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All Sleeping Town and #Jortage services will be going offline shortly for migration to a new server

There is a lot of data to transfer, so this will unfortunately take a while as the SyS → OVHcloud migration means I can't move the containers one by one, as I have to change ownership of every IP simultaneously, and I can't even create a vRack despite the two servers being in the same datacenter, so I'm limited to my public bandwidth limit.

The newer server has a 5x higher bandwidth limit, a much faster CPU, faster RAM, and faster disks. The current server is a grandfathered one with a bad price — notably better specs are available on OVH's new server range for the same price, but I opted for this server at a $20/mo price increase as we're really feeling the squeeze on these old, Spectre-vulnerable Intel Xeons. The new box uses an AMD Zen 2 processor.

After the services go down, I will likely be discussing progress on my backup account, @unascribed@chitter.xyz — you can also, as always, check https://status.unascribed.com and https://status.jortage.com

Apologies for the downtime. See you on the other side. I will be prioritizing restoration of Jortage Storage Pool services.

AGILE METHODOLOGY IN NAME ONLY, FOR IT IS NEITHER.

This is tangential to some of the meta conversations from the past month, but a blog post we wrote a couple years ago and are still proud of is "How to Be a Jerk Ethically": https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/313139.html

Personally, we have a lot of negative feelings around the selves we used to be ... but one thing those selves did was hold back on reflexive contempt, to listen and be considerate. To be the kind of person that people could disagree with.

And that let them change. Disagreement is a gift that way.

Now do Kissinger.

Weirder Earth is officially returning to approval-based registrations. Anyone who wishes to join this instance should read carefully through the server information - https://weirder.earth/about/more - and the rules - https://github.com/weirderearth/weirder-rules/blob/main/rules-and-etiquette.md - and describe their reasons for joining in the provided text box; the moderators will review applications regularly.

folks is not only great for all genders it's also plural-friendly.

folks: it's great to say

One of the things I appreciate about the concept of silly microgenders is that it provides a framework through which cis folks like me to begin construing “man” and “woman” as broad umbrella terms just as much as “non-binary” and, thus, deepen our own understanding of gender.

Saying that my gender is “a nice cabby hat” is silly and kind of a bit. But it also isn’t just a bit. It legitimately feels comfy to me. And I see it as a specific enactment of “man” or whatever, so having that as my gender isn’t making any claims about being non-binary. It’s about deepening and making more nuanced my understanding of my binary gender.

(And, actually, I kinda see “a nice cabby hat” as a sort of Venn diagram situation. I’m in the part where it overlaps with “man”, but it overlapping with “woman” and also having a portion that overlaps neither seems wholly correct).

white millennials and gen z desperately pushing the "Boomers are like this because they ate lead" really doesn't sit well with me. Like the obvious ableism aside, this collective "they" thing makes me hyper aware that they assume this of out of BIPOC as well. Are all of our elders great? No, but they're a lot more likely to have consumed lead contamination than the white affluent boomers and like, wow, the internalized bigotry they have was taught to them by white society so🤔

I mean it's either that white boomers are just a product of entitlement and white supremacy or lead poisoning magically only affects white folk because like there are dominantly Black cities and Indigenous reservations where people have been consuming lead contamination for generations.

Maybe you family just sucks