K‮ly‬e @khird@qoto.org

@awethon It's technically incorrect, but common in casual speech. "Used to do so" is the more formal or proper equivalent, which contains the full infinitive.

@awethon It's correct, but maybe a bit awkward having so many forms of "use" in one sentence. Some possible changes for a more natural sound:
"I have not" -> "I haven't" (US) or "I've not" (UK)
"used to use it" -> "used to" (casual) or "used to do so" (formal)

@lucifargundam You generally can't do that in the USA; federal law prohibits putting anything in a mailbox unless you pay postage. However, the restriction does not apply to mail *slots* that feed directly into the building.

@blinkwarp use the googlebot user agent instead.

https://qoto.org/@khird/105397853408353279

@freemo Looks like you resolved this. For future reference though, I can read/write French okay; I just can't understand it by ear.

Lots of celebratory gunfire mixed in with the fireworks this year. I'm sandwiched between office buildings to the east and a pretty expensive residential area to the west, so I wouldn't have expected that much shooting around here. But I'd guess I've heard upwards of a hundred rounds fired just now, maybe two hundred.

@freemo

Okay. I'm not keeping statistics on the spam, but if it's a perceptible increase I'll bring it up.

@arteteco @Sphinx

@freemo Reminds me of an old xkcd punchline: You don't use science to show that you're right; you use science to become right.

@freemo "I'd rather you agreed with me than were well informed, so I'll only tell you the facts that support my position. That way you can feel like you came to your own conclusion based on the facts, but you really just believe what I want you to."

@freemo Thanks for keeping the lights on around here! I'll continue to do my best

@nanko Here's one I've been kicking around but probably won't get to this winter. There's a musical ornament set called Santa's Marching Band - see the link below. These can be had used pretty cheaply, but they only play a preprogrammed set of carols, which gets mighty old over an extended advent/holiday season. So the idea is to gut the controller box and replace its contents with an Arduino that reads a simple MIDI file and gives the bellringers the appropriate commands to play it.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=U5SITCi8T_k

@gawrsh ooh that does look nice, but... 100USD/mo/line? You can get five lines for that money. Hard to justify the cost just to give the metaphorical finger to snoops.

@Hyolobrika

You may be interested in this previous conversation on the topic: https://qoto.org/@alex_/103263224293042663

@freemo

@lhackworth Thanks! Looked it up, and that's the contact email for each instance, not the registration email for the user. So if you see unusual traffic in your logs, you can send an email to the responsible admin. It basically saves you the trouble of figuring out which instance made the request (reverse DNS may be ambiguous if the IP address hosts multiple instances), going to that site, and finding the contact info for the admin.

@lhackworth Where do emails appear in the log? Some kind of cookie or header?

@realcaseyrollins

All* the countries ahead of the USA on the list are ones that actively import plastic waste for profit. Nominally it's a recycling operation, but oversight is lacking in many of these places and plenty of it ends up not being recycled for one reason or another. It's ultimately Western countries' garbage in large part.

* China actually banned such imports in 2018. The attribution is vague, not including a date - I suspect the author used data from before the Chinese ban.