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Branch: refs/heads/main Home: https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth Commit: 5054973eaa6bc5842aef44efc15924f4f8fe4b7e https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth/commit/5054973eaa6bc5842aef44efc15924f4f8fe4b7e Author: Mark Smith mark@dreamwidth.org Date: 2025-06-20 (Fri, 20 Jun 2025)

Changed paths: R .github/workflows/tasks/worker-send-email-ses-service.json M .github/workflows/update-workflows.pl M .github/workflows/worker-deploy.yml R etc/kubernetes/workers/generated/send-email-ses.yaml M etc/kubernetes/workers/regen-workers.pl

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Update deployment tools for workers

No more send-email-ses, so remove it.

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Branch: refs/heads/main Home: https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth Commit: 9820e2427e52f7cac488677c93fea27ce35e0fd4 https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth/commit/9820e2427e52f7cac488677c93fea27ce35e0fd4 Author: Mark Smith mark@dreamwidth.org Date: 2025-06-20 (Fri, 20 Jun 2025)

Changed paths: R bin/worker/send-email R bin/worker/send-email-mass R bin/worker/send-email-ses M cgi-bin/DW/Controller/Tools.pm M cgi-bin/DW/Hooks/PrivList.pm M doc/dependencies-cpanm M etc/workers.conf

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Remove TheSchwartz flow for email

It turns out we don't have any senders left for sending email via TheSchwartz... so we can just remove this all.

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Branch: refs/heads/main Home: https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth Commit: b67e2fc86ec4c83dcf20d563de526e1aab27c235 https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth/commit/b67e2fc86ec4c83dcf20d563de526e1aab27c235 Author: Mark Smith mark@dreamwidth.org Date: 2025-06-20 (Fri, 20 Jun 2025)

Changed paths: M cgi-bin/LJ/Global/Defaults.pm M etc/config-local.pl.example M etc/config.pl.example M etc/kubernetes/web/secrets/config-local.pl M etc/workers.conf M ext/dw-nonfree/etc/config-local.pl.example

Log Message:

Remove old mail configs

Sorry, this was deprecated a long time ago. Use EMAIL_VIA_SES which lets you configure an SMTP destination (that doesn't have to be SES.)

Commit: 0e07d21102198772dd1362d64ff3044ba83ea556 https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth/commit/0e07d21102198772dd1362d64ff3044ba83ea556 Author: Mark Smith mark@dreamwidth.org Date: 2025-06-20 (Fri, 20 Jun 2025)

Changed paths: M bin/worker/send-email M bin/worker/send-email-mass M bin/worker/send-email-ses M cgi-bin/DW/Task/SendEmail.pm M cgi-bin/LJ/Global/Defaults.pm M doc/dependencies-cpanm M etc/config-private.pl.example

Log Message:

Simplify email system

This causes the old TheSchwartz worker to simply enqueue an SQS job in the new task system, so we don't have any duplicate mail sending logic. Additionally, this standardizes on Net::SMTP which is the modern module now that it supports TLS. Also fix up the configs so this doesn't reference SES anymore since it's not specific to that.

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Branch: refs/heads/main Home: https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth Commit: 34e44a69e1691db1070da7d98cabc43ff3f4c346 https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth/commit/34e44a69e1691db1070da7d98cabc43ff3f4c346 Author: Mark Smith mark@dreamwidth.org Date: 2025-06-20 (Fri, 20 Jun 2025)

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Add .cursorignore

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watervole

Pleased to say that MP (Vikki Slade, Liberal) voted in favour of the bill, as she'd promised when I wrote to her about it.

(Our previous MP, Conservative, - but not necessarily representative of the rest of the party - did not always vote to match what his letters implied.)

My heath is fine at present (expect when I get sciatica or break something), but I'm terrified of dementia (the bill doesn't cover that, but hopefully it may one day extend to it, such that if wishes are expressed in a proper power of Attorney while a person is still of sound mind).

I wrote my POA several years ago, and made my wishes clear. If I ever can't recognise my family, then that person is no longer a person I wish to be. And I certainly don't want my family to live with that kind of pain or to spend their time caring (or paying for care for) someone who can't appreciate it.

I want my money to go to my grandchildren and not on end of life care for me.

