Three years ago she murdered her sister. Her sister thought they would be queens together but Penta had her own ideas. She has only five legs and nearly 2000 daughters who I manage with a modified vacuum cleaner (it’s an automatic asperator.) I’m almost done moving them into their new nest. It’s been so much work. I’ve only killed four ants so far. Please don’t tell Penta. She is not patient with incompetence.
@futurebird You should write a book about this and slowly give tiny hints that this is about an ant colony, leading to a full reveal in the final chapters. Plot twist!
I promised I'd be giving updates on #Iceshrimp's #dotnet C# rewrite -a brand new fedi platform really- so here's where we're at at the moment! The backend's basic functionality is more or less finished, although there will undoubtedly be stuff to fix and improve during beta. So theoretically you could use it, but we don't have a frontend yet so you could use it only with masto apps atm. However, the frontend is where the focus is going now, and we plan to have a basic/working frontend soon so that we can release our first beta in a couple of weeks or so!
We expect performance and server requirements to be comparable to #Akkoma. Things are about to get exciting!
@panos I’ve been impressed with the project management and code base I see when I check in on the iceshrimp dev community. Wishing the best for this one, can’t wait!
Few things bring home how much big tech caring about diversity was a zero interest rate phenomenon like Women Who Code shutting down due to lack of funding.
I have some exciting news to announce tomorrow, once I’ve had a chance to process it all and start figuring it out. Some eagle-eyed people may already know what this is.
No, this isn't me accepting a job with Mastodon gGmbH — I know they're hiring again, and in fact suggested that I wouldn't be a good hire for them right now & recommended someone else.
Fill in the blank with any open source group. Not picking on Mastodon, just using as an example.
Mastodon has used Discord since at least 2018. I found essential tidbits about how featured profiles originated for an article I wrote - that information did not exist anywhere else.
All of that history will be lost if / when they move somewhere else.
I wish there was more use of self-hosted forums, but I get the enticement of real time chat.
As you may already heard Vernissage will became independent platform (backend and web). One of the Fediverse 🌎 part like Mastodon, Writefreely, Pixelfed and others.
For this reason I would like to change current Vernissage for Pixelfed client name. Something that you will like and connect with Pixelfed 😉.
On this occasion, please send me your suggestions on what the new Vernissage for Pixelfed could be called. This is an app created with ❤️, for you, and you can create a part of it.
Is there an all in one "So you want to run a fediverse instance" type guidebook in relation to legal, moderation and long term sustainability tasks?
Things like templates for Privacy Policies, Server Rules and About sections, understanding moderation tasks and the importance of having multiple administrators, funding plans.
If someone entices you to an in-person meeting with the promise of bagels, and then brings only asiago cheese bagels and no cream cheese because "there's already cheese on it", they don't understand bagels, they don't understand you, were never your friend, and now will never be.
@Osunderdog I'm a remote worker that fought 45 minutes of traffic one way on a Friday for a meeting that will last an hour at best. That's the real story. Bagels are just the focus of that emotion. Poor things. 😆