Notices by tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)

@indirect I had anticipated something going wrong with my dynamic DNS cron job, so I left the machine open to a terminal with the command to fix it all queued up so you could just press enter

I did not anticipate massive power failure!

I've been using this home server setup since 2018 (albeit only for SSH until 2022 or so) and it has never happened *once* before that it's gone down so hard that it required manual intervention to bring back up

just figures that it would happen to hit when I'm on the other side of the world!

oh dear....... power's back on but the server's still not responding

I guess 8 hours was a little too long for that poor old battery

will have to chat my kid to ask to push the button once he's up tomorrow

monitoring my #homeServer power outage by watching my IRC bouncer's connect/disconnect status messages from Matrix

not necessarily complaining, I knew what I was getting into here

fedi is pretty tolerant of servers temporarily disappearing, and it'll recover gracefully with time

#homeServerLife

my home server for @technomancy@hey.hagelb.org is down and I'm way on the other side of the world

of course, I couldn't do anything even if I was home, because the power is out

so first gotta wait for the crews to restore power

then gotta wait for my cron job to update dynamic dns

@rgegriff graphql =(

@mwl I held out keeping chromium off my system for so long, but recent events made me cave too

@srol the best thing I can say about season 2 is that for a couple episodes it had ICE as the primary antagonist; the acab part was cool

I think most of the praise season 3 got was relative to the first two seasons, and if it had opened with season 3 it would have gotten a pretty lukewarm reception; it's the kind of thing I would watch on a plane if there weren't any movies I wanted to see

@charlag I think edits are planned for the next release; 2fa is on the roadmap but I'm not sure how far out

https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/blob/main/ROADMAP.md

@halcy thanks; yeah that's a bummer that there's no straightforward way to do this

seems like if you wanted to do something like that you'd need a pre-curated list or something; just running thru an existing best-of wouldn't really be viable

@kt cool I might give it a try then; thanks!

here's what I would love: an SD card image I can flash and put in a pi that turns it into a demoscene jukebox where it just runs thru random "best of" playlists forever, maybe some minimal controls for skipping around

here's my understanding of why that won't work: most demoscene works target x86 windows specifically so ARM linux is incompatible for multiple reasons

here's a cheesy workaround I don't want to do: yt-dlp some playlists resulting in many many gigabytes of video files; this just feels wasteful and antithetical to everything the demoscene stands for

here's a potential workaround: instead of a pi, run it on an old thinkpad running linux? would wine cut the mustard on this or are demos typically more exacting than it can achieve? is it realistic to accomplish this without involving windows at all? (I know I could if we were talking about emulating C64 or amiga or whatever but I want 4k stuff too) does this exist?

@charlag it would have been weird if they said "don't worry, it's just like google search" even in 2020 but saying that unironically like it's a good thing in 2024 is just bizarre

like how can you look at that as a success you want to emulate when it's a failure on SO many levels

@ConnyDuck I am eagerly looking forward to this!

have you looked at how enafore handles it? I think their solution doesn't require server-side support (anyway it works in GTS which is good enough for me)

@incre_ment

those who won't learn from history are doomed to repeat it

those who do learn from history are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it and go "seriously? not this shit again??"

@incre_ment yeah, I think there is a lot of room to improve the process still with regard to that kind of thing; it's really easy to get wrong in ways that are annoying to debug (as a fedi problem but also as a broader user-empowerment problem for oss in general)

but (and you probably do understand this already) comparing a PDS to a full fedi node isn't really a 1:1 comparison because the PDS is useless on its own and will only ever be accessed thru the centralized index, which is run by engineers who are accountable to shareholders

it seems like their claims of decentralization keep coming back to the theoretical possibility that someone else could run an index, but it sounds like that is very far away from reality right now

@incre_ment for example on my recent setup of gotosocial, most of the work was "stuff you would need to do for any service you stand up" like starting a VPS and adding DNS; outside that it's maybe 10 minutes work to install and configure it

I did pleroma/akkoma a few years ago and it was more work but not that much more; still much, much simpler than installing masto

@incre_ment I don't know, but my understanding is that Mastodon is very nearly the worst case scenario of complexity and cost setting up a fedi server out of all the options

@srol the european equivalent of asking for spicy thai food and getting medium-mild