Mx Amber Alex (she/it)

The transsexual dyke your liberal columnists warned you about.

Part-time woman, full-time nuisance. May contain traces of neurodivergence. Cisn't. Now you say ‘pronouns in bio’ because you have no other jokes.

Anti-fascism. Intersectional & queer feminism. Prison abolition. Liberation for all. International solidarity. I've been around long enough to see every discourse several times over, so spare me the bullshit.

Thank fuck not American.

Moderator.
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Follow requests?: No nazis, COVID deniers, conspiracy nutjiobs
Age: mid-20s
Special interest: Menswear (suits etc.), dress codes, ask me about clothes and regret it
Conflict resolution? CW request?: Send me a message and we'll sort it out. COVID deniers need not apply.

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2024-09-02 22:15:21

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I've spoken at length over my belief that the fediverse is at a size where it can't survive without some sort of automated or semi-automated moderation tools (https://eldritch.cafe/@amberage/tagged/MastoMod).
It's basically email: tons of providers (instances) that send messages to each other (posts, follows, etc), and there is no guaranteed standard of moderation for all of them. Malicious actors can spin up their own or abuse existing ones.
We've seen that in the recent spam waves, i.e. "kuroneko" and the weekly spam waves from mastodon.social.
That is, in the long run, more than volunteers can handle. So there needs to be some automated solution to detect and contain spam.
The API does not support that at present.
It has to.
#MastoMod #MastoDev

2024-09-02 22:12:23

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Just give us some API endpoints and webhooks to automate moderation. We'll do the rest.
#MastoMod

2024-09-02 22:09:52

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what it needs is ~10 full-time developers.
I'm not overly familiar with the usual salaries for that, but that's gonna run about 30k a month or more in salaries alone.
So, yknow… we don't.

2024-09-02 22:06:28

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With every update I get closer to tagging Eugen with something like "GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER AND STOP MICROMANAGING AESTHETICS"

2024-09-02 22:04:39

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You still can't automatically limit instances if tons of repetitive posts come from there, or flag new accounts for manual review if they post rapidly or spam follow requests or replies…
…but the "reports" section has a new icon and the radio buttons for the report reason don't have a background colour anymore!
ARE YOU FEELING SERVICED YET, FANS?
#MastoMod #MastoDev #FuckThisShit

2024-09-02 22:01:31

What Mastodon needs: better moderation tools
What Mastodon gets: new icons and confusing UI changes in the moderation tools
sigh.....
#MastoMod #MastoDev

2024-09-01 12:11:02

#Tailors of the fediverse! I have here a pair of trousers that I really like that is unfortunately massively too large for me.
The legs can stay as wide as they are, I don't mind that, but the waist has to be narrower.
By 16 cm (don't ask).
That's 8cm on each side of the centre back seam. It will leave enough room between the pockets, I measured (about 6cm). But.
Is that even doable, or will that absolutely butcher the proportions and fit of the trousers?
I don't mind the waist being much narrower than the legs (au contraire – the illusion of a slimmer waist is always welcome), but it would be unfortunate if i.e. the front of the trousers started pulling away in all directions weirdly.
And if that's too much, how much do you think I could take it in?
#Tailoring #Sewing

2024-08-27 22:48:48

so uh.... my computer doesn't start anymore.
it worked fine an hour ago. now, dead.
at first, it would appear to boot, the BIOS would show up, then it would get stuck at a single blinking cursor in the black.
shut it down via long press, unplugged it and plugged it back in.
now there is a single green LED on the mainboard, but when i press the start button, nothing happens.
cleaned the insides with a vacuum, nothing.
dead.
what do I do?

2024-08-18 20:52:19

don't want to be ashamed?
don't behave shamefully

2024-08-15 07:58:11

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Update: here's a picture. A friend of mine gets strong control lines (test validity, not test positivity) from kits from the same batch (we're talking thick, saturated, bright red), I get this. To the naked eye, the C-line is even fainter.
This happens across all amounts of sample fluid (from the sparsest three droplets you've ever seen to almost drowning the test in fluid), both nostrils, good and bad gag reflex days, et cetera. I can't find any factors that change it.
#COVID #AskFedi #RapidTests
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/964/966/175/457/873/original/abea47f875b96313.jpg

2024-08-07 21:09:04

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96 years and counting. The world will be poorer the day he dies, hopefully far away.
I downloaded all his PD music and plan to burn CDs to put in the car.

