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bh

@bh@pdx.sh

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Admin of Portlandish https://pdx.sh Server rancher. Ex-Web hosting reseller, Ex-phpBB forum admin.
Lang: English (Native), Japanese 日本語 (Beginner 初心者 🔰), Español (Couple of HS Classes)

Opinions posted or boosted here are for my own reasons. #fedi22 #foss #selfhost #scifi #books #activism #climate #environment #union #lgbtq

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

gairdeachas, to mastodon
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Governments need to get off Twitter and at first glance this seems easy: set up a gov-centric Mastodon instance and convince governments to move.

Except it's far more complicated than that.

In evaluating if this was an endeavor I wanted to pursue (spoiler: no) I wrote up a list of things to consider for this to be done well. Hopefully it helps someone else in solving this problem.

https://kence.org/2023/11/25/mastodon-for-governments/

bh,
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@gairdeachas This is a great idea that I completely agree needs to be done by someone i.e. "not it". 😉

bh, to fediverse
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The has not been . There is no board driving us to increase , no matter what kind. As we have some metrics but what we are really fighting for are where people can find and maybe some ; people feel and ; and can flourish. Working for The Man in , 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, to random
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Happy !

bh, to random
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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, to random
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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

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

I just joined , 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. https://www.yowza.social/auth/sign_up?r=noooo-macho-gulch

bh,
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@idnovic @adam It's totally just an un-federated Mastodon instance. 😂 https://pdx.sh/@bh/111475677482920885

bh,
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@idnovic @adam It definitely made me laugh, like the CAH folks usually do. 😄

spacelogic, to random
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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 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.

bh,
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@spacelogic Us geeky dads come in all shapes and sizes!

bh, to fediverse
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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.

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

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

bh, (edited ) to Artist
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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.

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

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

bh, to random
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is now running the latest version of Mastodon: v4.2.6! 🐘 🎉

bh, to random
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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/

sigh_d, to random
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@bh pdx.sh/@yqqwe is spam.

bh,
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@sigh_d Definitely is. Thanks for the report, getting it cleaned up now.

bh, to random
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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, to random
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📣 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, to random
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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!


https://www.mobilize.us/oregonrankedchoicevoting/event/613158/

bh, to random
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🎉🐘 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/

bh,
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@spacelogic totally with you on the 'most interacted with' metric. It's a blunt tool and can harm more than it helps, as you highlighted. Definitely don’t want pdx.sh to become another stats-driven space. 1/3

bh, (edited ) to random
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Looks like the Cards Against Humanity's new social media site is just . When are they going to federate? Do we even want them to? 😂

bh,
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@Gargron If this is actually a Mastodon instance, are they violating the GPL by not posting the license or the source code?

bh,
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@enobacon @Gargron It seems I wasn't precise enough when speaking before-- Mastodon has been AGPL licensed since 7 years ago. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/LICENSE If this SO post is to be believed, the "users who interact with the software over a network" clause of that license is meant to protect against this sort of unattributed use by a service provider. https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/11467/can-i-use-gpl-software-to-provide-a-commercial-cloud-service

bh,
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@enobacon Nothing that I could see in their provided policies.

binford2k, to random
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All right, let’s get these started.

bh,
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@binford2k Godspeed.

bh, to random
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Fun reminder for 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/

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