Pinned post, about following from multiple addresses
Hi, when I follow someone I usually do this from multiple accounts, with different servers and platforms. This is partially as backup. It’s also because different software has different features. E.g. at the moment of writing I mainly post from my Friendica server, but it doesn’t yet support polls, or account migrations. So I also follow from my Pleroma server, which does notify me someone has migrated.
I also sometimes use platforms that support nomadic identity, that allows my channels on multiple servers to be synced. From software that doesn’t support that, a follow request looks like multiple separate requests from those channels.
Of the two things I was supposed to do this morning, I've done one finally this evening (the one I was actually planning to do two weeks ago) and did another one I had decided not to do yet.
“The Peripheral” has been canceled at Amazon’s Prime Video, Variety has learned. The news comes despite the fact that Amazon renewed the show for a second season back in February.…
Reposted from Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/reel/CoLLm7vMnlI/). Jenna Ortega is the brand ambassador for Adidas Sportswear, a brand new brand from Adidas.
Jenna Ortega showing how she and her family watch the World Cup. This was part of the publicity for Adidas Sportswear, of which she's the brand ambassador.
(I finally found a way to share the video unlisted, in a rather indirect way, using another account and my PeerTube. Original link in video description.) #JennaOrtega #Football #AdidasSportswear
Jenna Ortega for Adidas Sportswear, watching a football match on tv, cheering, hiding behind the couch, and all the other emotions. Reposted from Instagram reel by adidaswomen and jennaortega, copyright Adidas and Jenna Ortega.
The World Cup final is soon and Jenna Ortega shows how to do it.
This was part of a photo shoot for Adidas Sportswear, of which she's the brand ambassador.
(I finally found a way to share the video unlisted, in a rather indirect way, using another account and my PeerTube. Original link in video description.) #JennaOrtega #Football #AdidasSportswear
Also interesting how part of the biopic touches upon misusing the name of famous people by publishers, then the film has Maisie Williams in a tiny role so they can use her fame.
It's one of those things that annoy me about reading an open source project describe themselves: you can be four paragraphs in and still don't know what it does.
Of course the license and stuff are also important, but why does it need to be your opening sentence?
Things that are not «features» of an app: - The license - The technologies it uses - The fact that it’s simple - The application it’s an alternative to Your app should be compelling on its own. What makes it worth using? How can it help people? Highlight those things instead!
🔋 From electric mobility to energy storage, we must ensure batteries are fit for our green future.
As of today, the #EU Batteries Regulation will make them safer, circular and sustainable throughout their lifecycle, including:
- A restriction on harmful substances - Mandatory minimum levels of recycled content from 2025 - Removable and replaceable portable batteries in consumer electronics by 2027 - Recovery targets for raw materials, such as nickel and lithium
I spent so long trying to get these photos downloaded from my camera. It insisted on first downloading the 600 earlier ones and ran out of battery twice. #Squirrel
!Friendica Support Hi, I noticed that if I'm not @-mentioned in a public top level post by someone I don't follow, but are @-mentioned in a follow-up post by the same account, I do not get a notification (not an email, not under the bell, not as a desktop popup, not via the API in Tusky). However, if I'm @-mentioned in the top level post I do get those notifications. If I follow the sender I do get the notifications, even if I unfollow between receiving the top level post and the reply. I tested this by sending from another Friendica server. The Pleroma account I also @-mentioned in the tests did get the notifications. The receiving Friendica is on the latest stable.
Is this controlled by a setting? I already tried enabling "Allow unknown people to send me private messages?" but that made no difference.
Fortunately I don't think anybody ever tags me in ongoing discussions, but if they would, I would not know about it.
!Friendica Developers Hi, I have been looking into link previews and especially why a PeerTube video preview image (when the video is linked to in a Friendica post) doesn't update on Friendica after it has been updated on PeerTube. The main reason I found was that PeerTube doesn't set any cache-control headers or expire headers on its dynamic content, just the 'etag'. I think I can deal with that within PeerTube's nginx.
