Well that was strange...
I was trying to transfer some domain names away from Squarespace to porkbun. Kept getting a non-helpful error. Called support, a real human picked up, then fixed the problem! All within a minute!
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wrote a review of The First Night with the Duke
Moral lesson: Unless one can do better, maybe skip the nasty comments 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
The First Night with the Duke
Reincarnated as a minor character in a novel, Cha Seon-taek unexpectedly spends a night with Prince Kyungsung, sparking an intense and unexpected romance.Eggplant.place TV
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THIS 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
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Set 6,000 years ago on the Eurasian steppe, She Who Rides Horses (Book Two): A Clan Chief’s Daughter by Sarah V. Barnes continues the story of Naya, the first person to ride a horse.
#historicalfiction #books
amazon.com/Clan-Chiefs-Daughte…
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If you want to post photos, videos or audio on Mastodon, here's a guide all about it:
➡️ fedi.tips/how-do-i-post-images…
The guide tries to answer common questions about media attachments on Mastodon, including which kinds of files can be uploaded and how large they can be.
If you have any questions not covered by the guide, feel free to ask in the replies 🙂
How do I post images, videos or audio in Mastodon? What can I attach to a post? How do I post GIFs? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
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The couple times I've tried, it appears to convert supported audio formats to 128k mp3, so I started preconverting them before upload.
What I'd really like is native opus support. You should get better quality at a smaller file size, but if I upload a 64k opus, it'll be converted to 128k mp3, and that doesn't help anyone.
Am I in error anywhere?
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I had a quick look at the Mastodon Github issues about this, and as far as I can tell MP3 conversion happens due to browser compatibility?
MP3 seems to work pretty much everywhere but some browsers have (or had) problems playing Opus in websites. I'm not sure if this is the case any more though, as shown by the discussions in these issues.
The issues I looked at are:
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
Don't transcode FLACs
FLAC is a free lossless audio format. Transcoding it to mp3 loses detail. All browsers support FLAC decoding natively.ddevault (GitHub)
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I'm quite proud of this fediverse onboarding feature in FediDB!
I've heard your feedback and will be simplifying it to make it even easier for people to find their first federated home ❤️
Spread the word.
The future is federated ✨
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Text on greenish background: Stop calling imprisonment "deportation"
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With tight, concise lines and grounded imagery that leads you by the hand into its dark and hungry heart, Yearnings by Stephanie Harper is a book for those who feel deeply, love wholly, and see the world in signs, in poems.
#poetry #books
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The more I roll it around in my mouth, the more certain I am that the "AI" mania *perfectly* encapsulates neoliberalism in its entirety.
- doesn't work and never has
- steals everything around it
- produces nothing of value
- destroys all things with actual value
- lies
- creates the illusion of efficiency while vastly increasing both monetary and social costs
- is supported by militant zealots with tiny minds and hearts
- enriches a tiny group of individuals at the cost of destroying Earth
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On top of that:
- viciously punishes people who refuse to pretend they're eager to participate
- creates incredible suffering wherever it goes
- cannot exist without exploiting the global South
- is subsidized by governments at the expense of social programs
- makes up most of the "data" it presents to the public
see also:
danmcquillan.org/decomputing_a…
"I'm proposing that AI is itself a glitch; a stuttering misstep of the neoliberal order that hints at nothing less than internal disarray."
If they where for DEI they would take that as proof God likes it too!
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antireligion #antitheist #atheism
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And the winners are...
See the full list at www.coloradoauthors.org
#calawards #awardwinning #books
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Fire your Boss!
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Havyhh2
in reply to Vee • • •mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/114…
Vee
in reply to Havyhh2 • • •Peter
in reply to Vee • • •ICE is offering a $45,000 SIGNING BONUS plus $100,000 starting salary.
I make $55,000 as a teacher in my 8th year with a Masters.
It was never true that wE dOn'T hAvE eNoUgH mOnEy to pay teachers more. It was always intentional. Education has been INTENTIONALLY defunded for decades because an educated populous is a threat to power. Read the books. Do the work. They are TERRIFIED of education.
Vee
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in reply to ARadSkullMug • • •SpaceLifeForm
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in reply to SpaceLifeForm • • •SassyLassy369
in reply to Vee • • •Vee
in reply to SassyLassy369 • • •Tattered
in reply to Vee • • •Accurate. Also “populace” (noun), not “populous” (adjective).
I’m seeing this error quite often. Autocorrect, perhaps?
Vee
in reply to Tattered • • •Psyche
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in reply to Psyche • • •benny
in reply to Psyche • • •ArchaeoIain
in reply to Vee • • •Vee
in reply to ArchaeoIain • • •Paul 💙 28 💔 💚
in reply to Vee • • •Doesn't matter what country you are USA or UK (other countries are available)
The oft use phrases
'We don't have the funding' .. 'Their is no money available' .. 'We cannot afford to do that' etc
Are all lies
Vee
in reply to Paul 💙 28 💔 💚 • • •LIes lies all lies!
