Hey everyone, l wanted to share with you our updates today when hands on the ground are available for it
I know it may not be good for you but l brought myself out to show the world what is happening
And l think you know more about this but nothing is easier without including others but remember in the bible versus how Jesus loved us so dear friend, is it possible to adopt Jesus habits?
#gardeningtips #solutions #lunix #socialmedia #nature #Today #mastodon #fediverse #climatechange #gardening

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Hey there friend and followers, it might not at the stage you wanted but remember where have we come from since at the younger stages Up to date, so am happy to share with you because even to follow you forgot but l know nothing is easier and empathetic if from the of heart, so dear friend can we make it together? 🌿

1/ #PSA for #writers : There is a new kind of #spam making the rounds on the #Fediverse.

Mention anywhere that you are working on a book, and these people will slide into your replies, feigning interest into your work while offering beta reading and editing services.

Report them.

#amwriting

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Clear your desk and elevate your setup! 💻✨

Are there any other #Facebook alternatives, especially the #fediverse options? I'm on #Friendica, but it's a bit barren. Alternatively, what am I missing on Friendica? I haven't joined any groups yet, so which ones should I join?

FediPool scales with your plan. 3 active slots on Free, 10 on Premium, 25 on Pro Curator. Daily earn caps scale too. The more you contribute, the harder the pool works for you. ⚙️

https://fediboard.com/products/fediboard

#Flipboard #Fediverse #FediBoard

Seriously… We The People should Demand Change! https://youtube.com/shorts/df00NOQeUwQ?is=IueD_TRiPAAwFNxL

#BlackMastodon #Blackvoices #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #BlackCommunities #Mastodon #Fediverse

GitHub Actions has been down for 6 hours and counting. Major outage, Pages too, webhooks throttled to about 15% so most pushes are not triggering anything at all.

Which means I cannot ship Mastodon 4.6.5 to my own instance, because my image gets built by a workflow that is currently sitting in a queue going nowhere.

Funny place to find a dependency. I self host the server, the database, the storage, the reverse proxy. The thing that assembles it all runs on someone else's computer.

Runners are apparently stuck retrying jobs that no longer exist, self hosted ones included, so even the escape hatch is broken.

And what exactly am I supposed to do with this now? The answer is obvious. Thanks, M$!

#SelfHosting #GitHub #CICD #DevOps #Mastodon #Fediverse #Blog #Thoughts #Microsoft

I'm definitly out of touch in this things, but what are the best movies you have seen from the last years which is NOT

- a Superhero Movie
- a Franchise
- too gore-y and too much horror
- Odyssey

Thanks a lot #fediverse or is there a tag for that? like #movieverse?

#movies #film

3/6
I started a thread last week debunking the false claims made by Oliver Knill https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/116990848347700650 which will run over a few weeks, and I saw in the July 13, 2020 update, he said "Every student should be aware of the fact that expressions like 18/3*2 are often evaluated to 3 by humans" (and in other updates he explicitly says "most humans") which, as a Maths teacher, I didn't believe one bit, hence the poll, and thus the #Fediverse has comprehensively debunked this with a resounding 84%...

Kurze Umfrage an alle #neuhier und alle, die schon länger dabei sind:

Wie/Warum bist du her gekommen? (Hier her, ins #Fediverse, egal welcher Dienst, welche Instanz etc.)

Gerne in Kommentaren erläutern, speziell, wenn du die Antwort "andere" wählst.

Danke fürs Mitmachen und Teilen!

These: #Mastodon wird solange vollkommen bedeutungslos bleiben, wie es nicht gelingt, kontroverse Meinungen auszuhalten. Zu viele Instanzen sind von einem selbstgerechten linken Meinungsklima geprägt, das sehr schnell in die #Intoleranz kippt. Wer Instanzen im #Fediverse betreibt, ist kein kleiner König, der entscheiden darf, was andere sagen können und was nicht. Es ist wirklich dumm, Leute wir Hasnain Kazim rausszuschmeißen, wie es @mastodon.world getan hat. @mwadmin #Meinungsfreiheit

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Das Bild zeigt einen Post von Hasnain Kazim auf #Bluesky, der kritisiert, dass seine Posts auf mastodon.world gelöscht wurden, obwohl sie weder rechtswidrig noch irgendwie problematisch waren.

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Das Bild zeigt einen Post von Hasnain Kazim auf #Bluesky, der kritisiert, dass sein Konto auf mastodon.world gesperrt wurde, weil er sich über die Moderationspraktiken auf der Instanz beschwert hat.

