deborahh, to random
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When it comes to search-fu, I rely on @researchbuzz to talk sense.

Here, she recommends tools like Non-Sketchy News Search and her own TimeCake, among others, to help us sidestep the trash cluttering up our searches now.
https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/112061884016986726

(As for me, I can't wait 'til we can click the "omit machine-generated" button.)

rugk, to random German
@rugk@chaos.social avatar


Due to unstable/broken(?) USB-c loading seeking for an old-style "round loading cable" for [Lenovo IdeaPad 5 15ARE05…

https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/de/de/products/laptops-and-netbooks/5-series/ideapad-5-15are05/

According to spec (https://psref.lenovo.com/product/ideapad/ideapad_5_15are05?tab=spec) “65W round tip (3-pin) AC adapter” or “65W round tip (2-pin, wall-mount) AC adapter”.

Edit: Not the yellow one, a smaller one.

-- @rugk(@chaos.social) / DECT 7845

jacqueline, to random
@jacqueline@chaos.social avatar

A friend we don’t know that we know… it’s definitely confusing, but we can roll with it.

witten, to selfhosted in What I just learned about restoring BorgBackups

borgmatic dev here. First of all, if Vorta is working well for you to recover files, then by all means use Vorta! Right tool for the job and all. Having said that, a couple of thoughts on using borgmatic in Docker and recovering files:

borgmatic has a search feature that makes finding a particular file in an archive or across archives pretty easy. So that might be step one in restoring an accidentally deleted file.

Once you’ve found the file and archive to restore, you can either use borgmatic extract or borgmatic mount. With extract, you copy one or more files out of a backup archives. The challenge though is that with borgmatic in a container, by default there’s not an easy way to copy those files into their original locations. However I think the “fix” is to mount your source volumes as read-write instead of (the documented) read-only. That way you can easily copy extracted files back to where they belong.

As for borgmatic mount, you’ve got a similar challenge and fix. You can presumably mount backup archives (or a whole repository) within the container, but then you need to copy your recovered files out of that mount into their original source volumes. So that probably also means those volumes need to be mounted read-write.

Let me know if you have any questions!

cragsand, (edited ) to mastodon
@cragsand@mastodon.social avatar

Does the new Mastodon 4.2 search allow searching only my favorites like before? ⭐

I have an old post I remember adding to favorites which I'd like to find but unfortunately I'm not sure how to do so.

Appreciate any advice! :AAAAAA:

EDIT: Looks like this does it! :blobcat:
Add "in:library" to search your favorites!

dutchbarracuda, to diy

So a side project that's been sitting on the burner for 3 years is a manual 'everything' shredder.
I have the shredding unit, but nothing to power it with, and certainly no 3 phase electric motor which is what everyone suggests. I have no electricity where I work.

What I need is a good old fashion hand crank/wheel. Better would be a geared one. Like a cast iron mangler or something.

Preferably something that doesn't cost much. Any help?

MissingThePt, to random
@MissingThePt@mastodon.social avatar

I’m getting better at writing content optimized for the Mastodon algorithm.

dannotdaniel,
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Shini92, to random
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@elk
Hey community
what do you prefer? Having the Search input on the left or on the right?

Please see poll in next post

Elk having search input on the right

cragsand,

@Shini92 @elk
Would be neat if it resized the search bar to fill up more of the screen when you start typing to give more space for results.

When using search on Universeodon it also returns post content which gets a bit crowded in the small box, especially on mobile. I'll attach a screenshot.

The instance uses this custom search patch enabling searching of posts contents: https://github.com/VyrCossont/mastodon/pull/8

Keep up the great work! :fedi:

beer_mat_movies, to random

New release review: Missing

gbhnews, to fediverse
@gbhnews@mastodon.social avatar

👋 Hello ! I'm going into a meeting at 4ET to talk about our newsroom's social media options.

If you think our station and other stations should have a Mastodon server or a broader presence in the , pls boost this post. If you have thoughts, please reply, I want to hear them!

cragsand,

@gbhnews
A feature that's been missing for Mastodon has been fulltext searching of posts, aka fuzzy search. :fedi:

Searching is mainly done via hashtags so a common trend is to add the relevant tags at the end of posts.

It's a bit of a controversial topic to have the content of posts be searchable on Mastodon, but I'm sure with proper consent options to opt-in or opt-out that hurdle will be solved with good implementation. The discussion lives on here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21627

There are exceptions though using custom implementation patches serverside like this one on universeodon.com written by clever people like VyrCossont https://github.com/VyrCossont/mastodon/pull/8

For news based instances you really do want some forms of better searching like this implemented.

Welcome to the fediverse and best of luck! :elmo_fire:

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