john_lemmy

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Immigration raids leave crops unharvested, California farms at risk in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 7 points 8 hours ago

Grapes of Wrath with extra fascist steps, jfc

Canada rescinds Digital Services Tax after Trump cuts off U.S. trade talks in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 hours ago

You can't really stand up to power by voting, unfortunately. All your choices are just different ways of giving these jackals power with more or fewer steps.

I hope there are local groups and organizations where you're at that you can join to start to organize a grassroots movement.

Gartner Predicts Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027 in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 hours ago

Is Gartner one of those sources that causes avalanches in the VC / tech world? Because it would be lovely to see this popping asap

Average US Car-Brained Citizen Starter Pack in c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 hours ago

Yeah! That and the fact that our society has erased several or most of our ways to communally build identity and shifted us to build identity based on consumption items

Linux research shows open source contributing trillions to economy in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago

Their webpage reads like corpo fanfic

Derail any conversation by mentioning "microwaving your water" rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 week ago

I don't get it either, I've always made tea with a small pot. It is just something to heat up water. It has a lid. The only time I started seeing a lot of kettles around was when pour over / V60 / Chemex became fashionable and every place started selling gooseneck kettles.

72% of Americans Say the Rich 'Have Too Much' as GOP Pursues Another Handout for Billionaires in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Damn right! It was about time that we finally get the message (again I might add) and deconstruct the fake boundaries that were put up to divide us.

Two men found guilty of cutting down famous Sycamore Gap tree in c/treehuggers@slrpnk.net
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 month ago

This is stupidly sad. And they took a trophy.

It's a pin job in c/luigimangione@lemmy.world
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

Not chiming in on whether or not he is the guy, but the police making mistakes should be considered standard procedure. They're only "competent" in movies and TV shows, so we shouldn't assume they fucking up as evidence for anything besides it being a Monday.

UN Ditches Google for Taking Form Submissions, Opts for an Open Source Solution Instead in c/opensource@programming.dev
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago

It is a bit confusing at first, but with the adoption of more onlyoffice tools I think it will make it easier on folks to use it.

Japan says its $1 trillion in US Treasuries is among tools for trade talks in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I don't grasp basic economics. Can someone help me understand what Japan selling these US Treasuries would mean? Doesn't someone else have to buy them?

Temp check on an Anarchism reading group in c/anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just as a fun side note, in one collection of her short stories (the wind's twelve quarters), she has a story about the beginnings the Odonians. In her author notes regarding that short story she says:

this story is about one of the ones who walked away from Omelas

I think reading both short stories back to back helped me contextualize better what Omelas means to me and, possibly, to her.

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Music library manager recommendation (slrpnk.net)
 

Hey folks!

I have a music library that has grown over time that I stream using navidrome. The issue is, some of the files have little to no metadata, I have duplicates of the same album, some artist names are misspelled, etc. An it is large enough that doing this completely manually would take a while.

I'm assuming (hoping) that I am not alone in this.

Does anyone have a recommendation of a tool (either standalone or part of a self-hostable media app) to basically assist in cleaning this up? It doesn't need to automate a lot of the process, but, for instance, querying metadata from an online source based on the file name / artist name, detecting misspelled artist names would already be interesting. Similar to Calibre's "retrieve metadata" for ebooks.

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Kitchen scales recommendations [EU brands] (slrpnk.net)
 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/18128718

My current digital kitchen scales (Brabantia) go through batteries faster than I would like. I use rechargeable batteries, but still.

I was looking for long-lasting mechanical kitchen scales or at least one of those kinetic energy scales (turn the knob to power it) to use in the kitchen. Any model that can measure in the ~1g to 5kg range with a tare function is more than enough.

Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with these types of scales (knob or mechanical)? E.g., does the knob thing break easily?

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Kitchen scales recommendations (slrpnk.net)
 

My current digital kitchen scales (Brabantia) go through batteries faster than I would like. I use rechargeable batteries, but still.

I was looking for long-lasting mechanical kitchen scales or at least one of those kinetic energy scales (turn the knob to power it) to use in the kitchen. Any model that can measure in the ~1g to 5kg range with a tare function is more than enough.

Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with these types of scales (knob or mechanical)? E.g., does the knob thing break easily?

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Recommendation for a EDC (slrpnk.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by john_lemmy@slrpnk.net to c/pocketknife@lemmy.world
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My partner asked me for a recommendation for a EDC because I own and care for my kitchen knives. But I know nothing about pocket knives, so I'm hoping you all can recommend something lest they walk out with a 8 inch chef's knive peeking from their pocket.

I had a look here, but I just got lost in all those choices.

It doesn't need to be super durable as I should be able to sharpen it for them, but it should be easy to handle. The purported usage is self defense, but I think it will mostly be used to do chore related tasks.

Any solid choices there?

EDIT: after the replies pushing back on using this type of tool for self defense, I've had a talk with my partner and went through the arguments here. They didn't take much convincing that it was a bad idea. Thank you all for pointing it out!

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