Learning new stuff about myself every day. I already knew that I somehow in my formative years missed out on learning to interact normally with friends and I'm slowly getting to terms with the fact that that side of being human, i.e. being a social being with close friends and relationships, is closed off to me. But what I don't like about myself is how jealous I get seeing videos of other people having fun interacting with friends. Why can't I just be happy for them that they have a group where they belong? Why am I like this?

Anyway, sorry to be so heavy. I'm ok, don't worry.

Mobilizon is some groups server marketed as an events server (you can create events as yourself or as a group) which is built with Pleroma as starting point and looks very very good. I tried to use the demo instance, but failed in a few things, Like following a group from Friendica, becoming a member from Friendica and deleting a group.

The self hosting instructions seem very clear and are basically the same as Pleroma. It allows having multiple identities (profiles) to separate your professional and friends interactions, like Friendica used to have.

I'll look into it again another time.
joinmobilizon.org/en/

#JoinMobilizon - Let’s take back control of our events

A user-friendly, emancipatory and ethical tool for gathering, organising, and mobilizing.

^{joinmobilizon.org}

Often heard complaints and their workarounds:

• "Twitter doesn't give you posts in chronological order and inserts 'posts you may also like' based on their algorithm." Not if you select the 'newest posts first' timeline, use the website on a mobile device and hold the device in portrait position rather than landscape. Also when you use lists, it is always chronological and doesn't have adverts.
• "iTunes uses DRM." If you use iTunes on Windows and download the mp3 files you bought, the files are DRM-free.
• "Instagram no longer allows you to see a post if you're not logged in." If you remove the user name from the url, you get a publicly visible page again.

I have similar experiences. But to request $5m to cover the price of two DVDs seems a bit much.

Hollywood does however need to wake up to the fact that many people watch films for the actresses (and I guess actors) that appear in them and not because of the producers or directors. Marketing often seems to assume that the cast is not important.

BBC News - Fans sue Universal Pictures over film without Ana de Armas
bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada…

Fans sue Universal Pictures over film without Ana de Armas

The comedy Yesterday has the actress in the trailer, but not the movie itself - to the anger of fans.

^{BBC News}

Switched on caching for the networked filesystems (EFS/NFS) that I use, so they are now backed by a local block device. It isn't any faster, but it feels better knowing that it's cached...

Essentially added the ,fsc mount option, installed the cachefilesd package, uncommented the RUN=yes line in /etc/default/cachefilesd. The directory /var/cache/fscache is filling up, so it's doing something.

One thing that is slow over EFS (NFS) is restarting an Elixir or Nodejs server (running them is fine). These access many files, so the network latency adds up. With a cache, this is still the same; it needs to check whether the files are changed after all. Running PHP applications from a networked filesystem is actually very fast, despite what the internet says; opcache does its thing rather well.

No ghost in history has ever been treated in this manner!
-- Sir Simon

#TheCantervilleGhost

I was ready to watch #Donkeyhead (by and with #AgamDarshi) on #Netflix which I thought I remembered came out today. The film, not Netflix. But I guess I'm wrong, or maybe it's in the US only.

So it's #TheLastLetterFromYourLover with #FelicityJones instead.

Things are always in the last place you look. Because once you find it, you stop looking.

The vitamine c in an orange is located under the skin. Because the whole orange is located under the skin.

Python:

>>> a, b, c = 1, 2, 3
>>> a < c > b
True
>>> 

Also:

>>> True > False
True
>>> True > False == 0
True
>>> 

Nobody warned me it was against the rules.

-- UK Prime Minister

They are your rules.

BBC News - Nobody warned me drinks event was against rules - Boris Johnson
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-600…

Nobody warned me drinks event was against rules - Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson denies lying to Parliament about a gathering in No 10 garden during the first lockdown.

^{BBC News}

Interesting, even though I don't use Funkwhale yet. Especially the first point seems to apply more generally to fediverse servers. I think with current settings I'm ok, but I'll check some more. These are the questions for servers like mine, I think:

• Does your server proxy remote media to be included in a visible post and does it check the media is indeed remote and is actual media. It's my belief that on my servers the answers are 'no, n/a' and 'yes, yes'.
• Does your server show link previews in a visible post and does it sanitise the included information? Here it is for me 'yes, yes' I think.

Funkwhale

2022-01-18 14:08:54

Hey everyone! o/

A few months ago, we had a security audit of Funkwhale performed as part of our funding agreement. Due to the recent changes to our structure we've not had time to talk about it, so let's do that now!

blog.funkwhale.audio/security-…

Funkwhale Blog ~ Funkwhale security quick scan report

In the name of transparency, let's talk about our security audit!

^{blog.funkwhale.audio}

I'm definitely going to check it out, but I'll have to wait until at least 3 Feb when it's scheduled to be released here. But that schedule seems not to be updated yet with the longer cinema closures, so I guess it'll be later still.

Jenna Ortega

2022-01-17 07:32:40

I’ve been working and unable to visit the theaters,but for everyone who has made their way over to watch our little movie #SCREAM,it means so much to everyone involved. I’ll be selfish and say especially me. If you haven’t,consider checking it out! We hope to show you a fun time!

I took way too long to tell somebody that I liked them and then the universe ended
-- Dan

#DoctorWho

Nothing we can't handle with a good potion
-- Paige

#Charmed

Women were so underwritten in early musicals.
-- Melissa

#Schmigadoon

There's no emoticon to express the tragedy of her fashion choices
-- Pia

#Cloud9

Happy Birthday @DoveCameron !

She turns 26 today and I'll be celebrating by listening yet again to my Spotify playlist with just her songs, rewatching 'Schmigadoon!' and finally watching my recording of 'Cloud 9'.
#DoveCameron

Upgraded Pleroma to the newest version. Thanks to its upgrade instructions having been really stable over time, the script I created a while ago made it a breeze.

It's nothing special, just this:

#!/bin/bash

pushd ~pleroma/pleroma \
&& sudo -u pleroma MIX_ENV=prod -s -- eval 'git pull -q && mix deps.get && mix compile' \
&& sudo systemctl stop pleroma \
&& sudo -u pleroma MIX_ENV=prod -s -- eval 'mix ecto.migrate' \
&& sudo systemctl start pleroma \
&& popd

Obviously I back up first, with another script.

Oh wow. The test whether having rss feeds set as external self accounts on a #Friendica forum, would result in that forum automatically distributing feed items to members, succeeded. Ideal for a news based forum!

(and thanks to a certain actress having lots of news today on the various entertainment sites)