Apparently picking up my keyboard, fumbling it, and watching it ultimately tumble to the floor somehow causes it to launch Microsoft 365, software I wasn't even aware I had. Weird hotkey.
I vaguely recall there being a hot key that launched a buy screen for MS Office. Maybe that was 365. And maybe it was Windows 7... But whatever it was I accidentally discovered it one day and since then always assumed several gigs are being used just to house software they want us to pay to unlock.
Great to see Prof Francesca back. Reshared, not because of the tech advice request, looks like she got a lot of answers already, but this is of course a very serious and important archaeological photo.
Hello all! Is there a way to update the Mastodon app? It doesn’t seem to be working well for me (I have an iPhone - is that relevant?) … By way of an apology for such a boring request, here’s a pic of me admiring an apotropiac phallus on the Greek island of Delos last week …
Why would someone boost a four year old Mastodon post of mine and have I really been here that long(*)? It's the one I got a warning(**) for too, I think.
(*) Has it been that long since I gave up on Tumblr because of it breaking all the time?
@daedalus Right! Give me an old newspaper and I look at the ads, show me an old picture of a city street and I am reading the signs and shop windows. The meta data and ancillary info that puts something in context is often as interesting as the media itself.
Ok, two weekends ago. This is the elastic file storage part of the bill. That's NFS, still storing the same data. Other services I still need to reduce.
I'm getting into Sanditon a few series late, but episode one of series three did a good job of getting everyone up to speed including late joiners. Now I'm starting episode two and it's as if I missed another year.
The lead role of Charlotte in Sanditon is played by Rose Williams. I may not like how the scenes are edited and filmed, but she is certainly the good thing about this series. I'll keep watching it.
I think the Dutch national women's volleyball team did really well over the last couple of weeks, despite the result. They were playing with a very much junior team due to injuries etc among the usual players and they grew during the tournament. Some new players really stood up to compensate for the missing (fitness of the) top players. Once everyone is back, the coach is going to have to make some difficult decisions, born out of luxury.
I have sympathy for the weekend workers that must repair the garbage changes. Maybe on Saturday and Sunday, Twitter is run in Beta mode? A change doesn’t count unless it makes it until Monday morning.
I saw speculation that it may be his service providers throttling his service level back, since Elmo hasn't been paying them for some time. This level of service will lead to advertisers suing for not getting the eyeball count they paid for.
I think it's a favour to all those volunteer instance admins who have a day job and only have time for this kind of shenanigans in the evening or weekend. 😉
I don’t know why everybody keeps giving Elon a hard time. He has done wonders for decentralized social networks and kicked down doors for the rest to follow suit. Keep up the good work! 😂
It's great actually. Forced panic mandatory weekend overtime crunch will cause more engineers to quit twitter. The more that twatter hemorrhages employees, the faster it will crash and burn.
Not the last Indeed We believe, in France, that this black out has a serious involvement in a social anger growing un France. What IS French révolution happend again?😏
it does suck having it happen on a weekend 🤣 I was in the middle of watching prospect drafts for NHL hockey and poof! Gone. So now I'm here on Mastodon. Someone needs to end Twitter once and for all.
Honestly? I don't think Twitter will ever die. He just has this weird way of testing in production. What I do think is that Twitter won't ever have a stable version anymore.
Entre Elon Y Zuck al final nos destruirán a nosotros, no lo permitamos. Solo hay que aguantar un poco mas y ellos caerán primero, no nos vendamos nuestra esencia. Vienen a nosotros por que necesitan algo.
Han caído antes otras redes como face o tuiter que nadie pensaba que caerían que no logro recordar ahora.
Unfortunately if you said to the dude "9-5 work week" he would look at you puzzled like you were speaking an alien language (the even more unfortunate thing is he expects same from his employees).
One of the things I like more about #Bluesky, is that unlike #Mastodon the conversation doesn't seem to be all about the users being on #Bluesky. It has it's own problems, but that's one part I like.
in fact, nothing can replace twitter for now. i feel twitter is the newest social media platform in my opinion compared to the others. but i had no more hope after a madman acquired it. hoping for better but actually very bad.
#Twitter has completely cut off public access to posts. Twitter accounts are now unable to share anything with non-Twitter people. Direct links no longer work, which is a disaster for accounts distributing public information.