But I also found that Friendica stores the parsed site info from the url in the database, for a full 3 months (in such cases), without allowing it to be evicted earlier from that cache. In fact the logic seems to be:
If parsing the site info fails, store that failure for 1 day before trying again
If no max-age is present on the cache control header returned by the site, store the parsed info for 3 months. This value is not configurable. (Also applies if
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!Friendica Developers Hi, I have been looking into link previews and especially why a PeerTube video preview image (when the video is linked to in a Friendica post) doesn't update on Friendica after it has been updated on PeerTube. The main reason I found was that PeerTube doesn't set any cache-control headers or expire headers on its dynamic content, just the 'etag'. I think I can deal with that within PeerTube's nginx.
But I also found that Friendica stores the parsed site info from the url in the database, for a full 3 months (in such cases), without allowing it to be evicted earlier from that cache. In fact the logic seems to be:
If parsing the site info fails, store that failure for 1 day before trying again
If no max-age is present on the cache control header returned by the site, store the parsed info for 3 months. This value is not configurable. (Also applies if the cache control header says something like 'no-cache')
If a max-age is present, use that, with a minimum of 1 day. This minimum value is also not configurable.
The maximum storage time in our database is therefore infinite, if a site requests this.
Removal from the database table is only done by a worker based on that set storage time.
Is this logic intentional and desired? If so, I'll just change the hardcoded values on my own site (to something much lower). If not, a configurable min and max cache time may be useful? Maybe use the 'etag' somehow? Maybe always refresh the site-info if a user puts the link in the post form?
I've been running with these hardcoded changes for a few days on a single user instance and it works fine. The highest expire date in the parsed_url table was in the year 4044; I decided not to wait for that and emptied the whole table a few days ago.
I've been running with these hardcoded changes for a few days on a single user instance and it works fine. The highest expire date in the parsed_url table was in the year 4044; I decided not to wait for that and emptied the whole table a few days ago.
For a single user instance it is rare to see the same post more than an hour later. But also when looking at older posts I don't notice any problems. For me there is no reason to keep the data of other sites for 3 months (without even checking for changes) and even when set to 1 hour, it is still less load on the other sites then when I would be browsing them directly as one user. I think that at least for single user instances, these can be considered as defaults as well.
Do we have any astronomy people here that can confirm this 3D model is wrong? And maybe explain how NASA of all organisations keeps showing it on their site? Or is there really a gigantic canyon running as a band over mercury, like someone tried to separate two halves, which somehow shows up in no other pictures I can find? #Astronomy #Mercury #NASA
This NASA site botched texture mapping Mercury pretty badly, and I was so so confused for a very brief amount of time. "Surely," I thought for a second or two, "someone would have noticed and written about this several hundred mile wide saggital canyon that completely encircles the planet. But what if.... aliens?"
@cjrando It's not wrong, but it IS misleading. If you check the model on the website, and zoom in, you'll notice that the edges of the "canyon" are not smooth, but stepped.
This is because the image is a composite taken from multiple photographs taken at different times of the local day by an orbiting spacecraft passing overhead. In some of the images, due to the different times of day when different regions were imaged, there are no shadows and so craters and other features look flat and smooth. In others, the shadows are long and pronounced, making the features look much taller, and more sharply defined.
In other words, there is no canyon. It's an imaging artifact. NASA would have kept it as is in order to be as true to the actual captured image data as possible. They often commission artists to paint objects when they want to give an impression of what something looks like, but that was probably not the goal here.
Full disclosure though: I wasn't involved with creating that image and didn't speak to anybody who was. My answer was an educated guess. I'm pretty confident about it being a mosaic (the stepped edges are a dead giveaway), which is why I spoke to definitively, but I might be wrong on the details of WHY the individual squares look different.
What is it that makes jokes and other things funny? Why are certain things humorous, and others aren't? Why are puns bot tedious and entertaining at the same time?
It's all to do with how our brains process these things, as I explain here.
The main story starts on the day that Princess Diana died, though that fact is not important for the film I think.
This is one of those days/nights that everybody remembers. I remember watching the BBC when they switched to a live feed of a tunnel entrance in Paris, with nothing to see and no explanation yet why. It was very eerie watching this tunnel, knowing something bad must have happened which they hadn't confirmed yet, so they couldn't say. Then slowly the information trickled out, that it had something to do with Diana, then that there had been a crash, then that the people were treated in the car due to bad injuries, then that they had been taken to hospital. All while for hours looking at a dark tunnel entrance in Paris, with nothing to see. Of course everybody hoped she would survive, but before the news eventually came that she had died, we saw the car being taken away on a truck and from the state of the car I lost all hope right then that anybody could survive that (it's miraculous that one person did, all three others died).
