Notices by Johanna, CanCon variant (johannab@cosocial.ca)

@dansup I really want to be there!

What's yer hotel recommendation? I don't know Vancouver *well* exactly.

cc: @evan @timbray Any other CoSocialites considering hanging out at this for a couple days?

@evan citizens

I am in receipt of a notice that my personal, medical and financial information was shared in a Government of Ontario privacy breach.

Friends, in the absolutely most stupid way possible.

Not a cyber attack. No ransomeware. Not a calculated digital terrorist effort. Not even a bland old should have been obvious phishing scheme.

They printed the entire batch of quarterly ADP funding confirmations, which are short, one-page letters, DUPLEXED by accident.

THEN they mailed them out, presumably to whichever recipient had their info on the up-facing side.

So half of us medical funding grant recipients did not get our notice. The other half got their notice, AND that of some complete stranger printed on the reverse.

Nobody noticed until patients contacted the ministry to let them know.

So, hey out there to whomever of my fellow chronic or disabled Ontarians has my name, address, medical info, and bank account. Get in touch, we’ll go for drinks.

There are BIG FEELINGS out there, and one of the attractors for them right now is the permitting or limiting of requests for aid from Gaza in particular but other war-torn or needy parts of the world.

Some admins are banning/suspending accounts, and others are banning/suspending accounts that complain about the aid requests/begging accounts.

For ye average community moderator, there's no good answer.

This, from bsky, is a good informative thread as to why: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3lpxyoe4efk26

@evan guys somehow need to popularize wearing pocketed yoga pants. My entire wardrobe is now stealth soft pants, even the stretchy jeans.

@evan Reaching an age where my tolerable temperature range is narrowing.

Sad thing is, a/c is going to become necessary for health. But its use is among the decaying, not balancing, feedback loops in our climate situation.

Shade, open windows, cool breezes are all preferable, but increasingly not viable, certainly not in urban heat islands in the most southern, most populous parts of the country.

So. Premier of Alberta is claiming to be on a diplomatic mission, asking the US, via Breitbart(!?!!)not to drop the whole stupidity of tariffs, but to delay them until after an election?

She is actively requesting a foreign country interfere in a Canadian election.

So that country can benefit from the future compliance of the right-wing fringe, presumably electable if tariffs are scheduled for May, and which will not do anything further to defend Canadian sovereignty.

Have I got that right?

@ErickaSimone

@ErickaSimone um.

I’m not sure how what i wrote was that terribly misinterpretable, but if you didnt read it and the problem is that i was comment boosting something i thought was awesome but you didnt want shared … i’m happy to remove/unboost. Sorry for the misstep.

@dansup i very much appreciate everything you’re doing! And i’m trying to navigate the waves myself, still, even after 7+ fedi-years.

I see bits of flotsam and jetsam that have swirled around since i was downloading and decoding alt.binaries off usenet. Some are not visible to many others and dont matter. Some are not visible to many others but matter much, because they’ve become embedded in the digi-cultural foundations we stand on, long before we built here. And they rot.

@dansup as a mastodon mod, and hoping to work as a PF mod once cosocial gets an instance going … a mod switch to alert to hashtag abuse, or to filter them right out on my instances, would be an appealing option to have.

@dansup theres potential to use the actual engineering to improve the social engineering - you have room to dampen the antisocial and predatory influencer-culture import by making the behavioural tactics less meaningful here. Pixelfed is already losing value for me as i see more and more use of it for memes and pictures of text rather than actual photos. Hashtag spamming ruins the network potential of hashtags, sort of a paradox-of-tolerance problem.

@dansup a five hashtag limit would be more polite, frankly. Figure out your actual damn real audience and learn to post quality stuff they want to see. Otherwise keep your crypto spam off my caturday and mosstodon!

@dansup gotta say, i wish people would get UNused to them. They’re being abused to inject irrelevant content or outright spam . Blocking ppl right left and centre for doing that (its against rules & CoC on my instances).

OMG.
I'm working on a SQL course. Not a terribly academic one, just an "intermediate SQL for professional interest" sort of thing.

I've understood conceptually what triggers are for decades. But I've never been a coder, never written one.

I just worked through an exercise in creating an audit table & trigger to populate it, for a database. It's less than 30 lines of entirely readable code.

There are at least 10 "database developers" in my past I want to dig up out of their graves and punch.

@dansup congrats!

And I sincerely hope you’ve got some sysops and community management help for your instance! This is amazing to be watching (and aiding and abetting, I’m showing pixelfed and a few apps off to friends all over the place)

CoSocial hasn't been around that long, but dang, I missed that this past week was my Fediversary!

Joined mastodon.social, then quickly, wandering.shop, on Nov 14 then 15th, respectively, 2017.

@evan congrats on the book premiere!

@evan OMG. Get well soon, that's awful!

Also don't be stubborn - do what the docs and OT and PT tell you and take the pain meds! It wasn't for an accident, but that was the #1 most important advice when I was hospitalized.

@evan Did you bring enough for everyone? because really, that's just taunting! 😆

Looks delicious.