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 So, when you block an instance as a mastodon administrator, on account of that instance spewing spam like mad and also none of your users following anybody there, this will NOT resolve any of the >100 reports your users have openend against that instance, despite the reports now being useless. And of course, Mastodon still has no bulk editing of reports, so you die the death of a thousand ~~papercuts~~ report-clicks … or you just add report-resolving to your management script: Imagine wondering “When’s the next time that Christmas will be a Tuesday/Wednesday, for those sweet optimal public holidays (Jan 1st being exactly a week later)?” Now imagine asking, idk, google or Siri or god forbid an actual calendar, instead of turning to the best tool for the job: systemd. 
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  I'm home sick, so I'm naturally reading HTML specs and composing my latest rant at how frustratingly half-baked HTML5 is, particularly with respect to forms and inputs. (I have like three drafts of this rant lying about, time to add a fourth …) The officially best news of the $interval: World of Goo 2 is now out (and you can buy it directly from the publisher, DRM free):
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 @rixx I've been in this tunnel. It's very cool (both meanings). IIRC portions of it were used to hide locals from invaders during one of the world wars.  Thanks, that is indeedy cool. We visited this antique water system in China, also cool. They grew grapes and watermelon, and water ran past every home - in a desert! At night people dragged their beds over the small canals to sleep more comfortably.  Really really cool use of GPT-3: Getting it to explain code/maths to you. Always with the usual caveats – but still, seems like a really cool way to get unstuck on understanding something: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Jul/9/gpt-3-explain-code/ and, related, a way to get it to disregard bs questions: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ADwayvunaJqBLzawa/contra-hofstadter-on-gpt-3-nonsense You know how the Eiffel Tower won the Grand Prize at the 1889 World Fair? Well, it had to share the glory with a book. Not any book: A book ENTIRELY WOVEN IN SILK. You heard right. And nerds, get this: All pages of this book were produced on the Jacquard loom in 1889, using thousands (200k-500k) of punch cards. Only 50-60 copies were made. > German lesson of the day: "übermorgen". "Morgen" can both mean "tomorrow" and "morning", and you probably know "über". Together, it means "amazing morning". Used in a sentence: "alter, ich hatte einen über morgen!" – "dude, I had an amazing morning" |
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Also pictured: I did end up closing around 50 reports manually before coming to my senses and automating the whole thing.
I can already tell you that the next step will be an option to close all reports against an instance *while suspending the reported users* when we limit an instance for spam.