sam ✅🇬🇪
@sam@chven.us
sam ✅🇬🇪
@sam@chven.us
This is a very good and informative piece done by PBS. Explains everything you need to know about #Georgia and #protest there.
#Tbilisi #georgiaprotests #freedom #democracy #politics #worldpolitics
Georgia's ruling party, the Russian puppet regime "Georgian Dream", is showing who they truly are. Openly cutting ties with the West, specifically the EU, so they can once again make Georgia an autocratic Russian colony. The people of Georgia are having none of it and the regime is beating them to a pulp. The regime is also targeting journalists because they are embarrassed and afraid of the world and the Georgian people seeing who they really are. But we see. #Tbilisi #Georgia #EU
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Young woman facing a police line in Tbilisi at night with smoke, wrapped in an EU flag waving a Georgian flag.
Libreboot T480 and Libreboot M920 coming soon, on https://minifree.org/
If anyone still wants Haswell (4th gen) T440p, W541, 9020 etc, order now. It'll be gone soon (won't be deleted from Libreboot, only minifree).
Libreboot replaces proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware. I run the project; Minifree sales fund the work.
I'm doing a new Libreboot release soon, with ThinkPad T480 and ThinkCentre M920q support. Intel 8th gen. They'll replace the Intel 4th gen (Haswell) machines that I currently sell.
@libreleah Nice. I might upgrade my T470. It’s got everything I want except Libreboot (due to Boot Guard).
Where do you live?
| In the United States: | 219 |
| Out of the United States: | 399 |
edit: my move isn't about politics. Looks like things are not going to be much better where I'm going.
@sam fascism is definitely on the rise globally.
Dear Supplier, if you send me an email containing the words "black" and "Friday", my mail server will first send it to an aggressive cross-cut shredder, then set fire to it, and finally place it's ashes on the compost heap.
Hint: Your email is unlikely to be read.
Framasoft the company behind Peertube which is a free and open source YouTube alternative is looking for donations to reach their budget for 2025.
Please donate if you can! 
https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/
#tech #technology #OpenSource #DonateNow #Peertube #degoogle #framasoft
I watched live on TV as #Georgian #journalist Guram Rogava, was assaulted by one of the unmarked "police" operatives, while he was reporting on brutality against protesters in #Tbilisi #Georgia
Politicians and activists are targeted explicitly, what seems to be a clear punitive operation.
Hey, we are "Head Cleaner" and this is our new album "Play Both Sides"
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an orange vintage cassete tape with black stipes labeld: "Head Cleaner" and at the bottom part "Play Both Sides".
made by TapeLine.
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A photo of my ThinkPad displaying my new custom boot logo which has the FreeBSD orb logo at the top and the text in white saying "Think" with a red circle replacing the dot above the I. Then the text continues but in red "FreeBSD"
@justine that is really cool! though how did you do that, aren't they signing their ROMs or something? :D
@justine I love it!
@justine
As long as you are just using it on your own machine, and you are not distributing it, I'd imagine that any risk would be marginal.
@justine this thing gets incredibly sexy. No surprise that Black&red are often mixed together in lingerie. Seems like I am very reactive to such combination, on laptops too.
#itsBlackFridayButDontPurchaseAThinkpadYouFoolCarefulAtYourBankAccount
@justine it's beautiful! can i have one too? :-)
@justine wow!
LOGO.GIF file that I made, and for the more adventurous the Gimp template xcf that's suitable for a 1920x1080 screen. That way folk can swap out the logo and the text FreeBSD to whatever they please.Zebra Rock, a mysterious rock with black and white stripes, captured by Perseverance in Stereo3D
To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel/left image for left eye/right image for right eye
Calibrated images by the Mastcam-Z team at Arizona State Univ., Sol 1268, Sep. 13, 2024
#Mars #Perseverance #ZebraRock #FreyaCastle #3D #Stereo3D #stereoscopy #geology #planetaryscience #Mars2020 #rock #rocks #solarocks #science #Stem #astrodon #Mastcam #MastcamZforall #photography
@pomarede As both a fan of Victorian stereopticons and space exploration, I love seeing these!
