maikel

@maikel@firefish.maikel.dev

EU Citizen, software engineer, gay, mixed race, #spain based (mostly). Speaks fluently English, Spanish, Python & JavaScript. Ávido lector de http://boe.es/ y http://gov.uk/.

Please #nobots

FOSS enthusiast and advocate.
Obsessive-compulsive TV series watcher.
Born on the '86.
Hate Brexit with passion.

#fedi22 #hidradenitis #gay #kubernetes #python #javascript #datascience #fullstackdeveloper #systemsarchitect #urbex #london #spain #uk

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maikel, 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, 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)

odddev, (edited ) to random
@odddev@hachyderm.io avatar

Next time you visit a , observe the animals closely. Then tell yourself: "This is not what they do momentarily. That's what they do always. That's their whole experience every day and every night. That's what they see until they die."

maikel,

@odddev this is the most chaotic toot you've ever written, mixing zoos with veganism.

I love it!

incitatus, to random

Meanwhile the BBC makes the story all about disgruntled British tourists who can’t find an EasyJet rep at a Greek airport.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/25/northern-hemisphere-heatwaves-europe-greece-italy-wildfires-extreme-weather-climate-experts

maikel,

@incitatus one of the things I'd never get of the BBC is how 20 million can be dying on place Z and instead of focusing on that they print five articles about 3 Brits stuck on place Z.

Am I the only one who sees xenophobia there?

maikel,

@HeavenlyPossum @incitatus I donated them 8 years of my life. Yeah. Xenophobia exists there that is still found acceptable because they aren't still aware and I'm not even sure they'll ever be.

Spain isn't better though, just different.

maikel,

@cupcakezealot same

But Hajkey always had a much superior logo anyway.

maikel, 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, 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.

af, to random
@af@dataare.cool avatar

Stop using Chrome as your daily driver.

Google proposed adding DRM to Chrome, which will be used to stop ad blockers, privacy tools, password plugins, accessibility/reader modes.

The only way to stop Google’s Chrome from wrecking the internet like Internet Explorer did for many year to switch to a NOT chromium-based browser as soon as possible for your day to day. You’ve got Safari, and Firefox as your choices.

I know you’ll have to use Chrome sometimes because it’s already happening.

maikel,

@af I use Firefox

I never have to use Chrome at all.

I don't get your final sentence.

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

HAPPY ART SHOW SUNDAY!

Drop a picture, video, link, or toot of something you created, just something you had a hand in creating, whatever fires your passion!

Art is nothing but humanized science. —Gino Severini

From Me: A Big Dinner I made and Raincoat Alligator I drew

An alligator in a raincoat holding an umbrella, he's very pleased with himself

maikel,

@Alice @RickiTarr I'm in love with your telly, does it work?

maikel,

@Alice @RickiTarr It works!!!

Your dad is awesome.

I would find whatever device is needed or even make one with a RasPi and a bunch of soldiering to put a modern computer output into that single channel. I remember there were converters of signal into UHF frequency if I'm not wrong.

ada, (edited ) to random
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

My take on firehaj!

What do you think? Have we found our new logo?

(Please, no one take this seriously)

Edit - And credit of course goes to the Firefish project for the original logo that inspired this bit of fun :)

RE: https://blahaj.zone/notes/9hffnz5spr

maikel,

@ada mine is simpler

maxleibman, (edited ) to random
@maxleibman@mastodon.social avatar

"Ad blockers are unethical—ads are how they pay to keep the lights on!”

Exactly. It's how THEY pay to keep the lights on. It's not how I pay for anything. I didn't agree to see ads, although I'm ok with some ads; what I definitely didn't do is agree to be tracked and profiled and have arbitrary third-party code running on my computer just so I could read this awful, pointless, SEO-ified shitfest of an article that doesn't come close to answering the question I was googling.

maikel,

@maxleibman why are ad blockers unethical and how do they pay unethically for anything? Genuinely asking. Also who said it?

maikel, to random

Today in the menu we have the HepB last vaccine. And with that, after more than 10 multiple ones I'd be done for the season I think.