Ever since I bought a can of chemicals against silverfish I haven't seen the insects anymore. I haven't used the can yet, but it seems to act as deterrent.
So why did I stop using Tumblr? Back when I stopped actively using it (I still have the account), there were two main problems. Firstly it was utterly broken in varying but always original ways. It gave me the impression that people working for Tumblr didn't use their own software. Secondly they introduced terms at the time (when they were under Yahoo) that forced you to accept that everything you did was communicated to all kinds of 'partners' like Facebook, with no opt-out. The latter has since relaxed.
This caused me to look into Mastodon (at first) and I've since started to appreciate the open source nature and the ability to have different servers with different moderation that all interoperate.
I have so many ideas to un-mess-ify my blog, but it's so much work that I can't bring myself to begin doing it. And I'm also somehow making things more complicated than they need to be, adding moving servers, going multi-site, new domains, caching, to just reorganising content and making a homepage.
If you want advise on how to make simple things more difficult, ask me.
Still thinking about what radically different things my ideal social media / microblogging platform would do, and another thing struck me: no @-mentions. No need to protect someone's mentions if there are none.
Yes, I'm still on my Tumblr-like vs Twitter-like thing and how within ActivityPub platforms we have loads of the latter and none of the former (that I know of). I don't know whether Tumblr has since added @-mentions but back when I used it they weren't a thing and I loved how this made conversations impossible. No trolls etc demanding attention in a thread that everybody is exposed to, if there is no thread.
I'm thinking of have these interaction options: you post your microblog post and indicate whether you want replies, default no. Followers and profile visitors see the post and can respond with a like, a reblog on their own profile, or a reblog on their own profile with added text. They can also reply privately to you, which won't show up publicly attached to the post (yet). You have three tabs for incoming replies: replies you asked for (which cause a notifi
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Still thinking about what radically different things my ideal social media / microblogging platform would do, and another thing struck me: no @-mentions. No need to protect someone's mentions if there are none.
Yes, I'm still on my Tumblr-like vs Twitter-like thing and how within ActivityPub platforms we have loads of the latter and none of the former (that I know of). I don't know whether Tumblr has since added @-mentions but back when I used it they weren't a thing and I loved how this made conversations impossible. No trolls etc demanding attention in a thread that everybody is exposed to, if there is no thread.
I'm thinking of have these interaction options: you post your microblog post and indicate whether you want replies, default no. Followers and profile visitors see the post and can respond with a like, a reblog on their own profile, or a reblog on their own profile with added text. They can also reply privately to you, which won't show up publicly attached to the post (yet). You have three tabs for incoming replies: replies you asked for (which cause a notification), replies from people you follow (optionally cause a notification), replies you didn't ask for from people you don't follow (never cause a notification or unread count or badge). If you like a reply, if you even see it, you can hit a button to promote it to your microblog, seen on your profile, possibly attached to the post.
What finally broke the Tumblr software, because I suspect they weren't aware of all the places in the code it was used, was that they stopped using post types. So I want post types back on my hypothetical ideal platform. It would have post types like:
a note, short and only text
an article, longer like a mobile web page with photos and videos between sections of text
a photo post with one or more photos, with a short caption, shown in a layout the poster controls
a video post with a description
an audio post with a description
posts asking for interactions like: poll, question, form, q&a
a link share post with introduction text (which includes the link preview from the sender side)
Miranda Cosgrove has made car-selfies a very regular feature and in this latest one she's wearing what given the car seats colour is almost a camouflage dress. I mean, is she even in the picture? 😉 #MirandaCosgrove
In my quest to find how to do 'unlisted' videos on PeerTube, I found that PeerTube has unlisted videos. At least if you switch the UI to English, one of the privacy options is 'unlisted'. In Dutch it is called 'Geheim', which means 'Secret', which is much closer to the real behaviour. The 'unlisted' videos of PeerTube don't work at all like 'unlisted' posts, but more like the 'sharing with link' secrecy setting of Microsoft Sharepoint and similar.
I want something that is available publicly to guests, listed on my public profile, maybe notified to followers, maybe found in a search, but which doesn't show up in a federated timeline ('Recently Added' in PeerTube) on other servers. I want to avoid having to setup a separated server without federation to do that.
