Notices by École des Bro-Arts (aphyr@woof.group)

Oh, okay https://archive.is/okSlz

I am so, SO curious about the "Fediverse Chick" spam campaign. We've suspended, like, a dozen of her accounts so far and she just keeps going. I assume the end goal is getting money out of people, but like, why target Fedi and self-hosting OSS nerds? It's like Joanne the Scammer trying to grift her way through the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone 🤣

Reminds me of Darwin's Hawkmoths, growing incredibly specialized proboscises to suck nectar from equally specialized flowers: https://www.calacademy.org/learn-explore/specimens-in-focus/darwin%E2%80%99s-hawkmoth

For anyone else in health insurance hell:

It happened *again*. After two years of polite phone calls every 2-3 months to my doctor and health insurance, the thing that got me unstuck was writing a polite email to the various CEOs documenting the delays, citing the state law requiring insurers to pay within 30 days, and asking for a written explanation as to why, 695 days later, they hadn't paid. Actual emails and phone calls from competent human beings within a week!

https://aphyr.com/posts/368-how-to-replace-your-cpap-in-only-666-days

I switched to @kagihq a couple months ago and haven't once felt the need to use Google Search since. I feel like there's significantly less LLM slop in their results, and it is so refreshing not to fight through AI summaries and ads. Entirely worth the $10/mo.

Because of reasons, my Netflix account is bound to my friend Rhys' house. At my house the account is my friend Clayton's. Clayton's house is using Bob's account. None of us are willing to fix this musical chairs situation because of how frustrating the re-auth/location binding process is.

I wrote to Ofcom last week asking for guidance for Mastodon instances like woof.group, as the #OnlineSafetyAct comes into effect in March. There's a lot of respects in which we're likely to run afoul of the act, but one of the big ones is that Ofcom's response letter repeatedly explained that any service which allows pornography must perform "highly effective age assurance".

I've written back to ask for clarification, but... I don't see how it's possible to comply here.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/consultations/category-1-10-weeks/statement-age-assurance-and-childrens-access/statement-age-assurance-and-childrens-access.pdf?v=388849#page=15?v=388849

If carcinization is transforming into a crab, ostracization should be transforming into an ostrich

just discovered the JS Date constructor uses zero-indexed months but one-indexed days, what on fucking EARTH

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/Date#monthindex

I have this theory that part of why car drivers rant about cyclists and don't seem to realize how often cars break the law is because when you're in a car you don't actually get to *see* that many cars. You spend most of an urban drive waiting behind other cars. On a bike you're constantly passing them and have lots of chances to see car fuckery.

@dansup on the plus side, now they can pivot the domain to findom services 😆

Never forget: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXmOlCy0oBM

@dansup out of curiosity--I know video is way more expensive to host and serve, so... what's your financial plan for loops? Are you gonna cover server costs out of pocket? Cap signups on the main server?

the future is great

@dansup @shadowwwind baraag's about page still leads with a discussion of the child pornography prevention act of 1996, which, uh, does raise some questions for me on the "sketchy content" front. They still haven't moderated any of the accounts we reported last year for images of adults fucking young children.

@dansup @shadowwwind (I dunno whether this is relevant for fedidb's stats, was just wondering if they'd changed the behavior we banned em for)

@mcc Stern-Gerlach was like day *one* of my first QM course and I remember thinking "Oh, okay, great. They just wanted to come right out of the gate and shatter any expectation we had that our intuition is right."

if you release a .deb that installs cleanly on stock debian stable I will kiss you sweetly while whispering words of affirmation into your ears

I am begging software projects to release programs as tarballs or plain old static binaries. I don't know what a Helm chart is. I am not installing an entire Kubernetes cluster. Docker breaks LXC and firewalls and is constantly breaking for mysterious reasons. I would rather submit myself to hours of `./configure && make && make install` frustration than try to hack through the endless hellscape of containerized deployment systems.

Today in cars: a woman saw me signal to merge into her lane from the bike lane (obstructed by a parked car), sped up to box me out, almost hit the car in front of us, and spent the next 20 seconds screaming at me before I left her behind.

Starting to think I should record these and send a monthly dispatch to city council.

@siege first off, of COURSE your gangs don't say that, those are Brian Jacques' moles from Redwall 🤣

Second, you do NOT have to explain, but adding myself to the ranks of baffled yanks here. I was using a pocketknife for camping & fixing computers at... 10? I still have that knife, along with four others. Use 'em pretty much every day. I don't think I could have done my high school job without 'em.