john_lemmy

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Republicans just passed “the worst bill in modern American history” in c/usa@midwest.social
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Not for them. Ghouls

BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I smell a collaborator

Photo of Neris from Star Trek deep space 9 holding a weapon and sporting a face indicating that it is time to take out the trash, but the trash are fascist collaborators

Large majority of French, German and Spanish public back tough EU stance on Big Tech, despite risk to Trump relations in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 21 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Weighing the cost to the relationship to a fascist state must be the dumbest math possible.

The world's superyachts are getting bigger and bigger. Business is booming, the luxury yacht-industry says. in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 2 points 15 hours ago

You know what they say, if there's a will, there's a dynamite

Ventilation Shutdown Is One of the Cruelest Ways to Kill Animals: The least humane way of culling poultry and pigs has become increasingly common. in c/vegan@lemmy.world
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 days ago

Absolutely disgusting

Hackers Are Threatening to Release Emails Stolen from Trump’s Aides, Roger Stone, and Stormy Daniels in c/usa@midwest.social
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 26 points 2 days ago

Weak sauce.

I can understand cheering for this to be released as we can imagine that these fascists would suffer some sort of consequence or comeuppance.

But let's not kid ourselves, they control the media and they're immune to the sort of legal consequences that could come from any sort of exposé. He's already a fascist doing fascist things!

I just wished that we realized that if we want them to suffer the consequences of being fascists, we have to do it ourselves and not by staying behind a screen.

Immigration raids leave crops unharvested, California farms at risk in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 days 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 5 points 3 days 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 3 days 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 4 points 3 days 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 1 week 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.

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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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