I'm now thinking of setting up a separate PeerTube account and/or channel especially for unlisted (but actually secret) videos, then setup a separate Friendica account (because 'unlisted' is a profile setting, not a post setting in Friendica) or Wordpress blog to manually publish my 'secret' videos in an u
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In my quest to find how to do 'unlisted' videos on PeerTube, I found that PeerTube has unlisted videos. At least if you switch the UI to English, one of the privacy options is 'unlisted'. In Dutch it is called 'Geheim', which means 'Secret', which is much closer to the real behaviour. The 'unlisted' videos of PeerTube don't work at all like 'unlisted' posts, but more like the 'sharing with link' secrecy setting of Microsoft Sharepoint and similar.
I want something that is available publicly to guests, listed on my public profile, maybe notified to followers, maybe found in a search, but which doesn't show up in a federated timeline ('Recently Added' in PeerTube) on other servers. I want to avoid having to setup a separated server without federation to do that.
I'm now thinking of setting up a separate PeerTube account and/or channel especially for unlisted (but actually secret) videos, then setup a separate Friendica account (because 'unlisted' is a profile setting, not a post setting in Friendica) or Wordpress blog to manually publish my 'secret' videos in an unlisted manner. Unfortunately, Friendica's 'remote-self' feature can not be used to do this automatically, because PeerTube keeps 'unlisted' videos also secret from followers... #PeerTube
PeerTube is one of the few platforms that have a 'license' field on each post/video. I would prefer that any post/video with an unknown (or non-free) license would never appear publicly (to unauthenticated guests) on other servers in some 'federated'/'Recently Added' timeline. I think Mastodon/Friendica/Pleroma are wrong in appearing to host items of which it doesn't know the license, which for these platforms is all items. One of the reasons I switched off public viewing of 'global community'.
Thanks to a comment in one of the federated search threads, I'm currently merging our federated search implementation with opensearch. In case you missed it, I have serious reservations about Mastodon's proposed implementation. The fediverse is not a dictatorship, and ideas spread here based on merit and consensus, not decree. But I'm not here to throw rocks. I'm here to present an alternative.
Permissions are based on the 'canSearch' attribute, which is an array of actors, groups, lists, follower collections, etc. which are allowed to search each channel. A public search will contain the ActivityPub public inbox, for example. An empty array means nobody can search your stuff.
A site search is the aggregation of individual channels on the site that allow the visitor to search their content; and the instance provides its own 'canSearch' attribute for the actor record of the instance (at the site root). So each search requires permission up and down the stack with you providing the final say. This has no linkage to user discovery; which uses a separate permission
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Thanks to a comment in one of the federated search threads, I'm currently merging our federated search implementation with opensearch. In case you missed it, I have serious reservations about Mastodon's proposed implementation. The fediverse is not a dictatorship, and ideas spread here based on merit and consensus, not decree. But I'm not here to throw rocks. I'm here to present an alternative.
Permissions are based on the 'canSearch' attribute, which is an array of actors, groups, lists, follower collections, etc. which are allowed to search each channel. A public search will contain the ActivityPub public inbox, for example. An empty array means nobody can search your stuff.
A site search is the aggregation of individual channels on the site that allow the visitor to search their content; and the instance provides its own 'canSearch' attribute for the actor record of the instance (at the site root). So each search requires permission up and down the stack with you providing the final say. This has no linkage to user discovery; which uses a separate permission.
Searches return ActivityPub collections when fetched with ActivityPub headers, Nomad collections when fetched with Nomad headers, and text/html when fetched with a browser. Pure fediverse implementations need only support ActivityPub. Would be quite happy to work with other federated communities on further standardisation and refinements. For now you can provide feedback and discuss this in the @streams@unfediverse.com group ( unfediverse.com/channel/stream… ) and I'll create a separate working group if there's enough interest. Would love it if somebody would like to step in and create the FEP for this as my available time is quite constrained. This implementation will run on a rasberry pi or shared hosting using any search backend you wish to implement.
What opensearch brings to the table is a standardised and mature specification related to discovery of the search endpoint(s).
Since we already support federated search based on this model and also have long-standing support for opensearch, merging these should be not be terribly difficult -- and is currently in progress.
