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Kaity A

The sysops admin on the blahaj.zone lemmy and hajkey instances.

Your friendly neighbourhood spider-techprincess.

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  • I'll check it out. See what this alpha API thing is all about.

  • That one is old, maybe Ada forgot to update.

    blahaj-20250508 is the new goodness.

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  • @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone does a fantastic job of moderating, and it constantly amazes me that she manages to keep her cool (and calms me down when I get riled up too!).

    Thanks for being the moderator to my sysadmin, babe. I couldn't do it without you.

  • Ada, by far, has the most moderation experience and level head of the both of us.

    If I was moderating this place it'd be a barren wasteland with salted and scorched earth as far as the eyes can see and a list of rules as long as your arm which keeps getting longer every time you look as I try to keep up with the rules lawyers.

    When we first setup Blåhaj Zone with Ada, we discussed exactly this scenario and Ada said that you'll never create a set of rules that are comprehensive enough to defeat those that are intent on being horrible human beings and trying to make a safe space for queer and gender diverse people unsafe. And instead of keeping the space safe you'll spend all your time and effort refining and defending the intricacies of the rules.

    Instead of doing that, we want a safe space, so the guiding principle is don't make it unsafe.

    Obviously some people need more clarification on what safety means to us, but really if you need more than what we have provided to "get it", then you are the kind of person who would make it unsafe just by being present.

    Most decent human beings can grok "be kind and respect each other" as a set square.

  • There's only two (really one) admins

    Ooof, that's a bit unfair don't you think?

    While it is true that I do the majority of the work keeping our servers running behind the scenes for you all, it's still a bit rough to say Ada doesn't pull her own weight! 😊

  • Poor li'l blighter got attacked by a bin chick'n and was limping away last we saw em... after goin' the bin juice drinkin' irrit of course.

  • Apparently I was wrong, it's decided it's done and working again now.

  • The pict-rs upgrade is ongoing.

    From what I can tell it'll be about another 5 hours. I'm going to have to go to bed and check on it in the morning.

    Unfortunately the stock-standard lemmy-ui doesn't like it that pict-rs is migrating to a new version of database and not serving images, so it's stubbornly just not working at all.

  • Blahaj Lemmy Meta @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    Kaity A @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Lemmy updated to v0.19.5

    Hey all!

    Our lemmy.blahaj.zone has been updated to v0.19.5.

    Let us know if you notice any issues with the upgrade!

  • Our best haj, Shonky (they/them) is available now, over at their own Github repository for use when referring to Blåhaj Lemmy.

    I'm guessing we'll need them to make an appearance for the Canvas template.

  • Blahaj Lemmy Meta @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    Kaity A @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Test upload image

    Just testing image upload.

  • So this was at the very start of the s02e10 episode - "Pegasus".

  • I think it's because a lot of her fans were like "hang on, she's just misunderstood, she's not really transphobic, just doesn't want those fake transes going into women's spaces", and Rowling kept it pretty vague, open for misinterpretation, not really ever able to be pinned down as actually being provably transphobic in the minds of many.

    But something happened recently and it tipped her over the edge, from keeping her donations low key and her transphobia aimed at the theoretical "not really a woman 'trans-identified-male' boogeyman-woman" (who doesn't really exist), to outright making open donations to anti-trans groups and attacking real trans women.

    All the sudden her supporters are like... Wait, this is not who we thought you meant… Where are these scary men? The ones invading women's spaces that you were talking about?

  • Blahaj Lemmy Meta @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    Kaity A @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Alternative frontends

    Hi all our lovely users,

    Just a quick post to let you all know that along-side the upgrade to 0.19.3, we've also added a couple of alternate UIs to the Blåhaj lemmy for you.

    Obviously the default lemmy-UI at https://lemmy.blahaj.zone still exists and has been updated to 0.19.3 alongside the lemmy server update.

    There's also now an Alexandrite UI at https://alx.lemmy.blahaj.zone which is a more modern, smoother UI, written in svelte, by sheodox.

    And then for those who are nostalgic for reddit days of yore, and memories of when PHP websites last ruled the earth, there's MLMYM (courtesy of rystaf) at https://mlmym.lemmy.blahaj.zone.

    Please enjoy, and I hope the upgrades work well for you.

    Blahaj Lemmy Meta @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    Kaity A @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    ¡La mariposa, muy bonita!

    Esto es una prueba

    Blahaj Lemmy Meta @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    Kaity A @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Testing image upload

    Test

  • I also agree.

    While I couldn't care less (it's their body and bodily autonomy is super important to me), I'd be a little hurt if they didn't tell me about it.

    In that case I'd be more interested in talking to my partner to try and understand why they felt that they couldn't talk to me about it and needed to keep it a secret.

  • Blahaj Lemmy Meta @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    Kaity A @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Migration of pict-rs server

    We're currently in the process of migrating our pict-rs service (the thing responsible for storing media/images/uploads etc) to the new infrastructure.

    This involves an additional step of moving our existing file-based storage to object storage, so this process will take a little time.

    New images/uploads may not work properly during this migration, however existing images should continue to load. We expect this migration to take about an hour.

    [EDIT]

    Migration has completed.

    685,271 files / 153.38 GB were migrated. Copying to object storage took about 1.5 hours. Starting service back up on new server and debugging took another 30 minutes.

    Timeline:

    • Migration started at 2023-10-01 22:43 UTC.
    • [+1h32m] Objects finished uploading to object storage at 2023-10-02T00:15 UTC.
    • [+2h06m] Migration was completed at 2023-10-02 00:46 UTC.
  • I would suggest getting 'Nutter to drive us in, but it's going to be hectic out there, and ze doesn't really like too much traffic.

  • I used to be on patches (until they became hard to get), not pills, so I can't really compare, but I have observed that since I started injectable E, the effectiveness has increased noticeably.

    That said, at least here in Queensland, the availability of prescriptions for injectable esters other than valerate here is next to impossible, and even then convincing your doctor to prescribe valerate is really hard.

  • I had emergency cosmetic surgery after my accident and remember up to the anaesthesia counting down from ten to about four, and then waking up afterwards.

  • We aren't defeferated from them. That's different from hosting that content ourselves though.

    I'm not personally against piracy, however hosting that kind of content here ourselves would put our primary reason for creating this space (that of providing a safe social space for trans and LGBTQIA+ people) at risk.

    I just wanted to point that out before we get a whole bunch of piracy subs created on our instance that we'd have to remove.

  • I would point out that piracy is against our ToS, so we wouldn't tolerate hosting piracy subs ourselves.

  • Oh goodness, why is this so funny? lol.

  • Blahaj Lemmy Meta @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    Kaity A @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    State of the nation.

    blahaj.zone Kaity A (@supakaity)

    **State of the ~~nation~~ instance** So over the last month our instances have grown substantially and while Ada and I are privileged enough to be able to cover the cost of the small instance we initially envisioned, what it has become is somewhat bigger than that. The Lemmy side of things is curr...

    Kaity A (@supakaity)

    Discussion of the current situation with the Blåhaj instances, and upcoming maintenance.

    Blahaj Lemmy Meta @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    Kaity A @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Blåhaj Lemmy hacked

    Hi everyone.

    Lemmy had an XSS vulnerability and we were one of the instances attacked through this vulnerability. We had our homepage replaced by a youtube video.

    The lemmy devs were quick to create a PR for this issue and we have patched our instance to fix it,

    Also while I do not believe any login tokens were compromised, we have taken the additional measure of rotating our secret key, so everyone will have to login to the site again as your existing credentials will no longer be valid.

    If login fails to work properly, you may have to clear your cookies for the site... it seems to get confused about whether you're logged in or not.

    Sorry that this happened, if you have any questions please contact @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone or myself.

    Blahaj Lemmy Meta @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    Kaity A @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Lemmy software updated

    Hey all!

    The lemmy software running on Blåhaj Lemmy has been updated to the latest version v0.17.1, which should result in a few bugs disappearing, however I believe there's still a few known bugs remaining.

    Let me know if you notice any problems!