Notices by FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social), page 8

Something I haven't seen mentioned about #TheBadSpace: it's an algorithmic solution to a human problem. Just exactly what people claim they don't want anymore, but now a bunch of people are lurching eagerly toward it because integrating TheBadSpace's blocklist is a simple action they can take that they believe will innoculate them from blame for racist bigotry.

@goatsarah @fne8w2ah
I loved magsafe for the first couple years I used it; then I started to see them fraying & breaking at the connector. It was almost the rule. (I ordered power bricks for Macs for an ad agency for about 8 years, so I saw this a lot.)

Mind you *mine* never went out, so I think this was a user behavior thing, but I would say they were poorly designed for the behavior of most of my users.

@goatsarah This is a fun question. Unless I'm mistaken the answer for North/South America is probably Prince Edward Island, in the Canadian Maritimes. There are much bigger islands (e.g. Baffin Island), some of those even more important (e.g. Newfoundland or Long Island [in New York state]). Caveat that I haven't looked at Tierra del Fuego to see how much of that one can get to by bridge/tunnel.

@scr
Either I didn't see it or I didn't think it had a bridge to the mainland.
@goatsarah

@goatsarah @cy
The "bug" in this case is a major conceptual flaw in the design, which basically was to create a stupid-simple CENTRALIZED blocklist aggregation tool that had no facility for documentation, review, appeal, auditing, moderation, etc. Basically "minimum viable product" [MVP] applied to a case where applying MVP methodology was guaranteed to cause harm.

@goatsarah please tell me it wasn't about admitting which shower you used.

@id1om
Was the writer also an advocate for uni-directional cables?
@goatsarah

@ZachWeinersmith
The "obsession" is that it's local, with all that entails: It stocks what the customers need/want, the owner knows a lot of those customers. IOW the "obsession" is that the bodega is part of the fabric of the community in a way that a corporate chain store hardly ever is.

The size of course is a function of real estate cost - so if you're looking at something larger, it's gotta have either higher margins, more volume, or both.

@goatsarah They're not urban but there's a species of Tasmanian parrot that is absolutely not to be fucked with. They're like crows joined the mafia & got elected mayor.

"#CollidedWithSurface" is the new "Crashed."

@KimPerales
John Bull (@garius) also has a Masto, & posted the same-ish thread there:
https://mastodon.me.uk/@garius/110775069963968471

@goatsarah people can compensate for a fair amount of retinal damage without being aware of it. E.g. I seem to have a fairly large blank spot in the right visual field of my right eye & I cannot make myself consciously aware of it. I only know it's there because of stuff suddenly becoming visible (like moving cars <AHEM/>) that I ought damn well have seen.

@feditips This was a good design decision for accessibility & usability. We do complain sometimes about Mastodon's support for #a11y, but there are many small decisions like this that demonstrate people did *want* to do the right think.

@IamAcand @feditips
If you follow the tag you'll find posts about digital accessibility. 'a11y' is a #numeronym for 'accessibility'. It dates back to 140 character Twitter & it's how most folks posting about accessibility tag their posts.

Numeronyms use the first & last characters of a term to bookend a numeral representing the number of characters in between. E.g. 'accessibility' reduced to 'a11y', which is a big deal if your trying to communicate in coherent 140 or 280 char chunks.

@aswath
Where's the 'approximate' & 'rough' language coming from? If that's actually written into documentation, it should be struck - the limit is deterministic. It could *appear* rough or approximate because things don't take up the same number of characters they appear to (e.g. all URLs being 23 chars*), but AFAIK it's a hard limit.
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*also I've been told but haven't verified that each emoji eats 2 chars?

@IamAcand @feditips

TIL that when you're blocked it doesn't immediately remove the blocker's posts from your timeline or mentions.

EDIT: Doesn't remove them from your history, either, which is fascinating. If I had more time I'd want to figure out how that works. Seems to me it would imply that blocked status is controlled at post level, which seems like it can't be true. Maybe the history is just cached?

@goatsarah convenient how the headline omits the fact that it's being withdrawn for violating standards of informed consent. Or that those were far from the only criticisms. No, it's all just "backlash."🙄

@goatsarah ah so THAT's what it was about.
I think I remember Ken from Metafilter back in the day & if I'm remembering the right guy, he got into lots of fights where he was clearly framing himself as the noble advocate for frank speech.
I find his legal perspective valuable so I grin & bear the nonsense [though had not prev seen the transphobia apologia, which might change things]; that said he is far too settled in his own sense of righteousness for my taste.

@goatsarah @helpers
I didn't realize you had open reg. Because it's a 'dyndns.org' subdomain I always assumed it was on personal hardware somewhere!

@goatsarah
I'm glad you're...um...appreciating?...it. It's EXTREMELY Scandinavian & that doesn't appeal to everyone.
@mattb