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Air quality not great in Ventura/LA counties, drift from the Gifford Fire.
A good reminder, if you don't already have a HEPA filter (Corsi Rosenthal boxes FTW!), it's a good idea to have one available in case of wildfire smoke drifting in your direction. (they are also handy if someone has a respiratory disease in your house, for removing pollen for the air for allergies, and clearing your house of the worst AQI pollutant I have found exists -- well done bacon! Smells good... but not good for your lungs, LOL)
Watch: With two minute updates, The US EPA PM2.5 Air Quality Index (AQI) is a number used by US government agencies to communicate to the public how polluted the air currently is or how polluted it is forecast to become.
"Author: R. William ValliereTitle: Hierarchy and AnarchyDate: 2025Notes: A Thesis presented to the University of Guelph, 2025. Advisor: Professor John Hacker-Wright. In partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy. Guelph, Ontario, Canada.Source: Retrieved from the University of Guelph’s online thesis database,
R. William Valliere Hierarchy and Anarchy 2025 A Thesis presented to the University of Guelph, 2025. Advisor: Professor John Hacker-Wright. In partial...
Two days ago: Tesla has to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for deceptively marketing Autopilot in a way that falsely made people think it could drive the car by itself. Today: Elon Musk "Teslas can drive themselves!"
Hollywood Reporter- Loni Anderson, has died at the age of 79. She starred as the shrewd radio station receptionist on WKRP in Cincinnati before her fairy-tale marriage to and acrimonious divorce from Burt Reynolds. hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne…
She received two Emmy noms for being "the smartest person in the room" on the CBS sitcom and tons of tabloid attention for her 1988-94 marriage to Burt Reynolds.
People will tell you conspiracy theories are fake when the world's most powerful censorship organization was founded by Jewish freemasons to silence criticism of a child rapist.
Politik vs Justiz "Die Justizverwaltung BW schüchterte den Vorsitzenden des Sozialgerichts Karlsruhe dermaßen ein, dass dieser über Monate hinweg beeinträchtigt wurde, die Vorlage an das BVerfG vorzubereiten." "Gegen den richterlichen Vorsitzenden des Sozialgerichts wurde ein Disziplinarverfahren eingeleitet, mit wahrheitswidrigen Behauptungen" "Er widerlegte die erlogenen Anschuldigungen. Daraufhin verschleppte das Justizministerium BW das Verfahren um sechs Monate." gegen-hartz.de/urteile/bundesv…
An analogy came to mind when reading it: if the cloud is feudalism, self hosted is sustenance farming.
Sustenance farming… Well, it sucks, it’s brutal, it’s awful. No wonder people want centralized infrastructure! Groceries aren’t a concept in sustenance farming, neither is something like “food sensitivities”—you just die or accept the feudalism because you have no other choice.
Some people happen to like sustenance farming and the idea of living fully off the grid! But they’re not normal. That’s fine, but it’s not workable for most people and carries an enormous amount of unstated privilege. For example: the person in the article casually buying a server and dropping a few thousand dollars on it, setting up several complicated systems in it, and “only” spending a few weeks of free time doing so? Privileged. Fun hobby if you like that, though!
The bad part, in my opinion, is that our only choices are currently techno fascism… Or the sustenance farming that killed almost everyone who attempted it. That’s not a great set of choices and it doesn’t have to be like that.
I liked the reference to community clouds in the ending of the article. It reminded me very much of Common Pool Resources that Elinor Ostrom talks about, or the emergent strategy of adrienne marie brown. I need to read more Ursula Franklin, but I suspect her writing is right at home here too.
I’d like to live in a world where communities uplift and support each other and are able to do so. I’m doing my best to help make that a reality, even if I’ve had to spend the last year or two putting my own mask on first 😀
@Hazel Weakly You have choices, and the more these big corporate entities increase their grip the more people will feel compelled to find alternatives.
International Sociological Association bars Israeli public institutions from membership over refusal to condemn genocide #Palestinemondoweiss.net/2025/08/interna…
The suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society by the International Sociological Association marks a significant milestone in the international academic boycott of Israel.
"Author: Benjamin TuckerTitle: Liberty Vol. VI. No. 4.Subtitle: Not the Daughter but the Mother of OrderDate: September 29, 1888Notes: Whole No. 134 — Many thanks to www.readliberty.org for the readily-available transcription and to www.libertarian-labyrinth.org for the original scans.Source: Retrieved on August 2, 2025 from readliberty.org
Hayley Williams (of Paramore et al) is no longer bound by her record label. She just released 17 songs, free to the internet.
This is her completely without restriction.
A couple choice lines:
"They pose in Christmas cards with guns as big as all the children. They say that Jesus is the way but then they gave him a white face. So they don’t have to pray to someone they deem lesser than them."
