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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.

in reply to Gidi Kroon

The #pleroma backup script is less universally useful I guess, just for completeness:

#!/bin/bash

export PGHOST=<redacted>
export PGDATABASE=<redacted>
export PGUSER=<redacted>

timestamp=$(date +%F_%H%M) \
&& pg_dump -w --format=custom -f ~admin/backups/pleroma_prod-${timestamp}.pgdump \
&& sudo tar zcvf ~admin/backups/config-pleroma-${timestamp}.tgz \
        --ignore-failed-read \
        /etc/letsencrypt/{live,archive}/pleroma.gidikroon.eu \
        /etc/systemd/system/pleroma.service \
        /etc/nginx/sites-available/pleroma.gidikroon.eu \
        ~pleroma/pleroma/config/prod.secret.exs \
        ~pleroma/pleroma/config/vm.args \
        ~pleroma/pleroma/instance/static \
        ~admin/bin \
&& aws s3 mv ~admin/backups/pleroma_prod-${timestamp}.pgdump s3://<redacted> \
&& aws s3 mv ~admin/backups/config-pleroma-${timestamp}.tgz s3://<redacted>
in reply to Gidi Kroon

Note that this script does not backup uploaded media. This is because media is on s3 and handled there.


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)



And here the trailer for the film X, which looks amazing!
#JennaOrtega
youtu.be/Awg3cWuHfoc


I'm sorry for the content in this channel being almost exclusively Jenna Ortega at the moment and I'd gladly share news of the other actresses I follow, but there's just so many projects of her now that the others really need to step up... Here a Nylon interview with amazing photos.
#JennaOrtega #NylonMagazine

nylon.com/entertainment/jenna-โ€ฆ



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Ghostface sits down backstage with #ScreamMovie star @jennaortega to ask about her biggest fear, her favorite behind-the-scenes memory from the film & more!

Watch: youtu.be/8wGjl3XSX98

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The trailer for #X comes out tomorrow. The trailer for #Studio666 comes out today. Both are films with #JennaOrtega. Also, #Scream (2022) comes out in the US this Friday and #TheFallout on HBO Max on 27 January.

Busy busy...

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Yep, pushed back to 3 Feb (Dutch cinemas). Also no sign here of The Fallout, which will be released everywhere on 27 Jan (hbomax + cinemas), with everywhere probably meaning everywhere but here.
#JennaOrtega #ScreamMovie #TheFallout


So Scream (2022) will be in Dutch cinemas 20 January. Though I guess it will be pushed back further due to covid. This is the Scream with Jenna Ortega. Time to watch Scream (1996) to get ready for the event. It's on Ziggo now.
#JennaOrtega #Scream #ScreamMovie



I'm looking up when I followed some training course and my memory says it was 'recently' and 'near the end of the year'. This portal however says it was February 2021. Who to believe?


I'm experimenting with having Friendica media stored on S3 rather than locally. Natively rather than with s3fs. There are some reasons why I think this may not have good performance. But it seems to be holding up so far, on the test server at least.


These were test posts to see how Friendica media storage on S3 is holding up. So far so good.


Gonna share some posts from my test server to see whether it all comes crashing down.


So Scream (2022) will be in Dutch cinemas 20 January. Though I guess it will be pushed back further due to covid. This is the Scream with Jenna Ortega. Time to watch Scream (1996) to get ready for the event. It's on Ziggo now.
#JennaOrtega #Scream #ScreamMovie
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Ah, the 'helpless' act. "But who's gonna drive me home" she says while sitting in her very own car with her very own 'Missy' license plates on it.
#LostJunction
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Missy is a properly intriguing character, played very well by Neve Campbell. I like this kind of film. Normally when a woman character in a film is the victim of things, she's portrayed all through the film as having a victim-like personality. Missy is not portrayed like that at all (most men in the film are scared of her), so you catch yourself as viewer questioning things and then questioning your preconceptions as a film should.
#LostJunction #NeveCampbell


The goal is that the people who deny there is a problem can eventually say 'see, panic over nothing'.



Today is the day that #ChloรซGraceMoretz 's #MotherAndroid is on Netflix. Guess what I'm watching now.
imdb.com/title/tt13029044/


I missed when it happened, but #guppe is now at the "a.gup.pe" address. Adjust your groups as needed.

For those who don't know, it is a server where you can make groups by just mentioning them in a post. Anybody who subscribes to such a group receives all the posts that have that name tagged. A bit like subscribing to a hashtag, but in the fediverse hashtags don't federate, so that doesn't work; this does.

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!Fav Forum
Another test post for the test forum.

Dafne Keen had her birthday yesterday.
(Photo by Begona Rivas, from Dafne's Instagram instagram.com/p/CHwDX9gplKC/)

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Dafne Keen looking back to yesterday when it was her 17th birthday, which I missed because I'm an idiot and thought it was today. Well, I've not really booted up yet this year, so what'd you expect.

Happy Birthday for yesterday and also already for next year! Hope to get His Dark Materials S3 soon.
#DafneKeen #HisDarkMaterials


Photo source here, by Begona Rivas.



