@dascandy no, it's not the same argument, and i'm quite annoyed by the tech people hubris. pay attention, please:

• the sirens can be operated independently from the country-wide alarm network,
• they can be powered from emergency power generators (or, indeed, there are manual variants, as someone pointed that out),
• they don't require fragile electronic equipment (which needs batteries recharged every few days) for the general population to receive the signals.

@0xabad1dea @dysfun

@0xabad1dea @dysfun they can be operated independently from the network and from emergency power.

and they don't need that people have a fragile electronic device on hand to receive the signal.

@dysfun @0xabad1dea the optimism of the people who think that when the push comes to shove, the whole power and telecom infrastructure will be still available, is quite astonishing.

(i mean, deprioritising the use is reasonable, but decommissioning the whole low-tech infra is unconscionable.)

@recursive @phire it's even worse. bcrypt has a plaintext length limit of 72 bytes.

@trwnh @artcollisions @renchap apologies, corrected.

(still, just marking them duplicate would've been less misleading – no updates on the single open ticket, closing others as not planned, plus history of ignoring rich text for years including dropping a working pr, is bad optics.)

@artcollisions mainline stopped stripping rich formatting from toots for a while, but i'm afraid that to support entering it on mastodon is still going to mean running “glitch-soc” for the foreseeable future – because the lovely chaps of mastodon like @renchap or @trwnh are closing all requests of implementation of markdown or other rich formatting as duplicates of the github issue no. 23981 and mark then… “not planned”.

perhaps if bluesky threatened to implement it like they implemented qts, we'd get some traction driven by FOMO.

from the “autoconfabulator's only job is labour arbitrage” department: polish public radio fired all humans from the “off radio kraków” channel and replaced them with autogenerated content.

the management is very proud of themselves.

please someone semi-reasonable fork wordpress and the infrastructure, so that i can still support people using it without having to check if mullenweg made another piramidally unwise move in the last 24 hours?

famaas: forum admin meltdown as-a-service. (at scale.)

every day we allow the abusive shitstains like richard matthew stallman or eric fucking raymond stay around or, goddess forbid, direct our communities, we're losing talented people who are driven away by the acceptance of their behaviour.

the richard matthew stallman's apologists are almost invariably white, male, reasonably privileged and (now) mostly middle-aged to various extent.

and of course they're not interested to learn what everyone else knows: that rms is a fucking abusive control freak with serious boundary issues and a history of abusive behaviour going back in decades.

and he's also one of the lousiest project managers i have ever seen, and that includes the people who tanked siemens mobile.