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# 🎉 Project Cornerstones: Your Footsteps, Our Future! 🎉 Feeling fiery and passionate about a cause but don’t know where to start? Look no further! Project Cornerstones, in collaboration with the Pima County Democratic Party, is here to fan the flames of change in Tucson! 🌿 ## **What is Project Cornerstones?** Like the Sonoran monsoon, impactful change often starts with small, isolated showers before growing into large storms. We're all about micro-protests—powerful, intimate gatherings of fewer than a dozen folks. Show the world that even the smallest crowd can create mighty storms! --- ## **How You Can Get Involved** ### **Crafters** Are you the creative type? Turn your artistry into activism! Design ready-to-use signs, and assemble protest packs specifically for our desert climate, complete with water and sunscreen. Add your unique flair and post your contact info in our “Maker Directory” thread! ### **Cornerstones** Ready to protest but need a hand? Just pick a corner and post a request for materials. Include the date, time, and location of your micro-protest. Get connected and get started! ### **Patrons (Honorary Role)** Can’t create or participate directly? No worries! Support the cause by donating crafting tools, poster boards, sunscreen, and bottled water. --- ## **Join the Conversation** Discuss the best mesquite-shaded, high-visibility spots for protests, coordinate with fellow activists, and share anything related to micro-protesting. Ready to rock the revolution? Join us at [tucson.social/c/cornerstones](https://tucson.social/c/cornerstones) Let’s turn up the heat of change right here in Tucson! Be the change today! 🌵

So, as y'all know. I made a call to action to protest the Supreme Court Ruling. As part of this, I reached out to multiple local political organizations. The Pima County Democratic party was pretty excited to work with me. And we'll be having some mutual announcements soon about some neat things we're doing together. However, contrasting this with the Tucson DSA is stark. They absolutely refused any sort of solidarity because I had placed some initial rules about not protesting Bidens nomination right now. It's not that I don't believe in that cause (I do!), its that I want to keep the protests from falling to the same issues as Occupy by keeping a narrow focus with specific talking points. They essentially refused to talk about it at all and walked away. Folks, to build power, we have to work together. And if we assume everyone else is extremely rigid and walk away any time something even slightly challenges your personal truth, we're all worse for it. We must be open to the fact that compromise is possible The Democratic Socialists of America will fail to build power. They are too extreme, too dogmatic, and are extremely hostile to even having conversations. They don't build much for anyone except themselves and rely on performance to communicate their virtue. What was so hard about having a conversation with me on this? I wasn't stating these decisions were final in any way. Yet they weaponized one condition to cast this site as ideological enemies. I was totally down to be like "Well, how about we protest Joe Biden on X day?". Yet we couldn't even get that far because the Tucson DSA slammed the door in my face. So yeah, I used to donate to them, I even used to like them. But they have failed as a political entity and will continue to fail because they would rather have virtue to signal than to actually build something in the community they are apart of. I don't understand The Democratic Socialists of America's insistence on turning small disagreements into reasons to not work with allied parties. I formally denounce their performative bullshit and purity testing. EDIT: Cooled a bit, and decided and use less expletives and refined the conclusion.

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cross-posted from: https://tucson.social/post/858973 > > > > Independence Day falls on Thursday this year. Tucson, state and federal offices will be closed, except for trash collection and emergency services. Most transportation services will run on a Sunday schedule and you can reach prime fireworks viewing spots with the Sun Link streetcar. >

