daf bit: Bava Metzia 101

The talmudic discussion has turned to renting property. A mishna on today's daf says: if one rents a house to his neighbor in winter, he cannot evict him from Sukkot to Pesach, while in summer he cannot evict him for 30 days (meaning he must give 30 days' notice). In large cities, the notice period is 12 months regardless of season. The g'mara asks why the season matters, and first answers that when one rents for the winter it's for the whole winter. But this is disputed (we do that in the summer too), and then it answers that houses aren't available for renting in the middle of winter (so he'd have no place to go). But then why should cities be different? Finally, the g'mara concludes that if ones rents his house for an unspecified period, then he can't evict in winter, but if the lease was for a year, he can evict at the end of the year. Further, just as the landlord must give notice that he will not renew the lease, so must the tenant or owes damages because the landlord didn't have the opportunity to find a replacement.

There is an exception for hardship; if the landlord's own house collapses, he can say to the renter "you are no better than I" and evict him so he can move in. But if he needed it to give to his son upon marriage, we consider whether he could have given notice. If he knew he would need it in advance and didn't give notice, he can't evict, but if the need was unforeseen, he can evict. (101b)

All of this is about houses, by the way. Commercial real estate is different.

Dreamwidth accounts vs. LJ OpenID accounts: check your subscription and access lists

A lot of us now have OpenID accounts at Dreamwidth, which means we can log in to Dreamwidth using a Livejournal credential. This allows a Dreamwidth user to give a Livejournal user access to locked posts. These IDs are of the form "name.livejournal.com". For example, here is mine.

A lot of us also have native Dreamwidth accounts, which we log into with our Dreamwidth passwords and use to post entries. For example, here is mine.

These are not the same account.

That means that if you've granted access to "somebody.livejournal.com" (OpenID), but haven't granted access to "somebody" (Dreamwidth account), then "somebody" while logged in on Dreamwidth won't see your locked posts. Similarly, if you've subscribed to "somebody.livejournal.com", that doesn't mean you're going to see "somebody"'s posts in your feed. So if you want to read and grant access to your migrating LJ friends on Dreamwidth, you need to match up the accounts.

Currently, 32 people have granted access to "cellio.livejournal.com". Most of them have not granted access to "cellio", which means I won't see those posts. Maybe that's intentional (hey, intentions change; I'm not offended), but maybe it's unintentional.

I have two requests of my LJ friends:

1. If we're not connected there, and assuming you want to be, please add my Dreamwidth account to whatever lists you think appropriate. When I see email about new subscriptions/access, I check to make sure I've done the same. (If I've somehow missed you, please let me know. If I subscribed to you on LJ I want to do so on DW too.)

2. If you are not planning to use your LJ account to read posts on Dreamwidth, because you have a native account and will be reading that way, please let me know so I can remove your LJ account from my access lists. This isn't about not trusting you; this is about being able to manage my filters more easily -- if you're not using it anyway, I'd rather not be carrying it. Plus, you know, closing unnecessary security gaps.

Yeah, migration is a hassle. We'll get it sorted out.

Thanks!