago:
- There has been protest within the Finnish public broadcaster asking for Finland withdrawal
- The head of the political party who is the junior partner in the government of Spain is also calling for our withdrawal.
- The Israeli delegation seem to have spent the week literally harassing anyone they perceive as critical, with several complains about their behavior already being published.
- The Israeli song is one of the favorites to win, and if they do, next year Eurovision would be organized by them. If that happen, there is no way several countries wouldn’t just refuse to take part.
So yeah, there is a chance this may be it for the festival. Good job, Eurovision. Great fucking job.
Shit is going down HARD in Eurovision right now.We are hours from the beginning of the fest and in the last couple of hours:
- The french artist stopped his song during the dress rehearsal today, gave a speech about peace, and left the stage
- The Irish ones sent a press release asking the EBU to disqualify Israel for the comments their broadcaster had done about the Irish song
- Both Ireland and Greece didn’t show up to the festival flag parade that kickstarts the show.
- Norway’s artist who were going to be the spokesperson of the jury tonight announced she is declining to participate… An hour ago, about 8 hours before she would have to go live
To that last point, several other spokespeople also stood down with hours to go. Including Käärijä for Finland
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Saw this frame on a different reblog by @thatssroughbuddy but why does it look like Iroh is using his phone to take a photo of his nephew at a landmark
"Uncle, make sure you get that glowy light in the picture and send it to my dad to let him know I'm about to capture the Avatar!"
This was so cute I had to draw it
and of course Iroh is doing what-
!!!!!!
Iroh posts it on social media with some caption like "look at my beautiful nephew" and Zhao comments like "is that the Avatar in the background?"
And Iroh responds, "no, it's the northern lights."
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It's cool if you don't like Jet or Jetko, just please keep those opinions off this post.
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As protests start ramping up and violence escalates please remember:
DO NOT PUT MILK IN YOUR EYES FOR PEPPER SPRAY OR TEAR GAS.
It can and will cause infection due to bacteria. Flush with water, distilled if possible, and never EVER wear contact lenses to protests where there may be police retaliation.
Please reblog. It may save someone's sight.
I'm going to either find or make my own post about this but I'm a street medic, I was trained by the Black Rose organization medical branch during Occupy and have since done my own research with papers written for and by the cops and military about treating chemical agent exposure. this is correct, please do not use milk. I'm not sure about distilled water because I haven't seen it used in any papers or ok the ground, but my suspicion is that while it is probably not harmful, the osmotic qualities of distilled water may hurt or cause contact damage to the mucus membranes of the eyes. in addition, riot control chemicals are mostly designed to be water-activated and plain water will make the exposure sites hurt worse with minimal benefit besides flushing out any particles that aren't glued on with the oil medium they use for these agents.
in at least one study, the research on tear gas and pepper spray exposure showed that plain water was so painful that most cops who volunteered to be test subjects for treatment trials refused to use it, opting instead to just wait until they could shower or for the chemicals to degrade on their own. this is a pretty important indicator of both cops being mega pussies, and that plain water isn't very effective at treating riot control chemical injuries.
the substance that tested best in multiple trials was sterile buffered saline solution. in other words, the same stuff that comes in the squirt bottles for cleaning your contact lenses. this is a useful tool to carry into a protest because the squirt bottle makes it easy to direct the flow of water over the surface of the eyeball. trials also showed that putting this solution into your eyes prior to exposure cut down on discomfort quite a bit. in practice, this looks like putting in some clean eye drops from the drug store before you are exposed to riot weapons.
remember, if you are injured in a protest, call "medic!" out loud and street medics will find you. this has been standard protest practice for decades.
onions and milk and vinegar should not go in your eyes. I've seen all three recommended for tear gas treatment and I do not think they are a good idea or that they will work. stick to sterile saline or LAW (liquid antacid + water).
consider carrying an osha-approved eyewash bottle for easier application
also, please wear a helmet and buy a gas mask
Just to reiterate: prevention is ideal. Full-face respirator masks are great. I’ve literally walked through clouds of tear gas with one on & was able to help people who didnt have masks on (& who were therefore blinded) get to safety.
