MoonMelon @ MoonMelon @lemmy.ml

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Apparently its called "Innovis". I tried to find a few articles but they all read like press releases or AI slop.

There is a blurb on Wikipedia fortunately:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_bureau#Consumer_reporting_agency

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

People here in the rural USA also think that factory jobs are magically "good", and that it was factory jobs themselves that created the middle class. As if the factory owner is somehow different and more noble than the owners of other giant corporations.

In reality the unions literally shed blood to make those jobs "good jobs". Those unions, and class consciousness, have since been destroyed. Even if 20th century style manufacturing did return it would just be another form of resource extraction. Those jobs may save people from the absolute destitution they face having been abandoned by their government but they're not going to support a healthy community. That's simply not good for business. When you don't give a fuck about human beings then what's actually "good" for business is a desperate, starving workforce.

People here praise Walmart, even though the community is demonstrably poorer. They've completely forgotten what was lost. They talk about that one great uncle who was fucked over by the unions the same way they talk about that one second cousin who never wore a seatbelt and was saved from a wreck when he was "thrown clear". They all believe they will somehow be thrown clear from the wreck that's been happening for 50 years.

Try to get a really early start so you aren't spending the last few hours driving in darkness. If you haven't listened to the "Shit town" podcast, it got me through a long drive once. This was on a 2012 car with no smartphone features besides basic bluetooth, but there was a pairing procedure that got audio to at least play (it was really wonky to setup, I had to look it up).

Edit: Big Caveat to my advice on the starting early, be careful if your trip ends inside a huge metro area on a weekday, as bad timing can land you straight into some horrendous rush-hour traffic.

Yeah, I've been fortunate enough to be offered those multiple times as well. I froze my credit with the big three agencies after the third or fourth breach. Recently learned there's apparently a fourth agency now? Cool. And there's hundreds of data broker sites...

As a settlement for the wrongful death of your parents you are entitled to 12 months of LifeLock's DataScrub™ service!

I had a tricky time getting hardware encoding to work and it ultimately ended up being I needed to expose the GPU to the Docker container. The yaml config needed:

    
    devices:
      - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128
      - /dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0

  

Note this was on a low-end Synology NAS with some sort of crappy intel GPU, but it actually works now, I was surprised. I only mention because before this I spent lots of time messing around with the Jellyfin settings and only the logs tipped me off. Jellyfin loves to fallback silently to CPU transcoding it seems, which I guess is good, but make troubleshooting unintuitive. Searching for log errors online gave me this solution.

There's no sleep like class sleep. Five minutes feels like an eight hour rest.

Just like BLM, it's convenient to the authors of the propaganda if you believe the entire city is a Thunderdome style madhouse. In fact, it's convenient for them if you paint entire states or even whole regions with a broad brush, so you can dehumanize millions of your countrymen. Actually, consider any type of unity with your fellow humans to be sketchy, except for going to the same church, buying the same brand, and working for the same company (no unions though!)

I've moved a lot and over the years I've lived in basically every part of the USA excluding New England. It's crazy the provincial opinions people have about the other regions and people, when in many cases you could make it a weekend trip to visit and see that no, you won't die immediately and yes, most people are just living their lives.

I do a lot of invasive species management. Many of the common names are "exotic" sounding and include "Asian", "Chinese", "Japanese" etc because they were marketed this way in the 20th century to appeal to gardeners and land managers who didn't know better and just wanted fast growing, pretty plants.

Now, in the current atmosphere of sinophobia I have often heard someone imply these invasives were deliberate sabotage. But it was westerners who imported these things. We wanted them, or at least wanted the plant that hosted the insect, or whatever. Also, by that logic we have "sabotaged" China with our invasives.

I feel like as a society we are so inarticulate, hateful, and short-sighted that we no longer have the ability to solve complex problems.

Yep, there's a term for this actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-band_signaling

It looks horrific to me. Like a film prop from Cronenberg or Lynch. I think it's the mix of mechanical motion, a material that reminds me of Jean Jacket's stomach from Nope, and a structure like a severely prolapsed rectum. No way could I get off in this thing.

I can't see the pics, but in my house the condensate drain comes out of the pan into a T. The T is vertical. The top branch is the clean-out and is capped off (but not glued). The bottom branch goes to a trap, and then the rest of the drain. So the trap is at the top.

Is this PVC? It really can't be snaked? Compressed air? Personally before I replumbed the whole thing I would cut a straight section, clean it out, then put a coupler back to fix the cut.

If people want to fart around with ffmpeg filters this site is great: https://ffmpeg.lav.io/

It would be hilarious if incompetence leads to a bunch of this being stolen, so they fork the blockchain into FreedomBurgerCoin. Maybe it happens a few times. I can't wait to bribe my way through checkpoints by sending the cops a couple FreedomBurgerCoin5_final_final. Using X of course.

Fwiw I've done contract work and I didn't need to be a sole proprietor or an LLC or a passthrough or anything, they just 1099'd me and I paid my own quarterly estimated taxes to the federal govt and my state of residence. I have seen places where you need to be an LLC and submit bids and all that, but that was company policy not a tax law.

Maya and Motionbuilder run on Linux, but that happened before they were hoovered up by the monster. Autodesk just ignores that part of their portfolio. I know a few people who work/have worked on the Maya team and they're talented, passionate devs, but management just doesn't give a fuck about Media & Entertainment when Autocad and Revit are making so much money.

This is probably just because it's DC. The rules get really muddy there. For a long time the highest elected position in DC was head of the school board, and even though ostensibly there's "home rule" now, Congress still loves to punish the local populace by overriding anything they think scores points with their base back in Idaho. If you get convicted of a felony in DC you actually get transferred to federal prison.

Was also on Trump's legal team for the classified documents scandal and defended the war criminal Navy seal. All these guys are like shits that won't flush.

Let's make sure we give it to billions of livestock that we a cram into dank and filthy oubliettes. Then we can make then danker and crammier.

It would be nice if our jobs programs were like the CCC instead of security theater like the TSA, "Homeland Security", or whatever this is. At least then, at the end of it, we would have a bunch of roads, railways, bridges, housing, canals, etc instead of trillions of dollars in circuit boards and machined aluminum rotting in a missile silo.