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Cake day: December 29th, 2023
  • Visikde@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription
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    12 days ago

    What’s a mouse?
    I use a trackpad
    The lenovo version of trackpad on my thinkpad has buttons on the top & bottom along with trackpoint that works when nothing else will…
    I even have a usb keyboard with a trackpad

    I bought a gaming mouse [not logitech] to set up a distro that wouldn’t install by trackpad for $12 once the install finished, it sits on a shelf

    A forever mouse is a solution in search of a problem

    The customer base of people who use mice is shrinking, most people use their phones or pads a majority of the time

  • Visikde@beehaw.orgtoSocialism@beehaw.org•The Great Neoliberal Burden Shift (Part II)- How Corporate America Offset Liability Onto Its Workers --- Citations Needed Podcast
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    23 days ago

    I lived this from the factory floor in the central valley of california from 1980-2010
    In my experience safety was driven by workmens comp insurance companies. The would be a clip board conga line a couple of times a year made up of representatives of our company & insurance company people, checking to see if their “suggestions” had been implemented & new threats [to the bottom line] identified
    Anyone who had a moderate to serious injuries were fired with the expectation the injured would sue the [insurance] company, requiring a lawyer who got a percentage of the award
    A fun bit of outsourcing that generates billable hours for the guild of lawyers & shifts responsibility back to the victim

    As time went on the monthly mandatory safety meetings became the perfect time for all of us to sign off on liability for normal operations

    I found the suggestion box to be a powerful tool
    Careful wording can force managers to answer difficult questions in front of all the other managers :D

    The primary dysfunction is corporate personhood, more than all the rights of a human, none of the responsibilities beyond the bottom line
    Socialize the costs
    Privatize the profits

    Money as speech has always been the case
    Having an impactful political opinion has always required one to have excess resources, what rules there might have been eroded by the guild reinterpreting founders intent

  • Visikde@beehaw.orgtoPolitics@beehaw.org•Ralph Nader would like to stop having to explain why the spoiler coverage is stupid
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    4 months ago

    An important point:
    "The higher level is: What do we do with these big corporations? One is we’ve got to subordinate them constitutionally. So corporations should never have equal rights with real people. Now they’re connecting with AI. You want a deadly cocktail? Connect artificial persons called corporations with AI.
    Founders intent was for corporations to be temporary
    https://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-accountability-history-corporations-us/

    We have a system designed for 1% of the present population
    We have a system designed for information moving at the speed of horse
    Founders intent was a representative for 30,000 citizens, presently a representative for 700,000 citizens
    We have a system that is completely over whelmed by the number & complexity of decisions to be made
    We need more channels for informed feedback
    Having a meaningful political opinion has

    I lived in California in 2000 & voted for Ralph, knowing Gore had Cali in the bag

  • Visikde@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Get ready to hear more about "pre-internet" times
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    7 months ago

    Ancient
    I had an AM radio I listened to while delivering papers

    A Magnevox tv/radio/record player, with glowing tubes. You could stack up a few records

    8 track tapes were an infinite loop abomination. 4 loops of 2 channels = 8 tracks. I had a friend with a quad 8 track, 2 loops of 4 channels. the tapes started to drag after some plays, requiring various gymnastics to keep them playing. Recording at home was rare. Cost more than vinyl, lower sound quality. Let the enshittification of music begin

    Cassettes Had their own weirdness, pre recorded cassettes had crap tape, crap shells & higher costs. Pre recorded tapes shed the magnetic coating & dirtied up the player which would eat your tapes.
    Quality blank tapes cost about 1/4 of what an LP cost.

    Moving into the cd age I stuck with cassettes, as that’s what worked in my car/trucks. cd’s got recorded. my favorite technique was 3 albums on a 90 minute tape, cutting out the annoying songs.

    I got a computer in 2005 started making LP’s & cassettes into mp3’s. I pretty much try to keep the files under 5 minutes
    I still have a bunch of files without proper song titles as I got bored after artist, album, year. Itunes was my go to importing cd’s. Later I found out any of the metadata I changed was in a changlog or some shyt, not the actual files, there was very little rejoicing…

  • Visikde@beehaw.orgtoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Neither Major Party in the US Represents the Working Class
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    8 months ago

    Think about how we got here
    Very early on we out sourced a big chunk of the election process to volunteers, fans, fanatics if you will. Why raise taxes to pay for elections?
    Parties took over the preliminary parts of the process in exchange for vetting potential candidates.

    OK so I’m guessing but, no one works for free
    The Pay may not be cash, power, influence, patronage are all nice.

    Money has always been speech
    Excess resources have always been required to have a meaningful political opinion

    The system was designed for information moving at the speed of horse at great expense
    The system was to serve 1% of the present population

    Damm thing works better than one would expect :D