Sounds great @Mike Macgirvin. Just wondering if others can ignore that. The streams groups shows an emply blank page to me. Using FF stable on a freebsd clone
Parentheses are legal in URLs and the function to automatically link "naked" URLs is working correctly. It stopped linking when it reached the first non-URL character.
Today Emilia Clarke's new film The Pod Generation is available in cinemas, somewhere in the world, I didn't get where. Maybe UK, maybe US. Thursday 24 August it comes out in Dutch cinemas!
Living in the not-so-distant future, a New York couple takes a wild ride to parenthood after landing a coveted spot at the Womb Center, which offers couples ...
I tried to look for a ticket today in my country, but it turns out to not be released after all. There's no new date other than what seems like a placeholder date of 31 December 2023. I was looking forward to seeing Emilia Clarke on the big screen. Anyway, I have set a notification alert on that film.
Why do film companies always do this? They complain that they can't make enough money from people going to see the films, then when people do want to see the films they make it impossible to see them. I can't pay for a ticket if they don't sell them. #ThePodGeneration #EmiliaClarke #FilmIndustryGripe
Everytime an organisation posts something on Mastodon, there's someone in the replies saying 'you should also make a Peertube account' (or Pixelfed, etc). It's so tiring. Can we stop driving people away?
Everytime a software developer posts about a new feature or product they're making, someone replies with all the other technologies that should have been used instead. Can we stop it? Can we start accepting that other people may do things that don't fit in your own world view?
Like "I bought a roomba!" -> "no, no, no, you should have strapped your vacuum cleaner to your cat".
This is a great idea. Millions of TVs using a bit less will add up to save a lot of energy. The same idea could have saved energy years ago when we had colour CRT TVs as those also used more power when the screen was bright. It wouldn't have made much difference in the B&W days because those TVs usually had an automatic level control resulting in more or less the same average brightness over the whole screen whatever the contents.
Interesting piece from the techie folks at #BBC. I hadn’t really considered the number of folks who listen to radio via their smart TVs. Great opportunity to consume less power when Media companies opt to use a darkened background. I imagine the same holds true for #podcast and #StreamingMusic apps as well.
I wonder what the data looks like for Americans listening to audio content on their TVs?Anybody got a source?
This is fascinating, it's great that potentially large consumers of power (by way of their software) are thinking of ways to save a little power at scale.
For folks in the replies here, does this also benefit computer monitors? I tend not to use dark mode at work, but am using a very recent monitor. Wondering if there's a power saving for screens that (to my knowledge) perform no dimming.
@joland I remember having my PC audio routed through my external display, and being annoyed the sound would cut out when the display went into standby... Apparently the speakers could not work independently of the display 🙄
This is honestly a really good idea and a lens that not many people approach building for the web with. Websites and apps have a carbon footprint and you can mitigate some of it with this kind of thinking. Also the idea of web optimization and how fast your site is factors into how wasteful your site might be.
This is Jacob-Rees Mogg, a British conservative Conservative politician, who has just become the Leader of the House of Commons under Boris Johnson’s governm...
Jacob "Ireland should know its place"* Rees-Mogg is a British peasant's idea of an aristocrat, a psued, and a product of a dysfunctional education system
Abonnez-vous http://bit.ly/inasociete Drôles d'enfants | A2 | 28/09/1982 Rencontre avec Jacob Rees-Mogg, 12 ans, un petit garçon atypique qui aime suivre ...
Suggestion: reduce e-waste by reintroducing a reduced functionality iPlayer which can be launched on older smart TVs which were able to run iPlayer when they were new?
have you looked at taking the purple gradient in the background on iPlayer away? Feels like that could save a fair bit. If you can redesign the "make a kids account" icon to look less like an evil gremlin at the same time that would be a bonus.
I turn it off. It makes little difference to power consumption and distorts the image balance. Surely BBC R&D can tell you that. They had smart people when I worked in the BBC. Also I use a 6W sat box, FM TX (sold for phone/mp3 to car radio) and FM Radio for non-local stations. Lower power than many DAB (turned off May 2021 in Ireland). No-one I know uses TV to listen to Radio, though a £10 USB DVB-T stick can work on laptop or Android.
The best way to improve energy use in the longer term - is for the #BBC to join those on the right side of history.
Stop supporting fossil fuel industries, politicians or the public, by proxy (e.g., stop reporting their non-science rhetoric without critical evaluation)
Either that or just turn the BBC, ITV, etc, off & read a science publication.
