Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

I don’t understand why people think Mastodon is difficult. It seems pretty straightforward, and the separate servers are no biggie. I’m enjoying this fresh start here, like moving to a new apartment!

Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it becomes more popular than the birdsite.

One of the biggest challenges I've faced running #haskell in production compared to other languages is observability. Coming from the JVM where you could dump threads or observe memory profile without profiling on, it felt like a real step backwards at first.

Recently at Lumi, we've been upping our observability game big time.

First we switched over to https://hackage.haskell.org/package/monad-logger-aeson for improved machine readable logs.

Then we rolled out #open-telemtry with 100% sampling on for traces, forwarding to honeycomb. There's a few haskell libraries options out there, but we decided to roll our own, which jship has up at https://github.com/jship/opentelemetry-haskell. We hope this might become the official haskell SDK for open-telemetry in the future.

The new systems has already paid amazing dividends. We have every log with its trace/span ID and every DB call includes its SQL + arguments (esqueleto + persistent) in the span attributes so we can see exactly what was run against the DB for a specific API call.

We've used this to solve several production bug reports as well as highlight our most inefficient APIs for fixing.

What Android app are people using for Mastodon? The website shows controls the official app doesn't. I have "home" but I doubt I'm getting local feed to look at the stream from my instance. I'm open to a better experience on the phone.

#infosec #dystopia

My blog is now officially a victim of a Minority Report style malicious flag. Who knew that writing poems and how-tos for assembling Raspberry Pi cases is now considered "pre-crime".

The circular nature of the "threat intel" community means that 1 entity triggering an alert causes a cascade.

No wonder people view these biased 'AI' tools with great suspicion.

Any attempt to ask this unknown "bforeAI" company why I am a "pre-criminal" will get the usual canned response!

@JeremyLittau Admins deciding what is "safe" for their users (which is very unsafe, by the way) is what creates silos. If a site's admins habitually defederate sites they don't like, then a silo is the result, by definition.

weirder.earth is an example of a Mastodon site that turned into a silo. They block so many peers, some of their users now can't connect to most of their friends.

This is why I believe blocking should be done at the user level only, with the help of opt-in blocklists.

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What if we held hands during reflow

I am very pleased to see @georgetakei is having a good time here. After the nonsense that went down with wil wheaton its really nice to see him welcomed.

Today is the 37th anniversary of the first appearance of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes in the newspaper.

Calvin and Hobbes first appeared about two weeks after I turned six years old—crucially, the same age as Calvin—and it ended after I turned sixteen. I adored it from beginning to end. There is no stronger influence on the way I think, write, or see the world than the ten years of that strip.

https://twitter.com/calvinn_hobbes/status/1593605122998812674?s=46&t=tVCHvzEgD-9r3bfInkj_gw

Maybe the new conventional wisdom that polls are worthless is as wrong as the previous conventional wisdom that polls have perfect prognosticating capabilities. People seem to always forget the error bars. Speaking of error though, the notion that polls always trend blue nowadays is also bunk. #politics #uspoli #polls #statistics gelliottmorris.substack.com/p/…

Shaking off jet lag. We’re visiting All Hallows by the Tower Church, oldest church in London. I told Brad to be in the picture, but he said he hasn’t had his beauty sleep yet.