Gregory's Server
hearing a lot about starter packs on bsky but did u know here we have starter flack. you start, we give you flack
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Just hit publish on a post I've been thinking about writing for years. I know I've had this running through my head for a while now, feels good to write it down. It's about "Complexity"
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 Some of my fav bits from the blog: Is a solution complex because it’s complex for the end user? Is it complex if it’s complex for an API consumer? Is it complex if it’s complex for the person maintaining the API service? Is it complex if it’s complex for someone outside the team maintaining it to understand? [..] There’s a fixed amount of complexity in the problem to be solved, and you can choose to either solve it, or leave it for those downstream of you to solve that problem on their own.  @paul Nice write up. The way I look at complexity is around how many moving parts you need to know about to have a useful mental model of the thing you are dealing with. Symmetry and invariants simplify things. E.g. EKS is the same in every AWS region globally, while a hand crafted k8s cluster in every region would be far more complex to understand. When something breaks an invariant or hidden implementation details become important that adds complexity.  Fair question! So I'll answer it. I refuse to accept that people who work on Fediverse trust & safety full time should have to be inches from financial disaster all the time. As an industry we have to find other ways to pay for stuff. Some Fedi people are so anti-VC and anti-capitalist, that they become anti-commerce, and anti-paying people for their labor. Paying people for their labor is not bad. It's good actually. I really try to hang out in more nuanced modes of rhetoric but: Don’t amplify psychological terrorism by repeating it in social media posts condemning it. Stop. When you do this, no matter your intent, you are helping the worst people by repeatedly exposing the intended targets to the terrorizing messages. Yes, hate campaigns need to be discussed. Not by amplifying the messages themselves across networks rich in their targets.  Terrified people getting constantly re-terrified can’t think clearly. We all need to be thinking as clearly as we can. This was true in 2016 and during the early-pandemic info vacuum and it’s true now.  "People don't want to believe what the country actually is, because if they believe it, they're going to have confront what's in them."  It's like being ok with the guy who raped your daughter because he gives you a discount on car repair. "People don't want to believe what the country actually is, because if they believe it, they're going to have confront what's in them." I ranted about my read-later app shutting down and modern life in general and it is not at all about the election or politics except that I wrote it to distract myself, in case you also wanted a brief distraction: https://phirephoenix.com/blog/2024-11-05/modernity @phire AMEN to all of this. Thanks for writing. (And for all the people who told me to “just host it yourself,” I will quote this passage: “One of the other options Omniverse suggests for moving off of its service is self-hosting, which is akin to telling me to go fuck myself. Self-hosting is great if your hobby is self-hosting things.”  @phire btw I do selfhost things because it's my hobby and I do think about a succession plan now and then, I just don't have any and probably never will, so my services are just for me and family, and they know how to access a local copy anytime (sigh, at least I hope they still do) Electronic Field Trip to the United Nations  In the US, most states have programs that assign volunteer advocates to children and youth in the foster care system (CASA and GAL are the acronyms). Anyone with a clean record w/r/t kids can do the training. It’s the weirdest band-aid on a broken system but until we fix the system, it’s also essential work that helps keep kids from falling through some terrible gaps. I’ve been doing it since 2018 and I can attest that there is a huge need for advocates, especially for people who are anti-racist and committed to protecting LGBTQ kids, and to maintaining kinship bonds whenever it’s possible to do safely. Technically you’re a voice for the kid in court but most of my work has been fixer shit: Calling every practice in a metro area until I can find someone to do a procedure, catching missed documents, making a nuisance of myself when the system drops a ball. @kissane a good friend of ours is going through a nasty divorce w/a narcissist, who in the initial hearing was given almost full custody of their kid & has been poisoning their relationship with the other parent thanks to some missteps by the narcissist & the GAL, our friend now has a protection order against the narcissistic parent; may get full custody & other parent may only get supervised visits I’ve seen firsthand the good these people can do – they’re also tremendously backlogged @kissane Chiming in to say for anyone reading that as a foster parent I have seen first hand that CASA reps are SOOOOO important There is plenty of good advice going around about the big things so here is my small piece: If you’re going to be on social media in the next weeks and months and years, block and mute freely rather than getting into spats and squabbles. Preserve your energy for the work. Keep your powder dry.  @kissane filtering is also good as a spat/squabble prevention measure can't spat over something I didn't see  bah I forgot the patreon CTA at the end and I'm probably not going to be able to edit this for a few hours, I am so bad at doing this as a job. here's the link so I at least put it somewhere adjacent <https://www.patreon.com/creatorglyph> bah I forgot the patreon CTA at the end and I'm probably not going to be able to edit this for a few hours, I am so bad at doing this as a job. here's the link so I at least put it somewhere adjacent <https://www.patreon.com/creatorglyph> @glyph thank you for this!! Took the words out of my mouth and also articulated things I'd been stewing on "Are you trying to use this service? A Wi-Fi or cellular connection is required" Sad news for everyone with a wired Internet connection 😔   I have a hard time believing this, how can anything tell whether I'm connected to my router at home via WiFi or via Ethernet cable? @darius Ooh, my sister wrote a book all about this as it pertains to New England: https://www.amazon.com/Truth-about-Baked-Beans-Washington/dp/1479882763 What do we think will be the US-American millennial equivalent of like.... liver and onions? What I mean is when I was growing up that was a food that was on a lot of restaurant menus but understood to be for Old People Tastes. You don't see it on menus so much these days now that those particular old people are dead. So what food tastes good to my millennial cohort that is going to be seen as gross to kids and young adults in like... 2050?
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@darius Peanuts. It seems like everyone I know with kids has someone in their classroom with a severe allergy to them  @darius air fryer and sous vide recipes will go the way of the aspic, since they're all people trying to figure out new technology and making crimes in the process  @darius I would guess some “mid-century” microwave cuisine/freezer foods would be easy places to watch. TV Dinners have mostly already changed forms and the “classics” are disappearing/only remain for nostalgia; I’ve seen frozen Salisbury steak “patties” directly on hipster menus like liver and onions used to show up/our generation’s shared frozen foods childhood meatloaf nightmare; maybe even some “big” things like pizza rolls or Pop Tarts don’t survive long term. Okay, systems are up and running for https://botsinbox.net. Bot accounts can be bought through my ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/archdog for $1/month/bot. Feedback is very much welcome and wanted! Currently limiting the number of slots until I'm completely confident in how it'll scale.
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 There's a missing word in the Moderated servers section: " This exchange of data can [be] prevented"   @arch When it says "...for me to get back to you with your account details", where does the bot name requesting step come in?
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@seachanger I'm sure bird fedi would be happy to set people up with some starter quacks
@seachanger well actually, here we have gnu + flack + fedi, or as I like to call it, fflackñu.
Let me explain,,,
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