micheleann

dansup, 1 month ago to ruby

Imagine getting paid to work on @Mastodon full time!

They are looking for #ruby devs!

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/de1e4d8a-5639-4b6a-86d7-97bd9c768b02

#FediHire #GetFediHired #workAtMastodon

nixCraft, 1 month ago to random

Computer Science

screams into the public static void

Meyerweb, 1 month ago to random

Error 04/04: Day not found

BeAware, 1 month ago to mastodon

Does anyone have a very detailed and comprehensive guide on how to scale up a Mastodon server?

I'm pretty noobish to Linux but I can follow guides if they have commands and stuff. Though, the only guides I could find were very light on the commands for certain steps.

My Sidekiq has been getting backed up every now and then with thousands of jobs. Of course they eventually clear out but I'd like to just mitigate it by adding more processes or whatever because I'm not even using 50% of my server resources🤷‍♂️

Any help would be much appreciated.

PS. My server is currently backed up so if you reply to this, I probably won't see it for a bit.😬

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #MastoHelp

pixelfed, 1 month ago to Pixelfed

Our Wikipedia page is at risk of being deleted because it may not meet notability guidelines.

Can we get some help?

We're not that familiar with Wikipedia or its processes, but we think our project is notable enough for inclusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixelfed

#pixelfed #wikipedia

atomicpoet, 1 month ago to fediverse

So @potus has joined the #Fediverse but not #Bluesky.

That’s quite a political statement!

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24119353/joe-biden-threads-mastodon-activitypub-fediverse

@fediversenews

Thatmermaid_J, 1 month ago to random

Math is such a drama queen. There's no way it has all of these problems.

micheleann, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to fun

Blaise Pascal says “human beings will naturally seek distractions rather than confront their own thoughts in moments of solitude and quiet because those thoughts will eventually lead them to consider unpleasant matters such as their own mortality, the vanity of their endeavors, and the general frailty of the human condition.”

Which of these are you trying to avoid the most?

#fun #poll #existential #blaisepascal

broadwaybabyto, 1 month ago to disability

Doc to me: Could you be pregnant?

Me: Nope - they removed my uterus.

Doc: Are you sure? You look young. Maybe it was your appendix?

Me: I know the difference between my appendix and my WOMB.

Doc: Orders pregnancy test anyways

We really need to discuss how AFAB patients get treated by many doctors. If you need to do a pregnancy test on everyone as a matter of course - then just do the test. But don’t waste time arguing with me about whether I know the difference between an appendix and my LITERAL womb when I’m having a life threatening cardiac emergency.

#Gaslighting #disability #ChronicIllness #Spoonie #ableism #discrimination #advocacy

lisamelton, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to opensource

March 31 was already significant to me because that's the day in 1998 when I helped #Netscape Navigator become #OpenSource.

Now this day has a whole new meaning for me as a #transgender woman. And it's my first #TransDayOfVisibility that I celebrate publicly since coming out to everyone on June 21 of last year.

To all my #trans siblings, I see you. Even if complete visibility isn't possible for you right now. You still matter. You're still loved. And you're still trans. Never doubt that. 🏳️‍⚧️🫂💖

nathan, 2 months ago to random

Imagine if every time you looked up anything in the Yellow Pages or encyclopedia, there was this big section at the top of the page called "Notes from Gary" where some guy named Gary who seems to know about 20% less than the average person just sorta gets to say whatever he wants about the subject, no matter how irrelevant it is.

This is what it's like to use Google now.

lilithsaintcrow, 2 months ago to random

"What sets this little mill in Central New York apart from every other cloth manufacturer in the country is Goody’s remarkable ability to re-animate the past: No one else produces short runs of textiles that so faithfully replicate...historic fabrics." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/textiles-rabbit-goody-hollywood-180983982/

philpem, 2 months ago to random

Kind of a mood. Happy Easter for all who observe it!

w7voa, 2 months ago to random

Vox - Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone. https://www.vox.com/technology/24113765/twitter-x-misinformation-baltimore-bridge-collapse

brooke, 2 months ago to random

Step 1) too early to get on the call
Step 2) kill some time
Step 3) late for call
Profit!

jwz, 2 months ago to random

Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve hits 16-year low.

Experts link the shortage to both a rise in demand and warmer weather, which has disrupted production.

"The strategic reserve is holding its lowest amount of maple syrup since 2008," Simon...
https://jwz.org/b/ykOY

mpjgregoire, 2 months ago (edited 20 hours ago) to threads

Some official accounts from news media and governments have become available through #ThreadsNet. I find:

• @potus
• @propublica (but prefer @ProPublica )
• @motherjonesmag
• @washingtoncitypaper
• @whitehouse
• @postopinions
• @semafor (also @Semafor )
• @barackobama
• @wsdot
• @uscpsc
• @theagendatvo
• @newrepublic

Please reply if you find something similar, and I'll update my list.