2024-08-07 21:05:02

I absolutely love this song. And this is how I found out what Hanukkah is about in the first place.
(All of Tom Lehrer's songs and records were made public domain by him in 2020 and 2022 so I can just reupload it here. Yay!)
#nowplaying [Tom Lehrer: (I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica](https://tomlehrersongs.com/hanukkah-in-santa-monica/ )
#TomLehrer
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/922/767/209/513/210/original/bcfb4622103909ec.mp3

2024-08-04 14:57:21

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nächsten Monat sehen wir dann, wie viel die "Brandmauer" wert ist

2024-08-04 14:53:40

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besser als wenn (mehr als vermutlich schon jetzt) LfV-Wissen direkt an Neonazis fließt, I guess.... alles scheisze

2024-07-31 10:29:43

Does anyone have experience with COVID rapid tests not returning particularly strong negative results?
I've been testing daily the past week for reasons, and each test has been negative, as has each test of the person visiting me. However, their C-line (control) was strong, clear, full; mine is faint and takes the whole 15 minutes to be barely there.
My questions are:<li>is that test still valid?</li><li>what causes that?</li><li>need I worry?</li><li>what can I do to fix that?</li>
I use the Longsee rapid tests and it's a newly-ordered batch ("rel: 2022-05-19") with an expiration date of October 2024.
#COVID #AskFedi #RapidTests

2024-07-05 15:12:20

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I love it. It's awful.
Take your feet/food off my kitchen/stairs!

2024-07-02 20:12:45

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your optimism is commendable, I wish I could share it

2024-07-02 20:07:25

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bingo. I don't see the GOP accepting any defeat. SCOTUS just basically made it impossible to prosecute Republican election fraud, but I guarantee you, they will happily accept any case Trump brings about alleged blue fraud and rule in his favour.

2024-07-02 19:20:46

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https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/718/513/804/947/138/original/5f24372d2be1ee10.jpg

2024-07-02 18:26:39

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https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/718/299/792/048/084/original/f7156a6be98a8ec6.jpg

2024-07-02 18:24:52

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as far as the 80s go, that's a tremendous show of restraint. At the same time, Timothy Dalton was wearing baggy, triple-pleated trousers and low-gorge uber-padded suits without a tie.

2024-06-26 09:39:24

How heat works:
16–25°C: nice
26–30°C: too warm
30+°C: danger zone
How the radio thinks heat works:
16–20°C: chilly
21–25°C: good weather
26–30°C: better weather
30+°C while crops wither and people collapse in the streets: "summer is here and the weather is lovely, sunshine all around, not a cloud or raindrop in sight to ruin your day"

2024-06-18 11:06:35

please enter your pissword

2024-06-08 06:43:07

"It's not that Spanish is French for Beginners, it's that French is Spanish for Masochists."

2024-04-11 15:53:15

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this time round, I'm not sure it's a thread problem at all. The handwheel resists movement even when there is no thread anywhere in the machine. It feels and sounds scratchy like there's metal scraping on metal somewhere.
With my luck, the countless times the previous problem (thread mess underneath) ground it to a halt caused some problem in the motor or timing mechanic or something.
Last ditch effort is borrowing my gran's machine (decades old, when things were built to last), bringing that to the shop to top off the fluids and check the tyre pressure, and see if that works. If not, I'm all out of juice to try and fail and try and fail again.

2024-04-11 15:20:15

Aaaaaaaand the sewing machine is broken again.
This time it is definitely not the tension. The thread is threaded as instructed, the thread is between the tension discs, the tension discs move as they should, there is tension on the thread as there should be...
When I try to move up the bobbin thread, it doesn't work. The top thread gets caught... somewhere and after a few turns, the top thread is knotted around the bobbin assembly.
And when I do manage to move it up, it gets stuck after two or three stitches.
This time, there's no mess of top thread underneath. It just gets stuck and the top thread ties itself to the bobbin or the feed dogs.
I don't get it. I can't with this shit anymore. I've been trying to use it for a month and every time I solve a problem, another appears.
I can take a hint. I guess sewing just isn't for me. I'm done. I quit.
#sewing #sewingmachine

2024-04-09 21:58:00

https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/243/498/010/466/803/original/9f64ea28400b374b.png

2024-03-29 20:58:14

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"getting brain-locked trying to figure it out" tbh. Like I immediately see two conflicting signals and my brain just shuts down like a robot trying to parse the liar's paradox.