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binford2k, 1 month ago to random

All right, let’s get these #taxes started.

bh, 1 month ago to random

You want learn speak good about Ranked Choice Voting? 😂 The Oregon RCV Advocates are holding several “Speaker’s Bureau Training”sessions later this month. The first one is Wednesday, April 24 from 6 to 7 pm Virtually via Zoom!

#rankedchoice #voting #speaker
https://www.mobilize.us/oregonrankedchoicevoting/event/613158/

spacelogic, 2 months ago to random

Turns out I have lost like all the pictures of myself pre-T I once had, but I wanted to put together something of a transition timeline. One of the last pre-T pictures I had, from my undergrad graduation, and one about 10 years later. This is a #transdayofvisibility shoutout to all my fellow transmascs who can't seem to grow facial hair or sing bass or develop Manly Muscles, HRT notwithstanding. At my most polished, I look like someone's geeky dad, and I'm proud of it.

A still-somewhat-pimply 30-some-year-old white person, wearing a Hawaiian shirt, jeans and rectangular glasses, grins at the camera. A small portion of a tattoo is visible on the top of their chest above their open collar and their arms are at their sides, showing a tattoo of the "infinite diversity in infinite combinations" symbol in the colors of the classic six-stripe rainbow Pride flag on their left forearm.

sigh_d, 3 months ago to random

@bh pdx.sh/@yqqwe is spam.

bh, 5 months ago to random

📣 #pdxsh Update: Facebook's Threads is joining ActivityPub, enabling Mastodon-Threads interaction. Let's welcome this cautiously, prioritizing our community's safety. Report any policy violations from Threads or other federated instances so that we can take appropriate moderation actions. Together, we'll maintain a respectful space!

bh, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

Looks like the Cards Against Humanity's new social media site #yowza is just #Mastodon . When are they going to federate? Do we even want them to? 😂

bh, 6 months ago to random

🎉🐘 Today marks a special day for pdx.sh! It's been a year since we embarked on this journey, growing a diverse and vibrant Mastodon community. From tech talks to cat pics, we've seen it all. But what's next?

Check out my latest blog post as I reflect on our first year, dream up future plans (hint: LLMs and server optimizations), and invite your ideas for our collective growth.

https://blog.bmh.io/one-year-of-portlandish/

adam, 6 months ago to random

If you’re like me and just can’t not try out the latest thing…

I just joined #Yowza, Cards Against Humanity’s cool new social network with no lies, hate, or crypto enthusiasts. 😎 Get 25% off at the CAH store (and also help me win $69,420) by signing up with my code noooo-macho-gulch before 7:30 PT. #FuckXJoinYowza https://www.yowza.social/auth/sign_up?r=noooo-macho-gulch

bh, 9 months ago to oregon

https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB1089/Enrolled
> The Universal Health Plan Governance Board is established... "Single payer health care financing system"...

I think Oregon passed a bill to start working on universal single payer healthcare? How is this not bigger news?!
#oregon #healthcare

bh, 11 months ago to mastodon

#pdxsh folks: We'll be doing an update to #mastodon 4.1.3 this evening in order to address a security vulnerability. More details available in the release notes: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.1.3

#security #vulnerability

bh, 11 months ago to pdx

@Styxia @croutons @RhysInPDX Hey, welcome to #pdxsh #pdx ! @LadyTehanu and I are the volunteer admins here and we're happy to help you out with any questions you have. Please feel free to mention or DM us. If you prefer a written guide to Fedi/Social Web, check out this site which is run by @feditips : https://fedi.tips/

Cheers!

bh, 1 year ago to random

Happy #Caturday !

bh, 1 year ago to random

I just setup an OpenCollective page for Portlandish to gather donations and sent a test contribution. The server costs are entirely reasonable for my budget right now so I'm having no trouble covering them. But, if you feel like contributing to help out, I would appreciate it. Only do it if you can actually spare the donation! ❤ https://opencollective.com/pdxsh

bh, 1 year ago to random

Just registered my PO box with the US Copyright office for DMCA take down notices. That's a sentence I wouldn't have ever imagined writing down a year ago. Here's hoping that it doesn't receive much mail!

bh, 1 year ago to fediverse

The #Fediverse has not been #optimized. There is no board driving us to increase #engagement, no matter what kind. As #admin we have some metrics but what we are really fighting for are #Spaces where people can find #connection and maybe some #meaning; people feel #safe and #respected; #creativity #imagination and #humor can flourish. Working for The Man in #tech, he always told us we were making a better world. What we are all making here together is one of the few times that is true.

bh, 1 year ago to fediverse

PSA on upgrading to Mastodon 4.0.2 for the admins running on small VMs out there:

If your VM has around 2GB of RAM you may need to STOP all Mastodon services before precompiling your assets for the upgrade. Otherwise node may OOM and fail with no error message half-way through. #SmolServer #Mastodon #Mastodon4Upgrade

GH Issue: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/11135#issuecomment-1331793973

bh, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Artist

Call for artists to submit designs for new Binary Brewing and Lionheart Coffee! The Reser is the new arts center on the Westside of Portland, OR, in Beaverton. #artist #beer #coffee #portland #local

https://thereser.org/open-call-seasonal-beer-label/

bh, 1 month ago to random

I love the Fediverse but TBH, there is way too much information here for my feeble human brain to handle, especially in chronological order.🤤

I need a digest or summary of what everyone is talking about beyond trending hashtags. Anyone know of cool projects in that niche? I see there have been some experimental Mastodon clients that do summaries/post relevance rankings with LLMs, but that seems like overkill. Might be an option, though!

bh, 3 months ago to random

It's been a busy couple of weeks for critical Mastodon updates. 😵 #pdxsh is now running the latest version of Mastodon: v4.2.7! 🐘 🎉

bh, 3 months ago to random

#pdxsh is now running the latest version of Mastodon: v4.2.6! 🐘 🎉

bh, 4 months ago to random

Fun reminder for #mastodonadmin out there: If you don't setup a schedule job to clean out old content, your hosting bill is likely going to continue to grow over time espectially WRT object storage. 850GB in Google Storage isn't cheap.

Shout out to @ricard for a helpful blog post on the subject! https://ricard.dev/improving-mastodons-disk-usage/

bh, 6 months ago to random

New video from Kurzgesagt has to be posted on Fedi. Are they on here, I wonder? https://youtu.be/fuFlMtZmvY0?si=vcgjeOK93qJVbb3r

#kurzgesagt #fedi #YouTube

bh, 3 months ago to random

A new open source search engine, written in Rust, building their own independent index? I have to give Stract a try. https://github.com/StractOrg/stract https://stract.com/

Found via https://www.404media.co/this-guy-is-building-an-open-source-search-engine-in-real-time/