I spent three days on a 40-footer early last month. The toilet packed up in the first hour or so. Never have I been so glad to get to dry land and pub for a pint & a poo.
@Dr David Mills Anchor or heave-to, trail a line with a fender on the end. Get in the sea. Shit. Use sea to clean. Exit sea. 10 seconds in heads shower to remove salt. Job (lol) done.
If in UK waters, all you are doing is putting your shit with all the other shit.
Dear Wightlink Ferry helms: just because a sailing boat is almost certainly going to get out of your way if you make like you’re going to ram it, doesn’t mean you should.
The word "Wightlink" wandered around Sarah's mind lin search of something to connect with. Fifteen seconds later she was out of the quarterberth and lying in the Solent in front of a small ferry.
So, in the future, computers will be really popular. However, you will be having to get software from the “Git Hub”, there are Nazis everywhere, and the Russians will be trying to destroy society using something called “Threads”.
Oh, but you’ll finally be able to solve a Rubik’s cube in under a minute.
As a Brit the name "GitHub" will never stop being amusing to me. (Git being British slang for a nasty, unpleasant person, generally a man.) So I'm like "GitHub? Sounds like some pubs I know, amirite?"
@Eve (?), she/her (?) Boat is currently on south coast of England. Planning to bring her to Portugal later this year. She’s rated for up to 200 nautical miles offshore. You COULD cross an ocean in her, but you wouldn’t want to.
She has over 950kg of iron ballast in the keel to stop her tilting over when sailing whilst it would be possible, you’d need a very strong anchor point to do it and it wouldn’t be kind to the standing rigging.
Dropping the mast is another possibiiity but that’s complicated. Easier to climb it.
This is a 50p that was minted to celebrate the UK joining what became the EU. It was minted in my birth year, and my mum gave it to me shortly before she died of cancer in 2021. It is one of my most treasured possessions.
It has 12 hands linked in a circle to symbolise the then 12 countries of the European Community. One of them is smaller, representing the hand of Queen Elizabeth II.
Wait shit is that the shadowy organisation that's the alliance of the tech and robotics transfems and the herbs and witchcraft transfems that does JRPG villain magitech?
@Eve (?), she/her (?) no. It’s a stupid bit of woo that’s sexiest as hell and allegedly tells you if you should transition or not (it generally tells trans women “not”, btw)
What a hilariously strange test! "Classification Four: Probable", apparently. I think that means I get to wander the planes until I meet Peter Ustinov and lots of cats.I hadn't realised my genitals were made of maths.
Ken did a transphobia apologism on Bsky. Ken doubled down. Ken then complained about it on fedi and presumably thought his day wasn’t going to get any worse.
Then fedora-in-human-form, Jeff, defended him in public.
@Kat Marchán 🐈 The original Bsky thing? There are pages and pages and pages of him digging. I had to just scroll for minutes to get to the bottom of it.
@Jo Shields @Kat Marchán 🐈 So yeah, calling a trans woman fascist for wanting to crack down on conversion therapy is … well I think it’s more than merely transphobia-adjacent, isn’t it?
@directhex I'd say it feels more like having your head too far up your frozen peaches ass, than transphobia, but it's not a point I care enough to argue. This guy doesn't need or deserve anyone to go to bat for him over a choice of words 😛 (or for any reason, tbh)
ah so THAT's what it was about. I think I remember Ken from Metafilter back in the day & if I'm remembering the right guy, he got into lots of fights where he was clearly framing himself as the noble advocate for frank speech. I find his legal perspective valuable so I grin & bear the nonsense [though had not prev seen the transphobia apologia, which might change things]; that said he is far too settled in his own sense of righteousness for my taste.
Zuck is a POS, but he’s pulled a blinder. His ridiculous metaverse fell through, but literally just cloning Twitter and feasting on its carcass.
Threads will likely kill Twitter and Bluesky, and then when it starts federating, the fediverse will schism into instances that tolerate the worst people in the world federating with it and the ones that won’t.
@Sbectol :twt: You honestly think genocide enablers, Facebook, are going to get moderation right this time? The people who ban you for saying “nuke the site from orbit” on an Aliens fan group? Them?
!Friendica Support Hi all. I created a forum user (closed signup) to try the feature out. It seems to work fine directly via Friendica, but stuff posted to it isn't federating to the couple of Mastodon accounts I used to sign up to it with. It's happy to accept posts from those accounts, and responses federate back to Mastodon, but the Mastodon accounts aren't seeing other posts sent to the forum.