Then follows it immediately with:
"The South will not rise again Til it’s paid for every sin Strange fruit, hard bargain Till the roots, Southern Gotham"
Strange Fruit. Think Billie Holiday's haunting song. Till the roots... rip up the roots so that tree doesnt grow again (with possible entendres to Emmett Till, etc).
I've heard people describe this song as an incantation, as a binding spell. I can imagine hundreds of thousands or millions singing and chanting this magic.
The official visualizer for “True Believer” by Hayley WilliamsWritten by: Hayley Williams, Daniel James, James Harmon Stack, Eli TeplinProduced by: Daniel Ja...
Although Senegal is unlikely to qualify for full BRICS membership, it could emerge as a potential BRICS partner country in the first place. With an area
It wasn’t that long ago when I sincerely wondered if we’d ever see Assange’s face again, let alone in public, let alone in Sydney, let alone heading up what had to be one of the largest pro-Palestine rallies ever held in Australia.
When we get out of this hell-hole (and we will get out of this) I hope every single fucking Trump supporter is shamed, ridiculed, and vilified for what they are doing to our Country right now.
I blame every single goddamn Republican voter for everything.
I want voting records to be made public because I want every one of their names published so people know who caused this shit. #USpol
The clashes come amid tension over disagreements regarding the implementation of a deal to integrate the Syrian Democratic Forces into Damascus’s Ministry of Defense
From tomorrow onwards I will be writing an MRF to edit all posts that mention r*pe (rape) to r*pe (r*pe). Any discussion of this topic will be banned if it is a pro-r*pe post. As the trendsetters of fediverse culture we need to pave the way to a safer environment for all women on here.
I'm ditching streaming services and just going with local music. However all my CDs are converted to either flac or 320kbps files on my PC and thus far too large for the limited storage I have on my phone.
I was hoping there might be an app that would automatically downconvert to something like 128kbps and then copy over to the Music directory on my phone. A bit like how Calibre can automatically convert eBook files (e.g. mobi to epub) and then send them to your ereader?
Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for - but subsonic/airsonic/etc. can do on-the-fly conversions when downloading to mobile devices. There are several mobile apps available that will cache files locally as well.
Not automatic (I think) and a bit clunky but the Strawberry music player does have a transcode feature so you could select music files and transcode them a certain way output to another folder. It's not something I ever do but I did a quick test to a USB drive and it seems to work okay. It's an option if you opt to use a gui to click through.
OTOH if you're happy using the terminal and/or scripting then ffmpeg may be a better bet.
PS - Strawberry does have a panel where it lists "Devices" and maybe your phone could show up there and the transcoding would work a bit more automatically, wasn't able to test that here.
Might not be the most convenient option depending on your personal use-case, but have you considered a dedicated audio device? I personally got a refurbished LG V30 because I came across a YT vid while looking for cheap options for having a dedicated "mp3" player to keep archived/favorite episode of podcasts, audiobooks, and music. Seems there is a decent fanbase of folks that love the 3.5mm DAC that phone has (of course has Bluetooth too). It also has microSD slot. Got a 512GB card (can use up to 2TB which I might do at some point). Most of the music I have on it is flac where possible. I keep it offline and just transfer files via USB, but could use wifi to sync with PC if I wanted to at some point. Shit lasts a pretty long time with wifi/bluetooth off only using the headphone jack (helps that the battery was replaced by the refurb).
There are also lots of cheaper Android-based players (I got one before I came across the vid on the V30) but can have some amount of malware and no easy access to their firmware or communities that can advise custom ROMs to safely flash something clean and/or newer. When I got my no-name device I just side-loaded apks to avoid giving access to my Google account (though I plan to keep my V30 offline after I got the last updates for the OS and LG apps). I just wanted to have something that I only use for local audio and just keep it in my car or backpack and have access to the three apps I like (Musicolet for music, Podcast Addict for podcasts, and Smart AudioBook Player for my audiobooks).
I was gonna say that Plexamp allows for local downloads from your server onto your device, but if you don’t wanna ever use an Internet connection at all, I guess that’s different.
Navidrome does that. You have to setup a PC, or a raspberry Pi with navidrome, and then use a client like Symfonium (costs $5, not open source, but it's the best subsonic client out there), and tell it to automatically downconvert music when played via the phone. I have a Raspberry Pi 3B+, with just 1 GB of RAM, running navidrome. DietPi + navidrome (which is installable directly via dietpi's software selection), together they take just 80-120 MB of RAM!
I had Jellyfin before that, and Emby, and they were dogs. 1 GB of RAM was not enough for them, they'd swap with an additional 200-300 MB of RAM. And they were slow with large music libraries too. Navidrome/Subsonic don't have such issues. Big music libraries are handled fast with their db/engine.
