Andy

@andyinabox
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Art, software, websites, bikes. Minnesota-born, Barcelona-based.
websitehttps://andydayton.com
pronounshe/him
localeBarcelona
bookwyrmhttps://bookwyrm.social/user/andyinabox
@nasser I thought this was gonna be about making pastries until I revealed the CW 😂

On the back of a very successful 2nd edition, I'm pleased to announce the date for Cloudbreak 3.

Learn how to build-up & secure your own sovereign cloud infrastructure, with powerful alternatives to Google Docs & Drive, Zoom & more, using best practices refined from over 2 decades of server administration.

No engineering or comp-sci background needed.

This is an ideal opportunity to become part of the movement away from BigTech.

Seats are limited.

https://courses.nikau.io/cloudbreak

@mttaggart thanks for posting that, amazing how that one tweet turned into "CEO is a huge Trump supporter." A healthy reminder that Mastodon is just as capable of being an echo chamber for misinformation.
@adam_harvey am I wrong in thinking this change is entirely because of Gaza? Like, not the result of a broader cultural change but an acute side-effect of cultural institutions being unable to confront Israeli state-sanctioned genocide.

"Tenant and labor unions in Minneapolis and St. Paul have announced plans to carry out what they said would be the “largest rent strike in the United States in the last 100 years.”

Beginning on March 1, if Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz does not meet their urgent demands for an eviction moratorium and rent relief, a coalition of nearly 26,000 workers has pledged to withhold rent, which they said could create a massive economic disruption."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/minnesota-rent-strike-ice

Twin Cities Unions Planning ‘Largest US Rent Strike in 100+ Years’ as ICE Occupation Drives Eviction Crisis | Common Dreams

"Tenants in Minnesota are in a crisis," said Minneapolis City Council Member Aisha Chughtai. "The federal invasion forced many of our neighbors to stay home and devastated our local economy."

Common Dreams

@hellocatfood yes no kidding! once I started looking at physical modular synth equipment decided to cut myself off

i only ever recorded this, which is pretty rough: https://soundcloud.com/andyinabox/sets/explanations

i got really interested in playing around with some of the VCV Rack sampler patches

explanations

sketches for simulated modular synth

SoundCloud
@hellocatfood oh man I lost so many hours to that app, more like #vcvcrack

@simon @oxidecomputer @ahl I think what's missing from this is the ethical component of LLM use.

What we've learned since Deep Blue is not just our craft is changing and/or becoming obsolete (depending on how you look at it), but the system responsible is a result of massive IP theft and continues to be extremely harmful to the environment.

This to me is the most demoralizing, that it's becoming impossible to continue my work ethically.

"This is why I suggest we embrace Tr💀 mp’s concept of Nordic socialism, that we make it our own, that we turn it into a signifier of a new, modern, and democratic socialism, inspired by our own experience with socialist ideas that have demonstrated their worthiness throughout our history."

https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/54318/nordic-socialism-shows-the-way-to-a-democratic-economy

Nordic Socialism Shows the Way to a Democratic Economy - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

To fight the far-right threat, the Left needs a compelling — and realistic — socialist alternative

@aparrish but who watches the watchdogs for the watchdogs??