renchap, 3 months ago to mastodon

Come say hi at the Mastodon stand in #fosdem ! We are in the basement of Building H
I will be there all afternoon, with some nice Elephant-themed merch! Mugs will probably be out of stock in the next hour, dont wait if you want one 👀

#mastodon #merchtodon

Mastodon, 3 months ago to random

Come and grab a mug at #FOSDEM before they’re gone! They’re quite popular! The 3D printed elephant is not for sale but you could pet him! #Merchtodon

andypiper, 3 months ago to random

That was fun! I think the @Mastodon table at #FOSDEM was the busiest I’ve experienced at an event for a long time - so great to hear from people that use the platform every day! The team enjoyed the chance to meet you - thanks for coming by! More #Merchtodon tomorrow… #WhoIsJohnMastodon

A Mastodon mascot sits in front of a large touchscreen display showing the “Mapstodon” data visualisation. A Pimoroni Stellar Unicorn LED grid is showing the Mastodon mascot in pixel art in the bottom right of the image.

revk, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

It is Tue 30th Jan

When is “next Friday”?

[boost boost boost]

Quinnypig, 3 months ago to random

“For some reason our AWS bill spikes 4% in February once every four years. I don’t understand why.”

malwaretech, 4 months ago to random

After a year off Twitter, I'm surprised that I don't have even a single regret about leaving. The more I think about it, the more I realize it wasn't the takeover that did it. Sure, there was a massive and harmful political shift, but there's just always been something about the platform that attracts extremely unhealed people regardless of political leaning.

You can make a post like "I just got a coffee and the milk was sour" then someone on the right will be like "Biden's border crisis is the reason we can't get good milk anymore" and then someone on the left will be like "do you think starving children in Africa would complain about sour milk?". Eventually, you just realize the platform is designed for people who's only form of therapy is logging on to the internet and being annoying as fuck.

librarianbe, 4 months ago to random

Don't forget: today is Penguin Awareness Day. Make sure you know your penguins!

#PenguinAwarenessDay

isleofmandan, 4 months ago to random

The BBC's 6 month trial of using the Fediverse will be ending soon.
They want to measure if they have enough reach and engagement for the effort they expend running their Mastodon instance.
Give these accounts a follow if you agree that public broadcasters should live in the Fediverse:

@BBCRD
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCTaster
@Connected_Studio
@BBC_News_Labs

👍

Mastodon, 4 months ago to random

Mastodon will be at #FOSDEM this year! Come and say hi at our very own stand. And we're bringing some #Merchtodon goodies! Our stand will be in building H, level 1.

ErikJonker, 4 months ago to Iceland

Mastodon is getting much better , following the hashtag #iceland gives me all the news about the latest volcanic eruption there, no reason to look on X

thisismissem, 4 months ago to devops

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postmaster, 4 months ago to random

queer.af shutdown

TL;DR: Queer.AF will be close on 2024-04-12

In July 2018, me and three friends were chatting in my flat in London. One of them mentioned that they had a fun domain they had no idea what to do with. That domain, of course, is queer.af, and the rest, as they say, is history. We invited our friends and let them invite their friends, and that's how things have operated here ever since.

Since the fall of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in 2021, that fate of that domain has fallen into question; until late last year, the .af registry had effectively ceased to exist, leaving everything in a state of limbo. The Council of Country Code Administrators (CoCCA), who were contracted to operate the TLD, continued to operate things as-is, although eventually turned off all operations but automatic renewals.

More recently, however, the registry has begun to operate again. Unfortunately, this is not really good news: this means it is now under the control of the Taliban government of Afghanistan. From a practical perspective, this means that the present government has a desire to exert control over the country's top level domain, and from an ethical and legal perspective this means that domain-related fees are now directed to the Taliban. As an additional complication, the registry operators have wiped the existing list of accredited registrars and replaced them with 21 new organizations.

In light of this, the queer.af domain name (which expires on the 13th of April) will not be renewed. Because fediverse software does not support domain migrations, the queer.af instance must therefore close as a consequence.

Timelne

• Now: User registration has been completely disabled.
• 2024-04-12: The instance will be instructed to self destruct (sending delete activities for all accounts to all known instances)

An archive of the database and user media will be retained for at least a further 3 months in order to support user exports. It will be deleted by 2025-04-12 at the latest.

Questions and Answers

• What actions should I take? Please take the following three months to setup an account on another instance and migrate, and to export all of your posts and following lists.
• Will there be a successor instance? Maybe. I haven't reached a decision as to whether to run a new multi-user instance or retire to a single user instance yet. It is likely that if I start a successor instance, it will be running software other than Mastodon; the software landscape has changed since 2018. If I do start one, every queer.af user will receive an invite.
• Any other plans? One project I've been contemplating for 2024 is offering managed instance hosting to friends, open source projects, and similar. If you're a user of queer.af or a friend who would be interested in that (and in particular in beta-testing it), drop me a message.

