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 Hey artists, my partner is on mastodon.art and can't see, like, 50% of the federation because her instance has blocked so many other instances. Is there another, better, art-focused instance that she can move to? It's frustrating to both of us but obviously mostly her. UPDATE: she moved over to @hnrfineart! Thanks everyone for the helpful suggestions! Reward yourselves with a little bit of ice cream or some sherbet today! 🙏 😀 As someone who spent a large portion of '98 and '99 making sure shit didn't break on Y2K, I'd like to extend a very heartfelt FUCK YOU to HBO for greenlighting a piece of shit documentary that suggests that effort wasn't necessary.
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@jgilbert 98-99 I sat next to the group that was doing Y2K work for a massive national phone and data carrier, and those guys were working their asses off. My experience was that I spent a very dull 6 months going though COBOL code, checking for date fields. Changing YY to YYYY. They may have been non-critical systems but a lot of the telco's billing could have fouled up and caused financial issues. Unix code has its own Y2K38 problem. Could be lots of last minute work for programmers on those legacy systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem#Similar_date_bugs
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@jgilbert@mastodon.social okay but seriously people even here is not safe, cops can just walk into a data center, ram dump the box, and walk off with the entire database and search for abortion with keywords. USE SIGNAL AND OTHER ENCRYPTED APPS WHEN TALKING ABOUT ABORTION |
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@jgilbert does she *need* to be on an arty instance? Does she follow the local stream rather than the people she has click-followed?
@jgilbert @Kitty Runs mastoart.social, who was very supportive of my drawings for September and October challenges!