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Cake day: June 13th, 2023
  • the_thunder_god@kbin.socialtoPolitics@kbin.social•News: 'Do not release the dog with his hands up!': Black man mauled by police canine following Ohio pursuit
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    1 year ago

    Once they get him stopped, get him out of the vehicle, and have his hands up, he’s surrendering. He got multiple conflicting commands…and with the presence of the dog he was rightfully concerned they were going to have it tackle him…that’s exactly what happened. So his concern about the dog probably caused him to ignore a command or two, because he was fearing the dog attacking him. Take the dog out of the equation and he probably surrenders peacefully and obeys commands. Conflicting commands and the presence of the dog are absolutely the problems here.

    They will be put on paid leave and any lawsuit filed will be thrown out because of qualified immunity…even though the dog never should have come out of the holding vehicle. Could have a case of excessive force, but I doubt it. All of it will be excused as part of the police work, even the mauling.

  • the_thunder_god@kbin.socialtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•plex or Jellyfin?
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    1 year ago

    Same for me.
    -It works well
    -my dad (who has dementia) can use it
    -It runs even when the net goes down (means my dad is happy)
    -Can Transcode for our TV’s with premiere (would rather not have to pay for that)

    Have been thinking about Jellyfin…as I like the FOSS angle…and seems like it is gaining a lot of traction in the selfhost community. I host Emby Server on my Unraid server and our nVidia Shields play content great using the Emby app. Going to be investigating Jellyfin when I start to move the rest of my serivces off of Unraid.

  • the_thunder_god@kbin.socialtoFediverse@kbin.social•Is there any kbin instance that is seriously considering defederating Meta/Threads?
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    1 year ago

    I disagree that the admin of an instance doesn’t have the right to moderate it how they wish. By joining the server you agree to let that admin control what content you see on your instance. That’s how instances work. It’s still on you to agree/disagree with the admin and how they run the server. That’s why other servers exist and you have the complete right to associate with who you wish, or even run your own instance and run it how you like.

    I do not agree with the people wanting to control other servers by trying to force defederating from threads. Independent admins running their own server is what the Fediverse is built upon.

  • the_thunder_god@kbin.socialtoFediverse@kbin.social•How I anticipate Meta's EEE strategy to play out.
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    1 year ago

    I have confidence the mastodon instance I’m on, Fosstodon, as well as this instance of kbin, would choose the defederation at this point…as it’s the point of meta becoming a walled garden. Fosstodon is all about free and open…so it goes against their very nature. They refused the invite to join the NDA bound discussion because that goes against their principles. Right now I feel like Ernest and the team running kbin.social feel very much the same way. If I turn out to be wrong about either…well that’s the point I chose to find another instance. Step 3 is my own defederation point. The moment you start closing off your walled garden is the moment you lose a lot of the Fediverse.

  • the_thunder_god@kbin.socialtohomeassistant@lemmy.world•Share your automation ideas
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    1 year ago

    In Progress, needs tweaking:
    Making sure our AC only turns on when it can efficiently cool the house. Useful when we dip into the 50’s for lows while it’s 70’s+ during the day. Basically switch the thermostat to heat only to avoid the AC coming on.

    In the planning stage:
    Presence sensing in our bathroom to turn the light on for my dad in the middle of the night. Can’t use PIR motion detection as my dad moves very slow these days and actually defeats the PIR sensor in our hallway night light. I’m thinking mmWave is the way to go. Might try presence sensing when someone is on the toilet, turn the fan on, again, because sometimes he forgets.

    Just getting started really with automations right now.

  • the_thunder_god@kbin.socialto/kbin meta@kbin.social•HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray
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    1 year ago

    No, I don’t think it’s like HD-DVD vs Blue-Ray. You don’t have an industry which has to make the choice between one or the other and a larger industry that buys into one technology or the other for their content.

    You have individual users making up their mind based on what software they like more and if they get enough out of what that software offers. If it were HD-DVD vs Bluray then the power would be in the end user’s control…but it never was. The more people decide to use a piece of software, the more developers you have developing for that software. The more devs you have the better it gets and the more people you get liking the software and using it. There is room for people choosing to use different pieces of software, and it’s made even easier by the fact that they interoperate due to federation.

    I have both Bluray and HD-DVD. I have quite a few more Bluray than HD-DVD because of course that’s the way the industry went. I had both pretty early on because I knew there would be a time when the industry decided the winner and the loser would go on clearance sales. I picked up a bunch of my HD-DVD collection in those clearance sales. To that industry comparison, I do not have a lemmy account, nor do I want one.

    In the end my entire Bluray, HD-DVD, and DVD collection is all digital and on my media server now, along with a lot of streaming stuff. Don’t really know how that’ll relate to this move in social media platforms.

  • the_thunder_god@kbin.socialto/kbin meta@kbin.social•Kbin, FUD, and Tribalism - Where do we go from here?
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    1 year ago

    All I know is…I found a home here after leaving Reddit for good (as of yesterday my account is gone).

    My initial move away was to Lemmy.world. But after finding some pretty glaring bugs including one that seemed to be a big security bug, I decided to delete my account there and try this out. I’m happy here. It’s not perfect, but it’s not broken as I found with my Lemmy experience.

    I honestly don’t care where people end up, so long as it’s federated, open, and welcoming of everyone that have good intentions.

  • the_thunder_god@kbin.socialtoReddit Migration@kbin.social•Welp, I just deleted my 12 year old, 240k+ karma Reddit account
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    1 year ago

    Running the PDS fork with the 5 second cooldown right now to do editing of all my posts and comments. Will wait a few days before deleting my account to make sure they stay edited.

    I wasn’t that active over the last 12 years, but it’s still taking a while. 3.3k karma here
    Honestly hoped that they wouldn’t go full idiot…but sadly…spez is in charge. He’s an insult to the idiot community.

    edit: took all night but 4k+ posts edited. Waiting a bit and checking occasionally to ensure they stay edited before deleting.

  • the_thunder_god@kbin.socialtoReddit Migration@kbin.social•BaconReader's final release announcement
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    1 year ago

    Lack of a response to what was happening. I drew up this research in the middle of the protests…from them I saw nothing (expected something posted on their subreddit, I removed their app after finding nothing from them). It seemed like a lack of care. Because of that, this post by them seems disingenuous to me, it’s in response to the adoring fans posting to their subreddit. How many of those people posting love in their subreddit know about who the owners of the app are. Put two and two together and you know this is who Spez was talking about when he said some were just not willing to talk. I asked the same question of everyone who was unwilling to talk…why. I found answers for some…some had their words misrepresented by Spez…some hadn’t said anything that I found…such as BaconReader.