Finally, thank you to every user of queer.af, past and present, for being here. You've been a wonderful userbase, and it has been (almost all of the time) a pleasure to be your host

-- @erincandescent

martenson, 4 months ago to random

"OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material"

10 years ago three dudes from Sweden were hunted by FBI, Interpol and their own government for challenging copyright laws and seeking a fresh approach without ever profiting from it. 🏴‍☠️

Now venture capitalist-backed corporations will sell us our own copyrighted material at a premium. Working tirelessly to embed it in every product designed from now on so you will not be able to avoid it. 💰

cassidy, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Stop linking to Twitter; it is intentionally broken without creating an account and signing into it, even just to see a tweet, now.

• No thread context: Link to a tweet in a thread, and visitors cannot read the other tweets in the same thread, including the immediate parent in the thread. So context is entirely broken

• No replies: If you link to a tweet, visitors cannot see any replies to said tweet

• Aggressive prompts to create an account when trying to find more context/clicking anything

keefeglise, 4 months ago to Espresso

Just read an article in the Guardian recommending you give your #espresso a little swirl before drinking. They haven't opened comments because they know all the #JamesHoffmann acolytes will crash the site. #coffee

dansup, 4 months ago to Pixelfed

I haven't been coding the past few days since I had my wisdom tooth pulled

Now I'm back, and putting the final touches on the new @pixelfed Compose UI 😎

#pixelfed #composeUI

kistaro, 4 months ago to random

Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS cartridges use NAND flash for storage , not mask ROMs. Like all Flash memory, they "leak" charge over time and eventually lose data.

The Switch and 3DS card reader tells game cards to "refresh" themselves periodically. https://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-switch-3ds-cartridge-lifespan.591607/

But, some users are reporting cartridges already dying, especially ones they haven't used for years. I wonder which of mine already don't work.

Just a reminder that you don't own any data you can't back up. Buying physical cartridges and game cards isn't enough if they're using technology that inevitably deteriorates over time.

anosidium, 4 months ago to macos

Today, I am excited to reveal that my macOS Mastodon client is called Oliphaunt and here is the public TestFlight link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/QLqIRNwe

Please remember that it is a beta, so it is a work-in-progress and expect some bugs here and there. Some features are not fully implemented and I am aware of some of them and probably forgot others. 🤭

I would really appreciate your feedback. Please share your feedback on GitHub, https://github.com/anosidium/Oliphaunt-Feedback-And-Support

#Oliphaunt #macOS #Swift #AppKit #SwiftUI

geerlingguy, 4 months ago to random

Reminder to all the scorned sysadmins: CentOS 7 EOL is June 30, 2024 — and after that CentOS will be dead and gone forever. RIP. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/fastest-road-centos-linux-red-hat-enterprise-linux

ArtBear, 4 months ago to Help

I lost all my people as the migration off the (rather broken) Firefish.social server hasn't worked properly.

Could ppl boost this post please so I can reconnect with folks again?

Much appreciated! ❤️#Introduction #help

wild1145, 4 months ago to random

Sorry about the extended #MastodonAppUK maintenance there. Unfortunately I had to nip out while I was waiting for the job to finish but we are now fully back online and have managed to tick off two very major maintenance tasks that had been on our to-do list for quite a while!

CLondoner92, 4 months ago to Futurology

#Transport for #London press release:
#TfL advises Tube customers to only travel if their journey is essential during planned RMT strike

Severe disruption is expected across the Tube network from the evening of 7 January until the morning of 12 January 2024
https://tfl-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/tfl-advises-tube-customers-to-only-travel-if-their-journey-is-essential-during-planned-rmt-strike

TfL Infographic - January Industrial action - full

atlasmediagroup, 4 months ago to random

We are pleased to announce that #Frankfurt is now a generally available region on our KVM VPS Hosting platform. If you’re looking for a VPS for a new project be sure to check out our offering: https://clients.superior-networks.com/store/2022-kvm-vps-london

#KVM #VPS #Hosting #Frankfurt #NewRegion #Servers

Probertd8, 4 months ago to random

BBC News - Amazing images from James Webb telescope, two years after launch - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-611525eb-3a0c-4a68-bf54-485df138b6f6

anomnomnomaly, 4 months ago to solar

A new year, a new month and that means #SolarUpdate time again.

Nothing good. Weather was awful so as you can see in pic one, we generated just 70kwh of electric the entire month.

But that's still just over 2kwh per day. Which is still about 18% of our use.

As for import, we imported 320kwh of electric for the month.

Total use for the month on the whole house was just 382kwh and we even exported a few kwh.

#Solar
#Battery
#GoingGreen

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