FBXL Social

I remember a story from far before any of this occurred, way back in the mid 2010s, back when Donald Trump was a reality TV star with a bunch of hotels.

It was a bunch of obvious fraud and election act violations, and it resulted in a fine.

So yeah. What do you call someone who cheats to win an election? "Elected". Why wouldn't you cheat if all you're going to get for cheating is a slap on the wrist?

Your cousin Timmy learn calculus at 6 months old! He have to make his own chair! And not allowed to use building material or tools!

"what language?"

Not English.

Once you undo your chains and leave the cave, you can never return and be satisfied with the shadows cast upon the wall.

https://video.fbxl.net/w/p/wncXRsWk4ucwPiGzmm2YvP

The Graysonian Ethic deepfake audio book is fully released now, and this weekend I uploaded the whole thing to peertube. Here's a playlist with everything laid out in order. Totally playable without an account on fbxl social. It's also on youtube if you want to see it there.

Ah, it's just because I was using the old domain, the new domain doesn't have the same error.

nvm. (Maybe someone else with a peertube will see it and fix their stuff up)

@graf I just saw an error message on tv.poast.org that I saw when I migrated FBXL video to peertube 5.0 about oauth failing. There are two things I needed to change to get it working properly.

First I needed to add the secrets part to my config file:

# Secrets you need to generate the first time you run PeerTube
secrets:
# Generate one using `openssl rand -hex 32`
peertube: '' # where there's a big series of letters and numbers in there

Second, my config was set to look at port 9000:

# Correspond to your reverse proxy server_name/listen configuration (i.e., your public PeerTube instance URL)
webserver:
https: false
hostname: 'localhost'
port: 9000

I needed to change the 9000 to 443 since it was on https externally and it looks like peertube 5 actually cares about that.

I might be totally off, but figure I'd pass what I learned on, maybe it'll help.

I actually did an apprenticeship for a short time in a school as a helpdesk tech back in high school. It didn't end up turning into a journeyman in being a helpdesk tech (and thank God it didn't, what a useless thing to be a journeyman in), and my ultimate field wasn't remotely in that, but there's a lot you can learn on the job, and that opportunity paid of much later.

It's a good model, especially once you remove the struggle of trying to find someone who is willing to take a chance on you. (I did read the link before replying the first time, btw -- otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned having the kids doing stuff because I wouldn't have thought of it)

lol imagine not having direct messaging.

There's also probably hundreds or thousands of tech literate, highly educated, industry experienced people who are willing and excited to volunteer locally to assist with helping kids learn tech in any given community. People who have real-world experience and passion. I bet you'd even find many of them are willing to work for free.

I'm a capitalist. I like paying people to do things I can't or don't want to do. But not everything falls under capitalism, and it shouldn't. There are things more important in the world, and things that you don't need to pay others for because they will do it for free.

Then imagine: You get local volunteer tech experts who are better than cross skilled teachers will ever be at the tech they are native to, and you combine that with students who actually get their hands dirty making the tech work and give them the duty and the responsibility for helping others, and suddenly you've got something really special.

Thanks! I always like it when people end up looking at it.

One thing that I've really come to realize is how important having a family is. In that chapter I'm not just talking about having a family, I'm talking about making sure that you are building a career, building relationships outside of family, building a home, building other reserves, because you need to be thinking ahead. Culturally, we are extremely shortsighted. We think that someone else is going to take care of it all for us, and that's just not true. Especially on a personal level, doing the right thing early pays off infinitely later.

I'm sure that everyone in this conversation knows somebody who is 30, 40, 50, and for the last however many years they've been talking about how they're going to go back to college and they're going to build a career and they're going to do this and they're going to do that. Fact is, you reach a certain point in your life and it doesn't matter anymore. It takes 40 years to build a 40-year career.

https://video.fbxl.net/w/11up92Vwb8asZqq3iAHY9g

I had a deep fake audiobook made, here is the chapter in question. Proceeding chapter was called "build something" and it talked a lot about the same ideas because I think it's the most important thing that we need to pass on right now. Pop culture values pretend to think ahead but don't. You're busy trying to save the world when they can't even save themselves.

That's a tough question. On one hand, the US is a food exporter and always has been so there's no reason for mass starvation. On the other hand, it really looks like the worst recession ever is imminent. On the other other hand, the US government almost always gives massive handouts when there's a bad recession. On the other other other hand the US has 32 trillion in debt and is already facing high inflation so the next recession may cause a sovereign debt crisis and currency crisis that is the sort of thing where models start to break down. Depending on exactly which direction the leadership decides to go, we could be looking at mass nationalization, or we could be looking at a move towards Mass liberty. We could be looking at hammering through with what worked before anyway so hyperinflation happens. It's really difficult to predict which way things will go because when the things that have worked for so long stop working, suddenly everything's on the table.

Hate is an emotion. The concept of banning an emotion on a communications platform is absurd. You can't do it.

Because it's so broad, everyone is always breaking the TOS, and so they can pick and choose who to ban and who to ignore. That's why on pre-elon twitter it was halal to call for genocide of certain groups but not others.

There's a chapter in my book called "Think ahead", and it has one of the most terrifying passages I've ever written.

"Now finally, imagine that you are one of the few who hits 100. If you are an esteemed family matriarch or patriarch, then maybe you are held with respect by multiple generations of your offspring and their offspring and their offspring’s offspring. Very few people make it past this point, but that moment of your death and the moments leading up to it are going to be defined completely by what you have built. If you have built relationships with your family over a lifetime, then you may be surrounded by loved ones in your final moments. Otherwise, you might be all alone. Starving. Freezing because you have forgotten how to pay the heating bill, or you just do not have the money for it. Living in squalor because you just do not have the energy to deal with the growing mess around you. You will reach out in those final moments for a reassuring hand that will never ever come, because you never built that."

I have to assume I'd have to create a filter to block any links to canadian establishment news sites if this passes. I'm sure that'd be good for Canadian news sites, getting blocked everywhere.

For real. There's so many things that are hard enough to start with, starting with a server back-end that lots of people use and lots of people write documentation for makes the experience so much easier.