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Hooray! I saw this in time for people to get in on the deal.

"On Friday, June 20, 2025, get a curated offering of free romance books at your preferred ebook retailer, no strings attached. This is just a helpful collection of free-for-a-limited-time romance ebooks!"

https://www.romancebookworms.com/

Feel free to share this wherever.

spiralsheep

- Reading: 72 books to 19 June 2025. Finished 70 + 2 in progress.

Quote: "Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes! Didn't they use anything else in Ancient Greece?"

66. Bland generic novel with fish knives joke.

67. Intermittently mildly amusing novel, with a clunky attempted fish forks joke, admiring references to the father's fascism ("senatorial" gold "Roman" armbands = fascist brassards), and a whole shoal of red salted codfish.

68. Casual authorial antisemitism (not as characterisation or a plot point). :-(

69. Aurora Australis, by members of the Nimrod Expedition to Antarctica, 1908, anthology, 3.5/5
Variable quality but worth reading the whole to give context for the best. Readalong ongoing:
https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/662515.html

70. Book published in the 1920s, read for a reading challenge. Not a great choice for me, apart from the fact it's short, but I've read most of the usual suspects from that decade. I probably should've asked for recs of less well-known books, or re-read something I already know I like.

71. When the Earth was Green, by Riley Black, 2025, non-fiction popular palaeontology, ?/5
Numerical typos are very fashionable in 2025, example the first: "425 million years ago [...] during human history more than 440 million years after our beachside scene" [so 15 million years in the future... yeah, no. Also humans gonna be extinct by then, bb ;-P ].

72. Inventing the Renaissance, by Ada Palmer, 2025, non-fiction history historiography, ?/5
Numerical typos are very fashionable in 2025, example the second: "Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1987)" [No, but needs more fanfic, lol]. Palmer does produce the bestest quotes though, and if you're not prepared for 650 pages of historiography then there are shorter fun posts on her blog, or just read this:
"Lorenzo de Medici had Marsilio Ficino, the first true Platonist in Europe since antiquity, but he also had the first giraffe in Europe since antiquity (a gift from the Sultan of Egypt), and both of them wandered the streets of Florence making people smile and advertising Medici wealth and power (though only the giraffe used to stick its head through people's second-floor windows to get snacks; the Platonist came inside). Which of these two living novelties did Lorenzo value more?" [I mean, joking aside, Ficino because his works could be left to and benefit Medici heirs....]

spiralsheep

Aurora Australis readalong 9 / 10, Life under Difficulties by James Murray, post for comment, reaction, discussion, fanworks, links, and whatever obliquely related matters your heart desires. You can join the readalong at any time or skip sections or go back to earlier posts. It's all good. :-)

Text of Life under Difficulties by James Murray:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aurora_Australis/Life_under_Difficulties

The "plate" illustrations mentioned can be found in Murray's scientific paper on this research:
https://www.quekett.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/murray-antarctic-rotifera.pdf

Note that this is a scientific essay about extremophile organisms, using Rotifers as the main example, and some of the science is out of date.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotifer
Also mentioned, "Water Bears":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
General: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile

Reminder for next week, the dream fantasy Bathybia by Douglas Mawson:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aurora_Australis/Bathybia

Readalong intro and reaction post links:
https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/662515.html

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pandarus

(Thanks to NetGalley for access to an advance copy of All Of Us Murderers in exchange for an honest review)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Us-Murderers-Kj-Charles/dp/1464227527

While the adage that you should never judge a book by its cover is generally good advice, in the case of “All Of Us Murderers” the cover art is an excellent guide to the contents of the book: a gloriously over the top piece of escapism created as a love letter to the genre.

This is an unrepentantly gothic confection, and it was, as anticipated, a wittily tropetastic delight rife with nefarious villains, misty moors, blood-drenched ruins, cursed fortunes, wide-eyed nubile heiresses and mysterious ghostly figures, ALL of which our hero (a precious ADHD cinnamon roll, and - provided one doesn’t find The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name to be a source of wickedness - very much the white sheep of his unpleasant family) is desperately trying to avoid, bless him.