Esta es una convocatoria oficial para TODOS los residentes de Tucson - liberales o conservadores. **CUÁNDO:** - ***Hoy*** - 4PM-7PM - ***Jueves*** - 4PM-7PM - ***Sábado*** - 2PM-8PM **DÓNDE:** - ***Hoy*** - Banqueta frente a la sede del Partido Demócrata del Condado de Pima - (Trasladarse al Parque Himmel si está muy concurrido) - ***Jueves*** - Banqueta frente a la sede del Partido Demócrata del Condado de Pima - (Trasladarse al Parque Himmel si está muy concurrido) - ***Sábado*** - Parque Himmel **DIRECCIONES:** - **Sede de Campaña del Partido Demócrata del Condado de Pima** - 2302 E Speedway Blvd Suite 106, Tucson, AZ 85719 - **Parque Himmel** - 1000 N Tucson Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85716 **POR QUÉ:** > "Más allá del destino de esta acusación en particular, las consecuencias a largo plazo de la decisión de hoy son graves. La Corte efectivamente crea una zona libre de leyes alrededor del Presidente, alterando el status quo que ha existido desde la Fundación. Esta nueva inmunidad por actos oficiales ahora 'yace como un arma cargada' para cualquier Presidente que desee poner sus propios intereses, su supervivencia política o su beneficio financiero por encima de los intereses de la Nación. El Presidente de los Estados Unidos es la persona más poderosa del país, y posiblemente del mundo. Cuando usa sus poderes oficiales de cualquier manera, según el razonamiento de la mayoría, ahora estará aislado de la persecución penal. ¿Ordena al Equipo 6 de los Navy Seals asesinar a un rival político? Inmune. ¿Organiza un golpe militar para aferrarse al poder? Inmune. ¿Acepta un soborno a cambio de un indulto? Inmune. Inmune, inmune, inmune. Dejen que el Presidente viole la ley, dejen que explote los atributos de su cargo para beneficio personal, dejen que use su poder oficial para fines malvados. Porque si supiera que algún día podría enfrentar responsabilidades por violar la ley, podría no ser tan audaz y valiente como nos gustaría que fuera. Ese es el mensaje de la mayoría hoy. Incluso si estos escenarios de pesadilla nunca se materializan, y ruego que nunca lo hagan, el daño ya está hecho. La relación entre el Presidente y el pueblo al que sirve ha cambiado irrevocablemente. En cada uso del poder oficial, el Presidente es ahora un rey por encima de la ley. > >La fijación obstinada de la mayoría en la necesidad del Presidente de ser audaz y expedito ignora la necesidad contrapuesta de rendición de cuentas y restricción. Los Fundadores no eran tan obstinados. En los Documentos Federalistas, después de 'esforzarse por mostrar' que el Ejecutivo diseñado por la Constitución 'combina... todos los requisitos para la energía', Alexander Hamilton planteó una pregunta separada e igualmente importante: '¿Combina también los requisitos para la seguridad, en un sentido republicano, una debida dependencia del pueblo, una debida responsabilidad?' El Federalista No. 77, p. 507 (ed. J. Harvard Library 2009). La respuesta entonces era sí, basada en parte en la vulnerabilidad del Presidente a 'ser procesado en el curso común de la ley'. Ibíd. La respuesta después de hoy es no. Nunca en la historia de nuestra República un Presidente ha tenido razones para creer que sería inmune a un proceso penal si usara los atributos de su cargo para violar la ley penal. En adelante, sin embargo, todos los ex Presidentes estarán revestidos de tal inmunidad. Si el ocupante de ese cargo hace mal uso del poder oficial para beneficio personal, la ley penal que el resto de nosotros debe acatar no proporcionará un respaldo. Con temor por nuestra democracia, disiento." > >--Jueza Sotomayor **QUÉ TRAER:** - Agua - Bocadillos - Protector solar - Paraguas o impermeables (en caso de lluvia) - Carteles protestando contra la decisión de inmunidad de la Corte Suprema - A ti mismo y quizás a uno o tres amigos. **QUÉ NO TRAER:** - Ningún cartel que no proteste contra la inmunidad de la Corte Suprema u otra decisión reciente. - Eso significa no protestar contra Biden como candidato. Deja eso para otro día. - Armas (improvisadas o de otro tipo) ***Nota***: Esta traducción al español fue creada con la asistencia de inteligencia artificial y puede contener errores. Por favor, reporte cualquier error de traducción a u/th3raid0r o th3raid0r@tucson.social.

