Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

And yes, I *could* stand to post on Here more. Maybe what I need is more cool people to follow. Assuming the cross-instance follow function works. I keep running into instances where it doesn't. ​

i am, in fact, posting this here instead of on bsky (where it's more relevant) because bsky is having some bizarre problems and not letting my posts go all the way through.

in fact, the only kind of community moderation that "works" on a huge website is the kind where the mods are completely isolated from their users, unable to perceive what their populace find wrong with the experience, never seeing anything from their point of view. but of course, the kind of people who want to run a site that big are the kind who *want* to be citizens of it, which means they're inevitably going to be insufferable asshats.

there can be a website where the mods are well respected by its populace, but it has to be a site where the mods are citizens of the town that they run. they must be capable of being friendly with all of their people. which means such a site is unsustainable if it gets too big. as soon as the mods are unable to connect with their users, they cannot serve them. thus, a citizen-mod is incompatible with infinite-growth social media.

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/shelter/index.html - Alright, I've sat on this for long enough; I added a new section to my webspace, about all of my weird computers that I own, the naming scheme I have assigned them, and photographs of (most of) them.

Suppose I have plenty more tape rips to do in the near future. Best that I declutter around Hvergelmir so I can keep the bin nearby to it again.

i have had cause to save this image of John Madden a la Apple II to my phone and I am now deciding to make it everyone's problem

even if the movie fantasy of being able to steal and field-strip an attacker's gun is highly unlikely for 99% of gun varieties, knowing what a shooter needs to do in order to use his gun is useful for knowing how to prevent them from doing so, how to make a gun (relatively) safe.

If the worst of the worst of the worst happens, knowing how to fire said gun may be useful, but more important than that IMO is knowing how to *stop* said gun from firing and endangering anyone else.