Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️
ugh apparently my old mediawiki install was old enough that when I try to load it into the new version of mediawiki, it says it's too old to upgrade
Mar 6 at 2:58amWeb
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 6

so I guess I'm upgrading to 1.38.7 first

a version so old that wikimedia doesn't show it on the download page anymore, just tells you to upgrade

I'M TRYING

Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 6
okay it's working now. I just need to remember how I fucked mediawiki into not allowing registrations, so I can re-enable it and then make my new user an admin
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 6

ahh:

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;

Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 6

oh no my wiki has a photo of my resume on a floppy disk, complete with Old Name.

here I thought I was gonna be able to upgrade my identity without needing floppy disks, but obviously I was mistaken

Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 6
I may be Alice and not Foone anymore, but I'm still Me.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 6
if you missed the announcement:
https://digipres.club/@foone/116174979631107389
Show threadIrenes (many)Mar 6
@foone grats on the new name!!!!!
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 6
@ireneista thanks!
Show threadEvanMar 6

@foone So you were just fooning around before?

I will see myself out.

Show threadChris PetrilliMar 6
@foone and yet still awesome
Show threadMiraMar 6
@foone Congrats on becoming more you! Great to meet you, Alice
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 6
@mira thanks!
Show threadVER-1602Mar 6

@foone my bf has a sticker that says "I'm moving to Foone" on his laptop. I'm not joking I'll get a picture of it asap.

I guess he finally moved to foone

Show threadAshMar 6
@foone
Show threadKawaoneechanMar 6
@foone It's the end of an era!
Show threadmyrmepropagandistMar 8

@foone

I like the new user icon. It's so cheerful.

Show threadKlaus FrankMar 6
@foone
Wait Foone was your actual name? I thought that was just a wordplay on "foo bar"...
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 6

@agowa338 It is/was both!

It was "Foo" as in "foobar", plus "NE" added by a glitching C64 game

Show threadAlexMar 6
@foone did I miss something? When did you change your name?
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 6
@Mellivora yesterday:
https://digipres.club/@foone/116174979631107389
Show threadGreglyMar 6

@foone You just need to add:

`#warning DEPRECATED: Please refer to the updated specification for further information`

Show threadPaddy O'BrienMar 7
@foone A floppy disk in 2018?
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 7
@Tapi I'm a bit about the floppies, as you may have noticed
Show threadPaddy O'BrienMar 8
@foone im trying to picture the look a prospective employer would have on their face as they accept a floppy disk 😂
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 8
@Tapi exactly why I did it. I brought it to interviews!
Show threadPaddy O'BrienMar 8
@foone I love this 😁
Show threadTerrorBite 🦁Mar 10
@foone I have those same settings in my internal wiki but then I'm using SAML for SSO. It was a pain to set up
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 10

@TerrorBite oh yeah I can see how that'd easily be a whole thing.

I just needed one account so I made one with a random password in my manager, rather than deal with the existing stuff

Show threadTerrorBite 🦁Mar 10

@foone Browsers see every subdomain in my network as one big website, so the built in password managers will only save one password for everything. So I said fuck it, might as well actually have one password for everything.

I'm not aware of any way to tell Firefox to add additional entries to its internal copy of the Public Suffix List

Show threadTerrorBite 🦁Mar 10
@foone ok I misspoke, I think you can save different passwords per subdomain. It's just that it'll suggest all of those for every subdomain. Apparently the trick is to set signon.includeOtherSubdomainsInLookup to false
Show threadThe Blue WizardMar 6
@foone I just checked out your personal website. Nice! Then I clicked on Twitter info Threads. Wow! Massive postings! But it immediately occurred to me that all that is sitting in X/Twitter system, and I don't trust this company to remain around for long. I would kindly suggest those postings get copied elsewhere, ideally on your website. Thoughts?
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 6
@thebluewizard it's planned (has been since I left twitter) but sadly my twitter archive is too large to be loaded properly by the usual tools, and I just haven't had the energy to deal with it so far
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 6
@thebluewizard but it will get done and I'll update all those links
Show threadBrooke Vibber Mar 6
@foone should be hiding in https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/ <3
MediaWiki Releases

Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 6
@brooke yep, grabbed it from there
Show threadMike DankMar 6
@foone I think I last looked into upgrading my mediawiki last year and learned I would need to essentially upgrade it 3 times and decided that was a later me problem.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 6
@Famicoman yep. If you don't treat it like a full time job, you'll get out of date and then you blink and now it's a Huge Hassle to upgrade
Show threadMike DankMar 6
@foone I think I’m just gonna have pandoc convert it to markdown and then never worry about it again
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 6
@Famicoman I've been tempted to do the same
Show threadMaddy 🏳️‍⚧️ - ADHD-powered Mar 6
@foone Oh nooooo ​​
Show threadColinMar 6
@foone What's fun is when the version you're running is so old that it's not even listed in the "how to upgrade" section of documentation for the oldest version for which documentation is still available.
Show threadKat the LeopardessMar 6
@foone Been there... >.<
Show threadShutterBuggedMar 6
@foone side note, but do you happen to have a twitter export that could be turned into some representation of the twitter threads that are now dead links on the wiki?
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 6
@developing_agent I have the export, but it has technical issues.
At some point I'll resolve them and post it up onto the wiki, yes
Show threadShutterBuggedMar 6
@foone 👍