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Is there a webplatform for searching the items of local shops? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

At least in the cannabis industry here, they have a piece of software that they use to submit their inventories to the state. My current plan is to look into incorporating my system into that so I get accurate reports that are required by law to be done anyway.

I’d love to discuss further the pitfalls of my idea and any special considerations I might need to make.

Is there a webplatform for searching the items of local shops? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I’m not sure yet TBH, but you’re welcome to help or build your own.
I intend to make it an entirely free and open source platform that allows retailers to broadcast their inventory to aggregators. No ads just like Lemmy, though I suppose that the feed itself serves as kind of an ad.

It was intended for the cannabis industry. Then the plan was to roll it out to the rest of the retail world when it has evolved enough.

There’s also veilid.

I even started a community here: https://infosec.pub/c/lemventory

Is there a webplatform for searching the items of local shops? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I’ve been looking into building this. I was originally planning to fork Lemmy to do it but now it looks like NOSTR might be better suited to it.

Time to criminalize environmental damage, says survey in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Absolutely! I never realized how powerful the media is until I read Chomsky in college.

Sen. Bernie Sanders says he considers Harris ‘progressive’ and her policy changes are ‘pragmatic’ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

as the red dot from a nearby rifle appears on his face and Virginia farm boy audience members wearing earpieces gesture menacingly toward their lapels.

The AIPAC finally broke him. By my estimate, it was probably around 2016 during the primary that he realized that he never even had a chance.

kamala

Time to criminalize environmental damage, says survey in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It ALL hinges on making elections fair in the first place. Closed primaries and first past the post rules make banana republic democracies seem fair in comparison. Until those issues get solved, I only see the “adults in the room” deciding to boil the oceans for profit while codifying it into law more each year.

It’s hard not to be cynical.

Why does it seem the world is all of a sudden concerned about sexual orientation? Especially America. Did I miss how far we came as a society to see it take a 40 year step backwards? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If it’s as bad as it is in the US, they ALL want to privatize it.

I’ll never forget Joe Lieberman swooping in and literally letting health insurance companies completely rewrite (destroy) the Affordable Care Act from an incremental step toward Single Payer into a law that codifies their profiteering. It put everyone into three categories:

A.) people who make more than their incredibly low income means testing are required to shop for expensive private health insurance on the free market. Health insurance companies literally raised their rates right after this. Because of Joe, health insurance profits, medical bankruptcy, and death from being under/uninsured (70,000 people per year) are at an all-time high! Any real illness won’t be covered and you’ll be forced to cover it with a GoFundMe!

B.) people who face stiff fines if they don’t have health insurance (neoliberal paternalism much like charging people for plastic bags and sugary drinks)

C.) people who somehow manage to sneak in under the means testing income bar! If you are 300% or more below the actual poverty line, you get the most bare bones medical insurance possible!

Why does it seem the world is all of a sudden concerned about sexual orientation? Especially America. Did I miss how far we came as a society to see it take a 40 year step backwards? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for pulling it out of me.

Kind vibes to you, friendly and intellectually honest fellow fediverse Lemmy user. 🙏

Indie social sign-in could go mainstream in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

“I” seem to require? No. I’m deferring to the cypherpunk manifesto which rings true over and over again.

IMO, anonymity should be able to be switched on and off at will by the user. Selective disclosure using homomorphic encryption coupled with digital identity can achieve both, IMO.

In particular, businesses require anonymity in much of their chain of custody…and I think that’s fair.

Why does it seem the world is all of a sudden concerned about sexual orientation? Especially America. Did I miss how far we came as a society to see it take a 40 year step backwards? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

It was because I thought the author both understood and even agreed with my point in principle but then did intricate mental gymnastics to disagree with my point and let everyone off the hook including the person that I was disagreeing with.

I don’t want to continue talking in circles with Centrists telling me that the piss pouring on my head is in fact charitable rain drops from the benevolent libs.

Why does it seem the world is all of a sudden concerned about sexual orientation? Especially America. Did I miss how far we came as a society to see it take a 40 year step backwards? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I was thinking about that just now.

They did Corbyn dirty in almost exactly the same way that they did Sanders. It has been worst-case-scenario from there on out.

Have they fully privatized NHS yet?

Indie social sign-in could go mainstream in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Perhaps. I tend to listen to Snowden when it comes to tech. But I haven’t used it yet because all of the implementations I could use involved a bitcoin wallet. I’m a fan of crypto but that felt weird.

