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

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.

@siege oh wow now that I'm reading https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives I've definitely broken UK knife law. I usually carry a Leatherman Wave multi-tool on long trips for repairs, and both primary blades lock. It's a safety thing!

Again maybe this is a US vs Canada thing but in the US, capital gains and losses apply to the *difference* between basis price (what the stock was valued at when the company gave it to you) and sale price. You only get the illustrated scenario if the stock the company gives you has a nominal FMV of ~$0, and you go on to sell it for $1M.

Aside--this is part of why startup options occasionally bankrupt employees! You can wind up owing huge tax bills on grants of illiquid or worthless stock.

I keep seeing this post today so it might be a good time to remind folks that in the US stock grants and RSUs are considered income, and you are taxed on that income just like other forms of compensation. If you get a grant of stock with fair market value of $1M, you're taxed on $1M of income. RSUs, options, forward exercising, etc. shift around *when* and how you're taxed, but like... stock is not tax-free lol.

https://mstdn.ca/@ned/112298407262329100