Olives @olives@qoto.org

Someone tried to make the argument that "people have always gone through puberty" in an anti porn screed (although, not to me).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2465479/
Of course, while we don't need to make an argument to that, *even this point is wrong* as the age of puberty onset has been going down since 1840.

It's interesting that someone would take the name of "The Bad Place" from The Good Place show, when the show is literally a piece of satire about impossible (and strange / arbitrary) standards where everyone fails and is screwed over.

There were some celebrities who didn't like people tracking them everywhere.

If this happened three years ago, I don't think anyone would think twice about it.

I'm okay with Threads / Instagram not letting people track celebrity jets. People might not like it, because they don't like one particular guy, however, from a #privacy perspective, it makes sense.

Rather than zooming into social media drama, it might be better to zoom out.

There are accounts which are dedicated to mocking people they find "strange". Why on earth would someone spend all their time doing this?

One reason that I avoid discussing social media drama, other than it being tiresome, is that it follows a news cycle of sorts.

One short cycle comes, another short cycle goes, and whatever it is that someone is talking about is forgotten about before long.

The option to schedule posts on social media also means that rather than firing off takes on the spot, maybe someone will think about them a bit more.

This is somewhat anecdotal, however, one of the perks is that you can just set a post to be posted at a particular time and just walk away from social media, it's tiring being around social media all the time.

Let alone blogs, even for something like social media, scheduling posts can be useful.

Scheduling posts is convenient as you might want to be able to write a post, schedule a time for it to be published, and leave it at that.

It's a reminder that someone can't just slap on a textbox, maybe a slightly better editor, and say it's done. There are the little details like this which make things more convenient.

One of the blogging systems I'm looking at doesn't even have a drafts feature... Or a scheduling system (less important).

Drafts are important.

I see the guy in the Medium article used a mutex. You have to be a bit careful with these because only one thread can hold a mutex at once (until the unlock method is called). Other threads have to wait until it's released.

If you're doing something that takes a long time, that might be painful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-and-set The mutex is likely implemented with some sort of atomic instruction like this.

I see he used a mutex. You have to be a bit careful with these because only one thread can hold a mutex at once (until the unlock method is called). Other threads have to wait until it's released.

If you're doing something that takes a long time, that might be painful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-and-set The mutex is likely implemented with some sort of atomic instruction like this.

Mastodon's ID format appears to be a custom kind of snowflake (the huge number which appears in the URL for posts).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_ID
https://medium.com/@jitenderkmr/demystifying-snowflake-ids-a-unique-identifier-in-distributed-computing-72796a827c9d
To get an idea of what a snowflake is.

One of the good things about having a proper blog is that the URL would presumably be human readable, rather than just being a huge number on it's own.

There are thorny questions, of course, like if they engage in a potentially unwise decision to engage in sexting with peers, is that the same as other groups sharing such imagery? Strong language like "CSAM" probably doesn't fit there.

While there are some who write "NCII or CSAM", the way that I treat it is that NCII (non consensual intimate imagery) is a superset which covers both. That is to say that CSAM is a subset of NCII (as it's accepted that minors can't give meaningful consent).

That said, being very specific can be useful to make things clearer for readers.