For lower bitrates, I'd suggest using a different codec than MP3. Opus is really solid, and at 128 kbps it will probably get you quality similar to MP3 at 192 kbps. Or you could go lower, and 96 kbps with Opus will be similar to MP3 at 128 kbps. I don't know an app that will do it automatically, but the CLI tools are really simple to use: you point them at the FLAC and tell it the target bitrate and that's it.
Alternatively, if you have access to a macOS machine, their AAC encoder is really good and likely superior to any MP3 encoder at equivalent bitrates.
I'm an audio engineer and can confirm that if you want the best quality audio for the file size, you want Opus. Opus at 128kbps is considered transparent, so it's roughly as good as 320kbps MP3s, but y'know, less than half the size.
What's your take on MP3 bitrates? I've read some posts online claiming that 320 kbps is overkill most of, if not all of, the time. They claimed that there is little to no gain going above around 220 kbps. In your experience, is there any truth to this?
Generally this is true, but it depends on the encoder used. Back during the huge boom of MP3 popularity in the late 90s and early 00s, it likely did make a difference, so if you're looking at MP3s that were encoded back then I would go for 320kbps every time just to be safe, but modern encoders generally do much better like you said.
These days if I were encoding an MP3 I'd use LAME at -V0 setting, letting it lower the bitrate where it can without sacrificing quality. That said, per this test from 2014 that I found as a source on Wikipedia, a 96kbps VBR Opus file is at least as good if not better than an MP3 with -V 5 as the setting on LAME with approximately a 135kbps bitrate.
Well, it's not great to take an already compressed audiostream like 320kbps mp3, and then compress it again. Use your FLACs if possible. Then, I'd recommend that you use .ogg - they give better compression (smaller files), but with better sound than mp3...
There's a lot of apps out there, but AFAIK not anyone who does this automatically for you.
It's not really an "App" but tools like ffmpeg or sox or lame can do that no problem. It might take a while to convert your entire collection though ... but depending on the size might just take a night or, few nights.
If you have a ridiculously large collection and do want it "on demand" you could also use e.g. inotify to monitor directories, e.g. ~/Music/ForPhone/ so that any file added to that directory gets converted.
FWIW I'd use a phone with a microSD card as those days one can get a 1To for less than 100€ so probably no conversion needed even for a large collection.
This might be a bit overkill for what you want but you could try using a selfhosted music server like navidrome and streaming to your phone. I use symfonium on on phone which can be configured to request the streamed music to be transcoded to a smaller size for streaming from mobile network or for caching it on your phones storage for offline listening.
Given that symfonium supports a lot of self hosted media providers from which to pull, you could also try sharing your music locally using samba. I'm not sure if the transcoding still works in that case though (it would obviously have to be done on your phone)
@Max_Imum From where I'm standing, I'd say that's a good price. It's most useful to compare it to other easily accessible sources (your local grocery store) to compare prices, and then factor in quality. Chances are that it's going to beat the grocery store, every time.
Well, seeing as my WONDERFUL PAYMENT PROCESSOR decided to hold the money i just got paid for 6 days, and then my bank will probably hold it another 2-4 days, GUESS IM JUST FUCKING OFF THIS WEEK.
I swear to fuck, bank float (jew float) can fuck right off.
The only reason they do it too is so they can lend on your money and earn interest. They make up some bullshit about "for your security" but we all know its so they can pull that sweet sweet 2% on your money for a few days.
WELCOME TO SMALL BUSINESS, WHERE BIG BUSINESS FUCKS YOU IN THE ASS FOR FUN AND CUSTOMERS ARE LIKE, BUT I PAID YOU WHY CAN'T WE START TOMORROW?
Well KAREN, it's because the bank and the payment processor is holding your money for a week.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Nepali President Ram Chandra Poudel on Friday exchanged congratulations on the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
alright dudes it's too late to do plasma cuts outside so looks like i have to do angle grinder inside. lots of stuff laid out. too much for angle grinder really but i want to get this done
Finally finished season 2 and I gotta say, I've watched lesbian porn less gay than this. I genuinely have zero idea how to explain any of Brooklynn and Soyona's actions toward each other, besides that Brooklyn is seduced by Soyona and her lifestyle, and Soyona finds it lonely at the top and thinks having a college-aged girlfriend wouldn't be such a bad thing. Anyways, here's 15 minutes of me reacting to two women actively sabotaging and lying to each other, both knowing the other is doing the same, and both refuse to admit that out loud because then the pretense that they should be together would be over.
