Motorcycles, shelves and firewood

Sep. 8th, 2025 09:50 am
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We had a busy and stressful weekend.  On Saturday, I searched out and found a firewood supplier who still had dry wood for sale and bought a cord.  He delivered it that day.  Now we have a large pile of firewood in the place I usually park my car.  We have to round up some young people to come over and eat pizza and stack wood.  The weather has been down into the 40's and we were almost out of fuel for the wood stove.

Several weeks ago I sold my motorcycle to my younger brother.  He came and picked it up on Sunday.  I had several boxes of bits and pieces to go with it.  My brother and I managed to get the bike up into his trailer, but it was a stressful and depressing task.  I feel like I'm closing out a whole chapter of my life.  I'll never own another motorcycle.  It's admitting that I'm old.  

The Ikea shelf unit that I had all my A/V equipment on had a shelf collapse.  Luckily nothing was damaged but the shelf.  I ordered and new rolling shelf unit from a commercial kitchen supplier and have transferred all the components to the new shelves.  That left us with this huge, white, Ikea shelf.  I put it on FB marketplace as free and had six responses within an hour.  One of the respondents wanted to come and get it right away.  So now that is gone and not taking up space.

WTF?

Sep. 1st, 2025 02:21 pm
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Is something going on at Lake Harriet? I was sitting quietly in the Peace Garden around noon when this helicopter started buzzing back and forth over the north end of the lake and vicinity. There were a lot of people strolling toward the bandshell, some carrying signs.

Someone in that group even greeted me by name but I was on a bike and passed by before I could see who it was. If it was you, “Hi.”

Code deploy happening shortly

Aug. 31st, 2025 07:37 pm
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Per the [site community profile] dw_news post regarding the MS/TN blocks, we are doing a small code push shortly in order to get the code live. As per usual, please let us know if you see anything wonky.

There is some code cleanup we've been doing that is going out with this push but I don't think there is any new/reworked functionality, so it should be pretty invisible if all goes well.

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A reminder to everyone that starting tomorrow, we are being forced to block access to any IP address that geolocates to the state of Mississippi for legal reasons while we and Netchoice continue fighting the law in court. People whose IP addresses geolocate to Mississippi will only be able to access a page that explains the issue and lets them know that we'll be back to offer them service as soon as the legal risk to us is less existential.

The block page will include the apology but I'll repeat it here: we don't do geolocation ourselves, so we're limited to the geolocation ability of our network provider. Our anti-spam geolocation blocks have shown us that their geolocation database has a number of mistakes in it. If one of your friends who doesn't live in Mississippi gets the block message, there is nothing we can do on our end to adjust the block, because we don't control it. The only way to fix a mistaken block is to change your IP address to one that doesn't register as being in Mississippi, either by disconnecting your internet connection and reconnecting it (if you don't have a static IP address) or using a VPN.

In related news, the judge in our challenge to Tennessee's social media age verification, parental consent, and parental surveillance law (which we are also part of the fight against!) ruled last month that we had not met the threshold for a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing the law while the court case proceeds.

The Tennesee law is less onerous than the Mississippi law and the fines for violating it are slightly less ruinous (slightly), but it's still a risk to us. While the fight goes on, we've decided to prevent any new account signups from anyone under 18 in Tennessee to protect ourselves against risk. We do not need to block access from the whole state: this only applies to new account creation.

Because we don't do any geolocation on our users and our network provider's geolocation services only apply to blocking access to the site entirely, the way we're implementing this is a new mandatory question on the account creation form asking if you live in Tennessee. If you do, you'll be unable to register an account if you're under 18, not just the under 13 restriction mandated by COPPA. Like the restrictions on the state of Mississippi, we absolutely hate having to do this, we're sorry, and we hope we'll be able to undo it as soon as possible.

Finally, I'd like to thank every one of you who's commented with a message of support for this fight or who's bought paid time to help keep us running. The fact we're entirely user-supported and you all genuinely understand why this fight is so important for everyone is a huge part of why we can continue to do this work. I've also sent a lot of your comments to the lawyers who are fighting the actual battles in court, and they find your wholehearted support just as encouraging and motivating as I do. Thank you all once again for being the best users any social media site could ever hope for. You make me proud and even more determined to yell at state attorneys general on your behalf.

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