Someone else reassured me that NOSTR is a very open platform and that requirement wasn’t true.

From my research, I have found it to be far more decentralized than Lemmy’s (and the pub/sub) federated model, which would also, obviously have the same drawbacks that we see in other truly decentralized tech like crypto, torrents, and tor where you are on your own in the world, forced to literally keep the ocean of shit from infecting you! 😉

So, I think of those things as necessary evils. For example, if I used NOSTR, I could have an address that follows me no matter what. That cryptographic hash is my NOSTR identity for better or worse. That’s pretty powerful and far more secure than a two step verification process in the long run.

I don’t know enough about it yet. But I’d say it is a raw technology that I wouldn’t allow the criminals and trolls of the world define for me.

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Penetration Testing with Nmap: A Comprehensive Tutorial (youtu.be)
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Say Goodbye to Containers | Ephemeral Environments with Nix Shell (youtu.be)
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The Biggest Scam in American Health Care (youtu.be)
 

There is a massive, totally legal bribery scheme driving up drug prices in America. And pharmacy benefit managers-shady middlemen you've probably never heard of-are right at the center.

I’m 100% sure this is just the tip of the iceberg.

In any just society, basic human necessities are 100% socialized.

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Explainix | A Visual Tool to Teach Nix Syntax (zaynetro.com)
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HailCorporate: Call Out Corporate Astroturfing on Lemmy (infosec.pub)
 

HailCorporate is a community for individuals committed to unmasking the deceptive practice of astroturfing and exposing fake product testimonials. In a digital age where the line between genuine endorsements and corporate manipulations is increasingly blurred, our community has become necessary. Here, we collectively call out comments and posts where everyday people, often unknowingly, become pawns in a company's PR strategy, spreading scripted messages under the guise of personal opinion. HailCorporate's mission is to foster a culture of transparency and authenticity, empowering fediverse users to challenge the covert tactics used by most multinational corporations to astroturf the fediverse.

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Has Anyone Ever Pulled Off Federated Inventory? (infosec.pub)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
6 comments fedilink
 

I’ve been thinking lately about the concept of the fediverse and repurposing it toward the goal of creating a free and open, decentralized, federated network of vendors that run instances or groups of vendors that run one instance together. These instances would broadcast inventory updates to each node that they federate with. It would start off niche and gain traction that way before branching out into other retail types.

Is this a feasible idea? Has any pulled this off? Wayfair, Amazon, Shopify, and Etsy are already suffering from enshittification. Someone needs to take the inventory out of the walled gardens and back into the customer’s hands. I shouldn’t have to rely on Google to find products I want. There are vendors that want to sell me stuff nearby…it’s just a problem of connecting the user to the content..and this seems like a no-brainer.

I’d love to have a discussion about this. I am seriously considering creating a rolling fork of Lemmy that would maintain parity but also add this functionality but I want to talk to experts and weigh the pros and cons before embarking on such an ambitious project.

edit: I also started a community ( https://infosec.pub/c/federated_inventory ) dedicated to the discussion of this idea. I'm trying to get vendors in a budding local industry to fund the creation of this system, which would branch out into all retail industries eventually along with the network effect.

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Intell-dragonfly: A Cybersecurity Attack Surface Generation Engine Based On Artificial Intelligence-generated Content Technology. (arXiv:2311.00240v1 [cs.CR]) (arxiv.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/4424216

Intell-dragonfly: A Cybersecurity Attack Surface Generation Engine Based On Artificial Intelligence-generated Content Technology. (arXiv:2311.00240v1 [cs.CR])

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Lola Young - Conceited (3:59) (youtu.be)
 

This one went viral really quickly when her Instagram video with the hook to this song got popular. Enjoy.

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Bastián Martínez - BAXTY - Event Horizon (5:19) [Progmetal: Electric Guitar] (youtu.be)
 

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/3702684

I'm very excited for all the music that is coming soon!

Special Thanks to: @AbasiConcepts @NeuralDSP @OverdriveCL

Guitars and Composition: by Baxty Bass: by @JaimePapeBass Drums: by @martinfenixx3387 Mix: by @AdamBentleyMusic Mastered: Ermin Hamidovic

Follow my project Bandcamp: https://baxty1.bandcamp.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Ts5x...