This is an official call to action for ALL Tucson residents - liberal or conservative. **WHEN:** - ***Today*** - 4PM-7PM - ***Thursday (July 4th / Independence Day)*** - 4PM-7PM - ***Saturday*** - 2PM-8PM **WHERE:** - ***Today*** - Sidewalk in front of Pima County Democratic Headquarters - (Move to Himmel Park if too crowded) - ***Thursday (July 4th / Independence Day)*** - Sidewalk in front of Pima County Democratic Headquarters - (Move to Himmel Park if too crowded) - ***Saturday*** - Himmel Park **ADDRESSES:** - **Pima County Democratic Campaign Headquarters** - 2302 E Speedway Blvd Suite 106, Tucson, AZ 85719 - **Himmel Park** - 1000 N Tucson Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85716 **WHY:** > "Looking beyond the fate of this particular prosecution, the long-term consequences of today’s decision are stark. The Court effectively creates a law-free zone around the President, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the Founding. This new official-acts immunity now “lies about like a loaded weapon” for any President that wishes to place his own interests, his own political survival, or his own financial gain, above the interests of the Nation. The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune. Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority’s message today. Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law. > >The majority’s single-minded fixation on the President’s need for boldness and dispatch ignores the countervailing need for accountability and restraint. The Framers were not so single-minded. In the Federalist Papers, after “endeavor[ing] to show” that the Executive designed by the Constitution “combines . . . all the requisites to energy,” Alexander Hamilton asked a separate, equally important question: “Does it also combine the requisites to safety, in a republican sense, a due dependence on the people, a due responsibility?” The Federalist No. 77, p. 507 (J. Harvard Li- brary ed. 2009). The answer then was yes, based in part upon the President’s vulnerability to “prosecution in the common course of law.” Ibid. The answer after today is no. Never in the history of our Republic has a President had reason to believe that he would be immune from criminal prosecution if he used the trappings of his office to violate the criminal law. Moving forward, however, all former Presidents will be cloaked in such immunity. If the occupant of that office misuses official power for personal gain, the criminal law that the rest of us must abide will not provide a backstop. With fear for our democracy, I dissent." > >--Justice Sotomayor **WHAT TO BRING:** - Water - Snacks - Sunscreen - Umbrellas or Raincoats (in case of rain) - Signs protesting the SC immunity decision - Yourself and perhaps a friend or 3. **WHAT NOT TO BRING:** - Any signs that aren't protesting the SC immunity or other recent decision. - That means no protesting Biden as the candidate. Leave that for another day. - Weapons (improvised or otherwise)

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Technically older than I'd like to post, but this information hasn't been posted before, and I was surprised to learn that, despite the lease cancellations that made the news, there's still a lot more alfalfa megafarms we need to deal with.

Just a quick reminder of the actions that are within our locus of control. We can: - Email our local and state level Democratic party orgs and representatives expressing our alarm and urgent need for a new candidate. - Protest in front of local and state level Democratic campaign offices expressing our alarm and urgent need for a better candidate. - Provide extreme feedback in polls and surveys. The DNC is very data driven, and if their internal polling goes south, it could very well force a change. - Vote for the candidate we have. There's probably more, but I've done #1, and am planning to do #2. Feel free to join in - the more voices, the louder the message. The local Democrat Party office can be reached by email at info@pimadems.org. Mark Kelly can be reached with this form [here](https://www.kelly.senate.gov/contact/contact-form/). Mail correspondence and in-person appeals and protesting should occur at the Pima County Democratic Party headquarters located at **2302 E Speedway Blvd Suite 106, Tucson, AZ 85719.**

Gaming th3raid0r • 3 months ago • 100%

As in title, my father is an American nomad, and he just recently got a spot with good internet signal for a few months. He hasn't really played in years, and the last game he really enjoyed was Warface and Novalogic's Joint Operations: Combined Arms. There is a bit of a twist though, his vision certainly isn't what it used to be, so whatever game I suggest needs accessibility options galore. I found a really good "singleplayer only" experience in Ravenfield and the style lends itself very well to my father's limited vision. Is there something like Ravenfield but with a well supported online component? Perhaps Battlebit: Remastered is pretty close? EDIT: I suppose the genre is better described a "mil-sim" than "tactical shooter". UPDATE: Someone recommended the latest Insurgency game. After realizing my father had over 1K hours in the previous Insurgency game I realized that this was the game to get. Turns out it was a good choice! That's where most of my father's online buddies ended up! Thanks all! Feel free to keep recommending things, but we already seem to have a winner!

