May the Baguette be with you

Mirita | she/her | 20+ | ace | French

[fannyrosie]

The tartan duchess

Outfit rundown Jacket: second-hand Atelier Boz Dress: second-hand Juliette et Justine Underskirt/petticoat: second-hand Black Peace Now Shoes: old Hush Puppies Hat: vintage with added blue flowers High collar: second-hand Abilletage Brooches: vintage Gloves: vintage Earrings: Phantom Jewelry Rococo panniers: a gift from the designer of @british_wardrobe

[void-milf]

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

[void-milf]

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity.  make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged.  and strike. attack.

[37womenwieldingknives]

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

[afraidofamericans]

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

[queeranarchism]

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

[anarchopuppy]

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

[mayflower-gal]

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

[tetratheripper]

Homura’s purgatory.

🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀

Please, don’t repost my art without source. You can use it as pfp as long as you credit me.

[wolfkinsanya]

do you consider yourself human?

yes

no

nuance

results

Voting ended onJan 6

[hate to be that guy but if you would consider reblogging for reach i would love to have a larger pool of data here]

[wallofgoats]

the first rule of being on the internet is you should have other stuff going on, besides being on the internet

[darthnostra]

Happy 10 years of Armitage, Hux fandom! I love you all very much! Have some PNGs!

[antonymeanonyme]

non-french-speaking anglophone comedians making fun of the french accent annoy me. because that is Not a french accent. you are Making Up an accent from an Imaginary Country to make fun of. you see how that's no funny, right, it's like me saying haha, glorpians, they sure like their bugloons, don't they. like that's not funny. who the hell is president glorpus and why is he married to his teacher ok the metaphor ran away from me.

the point is MAKE FUN OF THE REAL ACCENT YOU COWARDS. THE REAL ACCENT IS FUNNY. MAKE FUN OF IT. WORK FOR IT

[numerodixe]

Yang Caiyu for L'Officiel China - November 2024

[divorce-enjoyer]

why go to the grocery store or to a restaurant when you can just get food delivered why go to the mall when you can get same day shipping on amazon why go to the library when you have kindle why make art when there’s ai why go to the cinema when you can stay at home and watch netflix. we are in a loneliness epidemic btw

[divorce-enjoyer]

the loneliness epidemic was invented by BIG SHIT to sell you more SHIT

[decompositie]

[safije]

1920s Embroidered Chinese Shawl

This is something we need to bring back in style!

[zandraillustration]

getting tired of people trying to claim it's "not that bad" 🤖🚫

[rapidhighway]

Nooo i just saw a TikTok of someone calling their mom a hoarder cause she has a CD collection and going "i can play these faster on an app" and telling her to throw them away BITE BITE BITE BITE KILL KILL KILL KILL if someone said that to me i would rip them apart with my teeth i would burn them alive the violence that would take place would be unimaginable i would be an unleashed demon hungry for blood and meat. unimaginable horrors. death and destruction. killing. maiming. no one could survive that. it would be a nuclear apocalypse. leave the fucking CDs alone

[caparrucia]

Okay but if you have an extensive CD collection you need to back it up into digital/new CDs!

And it's not about apps or digital being faster, I'm all up for physical media, but commercially produced CDs from the 90s and early 2000s are reaching the end of their functional lifespan*, and are starting to fail.

If you have a lot of CDs, it would be a good idea to rip them into high fidelity digital audio, to preserve them.

*CD/DVD lifespans are tricky. Some estimates in peak, perfect conditions and maintenance go for almost 200 years. Others calculate between 20 to 30 years in "normal" use, though no one can agree what normal is.

I recommend buying a cheap DVD reader/writer unit -I bought mine for less than 20 USD - and then batch ripping stuff. Surprisingly Windows Media Player works out of the box, just make sure to save things in the correct format (mp3 or MP4) so you're not limited in playback.

You can of course find more robust options online, including VLC, to rip your files. Ripping a CD will not damage it or prevent it from working, it'll just make sure you have the option to burn a new one if your original happens to fail. This is 100% legal and ethical (and would be ethical still even if illegal, because piracy is always ethical in late stage capitalism and corporations are not your friends.)

I recommend redundancy for your backups (remember that time Apple fucked up with people's files by replacing them with itunes shit? Yeah) and if you're really techy, set up a NAS by your router, with your backups.

If your rips are high quality you can feed it to your computer/tablet/phone/any device in your network and always have access to CD quality audio no matter where you are.

Sources!

How Long Do CDs Last? It Depends, But Definitely Not Forever

Preservationists are worried about troves of records stored on what was once considered a durable medium: the compact disc. Many discs can l

The first generation of CDs is already rotting and dying - CDM Create Digital Music

CDs and other optical media don't last forever - then can even rot. But storage can help. Here's what archivists and research can teach us.

Learn how to rip (copy) and burn (create) CDs  and data DVDs using Windows Media Player.

Looking for ways to rip CD music and songs? Here are 2 easy methods on how to rip CD musics with VLC media player with ease.

[darlingsweetprince]

might have been said in another comment already BUT

if you are saving digital audio for long term use make sure to use a lossless file type like .WAV

yes it’s a lot larger of a file but it won’t degrade over time

you can use .mp3 files for daily/casual use on a playback device but they won’t keep their quality as they get compressed

[nonstickwaffleiron]

as an archivist I am begging you

put dates on everything

don’t believe digital stuff is preserved forever - if it’s really important (documents, photos, etc) print it out

name your files accurately I know it sucks but please

don’t destroy the original just bc you scanned it

rubber cement is the devil’s adhesive use photo corners and quit gluing shit

you will NOT remember write it down

if you staple things to the inside of a folder I will find you

your public library probably has equipment to digitize old media for free or can at least get you connected with somewhere that does!

[dozydawn]

Anneliese Seubert for Jean Paul Gaultier HC FW 1998

[horsefigureoftheday]

I love you Sebago, I would die for you Sebago

[catchymemes]

[thedepressionoftrees]

Inspiration struck me like a brick to the skull

[cloud-ya]

outcast of the village