Adam Piggott @pasco@mastodon.technology

What're good tech-themed "Days since X" posters?

Thinking
"Days without exec'ing into production container:"
"Days since someone pushed straight to main:"
Etc

With the help of @pixelfed dev, we implemented last missing endpoints for #Fedilab. Thank you @dansup

The beta release should be released in production very soon.

If you use 2FA with #Pixelfed, don't hesitate to give it a try and share your feedback.

If you are a #Fdroid user, you can add our custom repository: https://fdroid.fedilab.app

Following on from yesterday, this is my command-line only laptop install. Learn about some of the productive and fun Linux applications I run on it. :D
https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/command-line-only-laptop/

Do I know any UI / UX designers? I'm looking for a responsive layout for a blog with an animated SVG illustration.

Paid work.

#ui #ux #design #job

I wrote some thoughts about the recent Raspberry Pi 'drama'.

https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/pitchforks-set-to-stun/

Dear web developers and admins,
please stop embedding Google's hideous #ReCaptcha into your websites. Its algorithm is faulty, forcing regular users to click dozens or even hundreds of fire hydrants, bicycles, or traffic lights each day. It puts a 'suspicious activity' flag on users who won't obey to Google's business model - such as people who don't sign into Chrome, use anonymity VPNs, or use browser extensions to suppress common tracking mechanisms. Enough is enough. Stop it.

So it seems that i can only export my data but cannot import to Mastodon. Is there a technical limitation to this or why would that be? Marking posts as modified, imported or something else would seem sensible.

From the point of view of a regular person, what Mastodon offers is not much different to what Google takeout and the like provide, especially given GDPR requests, making this mandatory.

So you can always leave, but it is hard to re-establish again.

#sad #mastodon

If a web page in 2021 won't let you highlight, cut and paste text then this television from 1983 might be an improvement:

@polymerwitch

similarly:

I get the issue with instance blocking means users being quietly cut off from relationships they value. this is bad and shouldn't happen.

but this isn’t really about the blocking, it’s about the quietness and the data loss. instance blocks should be broadcasted on the announcements feature automatically, and additionally users should get notifications like, "bob @ example.com whom you followed has been disconnected because the moderators have blocked example.com" "claire @ example.com who followed you has been blocked along with example.com" etc.

and their entries in the user's list of follows (as accessible via CSV export) shouldn't be deleted, but just marked with an instance-blocked flag.

this way users never lose their data no matter what moderators decide, and an user who disagrees with the decision can move their account to another instance, export/import/browse the csv and preserve their contacts.

#fediBlock #mastoDev #mastodon

Really proud of this video interview Branden Bonaby, a May 2019 Outreachy intern with the Linux kernel.

Branden talks about all of the common fears newcomers have about open source: everyone will know more than me, no one will want to interact with a newcomer, and what if they don't like my code?

The answer: just try contributing to open source. The whole community is there to help you improve your code.

https://diode.zone/videos/watch/4d5bdf34-064d-41df-91cf-cc1b677c78d4

(Video CC-BY Outreachy and Sage Sharp -- made with Kdenlive)

Say I want to play around with building my own matrix server.

What are some recommended hardware requirements?

Is it relatively easy, if I can install debian server and then just install the packages?

Any thoughts? Anyone knows where are some good answers?

#matrix #privacy

Hii Mastodon!
I've recently deleted all other social networks I had and created an account on this instance. I've had a Mastodon elsewhere but never used it.
Been lurking for a few days but now I'm gonna start actually using it :P.
So my name's Emilia and I'm from the Netherlands. In College studying IT and it's my hobby at home too!

Don't know how to code but still want to contribute to open projects? Consider open street maps!

OSM is the community built map of the world. Anyone can edit the map and all the data is freely available and usable in any of your projects.

Start in your own neighborhood. Maybe your street is missing or named wrong. Update the corner shop hours. Map the parks or sidewalks. Anything helps and many hands make light work!

https://openstreetmap.org

Day 8 - #100DaysToOffload

#osm #openstreetmap

Had a Raspberry Pi laying around not doing anything, decided to put #pihole on it. So far so good, although it's scary to see how many requests are sent from my PC to Microsoft

#mastoart #art #onionshare #onion #share

OnionShare is an open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size.

https://onionshare.org/

If you crosspost from twitter to mastodon I would really appreciate it if you marked your account as a bot (see https://superuser.com/a/1439495 for explanation of the effect).

If it's a dual purpose account (i.e. crossposting AND direct posting), then I would appreciate it if you created a separate account for the twitter crossposting and marked that as a bot account.

Crossposted tweets appear as a mess of broken links, missing threads, and the account is often unresponsive to replies.

Thanks!

I'm looking at our nightly backup logs – apparently (and no one told ME this) the m.t database is big enough that it takes an hour to back up 😳

getting to the point where I need to schedule pre-work ahead of my scheduled maintenance windows.