Again, the names are: - Clint Bolick - Kathryn Hackett King While you're here, I encourage you to also [sign the petition](https://arizonaforabortionaccess.org/sign-the-petition/) to get Abortion Access on November's ballot. Already signed? [Donations are always welcome!](https://secure.actblue.com/donate/arizona-for-abortion-access-1?refcode=website) EDIT - I keep butchering the title. 😢 If I see issues with this one. I'ma wait a bit and assume I'm having a bad brain day. Sorry if you've been "spammed" by my edits/reposts.

Image Caption: A picture of an Arizona sunset, featuring Sonoran Desert plants casting a silhouette in front of a dazzling sky featuring bright oranges, pinks, and purples over the layered and complex cloud formations. Taken on a Google Pixel 7 Pro - 02/27/2024

Android th3raid0r • 9 months ago • 96%

Obviously this is still a _Pixel_ issue - but at least I can connect to my home Wifi again. I previously posted saying that Wifi was broken in general, but I mistook my ongoing Xfinity outage as being unable to connect to any wifi. Thus I removed the post. When the outage ended, I could connect to some other networks and couldn't figure out why. It wasn't until after a painful factory reset process that I tried going from WPA3/WPA2 mode to just WPA2 on both of my APs and suddenly everything is able to connect again. It seems that the recent OTA update borked WPA3-Personal in a way that doesn't allow it to navigate the "compatibility mode" of WPA3/WPA2 either. Edit - Looks like this might even be something Verizon specific - UQ1A-20231205.015.A1 Edit2 - Also mine is a Pixel 7 Pro - a Pixel 6 Pro user reports no such issue - YMMV.

Entertainment th3raid0r • 10 months ago • 100%

I just realized that every streaming platform seems to have a couple heavy-hitter big-budget sci-fi series these days. Most of them turn out to be critically acclaimed as well. Sure, we all know that there are Star Trek fans who dislike Discovery and Picard, or Foundation fans who dislike Apple's adaptation. Even though much of what is on TV is still decades-old franchises, it seems that we're getting more _original_ sci-fi along with it. - Scavengers Reign - For All Mankind - Invasion - Cyberpunk: Edgeruners - Tales from the Loop I could go on... No longer is it simply a single channel on cable tv that was also 50/50 with horror content, plus Star Trek and a handful of others that other networks syndicated. Today there's a rich tapestry of new ideas, concepts, and just plain art in media that was normally reserved for paperbacks published by Tor and others. Don't get me wrong, I still love me some SG1, TNG, DS9, B5, and others - all shows I grew up with; but I'm so happy that we get so much more now!

Linux th3raid0r • 10 months ago • 88%

Other Arch Flavors I've tried (some are no longer with us) include: - ArchBang - EndeavourOS - Manjaro - Chakra So with that out of the way, I've found my Garuda experience incredibly painful. From messy repositories (Chaotic-AUR plus their own stuff), to an overly involved upgrade process (when using the helper) - the distro screams of a team that has no freakin' clue how to maintain an actual distribution. It's basically Arch on hard mode with so many settings rolled into their own packages which need to be removed before customization. Then we get to the purported performance enhancements and, honestly, this is the worst performing distro I've ever used, by multiple miles. I'm not sure if its the scheduler settings, or something with the zram settings - but this distro hitches and hangs constantly. (5950x, 64GB of Ram, Samsung 980 Pro drives, NVIDIA RTX 3080Ti - NOT a weak machine by any standards) I'd normally chalk it up to compositor issues on Wayland (yes, I prefer Wayland and it works fine for most Arch derivitaves even with Nvidia). However the performance issues even crop up on basic terminal commands on a TTY with lots of weird hangs and lags. The ONLY thing that was easier on this distro was installing the various Proton GE builds and other specialty stuff found in the Chaotic-AUR. But given the above, it's definitely not worth it when one can configure an Arch box to do the same things without all of the problems. Perhaps I'm not doing something right? Given all the praise for this distro, perhaps it shouldn't perform like this? To be completely and utterly clear - I'm an advanced user trying out these distros for fun and discovery. I can indeed "just use a different distro" but wanted to give this one a fair shake before moving on.