Zebedee Wyckham is the impoverished grandson of a successful gothic novelist, and having found himself once again between jobs he has unwisely accepted an invitation to pay a visit to a wealthy uncle whom he hasn’t seen in decades - only to find himself trapped in the most ghastly houseparty since…well, since the LAST hilariously ghastly (and murderous) house party to grace the pages of a KJ Charles novel.

Finding that the lover whom he inadvertently ruined a year ago is now working as his uncle’s secretary comes as a mortifying shock, but this is the least of the unwelcome surprises that his uncle’s faux-gothic home has in store.

Zeb may be the innocent Cinderella figure amongst the variously unpleasant scions of the Wyckham family, but he’s no fool: having grown up on the works of Mrs Radcliffe, Horace Walpole and his own respected ancestor, Zeb can spot a gothic novel cliche at fifty paces and he has absolutely no intention of ending up sacrificed on a pagan altar, walled up in a cellar, drowned in a well or otherwise disposed of: think “Scream”, but make it gay and a period piece.

He is, in short, the polar opposite of Austen’s Catherine Morland: far from imagining spectral figures and dark secrets where none exist, Zeb is a pragmatic soul with a kind (if battered) heart who wasn’t born yesterday & has no interest in rushing headlong into danger if it can possibly be avoided.

Can Zeb escape the unwelcome attentions of the various spectral figures, blackmailers, marriageable heiresses and spider-filled rooms that await him at Lackaday House, and persuade his bitter ex to forgive him for past offences?

(Of course he can! This isn’t LitFic! You know that the starcrossed lovers will escape the villains’ clutches in the nick of time, foil their iniquitous plans, and finally achieve their happily ever after - but it’s still *thoroughly* enjoyable watching KJ Charles get them there.)

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Poll #33262 Two colonial powers fighting each other or four colonial powers fighting each other

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5

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Largest battle, by number of combatants and/or dead + wounded, in the American Revolutionary War?

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Long Island / Brooklyn
0 (0.0%)

Gibralter
1 (20.0%)

Gibralter, but I had to look it up
0 (0.0%)

Is this a t(r)ick question?
4 (80.0%)

I have a flag!
3 (60.0%)

spiralsheep

- Services to science: we're nearing the midpoint of 2025 so here are my awards for naming new fossil species so far this year, in reverse order....
3. From Australia: Weirdodectes napoleoni, "weird biter" "Napoleon", an 11-16 million year old marsupial described from a few teeth.
2. From the US: Tardisia broedeae, "TARDIS related" "Irene Broede", a 309 million year old arthropod related to trilobites and named for the Tardis because of the 100 million year gap between this fossil and its older relatives.
1. Joint first, from the UK:
1a. Punk ferox, "punk rock" "bold", 427-430 million year old deep-sea mollusc presumably named for its head spines, lol.
1b. Emo vorticaudum, "emo genre" "whorl tail", 427-430 million year old deep-sea mollusc supposedly named for its bangs and studs.

- Quote of the day: "A fossil specimen collected by Charles Darwin's friend, Joseph Hooker, was mislaid for 163 years at the British Geological Survey offices in London."

- Citizen science: still biologging &c. Met a random dogwalker who has been learning about plant galls with her toddler, and showed them some "fairy houses with little doors" as the toddler accurately described them. <3 :-)

( Birb log and my habitat. )

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Branch: refs/heads/main Home: https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth Commit: b1bfcebf1deffc528983aa3bcdaeb4c9a7226f9f https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth/commit/b1bfcebf1deffc528983aa3bcdaeb4c9a7226f9f Author: Mark Smith mark@dreamwidth.org Date: 2025-06-14 (Sat, 14 Jun 2025)

Changed paths: M cgi-bin/LJ/Global/Defaults.pm M cgi-bin/ljlib.pl M etc/config-private.pl.example

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Remove 32 bit architecture support, I doubt this works anyway

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Branch: refs/heads/main Home: https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth Commit: ff257b246cff8d370fed3427bd2484c1c97c7466 https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth/commit/ff257b246cff8d370fed3427bd2484c1c97c7466 Author: Mark Smith mark@dreamwidth.org Date: 2025-06-14 (Sat, 14 Jun 2025)

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Fix default captcha type

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firecat

My fave is the semicolon; however, I refuse to cede em-dashes or any other punctuation marks to ChatGPT.

