Posts by sekka@shark.community
(DIR) Post #ATWuOBtTHt6l55QJ0K by sekka@shark.community
2023-03-12T05:33:01Z
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I use Maya for my 3D stuff. Literally everybody bags on Maya, all the time. But for me, it's magical. It's slow, it takes a TON of knowledge of its quirks, and when you start pushing it it does get a little crashy. She's not the most stable, but she's got a good heart. Maya is my friend. I tried to be friends with Blender. I really did.I've tried for years and he just regards me with contempt. He's too cool for me, and rolls his eyes when I ask about things like "groups" and "pivots."
(DIR) Post #ATjAGfL8kugBNCMGBc by sekka@shark.community
2023-03-18T03:30:43Z
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@cliffwade @jcrabapple Debian, Rocky (vfx platform)
(DIR) Post #ATjDmJTtrRaKi0EnHE by sekka@shark.community
2023-03-18T03:29:01Z
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Despite being eighth-generation Floridian, I'm ancestrally mostly Irish, mostly from co's Clare and Mayo. I grew up listening to, singing, and playing Irish music passed down in my family. I also play Irish traditional music, and have all my life. My parents play American folk music, and used to go to Ireland every year to play a circuit of pubs and concert halls.This isn't a purity statement—I'm just proud of Ireland, and of my Irish ancestry. I want the best for the country.I miss it.
(DIR) Post #AU4E9UukSpTeGHSiAq by sekka@shark.community
2023-03-28T07:11:42Z
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A very talented, very experienced woman is now officiating in the AHL, which is one level below the NHL. She's absolutely qualified. The comments are disgusting. I'm tired of misogyny, and pretending that it's a valid point of view, or a reasonable thing to allow people to say.I'm tired of transphobia, homophobia, and other bigotry and it being normalized as anything other than hate.
(DIR) Post #AURulto9QkO9V9oS92 by sekka@shark.community
2023-04-08T17:36:30Z
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Just as a reminder, shark.community is open for registrations. (And we have ample room for growth)
(DIR) Post #AVL6yPQohIup9Luf4q by sekka@shark.community
2023-05-05T08:39:18Z
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@puniko @gaycookie I'm ashamed to say I literally learned last night that Denmark and The Netherlands were not the same country.I am sorry.
(DIR) Post #AVja52ArkirdOfPN6e by sekka@shark.community
2023-05-17T04:03:40Z
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Hi friends! If you get hit with spam, please don't hesitate to drop a report, and ideally forward to the source instance.Also: The reason that we manually approve signups on shark.community is to try to avoid being spam hosts. We welcome new users, but we just want to do a little sanity checking to prevent mass automated registrations.With a service like Mastodon, moderation staff needs to scale with user base.
(DIR) Post #Ad9MORSsLzrthXyKAq by sekka@shark.community
2023-12-24T23:36:54Z
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(DIR) Post #Ahye7V6q6BwwIeAmaO by sekka@shark.community
2024-05-17T02:20:28Z
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@SiteRelEnby Ok, but furries though
(DIR) Post #AsFf4i16vNxuutgndg by sekka@shark.community
2025-03-20T16:09:28Z
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@Flaky I have a kneejerk dislike of the characterization of flaky Mastodon instances as "FOSS" ideology, but I admit that my formative years were in a time where open source was often higher-quality than closed-source offerings, and most of the time far more professional.It's still somewhat there, I feel, but all software has declined.Personally, I think "hobbyist" ideology is a more direct culprit. Professional services take a professional approach.
(DIR) Post #AsFf4leZP8JOC9Ar3o by sekka@shark.community
2025-03-20T16:17:33Z
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@Flaky Also, Mastodon is a pretty serious software stack for someone who doesn't have any production experience. I have some big "O" opinions about its design, but ultimately there's a level of complexity in any production service that demands some degree of respect. And users really have no way of auditing their instance owners' experience or "chops."As I recently said, mastodon isn't expensive to run, but it can be expensive to run well. It takes a commitment to quality.
(DIR) Post #AsFhWzL4JcbgekdXzE by sekka@shark.community
2025-03-20T16:53:58Z
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@sendpaws @Flaky Mhm. I'm an old-skool BBS sysop who evolved into a production systems administrator and then a production infrastructure architect. My point of view is that there are a lot of people who simply aren't equipped with the knowledge or skillset to run a production service—and many of them don't even understand what that really means when you say it. Redundancy, scalability, backups, security, caching, queuing, and so on.Spinning up a server is the easy part.
(DIR) Post #AsFhX0GqqmpNXxfh3I by sekka@shark.community
2025-03-20T16:57:19Z
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@sendpaws @Flaky I mean, I could use this as a jumping off point for my rant on why "just put developers on it" (a la "just put security on it") is inherently destructive as well. A developer (or hobbyist) tends to look at things from the position of "Can we?" whereas an architect or sysadmin (in the production sense of the word) tends to look at the problem as "should we?"For many hobbyists, "LOOK DUDE I GOT MASTODON ON MY RASPBERRY PI HANGING OFF MY FIOS, HOW COOL IS THAT?!" is peak "admin."
(DIR) Post #AsFhX43AnaGNGhIpHs by sekka@shark.community
2025-03-20T17:00:15Z
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@sendpaws @Flaky And if they bought an edgy, cool, or memorable domain, the users will come. They don't understand the incredible responsibility they're undertaking when they offer their services to the public, both legally and ethically.In truth, even professional software engineers are often just as bad as hobbyists in that regard.
(DIR) Post #AsFhXDP81KAmHOdzG4 by sekka@shark.community
2025-03-20T17:00:55Z
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@sendpaws @Flaky Anyway, I'll stop reply-spamming. ^_^ I just wanted to chime in.
(DIR) Post #AvH57LtH48XDG6elgu by sekka@shark.community
2025-06-19T00:01:42Z
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@lispi314 @pluralistic This is such a tough issue. If someone sued some of the smaller (fully non-profit) projects I'm involved in, they (and I, having separate no legal fiction for them) would simply be destroyed. We know arbitration is bad, but how do we balance the existence and survival of projects intended for civic good with the potential harms they could cause, when even a basic legal defense can bankrupt the person behind the project?
(DIR) Post #AvH57Qm0uYhKP2IXZI by sekka@shark.community
2025-06-19T00:02:21Z
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@lispi314 @pluralistic I'm wondering if anyone has addressed this issue in a comprehensive way.