On Saturday 8 July 2023, user accounts started disappearing from the Vivaldi Social Mastodon instance. What was going on, how did this happen, and what were the consequences?
This is a very long blog post, but to be fair, this was also to be a very long weekend.
If you want to skip to the conclusion, there’s a TL;DR (too long; didn’t read) section at the end. Something’s not right It was around 17:25 Oslo time (CEST) on the Saturday that I first noticed something was wrong. I’d just got home from a bike ride, and when I happened to check my Vivaldi Social tab, it suddenly asked me to log in again. “Unusual”, I thought, but I wasn’t immediately alarmed by it. But then when I did log in, I saw that my home timeline was now completely empty. I quickly reached out to my colleagues.
“doing anything with mastodon? my home timeline is suddenly empty” Me, to my fellow sysadmins – Saturday 8 July 17:26 CEST
My fellow sysadmin Hlini very quickly got back to me. No work was ongoing, and his account was showing the same symptoms as mine. He offered to start heading to a computer so he could help me, an offer which I gratefully accepted.
By 17:32, another colleague outside of the sysadmin team had also noticed the same issue. I started to look into the database to see what was going on. Something bad has happened Looking at the database I could see that the affected accounts had apparently been deleted, and then recreated as a completely new account when the user logged back in.
Immediately, I started looking to see what database backups were available. As expected, we had a nightly backup from 23:00 UTC on Friday night. I started copying the file to somewhere I could make use of it.
While I was waiting for the backup file to copy, I started checking the database for other users that might be affected. Jón von Tetzchner’s account and another one that I checked had also been deleted, but had not yet been recreated, likely because those users had not tried to log back into their accounts yet.
By this time, Hlini had arrived at a computer and started looking into things with me.
I started checking the web server logs for account deletion requests, but nothing matching the account deletions showed up; and then I realized something else was odd about these deletions.
Normally when an account is deleted in Mastodon, the username is permanently reserved as unusable. If you were to try to create a new account with the same name as a deleted account, it would not allow it (since, due to the nature of the Fediverse, having a new account with the same address as an old one would not be a good thing).
But in the case of these deletions, we were getting reassigned the exact same usernames, so these could not be not normal deletions.
By 18:39, Hlini had figured out the pattern: all accounts with an ID lower than 142 (ie. the oldest accounts) were missing from the database.
We hadn’t seen any discussion from other Mastodon server admins about anything like this, and we wondered if this could be something unique to our setup – after all, Vivaldi Social uses vivaldi.net accounts for logins (thanks to Mastodon’s OAuth support) instead of the normal signup and login system of Mastodon. We started considering asking the Mastodon developers for help, and we also started discussing strategies for restoring the lost data from the backup.
But then… Something bad is happening right now At 19:10, I checked the database again, and I saw that all accounts with an ID lower than 217 were now missing from the database, and that number was increasing. This meant that accounts were still being actively deleted from the database.
By this point we both agreed that we needed more help, so at 19:18 we contacted the Mastodon developers. We immediately got a reply from Renaud, and he pinged Claire and Eugen to enlist their help. Stemming the flood At 19:20, Hlini restarted all of the docker instances in our Mastodon setup. The deletions seemed to stop the moment he did this. The lowest ID in the database was now 236.
Fortunately it turned out that it would stay that way. The investigation begins 198 accounts in total had been deleted during the course of this incident, and over the next few hours, together with the Mastodon devs, we started looking into what could be going on. On Eugen’s suggestion, we looked into the possibility of it being the UserCleanupScheduler deleting accounts that were “unconfirmed”, but this was eventually ruled out, as the deleted users could never have matched the query that it operated on.
Since we had upgraded to Mastodon 4.1.3 just 48 hours before the incident occurred, the Mastodon devs looked into all the code changes between v4.1.2 and v4.1.3 to see if anything there could be related. They even (and I cannot credit them enough for this) went the extra mile and looked through our published changes to see if any of the changes we had made could possibly lead to this. The conclusion though was that none of the changes could have triggered anything like this.
At the suggestion of Renaud and Eugen, we checked the filesystem to see if the deletions were being done directly in the database, or if they were being triggered by Mastodon itself. We could see that the avatar and header images for the deleted accounts had themselves also been deleted. This meant that the deletions had to be coming from the Mastodon application itself. An attack? We also started looking for signs of system intrusion, since it was certainly a possibility that this was some kind of deliberate attack. I spent some time checking the various logs that we had available to us, but I didn’t find anything (though in these cases, the absence of evidence can never rule out the possibility).
