I definitely wouldn't say I'm lying (...to.. myself? what? or perhaps others for a quick untested response in a chatroom or something) whenever I write some code and it turns out that I misremembered the name of an API. "Hallucination" for that might be over-dramatic but at least it it's a somewhat sensible description.
this really sucks, it's by far the best reader app out there. Hoping that people will be able to figure out a straightforward way to do self-hosting, because I would be willing to use the app as it is right now forever.
Except on Android, where you couldn't even tag saved articles.
I noticed development had stopped weeks ago. Sort of figured something like this was going to happen. Unfortunate, but I'll be happy on Wallabag again. I'd been just waiting for a push to do migrate back.
I seem to be able to tag articles, do you not have an "Edit Labels" option in the article menu? Regardless, they definitely were lagging on Android development, but it was still finished enough to use it. There's even a version that supports pagination: https://github.com/tent4kel/omnivore/releases/
When you're actually creating an entry via the share prompt there are no options at all unlike the browser extension (for Android at least)
So yeah, you can tag it.. if you exit your current app, find Omnivore in your launcher, open the app, find the entry you just made, then edit it, then add tags.. but that's a terrible UX.
Ah yeah, the share dialog is really basic, I ended up using Firefox and installing the full extension when I wanted to save pages (also allows you to save pages from places you're logged into)
Yes. But Whisper's word-level timings are actually quite inaccurate out of the box. There are some Python libraries that mitigate that. I tested several of them. whisper-timestamped seems to be the best one. [0]
It also appears like the filter dropdown in the bottom right corner needs additional space from the bottom of the screen (right now, the dropdown is cut off by the page boundary).
That said, nice site! The interface feels very intentional.
I'm sure the authors meant well, but it's absurd to act like this is a solution. They could have a clean source of water, but the federal government is siding against them[1] for water rights so that retirees in Arizona can have golf courses and manicured lawns in the middle of a desert[2].
My dad was setting up local factories for similar pots in several nations in Africa 20 years ago. They sourced local clay and sawdust and provided plans for clay presses. There was a fund that provided the starting capital and the silver solution. The same fund also provided plans and technical help with the construction of locally built rope-pumps. These technologies were used in tandem to provide relatively easy (drinking) water to remote communities.
The most amazing effect was that women from these villages would save a lot of time everyday and used that time for some little side hussling and village life really improved.
It's one thing when there's no infrastructure or easily accessible source of water. It's another when you're in Arizona next to the Colorado River. The thought of people in the first world having to get their potable water from a treated pot for purely political reasons is why it's absurd.
Water rights on the Colorado are a huge, contentious issue and there are many states involved in the fierce negotiations over who gets a slice of the ever dwindling pie. As per the Guardian article, California is among the major stakeholders drowning out the pleas of the Navajo nation for access to drinking water. In fact, of all the states vying for more water access, California takes the most water out of the Colorado by a large margin.
This problem is not exclusively at the feet of Arizonans nor retirees.. with a population of 40 million in Cali (and 1/4 of the state being desert) vs 7 million in Arizona, I daresay Californians are spending more of this limited resources on golf courses and manicured lawns, which regardless of how opulent and wasteful it feels, these aren't even the main issue. 80% of all the water in the Colorado river goes to farmland (and I do mean all, 100% of the water is being diverted before it reaches the ocean and has been for some time). Much of it for water-intensive crops such as alfalfa, not to mention producing 90% of the nation's winter vegetables in California.
All of that is to say, if we're going to point fingers, let's not stop at lawns in one particular state. And before we dismiss possible solutions out of hand, we should probably do an assessment of whether or not a proposal to help the issue is economical, practical, and scalable (cultural relevance is just a nice bonus). Bear in mind, the federal government has successfully argued that the treaties do not require them to assess the needs of tribal peoples nor build the infrastructure to meet that need and the supreme court has formally ruled that the Navajo will not got water access under the attempted legal push. California, Nevada, and Arizona all lobbied the court in support of this "no" ruling (I'm assuming amicus briefs, but reporting doesn't specify). Hopefully further political and legal efforts can grant the Navajo nation this basic human right, but in the mean time, it is worth looking into stop-gap solutions for the 40,000 Navajo on reservations who don't have access to drinking water.
I wasn't pointing fingers at the retirees, I specifically blamed at the federal government, who refuse to recognize the Navajo Nation's water access rights, as you said.
Platitudes won't either. People in true need of a union need actual support. Where
you spend your money, who you financially support in politics. They are not on the sidelines cheering the Bandcamp engineers on, they see it for what it is, and know it isn't going to trickle down to them.
Forming a union isn’t a platitude, it’s direct action. In a culture as union-hostile as the modern day US, every new union is a win for the labor movement.
I can speak from experience that leftist groups who otherwise hate the tech industry do celebrate tech unions.
Unions have won every cultural battle in the US. The only reason union membership declined is that virtually every industry that they got a hold of went bankrupt or severely contracted. A notable exception is Hollywood, and that's only because the nature of movie projects, which are time-limited, reduces the leverage of unionized workers.
In the government, where taxpayers pay for growing inefficiency, unions have only grown in strength.
I don't think it actually, meaningfully diminishes "actual labor struggles". The working class is not going to have a harder time organizing because some tech workers did it first.
Every few years someone thinks that they have a new plan to revolutionize labor organizing, usually involving some sort of app that will somehow replace the work necessary to organize a union, and they are always wrong. Building a union that's strike-ready requires a lot of on the ground work that you simply cannot automate.
I'm not sure as I don't belong to any of these but here are some examples (US) that seem like they "work well"... Screen Actors, Directors, Writers all have guilds. Real-estate and Lawyers have decent looking guilds, they just don't call them by name. Doctors, Dentists and Nurses also have guilds (they call them associations).
SAG, DGA, and WGA are all labor unions. The other cases I'll grant you, but it's less clear what their direct benefit to their members is besides acting as lobbying organizations.
SAC, WAG, etc. are all labor unions similar to the one Bandcamp just created. Don't be confused by the name.
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As for the other examples, what I like about tech is that anyone can join the industry. I think the way attorneys and doctors have set up their profession works for them but it really makes it hard for anyone who didn't choose the golden path to join.
Turkish chambers of engineers are regulated as trade associations with mandatory membership, not as labor unions. Trade associations in Turkey are semi-governmental whereas unions in Turkey are non-governmental, hence this distinction matters a lot here.
Unions exist in Turkey, as a separate type of entity. In fact, Turkish unions even participate in the national minimum wage and public service pay coefficient negotiations.
