Notices by jack (jackeric@beige.party)

T-shirt courtesy of @heydon has arrived

@foone can you set up port forwarding so we can also type on your keyboard

@stux Who's being forced here?

"You should block [X] because [reason, e.g. they federate with Threads]. We block anyone federated with Threads" is no more dictatorial than saying "Don't tell other servers who to block, don't warn them you block servers that federate with Threads".

People can run servers as they please, federate and block as they please, develop policies and red lines between themselves. Defederation cuts both ways.

@goatsarah @fesshole except youtube ads

I spent an afternoon configuring a pihole just to learn it does nothing for youtube ads

@fesshole you don't work with statisticians then - if you did this every day for two weeks the odds would be 1/1000, for six months it's be 1/100. (I think.)

@cwebber (presses button that makes the mouse spherical and in a vacuum)

@cwebber is today a good day to ask the fediverse how activitypub works?

@jdp23 @mekkaokereke Treating knife crime as a quasi-epidemic was remarkably effective in Scotland. It's really exciting to consider that other social ills could be treated the same way!

@libreleah q: what amount of 9020s is the correct amount for one household to own

@goatsarah @christineburns we've recently bought a small hybrid but thinking a plug-in hybrid would be preferable for the next car - with a larger battery there's more scope for regen

as to driving trucks the length of Germany... needs an overhead power wire instead of batteries, also steel wheels, on rails... ;)

@goatsarah @christineburns fond happy funtimes fun happy fun memories of driving an automatic car through the mountains of Australia without thinking very hard about it, to be viscerally informed of what brake fade is

streaming services in rural Scotland

It should be an accessibility requirement for films and TV to provide separate volume control for music, dialogue, and sound effects