Mastodon could really do with a feature to follow another instance's local timeline. does any other implementation support this feature? i know i'm not the first one to suggest it...
I agreed to do a "fediverse tour" as a part of a conference about alternative networks in September and I have to come up with a paragraph description today of it. How would you describe a tour of this space to someone totally unfamiliar with the fediverse?
@hszakher@liaizon But that terrorist group from somalia is not famous. I never heared of it before now. While Taliban and Daesh, etc. are very actually famous. Daesh even has a media and communication department I guess where they make professionally made videos and propaganda.
Setting up child #Microsoft / #Xbox accounts for my 2 youngest kids.... was just about the most unfriendly user experience I've ever had.
The Live ecosystem that MS uses for accounts just redirects you constantly, forgets who's logged in. Keeps having to re-authenticate me but sometimes it asks for an email sometimes it emails a code. It's anybody's guess!
So I'm juggling access to my email, my 2 kids' emails. Some stuff needs an app because the website can't do it. I had 3 browsers open....
Coming soon: it’s going to be trivial to deploy a different app on your Small Web server. Useful if you’re a dev and you’re playing around with different apps.
(Also, notice the speed at which deployment happens. I’m one step away from implementing this in Domain using pre-warmed Kitten instances – called toasty kittens – thereby bringing the time it takes to deploy your own Small Web place down to a handful of seconds.)
Made the mistake of reading through a discussion between publishing types on an “AI”-adjacent topic (rumours about tech cos contemplating buying Simon & Schuster). I’ve rarely seen so much concentrated ignorance on so many topics bundled together in a single thread 🙄
@feld I never understood how master/slave terminology is racist or such. It is an analogy or a principle that applies to objects. Its not like a master in a database cluster would abuse people and slave replicas have been kidnapped and are exploited and have their human rights stripped away. The intention is very good and if someone provides a patch to improve wording it would be nice. But this effort is better spent fixing actual slavery.
I love my bestie so much but her voice notes are so long. I’m tired and full of cold and confused by the clock change and I’ve had to text her to say that I just don’t have the capacity to listen to an 8 and a half minute message. Am I an awful person?
I'm suprised that shitposter.club decided to switch to Mastodon, but thinking about it more, it really makes sense. Mastodon just works better for more users.
Right, I’m back to focussing on Domain* now that another round of dev is complete on Kitten** and, two years after I originally asked the question: does anyone know of a comparable service to Hetzner Cloud (API, affordable, very quick server setup, VPS) that supports CoreOS?
I still can’t find any. And my attempts to get Hetzner to support it have failed (mostly due to lack of interest on Fedora’s side) 🤷♂️
@aral I see. Then after creating the server you may want to take a snapshot of it and remove the VPS. You can use this fresh snapshot to create new VPS. However I haven't figured out a way to re run cloud init on servers started that eau from the snapshot. My solution was to hop to Debian.