Chris Young 🇰🇪 @XopherY@octodon.social

Seeing so many foreign language toots is really encouraging me to start back up with language learning again. I'd like to be able to converse with people without asking them to switch to English.

Somebody should start an 'official celebrity' Mastodon instance, and only let frightened celebs into it so they can all feel safe that their identities have been 'claimed'. Charge them a nominal fee. Make money. That's a free idea, you can have it.

@XopherY I love it. Seriously. Price wise it might not be the best deal, but I went to Ghana, Canada and other countries, and I would pay the same price for data and voice/sms. I wouldn't go back to anything else. Also paying for what I use it great.

@XopherY Love it. The only thing I don't love is not being able to pick the day it withdraws payment. I've had nothing but clear coverage and dependable bills.

@XopherY the fizzy liquids

@XopherY It seems very common. Thankfully my mobile app lets you change it. I definitely find black text/light background easier to read

https://octodon.social/media/u3bdgIF9bUWvXteGcWQ

#Mastodon is a weird, wild place right now. it's fresh and invigorating and I kind of love it.

Keep Tooting, everyone!

Random sysadmin tips:
SQL is a great tool but it's also highly destructive if you just forget a WHERE. Just remember to BEGIN; a transaction when you're playing with it, you can then COMMIT; after changes or ROLLBACK/quit.

Since PG is so great, you can even change table structure within a transaction and test changes.

It seems like a big structural risk to Mastodon is that unless you're running your own server you're essentially trusting the stranger who runs the instance. Not just to act in good faith, but also to keep the server running.

Today's been a rather sad day for the world. People died and by the look of it, many more will too.

The USA fired cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase overnight, which Russia has responded to by pretty much cancelling the non-aggression pact.

And then there was the incident in Stockholm - which of course the media will claim was worse as it was "our people" (meaning western white people) that were killed.

This is all going to end badly.

Back when I was active on Usenet it was considered pretty normal to have house rules for any newsgroup, you were also expected to refrain from posting long enough to notice and learn the unspoken customs (this was called "lurking").

Nowadays people see it as an orchestrated attack against free speech, shout references to 1984, and threaten to move elsewhere.

Yet the ones asking us all to behave politely are called "hypersensitive"?