This is a textbook example of why you should have your own server as part of a federated social network. Ownership means your public links will never break, federation means you can reach a mass audience.
I don't think it is difficult any more, thanks to managed hosting companies. You don't need tech skills, a managed hosting company does all the installation, maintenance and upgrades.
That's why I set up this website, to let people know. An instance owner doesn't need to do techy stuff any more.
Instance settings are entirely through the same graphical web interface that they would use for their normal account settings.
Until it's "signing up for an email account" easy, it's still going to be beyond the skill level of a lot of people.
I'm not disagreeing about it having gotten loads better. I remember the nightmare that was running an identi.ca server. But "miles better" isn't "so easy anyone can do it"
The signup process for services like masto.host etc is about similar complexity to signing up with an email provider or registering for an account on an online shop. It pretty much is an online shop really, you just pick which plan you want and fill in your payment details.
The one possibly tricky bit is pointing the domain name to the host, because it may involve two different providers. But that is a one-off thing that the domain company can possibly deal with for a fee.
The technical maintenance is handled by the managed hosting service. They do all upgrades, bug fixes, installations etc behind the scenes, you don't have to think about it at all.
The only burden on the owner is if they decide to run a public instance that's open to public sign-ups. In that case, the moderation burden does become very significant.
Thanks, I figured moderation would be significant. I used to teach a web development course aimed at businesses setting out to get their first website up. One phase of the class was planning the site. And that phase included planning for content maintenance, updates and moderation. Kind of a lesson for managers that figured they could just dump that task on a secretary... Costs of such a managed hosting service?
Managed hosting costs are surprisingly low, starts from about $10 a month including tax for five active users. The hosting cost per user drops massively as the number of users goes up, it's about $100 a month including tax for 2000 active users.
However, as the number of users goes up, the labour cost of moderation rises significantly, so this balances out the savings on hosting costs. It would be good to encourage smaller servers where human moderation is more feasible.
links are broken?! How on earth are they going to make money out of twitter if tracking no longer works? This is a disaster I've worked in online Ad industry and every second I'm just more shocked. They should be losing money like every 10^-10000 second
I am not a lawyer, but as far as I know liability on your own instance is no different to having a website, as long as it isn't open to public signups?
For example the European Union set up their own server purely for their official accounts at social.network.europa.eu The European Commission has an account there at @EU_Commission
EU Voice is the official ActivityPub platform of the EU institutions. With EU Video, it is part of an alternative social media pilot proposed and provided by the European Data Protection Supervisor.
Meanwhile, it took me a while to notice that Twitter's new rate limits are about how many posts per day you may see (600). I first read it as limiting people to writing 600 posts per day and thought 'that's not so bad, though some people will have to limit themselves'.
Also, supposedly the amount of Twitter posts you can see without an account is zero, which they say breaks the Twitter embed functionality. So far that seems untrue, I can see the embeds just fine on my own site even in an incognito window. E.g. this one where Chloë Grace Moretz answered my question.
When I removed the wallpaper from the bedroom walls, I found the walls to be quite uneven, too much to paint over. I finally applied the material that is supposed to smooth it out (don't know the English word and neither does Google) to half the wall, since the remainder I can't reach yet. I'm not that happy with the result, it's still a bit uneven.
Scientists have been pounding the table warning about climate change for decades, often at the expense of their own careers, only to be ignored by politicians. And now that the climate is spinning out of control, its somehow the fault of scientists??
I say this will all due respect to all those who promote this take: f#ck off.
Right wtf is this, pretty sure every year we've been saying shit like "GUYS THE HUMAN RACE IS IN DANGER, WE MIGHT ALL DIE" for at least the last 2 decades.
Its not our fault they've been plugging their ears with oil money.
And here's the kicker - is this some kind of sudden realization and turnaround moment? Fuck no lol, they are going to stick their head back in the sand tomorrow and wonder why texas is getting so cold later this year.
well, they sure as fuck weren't going to listen to First Nations Peoples from ALL OVER THE WORLD. And world governments STILL oppress First Nations and forbid traditional land care methods.
Nothing to see here, just corporate-funded press outlets trying to rewrite history to absolve said corporations from any responsibility or complicity in the ongoing climate disaster
Meanwhile organisations with millions and billions of dollars are pushing the case against climate action. They're lobbying and writing press releases and killing stories that they don't like and paying the journalists who they like.
