Notices by vorlon (vorlon@mastodon.social)

For Ubuntu 24.10, we should patch bash so that when it's given content on stdin, it checks the process tree and if the sending process is curl, launches x-www-browser with a page on basic Internet safety instead of executing the command.

As is not being on the side of the virus in a global pandemic. Yet in 2020, he performed at a superspreader rally in Sturgis, South Dakota making light of a disease that has gone on to kill one in every 300 Americans.

Trans folks are more likely to be unhoused, to be poor, to be lacking access to health care. I don't have statistics on the impact of COVID on the trans community, but I don't imagine it's good.

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I saw a post on here highlighting that Steve Harwell, the recently late lead singer of #SmashMouth, had in 2019 posted his support of trans people. And that just made me sad, because it shows how low the bar is.

Recognizing the humanity of trans people and supporting their rights is basic human decency.
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So yeah he waved a flag to say that trans people should be treated like people. And he made some music that I enjoy. And then he participated in the minimization of a deadly pandemic that is still ongoing.

Trans sibs, you deserve better allies. You shouldn't need to canonize every halfway famous person that acknowledges your personhood.

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@Mer__edith https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip we've been having this same conversation with politicians over and over again for literally 30 years. This won't be the last time.

Too much twiddling of config files directly. I've been doing Linux distribution packages for 25 years, if I'm going to do this I'm going to do it in a way that other admins can benefit from my effort.

So what's the state of the art out there for automation of Fediverse services? Are there snaps/debs/flatpaks for any of the servers? Recipes for orchestrating the various services with ansible/puppet/chef/juju?

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I'm starting to flirt with the idea of setting up my own mastodon or #calckey instance. General rhetoric around server administration is off-putting; huge server requirements, moderation time sink, etc.

https://n00q.net/articles/guide-mastodon-hometown/ is the first guide I've seen that puts a price tag on it. 50GiB database + 250GiB object store is a pretty manageable cost.

That guide is also way too manual for me.

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@vaurora what is this a subtoot of?