Notices by Kay Ohtie, Bat-Yotie! (kayohtie@blimps.xyz)

I am once again begging people to create written manuals on websites for software-y things they make, and not just video tutorials. Tutorials are not reference guides, and videos are not ctrl+F -able.

@fribbledom My justification is always "If it saves me from the potential misses of human error it's worth the time."

@blumlaut Should be part-time squeaky... that is being based on nothing other than personal bias x3

@FediTips It makes complete sense to do so, but it should definitely give warning, that's the weird part.

But the reset definitely makes sense, otherwise you could change what someone voted for, and even if others couldn't see which, they can, and it could be hurtful.

@BeAware that's why I put the word in quotes to try and convey sarcasm with it: I'm surprised it's 'playing' by AP instead of just skipping that to snag info. I'm saying "I don't know if merely blocking the domain is enough because it might be doing that to appear like there's a choice when it's actually snagging things via the API anyway". I'm trying to be even more cautious than merely blocking it in Mastodon. There is nothing polite about these things, and many folks are so "it's on the Internet I should have access" about it that a domain block in Mastodon isn't enough.

@BeAware surprised it's being that 'polite' instead of just snorfing the public API; if it had a known distinct user agent I could add it to my block at the Nginx level

@BeAware is there a known user agent?

@tchambers this may have been corrected but the apple one is Applebot-extended; the short one one just catches the normal quick indexer for previews. Fine if you're pattern matching via user agent to block but might not pass in robots.txt I think?

"Quiet Public" is just begging for "Quite Public" misreading and intense confusion over why it's a moon. Maybe it's exhibitionism? Maybe it's Maybelline.

@mathias Upcoming Masto update changes A->B

@mathias 🌔 is where after dark posts go :3

@masayume @thomasfuchs As far as I saw those "3D-printed" houses are solid concrete construction and very expensive, because that much concrete is pretty expensive. Also shit for maintenance, can't easily do wiring/piping because it can only be run either on layers and laid-over, and thus embedded, or run between drywall and the concrete. Can of course drill through but that's a long drilling distance!

We were promised cheap housing as a result but now it's more expensive than ever and being snatched up with this bullshit built-to-rent trend, with entire developments springing up marketing their new housing to rental firms with the hopes they'll be bought at even-more-inflated prices purely to rent, meanwhile often sitting empty because the prices are unafforable to so many, and those who can afford are the ones running the scams to begin with. Still waiting to see what inevitably bursts that bubble explosively, because surely CNN or whoever else will blame millenials or "the 99%" or whatever the hell scapegoat for the bad investment choices of others.

I'm just so salty about the housing in particular as I watch my town being transformed into an empty husk of a hellhole where my rent costs keep rising because new units are being built with higher rent, even though my unit hasn't got nearly the treatment to deserve those kinds of price increases. And even though I can afford it, I have friends living here who can't, and are frightened with nothing else they can really do. They already live in some of the cheapest housing in a "low-cost-of-living" area. So what do they do now?

Cozy cuddles with your boyfriend are lovely, especially when you can be the cushion he lounges on! :orange_balloon_heart:

Cute piece from Konory on FA of myself and my lovely @mathias :kay_blush: Glad I can be so comfy!

Original upload: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55503386/

#inflatable #inflation #balloonie #RubberFur #FurryArt

@SuperMoosie @byjp @zatnosk

Considering each instance can have its own terms of service, this is a legal space that is largely untested currently. My thoughts are that the legality will boil down to "follow each instance terms", but it's an amazingly complex thing even there. And I say this even as an instance owner who thinks that bridgy should be explicitly opt-in either per-post, per-user, or per-instance.

Per-instance, to me, kind of makes the MOST sense for having an 'opt-out' tag in the bio -- each instance owner is then making their own users aware of the policy and can give them advance notice if they don't wish to be included. Just having a global "we can have your information even if you're unaware of it" policy is half the problem of the current tech industry snarfing up damn everything as if it's theirs to use, causing all the LLM garbage issues today.

Hell, the fact I'd have to end my wifi SSID in _at least_ two weird tag things, and one of them MUST be the last one, to avoid my wifi SSID, BSSID, and location getting snarfed by mapping cars (google, MS, etc) is just part of this. I have to take up limited characters in my bio for each service I want no part in? I have to make my SSID ugly just so a corp won't use info I didn't consent to them using? While I like the idea of being able to follow friends of mine who are on AT instead of fedi, and refuse to use fedi, it's not worth it being so open; I always figured there would be an opt-in mechanism, not yet more opt-out stuff.

C'mon like, haven't we seen how many times people offering only opt-out are shown the distaste for this? =/ 'bridge' or not, it's still technically a specialized service, it's not transparent just because things are duplicated both ways.

@cwebber isn't that like star trek

@thezoq2 30-40 olives, the original~ https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hungry-but-too-tired-to-cook-try-30-to-40-olives

@arch @soatok even without pay cuts, often "you must come to an office" also means "you must effectively make less by living somewhere with a universally-higher CoL", between the rent and essentials. I'm grateful that I'm working at a university I live near that also is in a low CoL area, but I also think they shouldn't only offer hybrid WFH.

Found in a food humor group #potatoes

@dansup Ooh! What framework/language will this be for?

@feditips Aye, I know that's the case with Mastodon, have been running blimps.xyz since 2018, I just wasn't sure how stuff was working with kbin and similar. I'll have to look into them, especially if either supports SSO via OAuth/OIDC, so I could potentially run an instance for my users on here ^^