Notices by Fae Geek Girl (dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu)

story idea:

A man has fallen on hard times just as he and his wife are expecting their first child. Desperate, the man makes a bargain with a witch in exchange for his firstborn daughter. The man's luck improves and his child is born safely. He sees the child is a boy, decides he's dodged the bullet, and vows never to have any more children.

Twelve years later, the child comes out as trans. Shenanigans ensue.

@ctrlaltdog huh yeah, that's coming out of left field but I totally see what you mean. Ash/Satoshi is never really brooding/mopey/listless, he's totally driven and drags other people along with him while he pursues his goal

@kepstin @rowan A good use of blockchains would be, for instance, Keybase's way of storing identity proofs. They use blockchains to create an immutable audit trail for any changes to users' identity information, so anyone can verify it hasn't been tampered with.

@rowan @kepstin Having auditable records is a good thing, and decentralization when it makes sense is a good thing, but tying those things to capitalist incentive structures is having unfortunate results in my opinion, and not even properly achieving the intended purpose (bitcoin tried to break away from centralized monetary authorities and is now majority-controlled by a tiny group of chinese corporations)

cowboy :blobpats:

tired: merit badges
wired: merit badgers

Users on mastodon.mit.edu aren't getting their timelines regenerated when they log back in after an inactive period. I'm trying to check whether any RegenerationWorkers are getting run, but don't know how to check that other than grepping through journalctl output, which isn't turning up anything. Poking at the rails console, it looks like "account:#{@account.id}:regeneration" isn't set for a user who just signed in a couple of hours ago after a long absence...

:thunking:

I am nothing if not dedicated to my shitposts

https://mastodon.mit.edu/media/95SP0Z-SwlxhdQ9Io7o

bitcoin is terrible but payment processing companies are worse

fucking hell the cyberpunk dystopia is real
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Whats+in+a+cable+The+dangers+of+unauthorized+cables/22904/

https://mastodon.mit.edu/media/-nZxkAXvuOFPSyL7Cpk

Flash is dying, party time! 🎉

https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html