BuoyantCitrus

Flødeboller probably. Marshmallow fluff on a base of marzipan all coated in chocolate.

Thanks! That's everything I'd hoped to get rolling and then some so clearly you have it well in hand.

Really what I was aiming for was a recognition that we shouldn't have to guess about this stuff and it should be straightforwardly laid out. Of course that's rarely the case but I see Lemmy as a way to collaborate in building the sort of social media we want rather than what we're given as a byproduct of other's interests.

Deletion on other instances isn't something we can control but we can point that out so people understand. And for our part we can understand what's happening on our systems, ensure it's in line with what we want (eg. if it isn't expunged you can add a cron job to do it after X days or w/e) and be transparent about it.

I didn't expect that you'd go as far as not logging exact IPs at even the the HTTP level, I fear that you will have to walk that back a bit over time in order to use things like fail2ban and more sophisticated tools to quickly respond to abuse and DoS attempts. Alas time and time again has proven there are some people out there who just like to mess with stuff and we need to be proactively resilient against what's unfortunately inevitable. Similarly, there'll be more subtle stuff like it becomes obvious that some set of IPs has been used in mass creation of accounts for sockpuppets or LLM bots and it'd be useful to retain them for a bit so we'd have the option of going back and reviewing what they put out.

i don’t think there’s any other PII that is stored?

We have the option to give your our emails too, is that only visible to you?

I know i have a lot of “i think”'s in there, so all of this is a best guess. I’ll do some digging and testing at some point so I can firmly answer these questions.

See? Right person for the job. Holler if you need anything, I get a general sense there's a willingness to pitch in around here.

Hm. I guess it's kind of like Lemmy vs. Reddit but rather than social media it's the government. We can either pitch in and work together as a community to build something that actually represents our interests or we can passively accept whatever a corporation figures will pay off.

I'm starting to understand this good fortune as a responsibility. We who have the time need to step up and represent those we care about who don't. The worsening situation we have now (especially access to food, housing, and healthcare) is what we get without engagement. An entrenched elite that own businesses that only do what's profitable and leave an underfunded public sector to pick up the pieces are happy to run things to their benefit. If those of us who have the luxury of being able to articulate or at least contemplate an alternative don't work together, that's going to just keep happening by default.

If she's elected mayor she won't have much direct power; Doug Ford (elected by less than half of the less than half of eligible people who bothered to vote) has demonstrated he'll overrule Toronto on a whim. So I don't think it's the worst idea that she sees the office as a platform to push for greater civic engagement as that can extend to other levels of government.

She has vowed to open up the budget process to the people of Toronto; if there are fights to be had with the province and the feds over a new deal for the city, she wants to marshall the support of citizens, not just councillors.

Policies enacted with the support of a population, eg. popular policies, are harder to undermine than ones pushed through by fiat.

The Local has been doing a series of long form articles on candidates:

• Where Has Olivia Chow Been?
• The Chief Concern with Mark Saunders
• The Transformation of Josh Matlow
• Who is Ana Bailão? Depends Who You Ask

They also have a collection of short bios on a broader list of candidates.

Ya they call that out in the post: $900ish/sqft vs their average around $600. I guess trophy makes sense, after all this REIT is essentially a collection of malls that's proud of its new prized possession.

FWIW I'm seeing this too, still, communities from lemmy.ml, beehaw and infosec.pub

Oh nice, it's not storing the pw then? The session is just perpetual and doesn't expire or has my app been refreshing it along the way? How do I invalidate the session if eg. I lose my phone?

Interesting! Mastodon surfaces those things? But still just within an instance and not across them as activitypub itself doesn't include such metadata (or it's extensible enough that's moot?) I wonder why? You wouldn't need to expose the IP to admins to offer them the ability to add it to a blocklist...

Great, thanks for this. I did glance there but saw the migrations and blithely presumed I'd have to run them to see the resulting schema.

And ya, there's no way I can connect to an instance without revealing my IP to whoever controls that host, I'd be on a VPN if I was that concerned. Mostly just wanted to confirm someone with a self-hosted instance and a script kiddie hobby wouldn't be able to directly mess with the system of whichever hapless commentor says something they take umbrage at.

That's what I'd kind of assumed but then realised it's probably good to be sure.

Aha! I should have looked more closely at the various icons, did seem like something that ought to be there and it is ...I'll delete this and try that. Thanks!

Interesting, looks like we are successfully getting more skilled immigrants. Apparently new Canadians are more likely to be employed than people born here (a recent development, see chart 1) and increasingly in better positions. Which makes sense, it's expensive to live here and hard to immigrate, no point bothering with all that just to work in a hotel:

However, other industries, such as food & accommodation and other personal services, have seen little-to-no increase in the numbers of new immigrants in the workforce, which may have contributed to higher-than-average vacancy rates in these areas.

...which also means that the service sector is going to have to pay more, seems like they can't just hope someone will show up willing to work for what they're offering.