Fenris Lorsrai @FenrisLorsrai@awoo.space

A constant issue that comes up in IT at .edu sites is abandoned student-created services.

The nature of it is, students, usually grad students, have a project that involves building some sort of website or service. They do so, get their grade, and eventually graduate, but the service is useful to one or more faculty or staff members and continues to be used for a long time after the student leaves.

Inevitably the service goes down, or breaks because no one is maintaining it, and we receive a ticket,

"Hey, this _service_ on _hostname_ isn't working. could you look into it?"

And we have no freaking idea what the service is, what it does, how it's set up or any of that. We respond to the effect, only to be told they're depending on it for some class, so we end up going in blind and trying to get something we have ZERO INFORMATION ABOUT working again.

This is especially fun when it's running on an outdated OS release on a virtual machine that hasn't been maintained or touched in years.

Now, we can easily say "We don't know anything about this and can't maintain it" and be morally and legally in the right, but you see, we're IT people. We LIKE a challenge. It's hard to say no rather than dig in and give it a good ol' fashioned try.

So how's your morning? :)

The trans and nonbinary choir I am in is still selling tickets and taking donations in advance of our fundraiser show this Friday. If you can be here in person or watch our online show, that'd be great! If you can't make it and just want to donate to the group, that'd be great too!

https://givebutter.com/c/STANCEtalent/members/fluffycritter

If you want to support a charity for youth literacy and writing, or just buy yourself a tin of fear, like I did, there's a Monster Supply shop that needs supporting:

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bring-our-monster-shop-to-life

I do see this one recirculate quite a lot, which is kind of depressing seeing as I drew it in 2006. About the Iraq War.

The gender of the day is an anxious naga in a hunt.

Genuine question: Anyone have a mid-week TTRPG session they're looking for players for? Or some movie get-togethers on Discord, preferably during the day?

I can't physically socialize and it's going to kill me, eventually.

DISGUSTED at the double standards i see on mastodon.

When I, a silicon valley startup tech guy, talk about wanting activitypub to be the Next Big Thing, to see the fediverse grow endlessly, to expand to impossible sizes, I'm a Dirty Capitalist who you hate and want to murder

But when some FURRY posts about how they want to be INFLATED all HUGE until they're the BIGGEST AROUND

EVERYONE THINKS THEY'RE JUST FANTASTIC

This is for non-trans people only!

Do you think it is #transphobic to not want to date trans people?

There is an accompanying poll for trans people in the replies.

Please #boost so that I can have a larger sample size than I might otherwise get.

Boost the other poll too if you can.

#poll

This is for #trans people only!

Do you think it is #transphobic to not want to date trans people?

There is an accompanying poll for non-trans people that this poll is in reply to.

Please #boost so that I can have a larger sample size than I might otherwise get.

Boost the other poll too if you can.

#poll

Web #a11y /#accessibility folks:

Starting a newsletter about the history of web accessibility!

Is there anyone I absolutely must interview, contact or reach out to? Do you want to talk to me about an aspect that's under-documented? Are there any resources I might not have heard of that would be helpful?

Please reply and/or boost!

This should be the standard

So I've extracted the images, video clips, and audio files, and put them up here:

https://archive.org/details/stvoy_leeu

So a tumblr user found a "limited-edition entertainment utility" tie in for Star Trek Voyager from late 1996, but they couldn't get it to work on modern systems:

https://archive.org/details/voyager-eu/

✒️🖤Flash Tattoos!🖤✒️

My 1st ever flash sheet featuring animals! Info is on the 2nd image! Def gonna plan more if folks dig these!

overheard in a group chat type context:

'a group of my friends refers to the stock market as the “feelings horse,” as in “the feelings horse got spooked and now the money is smaller”'

🙏

📕📚Zoolastic Bookfair 📚📕 YCH!

First GROUP PIC in YEARS!? You bet! With something I've wanted to do for a LONG time so I made this as a warm up! Based off of the Scholastic Book fair!

Please go HERE to see all info!!!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51310763/

Continuing to wear a mask because of the Ongoing Everything: ✅

Continuing to wear a mask so that revealing your face to others is a sign of openness/intimacy: ✅✅✅

So..... is there a Fediverse equivalent to Discord?

.... asking because of reasons......