@pomarede
Hey :)
“To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel/left image for left eye/right image for right eye”
I get the concept. But how do you do it?
@cagraphics thanks for your interest! On a smartphone you can download the image, display it fullscreen in landscape mode, for a standard sized screen, you should have the left image in front on left eye, and right image in front of right eye, that should work. On a computer browser, you can click on the image, and adapt the size of the browser, so that the two images go in front of your eyes.
@cagraphics More generally, one's eyes' centers are separated by 6.5 cm in average. The centers of the 2 images should be separated by that much to get it working. Hope that's useful! Cheers, Daniel
@pomarede alright thank you!
That is actually what i’ve been trying…not there yet. got a little weird eyed from it … will give it another try tomorrow.
@cagraphics @pomarede I find cross-viewing much easier than parallel viewing. Here is cross-view version, to view it just cross your eyes and make the two sides overlap to see it in 3D. #ZebraRock
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Zebra Rock captured by Perseverance in Stereo3D (crossview version)
@Ohsin Thanks that's great! In my case I prefer parallel viewing: cross-eyed viewing gives me a headache! Cheers, Daniel
@pomarede it looks like the images are on the wrong side for the proper stereoscopic effect. i got the cross-eyed focus to work, but it was lookin' off, like i've seen when the images are reversed, a very uncanny anti-3D. i switched the image sides in paint and tried again, and it looks MUCH better.
this is SO cool though!
KDE Plasma
@vkc is always the correct answer
@vkc absolutely
@vkc years ago it would be Kde Klasma
@vkc how dare you 😆
@vkc yep
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a picture of my desktop is your son desktop were on the left screen there are some plasma my going on and on the rights for there's a space with a black sun at the top of there's a default kde the panel.
@vkc kde blahsma
@vkc based but I prefer dwm personally. To each their own.
@vkc wouldn't that imply the existence of KDE Solid, KDE Liquid, and KDE Gas!?
@vkc It's great for Steam Decks.😃
@vkc I really wanted to like it but for some reason I’m too noob to figure out, my computer hardware doesn’t play nice with KDE Plasma, especially Bluetooth. Gnome is the only DE that has no issues and works flawlessly ;_;
That said, I love being able to have options with Linux!
@vkc I used to switch back and forth with Gnome but now I'm running KDE for the past few years. My favorite DE 😀
@vkc I strongly agree
@vkc
KDE Plasma for a classic desktop interface
GNOME for accessibility and mobile hardware
@vkc I concur.
In the justly derided later seasons of the X-Files, they produced one masterpiece episode, easily among the all time best: The Lost Art Of Forehead Sweat. The "peak" of that ep is this scene, in which Dr. They explains exactly what's happened in the last decade. This is the ballgame. Watch it or not, it probably won't matter. But you should.
@mrcompletely Holy shit
@drewphish I mean there it is.
@mrcompletely It's like the person who wrote this had a time machine. Eery.
@drewphish funny that everyone thinks this is old. It's from 2018.
@mrcompletely I had no idea that show was still around then. None!
@drewphish @mrcompletely Those statues are amazing! Any idea where they are or what they're called? Full disclosure: this is the first bit of X-Files I've ever watched (and I'm 44!). So apologies in advance if they're a big part of the show.
@drewphish they did a few seasons widely spaced after the main run of the show. This is the only great thing they came up with in that time.
@drewphish @mrcompletely Darin Morgan wrote many of the best episodes. This should have been the wrap-up for the show. It's a perfect ending.
Added a new user option to disable automatic follow confirmations (follow requests must be manually approved from the people page).
The search box also searches for accounts (via webfinger).
New command-line action import_list, to import a Mastodon list in CSV format (so that Mastodon Follow Packs can be directly used).
New command-line action import_block_list, to import a Mastodon list of accounts to be blocked in CSV format.
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/
Did you see this PR?
https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/pulls/229
On top of that I'm also trying to hack a CGI+Crontab version of snac, but it's not ready yet.
