@lp0_on_fire @2legged @ChrisMayLA6
The obvious "you are trying to steal something" trigger is if you scan something and then the bagging-scale doesn't detect an item of the right weight being added.
It can also be confused if something on the bagging-scale is leaning up against some other part of the station, so that it doesn't weigh as much as it should. This can also be triggered by heavy reusable bags sagging during the bagging process.
More recently, they added cameras to the self-checkout at Costco, and my station triggered a "you might be stealing something" because my head happened to be blocking the item when I put it down in the bagging area.
It is, indeed, very annoying and kinda daft that they feel the need for all that...
I did a quick test to compare my eyes to my phone camera by casting a rainbow onto a wall, then marking where the bounds of the rainbow seem to be to my eyes. Then I took a photo of it with my phone camera.
1. The rainbow is shifted left, so my phone sees further red than I do, but I see further violet than it does.
2. The rainbow goes from red to blue in my camera, but to my eyes, there is a vivid purple after the blue (I know that deep violet light can trigger your red receptors)
I want a more proper test, where I could show just a single wavelength to someone, and do a binary "Do you see anything" question, because the edges of the spectrum appear to fade out. I just want to test whether there is any variance to the range between people.
I'd need to test many specific wavelengths, and I dont know of any way besides prisms or diffraction gratings to get a full range. And I need the sun, because other lights often don't have an even spectrum. Is there any way to do this besides slicing this projection?
@scanlime I didn't know there was a limit! Let me check the migration options on ours...
[added] ...oh wait, I think I see what you mean -- like, the whole DB, not just individual repos?
@scanlime If I understand/remember right, Gitea went a little fash and that's part of how Forgejo happened -- it's a fork.
I have so many things about it that I want to fix, starting with the wiki... but that was true even of GitHub, which had the fewest technical issues (from my POV).
@scanlime I moved from GitHub to GitLab not too long before GH became Microsoft, and then earlier this year the team set up a Forgejo on my home server.
(Forgejo needs a lot of improvement, but it does work and doesn't currently have any known fash connections...)
:blobcatthinking: So, they've figured out how to send sandwiches over the internets now...
@2legged @ChrisMayLA6 @lp0_on_fire @rzeta0
Well, okay, I should have said "community"; I mainly meant to distinguish "workers" from "[rent-seeking] external agents" (aka "investors").
@2legged @ChrisMayLA6 @lp0_on_fire
Consider the idea that technology can have "owners". Isn't that very much a product of capitalism, or at least of the hierarchical ideas upon which capitalism was founded?
Note that there's a bit of a verbal ambiguity here: when we say "ownership of technology", do we mean a physical thing, or the ideas which enable it?
When I talk about how the "owners" benefit from automation while the replaced workers suffer from it, it's not really the technology that's being owned -- it's the business whose processes are being automated.
My solution is that businesses should be owned by their workers alone, not by rent-seeking third-parties who get to make all the decisions and whose only incentive is to maximize their personal revenue.
Also, fun fact about bicycles:
It was apparently a bicycle club which was behind some of the first major networks of paved roads in the US (and therefore in the world) -- which were then taken over by automobiles, and bicyclists are now lucky if they can even get a painted strip to designate a part of the road as being specifically for them to use, much less a separated trail to provide some actual safety. (Yes, I am salty about this.)
I think a lot of technology follows similar (if not quite so blatant) patterns: new tech comes along with tremendous potential benefits to everyone, but is (sooner or later) co-opted by the Profits That Be.
To answer @rzeta0's question: yes -- though the percentage often goes down over time, as the powermongers figure out how to exploit it.
Another example: look at modern medicine -- and then consider its relationship to "health insurance" companies (in the US, at least), just to start with.
@2legged @ChrisMayLA6 @rzeta0 @lp0_on_fire
Personally, my work centers around ideas which would help prevent that.
(I read The Postman at a formative age...)
@matildalove @IngaLovinde @mcc
As far as I can tell, I'm pretty much the only one who thinks this.
@ChrisMayLA6 @2legged @rzeta0 @lp0_on_fire
This personal truth seems relevant: I've worked hard all my life, but only occasionally been paid for it.
Work has dignity and value, but those aspects of it do not come from capitalism; capitalism, in fact, tends to push us away from them (in my experience).
(How many people do you know who truly love their jobs, and would volunteer to do the same work even if their needs were met regardless? How many of these people are also paid well for that work?)
Agreed. Our system has been using the jobs market as a proxy/heuristic for the process of assigning necessary work to workers, which was never great (unless you're an authoritarian and all you care about is accumulating and maintaining power, rather than making the world a better place)...
...and now it's working less and less well as automation increasingly thins out the job market and reallocates work-pay to the owners (instead of the workers).
Automation was supposed to make everything easier for everyone, but it certainly can't do that if the wealth it generates goes back to already-rich people instead of being distributed equitably to everyone.
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@sarahtaber/117383371595184964
Remember that 21,000+ acre farm here in NC where workers keep dying?
You'd think they're doing that "to make a profit."
LOL no. If that were true, they probably wouldn't have gotten FORTY MILLION DOLLARS in arrears with their bank.
https://youtu.be/TPZf4eq2NwE (Goes live in a few minutes, at 10am ET.)
Authoritarianism is, in my estimation, The Big Problem we need to figure out how to deal with now.
(Related lectu-rant here.)
@ChrisMayLA6 @2legged @lp0_on_fire
Oh always! I try to make a point of interacting with them as I would a co-worker or friend -- and often get positive reactions. It's just pretty much always very stressful because I have a hard time parsing spoken language and I'm slow to figure out how to react (generally, neurodivergence makes social harder).