"Sorry we're out of that one." Probably starts before 7PM or something. Definitely wasn't worth the parking pain.

Neurodivergence th3raid0r • 10 months ago • 100%

As an AuDHD person with Echolalalalalalalalalia 🙃, I find that my accent/idiolect has changed as I've aged and been exposed to different accents of all types in the U.S.. I just kinda pick up certain things I like. For example I like: - The British pronunciation/spelling of Aluminium and Banana - The Irish pronunciation of three (my grandfather who was not at all born in Ireland also used it though) - Upper Midwest sayings and phrases - Ope!, Oh ya sure! - Extended "Wwweeeelp"s - I bounce ALL around my register in speaking sometimes. I've sometimes been described as sing-songy. But also dislike certain aspects of things and seek to avoid them at all costs.... - Cot/Caught, Pen/Pin - NO MERGERS! Ever. They *must* be different sounds. - Glottal Stops in place of consonants are a no go - pronounce the whole thing dang it! There's a whole lot more of course, but I need to finish this post so I can go be an unregulated mess after a long (and particularly annoying) day of work. So what about y'all? I'm super curious to know!

### Hi all! ##### Do we need a /c/news and/or /c/politics? I know it's kinda confusing. After all, where else have you been getting local news and politics all this time? But those communities are actually /c/localnews and /c/tucsonpolitics. So here's the dillemma - we get *far* more engagement on national-level news. Yet that's technically against the rules here. So what should we do? Should we open up new communities for national level discourse? I think I floated the idea before but the community was generally against it at the time. Many of the people engaging are Tucsonans operating from other instances, which I think is super cool and shows that there is value in people having a local forum to discuss national news and politics. --- ### On the future of tucson.social: ##### I think the future lies with Mbin, not Lemmy. For those who aren't a complete FOSS nerd like me - Mbin is a fork of Kbin that, in their own words: > Mbin is focused on what the community wants, pull requests can be merged by any repo owner (with merge rights in GitHub). Discussions take place on Matrix then consensus has to be reached by the community. If approved by the community, only one approval on the PR is required by one of the Mbin maintainers. It's built entirely on trust. In short - it's moving faster than Kbin ever was in feature contributions and has even overtaken Lemmy in terms of daily merges. I expect that it could be the dominant "threadiverse" platform in a few years and I think that's where tucson.social will need to be. Right now that's unfeasible, since that would mean essentially abandoning the instance and starting fresh, so I'm looking into ways to migrate everything over - so everyone isn't required to sign up again. Then there's the mobile client compatibility. Perhaps Mbin will have a lemmy compatible API layer somewhere in the future. Perhaps mobile clients will catch up. Either way, that also requires more time. Suffice it to say, tucson.social isn't moving to Mbin anytime this year, or even early next year. In the meantime, I'll probably try to reason out my own lemmy>mbin migration script to speed things along. --- So what say you, tucson.social users/contributors? TL;DR - Do we need communities for national level discourse here at tucson.social? Also, we're planning to eventually move to Mbin and I'm keeping folks informed about those plans.

Programming th3raid0r • 11 months ago • 100%

A bit more context there since you might wonder why customers can cause Sev1's. Well, I work for a Database Technology company and we provide a managed service offering. This managed service offering has SLA's that essentially enforce a 5 minute response time for any "urgent" issue. Well, a common urgent issue is that the customer suddenly wants to load in a bunch of new data without informing us which causes the cluster to stop accepting write loads. It's to the point where _most_ if not all urgent pages result in some form of scaling of the cluster. Since this is a customer driven behavior, there is no real ability to plan for it - and since these particular customers have special requirements (and thus, less ability to automate scaling operations), I'm unsure if there is any recourse here. It's to the point that it doesn't even feel like an SRE team anymore - we should just instead be called "On-demand scaling agents". Since we're constantly trying to scale ahead of our customers. All in all, I'm starting to feel like this is a management/sales level issue that I cannot possibly address. If we're selling this managed service offering as essentially "magic" that can be scaled whenever they need then it seems like we're being setup for failure at the organizational level. Not to mention, not being smart about costs behind scaling and factoring that into these contracts. So, fellow SRE's have you had to have this conversation with a larger org? What works for something like this? What doesn't? Should I just seek greener pastures at this point? P.S. - Posted c/Programming due to lack of a c/SRE

Autism th3raid0r • 11 months ago • 93%

I've tried foam earplugs, but those are impossible to use socially as everything's too muddy. Also they'd end up sliding out eventually. I eventually bought audiophile grade earplugs and they are FANTASTIC but the flange tips irritate my ears so bad. I know circumaural headphones work great, but people have a harder time understanding I'm just using them as a filter to even hear them.

