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Tokyoite, Atlantan, journalist, photographer, cloud engineer, open-source advocate, ramen enthusiast, train nerd, armchair urbanist, Cities: Skylines …
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Installing this QM2 quad NVMe board with 2Tb for some fast data storage to add to the 8tb HDD pool (and the 1tb SSD I already have too.)
Thank God for being able to nerd out and take my mind off things for a bit. #homelab upgrades making for a productive Sunday.
17.2.2025 00:52Thank God for being able to nerd out and take my mind off things for a bit. #homelab upgrades making for a productive Sunday.Really digging what Ben is saying about
20.1.2025 06:52Really digging what Ben is saying about The next four years<\a>. I said it in 2017, and I’ll say it again: We sometimes need the...This sums up my thoughts about the TikTok ban charade right now:
Isn’t this a “promises made, promises kept” moment from OrangeMan? Or will he reverse his own-goal and look like a savior… even though he was incessantly shoving this down our collective throats since forever ago.
🤷🏾♂️
19.1.2025 15:32This sums up my thoughts about the TikTok ban charade right now: Isn’t this a “promises made, promises kept” moment from OrangeMan?...They said it wouldn’t be much snow in Atlanta on the news last night.
Right now:
#snowday #atlanta
10.1.2025 13:50They said it wouldn’t be much snow in Atlanta on the news last night. Right now: #snowday #atlantaDammit, c’mon Falcons.
5.1.2025 20:45Dammit, c’mon Falcons.New Years Day means soul food for most African Americans. In particular it means black eyed peas, neckbones and greens (mustard/turnip/collard mix) in mine.
The beans symbolize planting seeds of success to grow in the coming year, greens for health and wealth, and neckbones meaning “making something outta nothing” since these used to be the “throwaway” part of the pig.
Most of us do this every new year and down South, White folks, Hispanic folks, Asian folks, lots of us do it because the Culture spread like that. It’s one of the things l like about living down here: we all have a lot more in common than different.
Please remember this in 2025!
Apparently Pets 3 is filming in the RV…
Godspeed Mr President.
I need to have this guy’s builder skills, time and space. I’d be both terrified and thrilled to drive this contraption 🤩
12.12.2024 17:20I need to have this guy’s builder skills, time and space. I’d be both terrified and thrilled to drive this contraption 🤩...
Keep your eyes on the prize. The battle is never fought alone so long as you remember the ancestors teachings.
That time my moms, my BFF and I rode the Delmar Loop trolley in our home town.
2.11.2024 22:20 That time my moms, my BFF and I rode the Delmar Loop trolley in our home town.Testing once more…
29.10.2024 02:31Testing once more…Making a test post here… and now I’m updating the post with micropub…
28.10.2024 20:37Making a test post here… and now I’m updating the post with micropub…
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29.8.2024 05:18Yimbys for Harris $100kONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR HARRIS/WALZ!!
Support better neighborhoods/affordable housing/sustainable development!!
Why does it seem like Atlanta’s transit agencies continually aim lower and lower when it comes to planning?
I was this many years old when I was told it was going to be an extension of the Red Line rail service from North Springs Station, about 5 miles away. Now all we get is a noisy, smoggy bus island in between 8 lanes of speeding traffic.
Nah, this ain’t it chief.
#LFG.
21.7.2024 21:55 #LFG.
In honor of Father’s Day, I’m going to engage in one of my favorite past-times: $#!+posting dad jokes. 😏
If you’re a dad (or you have a dad– I guess that’d be everyone here except my immaculate conception, clones, androids and the asexual reproduction homies) please add to the ensuing and possibly annoying thread. Consider yourself warned for irony, cringe and general rando post fun & mayhem.
–Also go wish your dad a Happy Father’s Day before you forget 😜
Let’s get it started:
Apparently they were trying to film Speed 2 near my house today…
11.6.2024 23:48Apparently they were trying to film Speed 2 near my house today…We have a ready-made 150-year-old vacant right of way around central Atlanta begging for rail-based transit… And the mayor is considering “slow moving people movers” and “pods” instead of connecting the downtown circulating streetcar to it (which it was why it was built)
Please watch this video and feel my frustration and rage right now. 😡
16.5.2024 00:30Invasion of the street car snatchers
The bridge has been built and the switch has been turned on! Even though there was a lot of struggle and strife, arguments, and knockdown-drag-outs, @snarfed.org@snarfed.org, AKA Ryan Barrett persevered by taking into account everyone's opinions on what a cross-fediverse bridge between the ActivityPub powered landscape dominated by Mastodon and the ATProto protocol that powers BlueSky. It's important to many people including myself that all networks in what I call the Open Social Media Services (OpenSNS) collection of decentralized federated networks be able to talk and interact with each other; else we might as well just go on creating big-ass tech silos that eventually will wall people off based on pre-existing factors like ethnicity, geography, culture at best and/or consolidate power to just one group of people or companies at worse. But I've talked ad-nauseam about this in other postings already; it's time to talk about how this thing works!
Whether you're coming from ActivityPub/Mastodon and friends or ATProto/Bluesky, the first part is the same: You need to follow the bot that will register your OpenSNS username with Bridgy's servers. This will count as an intent on your part that you wish your posts to be popped over to the other side.
@bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy and your bridged ATproto username is @[username.server.tld].bsky.brid.gy
@ap.brid.gy and your bridged ActivityPub username is @[username]@bsky.brid.gy
🚧 At some point there's going to be a message that will also let you know you've done this right after you registered sent to your existing account in the form of a unlisted message, but for now just head over to your new user page manually:
🐘 for ActivityPub users, your bridged user page is https://fed.brid.gy/ap/@[username]@[server name].[tld]
https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/[username]
There, you can even add followers and check logs to see if something isn't working properly with syncing.
At this point things should be up and running and you really don't have to do much; the system will poll somewhere between every 5~10 minutes looking for new posts to translate to the other side from you. Of course it's in early beta right now, so it's polling whenever Ryan gets around to it while he makes changes and works out the kinks. I recommend having an account on your target SNS site just so you can see the output and make sure it shows up correctly. There's also a handy RSS output in your Bridgy userpage that you can subscribe to and keep track of things as well.
It's a simple bridge really-- you post in one place and it translates and posts it in the other place. If you get activity on that post in the other place, it rolls back to you wherever you are.
If you want to follow someone else in the other place, you need to know how their username translates just as in 1️⃣ above. Here's some examples:
@starrwulfe.xyz, then you need to search for @starrwulfe.xyz@bsky.brid.gy in your user search engine on Mastodon or in the app, just you'd do for a normal user.@starrwulfe@social.vivaldi.net, then you need to search for @starrwulfe.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy in the Bluesky users search field.There's a bit more to it, so please [read the docs](https://fed.brid.gy/docs) to get a good understanding:
This is a very early beta. I outlined the core feature set, but there are some such as more interactive onboarding and opt-in notices that aren't in production yet. Also polling is being done manually by Ryan as he works out kinks in the program and scales things up. Expect lots of changes in the next few weeks as use cases roll in and traffic is shaped. You can be a part of the process though by [filing issue comments on the Github for the project](https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues):
I'd like to thank Ryan for taking the time out of his... well life really. Bridgy has been a free service he's operated to enable the crossposting across different social media and blogs since 2017. This blog is half powered by it whenever someone comments via Bluesky and Mastodon! He charges $0 and while he insists it's a negligible cost to keep the infrastructure up, his rapid response to problems and ability to chat about how it works anytime has gotta be a serious time weight, passion project or not. This endeavor is very much appreciated and highly valued by me and lots more, I'm sure. 🙇🏾♂️
Also, be sure to catch his Flipboard/Dot Social interview if you'd like to know more about the project and the rollercoaster ride around it.
4.5.2024 18:29New Fediverse Bluesky bridge in beta testingIt’s very hard to ignore the amount of suffering going on by people who just a few years ago were living an idyllic life just like me; worried about having enough time/money to simply have a few days off to spend with wife/husband/kids/parents/family/friends… Or just sitting in a cafe and sipping a coffee or tea and enjoying a book or something. Now just endless war and death for what? Someone in a palace far away with some random agenda decided whatever and now their entire vicinity is rubble. People just getting massacred because its Tuesday. I tried to refrain from saying something about this, but my mind won’t rest.
My ancestry commands my fingers to talk about how my mama grabbed my shoulders as we watched the latest horrors coming from both Gaza and Ukraine last week. “Those people were already living in an open prison. Now they have nothing. It’s nothing but kids playing in fucking rubble, and they kill the children. It reminds me that bullshit I grew up in,” my mother ranted. She’s 78 and feisty AF. Anything… The tiniest little shred of a scrap that makes her remember segregation, Jim Crow and the humiliations she, my family and Black folks in general went through in her childhood and before sets her all the way off. And all the imagery coming in from that part of the world is looking like a 2024 “Let’s make Apartheid great again: Genocidal Tendencies” double feature for her.
“See, I remember they didn’t mind you spending up all your money in their big fancy department store downtown, but don’t let you have to go to the bathroom. Even a 6-year-old little black girl still has to pee in the alley behind the store, but oh they take that greenback quick. These people aren’t allowed to go to a hospital on the other side of the wall, but I bet their taxes are paying something for that. I bet their taxes probably funded that wall, those police and bullets that kill them too!” My mama was on a roll, and it might not seem as if her raging actually has a connection to the suffering going on here and now in 2024…
But suffering knows suffering, and that’s the point. Looking at videos of dead kids that were playing foosball in the street a minute ago, looking at sacks of dead bodies being unearthed from mass graves. Seeing 5-year-old boys with soulless eyes dazed because literally their entire household was killed except them… If I had the same memories my mom (and dad) had, I’d be channeling them too. The movie is the same, the characters are just a bit different. It’s even worse for me since I don’t have those memories first-hand, but I have parents, had grandparents, and have felt those aches in the collective memory with every song, prayer and hand-laying in those times we Black folks commune together. I do know what it’s like to see a friend who spent literally the last 6 hours of their life in school with me, ate lunch with me, played basketball with me, and died from a stray bullet 3 blocks from our school because someone just had to shoot at somebody they didn’t like and hit everyone and everything including my friend but totally missed their intended target. Repeat this a few times with some other neighborhood friends, 3 cousins, and so on… So, tangentially I guess I also know a bit of what a war feels like, and the unfair pain and suffering caused by someone else who I’ll never get a reason from let alone an apology. And if I feel this pain, then surely the people causing it must have a hatred so deep that their own sadness is consumes it and makes it do these horrible things.
