Notices by Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire: (mwl@io.mwl.io)

@miah @ax3

Yep! A CoC as simple as "Joe and Jane have the responsibility to call you on bigotry and to kick you out if you don't behave" makes certain people lose their minds.

"Oh, ads don't put that much burden on your browser! You're exaggerating how bad they are!"

@feld @dvl @forquare

I like it as well.

I'd shortlist it for a new jails book, but me covering a jail management tool is a way to make that tool implode. :flan_despair:

@babe

Never, NEVER trust a poet.

Or any literary figure, really. Nobody who puts words in a row can be trusted.

Especially poets. Smug bastards.

Pondering moving my web server out of the US.

The catch is, I have my own bookstore. It uses Paypal and Stripe. As I understand it, if the site is hosted in another country, then I have to consider that country's laws as well as those here. Which is not unreasonable.

But how much overhead do I want to cope with?

If Stripe & Paypal turned on me, I'd basically be sunk anyway.

@annika ah, but if you read this book in any version but the official CIA declassified PDF, you're missing out on the full experience!

@annika fortunately, that book's available all over the place.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

@domi @lanodan @jessienab

please do write this up!

I started poking at what it would take to put a web site at 3.82.139.23.in-addr.arpa. Seems like there's a lot of annoying footgun protection here...

A parroty error. 🦜

SWMBO just got a phone call.

Apparently she is being investigated for her DEI habits, and owes $1000 in gift cards.

@mWare I ain't going near it.

I tug the door down and it launches back up. The damn thing is spring-loaded, clearly a job for a pro.

Most authors: "I want to become everything to everybody!"

Not me. I want to become more and more fiercely myself to such an extent that I become nothing to anybody. #writing #goals

I grew up around these people. They cut off anything that doesn't fit.

When they're finished with the LGBT folks, they are coming for us.

I suggest you fight them here and now, instead of when you're alone.

Get offline and join an existing organization. There are several in your neighborhood.

I don't trust computers. I assume anything I put on a computer will be read by my worst enemies.

But things are bad enough, I finally installed Signal.

The sysadmins fight the network team, the network fights the sysadmins, and everybody hates the DBAs.

#sysadmin sorts, make your job a little easier. Learn a wee bit of networking.

"Networking for System Administrators, 2nd ed" is open for sponsorship. Print sponsors get an exclusive challenge coin.

https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/n4sa2e-sponsor/

Networking knowledge is the first step in coming together with your colleagues. Afterwards, form a union and go after the real enemy.

I didn't plan on this, but it turns out that releasing my new book on running your own email server was SUPER TIMELY. #sysadmin

https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ryoms

be sure to offer every Tesla you see an Elon Salute.

Tonight at dojo:

Them: "What do you do for a living."

Me: "I stand alone in a room and tell lies."

don't say you're self-employed.

say "this worker owns the means of production."

No, no, young (and probably male, probably white) writer, those women are not robbing you of your success.

If you are not successful, it's because you're either not a good enough writer, or because you haven't written enough. Probably both.

It's not enough to be a better writer than Robert A Heinlein. Novels improve every year. You must become a better writer than N K Jemisin.

If you don't understand why NKJ and the rest of the current crop of writers are so good, you don't understand storytelling.

This has been a public service announcement from the Successful Professional Male Writers Association.