Hello all! While it's 13 months and some change away, I think its important to emphasize our rules and code of conduct before things get too heated. **Post Rules:** 1. **Local and Arizona Politics only** *All posts must be directly related to and have a significant involvement/impact on any of:* >- Policy. This includes any discussion of specific governmental policies or the development of such policies. Government policy can be developed at any level of government (from elected school board to the Arizona Legislature). It also includes court decisions which either create law itself (appellate court decisions) or involve the government. >- Electioneering. This includes polling, events directly pertaining to elections, and discussion of candidates and political parties, including their platforms and policies. >- Politician Capacity. Any incident or potential incident that could prevent a current politician from serving in their capacity in government (e.g. death, injury/sickness, criminal prosecution or resignation) is topical. We consider politicians to be either (1) elected members of government; or (2) members of government confirmed/voted on by elected members of government. >- Advocacy. Any efforts to influence or promote a position on the above 3 areas of topicality. This includes protests, demonstrations and the positions and advocacy of interest groups. >- Pertinent New Reporting. New articles that cover previously unreported details of past events which both would have been topical if reported when they occurred and have a clear connection to current Arizona or local politics or future elections. Analysis, editorializing, or speculation on prior events with no newly reported facts is not covered under this clause, even if there is a link to current Arizona or local politics. All posts must at least have a significant internal discussion or focus about current Arizona or Tucson politics as defined above. Therefore, if only a small part of an article contains topical discussion, it may still be considered off-topic. *The following are some common examples of inherently off-topic content:* >- Nonpolitical actions of politicians or their relatives, meaning (1) anything a politician does that doesn't impact one of the 4 areas of politics defined above, (2) discussion of the non-political actions of a politician's relatives. >- National level politics that doesn't explicitly impact Arizona or Tucson. Even if the macro impact is significant. 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Tabletop Gaming th3raid0r • 1 year ago • 100%

Not much to say quite yet, but the book is REALLY nice and compliments the offset print version of Stars Without Number quite nicely.

Tabletop Gaming th3raid0r • 1 year ago • 100%

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Hi All, For those of you using FoundryVTT, here's the latest pre-release of my fork of PepjinMC's FoundryVTT-AI-Description-Generator. For those who haven't heard of it, it's a neat module that allows users in your FoundryVTT instance to get quick descriptions of characters, items, and actions with a single button click. Initially it only supported the D&D system, but my fork extends it to work with any system, provided you know the mappings. For D&D mappings see the settings on my merge-back branch - https://github.com/th3raid0r/FoundryVTT-AI-Description-Generator/blob/dnd-mergeback/scripts/settings.js For other mappings, you'll likely need to poke around the data yourself and update things manually. If you do this, please send me your system and mappings so I can begin to create a library for less technical folks. Hope it's useful to some GM's out there! I use it almost every session!