If we do nothing to stem the outpouring of hatefulness, it won’t stop until it’s consumed all of humanity.
27.4.2024 16:42Inconsolable Tangential War Victims
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I'm all for new tech but all that's really needed are Dutch style separated bike lanes and protected signal crossings if they really have this kind of money to burn. The vast majority of both cars and cyclists aren't going to download a "watch out for bikes" app, this is silly and a waste of time and money. But wait-- this is not the end-all-be-all DOT approved solution getting shovels into dirt; it's just a tech showcase:
The tech behind it is kind of neat; giving cyclists some kind of transponder that will work with the "smart roads" systems of intelligent streets conditions networks. These are the different components that measure and relay auto traffic and post congestion info to those big signs over the roadways, or into your favorite mapping apps. But why are all the news outlets covering this technology exhibition as if it's the thing to solve the larger problem though?
We suburbanites really need to remain laser focused on real shovel-in-the-dirt ideas that can save lives and enable alternative transport modes like safe cycling and building better modal transitions and pathways for example. Prepping for a once-a-season bike race is one thing, but being able to use a combination of my bike and a bus to get across Gwinnett County without killing or injuring myself would be pretty cool...
27.4.2024 10:59Bicycle safety tech "gadgetbahnery"Since I would love to have Telegram be a first party “citizen” of the Fediverse, the network of open social media network apps and sites that are connected with ActivityPub, I formally opened a suggestion for it to be added somehow if possible via the Telegram user suggestion portal.
I think it would be great if every Telegram user was able to tie into the #fediverse via making @username@t.me handles and using group chats/channels equate different conversation activities vis-a-vis Lemmy, Flipboard and Discourse.
I've been telling people for years how the narrowness of the streets in Japan is probably the best traffic calming device I've ever seen and works on almost every mode of traffic from large truck down to pedestrian. In the States, we build roads way too wide for their intended use, then complain later when we see people driving on them like mini freeways. The street I lived on in Japan was about 10 meters wide; the one I live on now is about 20. (Thats 30 and 60 feet respectively for us 'Muricans)
I had to take the regular driving course to get licensed here as well; this is something different as well; if you want to drive in Japan, you spend US$3000 to go to driving school for 3-5 months. That never happens in the US, even for commercial truckers. The other thing is how the laws are enforced. Japanese traffic police are very good at their jobs, especially motorcycle and bike cops. The painted sharrows and Dutch style bike edge lanes are very recent, like in the last 5-10 years or so; what's more at work here is just a long history of Japanese traffic law being very strict especially beginning in the mid 1990's when it on-street parking was made illegal nationwide (something also not talked about by almost anyone, but is very noticeable to anyone coming to Japan.)
I'll die on this hill: Laws are only as good as their enforcement, adherence and understanding. Learning to drive, ride, and even walk as a pedestrian in Japan is something that is reinforced and understood by the vast majority and that's the main reason why you see things the way they are.
Japan still has significant progress to make in terms of car versus bike/pedestrian safety. A few years ago, a dear friend of mine was fatally struck by a car while crossing mid-block on a busy road in Nagoya. He was on his bicycle, and although I'm not fully aware of the details, the police indicated that the primary cause was his decision to cross a major road at night outside of the crosswalks, on what is known as a "stroad". Such incidents are often attributed to "user error", and it's uncertain if any design changes could prevent these types of accidents. Nonetheless, it's somewhat consoling to know that this is the only traffic fatality I've experienced in Japan, compared to six I've known in the US over a similar period of about twenty years. I lived in Nagoya for three years about 13 years ago and it's known for being the place with the most traffic safety issues per capita in Japan due in part to its wider than average boulevards and a relatively lower public transit coverage plus higher car dependence and sprawl when compared to Osaka and Tokyo metros (which is still way better than the typical American city anyway). This is Toyota and Mitsubishi's hometown after all. Even still, there are places like Sakae and Hisaya-Odori Park along with lots of underground pedestrian plazas that serve to help keep the center of town first class for pedestrians and separate from car traffic.
By implementing road diets to narrow streets, creating space for multiuse trails, encouraging lower speeds through design rather than solely by law, and designating residential areas as "living streets," we can enhance pedestrian safety and reduce wear and tear on vehicles. This is something that doesn't need to be done in one go; it can be done in phases as streets come up for reconstruction, can be done with just a little bit more money than said maintenance, and has been successful in the vast majority of places it has been implemented. I've been reading books like Building the Cycling City and even the Amsterdam Red Book for urban mobility to gather some of these points. I cannot stress enough how much better life in the suburbs would be if we made better use of the space we have by ceding a chunk of it away from automobiles and back to human beings.
13.4.2024 12:44Japan has good neighborhood streets