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Is Lemmy your "main social media app"? If not, which one is it?
  • Definitely Instagram.

    While Lemmy is slowly making a dent in my reddit participation, it doesn't do much for other things. I'm involved in IRL politics, food, and the clubbing scene, all stuff that is almost completely absent on the fediverse, especially the American-dominated side of it.

  • What is the weirdest thing you’ve ever seen at a thrift store?
  • A full wallet among other wallets, perfectly disguised. Somebody left it there a few hours before. It was a guy from Scotland on a trip with his friends who went shopping for party clothes. He answered on Instagram (after much stalking) at midnight when I was already inside a club and they were on their way to the club too. So we rendez-vous at 6 AM after clubbing because they had a train at 8AM for another city. They left some joints at my place as a thank you. Also offered some ketch for a, I shit you not, "crunchy landing".

  • Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities
    www.newsweek.com Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities

    Clue vows to safeguard users following the 2024 election amid concerns anti-abortion state laws could allow phone searches for menstrual data.

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    Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities
    www.newsweek.com Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities

    Clue vows to safeguard users following the 2024 election amid concerns anti-abortion state laws could allow phone searches for menstrual data.

    Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities
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    Office dwellers, what software/website or system do you use to keep track of tasks you need to do?
  • I track everything private and professional on Notion.

    I have dedicated databases for

    • tasks, divided by type (reminders, activities, chores), by domain (job, household, politics, writing etc etc), by client, by status
    • calls and meetings I have to set up
    • credits and debits I have open
    • classes and workshops I'm hosting
  • What are some community on Lemmy where tech workers talk about politics/techno-politics, unionizing or other spicy topics?
  • There's a language field in the database to map the language too. The fact that there are only english-speaking communities is a temporary focus, because they allow to reach a broader target, but submissions in other languages are more than welcome. I'm actually not based in an English-speaking country and I'm not a native speaker, so for my own stuff I will eventually start contributing by mapping other spaces.

  • What are some community on Lemmy where tech workers talk about politics/techno-politics, unionizing or other spicy topics?

    Good morning, Lemmy. I come to you with a request for help. We want to crowd-map some communities on Lemmy.

    Since we are on lemmy.ml, I'm taking for granted a degree of political alignment, which probably is not worth discussing in this thread.

    Within the broader context of the Tech Workers Movement, we are building a database of communities, hashtags, influencers, or generally friendly digital spaces in which tech workers, or people generally interested in tech politics and tech unionization, congregate and produce/consume content. The goal is simply to help union organizers, movement builders, theorists, agitators, and really anybody involved in the tech workers movement to discover where to find online tech workers receptive to political content.

    To do so, we have a quickly growing public database that accepts submissions through a form. We also explain the methodology used to curate the database and give hints on how to submit an entry.

    Database

    Form

    We want to focus a bit on expanding the Lemmy section, so feel free to submit your favorite techno-political communities. Communities generally about technology are also fine as long as they accept a degree of mild political content. If you just want to reply to this thread instead of submitting the form, it is also fine and we can have a discussion going and you can directly share your relevant communities with the other users.

    Thanks in advance for your answers ^^

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    Automate posting to Lemmy through no-code tools

    Hello.

    I was developing a system/tutorial on how to build a self-hosted, collaborative content circulation no-code setup, using nocodb and n8n.

    n8n does not yet support lemmy, not even through community nodes.

    I can try to go through the API using the HTTP node, but I wanted to ask if there's some tutorial with examples that I can use, because so far most of the documentation I've found is focused on building alternative clients and that's a lot of overhead, especially in how I'm supposed to handle the credentials.

    That said, I'm opening this postly mostly to see if there would be interest in developing a community node. This should be a quite easy project for anybody familiar with Lemmy and Lemmy's REST API. Here's a community node for mastodon, that looks quite close to what Lemmy's community node could look like.

    https://github.com/n8n-community-node/n8n-nodes-mastodon/tree/master/nodes/Mastodon

    It's mostly a matter of specifying a bunch of metadata about the fields of the node, and implement a few calls to the API. I know some TS and JS but they are not my strongest language. If somebody is willing to lead this effort though, I could contribute some code and some design documents.

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    Tech Workers Coalition: Adapting the Labor Movement for the Digital Age - The Blockchain Socialist
  • are you familiar with left-wing blockchain and that whole strand of research or you just talk because you have no clue about the fact that there's always been plenty of anti-capitalist and post-capitalist in the blockchain scene?