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NEMD: Thanks to this community, I may finally learn to touch-type! (imgur.com)
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Copy comments (infosec.pub)
 

Currently, there’s no option to copy a comment to your clipboard. It would be very nice to get this as I currently would have to take a screenshot then use optical character recognition to extract the text.

Additionally, Apollo had a really cool option to export an image with a user comment. It was really good feature because it was granular in that you could decide to anonymize the usernames in the screenshot, format the screenshot to only include what you intended, pretty much anything you can think of about screenshot formatting, etc. That feature was really cool and I miss it dearly.

IMO, if you’re going to be THE ubiquitous Lemmy app, you need to provide everything good that Apollo had.

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Grab a Coffee, Sit Back, and Soak in Some Musical Wisdom: Ted Greene · Seminar/Clinic (FULL) at the Musicians Institute (2:08:20) (youtu.be)
 

This seminar/clinic was held at the Musicians Institute (today named: MI College of Contemporary Music), Hollywood, on the 6th of June, 1993.

► See my free interactive transcription at https://www.soundslice.com/slices/n1kcc

► Visit the Ted Greene Archives at https://tedgreene.com

CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 VHS-tape nostalgia 00:00:17 Introduction 00:02:43 “What it means to be in a key” 00:13:10 The cultural acceptance of new harmonic intervals 00:20:15 “Bach-type harmony” + A Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum, 1967) 00:28:09 From Bach to Jazz + Autumn Leaves (Joseph Kosma, 1948) 00:35:09 Harmonic “eras” 00:40:41 Four Gypsy-Jazz scales ————— 00:50:32 Send in the Clowns (Stephen Sondheim, 1973) 00:57:43 Why T.G. tunes down his guitars, part 1 01:00:06 God Bless the Child (Billie Holiday & Arthur Herzog Jr., 1939) 01:04:23 Why T.G. tunes down his guitars, part 2 01:06:08 Improvisation 01:15:25 Q&A 1: “Which are the musicians you listen to?” 01:17:16 Q&A 2: On what instruments T.G. plays besides guitar 01:18:43 Q&A 3: On T.G. playing right-handed guitar when being left-handed 01:19:56 Q&A 4: On using the higher artificial harmonics, the 17th degree, and “crazy” out chords 01:25:16 Music theory: “It's just an alphabet!” 01:28:09 Q&A 5: On how to pick the artificial harmonics / “chimes” for close harmony 01:34:07 Q&A 6: “I wanted to ask you to play a song: Do you know Naima by John Coltrane?” 01:35:55 Like Someone in Love (Jimmy Van Heusen & Johnny Burke, 1944) 01:41:35 Improvisation + Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles, 1966) 01:48:05 Q&A 7: “Can you talk a bit about counterpoint? ...” 02:04:30 Q&A 8: “Ted, do you find any chords you don't like?” + “Studying systems of voicings” 02:07:57 Goodnight

  • I do not own this material. I re-upload this to mold it for the purpose of free music education.

This clip already has a bit of history here on YouTube: – In 2008, @clubsandwedge was the first man on the scene and uploaded the first hour of the seminar. These were the early days of YouTube when the video length was limited to 10 minutes, so this was uploaded in 6 parts:

• Ted Greene 1993 GIT Seminar pt1
– In 2011, @GetBackToNowhere re-assembled the parts, now that the limit had been lifted, and uploaded the first hour under the title “Ted Greene Clinic”. This is still the video with by far the most views:

• Ted Greene Clinic
– In 2020, @astravert recovered the complete two-hour video tape, and the seminar finally surfaced in its glorious entirety (except for the first 17 seconds of noodling). Unfortunately, the audio and video were out of sync from the old VHS-tape, which made particularly the second hour painful to watch:

• Ted Greene - Rare FULL Seminar - 6/6/...
– In 2021, @gurayozcana improved the sound quality and painstakingly rescued the synchronization:

• Ted Greene - Rare FULL Seminar - 6/6/...
– This present video is the complete and synchronized version, with the volume re-adjusted, the colors adjusted, and the first 17 seconds of noodling added back in. The transcription and subtitles are currently works in progress.

** Notice the angelic light over Ted Greene: Although it looks like 90s camera technology, this is actually the holy aura that tends to glow around guitar gods! \m/ \m/ R.I.P., Ted Greene (1946–2005)

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