stupid ethics, making life ... minimally more complicated (Ny stuff)
Apr. 14th, 2026 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julianOn Sunday, we had Ny's Online Thing. (Wake. Memorial.)
It was very good; full of singing and poetry and science facts and art and memories and sadnesses. and made me sort of/almost cry at various time periods, but because I was the Official Zoom Host I felt like I couldn't, like, take breaks, which is of course Never True. Once it finished, I ended up with a dyspeptic-and-congestion-related headache that took a bit to clear out, but it did eventually.
There were a thousand small details that I didn't quite think of, which makes sense because generally I'm not the one hosting large Zooms, or, for that matter, organizing memorials. And also, the sad.
The general inchoate "we" of the Discord have been hashing out ethical stuff about posting and/or linking to the video of the memorial. Because, it was a semi-public event, but also private, and the simultaneous chat in particular had a lot of linking up wallet names and online handles that is perfectly fine in a semi-private space, but less so in the wider world. And yet, one of the things I appreciated about Ny was that she created a life where she could, to the extent possible, be as much herself as she could, out loud, and I don't want her life's celebration muffled.
But, we didn't quite make it clear that it might be posted later, or ask people if they were OK with it being posted (see above re: small details), and in the general sense, we're fans of opt-in rather than opt-out. So we've come to a (current) compromise. I am quite positive there will be further movement later. (For all I know, someone'll make it a Project to ask everyone who was there if they're OK with it being public, or if they'd like their identities ambiguated. I'm sure not doing it, though, because I have overdue client notes to write.) But anyway, for now, we're not sending out the chat, but will send out the video. So!
If you're interested, either
a) email vicka about it, and she can send you the video. (vicka's the one with the Ny Page, which was where I originally found out about the dying-of-COVID part. Her email is findable on the wider andor pages.)
or b) PM me/comment here/email me/send me a carrier pigeon, and I can send you a link to the video, which is on Mega, which is how I got it to vicka because I decided I wasn't up to figuring out SCP. I'm not including the chat there because of the aforementioned linkages.
Or c)gingicat is, soon, going to post the link to the announce-list, if you're on that.
It was very good; full of singing and poetry and science facts and art and memories and sadnesses. and made me sort of/almost cry at various time periods, but because I was the Official Zoom Host I felt like I couldn't, like, take breaks, which is of course Never True. Once it finished, I ended up with a dyspeptic-and-congestion-related headache that took a bit to clear out, but it did eventually.
There were a thousand small details that I didn't quite think of, which makes sense because generally I'm not the one hosting large Zooms, or, for that matter, organizing memorials. And also, the sad.
The general inchoate "we" of the Discord have been hashing out ethical stuff about posting and/or linking to the video of the memorial. Because, it was a semi-public event, but also private, and the simultaneous chat in particular had a lot of linking up wallet names and online handles that is perfectly fine in a semi-private space, but less so in the wider world. And yet, one of the things I appreciated about Ny was that she created a life where she could, to the extent possible, be as much herself as she could, out loud, and I don't want her life's celebration muffled.
But, we didn't quite make it clear that it might be posted later, or ask people if they were OK with it being posted (see above re: small details), and in the general sense, we're fans of opt-in rather than opt-out. So we've come to a (current) compromise. I am quite positive there will be further movement later. (For all I know, someone'll make it a Project to ask everyone who was there if they're OK with it being public, or if they'd like their identities ambiguated. I'm sure not doing it, though, because I have overdue client notes to write.) But anyway, for now, we're not sending out the chat, but will send out the video. So!
If you're interested, either
a) email vicka about it, and she can send you the video. (vicka's the one with the Ny Page, which was where I originally found out about the dying-of-COVID part. Her email is findable on the wider andor pages.)
or b) PM me/comment here/email me/send me a carrier pigeon, and I can send you a link to the video, which is on Mega, which is how I got it to vicka because I decided I wasn't up to figuring out SCP. I'm not including the chat there because of the aforementioned linkages.
Or c)
gingicat is, soon, going to post the link to the announce-list, if you're on that.The case of the missing notifications
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dw_maintenanceI keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.
Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)
We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.
this one again?
Apr. 11th, 2026 11:45 amdaryl_wor Fine by me! Maybe write more about it today
Yeh, there was literal bad air when I recorded this one, but is good on the pace of social media addiction and how it was infiltrating our lives, no doubt.
Yeh, there was literal bad air when I recorded this one, but is good on the pace of social media addiction and how it was infiltrating our lives, no doubt.
almost there
Apr. 10th, 2026 06:43 amdaryl_wor Ok! ONE more episode of Space Nazis and then geekery will take this show, Enterprise... can't wait
chosen yesterday
Apr. 7th, 2026 06:29 amdaryl_wor
So this one is an interesting pick. going back to pen pals was a major blessing and how the reluctant vampire is a reflection of ourselves, however unaware.....
yesterday's extra pick
Apr. 5th, 2026 07:03 amdaryl_worOkay, this one has how the attention grabbing is not done with evil 'staches or hands rubbing, that kind of info. Glad to be out of it and what anti-fans are, letting them know it wasn't really they're choice and abit after that I noticed that concentration of downloads in a location dropped off severely later on. It is not that the people are "bad" or "evil". more a ringmaster's whip is occurring...
Of course the first highlight is how Milligan is cringing out how BJ had a liason with Angelique and has everyone gotten to her ahead of Milligan? Yes, yes, Simon, you are behind MANY suitors, yes.
Of course the first highlight is how Milligan is cringing out how BJ had a liason with Angelique and has everyone gotten to her ahead of Milligan? Yes, yes, Simon, you are behind MANY suitors, yes.
And I enjoy my lapse into the absurdity of critiquing why vampires can't have sex biologically and I just reference The Munsters to say it is ALL absurd, hello. I guess the trigger is Say Something Relevant.
