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Jerry

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Admin/owner of this Boston-area Mastodon server. A liberal who also follows conservatives who use facts to form opinions & are good people. I want my beliefs challenged. I hate when people agendize everything. I play around with Linux (https://jerry.hear-me.blog)

I also own:
Alternative Mastodon UI: https://phanpy.hear-me.social
Peertube instance: https://my-sunshine.video
Bluesky PDS: https://blue-ocean.social (jerry.blue-ocean.social)
and more...

he/him/his

#StarTrek #ScienceFiction #Linux

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Jerry, to Tokyo
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This is an incredible video if you want to feel like you're visiting . It's exceptionally well done. Christopher has a talent for providing engaging commentary on what is recorded and has a knack for providing the right information.

It takes a while for Peertube to download and start playing the video because of its size. So be patient. And I think the Gundam at the end attacked the feed, so the video is cut off.

Anyway, it's delightful to watch.

@psycotica0

https://my-sunshine.video/videos/watch/bf153bb0-7496-43e1-9d65-091d220f0384

BeAware, to random

I'm gonna be really honest. I'm feeling a bit emotional about this whole thing. Just a swarm of emotions.

Sadness because of having to leave behind all of my posts and discussions with most of you and the connections I seemingly lost with this move.

Nervous because hosting an instance for others is a new experience for me and I'd really hate to screw it up.

Excited for what the future might hold and all the new people I might meet along the way.

Happy that I have taken this step in moving my Fediverse journey forward.

Hopeful that I can do something good for people here and it's viewed as something good.

Grateful for all the friends and connections I've made along this wild ride this far.

Thank you, kind friends. I honestly don't know what else I'd be spending my time doing if I hadn't decided to start this journey with you almost a year ago.

Jerry,
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@BeAware "Nervous because hosting an instance for others is a new experience for me and I'd really hate to screw it up."

And, at least for me, I never got over this fear

Mia, to DigitalArt
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@Jerry and crew on hear-me.social

I am happy to announce that I have new emotes on my official Discord server

These emotes are done by me ( @Mia ) with help of @Mitami

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Jerry,
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@Mia @Mitami Well done!

realjuddlegum, to random

The difference between what we are told about the power of AI and the actual experience of using it is wild

Jerry,
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@realjuddlegum
Gemini Advanced is even worse:

nixCraft, to random
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🤣

Jerry,
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@nixCraft At least Gemini Advanced got it right as shown. And it offered more about it when I asked if this is true for any number base. I'm not saying Gemini is better or great, I just personally like to test things out.

As per Gemini Advanced:

Yes, this is true for every possible base number system. Pi is an irrational number, meaning it cannot be expressed as a simple fraction of two integers. This property holds true regardless of the base used to represent the number.

Decimal (Base-10): The most common way we represent numbers, pi is approximately 3.14159... The decimals go on infinitely without repeating.
Binary (Base-2): In computers, pi would be represented as 11.0010010000111111... Again, the digits go on infinitely without repeating.
Hexadecimal (Base-16): Here, pi is 3.243F6A8885A308D3... Infinite and non-repeating.

This pattern continues for any other base. The representation of pi will always be infinite and non-repeating. This is a fundamental property of irrational numbers and not dependent on the chosen base.

Jerry, to KindActions
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How the world should be

kimerwinbc, to random
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ang maganda dito sa mastodon ay lahat ng public posts nagfefeed sa lahat ng users

Jerry,
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@kimerwinbc You might want to try an alternative UI for Mastodon that is available on this server, . I prefer the ordering of the posts on Phanpy over the regular UI. https://phanpy.hear-me.social

Mitami, to DigitalArt
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This art is done by me

Jerry,
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@Mitami This is beautiful!

18+ kimerwinbc, to random
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hi. I'm new here

Jerry,
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@kimerwinbc Hi. Welcome.

You might want to post an introduction using the hashtag.

Because Mastodon doesn't have an AI to push posts to people, people follow both hashtags and people, so their timelines have exactly what they are interested in reading.

I hope you like it here!

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dansup, to random
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I'm debating reviving my official pixelfed hosting service idea, it's not a regular host service though!

Rather you'd bring a S3, Hetzner, Linode, DigitalOcean API key to our service

We would provision or otherwise manage (1-click updates, automated backups) your instance while allowing you to maintain total control over ownership of the underlying server and data

I'm thinking $5-20 a month for this, and it would allow admins a new level of peace of mind while maintaining total control

Wdyt?

Jerry,
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@dansup I maintain many personal servers (Mastodon, email server, Bluesky PDS, DNS, VPN, WordPress, Nextcloud, Peertube) and several more!, that I'd welcome having a Pixelfed instance that someone else would maintain for me. I'm just out of spare time.