Hello all! After our first few months of operation, I can now confidently put a number on the time and monetary costs of running this site. First off, right now tucson.social is entirely funded, operated, and moderated by one person - me. I'd like to expand that team to include more people who can volunteer some time. I won't be asking for donations unless the hosting/time costs are too great - but as it stands, this is affordable for me. Okay, so let's break down the costs into a few categories: 1. Setup expense in man hours 2. Domain expenses 3. OCI infrastructure expenses 4. Cloudflare Infrastructure expenses 5. Maintenance expense in man hours 6. Moderation expense in man hours 7. Miscellaneous expenses # 1 - Setup expenses in man hours The first week was about 30 hours of getting everything working how I wanted. A more simple configuration could've been had much faster, but I wanted a bit more security than that provides. The second week of working out all the kinks between cloudflare and my origin server was another 16 hours or so. **Total, about 46-50 hours I guess?** # 2 - Domain expenses - tucson.social costs 110 USD/yr - tucson.chat (yet to be launched) costs around 40 USD/yr These costs will be incurred again sooner rather than later since I'll be transferring my domains to porkbun instead of letting Google transfer them to Squarespace. For this year, **TOTAL: $300** For other years (hopefully) **TOTAL: $150** # 3 - OCI Infrastructure costs Early on, I used block volumes to back the image storage - this was _expensive_ and wasn't worth the performance benefits due to CDN caching at the edge. I eventually converted to object storage. The compute instance's size is about "medium-ish" and the burst settings are a bit aggressive to claw back some savings. So far this is more than sufficient for our needs, and we haven't run into any notable performance issues. Before the conversion, the infrastructure had a price tag of $55 USD/mo (assuming 30 days) After the conversion, the infrastructure is a much more reasonable **total of $35 USD/mo.** # 4 - Cloudflare infrastructure costs - $25 USD/mo for the Pro Subscription - $5 USD/mo to enable Argo routing - roughly 100GB of data transfer for $10 USD/mo **Totaling $40 USD** a month, give or take. # 5 - Maintenance expense in man hours Very low. Sometimes I do muck something up during an update, but I typically only spend about 8 hours a month maintaining the actual server infrastructure. Another 8 hours are spent looking over cloudflare to mitigate any DDOS attacks. So yeah, **16 hours** a month *maybe*. # 6 - Moderation expense in man hours Almost none, maybe 4 hours a month total, most spent removing duplicate newsbot posts. The smaller instance doesn't require much, if any, moderation at the moment. # 7 - Miscellaneous expenses and totals There have likely been a few small fees that I've forgotten about, but likely not exceeding a **$20 dollars** or so. ***Projected average monthly spend:*** $85-$90* \* - yearly costs averaged in ***Average yearly spend:*** $1020-$1080 --- # On wanting moderators at this time. My desire for moderators at this point has less to do with actual work to do, and more to do with not only having myself to talk over moderation decisions with. It's difficult figuring out what people want, and another moderator (or few) could be an important balance to my moderation style.

thisistucson.com

cross-posted from: https://tucson.social/post/85984 > A HUGE guide for University of Arizona students that includes local places to see, things to do and places to eat while in Tucson.

Chicago th3raid0r • 1 year ago • 100%

So, back when I was about 9/10 ish (1999) I remember going to museum with my grandparents that contained a few key things that stood with me over 2 decades later. The first, and creepiest was an animatronic of a homeless/drug addict in an alley or on a bench. This is the “anchor” memory, it’s hard to forget such a creepy thing. The second was a more hands on focused kids area where I spent a majority of my time. The last was a restaurant with some TVs installed around the eating area somewhere in the building - I distinctly seeing ads for the new Tarzan movie, so I’m thinking this was the summer of 99ish. It could also have been the Chicago Childrens Museum, but when looking at older pictures absolutely nothing stands out to me as memorable - additionally they don’t have any on-site restaurants that I can see from my research. After lots of internet sleuthing, I think but can’t confirm, that it is the Museum of Science and Industry. Some of the pictures of some of the exhibits seem really familiar. I suppose the key thing preventing my brain from saying “This is the one” is lack of anyone else mentioning such an animatronic at any of these places. I asked my grandma, but she’s pretty deep in dementia and doesn’t really recall those experiences anymore. 😢 So /c/Chicago, are any of you old enough to remember such an exhibit from 99? If so, what museum was that?