Please, also create a text file in the examples/ directory with your description in the first comment on how to compile snac with musl (for other people to know how to do it without resourcing to the repository), and I'll merge it.
On top of that I'm also trying to hack a CGI+Crontab version of snac, but it's not ready yet.I think this is very hard to do, but I'll take a look at your proposal when it's ready.
Thanks.
Nop, I'll add an example in the following days... :-)
As for the CGI+Crontab version, actually it's not that hard to hack something together with minimal changes to existing code and few new source files, but I'm facing a couple of issues that suggests a proper fork:
1. the CGI ends up being larger than 6Mb because of curl & openssl that, as far as I can tell, are not needed because all the CGI has to do is to save the proper queue item on the filesystem
2. no command handle the global queue alone
The second issue is quite easy to solve with minimal changes and could help everybody.
The first however requires a lot of careful reorganization of the code.
On the other hand, I don't like the idea of a fork diverging too much, first because you are doing a great work here so much I think #snac deserves much more visibility.
And yet, technically speaking, a fork would make much sense to keep both code bases clean and focused to their use case.
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26783
GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks are currently running (two are queued. Hopefully those will go smoothly, but I know at least one of them in particular seems to take an awfully long time recently).
Thanks again to you and other snac contributors for continuing to improve what continues to be my favorite ActivityPub implementation!
Oh, also since this PR was merged: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26633 It appears as if snac is now building correctly on older versions of OS X that were throwing up errors in under "Port Health" from https://ports.macports.org/port/snac/details/ I do have older Mac systems, but wasn't testing on much older OS versions, so I kind of turned a blind eye to the errors that IIRC were showing up on OS X High Sierra back through Lion? Those seem to be working now too! (Though again, I haven't tested such systems personally and won't dig through my storage unit to exhume old hardware of mine to do so for the foreseeable short term future).
#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded #NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces
It appears as if snac is now building correctly on older versions of OS X that were throwing up errors [...]Well, that is great. I don't know what change could be the one that fixed that, but I'm happy to know about it.
To be honest, some of that stuff is a bit over my head, there was a rather involved discussion on the macports-dev mailing list recently to try to determine which versions of gcc should be abandoned, which should be maintained, and which ones might require other versions for boot strapping. Clearly, there are some MacPorts devs who really care about supporting older versions of OS X, and I think that is great! But I only have so many spoons personally. Regardless, I still prefer the MacPorts approach to say, Homebrew (which only supports the current Apple macOS release and two previous OS releases).
Moreover, Homebrew also has "analytics" on by default and I don't like that either as it is invasive and anti-privacy in nature. There are other package managers which are similarly bad, e.g. Microsoft's vcpkg. MacPorts does allow for analytics, if users want they can opt-in by installing mpstats (based on https://ports.macports.org/port/mpstats/ it appears as if roughly 1100 people have it installed?) to provide some statistics to the MacPorts project, but it is a sub-sampling, at best. Currently, MacPorts has only 1 snac user listed, which means that only one of those 1100 or so MacPorts users who has installed mpstats has also installed snac? I am not that user, and given that I have also not been the only one submitting Pull Requests related to snac in MacPorts, I am guessing that there might be more snac users using MacPorts than merely 1? Just a guess though! I am OK not knowing and leaving MacPorts' users their personal privacy on by default.
What are Follow Packs?These "follow packs" can also be used from #snac pretty easily. To do it, just download the list you are interested in and run the following command for each one:They are just packaged topical lists of up to 35 accounts you can follow from your Mastodon or other Fediverse account. You can follow the entire pack by importing a file. And the entire pack loads into a list, so it becomes a feed for that subject. You can also just browse for accounts you might want to follow individually.
So, they’re like Bluesky Starter Packs?
