oh
no

guess who just got #volunteered / nominated to steer our company #EU #cuberresilienceact #cra response.

This is what "I told you so" for a decade+ gets you. I've been saying to product that
"we should do this."
"we're gonna have to eventually"
"If we ever have to ___ this architecture will implode"
"we have no process to handle ____"
and they never wanted to spend the resources. Well.. now we gotta.
And I have nine mo. to gap analysis and action plan.

we're boned.

I #volunteered at my local Repair Cafe again today. I had fun again, though still not much actual #electronics work - more small appliances and such, and a laptop.

But a lot of small #appliances are like any other consumer-electronics item these days. They're not designed for #serviceability [1] and the electronics in them are generally a weak point - everything's consolidated onto one circuit board, with most of the functionality on one microcontroller or custom chip (depending on the device type and its price). It makes the overall #production cost of the unit #cheaper, but failures tend to be an all-or-nothing affair. Some critical component leaks its #magic #smoke and the side-effect of that is to blow up something else on the board, and the board is not easily available as a spare part. I certainly won't have a spare one in my box of components, unlike whatever the failed #component was if it had been a separate, standardized part.

So there were a couple of "See, here's what blew up, I can't fix it, and a new one will be cheaper than trying to find a parted-out replacement for the failed board".

The lady with the laptop was thrilled with a fairly simple #reassembly of a display bezel that popped its clips when she wiped out on some ice. That felt good.

[1] Getting into them is usually the hardest part, the #newer it is, the #worse it gets. One-way clips that take ages to finangle into releasing. "YOLO engineering" - "no one will ever open this!"

#RepairCafe

I meant to mark this with fanfare, but I apparently missed the date.

One year ago, September 23, 2023, I got on a Discord Call with @nicdex to work out me coming on TechHub #staff as a #Moderator. There was another influx incoming, and I wanted to help Fedi in any way I could, so I #volunteered, and TechHub needed another experienced moderator.

Since then, I've learned a lot and done a lot, including helping resolve 1397 reports, 228 of which came from me, and expanded the role in a lot of ways I felt were important, including publishing a curated blocklist, found at...
https://techhub.social/@Raccoon/112906921685785476

As we move forward, I have more plans in mind for how to improve and expand the Fediverse, both in moderation and general experience. We'll see what gets done!

For now, thanks to all of you for being the #Fediverse, thanks to #Mastodon and all the other softwares, and thanks to the #ActivityPub team for laying the groundwork.

Let's keep building #Fedi!

- Raccoon, #TechHub #Moderation

We’ve just #volunteered @BTWsanctuary 🥰
It was a very special time of camaraderie, laughs & hard work but so rewarding to be able to help out & get to know some of the many beautiful #rescued residents 🐷

If you want to #help those who need it the most please #sponsor #donate or #volunteer - trust me it’s a fantastic #feelgood action ⬇️

https://donorbox.org/resident-sponsorship-scheme

Former #ReserveConstable who #volunteered for both #VictoriaBC & #Saanich #police has received 6 month #ConditionalSentence after being #convicted of #SexualExploitation of a 15-year-old #cadet in 1993.
#AaronPlater , 53, will be under #HouseArrest for the first 3 months of the 6 month sentence; followed by 12 months probation. He must give #DNA sample & complete 40 hours of #CommunityWork within first 9 months of probation.

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/former-reserve-constable-sentenced-for-sexual-exploitation-of-cadet-6721001

#yyj #vanisle #VancouverIsland #predator