[-] smallaubergine@kbin.social 33 points 10 months ago

Transitive property

[-] smallaubergine@kbin.social 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

YouTube is super weird. I had uploaded some audio cassette tapes that I had found at my grandma's. She lived near a nuclear power plant and when the facility was built in the 80s they had handed out audio casettes to people in the area with information about what to do in emergencies, who to call for information, etc. I digitized the cassettes and put them on YouTube and they were taken down within a day. No idea why, never given a reason. It's public information as it was handed out by power plant and city government.

[-] smallaubergine@kbin.social 59 points 11 months ago

Sled down the stairs and out the front door like in Home Alone. My stairs didn't perfectly line up so I hit the edge and went tumbling. luckily at 7 my bones were made of rubber and I only had bruises

[-] smallaubergine@kbin.social 42 points 1 year ago

"Boarding starts 4 hours before the flight because we have to load so many damned passengers and luggage"

[-] smallaubergine@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

It's usually the birth name of a transgender person who has transitioned to a new name of their choosing. So like if Dave decided they want to be Lindsey, calling Lindsey "Dave" would be dead naming them

[-] smallaubergine@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago

I find it funny that they call the democrats "coastal elites" and then are so up in arms when the "coastal elites" try and make things less "elite"

[-] smallaubergine@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago

Also the first commercial cellular phone was released in 1983

[-] smallaubergine@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago

The Martian. Watney survives a wind storm after his crewmates make an emergency escape, thinking he was dead. He wakes up, had to perform surgery on himself... Once he finishes he lays back realizing the fact that he is now stuck on Mars alone and says "fuck." Always loved how Matt Damon acted in that scene

[-] smallaubergine@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago

I got an OBDeleven for my 2015 GTI so I could unlock stuff and customize. Enabled rolling down the windows with the key fob, being able to display the engine oil temp in the dash and also setting the accelerator pedal curve to linear.

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Hey self-hosted community! I thought I'd pose this question to you all as you seem to have a lot of experience with hosting things on limited budgets with usually a single person administering!

I am volunteering with a small rural news organization that operates in my home country. They do rural news for people living in villages and they give people (particularly women) in these villages the opportunity to be reporters. It is a really cool organization that empowers people in these villages through journalism. When they hire a reporter they give them an android-based smartphone and a handheld microphone. The reporters will shoot selfie-style reports, interviews and b-roll in the field and then file the video back to the main office where the videos can be edited. Currently they use whatsapp and signal which has worked decently well but both platforms compress the video a lot so the quality is degraded by the time it is received.

What they need is an easy way to transfer the original video files (usually mp4 h264) over spotty rural cellular networks.

Do you all have any recommendations for protocols or platforms to use? This is an organization with a very limited budget. I was thinking some kind of SFTP server that I could maintain remotely but I do not know if the clients are very robust against network dropouts and also are they easy enough for someone who has grown up in a rural village to learn. I have some IT skills but never tried anything like this.

A secondary issue they have brought up is when the field reporters do file their video in, it is increasingly difficult over time to keep everything organized. The filenames will be something like YYYYMMDD_XXXX.mp4 and the editor has to do a lot of work to organize and rename the files. I know there are MAM (Media asset management) softwares out there but from cursory googling it seems like a lot of the solutions out there are really built for large organizations that can pay a lot of money for the hardware/software. Is there any software that could automatically file away these videos possibly based on who is sending them or maybe the if the metadata has location data in it?

Any advice would be welcome!

[-] smallaubergine@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

Yeah but one can infer that it's not a literal governmental force but a societal force

[-] smallaubergine@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Indian region has historically has been pretty resilient to famines, the exception to that is during British rule there were several famines leading to the starvation and deaths of millions. The consensus seems to be that these famines were a result of British policy. I've never heard of this unsustainable growth and famine argument I'd love to read more if you can provide sources

[-] smallaubergine@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago

There's some incredibly impressive megalithic structures in India. Look up Ajanta and Ellora caves. I believe the Ellora temple is the largest monolithic structure ever created

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