maikel

maikel, 9 months ago to random

@ada & @supakaity how big in RAM and CPU is the machine running Blahaj.zone?

I'm wondering about running a small generalistic instance since OCI gives me free resources

maikel, 9 months ago to random

Dear Firefox stop trying to force me to use Z instead of S, how many times do I have to tell you I use British spelling?

maikel, 9 months ago to random

So you're telling me this very limited list of instances have veto power over what gets fediblocked?

This is starting to feel like 1 mod in Reddit running 20 of the popular subs.....

https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/trusted-source-membership

maikel, 9 months ago to random

Does the Spanish idiom "dressing saints" translate to English?

As in

I've got a breakfast date, I'm not going to stay at home dressing saints.

Meaning> he quedado con alguien para desayunar, no me voy a quedar en casa vistiendo santos.

#askfedi

maikel, 9 months ago to random

The fact firefish.social made it into Tier 1 Oliphant blocklist says more about the list that it says about FF social.

DISCLAIMER: firefish.maikel.dev has always only applied 100% consensus + threads (facebook) list

@kainoa

maikel, 9 months ago to random

Yay! Now the gym invoice. Happiness!!

maikel, 9 months ago to KindActions

#pleaseboost #getfedihired #mutualaid

As you all know I'm financially F'ed and is the first of the month in just 32 minutes so please help.

THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO HELP

First way

My goal is offering my services as a cloud systems administrator and software engineer to get at max 5 permanent clients, and go back to what I was doing for 4 years happily ever after.

I'm already testing the whole system, streamlining the process, even have a customer portal dedicated to this that is going to be plugged to something similar to this page in fact you can already hire me using it.

To get there I've been doing courses about marketing, sales, getting clients, web development business since those are my setbacks, the bits of running my own company that I never learnt because I started the company already having a first permanent client who used my 40 weekly hours.

The best way you could help is simply figuring if YOU could be a client. My rates are on that preview, you can always just ask me if I can collaborate on X idea you have. I have absolutely nothing better to do right now than to answer you.

This solves the problem in the long-term.

Second way

You can instead help me by directly donating here. It won't be a definitive solution but it'll surely buy me time to avoid living under-a-bridge by the 3rd of September if not earlier & buy groceries.

I've managed to reduce the time Stripe takes to pay me by recovering my very old (and verified) account, so now instead of 14 days from the moment anyone donates it's gone to 7 days. If you're in the EU in the same page there are Revolut and Monzo links that are both instant.

500€ euros buys me a month, 2000€ gets me back in London getting a McJob now that I've managed to reduce my visits to my dentist to once every 3 months (and just had one).

maikel, 9 months ago to random

People on PLEROMA or AKKOMA (specifically)

Do you see this text as crossed out text?

#askfedi #askpleroma #askakkoma

(in fact could anyone reply with a screenshot?)

EDIT: So far people see it correctly on:

• Calckey/Firefish
• Iceshrimp/Hajkey
• Misskey
• Glitch Soc
• Friendica

And incorrectly on:

• Mastodon.

maikel, 9 months ago to random

Wait what, I could get credit card payments in GBP/USD/EUR directly into my Revolut account? Why didn't I know this before?

https://revolut.me/maikelthedev

maikel, 9 months ago to random

Ultimately what I use depends on FEATURES. I don't care about fedidrama.

If Firefish develops features faster than Iceshrimp I'll switch.
If Iceshrimp develops features faster than Firefish I'll stay.

So FAR, I'm finding very hard to run my own dev version with Iceshrimp while with FF it's damn easy.

I might drop them both and use the one of my goddess since she's much better coder than I'll ever be, and she'll merge whatever's good from either anyway.

We'll see.

#iceshrimp #firefish #hajkey

maikel, 9 months ago to random

THIS was 35€ and I've got no idea how's that possible. When did chicken thighs get this pricey?

maikel, 9 months ago to random

Lunch

maikel, 9 months ago to fediverse

Good morning #fediverse from my little instance using Iceshrimp a fork of Misskey focused on fast-pace development of what the USERS actually ask.

I need a favour from 1 or 2 of you, either. As you all might know I'm taking pills called Biktarvy, one of the side-effects (so far the only really noticeable one) I get from them is bone pain after a couple of months if I don't add calcium intake on top of my nutrition. Is like the pills hinder calcium absorption so I have to top up on top of my normal nutrition.

I normally wait, when I notice the fragility then I take it before it gets hold.