It's unsurprising to find those same journalists, working for companies paid by the oil and gas industry, pretending to blink like idiots at the news that we've been complaining about fossil fuel use for decades. It wouldn't be their fault, would it?
>Scientists have been pounding the table warning about climate change for decades
Really ? Aside from some superb examples like @ClimateHuman @ultracricket etal mostly they seem to have been emitting vast quantities flying to confences telling people at a podium that emisisons are the problem or drumming up sales from yet another book. I'd suggest anyone flying to any of the last three COPs falls into that category.
Seems like a little rose tinted revisionism ? They know emisisons are the problem but contributed and lent their voice to the legitimacy of the orthodoxy regardless... shame
>I say this with all due respect to all those who promote this take: f#ck off.
I viewerd a talk on YT in 2013 by Professor Kevin Amderson (climate science and energy), he was asked in question time who he thought responsible, he named Climate S
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>Scientists have been pounding the table warning about climate change for decades
Really ? Aside from some superb examples like @ClimateHuman @ultracricket etal mostly they seem to have been emitting vast quantities flying to confences telling people at a podium that emisisons are the problem or drumming up sales from yet another book. I'd suggest anyone flying to any of the last three COPs falls into that category.
Seems like a little rose tinted revisionism ? They know emisisons are the problem but contributed and lent their voice to the legitimacy of the orthodoxy regardless... shame
>I say this with all due respect to all those who promote this take: f#ck off.
I viewerd a talk on YT in 2013 by Professor Kevin Amderson (climate science and energy), he was asked in question time who he thought responsible, he named Climate Scientists as being at fault for underselling the messge off devastation that was inevitable. If you concede his point made 10 years ago, then being complicit means taking responsibility. No, not all and not even most but some.
Another example, someone's out there's pushing complete nonsense like #CDR, #BECCS and a whole plethora of other techno stupid nonsesense giving legitimacy to the orthodoxy of continuing to emit becase it can all be cleaned up easily, using using soft language to undermine the narrative of the invietable collapse of civilisation if we continue doing what we are doing.
We need to reduce emisisons is a really, really, really poor message that will never be taken seriously...while those delivering it have emsisions profiles the size of African nations. It's like watching someone smoking deliver a health messge about the dangers of smoking.
My long rambling point, climate scientists need to clean up their cess pit of enabling, which means calling out the high emitting assholes within thier midst.
Deflecting the blame is a typical ploy to gaslight people. If dishonest politicians in the media say a lie enough times, the public that have faith in them, believe the lie. A lie becomes the "truth".
As the climate deteriorates, expect more shady politicians to blame anyone but themselves (even though they have been denying & or down playing the science for many years).
Why? Money! (Corruption)
But, their historic blunders are recorded (e.g., news archives)
Right. The scientific community has been pretty well in tandem decrying the lack of action for several decades, and it was "suspected" even before that. WTF? Srsly, anyone who tries to blame 'scientists' for the current climate situation and lack of meaningful political action can go fnck them selves to oblivion. Try blaming Exxon first, at least.
Very very soon, maybe in hours, I will be two Debian releases behind instead of one, as Debian Bookworm gets released. Good that I made a note even yesterday to do something about it. Not so good that I tend to ignore those notes.
It also gets rid of $30 on my Amazon bill. The storage I was using may be only 6 dollarcents (using intelligent tiering) and accessing the data normally only around one dollar (a month), but I had an extra $30 cost because I was using an inefficient setting and was too lazy too figure out how to access the data properly.
(Something was doing more than 100 metadata calls per second to NFS, likely directory listings or date checks, and I still don't know what. Only figured out it's something in php, even after I set opcache to only check every 15 minutes. This is just above the allowed throughput baseline, so I set 'elastic throughput' which scales throughput automatically, but you pay for that too.)
Two titbits from yesterday's Tudum, Netflix's fan event, that I gather from clips posted:
Wednesday season 2 is going to introduce another Addams Family character. Many people have asked for Cousin Itt to appear, but the cast say they don't know yet who it will be. Also, from the fact that the cast announcing this was Jenna, Emma, Joy and Hunter, you can guess their characters are back.
