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reiver

@reiver@mastodon.social

I make things for the #Fediverse & #smallNet

Also talk about #FediverseUX #P2P #Privacy #SpreadFediverse

I post #SciFiArt

My work includes — #AllYourBases #FediverseAcademy #FediverseCity #FingerProtocol #GreatApe #PostFreely #SpaceHost #StarSeed

I life-cast at https://firefish.lol/@reiver , collect at https://playset.social/reiver , threadiverse at https://flamewar.social/u/reiver

Once upon a time, was a mathematician, computer scientist, data scientist, software engineer, industrial researcher 🌞

The meaning of life — first survive, then reproduce 🌞

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freakazoid, to random
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Apparently some people think it's a good idea to generate internal Go structs and interfaces using protobufs? How shitty does a language have to be for people to reach for a completely different language to write their types and interfaces?

reiver,
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@freakazoid

Do you recall who you saw do that?

atomicpoet, to random
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“Asian eyes”, also known as epicanthic eye-folds, are not entirely Asian. They actually occur amongst human populations all over the world.

People of European and African descent often have them. Mind you, they don’t occur as often as in Asians but they’re not rare either.

Well known celebrities of European descent that have epicanthic eye-folds include Bjork, Jennifer Lawrence, and Renee Zellweger (before she had plastic surgery to remove them).

I was actually telling my wife, who is Asian, that I find that physical trait highly attractive. She found that surprising since so many folks in Asian nations get plastic surgery to get rid of them.

Anyway, she better not get rid of her great eyes. 😅

reiver,
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@atomicpoet

The Khoisan people are an example from Africa.

reiver, (edited ) to random
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Ha 🙂

Someone (elsewhere) was trying to get my attention.

(They made this image.)

kristian, to random
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Can anyone help me with ways to fix this on my new #akkomane instance?

For context, I'm both admin and owner.

Maybe you know what's going on, @reiver ?

reiver,
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@kristian

cc: @spacehost_help @atomicpoet

reiver,
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@kristian @spacehost_help @atomicpoet

Do you have more than one user on your Akkomane server?

J12t, to random
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<P>In the beginning, html was <B>all</B> <BLINK>uppercase.</BLINK>.

I don't remember when or why it turned lowercase. Anybody remember?

https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Also, apparently it didn't have an <HTML> tag.

reiver,
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@fm2279 @J12t

From what I remember, lower-case was common before XHTML.

reiver, to VintageOSes
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Wow! —

MS-DOS 4.0 has been released as open-source software under the MIT license.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/open-sourcing-dos-4

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

reiver, (edited ) to random
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It feels like the long-tail is gone from Google Search.

"Gems" that I used to be able to discover from Google Search results, by looking at page after page after page of results — are gone (from the Google Search results)!

Including stuff I know used to be there — gone!

❦

I even checked some "gems" that I discovered many, many years ago (from Google Search).

The URL for those "gems" still work.

But they seem completely gone from Google Search.

yggverse, to random

Thoughts #Nex protocol much native for Yggdrasil ecosystem than #Gemini, because at least does not require TLS/DNS and CN/SNI as extra dependency.

Pretty useful #altweb protocols comparison at footer of this page:

gemini://scrollprotocol.us.to/

reiver, (edited )
@reiver@mastodon.social avatar

@yggverse

Interesting.

I haven't heard of before:

gemini://scrollprotocol.us.to/

...

I added it to my small-net page:

https://reiver.link/small-net

reiver, to random
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reiver,
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@elbullazul

No, AFAIK, it does not.

Thank you for catching that — I will get it corrected.

reiver,
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@techpengu

Misskey is coming.

It is on our to-do list.

(We just haven't integrated yet.)

atomicpoet, to random
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The most well-known 4-bit video game console is the Speak & Spell.

It had both a display and cartridges.

Speak & Spell is still made today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_%26_Spell_(toy)

reiver,
@reiver@mastodon.social avatar

@atomicpoet

I had the Speak & Math as a kid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_%26_Math

.

deadsuperhero, to fediverse
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So, I’m curious: there’s a growing number of hosting platforms specifically for the #Fediverse. For those involved in this, who are comfortable with answering: is there a particular set of tools you use for managing, monitoring, and spinning up instances?

