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Ran into an IPv4 shortage. Finally. I had a pool of five and had used all five. But then I realised two of these don't really need an IP address from that pool, so now I even have one left. Still not switched to IPv6... (but I may as experiment, at another time)



Anyway, for people looking for where to run a server: the t4g.small (2GB 2vCPU with 20% baseline, ARM) is currently free at Amazon AWS until the end of 2023 (for one instance only and other costs like storage will still apply). Just found this out, other cloud providers are available of course.


When you're busy creating EFS volumes and are interrupted by an email from AWS saying that an action on EFS volumes is required, it takes a while to realise these two things are not related.

(There's a new version of efs-utils you should use to avoid a race-condition. This was communicated earlier and I've already done that, but just now there was an update to the communication.)



Apparently having the worker processes of four unrelated server programs running next to those server programs on the same node is not ideal. No matter how much memory the node has, the out-of-memory killer will eventually kill the web server. It seems that the worker processes look at how much memory is in the machine and use it, not at how much memory is left unused in the machine.

I've reinstated the swapfile and changed the cron schedule of the workers to not happen at the same time anymore. That was a bit optimistic...



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@financialtimes is reporting that #Mastodon inventor @Gargron has so far rejected five approaches by US-based #investors to take a piece of Mastodon. Seeking to retain its (our) #nonprofit status he has rejected these approaches.

If you have the ability support your instance/server by a regular (small) donation to ensure we can make sure our & #Rochko's vision of a #socialmedia unlike other places can be maintained... its worked for #wikipedia it can work here!



The thing with mitigating risk is that if you stop doing it things don't fall over immediately giving detractors ample time to argue that your worries were unfounded.

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"JavaScript heap out of memory"


No! Not you too!

(I didn't even know Javascript also had a heap to run out of)

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@Beko Pharm Apparently from nodejs v12 onwards it automatically sets the heap limit dependent on the machine. I guess as a simple user I had sort of assumed everything automagically to be correct, but that's from v12 onwards. The internet says that in browsers you have hardly any control over the max heap setting, while in node.js you can use a command line switch, which is documented as 'not part of the official api so likely to change'. For now it will just be more RAM in the VPS...

I guess I should have known since I did a bit of nodejs development in the past...

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Ah, one of those, where increasing the heap only makes the crash occur later. I know these, I've occasionally made these... Also, by increasing the heap beyond available ram, you can make the crash happen really slowly, due to swapping.

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The cubes aren’t moving at all. The motion is all in your head. This is crazy.
Hover your mouse to one of the corners, and you will see it does not move at all. By the way this is not disputable, it's verified.
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#movie #movies #picture #pictures #photo #photos #photography #video #videos #tech

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Intellectually I know it's Monday, but we're in the week after Christmas, which means that time has no real meaning and today might was well be called Glunday or Mirtday or Quangday, so, happy Nuufday, everybody

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Also upgraded this Friendica, to version 2022.12. It went smooth, though the database update took a bit longer than normal. Normally I don't notice any downtime, now it was busy for a few minutes.

I also enabled the new 'fancybox' add-on, which is very neat!
#Friendica

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Upgraded this Pleroma to version 2.5.0, the latest stable version. Other than previous updates, it appeared necessary to stop the server before doing the mix deps.get rather than later, before the mix ecto.migrate as I usually do. Some file was in use. The instructions don’t specify when to stop the server.

Also, there was an error involving rebar3 (the tool was probably not recompiled after upgrading erlang/elixir a while back) which could be solved by running:

sudo -u pleroma MIX_ENV=prod -s -- eval 'mix local.rebar'

and checked with:
sudo -u pleroma MIX_ENV=prod -s -- eval '~/.mix/rebar3 --version'

I found this command in my history, so I had this problem before and there may be better ways of solving the error, but this worked.

Highlight in this version for me based on the change notes: lists!

#Pleroma

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We receive over half a million HTTPS requests per day to www.bbc.co.uk with no TLS SNI hostname (& ~100k/day to www.bbc.com).

The vast majority of these look like automated testing rather than humans.

If you run one of these (or know someone who does), please consider updating your software to something which supports TLS SNI (or deleting the test) because we may remove support for client which don't support TLS SNI which means your tests will break.

Boosts/shares would be much appreciated 🙌🏻

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Anyone introduce us to female open source software founders please? #opensource #opensourcesoftware

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A platform like tiktok but with negative clout points for failing to lip-sync properly.


Finished The Sandman. Netflix says "More episodes are coming" and I don't know whether it's a threat or not. Anyway, the series is quite variable with great potential. Some bits are really good and series two may be really great. But the show also has some things that annoy me.
#TheSandman


A long interview with Jenna Ortega at a screening of Wednesday, during what I think is a fashion show. She talks of course about Wednesday, but also other aspects of her career.

