The fair is in town!
#Fair #Fairground #FunFair #Best
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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?
(**) The not quoting other people's words rule.
I seem to have activated fingerprint login on a device that doesn't have a fingerprint sensor.
Or does it...
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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.
Here some photos of her from Imdb.
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ah, personally this feels like it's the same old. This on month end weekend when I'm supposed to relax.
Last month it was false bans. This month it's rate limiting. We're so tired.
I know I'm not the most loyal person to Mastodon, but I appreciate the groundwork you've put in for us here.
weekends are for *Twitter misinformation*
It's been like this a few months now
I would agree to a fight between #Zuckerberg and #Musk. Only two rules:
1. Musk is tied
2. Zuckerberg punches Musk in the face for 30 min
He can't manage a website, he doesn't design his own cars, he knows nothing about rocket science. Yet he is billion times richer than me
Not fair
you're like the only instance admin doing it as a dayjob
to the rest weekends is the time where it doesn't compete with paying the rent and having food
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?😏
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.
Larga vida al #fediverse y #BloqueaMeta
pls pls Eugen, Stux, todos los admins del fediverse y no solo de mastodon, unidos y si hace falta cerrando registros.
Son gab o peor.
i think he is slowly doing that. I am unable to do anything on Twitter despite being a paying customer.
Switching to Mastodon
@fahrni
i knew he would destroy it the day he announced he wanted to buy it causing right wing crazies be like whoo free speech
what free speech? how is paying for speech free?
#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.
It's VERY easy to set up your own server: growyourown.services/grow-your…
Grow your own social network | Grow Your Own Services
Helping non-technical people create their own online servicesgrowyourown.services
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Oh yeah, definitely! There are many different reasons why it's a good idea to have your own server:
growyourown.services/why-growi…
Why growing your own services is a good idea! | Grow Your Own Services
Helping non-technical people create their own online servicesgrowyourown.services
Remnants of some kind of local caching system maybe?
Where I live, everything on Twitter now leads to a login screen.
I think you're way overselling "very easy" here.
For us long in the beard, old time admins, sure. But for jo-user, it's still way out of reach.
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.
I think we're using different metrics for "easy".
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.
Masto.host - Fully Managed Mastodon Hosting
Masto.host was built from the ground up to make running a Mastodon instance easy.Masto.host
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.
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.
And yeah, setting up an online social network is definitely a long term commitment! It can't be seen as a "create and forget" thing.
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
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.Mastodon hosted on social.network.europa.eu
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.
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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.
It's drying now so I have time to think about it.
What is the magic word?
sudo
No, try again.
-s $SHELL
Yes, thank you.
#JennaOrtega #Adidas #AdidasSportswear
'paranoia' => false,😁
An interesting stroll through the default settings of this software.
Debian 12 still not released on AWS... 😪
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.
#Yellowjackets
SPOF: very good for performance.
My sites are so much faster now that I introduced a single point of failure. Can highly recommend.
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
"How many visitors does your site draw?"
"Some". "Oh, do you mean with or without the bots?"
"Without"
"Then none"
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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:
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
<Location "/index.php">
Header merge Vary "Accept"
</Location>
</IfModule>and
CacheQuickHandler offand 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=falseEDIT: forgot that I may need to run the following too afterwards, from the OS to be considered the main OS:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-efi-amd64-signed
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-logoWay easier, since it updates all dependent things.
#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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Interesting how the Netflix video to announce this year's Tudum event (17 June) says there's also going to be an announcement about Wednesday. Weird because season 2 was already announced and it hasn't even been written yet.
Also they suggest an announcement for Queen Charlotte, which I thought was a one season spin-off of Bridgerton.
#Netflix #Wednesday #QueenCharlotte
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