Another benefit of a full-face mask w/ rubber gasket seal is that it more fully protects your eyes from pepper spray, whereas most safety goggles and any sunglasses have space on the sides where pepper spray gel or liquid can get in.
Ideally you want to get a mask that is also rated for impact resistance. Lots of people lost eyes from 40mm rounds during the 2020 BLM protests.
in my experience, bandanas, kufiyas, surgical masks, and N95 masks offer basically no protection against tear gas or pepper spray.
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some important calvin and hobbes facts in case you haven't read the original comic strip in a long time or only absorbed stuff on it from memes and out of context bits on here:
- Calvin's last name has never been given, and neither has any of his parent's names. This was actually why his uncle Max only showed up for a brief storyline; the creator of the comic, Bill Watterson, ultimately felt that while it was fine to have him as someone for his parents to talk to, it felt far too awkward to never have Max refer to them by name and he never made a return appearance.
- The general tone of the comic is fairly light-hearted, with a big emphasis on goofy slapstick comedy contrasted by clever wordplay and often surprising adult-centered jokes that'll hit you like a slap. A big part of the comedy is, as Watterson put it (paraphrased) "It's really funny to me when people express deeply stupid ideas with really fancy terminology." One notable example you might have seen is that one bit where Calvin asks his mom for money to buy a Satan-worshiping rock album and his mom replies that there's nothing genuine about them and they're just putting on the attitude for shock value, and comisserates with Calvin as he deplores that mainstream nihilism can't be trusted. He concludes that childhood is disillusioning.
- There is a LOT of criticism of the extreme materialism and selfish mentality of the late 80s, when the comic was initially written. This may go a long way to explain how its aged so well; much of what it criticizes resonates well with people today.
- Bill Watterson views comic strips a legitimate form of artwork, and repeatedly fought to have more space to draw more beautiful and artistic backgrounds, which was a very hard fight and unpopular even with other comic strip artists. He eventually did win some compromises and a lot of Calvin And Hobbes' artwork shows it, with the use of space to indicate time as well as a sharp contrast between the often plain environments of mundane life contrasted by the wildly beautiful imagery of Calvin's imagination (which often sports realistic depictions in an art shift of sorts).
- Hobbes is explicitly not an imaginary friend, by word of Watterson himself. We don't know WHAT he is exactly, and Hobbes is apparently unaware of the strange nature of his reality; people look at him and only see an ordinary stuffed tiger plushie, but he has a tangible effect on the world that would be physically impossible for Calvin to do on his own. He's apparently been around for a while, and was apparently around when Calvin was a young baby.
- On that note; Hobbes has implicitly killed (notably treated as both a gag and also with the vibe of 'he's a tiger, duh') and while he doesn't do it again on-screen, he doesn't have any moral issues about it. Calvin claims that he's never had trouble bringing Hobbes to school because the last time he did, Hobbes killed and ate a bully named Tommy Chestnut and simply comments that it was gross and he needed a bath. Calvin's tried to repeat this again, but Hobbes was grossed out at the thought having to eat a kid raw and not being allowed to use an oven first, or complaining that children are too fattening.
- Hobbes became gradually less human-like in body language and more like an actual cat in both body language and behavior; this was due to Watterson drawing more inspiration from his cat, who also inspired a lot of Hobbes' running gags, such as pouncing on Calvin when he got home. Several years into the syndication of the strip, Watterson's cat passed away, and he did a tribute to her with a comic strip of the two of them agreeing to try to dream together so they can keep playing when they have to sleep; Watterson's commentary (if I recall right), remarks on his cat: "We can see each other again in dreams."
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If you can’t think of anything to say about a fic, writers also like to know:
- what time it is
- how long you’ve been reading
- how many chapters you’ve covered in the last 24 hours
- what you were late for because you were reading
- the woeful few hours you have left to sleep
- the emotional outbreaks you’re experiencing
- the inappropriate place you’re having said outbreak
- the general public’s reaction to your outbreak
- how much phone battery you have left