Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

After two days of badblocks and two hours of heavy random read/write operations across all four disks, I think I'm gonna conclude that my new drive array passed its temperature stresstest!

I did have to add some cooling, the drives were getting uncomfortably hot on the R/W tests without some sort of active cooling

This is kind of cursed. Apparently these 'new' powerbanks actually contain the old (recalled) EE powerbanks with a different shell around them for branding.

Context:
- https://discourse.voss.earth/t/pb-260-brauchbare-3-euro-powerbank-bei-mediamarkt/1675 (this is where the picture is from)
- https://www.mobilenewscwp.co.uk/News/article/breaking-ee-set-to-recall-all-power-bars-due-to-fire-hazard

About a decade ago, I was in poverty and, more importantly, deeply in debt. Here's an excerpt from just one of the many, *many* letters I got from debt collectors at the time.

The original debt was 750.25 EUR, racked up because I couldn't afford the (legally mandated!) private health insurance.

(Which, by the way, results in additionally getting fined by the government, but that's a whole separate story.)

After adding debt collection charges, the total came out to owing the health insurer 1971.46 EUR, almost three times(!) as much as the original debt.

Poverty is expensive. ​

What do you call a print from filament offcuts and leftovers?

I gambled, and I won

Refurbishment: complete

December 2020 vs. today, about two years later. Holy shit. #NixOS

(Graphs from Repology)

New keycap, who dis

ARIA documentation be like

Yeah, so that "manually-approved federation of good actors" is clearly going very well

My stackable/modular HDD tray "rack" design is working! I do need to reduce the stiffness of the locking latch though, it really requires a lot of force right now to slide a drive in (see video).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMT_UhATV6E

Okay, Sovol automatically gets a bonus point for this one. Finally, I won't need to dig the config out of some weird vendor-modded copy of Cura!

Gotta say, I'm positively surprised about the result! Slightly less clean print than my Ender 3, but pretty close. The bottom layer is clearly junk though, and it really does look like a slicer issue.

Installation: complete

Well, I sure didn't expect to find "OpenStreetMap contributors" in the credits of a TV show

So I've been told that the QOTO admin is also planning to sue Eugen over their removal from joinmastodon.org (presumably over the toot about the reason for their removal specifically). I do not have further context to confirm the details here, but here is the receipt.

Well, apparently it's time to talk about QOTO again. Sigh. They've now started a "cancel culture"-themed disinformation campaign under the name of "United Federation of Instances" (https://gitlab.com/ufoi/constitution/-/tree/master).

Their claim, once you poke through all the lofty wording, is essentially that defederation is "out of control" and that's proven by them getting defederated from other instances over the behaviour of a single user that they banned.

Just one problem: that is complete bullshit. They were defederated for many reasons (some receipts attached) that had nothing to do with that users, and everything to do with their moderation policies or rather lack thereof.

A couple of weeks ago, they mass-mailed instances asking them to unblock their instance, with the same sob story. They claim that they did this by the book, "only manually contacting instances with published contact information".

The reality is that their e-mails clearly weren't appreciated by many instance admins (who had blocked them for very good reason), and that they also clearly hadn't looked at the block *reasons* on the instances which blocked them.

They were told all of this, repeatedly, by many different people (including me), through multiple different platforms. Yet they continue to claim in their UFI "proposal" that it was just about that one user, and everything was by the book.

No mention of any of these issues whatsoever. No mention of how they were effectively harassing instance admins who very clearly wanted nothing to do with them. Not even so much as a private apology.

Their "proposal" also includes some very problematic wording that I can only read as politically conservative norms of moderation (and I hopefully don't need to explain why that is bad). Again, receipts attached.

This whole thing reminds me a lot of the Libre Monde misinformation in the Matrix community. That document was likewise very formally written, and managed to convince a lot of people of things that were somewhere between misrepresented and outright false. Several years later, it continues to make the rounds, despite having been debunked over and over again.

We should be extremely careful that something similar doesn't happen here. They seem to be taking a similar "make it look official" approach to spreading misinformation, and there are entirely too many people who will happily believe anything that looks official...

If you didn't have qoto.org blocked yet, this would probably also be a good moment to consider that.

And the rest of the contributor list may also be worth a look: https://gitlab.com/ufoi/constitution/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS.md - I don't know whether the non-QOTO folks just bought into misinformation or are deliberately spreading it themselves, but either way something probably needs to be done about that.

And let's all keep an eye on where this goes, please, so that it doesn't become a long-term source of harassment.

#FediBlock ​

This is what the support pillars looked like earlier