Soyona looking out the window making sure her girlfriend doesn't run back to her boyfriend and situationship, then quickly closing all the windows to play it cool
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Reunion is the tenth and final episode of the second season in the Netflix series Jurassic World: Chaos Theory. The episode was released on October 17, 2024. Broken trust. Betrayal. Disbelief.
Lety Does Reacting to “Jurassic World: Chaos Theory” Season 2, Episodes 7 & 8
So I drew the hippo before realizing it was dead, obviously. That was pretty much a bummer. So was the rest of these episodes. Yaz was all on her own, kitty cats got eaten, there were abused dinosaurs, and NO SOYONA. BRING BACK BROOKLYNN AND SOYONA. NO, NOT LIKE THAT, I DON'T WANT TO SEE HER WITHOUT SOYONA, UGH WHY ARE SHE AND BEN SO FRUSTRATING.
Lab Partners: Part 1 is the eighth episode of the second season in the Netflix series Jurassic World: Chaos Theory. The episode was released on October 17, 2024. The Camp Fam follows a hidden river bend to a chicken farm crawling with secrets.
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I wondered why would the Kikes try to exterminate people groups that they need to survive due to their parasitic way of life
But what if Kikes want to destroy all life
But destroying all life can only be done in a certain order because if they destroy lives of people that want to destroy all life first then no one will be left alive to try to destroy all life
So they try to destroy their own life last after destroying all the lives of people that do not want to destroy all life first
If it's the ending of all life I know, it's taken from my heart The condensation, I feel it in my lungs If it's the ending of all life I know, it's taken from my heart The conversation, won't hear it in the world
Here is a article on Judaism and reincarnatiom from Chabad which is a very large Orthodox Jewish organization with a lot of political power that is big on proselytizing in spite of claiming Jews do not proselytize
Seeing that Lucifer (Saturn) is the spiritual undercurrent they are serving, it ultimately has to be understood through a spiritual lens. The goal is to subjugate the earth and rid the primary leader of opposition, Christ and his true followers. European whites hold this belief the most fervently, so it has to go. Other pagan beliefs are welcome but must be subdued under Marxism to allow a minimum to remain for servant hood and slavery. AI will handle the rest of their needs.
@theorytoe are you telling me you don't know about THE dragon ball THE breakers? where you and 7 other puars get raped by an iconic dragon ball Z (and two Super + 1 GT) villain and sit in 8 minute queues?
@theorytoe it's fine nobody knows about it there's just a guy who got so mad at puar he felt the need to get me out of the game ASAP and left a comment on my steam profile lol
This is tragic. We really need to open up all of the vacant federal land in the western states and start building millions of houses. x.com/EndWokeness/status/19520…
RT's report explores how messaging platforms like Telegram are being weaponized to carry out large-scale fraud, social engineering, and even foreign intelligence operations inside Russia. In response,...
There's little in my mind that could escape thinking about the wife during the heat of the summer. Wishing I could cool down in a pond with her and get to see her cute swimsuits. youtube.com/watch?v=mApaQDTf8X…
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Capital's insistence on burning billions and billions of dollars and further decimating our environment on trying to build LLMs that might, but probably won't, replace some jobs, shows in a stark way their absolute contempt for labor. They'd rather set the world and themselves on fire then let us touch pennies of their wealth.
Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that…
Thought dump post again. I really wish there was a solid alternative to Forza Horizon. Open world arcade racing with tons of mini-objectives and just fun alternate goals to reach. The Crew certainly isn't that even if I were willing to give money to ubisoft for bragging about killing The Crew 1. Hell if I could I'd want to make an alternative myself. I grabbed Forza Horizon 4 when it was put on delisting sale and it was a good time weirdly enough. I mean, the writing was bad but besides that. It left me wanting for an alternative title, something similar in concept but with a bunch of alternative ideas. Preferably not in a festival setting where everyone acts way too joyous to ever dare even suggest your driving was bad.
Something else also caught my interest when it came to the game, that being multiplayer. Not as in racing against each other, rather the fact others could show up in the world doing stuff of their own while you were working on your own goals. I always like those kinds of small interactions in multiplayer.
Also the online decal system is something I will never dislike. During my play I found a really good Suwako decal online for the Sprite Mk1 which instantly made it into my go to car whenever I wanted to play around. Even more fun was seeing other people's decals as a random run-in happened. Sometimes I'd just find a guy rocking some cute decal and start thinking about how to get that car and decal for myself.
I'm using the #Tusky #Mastodon client, and when I load my instance, I get the little pooped mastodon with "An error occurred" for the home timeline. Notifications, the local timeline, and direct messages all load fine, just not the home timeline. Before I file a ticket, does anyone know why this is happening, and whether it might be server- or client-side? "An error occurred" is not a lot to go on.
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