Salty Wrencher
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in reply to Salty Wrencher • • •@david @PGBeattie
right?! 🤷♀️
🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬
Laura
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in reply to Vee • • •Peter
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in reply to Peter • • •Okuna
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in reply to Okuna • • •This is Hell
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in reply to This is Hell • • •@scentedmeat @courtcan
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TomasHradcky
in reply to Vee • • •And here I was wondering how they would fill up their ranks. I looked it up, starting salary for the army is Private First Class $25,297.20, if your a are married private (E2) in Fort Campbell, KY, with less than two years of service and all bonuses you'll be at $67,285.
This is how they bypass trained soldiers not obeying illegal orders. Damn.
Vee
in reply to TomasHradcky • • •Toni Aittoniemi
in reply to Vee • • •Vee
in reply to Toni Aittoniemi • • •Truth Or Consequences ✅ 🇺🇦
in reply to Toni Aittoniemi • • •Already recruiting prison felons, only the Jan 6 thugs were pardoned first, then rewarded with high paying goon jobs.
Vee
in reply to Truth Or Consequences ✅ 🇺🇦 • • •Mark Mason
in reply to Vee • • •Vee
in reply to Mark Mason • • •Reg
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in reply to Reg • • •Artstories
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in reply to Artstories • • •Glenn
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in reply to Glenn • • •prozacchiwawa
in reply to Vee • • •back in the 80s conservatives had my dad and others convinced that school was a waste of money and was just "good people paying to raise welfare kids". he voted for oregon's ballot measure 5 which limited the state's ability to use property tax to fund schools. in the following years we saw schools cut music, shop and media production classes and cut a week or so at the end of the year to make up budget deficits.
it gives me a bit of shadenfreude to see people who supported this back then melt down about how nobody wants to have kids now.
Vee
in reply to prozacchiwawa • • •That's actually part o what I don't understand about their strategy... it just doesn't work long term...
prozacchiwawa
in reply to Vee • • •the idea of an overpopulation crisis was part of the zeitgeist of that era and the conservative lens viewed it in terms of darwinism.
i think when they told my generation not to get married early, not to waste time dating when we could be in college or making a name in our careers, not to have kids until we were financially secure, each and every one was imagining how successful _their_ kid would be against the gas pumpers and video rental clerks everyone else was raising.
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in reply to Vee • • •Vee
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in reply to Vee • • •Vee
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in reply to Vee • • •Vee
in reply to Njord • • •Njord
in reply to Njord • • •I moved from St. Louis to Cyprus.
There were other reasons for the move, of course, but in 2020, when there was enough stockpiled tear gas to use during months of some of the largest sustained protests in US history, and plenty of gas masks for cops, while hospital staff were wearing garbage bags and being issued a single n95 mask for use over a 2 week period, I was filled with absolute disgust at a society with such warped priorities.
Vee
in reply to Njord • • •Timon 🛠
in reply to Vee • • •Doesn't seem like the OP numbers are correct. The GS pay scale starts at 22k$ a year if you start with no qualifications. It can reach up to 122k$ but that appears to be rare that you would ever start at that level.
The point is still valid of course, the budgets seem to be available but not sure they are spent on people here either
opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/…
Pay & Leave : Salaries & Wages - OPM.gov
U.S. Office of Personnel ManagementUkeleleEric
in reply to Vee • • •Vee
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in reply to Vee • • •Polly Kraisus
in reply to UkeleleEric • • •Also, language evolves. Today's error might be tomorrow's accepted spelling. Chill out about it.
UkeleleEric
in reply to Polly Kraisus • • •cchisholm
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Unknown parent • • •Vee
Unknown parent • • •Vee
Unknown parent • • •Sensitive content
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Unknown parent • • •Vee
Unknown parent • • •Vee
Unknown parent • • •mirabilos
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Unknown parent • • •Kierkethumbs up convincingly
Unknown parent • • •Vee
Unknown parent • • •@barryjsullivan @waynedixon
Yes... that's the best adjective to describe it and I wish people would stop pretending.
Vee
Unknown parent • • •@tseitr
🤣 I totally believed it... then again I don't go really...
Christoph Maier
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in reply to Christoph Maier • • •Hans Hafner
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in reply to Hans Hafner • • •Bruce Heerssen
in reply to Vee • • •Vee
in reply to Bruce Heerssen • • •a billion people would..... life is tough these days and the only thing that rules is money...🤷♀️
And have. Since forever (the gold rush is back).
Vee
Unknown parent • • •elala@nrw.social
Unknown parent • • •The difference to everyone else, however, will be that they will not have forgotten who played what role in this dirty game and should therefore not necessarily hope for solidarity.
Vee
in reply to elala@nrw.social • • •Which is why thy need to be held accountable. ALL OF THEM.
Vee
Unknown parent • • •Lucy Ⓐ
in reply to Vee • • •even plato was able to identify this.
Or rather, the role of education in a just and ideal state. Since the current US administration appear to wish the opposite of a just and/or ideal state, it naturally follows, that they have to keep the population as uneducated as possible.
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in reply to Lucy Ⓐ • • •Vincent Sparks
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