Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es
- the stuff i do
- https://wildweasel486.github.io
He/him. Puzzle-Adventure Hybrid with RPG Elements. Supports 3D Acceleration. He Is Essentially What He Believes. Just in case, 🔞, LGBTQ+ 👍, DOS 👌, 🐂💩👎.
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several hours later here's a writeup on how i did:
https://www.tumblr.com/maplesynth/742691202686730240
spoilers, i didn't recover the whole JPEG. but about half of it is intelligible
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Hey, Fedi admins, go right now and check to make sure that you have caps/limits set on your Object Storage provider so they just stop serving you images instead of charging you $3,000 because some random person in Europe decided to scrape your instance.
Re: https://cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/111937646419975910
This is a really tragic tale (I hope they can get the charge reversed) but right at this moment I want to make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else.
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ADMINS, CLOSE YOUR REGISTRATIONS.
Put them on approval or something for a while. There is a massive spam wave going on by some japanese group. Any instance with open regs is vulnerable. And it's involving an absurd amount of bots.
In this video, for example, while "Wanna cookie?" definitely gets Minnie's attention, in some instances she only gets up or meows back when her person goes "Huh?" for emphasis.
So many different people, presumably people who have never met each other in any form, seem to have independently arrived at going "Mmm?" at their cats to chat with them. Not quite meowing back, but also not quite actual words.
I'm sure there's an entire sub-field of human linguistics around pet-talk. It's fascinating, like an inter-species pidgin language.
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for the people who would rather see me do something productive with my online presence, here, have a Pookachu
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"What would you do about the Internet access for our (yet hypothetical) young teenage kid?"
I wouldn't want them to get hurt online, but I wouldn't want to control their actions either. Banning the thing would not help, but not doing anything about it poses real risks...
Oh wait, isn't it the same with sex ed (and, for example, road rules, or maybe substance abuse, even if to lesser extent)?
You cannot stop young teenagers being interested in relationships. They will try to do their (often stupid) teenage things. What you can do, though, is to educate them. What's safe, and what's not. Why the rules are the way they are. How to avoid risks. How not to ruin someone's life by carelessness.
Apparently there is a whole curriculum "Online safety" posted at gov.uk which sounds absolutely sensible. Whether there are good teachers and materials, and whether parents are aware that internet talk is as important as birds and bees talk, that I don't know.
That makes me think that there's much that still can be done.
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I was thinking about "let's ban all the phones and social media for under-16s" trend. It is true that children are exposed to all sorts of harmful content online. It is also true that for some vulnerable children, online is the only place they can feel safe. It is also so important that being an adult without a smartphone is basically an impossibility.
It is clear that banning phones and social media will not stop many, especially older children, accessing the Internet. It will hurt those who need the access the most.
One potential solution could have been parental and teacher moderation. Who can decide what's good for their child if not their guardian, right? But this is also not great, because there is very real risk of parental abuse (including unhealthy controlling behaviours), as well as potential for undue control from the teachers and maybe even governments (i.e. "report the kid who looked up lgbt topics to authorities").
I was really conflicted, until Atsuko asked me one simple question...
(tbc)
I feel like giving my fedi-followers something exclusive today, so... here's some photographs of a tub of corn nuts.
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Picard management tip: It's okay not to know things. Practice saying "I don't know." Go ahead. Say it.
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moderating is a sucky job that nobody wants. at least, a job that nobody wants to do *right*. if someone *does* want to do that job, probably start examining why, because it's 50/50 whether they're new and unjaded, or they're actually awful at the job and nobody's dared question it to that point.
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I find that recently the #1 criteria on which I pick software, and sometimes the only criteria on which I pick software, is "does using it feel degrading?" https://retro.social/@ieure/111896783289262241
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REPLACE: Replaces files in one directory with files in another directory.
The REPLACE command is used to replace files in one directory with files from another directory. It's often used to update files or synchronize their contents between different locations.
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happy #portfolioday i push pixels with my paws and with code #pixelart #webgbcam
https://maple.pet/art
https://maple.pet/tech
https://maple.pet/webgbcam
- the stuff i do
- https://wildweasel486.github.io
He/him. Puzzle-Adventure Hybrid with RPG Elements. Supports 3D Acceleration. He Is Essentially What He Believes. Just in case, 🔞, LGBTQ+ 👍, DOS 👌, 🐂💩👎.
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Joined Oct 2017