Yes, but not quite as convenient. It’s not hard, but because Mastodon does not have a one-click way to do this, you need to download a follow pack file and then use Mastodon’s import facility. Instructions are provided in the directory and also below.
snac import_list $BASE_DIR $USER_ID /path/to/the/file.csvThe list will be created and the accounts inside followed. After that, you'll find a link to the list at the top of your private timeline. Please, take note that these lists are not automatically populated; they will eventually fill with the new posts from the new accounts, that will also appear in your timeline.
snac's web UI does not allow maintaining these lists, but you can do it with any Mastodon API client or from https://mastodonlistmanager.org (which is, em, also a Mastodon API client).
30 years ago today I was on the rail for the first time ever at a #phish show.
The first ever glowstick war that occurred during the Harpua was one of the only times I've seen the band legitimately shocked.
Green glowsticks started pouring from the balcony above Page + the band had no idea...
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The setlist for Phish's show on 11/25/84 at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago.
...no idea what the hell was going on. I think even Mike smiled so you know it was serious. You can hear the crowd going nuts on the tapes.
At one point Trey caught a glowstick and threw it back and the place went nuts.
Musically, the Weekapaug->Mango segue was one of the best I've ever...
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...been in the building for. They just suddenly slammed on the brakes and were playing Mango. Magical.
This show was the day after Thanksgiving. We took the L down from Evanston and arrived at the venue at 12:30. We walked around the building and couldn't figure out where the line was going...
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...to be so we asked someone who looked like he might be working. He laughed and said "For the show in 7 hours?" Keep in mind this was late November in Chicago so it was cold AF.
He pointed to where the line started and we waited. Within a half hour some kid showed up who told us he had just...
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...dropped out of high school the week before to follow #phish. That kid's name? Antelope Greg. It was his fourth show or something like that.
We were the first people in the door and made a beeline for right in front of Mike. I was obsessed with the song Tube at the time (kind of still am)...
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...and made a sign that I figured would get his attention.
The sign read "Tube for Bill Schechter". Mike and I went to the same high school and both had a history teacher named Bill Schechter. This guy is the kind of teacher who you never, ever forget. I credit him with teaching me how to...
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...think critically. Like, a life-changing teacher that stays with you for the rest of your life. So I figured I would get Mike's attention by dropping Bill's name with absolutely zero context whatsoever.
Boy did my sign work. (Well, they sure AF didn't play Tube so not really LMAO).
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But Mike had to have looked at me 40 times during the opening Llama. Not kidding. He was trying to place me and of course couldn't. I got my sign read! I just didn't yet realize that successful request are *only* made to Trey and before shows.
But Bill Schechter and I sure had a good laugh...
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...about this when I saw him the next time. "And they didn't play the song??" he said. No but I would get a year later so all good.
Side note: I took Bill Schechter to one show and it was 11/28/97. He *instantly* got it. The You Enjoy Myself in the 2-slot rewired his brain. He slipped a note...
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...to a roadie that night and ended up getting a really nice note back from Mike who remembered him fondly.
Anyways, 11/25/94 was a blast and one of my best friend in the world's first show and I slept in my own bed and 1994 #phish is the fucking best.
Don't miss that segue!
10/10
@drewphish What a great story!!
@drewphish Thanks for sharing this.
@drewphish love this story!
@drewphish mad props to Mr. Schechter!
@drewphish this was indeed a great show (and I made it home and slept in my own bed too. Loved that Mango, always makes me smile!
Wanna help #PeerTube?
We need tests and feedbacks on our future mobile app!
Whether on iOS, Play Store or with an apk, download our test version and share your feedback on here: https://framaforms.org/peertube-mobile-application-release-candidate-1731599644
You have until dec. 8th to share, test and help us have a great release!
@peertube Hi! My instance isn’t showing up. Do I need to enable a configuration option! Thanks!
@peertube Hi. Just wondering if we’re supposed to be able to login to our own accounts? Is it just local account only at the moment?
@EighthLayer @peertube same question...?
@peertube probably the biggest feature immediately missing is the ability to manually add instances. That makes it unusable to me, unfortunately. Looking forward to seeing it improve.
@Mrfunkedude @Hex We'll progressively add other instances. We (unfortunately) limited the list for the first release in order to pass store validations. We also plan to release an "unlocked" app on F-Droid.
