spinflip @spinflip@qoto.org

Take a look at this pic from the quarterdeck of the replica of the Amsterdam.

•The foremast only has one yard. What's the point of the rest of it? Surely there s a should be more?
•There were no pinrails on the sides of the ship, and an impracticably small number on the masts. Is that wrong, or is that how this ships actually worked? Maybe that's why the foremast was basically empty?
•The shrouds have ratlines up to the tops, but none on the crosstrees which you can juuust see in this pic. Wtf?

I don't suppose there are any other tallship sailors hanging around here? I kind of want to rant about the lack of shipnerdery at Het Scheepvaartmusem, the Dutch national maritime museum

BOATS featuring fucked up sculpture dude

@Fellas sounds p gay tbqh

My last evening in the Netherlands for a while, featuring ship decorations carved by men who had never seen breasts

@realmattseymour not involved, but he doesn't seem like much of a victim where I stand. Came here, started shit-stirring, unpleasantness in all directions, and then he left. Whatever, no great loss.

It *does* highlight that the current moderation tools are vastly inadequate (if 60 reports a day makes the system unusable, that's a massive flaw), but that's separate concern with various possible technical solutions.

@rnitsch I don't think Mastodon can really be seen as a community. The instances are, but they set their own rules and conduct. Maybe mas.soc wasn't the right place for Wil to be.

@dredmorbius is this really a problem for Mastodon as a whole, or is it a problem for instance admins to solve at the instance level (and then hopefully share code + processes with other admins)?

@drewfer Sure! here: https://pastebin.com/JmNG2s7B

@hellofriend I love that you can pinpoint the exact moment where economic elites realised that the threat of violent workers' revolution followed by Soviet-style communism was, for the time, over.

@Xibanya @grainloom I think I misread the OP... I absolutely agree that teaching more people to code won't do anything to change the structural requirement for low wages and unemployment in capitalist economies. I still feel that it's important to teach that code isn't magic and that writing thoroughly mediocre but still useful code is actually pretty easy.

@drewfer kind of: it worked for one file, then failed badly on another one and was still downloading and writing when the file on-disk was twice the size of the file being retrieved from the server...