I'm way too early so expect me posting heavily since I've got nothing better to do. Appointment is at 10:45 but this team in particular is awfully slow and is right now 10:20 so I predict I might go in by 11:30 or even noon.

maikel, to random

FOOD!! I'm starving

maikel, to fediverse

Good morning of the

Today I'm heading to Paradise on Earth (Cadis) because:

  1. Got another vaccine to get put on by my hospital doctors and I'm never changing hospitals, nor doctors. Specially not for the ones of nothing-public-works-because-they-want-you-to-go-private Seville. That's today at 10:45am right now it is 7:26am. Costs ZERO.
  2. On the way to the hospital I'll go to my dentist clinic to get some more rubber bands for the invisaligners as I'm running out. Costs ZERO because when my bank account was happy I prepaid the whole Invisalign comprehensive treatment©️. I assume this will be around 9:30am and I'll arrive when they open.
  3. Then from there until Sunday or Monday I'll stay at my ex's place, which is the actual place where I am on the electoral role. Which is why I'm staying as Spain is facing GENERAL elections this Sunday, there's a strong rotten smell that the ultra-right-wing CUNTS are going to win and I'm not going to miss voting to try to prevent it from happening. Or at least to be able to SHUT every left-leaning idiot's MOUTH who hesitated when they complain about the right-wingers having won (all elections are chosen by who on the left goes or not goes to vote, right-wingers unfortunately ALWAYS vote) because they didn't bother go voting.
  4. I still don't know whether I'm coming back Sunday or Monday because I can't find train tickets for Sunday. My ex doesn't care. It means more free cleaning. This is why people host me....because they know I'll be cleaning on autopilot because that's what I do as someone who previously worked as cleaner and cleaner's manager from environments like a gay sauna, cleaning medical equipment or cleaning crime scene (I have a colourful life) when I'm home and thinking how to rule the world my hands are on autopilot cleaning in Monica Gellar mode.

During all this awful odyssey on the most beautiful place on Earth 🎭 I'd be going to the beach everyday while carrying on creating a protocol to get clients on the laptop once back (my ex's) home

I can't spend a penny obviously. Dentist = free, hospital = free, voting is free, taking this train is also free. So basically everything costs me the same as staying in Seville, my expenses are just food.

There's no gym of my chain in Cadis so I'm taking this 3 days as a no-gym rest. I expect to feel uncomfortable because of it, once you get the habit your body DEMANDS you burn that energy and otherwise makes you feel kind of anxious. In fact I generally feel awful when I don't go.

Remaining funds left 700€, no income, no entitlement to unemployment benefits. Let's not think about it.

Wanna help? Either hire me or ko-fi me.

Have a nice day beautiful people.

maikel, to random

@joeJohn_electric you are a bad, bad boy 🤣

maikel, to fediverse

The is making me more and more obsessed with using NOTHING that's hosted on a for-profit place.

The advantages each day become more and more obvious as you assume THIS as the standard of how the internet should be.

maikel,

@mivox people don't need Facebook they need to communicate. Imagine once people realise they can do it without all the negative clutter of such platform, for free, elsewhere with far better moderators.

newsthump, to random
@newsthump@mastodon.online avatar

Man who insists Christians shouldn’t have to serve gay people outraged that banks don’t want to serve twats https://newsthump.com/2023/07/20/man-who-insists-christians-shouldnt-have-to-serve-gay-people-outraged-that-banks-dont-want-to-serve-twats/

maikel,

@newsthump he somehow looks like a Jeffrey Tambor who has fallen inside a bleach barrel.

maikel, to random

Right, so you're seeing this and wondering what happened and why are you seeing a new account.

I bricked my fedi.maikel.dev instance of Calckey trying to migrate to Firefish using the obsolete and broken ubuntu.sh script on their repo.

After getting annoyed, I went to sleep, woke up today and tried again but with a fresh install. The script is still pretty much broken even for that so I'm taking charge of my online presence by forking Firefish and ensuring this never happens again, there's plenty in the repo I had already changed on my instance like what comes out when I use a search box.

I've lost ALL of my social graph so lots of people won't even figure out where the F did I go unless you boost this and might think I died 😇. So please, for their sake, do boost: I was before @maikel now I am here in @maikel

Thanks you all for helping.

EDIT: Note that I'm adding some changes to the code so expect my instance today to fall a few times before it runs stable.

maikel,

@u0421793 @nanode check your .config/default.yaml file just in case you DID configure it with password and can't remember.

It can take a password or be passworless, it'll depend on how you configureD it.

maikel,

@u0421793 @nanode yeah but what do you have for redis in new-shit today?

Check your .config/default.yaml file.

maikel,

@u0421793 @nanode if you change URL you break federation IF you try to reuse your previous DB.

I think that's no issue, since you mentioned (I think) you did same as me and deleted it all and started from scratch.

maikel,

@u0421793 @nanode I'm starting to think you'll get your instance back up and running once Calckey's name has changed again to Gaggle Crime

maikel,

@nanode @u0421793 ar eyou sure you want to use the big flagship instance in the middle of a transition as jump host?

The solution might be worse than the problem.

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