@Mrfunkedude @Hex Yes we'll try to add this feature but we're taking it slow, app verification for this kind of application is a little bit "touchy"
@peertube Dès les premières minutes de test je remarque que le visionnage de vidéos n'empêche pas mon téléphone de se mettre en veille, j'ai même l'impression que ça survient plus rapidement avec Peertube qu'avec d'autres applications.
Sera-t-il possible de s'abonner localement à des chaînes sans être enregistré (de la même manière que @FreeTube) ?
@peertube where is the public source code repo ?
@ptibouchon Will be available soon, we're still cleaning up the code :)
@peertube
Thanks for that ! That was really missing and can really help students (and people) accessing free contents ! 👍
However, I can't find this instance:
https://tube-sciences-technologies.apps.education.fr/
Actually, I don't even know if I'm looking for it in the right place in the app...
Moreover, I try to manage my profile. I didn't find the place to put my name, instance, password etc.
Thanks again for that great work. 😉
@nicolay_lilicre Hi, we'll progressively add other instances. We (unfortunately) limited the list for the first release in order to pass store validations. We also plan to release an "unlocked" app on F-Droid. And the logged-in account related features will be available in the following months :)
@kinetix @nicolay_lilicre I agree with you, so I think we'll add this custom bar soon but it's still a risk because store validation doesn't always follow a "logical" approach: big web browsers may have more rights than a small new app.
@peertube very frustrating that the first priority here wasn’t making it possible to log into an instance, or at least manually add your favorites. Trying to be optimistic here but this preview is unusable for me (literally none of the instances I watch videos from are here), and seems like it’s taking a very “walled garden” approach that feels antithetical to the whole point of the federated net
@engiqueering We understand your frustration. An "unlocked" app will be available on F-Droid, and the logged-in account features will also be available in the following months :)
@peertube is there a timeline for an iOS version as well?
@engiqueering You mean an "unlocked" app on iOS?
@peertube yes, will the unlocked iOS version come out alongside the unlocked android version?
@engiqueering Is there an alternative store on iOS like F-Droid for Android? (I'm not the dev of the application, so I'm not an expert of the iOS ecosystem :) )
@peertube No, apple devices are required to use the managed app store, however an iOS app was promised last year (https://joinpeertube.org/news/peertube-future-2024)
I know several people who *want* to use peertube regularly, but the lack of a mobile app is a barrier to entry. Currently there *no* iOS peertube client but several Android ones (Thorium, P2Play, etc), it is a serious problem for adoption that half the mobile market has no native app
@peertube Is anyone familiar with how #Owncast allowed users to verify themselves for chat via another #fediverse accounts?
I have a distinct feeling that most users will have no interest in actually joining a peertube instance if they only want to comment on videos, create playlists, subscribe from Mastodon/or other fediverse servers ... this would remove the "what is an instance? This is too complicated " that we heard adnausem about Mastodon. @dansup please help, you make amazing apps.
Just out of curiosity... Is there even thougths of a fediverse app that could compete with Spotify? That would be brilliant
@FediTips might know better
Nearest I can think of is the Fediverse music platform @funkwhale , more info at https://www.funkwhale.audio
@FediTips @funkwhale ah brilliant thanks very much. I'll deff have a look at it
#FreeBSD #ZFS #jail #mailserver
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Screenshot of a scam mail claiming my email storage was full, with an xterm on top showing the space available on the ZFS dataset storing all mails.
In 1945, the US War Department realized that its soldiers stationed in Europe fighting the Nazis probably needed a good pamphlet explaining what fascism was, and how it occurs ...
... so they wrote one
and in it, they noted that America was not at all immune to this
So they explained how fascism would come to the US
Heather Cox Richardson writes about it in the latest edition of her newsletter: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-26-2024
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A screenshot reading:
The War Department thought it was important for Americans to understand the tactics fascists would use to take power in the United States. They would try to gain power “under the guise of ‘super-patriotism’ and ‘super-Americanism.” And they would use three techniques:
First, they would pit religious, racial, and economic groups against one another to break down national unity. Part of that effort to divide and conquer would be a “well- planned ‘hate campaign’ against minority races, religions, and other groups.”