Viewing the profile for the forum on mastodon.social shows no activity.
The Twitter TERFs are having a meltdown. I have no inside info, but if it’s what I think it is, something excellent is about to happen. Get the popcorn ready.
Ok, that actually went moderately well for them (they kept their charity status but possibly on a technicality, so maybe more action to come). For now they’re safe. Dunno why they were so upset.
we are still very much enjoying our 200 mb service that was just installed. We didn’t have any to the house prior and relied on our phones as Hotspots.
Meh, not a fan of that one myself. Sweet Child of Mine will always have a soft spot for sentimental reasons. And Paradise City for the Whitby 80s night.
@david allen green Sadly I can’t hear that music without thinking of my estranged and very racist father. His favourite film when we were kids was “Live and Let Die”, which he would put on every time we went to his house and provide commentary which, if I repeated here, would get me pretty much instantly defederated by pretty much everyone.
@Sion [main] @Sarah Brown afaik it also has to cope with state-of-the-art (back then) backends written in cobol in the 1980s with the tech limitations of the time, and nobody knows how to change anymore.
rewriting in java is in progress every time some regulatory entity orders them to bring something up to the 21th century 😁
My fediverse server is hosted in the EU (specifically, in my Ikea TV cabinet), and learning that Facebook’s new thing is so egregiously invasive that it can’t satisfy EU privacy regulations makes me confident that preemptively blocking it was not only sensible, but almost required.
The world is going to burn from climate change while Nazis run amok trashing what's left of our dying civilisation not because there's nothing we can do to stop it, but because the people who are in a position to be able to stop either are all too fucking thick to do so.
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Let's just hope that in a hundred million years time, when the crabs work out why the geological boundary corresponding to a particular mass extinction event is filled with fragments of plastic, they resolve not to make the same mistakes.
Will someone who uses the Threads app who follows my Calckey posts get all this information from me, or just my posts which are available on the web interface anyway?
Sorry, that's just the flavor of all the posts I'm seeing. They feel less like "see what information those poor Meta users are giving up" and more like "look what Meta will take from you if we allow federation".
@vaughnsc If Threads is federated with your instance, they will see everything the rest of us see about you. But no one really knows right now all the details on if/when that happens, or how they plan to implement ActivityPub.
All hail the arrival of Threads, perhaps the most unfortunately named and most pre-blocked social media platform ever, at least until Elon decides to launch a fediverse platform and name it “Syphilis” or something
So, here's my question about all of this. Does anyone else think that there is something fundamentally wrong about only two giant corporations owning the entire global social media market? And does anyone out there ever question why government regulators aren't doing their Goddamned job about putting the breaks on trusts and monopolies?
@aaronIsHere @scorpil the problem isn't whether or not trans women are mums, plenty are, the problem is mumsnet isn't known as prosecco stormfront for nothing. Its such a hive of TERFs that trans people don't go there. That said you're right that facebook's whole deal is building widely sourced targeted ad data and we should block them for that on principle.
@aaronIsHere @scorpil Mumsnet is notoriously a transphobic hotbed and terf gathering spot. Bringing it up around trans people, then getting defensive when people point out how that's problematic, is incredibly tone-deaf
@Gigi 🥚 @Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺 @aaron It is, and I’m sure the now server blocked concern troll knew exactly that. I have so very little time for disingenuous wankers.
FWIW, came across this enormous blocklist of facebonk domains/IPs; no idea if necessary/useful to block these as well as the threads dot net front door (seems like it'd be Sisyphean) mastodon.moule.world/@MOULE/11…
It's true. I stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast (and lazily) as I could, and before I even knew what I had, I tooted it.
I think I understand his advertising strategy. Create a site full of techno libertarian fanboys who are not anywhere near as clever as they think they are, but who are demonstrably willing to throw money at any old crap if they think Ayn Rand would have approved, and then present it to unscrupulous con artists, wanting to sell scams like NFTs or bitcoin or whatever, as a captive audience of gullible losers who will buy any old crap as long as it “owns the libs”.
He may not be doing this on purpose, but scammers will absolutely see the value in an audience of a few million gullible right wing arseholes who won’t complain about terrible service and who have money to burn.
Is he tho....?! Or did he make enough money with selling PayPal to employ people who are good at business related things? I don't really know the answer to that, but his Tesla track record, especially with "Full-Self-Driving" isn't really that of a savvy business man.