You is going to be the final season, as announced earlier, and there was no news. Just the suggestion that Joe is going to face (an) opponent(s) related to the many loose ends. The clips to illustrate these loose ends included Jenna Ortega as Ellie. My favourite story would be where Ellie and Nadia team up to take Joe down. #Wednesday #You #Netflix #JennaOrtega
There's this one bot that is now at page 8 of a tag on my profile, while I think I only ever made one post with that tag. Another is trying to find whether there is any update to the page that is an overview of posts I made in 2021.
I mean, how does mod_cache, or varnish for that matter, not take into account the Accept or Content-type headers when caching something?
I mean "I want the html at this address", results in "here have this json because someone before you asked for the json". They are like "the server should have sent an Vary header". Yeah, but what if it doesn't? Shouldn't the cache, as the thing that is taking over serving content, serve the right content according to standard specifications?
And why doesn't the Location directive in Apache's config match with a path like you'd expect? So if you were to add a Vary header to the path /friendica, you can't because it's subject to rewrite rules. You would have to match /index.php?pagename=friendica. But that doesn't work for me either, probably due to the query string. I can only add the header to the whole site, like this:
and then finally mod_cache serves the correct content types. With a much larger cache.
BTW, the same problem existed on profiles and posts, that are served machine-to-machine as json and to a browser as html, but sometimes from the same address.
I found that switching between other distributions can better be done in a separate partition. One extra thing to do, though, is that some OS's like Ubuntu only autodetect other OS's like Windows and show these as options in the bootloader screen, but they don't do the same for other Ubuntu-like OS's like Kubuntu. So to get the options to boot into either Ubuntu or Kubuntu (or others) if you have both installed, you need to add the following line to /etc/default/grub and follow the instructions to run update-grup:
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
EDIT: forgot that I may need to run the following too afterwards, from the OS to be considered the main OS:
A while ago I installed Kubuntu on top of Ubuntu because I had misunderstood that was an easy way to check it out. it was easy to install, just one apt package installed all that was needed, but it proved difficult to switch back to Ubuntu which I quickly wanted. Uninstalling the package left much Kubuntu stuff behind.
At the time I managed to do the important things, like switching settings back to defaults, getting the Ubuntu fonts, switching back the display manager. But several annoying things remained, like the startup logo in the splash screen still saying Kubuntu.
When you look on the internet there is much outdated information. It turns out that these startup/shutdown things are part of a "Plymouth theme" and the internet says to do update-alternatives on default.plymouth to switch to "ubuntu-logo", or to install the package "plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo" in apt. But neither exist anymore. The current theme is "bgrt". But rather than switching to it manually, you can go back to the automatic default by:
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A while ago I installed Kubuntu on top of Ubuntu because I had misunderstood that was an easy way to check it out. it was easy to install, just one apt package installed all that was needed, but it proved difficult to switch back to Ubuntu which I quickly wanted. Uninstalling the package left much Kubuntu stuff behind.
At the time I managed to do the important things, like switching settings back to defaults, getting the Ubuntu fonts, switching back the display manager. But several annoying things remained, like the startup logo in the splash screen still saying Kubuntu.
When you look on the internet there is much outdated information. It turns out that these startup/shutdown things are part of a "Plymouth theme" and the internet says to do update-alternatives on default.plymouth to switch to "ubuntu-logo", or to install the package "plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo" in apt. But neither exist anymore. The current theme is "bgrt". But rather than switching to it manually, you can go back to the automatic default by:
sudo apt remove plymouth-theme-kubuntu-logo
Way easier, since it updates all dependent things.
Very very soon, maybe in hours, I will be two Debian releases behind instead of one, as Debian Bookworm gets released. Good that I made a note even yesterday to do something about it. Not so good that I tend to ignore those notes.
Still only one... Though you may think that Debian 12 has been out for some days now from the shear number of people using it, when I look at the cloud images 11 is still the latest. Either something wrong with me or with the cloud.
So ActiveState has changed the licensing on their products from free to paid, including for old versions, including those you had downloaded and installed before they blogged about that change back in 2021. Other than that blog post they didn't inform anybody of that change. I'm not even sure you can change licensing conditions after someone has installed your product and accepted the license conditions. #ActiveState
Today is World Ocean Day, and while we celebrate the ocean, we need to rethink our relationship with it. The blue of our blue planet isn’t just a colour - it’s a critical part of our own identify as citizen of this planet.
We cannot afford to speak of the ocean as though it is simple or empty or worthless. We have to see this dynamic engine as a critical part of our existing planetary life support system, in whose shadow we are privileged to live.
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