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Written by Unsafelyhotboots on 2024-12-29 at 17:33

I will start. Caramelized Carrot Soup, from Time Ferriss' 4 Hour Chef

5lbs of carrots, chunked and peeled

1teaspoon of baking soda

1/2 cups of butter (I use a vegan butter substitute and it comes out just as tasty)

Salt

Pepper

Ground ginger

You need an immersion blender and a juicer, as well as the instant pot.

1. toss 2lbs of carrots, the butter, some salt, and the teaspoon of baking soda into the instant pot. Melt the butter and ensure carrots are covered on all surfaces with some butter, then seal and pressure cook on high for 20m.

2. while that's going, juice the rest of the carrots

3. once the instant pot is done, open to smell something absolutely glorious. Then push the mix through a sieve to get a carrot puree in a bowl. Discard the pulp.

4. add the carrot puree back into the instant pot, add 2 1/2cups carrot juice and simmer until it separates.

5. toss back in the instant pot, immersion blend while adding water/excess carrot juice until you get the desired consistency.

Serve with salt, pepper, and ground ginger garnish.

The amount of baking soda determines how caramelized the carrots get under pressure. Use slightly less if you like more carrot flavor.

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Written by Unsafelyhotboots on 2024-12-29 at 16:13

For those with an #InstantPot, wanna share some recipes that have been a smash hit in your house?

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Written by Unsafelyhotboots on 2024-12-14 at 17:42

Nerdy #Homelab owners, what is your preferred #DynamicDNS solution and why? #SelfHosted #SelfHostedSoftware

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Written by Unsafelyhotboots on 2024-11-28 at 03:27

I keep seeing @Em0nM4stodon recommend Anytype - I've been using Joplin for a while but it seems to be increasingly poorly maintained.

So I gave #AnyType a try, and I'm thoroughly impressed. What an elegant interface, clear privacy controls, excellent app support and more. I'm excited to figure out how to self-host the AnySync server, once I redo my home lab to run on Proxmox instead of $@&*ing TrueNAS scale.

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Written by Unsafelyhotboots on 2024-11-09 at 03:32

After about 18h of feeling completely run over by the hopeless feeling of a second Trump presidency, my fiance snapped at me "This hopelessness is exactly what he wants." As per usual, she is right - a complete nihilism about the possibility of things improving is how we got here and because it's how we got here, it cannot be how we get out.

We must throw sand in the gears, wrenches in the cogs. No, we may not be able to stand up and resist openly the way we did in 2018 if he is able to bring the might of the National Guard against protestors. That means that the resistance this time around is less about bodies in the street and more about malicious compliance.

"Immigrants? No, I don't know any immigrants." (when law enforcement asks if you know any immigrants)

"My wife? She's infertile." (if the fertility police that the evangelicals want materialize)

"Queer people? Never met em." (when the brownshirts go door to door to beat the queers)

"My friend Bianca has always been a woman." (when the bigots try to single out someone they think is trans)

Malicious compliance slows evil down, and it will absolutely be necessary as we build alternative structures. The Fedi is one - I do not think we would have the information ecosystem that we do if adversarial interoperability was baked into our current systems the way it is baked into the Fedi (i.e. I don't need my server admin's consent to switch servers or spin up my own - I just do that and they can go can it if they don't approve).

These alternative systems like the Fedi give me hope and the act of having hope is listening to Snyder's wise tenant "Do not obey in advance." (as one of the things they want you to 'obey' is that you SHOULD be feeling completely hopeless). The open display of hope is also a way of showing to the racists and bigots who loudly will support Lord Commander Marmalade that sorry, libs ain't weak.

Another thing that has given me a lot of hope - a LOT - is reading the awesome essay @pluralistic wrote "The true tactical significance of Project 2025" (July 14th, 2024)

pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/

This essay outlines some of the major fracture lines in the far right coalition and the major hammer to hit them with - worker power. We, at least everyone that I have seen on the Fedi, is a worker in some way shape or form, whether you work for yourself in the form of your own business or you work for others as a wage earner. The Fedi has the potential to serve as an amazing hub for worker organization as long as it cannot be forced into obsolecence by a corporate controlled platform like Threads.

So while the fuckers are gloating, and then stabbing one another in the back while they vie for power in the incoming administration, we must begin organizing, to build the last of the tools that will allow this to be a cross-racial, cross-identity bastion of worker power that can only be turned off by turning the entirety of the internet off, and to find the allies who are not here and bring them on board.

@kissane put out this call for participants in a study of Fedi users and server admins and I ask each person who has made it this far, participate

mas.to/@kissane/113450292914015236

The data that Erin and Darius have put together on trust and safety should deeply inform the tooling that is built out as the next part of the Fedi. Shared block lists, shared allow-lists allow us on the Fedi to turn our disparate islands into the digital equivalent of Armada that China Meiville described in The Scar - a floating, interconnected metropolis of boats that wanders the digital seas safely. Client side moderation would allow us on the fedi to help safely onboard members of more at-risk communities by giving them the tools to filter out the garbage nobody wants on their timeline.

My hope is that by the time one of the far right factions that are opposed to one another comes out on top in the inevitable power struggle over the next few months to a year, the Fedi serves as a lifeboat for the information ecosystem that we desperately need in these trying times - human filtered, human powered, and most of all, built by people and communities, not corporations. #FediMeta #MaliciousCompliance #CommunitiesNotCorporations #WorkerPower #Organize #KeepYourChinUp

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Written by Unsafelyhotboots on 2024-10-05 at 16:14

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Written by Unsafelyhotboots on 2024-09-01 at 18:47

@amadeus have you played with any of the Audio Assault mixing plugins? I quit using their channel strip when White Sea Studios posted this scathing review

youtu.be/SijDPB6Qtuc?si=3I4AiPnMeg_MbxJj

It looks like they rearchirected the plugin after that so I am curious if other people are reporting it is any better?

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Written by Unsafelyhotboots on 2024-08-13 at 03:55

I see this is getting some boosts. Her parents put some restrictions on me - no queer stories, keep it in line with what she is learning in school, focus on essay writing.

In spite of that, she has decided to go for broke and do Lord of the Rings, after several weeks of discussing books that she has had to read for school. I warned her that it is dense reading and the way Tolkien writes contradicts my first tenant of the written language - that writing is an extension of the spoken word, not something separate but related. Next week, now that she'll be a few chapters into the Fellowship and we've discussed how Tolkien's life and religious views shaped LotR, we'll be at least touching on how that view - that writing is an extension of speech - is an opinion, and not one shared by Tolkien, and understanding that if a teacher presents something like this as fact, there will be another person on her journey that makes a compelling argument against it and that it will be up to her to find her truth.

So far, we've discussed how to pull apart a story for themes and how to look for what an author chooses to say (or does not say, as is the case with Lois Lowrey and description), we've discussed how to look at an author's life as an influence on their storytelling, and how to edit an essay you've already written. On my list of important storytelling elements that one can write an essay on is symbolism, and the ideas of character archetypes - character foils, the anti-hero, the relatable villain.

I feel like we're going to keep coming back to those topics we've covered in the process, but given what we are reading (LotR) and her age, what would be some more key things to discuss?

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