Second, they would deny any need for international cooperation, because that would fly in the face of their insistence that their supporters were better than everyone else. “In place of international cooperation, the fascists seek to substitute a perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people in the world who count. With this goes hatred and suspicion toward the people of all other nations.”
Third, fascists would insist that “the world has but two choices—either fascism or communism, and they label as ‘communists’ everyone who refuses to support them.” It is “vitally important” to learn to spot native fascists, the government said, “even though they adopt names and slogans with popular appeal, drape themselves with the American flag, and attempt to carry out their program in the name of the democracy they are trying to destroy.”
Changing phone number on messaging apps.
#Signal: Confirm your new phone number, done.
#Telegram: Confirm your new phone number, done.
#WhatsApp: Confirm your new phone number. Have 50 new notifications "You were added to this group" for all the groups that I'm part of since the last many years. At least it kept the chat history, I'd have expected it to lose that also, based on other contacts that have changed their number at some point.
Perhaps, after some time I could make a business out of the vineyard, but I'm not sure if they really have enough land for that. I'm thinking about things like having people come to work on the vineyard, try the wine etc. Apparently, people do that just for the experience. Also, could do a bed & breakfast type thing at the house, but the house needs a little work (bathroom, shower...)
Any thoughts anybody?
@wine@a.gup.pe #wine #saqartvelo #sakartvelo #kakheti #winemaking #vineyard #grapes #georgia
Coming soon to a #Fairphone 5 running @postmarketOS near you!
@z3ntu @postmarketOS wow impressive!
@z3ntu @postmarketOS How well does postmarketos work on the fairphone 5 anyway? Do android apps tend to work fine using waydroid?
I'm actually getting a fairphone 5 soon!
@sashin Quite well, see the Features sidebar on https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_5_(fairphone-fp5)
But there's still some things missing, so don't expect to daily drive it or be without problems. Also not sure about the battery life yet.
@z3ntu hmmm... Maybe I'll daily drive lineageOS or /e/is for now and try it with a microsd or something
Will consider switching when its stable :)
@z3ntu @postmarketOS Oooh, nice, well done!
@z3ntu wow thats crazy
@z3ntu @postmarketOS Well I now know what device I am getting when my old one dies (or gets too old because Android does that and its bootloader cannot be unlocked.)
@z3ntu @postmarketOS If it's possible to share solution, I can pull and test it.
Thanks
@Oleksii Run "mrtest add 5821" :)
@z3ntu If it's possible could you educate me a bit?
How can I run it?
I am full time web developer I already knows something 😃
I got a link to a PR, but I haven't worked with this type of sources yet.
Thank you.
@Oleksii Is this reference helpful? https://docs.postmarketos.org/mrhlpr/usage.html#mrtest
@Oleksii @z3ntu @postmarketOS Does external display work? Have you tried hooking it up with a usbc dock to hdmi?
@saligari @Oleksii @postmarketOS Yes, Fairphone 5 works fine there.
Fairphone 4 is WIP, it works with a special kernel branch but currently the phone will stop charging with that since it touches some Type-C bits and there's no charger driver, but otherwise also there it works.
@z3ntu @postmarketOS already with a fancy instagram-like filter built in! 
@valpackett @postmarketOS Exclusive filter!
@z3ntu @pojntfx @postmarketOS I don’t get it. It has a camera?
@moehrenfeld This is using mainline kernel and no proprietary blobs, the only way the camera works on the Android stack is with a bunch of proprietary blobs.
@z3ntu Ahh! I see. Now it makes sense.
@z3ntu @postmarketOS does the fp5 ship to the us yet? I really like what fairphone is doing (repairability, better relationship with mobile linux community, eu company, etc.) but last time I checked they didn't ship to the us :(
@z3ntu @postmarketOS Great news!
@z3ntu @postmarketOS that battery percentage could tell stories 😀
@dieTasse I didn't boot up the ADSP for the video, that's why there's no battery percentage reported, and the UI displaying 0%.