Or maybe I'd just like to think he's a babbling potato, because I really don't like him... 🤷♂️
Apparently the “basic biology” nut jobs on Twitter, when they’re able to post, are going on about how it’s biologically impossible for trans women to lactate.
Meanwhile, I’ve literally had tea made with my own milk.
For someone who lives in the Algarve and routinely goes out without sunscreen (I know, I know), it's astonishing how much sunburn I got from 2 hours on the solent on a mostly overcast day yesterday. I guess the sea really bounces that UV around.
I don't even bother with sunscreen because I tan so quickly, but the ex was your typical Anglo-Saxon lobster in the sun! I forget the brand, but there is a particular high-SPF cream she swore by that binds to the skin, so even going swimming won't wash it off.
Quite expensive stuff, as I remember, but worth it because you don't have to keep reapplying it. She spent a month in Goa during a heatwave, and returned looking like she'd spent a weekend in Cornwall. 😆
@ajlanes Here are solar cells built into a sail (as well as liquid crystal panels for steering), but this might not be what you had in mind en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKAROS
There’s a new alternative to Twitter that I’ve developed and am accepting signups. The best bit is that you can run your own instance on a laptop, or even your phone! And it’s free!
Here’s how it works: open your notes application. Write out up to 280 characters. Repeat using new notes if you want a “thread”.
Then delete the whole lot.
Given nobody can actually read anything you post on Twitter, this is functionally equivalent to actually tweeting, except with far more uptime and no Nazis yelling at you to buy bitcoin for your grandma.
I'd like to propose an add-on to this service for people who would like to buy bitcoin. They can send me all their money and I'll deposit it all in my bank account which perfectly replicates the user experience without harming the environment.
That is in fact the experience I had with the Twitter "algorithm" and my attempts to tweet. That it also destroys the garbage that white supremacists and Nazis are attempting to post seems like a feature to me!
@Friendica Support A problem I’m noticing with my instance is, especially with the Twitter migration picking up, the deferred queue is just growing and growing as people experiment then abandon accounts or even entire servers.
I assume it will sort itself out eventually, but is there any way to reduce the timeout? I’ve got stuff that’s days old sitting in there that is probably never going to get actioned because the servers have just gone away.
@FeralRobots I don't have open reg. It's a Mac mini sitting in my living room. The deferred queue is full of attempted communication with servers that are down for days at a time, or maybe permanently?
@Sarah Brown Please don’t worry about the deferred queue, there’s an increased delay for each failure which means you can have days/months old stuff that should have a minimal impact on performances.
@A_C_McGregor Update for the fediverse: Coffee has been supplied. Next task: attempt to figure out how to induce water hammer in a digestive tract using coffee as the liquid. I’m sure there’s a Practical Engineering YouTube video on this.
Apparently weird incel types think oestrogen is responsible for women’s sex drive.
I suspect it would blow their minds if they ever found out that the hormone most involved in making women horny is actually testosterone.
They act like we’re a different species or something. We all have the same set of receptors, more or less, guys. That’s why medical transition is even possible.
@Adam @Alexandra Lanes @Richard Gadsden yeah. AIUI, histamine used to be considered a hormone until its mechanism of action was better understood and it was realised that it is actually a neurotransmitter
@Alisdair Calder McGregor I mean, this isn’t particularly advanced. It’s just “hypothalamus makes GnRH, pituitary receives GnRH and makes LH, gonads receive LH and make testosterone, testosterone encounters aromatise and turns into oestrogen, hypothalamus notices testosterone and oestrogen and makes less GnRH in response”
To make it even funnier: Hormones act thru "hormones receptors" which are proteins - coded in our genes as all proteins. The testosterone receptor is actually coded on the X chromosome ( check at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen… ) - the female chromosome - which means that women have 2 copies of it while men only one !
@EugeneMcParland Doesn't it usually blow South? My guess is they'll irradiate Crimea, the Black Sea, everything down to Sochi. Erdogan should be up in Putin's grille.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Never have I been so glad to get to dry land and pub for a pint & a poo.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Got to go back soon to help fit the furler we took off to repair. I'd better repair it first.
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in reply to Dr David Mills • •@Dr David Mills Anchor or heave-to, trail a line with a fender on the end. Get in the sea. Shit. Use sea to clean. Exit sea. 10 seconds in heads shower to remove salt. Job (lol) done.
If in UK waters, all you are doing is putting your shit with all the other shit.
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