Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

One of the nice things about the Fedi is you run your instance pretty much how you please. There was some friction a few years ago when people formed factions that were all about bullying people into who they should or shouldn't federate with, to which I say: fuck that noise.

It's funny seeing all the drama at BlueSky about blocklists, because those people learnt the hard way this is not the safety utopia one thinks it is.

Don't judge them though, because exactly the same thing happened here, when a whole fucking bunch of users decided that what a community needed was lots of policing, and they behaved accordingly.

@claudiom Sounds like a great time!

@Binder They had a lot of focus groups and testing to achieve this.

@tayfonay Modern life is rubbish

My youngest son decided to spend his pocket money on a bargain table book of dad jokes at Barnes & Noble. I did not know of this development. He ran into the living clutching it and shouted

"BAD NEWS DAD. NOW I HAVE *ALL* THE JOKES"

@wyliecoyoteuk Don't step outside, a piano may fall on you!

@Alice The alt text on these merely proves he married well

@vaartis What an odd strategy to try and force engagement!

@LifeTimeCooking The odd thing is it did not always smell, but some mornings it was like walking into a fish'n'chip shop on a cold day. Just lovely.

@vaartis That might be fake

Hmm

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says X rival is 'billionaire proof' https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/21/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-says-x-rival-is-billionaire-proof.html

This is a machine I cloned out of prod and onto a private dev network, never had an issue with it breaking snap before.

Upgrading an Ubuntu server with do-release-upgrade and snap doesn't pick up web proxy by default? Come on, canonical.

Similar to when Steven Toast uses 'Royce Coolidge' to check into a hotel, I keep registering VMs on our network then can't remember what I called them

3wks ago, on the M25 on the way to Dorset, a Camera Van perches on a flyover. One thing I definitely don't miss about the UK. #travel