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So, hey, AO3 released a new version of their Terms of Service.
Even though 99% of it was just rewriting/reorganizing the already-established terms to be clearer, a distinct subset of social media (well, Xitter mostly) took "AO3's servers are (still) hosted in the US, and you (still) can't post anything that breaks US law" to mean something like "Project 2025 means AO3 now plans to send your fanfic-reading history to the FBI!"
I went back on Xitter for a bit just to drop corrections in people's replies. Not sure it made any difference to the overall tone of The Discourse...but I got to reassure some of the specific users who saw those tweets, at least.
Worried comments on the AO3 newspost got a stock reply about the OTW's legal plans and actual concerns coming up in the next four years. Shared that around too. It's reassuring.
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Mom watched Deadpool 1!
As predicted, she did not care for it!
There were some individual jokes and/or cute moments she appreciated, but in general...yeah, not her cup of tea, she's no longer tempted to catch up with the rest.
Meanwhile, I impulse-bought a Deadpool-themed Christmas sweater. (In person, and I can't for the life of me find the specific design online. Not even on the website of the store where I got it.) Have worn it around the house on a regular basis since. Not just because it's fun, it is so cozy.
...I also have a cozy Moon Knight sweater that I sort of assume is from the same line, but haven't worn it as much. I want that one to last a long time, without getting ruined by drink spills, or stray claws, or Fiddlesticks sneezing all over it.
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Adventures in Hosting Your Own Website: the other day I deleted a single error log that had ballooned to 1 GB in size.
My hosting plan has 20 GB total! That's 5% of all the space! For an error log!
It was for the Piwigo instance that the And Shine Heaven Now gallery uses. Siteground emails me about updates to my Wordpress instances, and will force-auto-update them if I don't get around to it fast enough, but it doesn't do that for Piwigo. (Or the DokuWiki instance that the Leif & Thorn wiki uses.) So it was several major version upgrades behind, and while pages would still load, it would throw you about 20 errors for each one.
All of which apparently went on long enough to dump a gigabyte's worth of plaintext.
Whoof.
In happier site news, I converted the BICP comic site from Comic Easel to Toocheke, the hot new webcomic-themed Wordpress plugin that's actually getting maintained in 2024. Have already emailed the creator about some issues/bugs, and gotten one update pushed! Very promising.
Even though 99% of it was just rewriting/reorganizing the already-established terms to be clearer, a distinct subset of social media (well, Xitter mostly) took "AO3's servers are (still) hosted in the US, and you (still) can't post anything that breaks US law" to mean something like "Project 2025 means AO3 now plans to send your fanfic-reading history to the FBI!"
I went back on Xitter for a bit just to drop corrections in people's replies. Not sure it made any difference to the overall tone of The Discourse...but I got to reassure some of the specific users who saw those tweets, at least.
Worried comments on the AO3 newspost got a stock reply about the OTW's legal plans and actual concerns coming up in the next four years. Shared that around too. It's reassuring.
-
Mom watched Deadpool 1!
As predicted, she did not care for it!
There were some individual jokes and/or cute moments she appreciated, but in general...yeah, not her cup of tea, she's no longer tempted to catch up with the rest.
Meanwhile, I impulse-bought a Deadpool-themed Christmas sweater. (In person, and I can't for the life of me find the specific design online. Not even on the website of the store where I got it.) Have worn it around the house on a regular basis since. Not just because it's fun, it is so cozy.
...I also have a cozy Moon Knight sweater that I sort of assume is from the same line, but haven't worn it as much. I want that one to last a long time, without getting ruined by drink spills, or stray claws, or Fiddlesticks sneezing all over it.
-
Adventures in Hosting Your Own Website: the other day I deleted a single error log that had ballooned to 1 GB in size.
My hosting plan has 20 GB total! That's 5% of all the space! For an error log!
It was for the Piwigo instance that the And Shine Heaven Now gallery uses. Siteground emails me about updates to my Wordpress instances, and will force-auto-update them if I don't get around to it fast enough, but it doesn't do that for Piwigo. (Or the DokuWiki instance that the Leif & Thorn wiki uses.) So it was several major version upgrades behind, and while pages would still load, it would throw you about 20 errors for each one.
All of which apparently went on long enough to dump a gigabyte's worth of plaintext.
Whoof.
In happier site news, I converted the BICP comic site from Comic Easel to Toocheke, the hot new webcomic-themed Wordpress plugin that's actually getting maintained in 2024. Have already emailed the creator about some issues/bugs, and gotten one update pushed! Very promising.
