@AlanSill Hi! I'm curious, is your server still running on toot.io's managed hosting? I'm looking into them and curious to hear from admins how they feel about it.
Really impressed with how good Infinite Mac is these days. Being able to just drag an ISO onto my browser desktop and have it be mounted in a way that just works is really, really impressive. https://infinitemac.org
Question for other #mastoadmin people: I've had a user get followed by a Flipboard account - looks like one of those ones set up to aggregate random interesting fediverse content. The user wasn't sure what to make of it.
Any opinions on these from a privacy perspective? How well-behaved is Flipboard? Anything I should be concerned about here as an admin?
Somewhat spicy headline this time, but been thinking about how GitHub's been feeling to me for awhile and seeing a feature I rely heavily on get worse made me realize: it feels like "GitHub", the traditional website, is being treated as a legacy product from corporate's perspective. It exists, lots of people use it, but it doesn't feel like the *future* of the site. Maybe time for me to really learn about other hosts and git clients.
#mastoadmin friends: any advice on rerunning a post-deploy migration that failed in prod? `db:migrate:down VERSION=blah` doesn't seem to do anything in this case, even though its `down` does contain the change I'd need to be able to retry.
I feel like the funny thing for me with the Tiktok ban is that a lot of Americans, on either side of the debate, don't seem to realize that Tiktok feels to Americans like every single social media platform feels to people outside the US. You're telling me the app is located outside your country and your government's control, and you don't know how its data gets handled in that country? That's every app, to me.
Looks like it's official - Akira Toriyama, world-famous manga artist, passed away on March 1. The website is failing under load, so here's a copy of the letter.
New blog post! I set out to dump an arcade game and correct MAME's database, only to end up discovering that this game revision didn't actually exist in the first place - or rather, once properly dumped, it was actually a duplicate of another one.
A real #digipres lesson here, and a reminder that even widely-used and well-maintained catalogues are fallible. It can be just as important to deduplicate entries and remove phantom ones as to discover new ones.
Runs digipres.club. Writes software, works on digital preservation on the side. Current gig: devtools at @axodotdev. Previously worked at Artefactual, plus non-digipres companies.