When uploading images from windows (but not from the mac) .avif files are not included in the supported image types, even though they in fact work. These are common for news outlets to use, and I’m manually uploading to get them used as thumbnails.

Known bug?

One more upgrade thing I’m noticing: the way the UI elements move around repeatedly during post submission makes it much easier to accidentally double-post.

One more oddity since the upgrade:

cross-posting doesn’t work cleanly anymore.

When you click the cross-post button, it pre-fills the contents of the form for submitting to another community, but as soon as you select a community to cross-post into, it clears the contents.

After the upgrade, I wound up setting my theme to litely to get more legible fonts; the default theme has fonts that aren’t pleasant to read.

That’s a very very tiny part of the problem for fireflies

Those numbers are better than a lot of other similar platforms, but aren’t the kind of takeoff that results in a mass audience.

Definitely want a hard block like other platforms. The fact that ‘block’ is treated as ‘mute’ is really damaging in terms of enabling harassment.

Solar tends to become more efficient as it gets colder.

Wind turbines can be built to handle really cold weather too, but they do need specific deicing capabilities and lubricants.

Wind and storage. There really aren’t other options at the right scale.

The block option is very limited; it causes the user’s posts to not be visible to you, but you’re still visible to them, and they can still respond to your posts and comments. It’s not like other platforms where it keeps them from interacting with your posts.

IMHO this is really problematic as it enables them to keep orchestrating harassment.

This is probably the best option; in a world where people use ML tools to generate CSAM, you can’t depend on visual hashes of known-problematic images anymore.

Ranking algorithms need to be adjusted so that if a post is removed like this, and then restored, it gets the same number of views it otherwise would have. Without that, a user-interaction driven automatic removal will get abused at scale.

I needed to close all tabs and windows open to slrpnk.net, clear my cookies for the site, and then go back to it to log in. If you still have a tab open, the cookies don’t stay cleared.

If you’re logged in, this is seriously broken - it just shows up as a broken site and you can’t see this announcement. You’ll need to make the announcement show up on the error page people see in order to get people to realize that the site isn’t just permanently broken.

Actually logging in successfully required not just clearing cookies, but first closing all tabs open to slrpnk.net, and then clearing cookies, and then logging in again.

Ideally, you’d put automation in place to recognize the bad cookie and force clear it. Without that, most people will never log in again.

XMPP moderator discussion is also down. mod chat is now fixed

Thanks! As I try to do as much as possible, this post already used a gift link.

Join a local ‘buy nothing’ group. Kids outgrow stuff. When they’re small, this happens FAST.

Do check to see if items you’re getting used have been recalled. It happens more than you might think.

As a result, there’s a constant stream of parents with slightly older kids giving away stuff that they no longer need.

If people must buy you something, ask for something you’d be buying anyways and which is difficult to get used in your area.

The bulk of the US operates with two-stage elections, a primary election where you decide who the party nominee is, and a general election where it’s a contest between parties. The place to not guarantee your vote is in the primary; it’s a smaller election, and each vote there matters much more than in the general election. By turning out in the primary, and choosing a candidate there whom you agree with, you get enormous leverage over policy.

Sure, but it’s hard to have a local discussion in a global forum

The problem is that in about half the country, you don’t know with certainty whether you will be in a competitive location. I certainly didn’t expect to see Georgia be close last time around.

That kind of thinking is how somebody like George Santos got elected. I’d avoid making any kind of assumption.