#PeerTube has a neat opt-in mechanism in place to alleviate the fediverse ddos problem of popular videos: it's what they call redundancy. Servers that opt-in can share the load on new, trending or popular videos. Your browser, when playing a video, will fragment by fragment decide which server to get the content from, giving a smooth stream no matter what the load. The only extra requirement is that the original server is still online.

BTW, offloading storage and serving via cdn are also really easy in PeerTube, so you can go that route as well.

#feditip To open a thread, click the date or time of the post. Depending on the platform you're on (true for most, including Mastodon) click the date or time again to open the thread on the original server. Only then you get a proper view of the posts in the thread.

Do this before replying. Someone else may have responded already!

I still love how Brittany Murphy and Alicia Silverstone played opposite each other in Clueless, essentially rotating their characters opposite each other, like one of those fairground teacups. Not unlike Brittany Murphy and Dakota Fanning in Uptown Girls, which actually features those teacups. Still miss Brittany.
#Clueless #BrittanyMurphy #AliciaSilverstone #DakotaFanning #UptownGirls #MovieBowl

Derek

2022-11-18 15:08:07

1995 #MovieBowl Semifinal #1

When I see some php-based projects that don't just work but work well (e.g. Wordpress, Friendica) and consider the scope of the functionality they try to achieve and the characteristics of the language, I'm wondering how are these even working at all? Must be some magic(*).

(*) talented open source developers

Apparently if I quote-share a post and add a link, the link preview gets presented as part of the shared post.

And if the shared post has an abstract (content warning) that's different from the one on my post, it will be used on my post anyway...

There's a meme going around Twitter that I thought was quite funny, essentially it's people saying things 'before it burns down', like wishing followers a merry Christmas. But then I saw this BBC story and it can really all crash on Monday... Apparently after Musk demanded employees to work long hours or quit, most have quit.
BBC News - Twitter locks staff out of offices until next week
bbc.co.uk/news/business-636723…

Twitter locks staff out of offices until next week

It comes amid reports that large numbers of workers have resigned from the social media platform.

^{By James Clayton in San Francisco and Peter Hoskins in Singapore (BBC News)}

Gidi Kroon

2022-11-18 12:11:20

@The research fairy I thought it was the first and you just got exposed to a meme going around there today, but then I saw a BBC story where they quote someone who says that it could fall down by Monday. So I guess it's the latter...

Single point of failure

vs

Single point of fixing things

"Honestly, I look at you and I don't know if you need a cuddle or an exorcism"

-- Hayley
#AdultMaterial

That's a fun little game!

Sven

2022-11-16 19:07:53

If you ever felt (or knew) that most “just the tip of the iceberg“ slide illustrations look kinda wrong, you can put any iceberg to the test and see how it floats. :D

joshdata.me/iceberger.html

Iceberger

^joshdata.me

Proof that announcing a book on the fediverse can also lead to sales... This is "Anatomical Oddities" by @Prof Alice Roberts . Just arrived today!
#AliceRoberts #AnatomicalOddities

Many people are worrying about what will happen next, now it may be that Russian bombs have landed and killed in Poland, a Nato country. A few years ago Russia shot down a whole airliner killing all people on board, and nothing happened. Why would today be any different?

(Something, nonviolent, should have happened so maybe we wouldn't be here today)

Great photos of the honourees including Jenna Ortega. Note that the link they give accesses the original, full, non-watermarked photos, in case you like such a thing.

Critics Choice Awards

2022-11-15 00:53:09

Check out some of our FAV pics 🔥from last night @imdbpro portrait studio with our Celebrate Latino Cinema honorees
More at from the IMDB PRO GALLERY LINK at dam.gettyimages.com/assignments/im… dam.gettyimages.com/assignments/im…

#celebratelatinocinema @jennaortega @IsmaelC_C #CriticsChoice

When you follow someone and receive their messages, you'd think that's an action you do, or your server does for you. But it's the other way around: the other account, or its server, is sending these messages to you. It's like being on a mailinglist. You've subscribed once (or clicked 'follow'), but after that they're the ones sending out the messages.

"But can someone put you on their followers list without you clicking 'follow'?" In theory, yes. They can send messages to your server as if you follow them. But your server will not present them in your timeline since the 'follow' is not registered in your account as well. In this case you'll not see these messages. So in practise there's no problem.

How romantic it must be to get imprisoned in a castle and made to squeeze out heirs

-- Rhaenyra
#HouseOfTheDragon

Watched some more of the new iCarly yesterday to get my Miranda Cosgrove fix. I'm still on season 1, she's filming season 3 already. Now I'll do the next episode of House Of The Dragon. Only two more episodes left until they jump to a later time and other actresses, so that will be no more Milly Alcock as Rhaenyra (😪) but we get to see Olivia Cooke as Alicent (🥳).

With that name I can only imagine Milly getting bullied at school and that when she has to give her name in any formal setting, they come back with: 'I'm sorry how do you spell that?'. I feel that now, by becoming a major actress, she's got her vengeance.

#MirandaCosgrove #iCarly #MillyAlcock #OliviaCooke

This idea that having to pay for a vip subscription would stop bad people, have they learned nothing from tinder? It's how you recognise the scammers over there...

A photo of a beautiful woman, on tinder, not listing age or location (a pay-only feature) ==> fake.

I love that Caroline Orr (rvawonk) is now also on the fediverse! (As @Caroline Orr Bueno ). I have to quote her message on twitter about it though:

Lol everyone on Mastodon is all, “I love dogs”, “Saving the planet,” “Humanity is great” …. and then I burst in the room with “Studying hostile social manipulation and weaponized influence.”

She is of course wrong. It's cats.

I'm kidding, “studying hostile social manipulation and weaponized influence” is exactly what a lot of people here would be interested in, in my experience. I certainly am.

We're all actors here in the fediverse (*) (**).

(*) In Activitypub, one of the protocols behind the fediverse, any addressable entity is called an actor. So your account is an actor. The server is an actor. Your separate PeerTube channels are actors. Forums and groups are actors. Unfortunately, hashtags aren't actors.

(**) In some circles social media accounts are accused of being actors suggesting there's some paid motive to some movements.

"Please sit, my bubble-wrapped child"

-- Mystic Zagnat
#iCarly