Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

@hankg This is a very funny thread. They're blaming PostgreSQL instead of admitting that the software is doing poor database management. Admin acting like cleaning up the database is impossible.

Getting a COVID shot has always had some gross side effects for me, but one of the worst is how sore it makes my arm.

Recently got another booster, and the clinician pinched my arm very hard and the typically painless jab hurt way worse than any of the others. I was cursing this guy under my breath as I left thinking he had multiplied my soreness.

But I'll be damned, it hasn't been sore at all! His method appears to have some merit! Going back to him for the next one for sure.

Every single article critical of Mastodon: "Woah, it isn't just one monolithic website? Someone should fix that!"

@Supership79 It's a damn good movie too. It doesn't discuss gender identity like we do today, but it's excellent representation for its time!

This is why I have a general distrust of Pleroma users. I don't care that it is "more lightweight" than Mastodon. I don't care that it has extra features and multiple frontends.

Its Nazis all the way down. Even the official Pleroma website recommends Nazi-friendly instances, and their devs are openly friendly with out-and-proud Nazis.

Pleroma Dev and "Gleasonator" Admin, Alex Gleason on his blog.

Vs.

on Pleroma...

#FuckTERFs #FuckNazis

@Davidlaw @monkeyninja @BlackAzizAnansi For starters, when people bring it up, white people start asking a bunch of dismissive questions like "Blame who?" or "What barriers?", instead of believing that there's a systemic problem that people of color might face.

@annaleen I have heard of this incident before, but I can't find any articles about it. If you have more information to share, I would like to read more about this.

@xoder I have seen it myself 😬

Twitter folks: Unless you are actually a displaced person, please stop referring to yourselves as "refugees".

You didn't live on Twitter. You were not forced from your home.

You've just switched your preferred microblogging platform. Realistically, you shouldn't have any plans to go back to Twitter, so it doesn't even work as a metaphor.

Call yourself a "migrant". That gets the point across without being insensitive.

@robertomurta I use this trick regularly when I'm dealing with a VPS that's basically scratch space. Servers that don't do any damage when they break beyond annoying me personally.

It's definitely not in-production advice.

@TheGentYYC “The only way we ever have a Republican president is the Electoral College”

Admitting that their party is democratically unelectable...

@emmatonkin I run a personal Asterisk server, and until I had the good sense to set up fail2ban, I had a cronjob that would wipe out most of the oldest rotated log files, since it would be literally gigabytes of failed logins.

The job was modeled on what I'd have to do every time the drive got full and my phones stopped working.