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paul

@paul@oldfriends.live

Admin & owner of OldFriends.Live
Host of 9 o'clock @hashtaggames
AKA #FeedingTubePaul

#Healthcare: #Parkinsons Plus- #MSA #MultipleSystemAtrophy
#FeedingTube since 4/2012

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#SissyCat & #LittleBit are my #CatsOfMastodon

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mastodonmigration, (edited ) to random
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So, over in the astronomy world there is some consternation about a tweet from eminent satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell.

Apparently "Starlink Precipitation" is now a thing. And yes, you got that right, Starlink precipitation is pieces of Elon Musk's fucking internet satellites raining down from space.

See also this post from @carlysagan: https://mastodon.social/@carlysagan/112448150797509408

paul,
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@mastodonmigration @carlysagan

re: "Starlink Precipitation"
๐ŸŽถ Space junk keeps falling on my head
And just like the guy whose feet
Are too big for his bed
Nothin' seems to fit
Those space junks are fallin' on my head
They keep fallin'

paul, to random
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Pro-Russian, populist Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico expected to survive shooting, assassination attempt, deputy says

https://apnews.com/article/slovakia-prime-minister-shooting-robert-fico-handlova-bdaaf0bba01035a700145a67d871a482

paul, to random
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Maryland Democratic primary winner, who had a large influx of outside money from a group that funds prominent MAGA donors, especially Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Lauren Boebert &several others, said, if elected, "at the end of the day, folks really donโ€™t care how I vote [on legislation] as long as they feel like they can turn to me"

Excuse me, people do care how you vote on legislation

๐Ÿ”—Harry Dunn, former U.S. Capitol police officer, loses Maryland congressional primary

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/harry-dunn-maryland-primary-election-congress-rcna151983

paul, to Ohio
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Donald Trump, JD Vance appear in Indian Hill, Cincinnati, for private fundraiser: Could Vance be his VP pick? ยท Local News

https://www.wcpo.com/news/politics/donald-trump-jd-vance-appear-in-indian-hill-for-private-fundraiser-could-vance-be-his-vp-pick

paul, (edited ) to random
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Wife developed really bad & saw many specialists over the past several years & it just got worse. So bad that they were talking about options like a stimulator or a drain tube, which would be ironic because I have a feeding tube. We joked, "I would have one for input, she would have one for output."

A new practitioner determined it was her causing it, took her off of it &added mealtime insulin

Gastroparesis mostly gone; glucose numbers much better than ever now

JasonPerseus, to random
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Unrelated to my issue with , but does anyone know off-hand if itโ€™s illegal to ship a box of cow manure to an address every day for months, if the recipient is not a fan of the odorous farming resource?

Because if I do get a ticket for this show on short notice, Iโ€™m going to sell it immediately, and whatever profit I make is going to be invested in cow manure.

For farming, of course.

(Apparently the receptive sending could be harassment, so maybe just a single large shipment)

paul,
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@JasonPerseus

Flashback to almost two-decades ago and https://Poopsenders.com.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7w3dx/unmasking-poopsenders-the-anonymous-website-that-sends-people-fake-poop

paul, to random
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I've been downloading a torrent from Archive.org that has been stalled at 91% for about a week.

I looked up and it was downloading at 2Mib/s.

I experienced a surge of excitement, the kind I haven't felt since childhood when I would hear the ice cream truck coming.

LOL

animated. The simpsons. kids screaming as ice cream truck rolls up the road.

Ric, to random
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Aside from relays and adding elastic search to a mastodon instance does anyone have any other things they do to enhance the user experience?

paul,
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@Ric

Setup .

From the creator @michael,

"FediFetcher is a tool for Mastodon that automatically fetches missing replies and posts from other fediverse instances, and adds them to your own Mastodon instance."

It adds another missing piece to the experience.

https://blog.thms.uk/fedifetcher

riversidebryan, to random
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#Admin #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

I've received my first "report" on hugs.lgbt and I'm very confused ....

Two posts were reported ... neither were from hugs.lgbt posts ... one was a reply to one of my posts by a mutual, the other was a post by that mutual without any hugs.lgbt involvement ...

Did I receive the report because one of those was a reply to a post of mine?

But why the other one?

Also very confused as to why ... the first was a thank you reply to a post from me.

The other was a meme.

The category was "other" but no notes or any other information that I could discern ๐Ÿค” ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

paul,
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@riversidebryan

A recent change allows someone to make a report and choose to forward the report to all instances mentioned in the report.

Here is a random post that had a couple different instances mentioned in it and see the forward... (Note, I canceled the report after screenshot.)

paul,
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@riversidebryan

People, just people being people.๐Ÿ˜‰ ๐Ÿคญ

paul,
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@mybarkingdogs @riversidebryan

I almost accidentally blocked my self-hosted instance. That would have been a mess to clear up.

paul, to Youtube
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When did become a pimp?