But I'm fucked financially speaking (400€ left) and I need these two things. These are the cheapest I could find them.

• Calcium Citrate costs around 6€ the 150 grams (enough).
• Creatine Monohidrate here the bigger the better. 500 grams could help enough but if the 1kg one is something you could help that would be best.

Both things combined are approx 20€

Could ANYONE please help me get these two? I can't afford them right now, without creatine my gym performance goes downhill and without calcium the bone pain just keeps getting worse, let alone I could end up injuring myself.

I can either buy them myself with your help right now (it'll be roughly 20€) or give you my address details.

maikel, 9 months ago to random

Drone bomb me

maikel, 9 months ago to random

How do newspapers USE you for clicks.

1. Create anger-bait, for example:

Your body can build up tolerance to heat. Here's how.

2. Publish.

3. Let everyone share a link to your anger-baiting article.

4. Person number 2 gets angry and shares again.

5. The cycle repeats to exhaustion, angering more and more people during the process while giving the newspaper more clicks, eyeballs, ad revenue

Did you ever consider that title was made to direct your emotions? #askfedi

You're been puppeteered and achieved nothing constructive since all the eyeballs looking at your article already agree with you. In fact you're contributing to that newspaper publishing more ANGERING bait content.

Well done 👏🏽

maikel, 9 months ago to random

There's a toot running the boosts cycle saying

you can hide your own boosts by clicking "mute boost" on your own profile

BEFORE you do that, be aware, you can't undo it.

#firefish #iceshrimp #hajkey

maikel, 9 months ago to fediverse

Hi all from #IceShrimp today I made my first official to the #fediverse

https://iceshrimp.dev/iceshrimp/iceshrimp/pulls/41

maikel, 9 months ago to random

This is the first time I contribute ever in my 37 years to an open-source project. Thank you #iceshrimp for making it so easy.

maikel, 9 months ago to random

For anyone running a Misskey fork like #Firefish, still #Calckey or #Hajkey or the new and promising #Iceshrimp

Here's how to change the search engine you get when you type
search this [search]
search this [search]

https://iceshrimp.dev/iceshrimp/iceshrimp/issues/40#issuecomment-133

maikel, 9 months ago to random

We are and we know it 💪

Good evening fellow #RainbowPeople

RE: https://gardenstate.social/users/stefan/statuses/110780406105036209

maikel, 10 months ago to fediverse

Dear #fediverse, when you think of ingredients, or dish or are deciding what to eat and brute-force in your head combinations of flavours until you figure one that must taste delicious: do you actually taste the ingredients in your tongue as you remember them and are able to compose new flavours out of your memories of multiple ingredients combined?

maikel, 10 months ago to random

I don't think I would be able to use Calckey/Firefish if it wasn't for lists.

I do still wonder whether I should go back to Mastodon out of the fact I'd pretty much like to be able to use their (awful) yet useful API.

But it goes away as soon as I remember:

• No markdown.
• 500 character limit.
• No markdown.
• No antennas, so would need accounts in Fosstodon & others to keep up with tech. UGH!!
• Boring interface.
• Home tab with a tendency of cleaning up for no reason, at least in C/F I can be sure what I see is ALL that is there to see, even if I have to scroll back down a thousand times.
• Awful image handling.
• 4 images per toot and can't mix with videos.
• Translation that can't self-detect the language of the poster & requires everyone to mark the language they post every time (yeah sure, no one will ever do that).
• No word-search, this alone and by itself....should be a dealbreaker.
• Fragment apps. Each one with something the other misses. Calckey has no proper apps, but the PWA has EVERYTHING for which you normally need at least 2 apps with mastodon.
• A server with a tendency to break.

maikel, 10 months ago to random

Could someone help me find a free MAIL hosting provider for custom domains?

maikel.uk is up for renewal and gandi wants to charge me separately for the mail inbox (first ever they've tried to do that in all these many years) so I'm transferring out to namecheap but need something of the sorts of Zoho.mail or similar. (zoho is no longer free)

#askfedi

maikel, 10 months ago to random

It's impressive how loyal am I to mice and keyboards.

I've changed computers like 6 times in the last 5 years but I still use the same mouse and keyboard than 8 years ago.

maikel, 10 months ago to random

After extensive testing I've come to the realization that ChatGPT is useless for anything BUT copywriting.

Anything that implies code means it'll tell you the wrong or suboptimal solution or even make up libraries that do not exist. Most of the time even in obvious cases. Github Copilot $100 a year fee is like paying to argue with a machine.