Notices by Dan Morris (coldfish@sfba.social)

#uspol
I remember when the supreme court ruled against gay marriage. People protested and held sit-ins and complained online.

Our Mayor, Newsom, Said, "Screw you. My clerk of courts will marry any gay couple. What are you going to do about it?"

And there were lines down the street of people getting married. And THAT is why we have same sex marriage now. Not because of a protest, not because of a lawsuit, but because a democrat just went ahead and said, "Do it and let them come for me".

I hated Newsom until that day. Since then, I still sometimes get irritated with him, but because of that one decision, I've backed him for decades.

We need to be that way if we are going to survive this. We need democrats who are in power and willing to take real risks.

#uspol
New law about to be passed in Mississippi:

Being an undocumented person in Mississippi will be a life without parole prison sentence:

https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/HB/1400-1499/HB1484IN.pdf

@skinnylatte H1Bs need to be disconnected from employers.

I had a co-worker on a work visa and she had to go back to Brazil every year and wait for my boss to finish the paperwork to let her back in. Each time, she left her BF, her apartment, her cat, everything she owned here in SF and then had to stay at a friend's house in Brazil - where she no longer had any family - in hopes that her asshole boss actually fulfilled his end of the deal.

AND.... I got hired with zero experience, yet made substantially more than her - and she was terrified to ask for a raise.

It's inappropriate for an employer to have that level of power over any human's personal life.

@mizblueprint @evan ugh.... How do I change my vote?

@kingrat flushable wipes are a lie. I can't believe people are allowed to sell them.

However... Your sink drain and toilet go to the exact same place. A garbage disposal shouldn't make a difference. Maybe if there's a long way between your sink and the connection to the sewer, but for me, the toilet is literally 10' from the kitchen sink. Both connect to the same pipe.

@evan Any time you can just "buy" control over millions of people's social lives, it's a bad thing. Doesn't matter who's hat the helm now, because *someday* it will be bought by a bad person and everyone's lives will be turned upside down.

Whoever designed ActivityPub/Fediverse....

that was brilliant. There's literally no way to "own" it.

Some friends we've known for 30+ years came to visit. A woman and her mom. Mom, an immigrant single mother, daughter had a disabled child at 16. Heavily supported by state and federal aid their entire lives.

Now... Big trumpies. So, yeah, Uber Christian son-in-law plus moving to Georgia, we should have known.

But I wonder if they realize (or care) that announcing it like it was just choosing a different meal, but for us - and everyone else on the planet - that was a massive attack on our families, our future, a body-blow to those of us with gay/enby kids/family.

I wonder if they know they just got disinvited to every single family event for the foreseeable future.

It's now a one-day choice. It's not "oh, I didn't know". This time, it was an attack on my children. An active and intentional attack that could very easily cut their lives short.

I wonder if they have any idea how serious we take this.

People I've known for 30yrs and now are simply "trump supporters I know". Ugh

@kingrat @scott the confusion truly is real.

I used to use auto-numbering IDs, and then I used UUIDs. But now, I require that all IDs *mean something*.

So, and invoice number may be
[ClientCode]-[Year]-[Month]-[InvoiceNumber]

If I see:

SF-2023-09-004 Then I know it's the forth invoice I sent to Sales Force from September of 2023

Even little things:

OrderStatus used to be all numeric. Now, all codes in the tables.

I can open up almost any table in the database and visually tell you a LOT more about the record than I could before.

@plexus @evan lol! I'm so used to people asking me how stuff works, I just try to answer questions without even knowing who's asking.

I still can't figure out "how" to govern activitypub, but that's just me being slightly less ignorant than a regular user. :)

@jeffowski after he was imprisoned for a while to contribute to the private prison manufacturing economy.

@RickiTarr I don't think very many are really mad. They're still having a party. They never get mad until something they forced everyone else to endure happens to them. Only then do they care. And then, it's only that one particular issue. And even then, they'll got through a billion logical contortions to somehow excuse themselves from accountability.

@Uair @RickiTarr what scares me is that the Nazis could have completed the entire genocide of the jews and everyone else they hated and still been seen as a massive success to the rest of the world, except they attacked their neighbors and the world militiaries allied together and destroyed them.

That's scary, because it won't happen to us. Nobody is coming to save us.

Look at Israel. They're live on TV blowing up hospitals and apartment buildings and leveling Gaza. Tens of thousands murdered and "some" of the world simply looks at them in condemnation, but there will never be repercussions. After 3-4 generations, the Palestinians will be seen like our Native Americans. Just a few reservations, locked away from society.

Here in the USA? What will happen to people who are active against the right wing?

@jeffowski at the cafe I'm sitting in right now, the guy working here just told me he is happy trump won.

this asshole came here illegally from el salvador and got citizeship under Reagan's amnesty.

He said, "nobody wants a woman in charge. what did you expect? I'm happy".

@kingrat ugh. My business partner bought a small business - including all their clients - which came with a bunch of little custom software applications. My "part" of the business is upgrading this crap to more modern and standardized crap.

So today.... I've got 4 small client side applications that link Quickbooks to an online system called QuickBase and then generate reports in Crystal Reports.

Somehow, I'm supposed to convert this to C# and run it on a server using a web interface.

After several hours of trouble shooting, I've decided that Crystal Reports is truly the tool of the devil.

@danilo Just wait until you spend a few years working with Angular every day....

@jess in a past life, 20+ yrs ago, I had a friend with a similar problem. For a small fee, one of the local Italian "lenders" had someone visit the guy and have a talk.

I mean... Not suggesting anything, but we literally never saw the guy again.

@workingclasshistory
for those who don't want to go to xitter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing

i wonder if Israelis care that their reputation as a country is permanently tarnished. I mean, I will never buy, sell or work with anyone or any service from that country. I'll never trust anything they have to say or vote for people that support them if there is literally any other acceptable option.

@mike I think the "missing link" is actually getting those embedded posts made, like in a blog or news report or even on other social media, where you literally can drag a twitter widget into your wordpress page and you're done. There needs to be a way you can
1. Drag and drop a mastodon post
2. Somehow make a way to automatically link their instance user to the instance where the post was made. So you can just "reply" without any back and forth.

Once that's in place, I think you'll find more and more people will use it instead of Twitter, simply because a post on Mastodon from a news agency or a person is more likely to be legit and well thought out. Users here have some expectations that simply don't exist on Twitter.