It's rather scary when a rather literal writer writes something and I as a rather literal reader understand it one way, to see that most other people have a very emotional response to it, having understood it in a completely different way.
Scary because I'm afraid this could unintentionally happen to something I post.
I think I said this before: I don't write between the lines. The meaning is only where the ink goes.
I see some well meaning advice for people used to Twitter that 'here' you need to 'boost' instead of 'like' because there's no algorithm to have these likes translate into views.
Firstly, there's only an algorithm on Twitter if you wanted that. You could just as easily use Twitter with the algorithm disabled, so that's not the differentiating factor. If you chose to run Twitter with the algorithm enabled, this place is likely not going to work for you.
Secondly, you're still thinking about trying to maximise views and chasing clout. That you appreciate a post is between you and its author, no further audience is needed. Just reblog what you want your followers to see because it fits the aesthetic of your page, just send a like for other posts you appreciate so the author knows.
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Happy Birthday Dafne!
Today Dafne Keen turns 18, which means Logan is now 7 years ago. She's a very talented Spanish/British actress who, unlike Lyra, did not sleep through growing up, making the great His Dark Materials.
Ana is not out yet where I live 😢. She's currently filming Star Wars: The Acolyte.
#DafneKeen
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Dafne Keen. Actress: Logan Noir. Dafne Keen Fernández is a British and Spanish actress who played the role of Ana "Ani" Cruz Oliver in the television series The Refugees, and the mutant Laura Kinney / X-23 in the 2017 film Logan.IMDb
Computers used to scream out in pain when we connected them to the Internet.
This was a clue and we just didn't listen.
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Reminder that despite your private ssh keys being nicely tucked away in the .ssh folder of your very own home directory (where no-one can get at them, right?) they still need to be encrypted with a password.
(Just read an article about a hack that claimed to be benevolent and just research but in the process uploaded the .ssh folder, likely the .aws file, etc. Interestingly, the hack is not something the user could do much against.)
Why am I getting more out-of-memory events now memory has increased? Current working assumption is that 'some process' starts up and uses memory based on ram totals, rather than ram available, thereby not taking other running processes into account. With small ram sizes this caused small memory usage spikes which were covered by the swapfile. But larger ram, under these assumptions, causes larger spikes, which with a smaller or no swapfile could not be accommodated. But I don't know whether this is right or which process it is.
One argument against running too much stuff on a single resource (server, file share, etc). It's not as easy to assign blame.
How about some #Studies of stills from the TV show Wednesday? Here are some scenes with nice composition/lighting for you to have a go at! Happy painting!
(There's nothing hugely spoilery in there but I've hidden the images just in case)
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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...
@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!
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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)
@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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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
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!
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#ChloeBennet #AgentsOfSHIELD
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#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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[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…
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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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in reply to Gidi Kroon • •She's so good. That scene near the end where they're sharing the same dark thoughts. That scene in the middle where she has that outburst at Logan. Actually, I happen to know she improvised that one(*), not on the day but during her final audition. It's on the blu-ray extras and the look on his face of 'what is happening' was very real.
(*) Can you imagine, I say it again, 11 years old, having done your audition, probably acing it because, Dafne, and then turn to all those studio execs and ask: 'Can I do it again? But this time improvise it?'