ByteFoolish [he/him]

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Joined 6 years ago
Cake day: July 29th, 2020
  • ByteFoolish [he/him]tofediverse•[$20 / $100 per week] TankieTube's first fundraiser/pledge drive! 🪙 📺
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    1 day ago

    Are you making use of HW accelerated transcoding or just software? I'm not familiar with PeerTube but it looks like it supports it but is something you need to manually configure

    When I was building a Plex server with some friends we ended up going with an Intel CPU because of the performance of the hardware transcoding with Intel QuickSync Video, which at least at the time outperformed AMD. We were able to go with a cheaper CPU instead of trying to brute force it through software. Obviously, widely different in scale from your operation though

    You've probably already researched this, but I wanted to mention it just in case so you could improve performance and or save money

  • ByteFoolish [he/him]toneurodiverse•Neurotypical Peers are Less Willing to Interact with Those with Autism based on Thin Slice Judgments
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    18 days ago

    The amount of "aspie supremacy" in this thread with zero push back is concerning to me. Allistic people aren't inherently immoral and autistic people aren't inherently moral and pure. I'm far too frequently hurt and misunderstood by non-autistic people and desperately wish things weren't this way, but viewing people with this lens is harmful to everyone. That mindset discourages autistics from trying to form relationships with the vast majority of society and makes mass organizing effectively out of the question

    The research itself is a bit depressing but it sounds like it may align with work done by autistic researchers on the double empathy problem

  • ByteFoolish [he/him]toaskchapo•Is there actually something useful to do behind the curtain of local political organizations?
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    20 days ago

    I can speak as someone who went down this path and is now an organizer with the PSL. The process of joining a serious socialist org is definitely different from the DSA's big tent approach. They're making sure you're a good fit for each other and there's no red flags because you'll be a representative of the party.

    We send our applicants the party program and a few articles that we then discuss. Education is important so we strike a balance between theory and action. So when you join there may be something like classes but at least in my org most of the time is spent doing work on the ground.

    It sounds like you want to avoid joining a reading group. How did you decide on which orgs to apply to? Do they have a social media presence where you could see the organizing work that they're doing? You should think of this as a two-way street rather than a job interview. They should be happy to talk with you about the work that they're doing and I'm sure would like to hear what you're interested in getting involved with. There's definitely organizing work you can do as an applicant. One thing our branch does is to get applicants to attend outreach with party members. And if the org doesn't do outreach, that's not a good sign in my opinion.

    I'm glad that you're wanting to get more involved and take action. We need all the people like that we can get!

  • ByteFoolish [he/him]toSlop.•PSL hurts our movement
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    2 months ago

    This is a very electoralism brained take. The PSL is a revolutionary socialist party not an electoral one. I can't speak to specific budget numbers, but I can tell you for a fact that most of the money PSL spends has nothing to do with elections like what that quote is implying

    Like the other commenter said, the real investment is time which pays off in spreading the party's message and in recruits and trains cadre to develop skills for other struggles