Hello all, Last week I asked the community for feedback in regards to the newsbot, whether it's useful, and if it should stay as it is. I didn't get much feedback, but the little I did get was negative or ambivalent about it. Thus I've decided to go with my "gut" here and make the following changes: **REMOVE**: - tucson.com feeds in localnews, and localpolitics, and the non-functioning one for localsports. - tucsonsentinel.com feeds in localnews. Reason - Tucson.com's feed is very messy, contains many duplicates and "updated" articles (after a gunman is caught, for example), and most of the articles are paywalled anyways. Additionally, I want to return localnews entirely back to the users. Y'all get to decide what's newsworthy now. **KEEP**: - tucsonsentinel.com feed for localpolitics - thisistucson feed for home/tucson.social Reason - Keeping up with local politics, particularly city council stuff, local elections, and other stuff is painfully boring, but incredibly important to keep up with. I think a bot here makes sense. As for thisistucson - it's not that noisy and is incredibly useful for someone who just wants to know about all the events going on. Much of what this feed posts was getting duplicated in localnews because the links are technically different between the feeds. Removing the localnews feed, should help a LOT with those duplicates. --- **Feedback** Please provide feedback in this thread if this is still too much bot. Given how many people upvote newsbot articles, it's not clear that the bot is 100% bad for all people. Thus the changes above represent a good-faith attempt to meet somewhere in the middle.

It does seem like it was manageable with just one feed, but adding tucson.com to news and politics seems like a mistake in hindsight. My intent was to make it easier for everyone to find local news in those relevant channels without having to go through the process of searching for and sharing the article themselves. However, a thread over at beehaw suggested I was really saturating their feeds with tucson news in a way that was unwelcome and inauthentic. We have grown, and people are beginning to post their own content here, should the bot stay or go? We can also just cut down the amount of feeds we're subscribed to. I just thought I needed to be more balanced, by offering at least one more source alongside Tucson Sentinel. That being said, when we were _just_ subscribed to Tucson Sentinel, the rest of the fediverse didn't seem to mind due to the less hectic pace of their posts. So that's an option as well. Alternatively, and this is the one I'm leaning towards the most. I'll keep the thisistucson.com feed for the home page, that's been fairly useful and matches the /r/Tucson precedent. I'll also keep the Tucson Sentinel local politics feed, it's been VERY good at keeping people informed of upcoming civic duties and I think that's a very important thing a bot can do. Help us with the boring crap! That would return the news feed back to the users entirely and reduce the politics feed by a lot. Thoughts? Suggestions?

Entomology th3raid0r • 1 year ago • 100%

Spent some time looking for what specific bumblebee, digger bee, or carpenter bee this might be. Couldn't figure it out.

Repost from my non-admin account. The internet access is terrible at the cabins.

Repost from my non-admin account. The internet access is terrible at the cabins.

It was definitely of worth the buckets of sweat lost today. (I mean, the playful beaver in the riparian exhibit also made it worth it!)

Taken on my pixel, it's certainly not the best sunset, but happy I saw it anyways!

Music th3raid0r • 1 year ago • 100%

Currently inspired by a discussion on the beehaw discord. The three I always end up listening to are: 1. Heilung 2. Ensiferum 3. Falkenbach

Tried to post it day-of but couldn't due to mobile issues. Kinda wish I could've found a more scenic view, but oh well!

DevOps th3raid0r • 1 year ago • 100%

leanpub.com

No Idea if this will be a permanent coupon link, but figured I should share here. [source](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeff-geerling-086bb2a_redhat-ansible-opensource-activity-7080325079372361728-URnA?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop)

Autism th3raid0r • 1 year ago • 100%

So yeah, anyone else have a harder time getting out of bed than should be reasonable? Like, sure I have insomnia issues at times, but most of the time I'm fine on the falling asleep end - it's just getting up that's difficult. First - I don't think my ADHD part of my brain wants to let go of all the fantastic things that happen in lucid dreams. Second - no matter what I do, I never seem to feel rested in the morning anymore. Weekends can see me sleeping 10+ hours before I feel a semblance of "normal". Some might say "oh you should just get up and get started" and I do sometimes! But you just might find me dozing off in a chair a couple hours later. FWIW - It's been like this most of my adult life. Ever since adolescence particularly. You could find me napping, completely upright, in the back of a classroom. (My teachers never cared because I'd still come in the next day and ace the finals/midterms). I desperately miss the perceived energy of my youth. I'd be up at 4AM to watch super early cartoons (Sonic, Sailor Moon, Animaniacs - in that order) and never felt the need for a nap in the day. It wouldn't even matter if I feel asleep late back then - getting up was just that much easier. Anyone here with similar issues? How do you cope?