(Boosts welcome)

#Threads #Fediverse

dave, 2 months ago to random

Mastodon issues 30-day ultimatum to Trump’s social network over misuse of its code.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/29/mastodon-issues-30-day-ultimatum-to-trumps-social-network-over-misuse-of-its-code/

tantramar, 2 months ago to random

10 make tea
20 forget I made tea
30 tea gets cold
40 goto 10

#basic #runProgram

verge, 2 months ago to random

Meta’s new opt-out setting limits visibility of politics on Instagram and Threads https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24111604/meta-setting-downranks-politics-instagram-threads

davidzipper, 2 months ago to random

"No one I spoke to for this piece could name a recent sizable pedestrianization or traffic-reduction scheme that had been reversed once it had been given time to have an effect."

https://www.wired.com/story/car-free-cities-opposition/

evan, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Does anyone know who owns fediverse.org? It used to be a registry for GNU Social implementations, and then it went dark in 2019. It seems to have been a placeholder since mid-2020. I'd love to talk to the owner about taking it over.

Update: I'm this guy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Prodromou

evanprodromou, 2 months ago to random

Today, the United States House of Representatives voted to require the Chinese company Bytedance to sell its stake in the popular service Tiktok. If the company does not comply, the bill would ban the use of Tiktok in the US. The bill still needs to pass the Senate and get delivered to President Biden’s desk, but there are a lot of really interesting parts of this decision that I want to unpack.

Foreign companies own shares in all kinds of entities in the United States. There are some interesting restrictions on domestic transportation (listen all of y’all: it’s cabotage), financial services, atomic energy, and real estate. All of them have pretty strong justifications in terms of domestic security — that some level of domestic independence would be lost if all our railroads were owned by Chilean investors, for example.

But we don’t have restrictions on selling foreign-owned magazines or newspapers or movies, or serving foreign-owned Web sites, in the US. You can read Pravda or Al-Jazeera or China Daily on an iPad in the comfort of your lovely American home. It’s not universal — copyrighted information illegally shared and terrorist recruitment content are often blocked or the domains are just plain taken over. But for the most part, the US is pretty OK with you reading or watching content from other countries, even if it has a strong editorial slant against the US government’s current policies.

So, why is Tiktok different here? Realistically, most American viewers aren’t watching Chinese-made content on their Tiktok apps. They’re watching short videos made in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia or other, y’know, “western” countries. But the videos are curated by an algorithm provided by Tiktok, which if it is partially-owned by Bytedance, is somehow entangled with China’s interests.

The House bill, then, is an acknowledgment that algorithmic curation of feeds is a powerful feature that can have a major influence on individuals and society. It at least makes the point that allowing a foreign company, under its own government’s influence, to have some level of control of the algorithm, is a potential danger for domestic security.

This raises a few really important questions. First, for everyone outside of America, it raises the question of algorithmic feeds created outside their own countries. Is the Internet a nice, friendly post-national free-trade free-speech zone, or is domestic control of this technology important in France, Guyana and New Zealand, too?

In addition, for Americans, it should probably give us pause in thinking about our domestically-controlled networks. Does Congress think that algorithmic feeds under domestic control are equally powerful? If so, who’s making the decisions on how they’re used, and what connection is there between different factions who want to influence opinions or behaviour through curation?

I think the Fediverse provides some interesting answers here. The Fediverse is a federated network of social networks — a social internet or social web — connected by the ActivityPub social standard. The networks can be owned by all kinds of different entities — governments, private companies, community groups or individuals. Each network has its own local control mechanisms, but users on one network can follow, reply to, and otherwise communicate with people on any other network. Content created on one network gets published out to all the other networks depending on how many followers are there. Mastodon is a common example of software on the Fediverse, but new platforms are joining all the time.

For the international question, countries can consider implementing domestic social networks that federate with ones in other countries. This allows content to be received and sent across borders, but algorithmic feeds to be managed locally. If there is concern about algorithms being manipulated by foreign governments, using fediverse-enabled domestic software prevents the problem.

Within a country, it raises one potential solution for people concerned about the influence of algorithmic feeds, namely, running social network services under your own control, and following users from other networks. The home feed you read can be curated by an algorithm built into the server, or built into the client, or you can even leave it uncurated — just in chronological order. The Fediverse allows pushing the control of algorithmic feeds closer to users, who can make their own decisions about how content is prioritized.

Federation provides the possibility of some interesting changes in the locus of control in social networks. If we are starting to acknowledge how powerful this curational control is, we should start structuring our social network infrastructure to allow experimentation in whose hands are on the levers.

https://evanp.me/2024/03/13/tiktok-and-the-fediverse/

carnage4life, 2 months ago to random

The unexpected winners of the AI gold rush are all the user generated content sites like Reddit, Tumblr & Yelp that are selling user data to AI companies to train LLMs.

Everything you’ve ever published online is being used to train AI that will one day come for your job. Ironic.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/12/24098728/perplexity-chatbot-yelp-suggestions-data-ai

ChrisPirillo, 2 months ago to random

Okay, GenX, you know the drill.