@shanie@tails.ch
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shanie

@shanie@tails.ch

I'm a "VTuber" that specializes in VRChat tutorials. Cyborg, not android; I got a brain case.

What if the car and a place to park was meant for leaving society instead of joining it?

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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!

shanie,
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@stefan 7 GB of Avatars? Are you federated to Threads?

pluralistic, to random
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Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people and moving it from collective ownership, "rescuing" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who will care for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/analytical-democratic-theory/#epistocratic-delusions

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shanie,
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@pluralistic The biggest "commons" I know of is the ocean, and boy do I feel there is a tragedy there. If the ocean can be maintained by either way, to me that way has demonstrated its viability.

paul, to random
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So, creating a block to refuse media doesn't affect the blocked domain's ability to create Preview Cards?

I created several media blocks for instances, esp bot instances that I want to come across posts or follow a few accounts, hoping to control my media storage and stop unnecessary media downloads and SideKiq jobs on posts that will only be stored in my search database from the federated timeline, but the preview cards are still being created. #MastoAdmin #MastoDev

shanie,
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@paul My understanding is it's due to preview cards being generated locally, so technically this isn't affected by media download blocks as it's not technically touching the blocked instance.

To make matters worse, it's a very hot-button issue that hundreds or thousands of instances all reach out to generate a preview card but that's another, albeit aligned, issue.

When that issue is fixed, your preview card problem will likely be a nil issue.

shanie, to random
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That feel when you tweak something on another service for a totally different product and it knocks Mastodon out but you don't notice for like a day so now you need to advise the world that, no, tails.ch is not dead, just did a oopsie. πŸ‘€

dimillian, to random
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No I’m not addicted at all. Also my YouTube is a joke.

video/mp4

shanie,
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@dimillian I got a slightly cheaper backlight add-on, and oops it doesn’t support ultra-wide, so everything is slightly off LED by LED. Still immersive, but darn.

chikorita157, to Anime
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In a recent report, it seems that sale of β€œAnime Music” is down in Japan. Of course, that does not tell the whole story.

In recent years, Seiyuu as themselves make music for Anime under their own name, which makes their releases look like any old music release unless the person knows where the song came from and they release a lot of songs that aren’t even tied to anime. Even regular musical acts are creating music for Anime.

Sure, we see character songs and seiyuus as the anime characters singing the OP/ED, but I’m noticing over the course of a decade that a musical artist or a seiyuu does the music for the opening/ending and less of the charracters themselves with the CV credits doing it these days.

Really shows that Anime gone mainstream? Hmmm.

https://news.animenomics.com/p/anime-music-releases-revenues-in-decline

shanie,
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@chikorita157 "Anime music" is down, meanwhile "Idol", made by a normal band but made for anime, was #7 on Apple Music for the entirety of 2023, being Number 1 on AM for literally months.

Physical media sales are down nationwide in Japan too, to the point of SquareEnix announcing hours ago they'd put more resources into digital sales/goods as one of their medium-term pillars.

I don't like their overly-strict definition of Anisong.

TechCrunch, to random
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@Potus just joined the fediverse via Instagram Threads https://tcrn.ch/4aI9YOt

shanie,
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@TechCrunch ’ tech team literally could have made a whitehouse.gov mastodon server. But instead they’re using Threads. :awesome:

charlesrandall, to random
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hello federation admins, is there an updated list of known servers that meta will use to federate?

shanie,
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@charlesrandall threads.net is what we know…so far.

shanie,
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@charlesrandall You bet. You think this juicy data out here full of images and text is just going to sit around when Meta has LLMs to enhance?

Very soon, all the complainers about β€œyou didn’t read my terms of service!β€œ will realize that their terms of service is worth Jack Diddley when nobody has to agree to it to get access to your stuff.

shanie,
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@ocdtrekkie @charlesrandall > "I find the idea Zuck is salivating at the idea of getting access to your toots is patently silly."

Yeah that's me, the silly one. If you're making a LLM, which Meta is, being able to push content from more sources will always give you an edge. And let's be honest, Mastodon is a growing edge.

But that's not the sole reason; Meta doesn't do anything for a sole reason. It's their job to make money off anything, multiple ways over.

shanie,
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@BeAware @ocdtrekkie @charlesrandall Yep. I was merely unmotivated to bother. Guess I’ll do it now. :catnod:

redegelde, to random Dutch
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Wow. This because off the new @Gargron rules?

shanie,
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@redegelde Which rules are these? "Attribution required and only AI is not allowed"?

Big ban wave?

shanie,
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Kind of misunderstanding the point of the test. The point of the test is a distributed server architecture with less entities per server, not one server that can single-handedly power an entire star system.

TheWarOnCars, to random
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Except for the fact that they require a license from the state to operate, a loan from a major financial institution to purchase, insurance to shield users from the cost of their harms, and can be used to collect and share driver data without their full consent, cars represent freedom, baby!

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html

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shanie,
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@TheWarOnCars I read this two weeks ago – The Mozilla Foundation essentially flunking every car brand for security in one way or another – little did I know that it was going to rear it's ugly (factual) head here!
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

stefan, to mastodon
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So I regularly run "tootctl statuses remove" on my self-hosted Mastodon server.