  • Tech Workers Coalition: Adapting the Labor Movement for the Digital Age - The Blockchain Socialist
  • There's a lot of lefitsts spaces in the blockchain. While they are minoritarian, they have a distinct political agenda and set of values, separate from most of the web3 world. They either envision the usage of blockchain for local economies (an evolution of circular economy and local currencies that were popular in the 90's and 2000s), or more global scale realignment of incentives, either through socialist market economies or more planning-oriented solutions.

  • Google backed Israel’s military. Now its workers are in revolt
  • I know people that occupied the offices. They were perfectly aware they would be fired and the people selected for the action were the least vulnerable economically, because retaliation was certain. Anything else is journalistic spin.

  • Kurzgesagt giving us a hopeful glimpse of a Solarpunk world
  • solarpunk is inherently utopian. Utopias exist to inspire and to reflect on the present. It tells us that there can be a social system in which technology is good, but then if to be optimistic or not is very subjective. Many pessimistic people like utopias exactly because they highlight the ugliness of reality.

  • The lengthy story of how I left the Tech industry and started washing miso jars
    write.as The lengthy story of how I left the Tech industry and started washing miso jars

    Workers these days are quitting the Tech industry in droves. They are quitting their programmer or sysadmin job, or maybe just the startu...

    The lengthy story of how I left the Tech industry and started washing miso jars
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    The lengthy story of how I left the Tech industry and started washing miso jars
    write.as The lengthy story of how I left the Tech industry and started washing miso jars

    Workers these days are quitting the Tech industry in droves. They are quitting their programmer or sysadmin job, or maybe just the startu...

    The lengthy story of how I left the Tech industry and started washing miso jars
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    Kurzgesagt giving us a hopeful glimpse of a Solarpunk world
  • The core difference between longtermism and solarpunk is that longtermism stems from an utilitarian frame, while solarpunk rejects it. Radical utilitarianism like longtermist fashos and oligarchs gives them a way out to commit the worst crimes against humanity because of a supposed good that will materialize in a distant future. It's a moral free pass, exploiting the life of future humans (who cannot protest) to justify the oppression and exploitation of current humans (who are indeed protesting these assholes).

    Solarpunk and longtermism are in no way on the same spectrum.

  • Circuit Breakers -- A Conference for Workers Organizing in Tech - SF, 12/13 October
    techworkerscoalition.org Circuit Breakers -- A Conference for Workers Organizing in Tech

    Circuit Breakers is a conference for organizers and activists in the tech industry to come together and learn, build community, strategize, and recognize our collective power. It will be held October 12-13, 2024, in San Francisco.

    Circuit Breakers -- A Conference for Workers Organizing in Tech
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    United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml chobeat @lemmy.ml
    Kamala Harris Will Lose - Yasmin Nair
    yasminnair.com Kamala Harris Will Lose - Yasmin Nair

    I know this goes against the popular narrative about Kamala Harris, especially after the recently concluded Democratic National Convention (DNC). But I think she is headed for a loss, and that we may well see a repeat of 2016. I thought of adding “probably” to the title, but matters are pretty stark...

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    A Critical Reading list on Tech && (Politics × Society × Ethics)
    github.com GitHub - chobeat/awesome-critical-tech-reading-list: A reading list for the modern critical programmer

    A reading list for the modern critical programmer - GitHub - chobeat/awesome-critical-tech-reading-list: A reading list for the modern critical programmer

    GitHub - chobeat/awesome-critical-tech-reading-list: A reading list for the modern critical programmer
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    A Critical Reading list on Tech && (Politics × Society × Ethics)
    github.com GitHub - chobeat/awesome-critical-tech-reading-list: A reading list for the modern critical programmer

    A reading list for the modern critical programmer - GitHub - chobeat/awesome-critical-tech-reading-list: A reading list for the modern critical programmer

    GitHub - chobeat/awesome-critical-tech-reading-list: A reading list for the modern critical programmer
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    A Critical Reading list on Tech && (Politics × Society × Ethics)
    github.com GitHub - chobeat/awesome-critical-tech-reading-list: A reading list for the modern critical programmer

    A reading list for the modern critical programmer - GitHub - chobeat/awesome-critical-tech-reading-list: A reading list for the modern critical programmer

    GitHub - chobeat/awesome-critical-tech-reading-list: A reading list for the modern critical programmer
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