"Your battery is low"

Quick! Do something to cheer it up!


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!Fav Forum
First test forum test post.

Jenna over on instagram. Also, The Fallout is out 27 Jan on HBO Max.


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#HappyNewYear2022
#JoinFediverseWiki is now ready for its official launch.

๐Ÿš€ joinfediverse.wiki/ ๐Ÿš€

Please share this page far and wide.
It's mainly thought to be a first contact point for Fediverse newbies.

Since my last post 8 days ago this changed:
:fedi: mobile version now available
:fedi: some new editors joined and edits were made
:fedi: many spam editors joined and were banned
:fedi: lots of good feedback was given. Thanks!

What hasn't happened yet:
๐Ÿ”œ Support for pages in Languages other that English (technically difficult)
๐Ÿ”œ Many pages are still missing.

#JoinFediverse #Fediverse #wiki #FediverseWiki #JoinTheFediverse
'FediverseRising

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That's a heavily missed project, thanks for your effort! I'd like to see it translated to german. Please give me a hint, if help is needed for that.



This plan to decarbonise by using gas power plants is a bit like decarbonising the ground and putting it into the air.

BBC News - EU plans to label gas and nuclear energy 'green' prompt row
bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59โ€ฆ



Who knew, free certificates with dns validation and automatic renewal if used for a free (up to some limit anyway) cdn... Anyway, PeerTube is now upgraded to v4 and the videos moved to S3 object storage. I initially messed up CORS, of course, as always, but it works now. And I didn't even want to use a CDN, but it is the only way to use a CNAME instead of the bucket address and still use https instead of http.
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This was mainly a note to self: I am looking for free wildcard certificates that automatically refresh, and the let's encrypt ones don't (easily, safely) refresh when using dns validation. The amazon ones do, and are free under certain conditions. This may work for me.


May in 2022 the people who want the pandemic and lockdowns to end get vaccinated so the people who already are vaccinated because they wanted these to end as well can get on with their lives.


A sign that you're too old to be using #TikTok: when you have to take off your glasses to watch the video.


I like that #Tiktok doesn't even allow DMs to be open. It's either fully off or followed people only.

#Instagram however only allows you to switch off DM notifications, they are always open.



Trying to read the cookie policy to dismiss the cookie wall, but the cookie wall doesn't allow it...
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Watching Claire Foy because of Claire Foy. She's in the miniseries A Very British Scandal on the BBC. I missed the first episode, but I already like her character Margaret who has a lot more personality than you'd expect from a Duchess.
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Not sure what the scandal of the title is yet, but the facts that she's the third wife of the Duke and that she has her own string of men she goes out with may have something to do with it.


So Amazon's Alexa would just suggest stuff it 'found on the web'. Most people have wisened up to not trust random websites, not so these smart devices. And Amazon says it fixed it, but only by stopping it from suggesting such challenges. The main problem therefore remains.

BBC News - Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to put penny in plug socket



I'm watching The Girl Before. I keep mixing up the two main actresses, which is sort of the point since these characters are supposed to look like each other and their stories are told in parallel, sometimes even cutting between them in the same scene.
#GuguMbathaRaw #TheGirlBefore
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It's hitting a bit of a limitation of mine. Sometimes I recognise (on tv) someone I wasn't even expecting from their silhouette only, sometimes I don't recognise someone while clearly seeing their face.

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Just found out neurotypical people do something called "eye contact". If I'm understanding this correctly they'll rub their eyeballs against one another's and they sometimes even do this in public, what the actual fuck? How is this socially acceptable?

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It's a bit minimalist, but it'll have to do. Merry Christmas! ๐ŸŽ„

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Watching Clea DuVall in Carnivร le since it (and all other HBO content) will disappear from my country at the end of the year. Let's see how far I get, I've just started the second and final season.
#CleaDuVall #Carnivร le


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Periodic reminder that "Just google it" is dangerous advice. You're asking someone with professed ignorance of a topic to wade through a sea of adversarial SEO hacks and deliberate misinformation. This is how people fall for e.g. the propaganda from Autism Speaks.
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It looks like that's where we're headed. Big data is failing and we will bring subjective humans back into the process, as OP and others are pointing out.

Posting a question on fedi often beats searching these days.

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So they're ready to launch the James Webb Space Telescope!

And yes, I remember it's the Ariane rocket, not the Ariana rocket, after getting it wrong a while back.


An easy trick to remember Ariane vs Ariana: the tall one is not the Grande one.

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โœ… Rollout complete!

The James Webb Space Telescope and the @ariane5 rocket itโ€™s riding on are all settled in their final position on Earth. Next step: launch on Dec. 25 at 7:20 am ET (12:20 UTC) to #UnfoldTheUniverse: go.nasa.gov/3FqLt9c

๐Ÿ“ธ: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASAโ€™s James Webb Space Telescope onboard, is rolled out to the launch pad, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021, at Europeโ€™s Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana.

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Putting a show with religious themes in the 'fantasy' category.
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