Still, I somehow have 1,344,736 statuses in my DB. Any tips how to clean things up?

Ideally I'd like to run something like:

tootctl statuses remove --days=90 --include-follows

shanie,
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@stefan absolutely. There are literally tootctl stuff to make sure you never have to do this. Not to that specific affect but…yeah.

christianselig, to random
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Dang, it's cool Tesla is opening up their superchargers (like Ford announced today) but at this point pretty much none of the ones anywhere near here even support it, even ones built like last year. Hope they announce a retrofit

Tesla supercharger map toggling on and off NACS enabled superchargers which basically eliminates them all for eastern Canada

shanie,
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@christianselig Looks to me that anything that's 250KW is able to push NACS (there are several now several year old Maine installs that support NACS). Maybe it's limited to software updates that haven't pushed out to most of Canada yet.

cablespaghetti, to random
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I'm curious. What kind of volume are other people seeing in their object storage?

I'm running a brand new instance with about 3 active users so far and a relatively low volume of stuff on the federated timeline. However my storage bucket is at nearly 6GB after 4 days of the instance being up. 🀯

I haven't set up the media cache retention setting yet, which might be a big chunk of it. But I'm curious what number people put in there and what their bucket size looks like.

shanie,
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@michael @cablespaghetti Oh me too. Me too.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/28553

shanie, (edited )
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Decided to leave instead of uproot their entire family, get visas, and move halfway around the world for a video game.

Yeah Roberts is a "visionary", but there'd have to be a nice fat line of cash in my bank account to go through with something like that.

neatchee, (edited ) to random
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be advised that contentnation [dot] net includes a fediverse scraper; we recommend defederating immediately to protect your users' content and privacy

EDIT: Changed "is a scraper" to "includes a scraper" since the site itself claims to do much, much more

shanie,
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@neatchee just want to know how your figured this out? I reviewed their site and didn’t find anything too suspicious so just wondering what I missed.

sam, to random
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I've just discovered https://relay.fedi.buzz/ which seems perfect for this instance as it allows us to get great visibility of the common running hashtags from across the fediverse.

I can already see the server load jumping up a little bit, but it's very manageable. 😁

shanie,
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@sam The fedi.buzz relays are nice adds. Just keep in mind your userbase if you’re running it for your live feeds - what’s interesting for one may be junk to another!

I like to use their personal follower hashtag system, like @tag@relay.fedi.buzz. Great for everyone and doesn’t overfill the federated live feed

enobacon, to climate
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POV you're a white american male wishing something could be done about / / the collapse of .

shanie,
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@enobacon Meanwhile they're reducing bus access in my area. I guess when you're one of the dozen that take it they decide it might not be worth it.

Even though 90% of the people on the route are all going to the same place...

gunchleoc, to random
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Script to identify abandoned versions of Mastodon and create a blocklist for manual upload: https://codeberg.org/GunChleoc/mastodon-scripts/src/branch/main/old_versions

I have some ideas for extra features, but this should do if you're still being hit by the current spam wave.

shanie,
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@gunchleoc 1-3 months behind on patching gets silenced?

Like I know this is FireFish, but I assume it’ll affect mastodon too, where 4.2.7, which is the last major security patch, was Feb 16 which is almost 1 month ago.

If you’re setting it to one month you’re getting pretty close to β€œcurrent version” as 4.2.8 only does important things if you’re a new instance.

Just my opinion, but rooted in something sensible I think, that you set that more to three months than one month.

NeadReport, to rails
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Now we're talkin'! on the
Germany: Self-driving cabs on rails can be ordered like taxis via app -
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Germany-Self-driving-cabs-on-rails-can-be-ordered-like-taxis-via-app.802800.0.html

shanie,
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@NeadReport Or....a train??? Like if you have to get to the rails to begin with and you're in the same literal line as everyone else this is just a train with extra failure points.

shanie, to random
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tails.ch has re-federated the following instances as they have dealt with their problem:

  • batchats.net
  • 3dp.chat
  • brians.town
  • burma.social
  • daytongang.social
  • exmormon.social
  • extraordinarygeeks.social
  • graphics.social
  • kopimi.space
  • lucha.nyc
  • makersocial.online

The following instances continue to be a nuisance:

  • beyond.forum
  • bondsdogs.com
  • educhat.social

Instances that have vanished since the spam attack:

  • games.retrotalk.live

..That's only the beginning.

anders, to random
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Are we getting to the point where we want to start instituting spam heuristics on posts just like we have on mail?

shanie,
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@anders Hopefully we are getting to where Mastodon begins implementing 'fade-out' code into newer versions -- I've seen Mastodon servers literally on 3.1.0. NOBODY monitors that node; it should fall out of service.

I also hope this standardizes either registration auditing or CAPTCHA (both of which exist) on Mastodon instances that want to be taken seriously. Hopefully in the future there will be boxes we can check that refuse federation on non-CAPTCHA but open reg instances.

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