Notices by Esprit de Vore (aphyr@woof.group), page 2

I'm with @marcprecipice on this: I've been a cyclist my whole life and getting an ebike this year has been game-changing. It's the fastest, most predictable way to get around the city. It hauls great. Everything I love about bikes, but better. They're just so much fucking fun. https://jalopnik.com/i-bought-an-e-bike-and-its-now-my-entire-personality-1851039791

I was a motorcyclist for six years--it's everything I loved about riding a moto, but it weighs 50 lbs, costs less, is more maneuverable, runs near-silent, and I can park it anywhere.

When I wound up in the suburbs of Cincinnati I drove for five years. I still have a car for inter-city travel, backpacking, hauling lumber etc, but the ebike is better for 95% of trips. It's almost always faster. You're never stuck in traffic or cut off by a street fair. Parking is so much easier and cheaper.

This feels like an @mcc gig

Hell yeah, we finally got a queer leather pixelfed instance! https://gear.pictures/

I cannot emphasize enough how fucking awful the SQL standard's definition of isolation levels is. Ambiguous in like three different ways, fundamentally broken, and we've known it for TWENTY FIVE YEARS. Every time I talk about an SQL database I have to explain the N different interpretations of the standard and show how a rules lawyer would try to defend batshit behavior. I cannot wait for it to be hurled into the sun and replaced with something that actually makes sense.

Building ridiculous spaceships, as one does #starfield

COVID negative but kennel cough has me down for the count! Gradually working through the pile of cleaning and the email/todo backlog from the last 12 days (and letting Starfield consume my brain, as one does)

@siege oddly menacing out of context 😅

That's not to say shared blocklists are a flawed project that should be torn down altogether: they're useful for all kinds of reasons. But I think anyone who's read "Seeing Like a State" will see in this example a system which--to obtain centralized legibility of a rhizomatic network--necessarily makes compromises which distort its view. It's not necessarily obvious to someone browsing these lists that a single-user instance was weighted identically to one with eight thousand MAUs.

The Tier 3 blocklist comprises instances blocked by 2+ council instances. It looks like Oliphant stopped using that single-user instance as an input in May, which bumped woof.group off Tier 3. Oliphant also removed the unified-max blocklist (instances blocked by any council instance) around the same time.

We're still silenced by mastodon.art (nudes, maybe?) but they're the only council member still blocking woof.group. We're off the tier-3 blocklist for now.

https://codeberg.org/oliphant/blocklists/src/commit/75b6e9bfee20df62772682c5c30decf549264edc/blocklists/mastodon/mastodon.art.csv

One of the nice things about Fedi is that we get to make nuanced, local decisions about community norms. We're a leather bar, and .art is is welcome to decide they don't want our butts & bondage in their metaphorical backyard. That's OK!

But I do think it's worth keeping in mind that the social and statistical mechanisms of shared blocklists both erase the local nuance & historical context that goes into defederation decisions, and introduce new biases: whose perspective counts and how much.

https://oliphant.social/@oliphant/110756216392519390

Fun story about systems teleology: from January through May the system Oliphant designed for sharing blocklists placed woof.group on their tier-3 blocklist. One of their "Fedi Council" members was a single-user instance that blocked a bunch of queer sex-positive instances. This also affected pettingzoo.co, sinblr.com, kinky.business, tech.lgbt, bearhole.gay, restraint.social, and h5q.net.

https://codeberg.org/oliphant/blocklists/src/commit/a14eae4d2e9bdc083c4df324c450937b40d163bf/blocklists/_unified_tier3_blocklist.csv

I didn't think this was possible but Clojure error messages have actually gotten *worse*. What person has ever gone "you know what I want to do when I make a syntax error? Go cat some random file instead of scrolling up."

like I've been at this over a decade, I know enough about the compiler to *sort* of spin a story about why this error looks this way, but it's so, so infuriating

This took me a while to figure out and I'm still not sure how to put it into words, but it's been on my mind a lot the last few years:

"Community" isn't a label you adopt or a party you show up to. It's what you bring to the table.

If you want to feel connected when you walk into the bar, you have to introduce yourself to people and make conversation. If you want to play, you have to approach and ask for what you want. If you want a certain kind of event, you gotta organize, donate, volunteer.

One of the flaws I took when rolling my character was seeing Warriors of Virtue (1997), which causes me to spontaneously take 2d8 psychic damage every eighteen months due to remembering Warriors of Virtue exists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4STNypFBh0

@shock impossible to describe, you just have to see it

I love how every two years systemd manages to render everything I knew about linux networking obsolete, or better yet, makes it so those commands/systems still exist but are now fighting with or interposed upon by some novel network service I've never heard of, truly outstanding, love too sysadmin

made the mistake of trying to use docker and now somehow I have a process running in a container running in a cgroup managed by docker, and which exits if I stop the docker service, but which `docker container ls -a` and `docker ps` disavow any knowledge of.

I know this is a "kids get off my lawn" thing but as an aging sysadmin how does anyone put up with this bullshit? This cannot possibly solve more problems than it creates!

@mastohost @FourBitDaddy @ytetic I think the issue here is old posts rather than (or in addition to?) avatars--older woof.group posts stored on other servers reference cdn.masto.host, which isn't serving our media any more.