Looking at some Dolly Parton clips and they keep serving me "meet-up" ads.

paul, to HashtagGames
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Smaller, Lil' Ole Bitty Pissant Country Place brothels don't allow anything dirty to go on nor allow drinking.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad2-FiCzJxc

paul, (edited ) to random
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Backblaze was down for me for around the last 10 minutes as of this post

Edit: It's still down. Status.backblaze.com has no issues

Sidekiq errorL Aws::S3::Errors::ServiceUnavailable: Service temporarily unavailable, please try again

Images were blank but seem back now

#Backblaze #MastoAdmin
I'm having issues they can't resolve lately. B2B doesn't play nice with Mastodon. Any good, reasonably priced alternatives? Refer-a-friend links won't insult me

paul,
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@DemocracySpot ๐Ÿค“

paul,
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@cadusilva
This ended up being a system outage.

I have talked with elevated support on and off for a couple months and the "no tomes available" happens throughout the day as they intentionally throttle connections based on peaks. They suggest raising the number of retry attempts and increasing the timeout before retries.

paul,
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๐Ÿค“๐Ÿšจ 16-hours after I reported the US East outage/disruptions after thousands of S3 errors in SideKiq, Backblaze confirms there are ongoing issues.

Their status page is https://status.backblaze.com/

Current status for US East is, "Users may be encountering intermittent failures on uploads and downloads."

Not sure why he said EU Central...

๐Ÿค“

paul, to HashtagGames
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Mama's shouldn't let their babies grow up to be cowboys because they are never stay home and are always alone even when they are with someone they love


paul, to USPS
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Noticed the payment wasn't coming out of my bank account. We mailed it April 26th. Mortgage company got it today, May 14, said it was postmarked April 30, waived late fee.

said it went from here & got shipped to another postal center & processed then sent to another center & finally back to the local post office

Our mortgage payment was late because the is screwed up

Our post office, mortgage company & I are within a mile of each other

paul,
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Epilogue: The mortgage payment was to be delivered to a post office box in the local post office.

However under new processes, they don't do any sorting at the local office anymore unless you bring something to the counter. All the mail that gets picked up by the carrier gets dumped into a bin and shipped away to a postal center to be processed, never touched at the local post office, at least our local post office is set up that way now.

paul,
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@sister_ratched

We use a small-town mortgage company so we either drop it off, mail it or have to set up auto pay to do a bill pay, which, mails a check via our bank's bill pay anyway. So, we bypass the bill pay and either take it in or mail it.

It won't be a problem come October because the mortgage will get paid off!

paul, to random
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Don't they know the jury is watching these theatrics?

Former judge slams pro-Trumpers 'auditioning' for VP by 'giving death stare to the judge' https://www.rawstory.com/trump-trial-vp-audition/

GottaLaff, to random
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โ€œDonald โ€™s latest attempt to end the GagOrder against him in the hush money / election interference was denied by a New York appeals court on Tuesday.โ€-CNN. Iโ€™d link, but for some reason, I canโ€™t get it to load.

paul,
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@GottaLaff

:cnn: Appeals court denies Trumpโ€™s latest request to overturn gag order

โ€œWe find that Justice Merchan properly weighed petitionerโ€™s First Amendment Rights against the courtโ€™s historical commitment to ensuring the fair administration of justice in criminal cases, and the right of persons related or tangentially related to the criminal proceedings from being free from threats, intimidation, harassment, and harm,โ€

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/14/politics/gag-order-appeal-trump-hush-money-denied/index.html

:pdf: https://www.nycourts.gov/courts/ad1/calendar/List_Word/2024/05_May/14/PDF/Trump%20v%20Merchan%20(2024-02369).pdf

riversidebryan, to random
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rainy day Murdoch Mysteries catch-up ๐Ÿ˜œ

paul,
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@riversidebryan

Great, now the opening is in my head just as I get ready for bed... lol.

That's spooky for bed.

stefan, to random
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I do not understand how I have almost 8 gb of status data in my database for gardenstate.social. in the last 7 days it grew 8k? at 8k a week my server would have to run for 973 weeks to get to 8 gb.

I often run the cli script that removes unreferenced statuses. I feel like this should be much smaller!

paul,
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@stefan @shanie

I am showing 1120 Threads accounts. It's federating small.

I just leave avatars and headers alone, except I cleanup the accounts that don't exist occasionally. My theory is, get them once, and they are there and don't have to be fetched again slowing things down as far as downloading them and CPU power. They are basically just warehoused until they post. Why waste bandwidth and CPU power to repeatedly get them and then delete them and then get them over again?

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