@luis_in_brief Being the That Tech Guy can be a lonely row to hoe. Plus, if you're like me, your father-in-law has a lot of questions about why his computer is running slow all of a sudden.
Super interesting article on a species maybe found only in Lake Merrit, with this incredible fact: "Introduced species made up 97 percent of the organisms and 99 percent of the biomass in parts of the Bay."
I'm not normally a petty guy, but it's pretty fun to send a "drop this meritless case or we're coming after both you and your client for fees" letter now and then.
For my birthday dinner I made a childhood favorite for myself: kuře na paprice or paprika huhn, depending on which side of the family we’re talking about.
Curious about moderator workload in the fediverse? Here's a couple data points:
In putting together our end-of-year report for Open Collective, I took a quick look at how much trash we had to take out this year for sfba.social.
Our mod team rejected 680 spam signups and suspended about 2700 accounts† in 2023. That's almost 10% of our total user base!
† I didn't do any rigorous categorization of reasons for suspending accounts, but most suspended accounts are spam/scams/bots. I think we tend to limit accounts and delete posts for other kinds of infractions, and we we've been lucky not to see too much truly awful stuff.