Notices by Steve Dinn (steve@social.dinn.ca)

My favourite thing lately has been changing the default notification sound for Mastodon notifications to this one.

@evan It would make it a pain in the ass to have it automatically renew when it was nearing its expiration. Wait, not everyone uses @letsencrypt ???

@seth I abandoned Pocket Casts for @AntennaPod when they started charging for things after I bought the lifetime subscription.

@seth Clearly, you're not listening to podcasts as much as you should be.

@seth Yep! It's true. I do rock :)

@seth WinDirStat https://windirstat.net/

@Morpurgo @dansup @loops @pixelfed Aaaaaannnnndroooooooiiiiiiidddddddd!

Seriously, I have horrible FoMo right now.

@evan Only by an hour.

@Mrfunkedude @dansup Oh! I thought it was just me who hadn't received their email. I thought I had hit a bug or something...Maybe I should just wait.

@evan *Is* that the point? I consider that to be pretty unhinged. If this is the case, why are they not just separate things?

@evan By "different result sets" I mean completely different columns and different data not necessarily following the same structure.

@evan I have been in a situation where stored procedures were established by the DBA and consumers of the database used them like an API, so in that case, or if I was intending to provide this kind of "API", then yes. But if I'm developing software and I'm in control of the database, then no.

I find it's a bad code smell if a particular query occurs in more than one place in your app. So using this metric, stored procedures are an unnecessary level of indirection that can lead to obfuscation.

@evan I've also seen stored procedures go completely off the rails and return completely different result sets depending on the parameter values.

Man, it's almost as if the hurricanes themselves are campaigning for climate change action.

Mastodon server admins or other experts: What could potentially cause another instance to get a 401 error when attempting to POST to my instance's inbox?

The other instance was offline for a while, and I had subsequently "Purged" it using the option in the "Moderation/Federation" admin screen to try and correct this problem. It didn't work. The other instance seems to be federating normally with other instances -- just not mine.

Any ideas?

#mastoadmin

@gotosocial Is there any way to convert a single-user Mastodon instance into a GoToSocial instance? Like, migrate the database, and use the existing key pair so I could use the same domain name and fediverse handle?

I set up my Mastodon before I knew about go to social, and I would love to have a less-resource-intensive instance.

@jessamyn @shoq @tchambers Sounds like metafilter needs a Lemmy (or similar) instance. That sounds like what you're describing to me.

@jessamyn @shoq @tchambers You could do the bare minimum today with an RSS to fediverse bridge. There are tons of those available now.

@evan If, by "celebrating", you mean heading to the in-laws' cottage for probably the last time this year (kids' school and other commitments are now getting in the way), then hell yes. Otherwise, I guess it's just another long weekend.

I have an instance of go-to-social that has been off for a long time and had been "expired" by most other instances. Even my own Mastodon instance doesn't recognize it (can't even search for my account on it).

Is there any way to salvage it, or is it just done?

#mastodon #mastoadmin