These attacks on the em dash — a ChatGPT hyphen? How very dare you! — have in turn blazed across social media spaces populated by the kind of folks who will tell you, unprompted, that they have a favorite punctuation mark and what it is. (It is very likely the em dash.) — https://www.salon.com/2025/06/11/ai-cant-have-my-em-dash/

rmc28

On an ice hockey camp in Slaný, near Prague. I flew out on Thursday afternoon with two friends from Kodiaks. We arrived at the rink hotel in time to check in, have a little walk down to the nearby supermarket and get food, and settle in for the night. For reasons the three of us were all sharing a dormitory room the first night, and we decided the perfect film to watch over our picnic dinner was Inside Out 2 - also set at a 3-day hockey camp. I hadn't seen it before, though the other two had, and I enjoyed it very much.

Friday morning was pretty relaxed; a fourth Kodiak joined us after leaving home at awful-o-clock in the morning, and we were moved into the nicer ensuite twin rooms in pairs for the rest of the camp. We met in the dressing room at 1pm, were on ice at 2pm and again at 6pm, with a stickhandling session in between. Then dinner at 8 and falling into bed not long after.

It's excellent coaching, I'm being pushed well out of my comfort zone and the balance of drill and rest in each session and between sessions is just right. I hit my "cannot actually skate any more" limit about 3 minutes before the end of the last ice session.

Today will be two ice sessions at either end of the day, with video review (argh), optional swim+spa (yes!), and stickhandling again in between. My muscles this morning are making themselves known but I'm not exhausted. All is good. Time to go get changed.

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Branch: refs/heads/main Home: https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth Commit: 560a2458c8a844a39e9701f2148a53bec380ef51 https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth/commit/560a2458c8a844a39e9701f2148a53bec380ef51 Author: Mark Smith mark@dreamwidth.org Date: 2025-06-13 (Fri, 13 Jun 2025)

Changed paths: R bin/maint/captcha.pl M bin/maint/taskinfo.txt R cgi-bin/DW/Captcha/textCAPTCHA.pm R cgi-bin/DW/Controller/RPC/TextCAPTCHA.pm M cgi-bin/LJ/Global/Defaults.pm M etc/config-local.pl.example M etc/config-private.pl.example M etc/config.pl.example M ext/dw-nonfree/etc/config-local.pl.example R htdocs/js/components/jquery.textcaptcha.js R htdocs/stc/textcaptcha.css R t/captcha-textcaptcha.t M t/captcha.t R views/textcaptcha-response.tt R views/textcaptcha-response.tt.text R views/textcaptcha.tt R views/textcaptcha.tt.text

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Mark/remove textcaptcha (#3488)

Remove TextCAPTCHA

The service has been down for over a month and it's no longer necessary. Modern reCAPTCHA is supported by A11y groups.

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In "Simon continues watching kids' shows".... After adoring seasons 1 and 2 of Hilda some years ago, I finally got around to S3 in the last few weeks.

It's less about Hilda, and more about her mother. As such, unfortunately it back-burners a lot of what made the first two episodes so wonderful: the dynamic of the three kids, the whimsy, Hilda's ability to make friends with everything she meets... in tackling darker and more serious themes it becomes a more serious show, and it suffers from it.

Still, it does wrap things up nicely and give the series a satisfying ending. And if you haven't watched Hilda, you really should - at least for S1-2. It takes 2-3 episodes to really get going.

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github in changelog - [dreamwidth/dreamwidth] 505497: Update deployment tools for workers
github in changelog - [dreamwidth/dreamwidth] 9820e2: Remove TheSchwartz flow for email
github in changelog - [dreamwidth/dreamwidth] b67e2f: Remove old mail configs
github in changelog - [dreamwidth/dreamwidth] 34e44a: Add .cursorignore
watervole - Assisted Dying
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spiralsheep - In which I read therefore I am
spiralsheep - Aurora Australis readalong 9 / 10, Life under Difficulties
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pandarus - Book Review: All of us Murderers
spiralsheep - In which all the main combatants were colonial powers, actually
spiralsheep - In which science improves our habitat (hopefully), week 24
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