Are those tools open source?

I’m mainly wondering about whether there’s some kind of open platform / dashboard / infra tools that could serve a particular need for hosting / managing / provisioning Fedi servers, and whether the existing hosts in the space would benefit from a shared project of some sort.

reiver,
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@deadsuperhero

SpaceHost has some custom tools we created, BUT —

We still have more work to do. There are still a number of more tools we need to create. It is on our (internal) road-map to create them.

But we haven't created them yet.

...

For example, we still need to create a tool that monitors when a server's drive space fills up, and do something about it.

Right now it is @rjbasitali manually monitoring things. Which is not ideal.

It needs to be automated.

Which will happen later.

reiver, to random
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I have been on the Fediverse long enough to remember when the hash-tag was about the (rather than or the ).

bartholin, to random
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I had this saved on my computer since 27.09.2016

video/webm

reiver,
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@bartholin

Awesome! 🙂

maegul, to random
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Sorry, don't know who/what to tag (probably an official akkomane account on another server/platform is good best practice) ...

getting plenty of timeouts and "Server is Down" errors on akkomane.social

Started about 5 minutes ago, still happening now.

@christophertrottier

@atomicpoet

@reiver

reiver,
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@maegul @christophertrottier @atomicpoet

Are you able to look in the "Network" portion of the web-browser "Developer tools"?

If "yes", what do you see?

reiver, to fediverse
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1/

Let's talk about #Akkoma

Akomma is Fediverse software — like Mastodon, Misskey, Lemmy, PeerTube, Pixelfed, and many others.

#Akkoma is a fork #Pleroma

But —

What is an "akkoma"‽
Where did that name come from‽

Why is the tag-line for Akkoma:
"magically expressive social media"‽

And what is the meaning behind the Akkoma logo‽

reiver,
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2/

The TL;DR version of —

• what is an "akkomo"‽,
• where did the "akkoma" name come from‽,
• why is the tag-line for #Akkoma‽, “magically expressive social media”‽,
• what is the meaning behind the Akkoma logo‽,

… is this (in the attached image).

🙂

If that isn't enough of an explanation, keep on reading.

reiver, (edited )
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3/

Let's focus on the "Akkoma" name first.

is named after a fictional anime character nicknamed Akko.

“Akko” is the nickname of the fictional anime character named: Atsuko Kagari.

Atsuko Kagari is a fictional anime character from the anime: Little Witch Academia.

So, what about the Akkoma logo‽ —

reiver,
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4/

Look at the logo.

Now look at the Atsuko Kagari (a.k.a. Akko) — the fictional character from Little Witch Academia anime.

❦

The Akkoma logo is a stylized (upper-case) letter "A" with Atsuko Kagari's witch's hat on it.

image/png

reiver,
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5/

By this point, you probably already have a sense of why the tag-line is:

“Magically expressive social media”.

🙂

reiver, (edited )
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6/

BONUS №1 —

Do you remember my "Happy Halloween" post from the year 2023 🙂

The image I attached was an homage to both and Akko (Atsuko Kagari).

Look at the hat 🙂

It looks like the hat in the Akkoma logo.

But it also includes more features of Akko's hat than the Akkoma logo includes.

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/111330501517140480

reiver,
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7/

BONUS №2 —

There are some Internet-memes based on Atsuko Kagari (a.k.a Akko) — i.e., the inspiration for the name, logo, and tag-line of the Fediverse software.

image/png
image/png

kristian, to fediverse Norwegian
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Does provide MFMs like and ? And, what is ?

Today I look forward to learning something new.

reiver,
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@kristian

AFAIK —

supports (regular) markdown rather than misskey-flavored-markdown (MFM).

is Akkoma with the front-end. (It gives Akkoma (what I feel is) a better user-experience.)

...

Also, here is a bonus of where the name "Akkoma" comes from:

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/112253117480083113

.

reiver,
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@kristian

It is very easy.

You could get an Akkomane server up and going on SpaceHost in about 5 minutes:

Go here:

https://spacehost.one/akkoma

And then just tap/click some buttons, fill in some forms, etc.

If you need any help, just reach out to @spacehost_help

(I can also help.)

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