Notices by Marcos Dione (mdione@en.osm.town)

@BeAware If I want to automate installing and configurin Mastodon on a serer, I would rather not have to install a compiler there.

@BeAware that's more "recompilable" than "reconfigurable" :) But yeah, I guessed that much.

Oh, I thought the 500 char limit in #Mastodon was configurable. Now I wonder what software are running on the instances of people who post long toots. For the moment, I found this sight fork:

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki

@sebsauvage mais on se repose au dessus des externalités tout le temps. Si ce n'est pas la stdlib ou l'interpreter du language, c'est l'OS, la libc ou autre libraries basse (expat, pcre, ssl, etc). C'est toujours un balance entre vitesse d'implementation et mantenir notre propre code.

@lindsey @byorgey damn, now I have to wonder how Gouda is mispronouced in English (I know the Dutch pronunciation).

@cheeaun ^^^^ (use a translator, but maybe you get what they're saying :)

@cadusilva

@_elena my advice as also self hoster and also parent is to cram as much house keeping in those 20m and use after-bedtime time for self hosting. That's assuming that your kids sleep way more than you do (mine sleep some 11h, I try to do 8h). Alternatively, doing it in the very early morning, but that's not for me. Good luck!

@jwildeboer I do the same for my own #nextcloud. It also makes it easier to backup (and restore) the db.

Because you have backups, right? :)

I thought about this for a while and I'm going for #XMPP because in a few years my kids will have phone and will like to talk...

oh. OH.

I already have #nextcloud Talk! Stay tuned...

@ploum run the command with the option and check whether the exit code is not 0?

@cstross I would add cassette because they are contemporary, but I never had the chance to use them myself. Tapes for backups do not count.

I might have mentioned several times that all logs will disappear in 15 days. Well, it's been 10 days, so I spent a good part of the morning trying to save the record. The apache logs was easy: made a semi-permanent copy on my desktop. #Mastodon record was more difficult. In the end I managed with the `mastodon.py` client and disabling 2FA, but boy was this a ride...

1/2

I need a simple messaging system to install locally so I can get notifications from the #monitoring system when the inet goes down. Which one would be simpler to install? #xmpp? #irc? Something else?

This is an experiment. Please boost.

http://mastoddosnt.ddns.net/

Here's the idea: This post is going first to my followers, then, if they boost it, to other people. This domain has been registered for only this experiment. I should see in my web server's logs when mastodon instances start crawling the site for info. Then maybe also some curious humans.

I just want to play with my monitoring a bit :)

@contrapunctus TBH, you would get the same in mastodon. I got blocked by a couple of persons, no reasons, no space for apologies or improvement. 🤷 I just moved on.

@inthehands bought? I think the press was bought. Or fighting to get noticed by the algorithms that could be skewed a bit/a lot by their owners.

@silverwizard @mhoye because they're like tanks that can last up to... (looks at the T430 serving as home server, does years math) 13y.

@harpaa01 @inthehands we have a plain Yuba Kombi to which we slapped an electric kit. The 0 to moving is snappy[1], the biggest challenge it to get used to the kids changing your balance in those critical moments.

[1] maybe too much. From my non motorized bike experience, I keep a foot on the raised pedal when stopped, and the system feels the weight as force and tries to start moving. Maybe I should talk to the BRM who installed it.

I remember reading or watching about a privacy focused guy writing a tool (a browser extension?) that emitted a click for every time a site leaked your privacy. I know, it's a vague description. I'm trying to find if such a thing actually exists as a #firefox extension, just to test how radioactive sites actually are. The closest I get are the stats from uBlock Origin:

Blocked on this page: 26 (48%)
Blocked since install: 172,340 (34%)

This on my corpo account with the default uBO config.

@inthehands does she have advice for the stutterers?