And I also don't know why the video is mostly on its side and why the beginning is edited to be at the end. As far as I can tell, this is the official recording.
#JennaOrtega #WednesdayNetflix #Wednesday
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In July I had to call an ambulance for my father. 999 answered instantly, but then the ambulance service line just rang, & rang, & rang, for over half an hour without answer. My father stayed injured on the ground for the whole night even after we called via another agency. As a result of his neglect that night, he has now become unable to live at his home and is in residential care.

The UK ambulance #strike is because people are at risk. It is not the cause, it is action to end the scandal.

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You could also add alt text to images on Twitter, this is not a specific fediverse thing. If you weren't the person to do that there, but do it here because 'it's the Mastodon way', don't clap yourself on the back but ask yourself why you didn't care over there.


One of the most irritating moments an app can come with their 'please upgrade to premium', 'please verify your email is still correct' and 'please rate this app', especially at the same time, is when you open the app as a share target.


This artist I follow and are on the mailing list of, sent an email with ten hyperlinks to stuff to buy. Of course that ends up in the spam folder...

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Has anyone used or adminned both #Friendica and #Hubzilla, and can offer a comparison?

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[FIXED] 📽️ Help! Corrupted mp4

[UPDATE]: FIXED by @RinCat 😍 Thanks you all for feedback! 👍

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So, I had a kernel panic while I was recording a video tutorial with OBS, and I had to hard reboot the computer because everything froze. Unfortunately, the ongoing record before the crash was corrupted at reboot.
It's an important piece of the video, and I can't retake it. So it ruined my long video tutorial... 😭

The corrupted MP4 segment: peppercarrot.com/extras/videos…

#video #obs #kdenlive

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Doing a poor man's version of Nomadic Identity: just following everybody from two accounts on different servers.
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@Paul Jakes I didn't even mean that... But I guess that's also true, as I'm here following the people I'm also following on Twitter...

But I was talking about using both my Pleroma and Friendica accounts to follow the same people, in case one breaks, but also to get migration notifications, which don't work on Friendica.

I'm also on Zap and Osada where channels are technically linked using 'Nomadic Identities' and thought that was similar.



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The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs was technically the highest ratio of killing birds to one stone.


I don't know why the main socials of His Dark Materials are promoting today as being the premiere of series three, since we're already four episodes in, but I guess they have a bit of a UK focus. Anyway, UK people, in about twenty minutes it starts for you on BBC one!

And stick with it, series three takes a few episodes to get into it.
#HisDarkMaterials

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There are subtitles for the sign language bits! When it was on HBO Max, they just sort of assumed you understood sign language.


Twitter link-out ban

Wow, Twitter now disallows all links to other social media, including Instagram and Facebook, also to non-social media sites like linktree, including just mentioning handles without link or giving a plaintext description of your link or handle.

What is still allowed, is automatic crossposting to Twitter from the other site and including a link like that.

I guess putting your social media handles on your own site, and putting your own site in your bio's, is the way to go.

How they see the difference between automatic crossposting to Twitter with link back and on the other hand posting a link out, I don't know. I also don't know why they include linktree in the ban, as it is just like a personal homepage listing your identities.
#Twitter #TwitterLinkOutBan

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Twitter link-out ban
I think they included Linktree because it was effective and popular - there isn’t a reasoned, principled approach - it’s just a way to try to prevent people from fleeing the ship.
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Twitter link-out ban
The Instagram account itself remains unbanned on Twitter, even though it clearly exists to promote another platform. And posts links to Instagram content.


I'm not supporting any of the teams in the world cup final, but the amount of theater by the Argentine players is irritating me.
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Football players know we all look at the closeups to see whether there was contact. So putting your leg in front of your opponent's, then 'falling' over it, looks like you're really the victim of a foul.

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Christmas Samba in Best


Who thought it was a good idea to do a Samba percussion performance in freezing temperatures? My volleyball trainer, that's who.
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Who thought of doing a Samba performance in below freezing temperatures? My volleyball trainer, that's who.

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if you see "me" messaging about joining a Telegram or buying crypto, please double check the Mastodon server they're on!

I'm only on hachyderm.io, and there's now someone trying to impersonate me on a different instance, asking people to join their telegram.

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I hate when some ten year old goes online being an immature piece of poop..... This sounds about what is probly happening....

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i was voted "most likely to be caught in a giant mousetrap" my senior year of high school, which never made sense to me because literally none of the unattended plates of cheese i've found have been attached to anything nefarious

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I started watching The Act because the lead character is played by Joey King. I noticed AnnaSophia Robb as well, which is great. I didn't recognise Patricia Arquette and I'm ashamed.

Luckily 'the twist' came in the first episode already rather than at the end of the season, since I suspected something along those lines early on.
#JoeyKing #TheAct #AnnaSophiaRobb
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Occasionally you get this complaint that 'this program you wrote uses 80% cpu!', to which the valid response is 'sorry, I'll try to use the remaining 20% as well'.