Because Mastodon v4.1.3 included a security fix, the devs also looked into the possibility of a related exploit, for which we combed through the logs, and examined the filesystem for evidence of such an attack. Again though, nothing was found.
We debated whether we should take Vivaldi Social offline altogether while we continued the investigation. The Mastodon devs gave arguments in both directions:
In favour of taking it offline: if we have to roll back the database to the backup, then more content will be lost the longer we keep it up.
In favour of keeping it running: if it is an attack, and it resumes, it might give us more opportunity to investigate how it’s being done.
We ultimately decided to keep it running. In truth what swung the decision that way was probably not the balance between the above arguments, but just a simple fact of us being sysadmins…
I think both Friendica and Peertube don't support unlisted-like posts.
The Mastodon unlisted scope could be useful if you want to add a post that's visible to everybody even when not logged in, but you don't want to bother the global or local timelines with it. It is still sent to followers though, which may or may not be useful. The big problem with Mastodon's implementation is that I've heard these posts also don't show up in searches, not even with hashtags, which doesn't make any sense to me.
For Peertube I'm looking for a scope that's public locally, but is not public when federated out. In fact I believe this should be the default for any platform: don't show publically what you've only received from other servers.
Miranda Cosgrove, as the host of Mission Unstoppable, the show to promote women in STEM, telling the story of Marie Curie in this tiktok and Instagram reel.
Once advertising has failed as an attempt to finance the web, we will finally be rid of its consequences. No more clickbait headlines. No more wholly copied q&a websites, or websites full of stub pages. No more engagement enhancing algorithms. Just content.
Another reason we should not let the receiving server resolve a link preview (so apart from the ddos that is many receiving servers at once loading from a site, bringing small blogs down): your text in the preview will be in the language of where the server is located. E.g. on mastodon.social previews are often in German.
If the client resolves the link preview, load will be spread in time and the reader gets the text in their language. If the sending server resolves the link (my preferred solution), only one request is done to the site (much fairer) and the text will be in a language the poster expects and can see.
I'm starting my dvd of Hooten & The Lady, a tv series with Ophelia Lovibond, the actress with the most British name I know. All the images of the series look very adventurous and I gather each episode is in a different location. On this first disc we get Alexandria, The Himalayas and Rome, but first: The Amazon. #OpheliaLovibond #HootenAndTheLady
Hugely charismatic, roguish American adventurer Hooten and his fantastically feisty partner in crime, Lady Alexandra travel the world, from the Vatican to The Himalayas, the Amazon to Egypt, in their quest to save the world's lost treasures.
This so easily could have been a cheap comedy with unrealistic studio shots, but it isn't. It looks quite convincing and realistic, in a dangling over great heights sort of way, and is entertaining enough to watch. This seems like a welcome addition to the pantheon of tv series, shame it's so unknown. Ophelia is great as the determined adventure seeking Lady Alexandra Diana Elizabeth Lindo-Parker (Alex). #HootenAndTheLady #OpheliaLovibond
The behind the scenes feature on episode one shows that the reason the location seems so real is because it is real. They actually are in the jungle shooting it.
This was a quite nice series. Each episode has a behind the scenes location documentary, since the locations of the stories are an important part of the show, and that things are really filmed all over the world. #HootenAndTheLady
Gidi Kroon
in reply to Gidi Kroon • • •I've been running with these hardcoded changes for a few days on a single user instance and it works fine. The highest expire date in the
parsed_urltable was in the year 4044; I decided not to wait for that and emptied the whole table a few days ago.code of screenshot
I've been running with these hardcoded changes for a few days on a single user instance and it works fine. The highest expire date in the
parsed_urltable was in the year 4044; I decided not to wait for that and emptied the whole table a few days ago.code of screenshot
For a single user instance it is rare to see the same post more than an hour later. But also when looking at older posts I don't notice any problems. For me there is no reason to keep the data of other sites for 3 months (without even checking for changes) and even when set to 1 hour, it is still less load on the other sites then when I would be browsing them directly as one user. I think that at least for single user instances, these can be considered as defaults as well.