Notices by keef (keefmarshall@mastodon.online)

Speaking of stupid UI changes, what on earth has happened to #Mastodon's web interface - is that a bug?!! Please don't tell me this is the new interface, it's awful...

[I'm on mastodon.online, so I get the new stuff before everyone else I guess - but honestly you don't want this one..]

So the android app I use to access Pixelfed is called #Pixelix - it seems to work more consistently than the official app, at least for me.

They've just announced support for another federated photography based service called #vernissage which I hadn't heard of - but looks possibly more geared towards photographers than pixelfed is, with support for things like EXIF, HDR etc which I would find useful.

Has anyone I know tried or used Vernissage yet? Any feedback?

The #faircamp #webring was created back in October 2023, almost as a joke.

But today we hit a significant milestone - 100 members!

[People come and go, so there have actually been far more than 100 over time.]

Please welcome the latest joiners - it seems to have been a while since I did one of these!

@rasterweb
@liquid_clear
@steter
@fluffy
@tuell
@monarkie

As always you can see the latest members by sorting by "newest" in the directory here: https://faircamp.webr.ing/directory.html

"Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live"

(Having a lazy Friday afternoon on social media as it's too hot to do anything else!)

Porcupine Tree
Cardiacs
Levitation
Ozric Tentacles
Radiohead
Genesis
Amplifier
Plantoid
Peatbog Faeries
Gong

Tough to narrow down the list, but I think these are the representative ones off the top of my head.

Where do folks get small-run custom shaped die-cut stickers from in the UK?

There seem to be hundreds of sites with "sticker" in the domain name so no shortage of options, just wondering if someone had a good or bad experience with any of them?

I have just made a find, buried in a random box of old CD-Rs in our back room.. sometime in 1998 I backed up my old website.. and it had RealAudio media files of some music I made at the time, on Korg M1 and Roland R5!!!

I thought this stuff was lost forever.. there seems to be around 6 tracks on there.

Now, they're in RealAudio, but VLC seems to be able to play them.

Amusingly, the drums are all mixed too loud, at least on the first one I tried - nothing changes, it seems!

It's Friday - at least it is where I am - so it must be #FediPuzzles time!

Remember if you do, or even if you don't, like this one, there are plenty more on the hashtag to choose from.

I just downloaded the 1977 episode to rewatch that Egyptian Reggae track with Legs & Co in a camel costume with a dancing snake. My other half didn't quite believe me when I described it!

Did anyone notice the camel was wearing a fez?!

#totp

For the rest of you, if you can bear YouTube here's a link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5sIbqrJBZAA - warning, severe cultural appropriation. But, a dancing camel... Amazingly they must have repeated it as this looks like a different episode.

@steter it's unlikely to be the base_url setting that's causing you issues, that's only used for RSS and embeds as far as I know.

I haven't used the preview server built into Faircamp.. I usually use --no-clean-urls and just open the .faircamp_build/index.html file in a browser locally. I run faircamp on a local machine to build the site then use rsync to publish to my server.

It's pretty good at showing you build errors with helpful information - are your builds successful?

@morph @socool

That would be 21:00 CEST (Germany/France etc) if that helps.

So my first evil genius robot honeypot, the word frequency one, seems to be getting hit by a distributed botnet.

It started around 2-3 requests per second but seems to be ramping up.

It's using IP addresses from all over the world - could be hacked personal devices? - and a wide range of plausible-looking User Agent strings.

My server is fine for now - 95% idle CPU.

Are there people for whom any of the IP or agent data might be useful? Botnet detectorists?

#botnet #ddos #cybersec #infosec

@axwax so we're doing geese?

Honk!

@jwildeboer @announce ah, I see. You may need to come up with a different name then otherwise there will be great confusion.

@jwildeboer

see @announce and https://fedivision.party/ .. and check that hashtag you posted with!

@jwildeboer you know this already happens every year, right?

That's twice today I've had to look up who was playing on the #radioFreeFedi comfy channel and both times it's been @Bells_Theorem - for different tracks!

Nice stuff.

@ashnoodle I bought that particular synth (cherry audio polymode) to make this track:

https://on.soundcloud.com/esRPT

@sknob my French translation might be off but it's tomorrow night, not tonight!

@elsemusic @muz4now @inpc me?

Please join us this Friday, 8th November, for the release of Not What I Call Bonk Wave - Volume 003 - Disc B - Bonked and Unbonked!

Leave your expectations at the door, as this more contemplative disc covers quite different ground to the previous one.

There's a slight change in UTC time due to daylight savings, and also please note the change of venue!

More info: https://bonkwave.org/board/index.php?topic=101.0

#BonkWave #NotBonkWave #NWICBW3