@z3ntu @postmarketOS @Fairphone Beautiful work! I wish they would ship to the US!
@z3ntu @postmarketOS this is awesome 💜
@z3ntu @postmarketOS This is AMAZING!
There's a lot of petty shit slinging between users of different platforms, each declaring theirs best and others terrible.
Most platforms are extremely diverse and everyone's experience of them is going to differ.
Use whichever social media platforms you feel comfortable with and want to use. If that's fedi software, great! If it's not, that's great too!
You're going to know what suits your needs and tastes best and be able to weigh up what's most important feature-wise for you.
Users being snarky about other platforms are one of the things that will turn people off their networks of choice. It's one of the reasons I haven't bothered investing any time in bluesky, as my first days there was a torrent of shitty barbs about mastodon users.
I've also seen friends put off joining mastodon servers from both bluesky and twitter for the same reasons. It feels hostile and does nothing to encourage people to stay.
@babe this is pettie shit that is pointless.
@babe People want to feel better about themselves for picking the 'right' team first.
@babe the seductive lure of slackware users mocking windows users
@Kierkegaanks Or arch users mocking literally everyone
Is there a fedi myspace alternative yet?
@babe I'm willing to bet that SpaceHey wouldn't be hard to reverse engineer for federated instances
My summer holiday this year was going to Tbilisi, Georgia (mostly) by train!
And I've now finally written a blog post about it with quite some details. It was really an amazing trip that I can highly recommend!
Great read! I'd love to take a train across Europe some time. I'd also like to read more about your time in Georgia if you write about it!
@sam Thanks for the nice response!
I might do another post with a more detailed itinerary of that trip, which trains or buses at which times. But for what I did in especially Tbilisi and Batumi you can also easily find on wikivoyage so there's not much for me to contribute imo.
And even writing this post took quite some hours and as you can see on my blog, I'm not a regular blog writer, more just write something in case it comes up. :)
@sam That also sounds delicious! Definitely have to try the next time I'm in Georgia - though that might be a while 😢
The server can now act as a proxy for all image, audio or video media coming from other account's posts (both from the Web UI and the Mastodon API). This way, other servers will see media requests coming from the server IP, not the user's, improving privacy. This is controlled by setting the proxy_media boolean field to server.json to true.
The strict_public_timelines option introduced in the previous release now works correctly.
Fixed a crash when posting from the links browser.
Fixed some repeated images from Lemmy posts.
Fixed a crash when posting an image from the tooot mobile app.
Updated FreeBSD rc script: the server process is now managed by the daemon(8) utility (contributed by @stefano@bsd.cafe).
RSS feeds are now in 2.0 version instead of 0.91.
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/donate
This release has been inspired by the song New Moon (Dark Phase) by #DuranDuran.
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26605
GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks are running (2 of 3 have passed already which is a good sign).
It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.
Thank you again for your continued improvements (and also, thanks for not releasing on a Friday! The slacker in me is still 8 hours behind up stream, maybe I can blame time zones? ;)
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thanks for not releasing on a Friday! The slacker in me is still 8 hours behind up stream😆
I usually release on Thursdays (unless something serious happened), in case someone wants to play with #snac as a weekend project 😉
Hi, I managed to build a statically linked #snac with musl (and zlib, curl and openssl).
Now I realized that I could deploy it as a FastCGI, but I wonder how I could stop a running process on snac update.
Is there a kill switch one could toggle eg by creating an empty file with a specific name under the data dir? Or maybe a version file that is periodically checked by snac processes that exit() when you start a new version?
Or maybe something even simpler I'm missing?
Also, I've read that snac now support unix domain sockets, but I can't find anything about that in the doc... where should I look?
kill command, or by configuring it under a service control system like systemd, or rc file, and stopping it from there. You have many examples of how to do this in the examples/ directory of the source repository.Regarding the use of a Unix socket, just set the address field with the full path to it (instead of an IP address), like described in snac(8), the Administrator Manual: https://comam.es/snac-doc/snac.8.html#address
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