15 minute win: secured Next: Fix Sarah's desk phone Followed by: Fix zonk's desk phone Brought to you by: Ruin everything by moving the PBX to the ✨cloud✨
The physical machines are being moved to a different location. I am being transported to a secure location by @w0rm . I swear it is not a CIA black site; you have no reason to believe me when I say that.
This will happen Wednesday night, in the wee hours after the day rolls over and becomes Thursday. There will be some travel time and also some time required to set everything back up. Some of the logistics are going to be solved on-site. Transport time will be at least a day, and then, in all likelihood, it will require most of the next day before FSE is back up. It might take longer, it might take less time, but at least 36 hours of downtime. I will be doing the physical move myself (because I am paranoid and I do not trust anyone else to take care of my machines) and will retain physical custody of the machines throughout. During the downtime, I will be posting from @p with @p as secondary backup. I will be using FediBBS (which I am currently using for this post) for the most part, because this enables me to not use a browser. (I might hack on it at a gas station if I want to do something and FediBBS doesn't do it.) I'll reply with the source tarball hosted on not-FSE (because it is anyone's guess whether it will be fetchable during the downtime and also because the "interject" feature is hilarious).
If you do not have an alt and you wanna be able to continue to talk to people on fedi, you should get an alt, and put the alt in the bio so people can look at your FSE account and determine that you're you. There's poa.st, there's annihilation.social, there's ryona.agency, there are a lot of instances. There's an export option in the settings that will let you download the list of people you are following, and other servers will let you upload it.
Because of the fuzzy timeline, you can use https://fedilist.com/instance/recent-changes?host=fsebugoutzone.org to see when FSE is back up. If you want to have something automatic happen, you can use https://fedilist.com/instance/recent-changes/rss?host=fsebugoutzone.org . If you have your alt follow either me or @warrantcanary (which I'll trigger as soon as FSE is up again unless there is something that occurs that makes me no longer want to trigger it, in which case you *should* start to worry), then that will probably be faster than FediList, because FSE will be in FediList's "lazarus" queue, which is the slow queue for instances that have been down a little while.
A lot of the media on media.fse will still be up, but a lot of it will be busted. git.fse will be down, blog.fse will be down, etc. Most of the shit I do will be down, because everything is in this cabinet because I'm goddamn paranoid. fedilist.com will still be up but the queue will be jammed somewhat; I think that's literally the only site I have that will still be up. (Though some deployment quirks will result in me having to fiddle with some stuff today so that I can ensure that it stays up, because it's using media.fse for its bulk storage. I'm not sure if I wanna try to move media.fse or if I wanna just have the FediList crawlers point at a different host; in either case, I'd been planning to move media.fse so maybe I should just do that. But the idea is that fedilist.com should still be up.)
Also the FediList hosting, I should point out, is very generously provided by @graf through CrunchBits because he loves the fediverse. Poast accepts donations: https://poa.st/donate/crypto . If you've got some spare BTC, I am currently whoring: 1BZz3ndJUoWhEvm1BfW3FzceAjFqKTwqWV .
just btw, this is them telling me to make the place they're now writing essays about telling people to report so.... really brings up questions as to whether `jahlaric` (aka `acepopcorn`) is acting in good faith.
also, here is them reacting to me taking them up on this promise. just btw.
are you *absolutely sure* I'm the bad guy? Don't look at what they say, look at what they do. What they're doing is not what a good-faith actor would do.
Has anyone else noticed this pattern? An excerpt from a conversation I'm having...
"The word "community" is the red flag by itself.
It's like someone saying they need money for "medicine". The use of the word "medicine" rather than any of its synonyms is the giveaway that you're being emotionally manipulated. "Community" is the same way.
A normal person starts a group. Someone looking to manipulate you "cultivates a community""
What's also funny (and sad) is that these people think I'm being absolutely nasty and going no holds barred. They've outright called me a bully despite allowing people to abuse me for over a year and continuing to allow such abuse even when I'm no longer allowed to be present. Oh, and VKEYSCORE revealing some really really deep-seated homophobia.
Nah dude, I'm keeping *most* things back and off the table. Ekko wouldn't fight dishonorably unless he absolutely had to, and unlike you guys, I *actually* try to be more like him.
@zonk Something that boomers will do is when they order a new car, they have it written into the sales contract that the car will be free from all logos and advertisements that didn't come from the factory.
Plenty of copypasta around the internet about what ensues when the dealership does it anyway and the boomer refuses to take delivery without getting the crap removed, some free stuff, *and* money off the car because of all the adhesive that's left behind.
Because the alternative is just walking away from the made-to-order (and therefore custom) vehicle, and a contract saying it's A-OK.
@taylan@light >Reddit is probably like 1000x the size of Poast, so one could argue that they have more responsibility.
Poast also makes absolutely no claims to be a moral paragon, doesn't sell advertisements, and explicitly bills themselves as controversial.
Reddit's primary domain is #363 on Akamai's AkaRank. poa.st isn't even in the top million.
I'm also absolutely positive if someone was making explicit calls to violence against feds (you know, fedposting) that @graf would nuke it just like CP
A reasonable man forced to do unreasonable things.Me loving Ekko just as he is has made a lot of people (fake fans) very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. They hate Ekko; I'm just the last person standing in the way."The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." --George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"