I've thought of setting up a Pixelfed instance, but just haven't had the weekend time to do it.

So, yep, I'd sign up.

Jerry, to Amex
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Jerry, to Humor
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A missing truck driver was last seen at his rig. The police spent two weeks looking for him throughout the province, finally finding him when they looked inside his rig.
🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/lush-body-found-in-truck-1.7196616?ICID

Jerry, to threads
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Felicia Day fans, she has turned on the Federation option for her account @feliciaday where she has 257K followers.

Jerry, to random
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The one and only Bette Midler presents, Eau De Trump:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfvUyOFgVZI&t=57s

Jerry, to random
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sol, to random

Hey there y'all! I'm Sol (although that's a pseudonym), I'm a musician and a student in the New York area, and I'm very new to Mastodon and similar sites.

I use all pronouns, so don't worry about accidentally using the wrong ones.

I'm bisexual, but I do have a partner, so don't hit on me lol (thats a joke btw)

uhh yeah I might sound weird at times, I'm VERY neuroatypical, I have ADD (ADHD minus the hyperactive) and maybe Autism or at least a lot of autistic tendencies (looking back on that, it sounds a bit rude towards people actually on the spectrum , i mean no harm i just dont know how to word things better)

Somethings i like:
Books
Minecraft
Music
Any kind of computer science

Thanks for looking at my words, and have a good day!

Jerry,
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@sol Hi Sol. Welcome to the server and to Mastodon! If you have questions, just ask!

Jerry, to random
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Pregnant women in Missouri, Texas, and Arkansas aren't allowed to divorce. For many reasons, this is terrible for abused women.

So, how is it that women keep voting for Republicans? How much abuse is needed to get these same women to make decisions for their own good, and for the good of their progeny?

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/03/1247838036/divorce-pregnant-women-missouri-abortion-marriage-abuse

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Omg, I fucking love Digital Ocean ❤️

Hands down the best hosting provider for devs and fedi admins

https://m.do.co/c/4ef5c2bc7dc9

Jerry,
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@dansup I'll second this.

I've been running multiple separate servers on DO for years and never had an issue (Mastodon (2 servers), Peertube, WordPress, WireGuard VPN, mail server, Phanpy, Bluesky PDS, and a general web server) with never a problem. I also use 2 DO Managed Postgres DBs and a DO Managed MySQL DB. Everything runs fast. Their support is excellent. They have many excellent tutorials.

Once they contacted me because I forgot to close a port in the firewall a few hours after I forgot to close it, so they do security scanning as well.

Scaling to a larger server, to get more disk space, or a larger DB is just a click.

Automated backups.

I think they are worth the small extra cost.

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Attention Mastodon.

These are omg delicious.

That is all.

Jerry,
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@kurtsh Thanks for mentioning this. I have diabetes Type II. I just ordered both flavors from the Abottstore. I'm looking forward to trying them!

Jerry,
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@kurtsh

Oh, my. You have it a lot worse than I do.

I'm able to stay off drugs, for now, by careful diet and a lot of exercise. I hope I never have to do insulin.

Yeah, a lot of experimenting.

Best of luck!

Jerry, (edited ) to random
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UPDATE on 216.106.86.232 :

Every few seconds, it's doing the following GETS. I'm getting about 2,000 calls per hour from this IP.

https://hear-me.social/packs/media/images/friends-cropped-40409bf96999902fa49757ebce824ce6.png

https://hear-me.social/api/v1/streaming?stream=public:local&access_token=O6luKbPRJV0FlTvhCSqn6z4wNwkUJMxUPgD7xMn4fsc

https://hear-me.social/api/v1/announcements

https://hear-me.social/api/v1/notifications?exclude_types[]=follow_request&since_id=79462

Is anyone else getting traffic from 216.106.86.232 ?

I will open a report with the ISP

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I'm putting this under because I've noticed that since 12 PM EDT yesterday (30-Apr-2024), API requests coming in from 216.106.86.232 have been returning 500 errors constantly from my server. No other 500 errors were being returned.

I blocked the IP at the Cloudflare firewall and now the 500 errors have stopped. There were more than 93K 500 return codes in total until now!

I have no idea what the requests are, and it's too late at night to do more research, but I'm passing this along to other Admins as a warning and to see if anyone else is seeing similar behavior.

@Gargron

Here's what I see in Cloudflare for the last one hour before blocking the IP address. Notice all the requests returning 500 are from this single IP. There are no page views. It's all API requests. And 500 errors stopped after I blocked it.

Any insights would be appreciated.

Jerry,
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@waffles It is for other servers I run!

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