Mm, I expect there are still some old rows from the previous database before the Upgrade-Gone-Wrong. Will take a look when I get a spare moment Sunday.

It is suspicious that the bot “found” cloudflare without it being mentioned…

Remind me in the morning, I’ll take it down for investigation.

Many thanks, added to the database.

And that’s why the Prancing Pony serves beer and cheese, the best of evening meals.

Happy to take definitions and plug them into the database, if you have them to hand. If not, I’ll put aside a few minutes this weekend to look them up.

I had this problem on Graphene, but (in the UK at least) there are alternative wallet apps. I’m on Curve myself.

Huh, so it’s doing this on every thread… Let me investigate.

Where’d the real mickey7 go? We can’t have a fake coming in here posting actual memes.

There was an idea mooted over on Mastodon, that Flight Sim will be renamed Copilot Copilot. Rolls off the tongue.

I’m hosting the Decronym bot on a single-user instance, and it’s a real pain. The bot’s been down for weeks, actually, because an upgrade failed with some obscure error around the database schema…

I’ve ended up just today, wiping the whole thing and starting over, losing all data and having to refederate the bot. So yeah, I wouldn’t recommend.

[Acronyms to help the bot re-establish: LVM, HASS, k8s]

This is Theresa May, predecessor to the Cabbage Lady. (Crazy how many prime ministers we went through in those few years.)

The equivalent long option is --fuck-you

Calling the SEC on Ea-Nașir over here…

Right, I self-host email and have done for ten years or more, but I don’t do it out of a server at home. Does my Postfix not count as selfhosting any more?

As I understand it, ricing a machine is to excessively modify it to achieve more speed, users of Gentoo being the origina ricers in the Linux world.

The term itself has dubious and arguably racist origins, in the world of modification of Japanese cars for street racing.

So I work at DeviantArt, and we actually saw this in real-time. A few years ago, we added external ads all over the place, and had to add a whole framework to detect “ad-unsafe” works that wouldn’t get ads served against them. So we only got ads against a percentage of views, and people were getting pissed at the ads and leaving.

So we tore the ads back out, traffic’s recovered, and a focus on providing actual tools for artists to make money through the site has meant we’re doing better without ads than we were with ads.

Each show is unique, from what I see in the comments. I feel like he’s not doing the traditional ‘write a set’ thing, but he works backwards from an idea (“America feels like a Dollar General nowadays”, for example) and has the ability to conjure an hour of almost shaggy-dog-story material on the spot leading you to that endpoint.

Rare talent.

This came up in the latest episode of Tom Scott’s Reverse Trivia: they got onto the topic of princes, and Tom had the sudden realisation of where “principality” comes from.

And Gary then dropped “duchy”: region granted to a duke.

Words have histories, we often forget it.

So this came up with this user a few days ago, and apparently ð fell out of use later in Old English and its usage was merged into þ for hundreds of years.

I remain unconvinced.

Whenever I come across ASCII art in the comments, it’s a good day. Here’s one from the day job: