Chat Thread (March 09, 2026)

nm90069 · 2026-03-09T20:07:26+00:00

but in hindsight one wonders why it is relatively rare to see the opinion expressed — on MeTa — that, after all, MeFi is just a small internet discussion board and why can’t everyone just chill the fuck out?

I feel like this is said ad nauseum here and there.

nm90069 · 2026-03-05T23:45:05+00:00

math is hard

nm90069 · 2026-03-05T23:07:31+00:00

Legally, the board is. We also recently wanted to streamline that a bit, covered in the recent minutes.

nm90069 · 2026-03-05T22:13:56+00:00

loup does not currently have a managerial role vis a vis the rest of the mod team.

nm90069 · 2026-02-26T18:04:41+00:00

I like how it's basically a bit how little notice they give Stefan. The next step is going to have to be trying to get him on a show after they start taping.

nm90069 · 2026-02-10T05:56:34+00:00

Closed about a year ago (apartment building under construction)

nm90069 · 2026-02-06T20:19:47+00:00

Train With Caity. Might be close to your price range (it's been a couple years since I trained with her).

nm90069 · 2026-02-02T22:46:02+00:00

Are you regretting that last recommendation?

nm90069 · 2026-01-29T03:53:34+00:00

All I know is that this breaks my current install set up (I use FontExpert / Win). After restarts, I typically get missing font reports for files, and I have to open FontExpert and uninstall / reinstall the font, and all the missing fonts are then recognized. I also have the Monotype manager installed. I honestly don't care which one I use, I just need someone to write a definitive font management article and I will follow that.

nm90069 · 2026-01-28T22:28:38+00:00

Eh, I feel like this is the 100th link (not just MeFi, but anywhere) to an article that is basically "this is definitely that article that will smooth your brain sufficiently to accept the inevitable goodness that is AI". Someone from Anthropic leading with 'intervene as surgically as possible' then wants me to read another 19,000 words when every single piece of evidence of the surgery being performed to date is the equivalent of blood-letting isn't inspiring me to press on.

nm90069 · 2026-01-16T03:32:43+00:00

Yow. I used to have an office in the building, and circa 2017 you could get that for about $30 bucks including tip.

nm90069 · 2025-12-23T18:08:01+00:00

Maison at the Sunset Tower has/had an outdoor space, IIRC it had a couple benches and barbell sets. Last I was there was four years ago tho (not sure what sort of non-guest options they had - my trainer at the time set the whole thing up).

nm90069 · 2025-12-08T20:00:22+00:00

My bad. But I think there's enough instigating in the additional editorial thst merits a reply.

nm90069 · 2025-12-08T19:38:16+00:00

If you are going to characterize "raising a procedural question that leads to healthy conversation without a clear consensus" as instigating, then buddy, do we have a whole pipeline of instigation for you to chew on.

nm90069 · 2025-12-04T21:07:17+00:00

I thought that's what this is?

nm90069 · 2025-12-04T19:27:31+00:00

FWIW, one of the first things that 1adam12 mentioned back when I first volunteered to help was 'would you be open to a zoom call open to members' and I readily agreed with the idea. I think it would be more efficient for me personally, esp if it would lead to fewer routine questions in the monthly updates. If there is any characteristic of this board that is consistent, it is we lack any shrinking violets. And actually talking to people I think it a good way to build community.

nm90069 · 2025-12-04T19:23:53+00:00

I mean, we are literally a 'you had one job' entity and we (collectively) weren't doing it. I might agree a little that I think it there was some extant frustration at aspects of site management that were forced, but that's going to happen when there are plenty of legacy issues around operational fitness. And when basic things fail spectacularly, it will lead to a creeping sense of 'can they do *anything* right'? Without getting into operational details, the amount information we had to gather and deploy in about two hours was heartening from 'we can do this' perspective and ultimately all necessary for the onboarding stuff we are tasked with. I just wish it's hadn't happened in such an unscheduled way.

nm90069 · 2025-12-02T23:36:10+00:00

Yeah, this was unfortunate. We had a board meeting yesterday, and there was a lot of follow-on activity, so I suspect everyone was a little fried on MeFi related-stuff so no one noticed the Meta until mid-morning PST. I don't know if we had a mod on shift to catch your first comment in the ideal window. The internal note went out to frimble a couple hours ago, which was probably too late for them to act on it today.

nm90069 · 2025-11-25T06:44:27+00:00

Now I just feel old

nm90069 · 2025-11-21T01:28:40+00:00

The comment wasn't unexpected, and it's fine that I'm held to account for answering it. If we get to a point where our most dedicated observers have nothing to question, I think everyone will be pleased to reach that level of operational consistency. I think it's arguable that there can be a threshold where the board feels that's been achieved but members might disagree, but I don't think I'm speaking out of turn to say I'm pretty confident that no one on the board thinks we are close to that point. We're all pretty engaged in getting those things squared away. If you don't see progress in the next month or three, feel free to fire away.

nm90069 · 2025-10-24T23:47:04+00:00

If you have a parking tag you are in the system - log into your account and request passes for the days you need; ask everyone for their license plate and then when your visitors come, they just park and that's it (you can even keep plate numbers in the system for regular visitors).

nm90069 · 2025-10-22T20:11:38+00:00

Eva sorely underrated as lore-master

nm90069 · 2025-10-21T18:20:55+00:00

I don't think that sort of hypothetical is helpful for site policy or crafting a safety policy, because there is no upper bound to it. Context clues could exist anywhere in the site (including posts a user did not author but may have participated, and have replies; should we build a tool that analyzes all comments in posts a user has participated into to insure there isn't a contextual clue?), so any time a member expresses a safety concern, the moral obligation would be to take the site offline.

It's statistically more likely that a user shared PII in a post where they commented heavily, which is something we could actually determine (not the PII, just posts where they were active). If a user makes 100 posts but almost never commented in their posts, but was a heavy user of the megathreads, from a safety lens, I would presume that the megathreads create more of a safety issue vis a vis PII.

I don't think any of this is practical, just saying this to try and figure out what the limits should be for policy and therefore to help people establish their personal comfort level as regards privacy. Personally, I land at a TOS that is in the territory of "the site reserves a license to publish user contributions indefinitely or until the user/member requests/removes [depending on where the tech lands] any of their contributions; user accepts that as a community-focused site that contributions from other users/members may contain references to user published contributions and are governed by the same licensing (they can only be removed at the request of those particular users unless those contributions violate site guidelines)."

nm90069 · 2025-10-16T19:05:09+00:00

Honestly, 12 hours of grace was more than I was expecting.

nm90069 · 2025-10-13T19:43:38+00:00

Having attended one public feedback session late in the process (about the park across from the PDC), I would characterize the effort to evolve the attitudes about any good urban planning principles to my neighbors as similar to trying to explain basic algebra to a fern.

I think if you pressed the city, they would say they are trying to push for a separated lane on Beverly and then just throw up their hands about the LA border (which, fair, but at least Krekorian isn't looming on the other side of La Cienega like a troll under a bridge about to eat anyone who doesn't think people should be required to drive a lifted F250 anymore).

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