Notices by Ben Ramsey (ramsey@phpc.social)

Belated Dragon Con photos.
My wife is surrounded by Fraggles! These are all the performers and actual puppets from the new “Back to the Rock” series; Karen Prell is one of the original performers.

Back row (left-to-right): Gobo with puppeteer John Tartaglia, Wembley with Jordan Lockhart (face hidden), Boober with Frank Meschkuleit, and Traveling Matt with Kevin Clash.

Front row (left-to-right): Red with Karen Prell, Liz, and Mokey with Donna Kimball.

#DragonCon #FraggleRock #Muppets #Puppetry

@JessTheUnstill @catsalad This is part of a deliberate effort to lower market rates for software engineers. By flooding the market with laid-off workers, and by labeling many of them as “under performers,” they can drive down salaries across the industry. This is their way of resetting and gaining the leverage in hiring.

#Duolingo, wtf is wrong you?

RFK Jr. is objectively the wrong candidate to run HHS. There is nothing in his background or responses to questions that show he is fit for the position. Are Republicans really that fearful of going against MAGA?

#USPol

@feld @ekis I dunno. I’m pretty negative right now. It’s hard to have hope when you’re chronically depressed on top all this. *waves arms wildly*

@feld @ekis They’re still under the DOJ, right? So, ultimately, they answer to the president. Since Trump signed an EO designating most federal employees as “political,” he can pretty much fire whomever he wants.

@feld @ekis It would have to be Congress, since the president controls law enforcement and the military.

On the little server I have running here at home, I'm now helping @internetarchive back up US Government websites and data.

You can help, too:

1. Download and run the ArchiveTeam Warrior
2. Set the selected project to "usgovernment" (or select US Government from the available projects in the web interface)

I'm running Warrior as a container with podman, but there are various other ways to run it.

More details at https://wiki.archiveteam.org/

This project looks promising:

"Goodnews is a PHP-based social media platform like Mastodon based on the ActivityPub protocol."

Highlights:

- PHP 8.2+, Hyperf, and Swoole
- AGPL 3.0
- ActivityPub
- Mastodon API compatibility
- Backend and frontend are separate projects
- Active development

https://github.com/goodnews-project/goodnews-backend

#PHP #Goodnews #ActivityPub

@BeAware @shanie So, I went through and defederated from all the birdsite crossposters except for bird.makeup. That appears to be the only one that works reliably anyway, and we have over 800 users who follow folks there. My searches look much cleaner. 😁

@BeAware @shanie I don't want to defederate from them for all users on the server, just because they annoy me personally. 😅

@BeAware @shanie I understand. So, in order to avoid seeing all these junk accounts (Twitter cross-posters) in search results, I'd need to suspend the domains at the instance level?

@BeAware @shanie I'm asking from the viewpoint of a user, though. If I, as a user, block a domain, why do accounts from that domain show up in searches?

When I've blocked a domain on Mastodon, like bird.makeup, why do accounts from that domain still show up in searches? That's the reason I blocked it. I don't want my searches to show those accounts.

#MastoAdmin

@alexr @blaise @blogdiva @kissane It won't work here. He's already been re-elected multiple times.

He's been under investigation over the past year for breaking campaign finance laws, but the investigation magically disappeared within days after he proposed this Constitutional amendment. Magic!

@blaise @blogdiva @kissane This is my representative. I've corresponded with him before; he's not welcoming of my input, and he's said as much.

https://ogles.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ogles-proposes-amending-22nd-amendment-allow-trump-serve-third-term

@pomegranate_stew @blaise @blogdiva @kissane It was more of an "I *don't* appreciate your input, and I *won't* do what you ask, and here's why you're wrong and Trump is the greatest president we've ever had."

Seriously, that guy is all in on MAGA. You can't have a reasonable discussion with him about policy on anything.

@wolf480pl As far as I know, ISPs have not been required to block access to this content, though that was the original intent of the status code. In this case, I'm referring to the former: "anyone maintaining a website of a government agency," since these pages and data sets are being removed in response to executive orders.

@wolf480pl In case it's not clear, I posted this in response to specific executive orders issued by the current US president.

If you work in government and are asked to remove content from websites, please use the HTTP status code 451 instead of 404.

451 is the correct status code to use for these cases, and you'll be doing the rest of the country a service by using it.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7725.html