Notices by Rob Carlson (vees@epistolary.org), page 2

@BeAware I was having dumb issues related to my self-hosted S3 bucket being stupid, so I just happened to notice them filling the 'ingress' queue since it was already jammed up with failing images

@BeAware Yeah that might be the last bit of the puzzle

@BeAware A follow quite a few prolific posters. It's possible that's what happens when someone turns off federation on their Threads account

@BeAware It'd be in your access.log for ngnix, just thousands of calls from facebookextua to /inbox in a row.

Is Threads dumping a massive amount of /inbox posts on anyone else's instance?

This gem just came through my LinkedIn feed.

Please don't teach kids about EBITDA. Teach them about unions, collectives, and revolution. Then when they finally learn about value extraction from worker exploitation they'll realize how unnatural it is.

I was 35 before a CFO explained EBITDA to me and I'm still bitter that it's something taking up space in my brain.

@BeAware My kids like it so I play along. Easy enough to play without spending money if you live close to a major population center. But I'm still pretty cynical about it.

Astonished that #pokemongo didn't find a way to incorporate (monetize) the #eclipse into their game for U.S. players today.

@thomasfuchs Looks like the function keys match the brown of the power button on the display

@thomasfuchs Honestly just the little plastic thing that came with WordPerfect 5.1 would be nice

@thomasfuchs That's the worst take I've heard yet, but I guess the bad take machine really just started churning a few hours ago

@thomasfuchs Ban phones

That disturbance in the force you feel is a few thousand instance admins around the world feeling pretty smug right now. #Facebook #Outage #MastoAdmin

@thomasfuchs I could do just with a single numeric scoreboard showing me how many times I have favored a post by that person. Anything less than one and it’s not necessary to engage.

Please invest in my new app which detects brick and mortar chain restaurant surge pricing and notifies local food truck operators of an arbitrage opportunity in real time.

Mastodon users:
“I don’t trust Twitter because it’s not distributed infrastructure.”
“I don’t trust Bluesky because it’s not real distributed infrastructure.”
“I don’t trust Threads because it’s not real distributed infrastructure.”

Mastodon’s distributed infrastructure:

Microsoft: I swear have no knowledge about you besides what you tell me.

Microsoft: I insist I have no knowledge of your location.

Microsoft: The weather in Parkville, Maryland where you are is sunny and 35 degrees.

When your quality assurance team says internationalization is tested, maybe don’t just take their word for it. #QA #i18n #ASCII

@briankrebs If the WH and Secret Service was affected enough by a swatting attack that it became a headline, how the heck are individual citizens supposed to manage the risk?

@GottaLaff Fam, you've got 18,000 followers. If 0.01% of them are super mega asshole reply guys, you're gonna at least get 2 eye-watering messages a day, not even counting the folks who seagull swoop in on a boost just to shit on you. I'm guessing the ratio is much higher. The 99.99% of us just love your posts quietly in the background and appreciate your time and attention. Keep up the good work.