I spend at least the same amount of time blocking or muting AI doomers in Mastodon, as I did blocking AI fanboys in Twitter/X. These two groups typically have so much in common with each other (e.g., irrationality, arrogance, sense of entitlement) they should get married and have children.

Same goes for politics: I find both the extreme "right", and "left" appalling for very similar reasons.

#fediverse #llms #politics #extremism

Damit habe ich nicht gerechnet:

Apple bringt in seinem AppStore eine Story über Mastodon!

… und haut gleich zu Beginn ganz gut einen raus:

„Vielleicht hast du schon mal von dem rapide wachsenden sozialen Netzwerk namens Mastodon gehört.
Hier kannst du tun, was dir gefällt - nämlich Freund:innen und interessanten Persönlichkeiten folgen - ganz ohne Störfaktoren wie aufdringliche Anzeigen und Algorithmen, die bestimmen, was du siehst.“

https://apps.apple.com/de/story/id1668483560

#mastodon #fediverse #apple #appstore

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Screenshot vom Anfang der Story in Apples AppStore. Eine farbenfrohe digitale Illustration mit verspielten Cartoon-Elementen, darunter Planeten, eine Elefantenfigur und verschiedene Symbole aus dem Bereich der sozialen Netzwerke. „Leg los Und was ist bitte Mastodon? Tolle Tipps und Apps für das dezentrale soziale Netzwerk.“

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@vsx/117047094648507362

Honestly, I would rather they went the other way. Proton VPN is already built into @Vivaldi on desktop and it works well. More of that, deeper integration with the tools people already use, feels more useful than another Chromium wrapper with a privacy badge on it.

Their existing apps could use the polish too. I still cannot see my Mac files from Drive on iOS, which seems to only work properly if your other machine runs Windows. Fix that before shipping a browser (my personal opinion).

#Proton #Fediverse #Blog #Thoughts #Privacy #news

404: Echo chamber not found.
Three networks. One search. Genuinely different results every time. The open web is weird and we love it. fedifind.com

https://fedifind.com

#Fediverse #Bluesky #Mastodon

#Introduction
How should I introduce us?

We are an independent French small collective helping to develop and promote musical culture: concerts, production, recordings, promotion, etc.

This is an unofficial profile.. we’re sort of on vacation here on #Mastodon. So, our interests are numerous and varied.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of keywords:

#art #culture #music
#literature #photography
#history #science
#earth #space
#sciencefiction
#reader #writer #blogger
#retro #vintage

Kind of #geek about:
#linux #opensource
#MSDOS #DOSGaming #CPM
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #oldcomputers #BBS

#gaming #videogames
#gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev

I mainly play:
#rpg #dnd #mmorpg #rogue #nethack #roguelike #tetris

Everyone is Welcome! 🖖😎
Friendly and respectful.

#Peace, #LoVe & #Music

Feel free to spread the word by a retoot. Merci beaucoup! :0)

@solarphasing run this profile on #Mastodon #fediverse since 2017.

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We are an independent French small collective helping to develop and promote musical culture: concerts, production, recordings, promotion, etc.

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We are an independent French small collective helping to develop and promote musical culture: concerts, production, recordings, promotion, etc.

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We are an independent French small collective helping to develop and promote musical culture: concerts, production, recordings, promotion, etc.

There might be a long game to #AI, #FOSS, and #personalcomputing .

Basically, #capitalism hates how FOSS has "leaked value", and how [home] PCs and local #compute has enabled value streams outside of corporate control.

The#cloud drive was the initial attempt to force the value back under oligopole control, on the hardware side, #socialmedia platforms were the "sugar" software. But even these two in combination failed to completely eradicate free open source and alternatives, as this fine #mastodon platform on the #fediverse proves.

Enter #AI, the perfect weapon. It offers #techbros both tools: A way to dangle the promise of not even needing people anymore to investors, together with a perfect excuse to kill off the foundation that allows people to grow #cyber skills independently of corporate control - the [home] PC - by driving prices for basic tech like storage and memory way past home budgets.

By making a personal computer impossibly expensive to build or own, the base for FOSS erodes quickly. If all available compute is only by cloud supplied services, then any and all development will be beholden to the platform owner.

If you look at it this way, AI makes good sense, but it's only the last nail in a coffin that's been building for a while; the death of personal computing, and the death of an important freedom.

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Text is "There Is No Reason for Any Individual to Have a Computer in Their Home Ken Olsen, Digital Equipment, 1977", with Ken holding an open personal computer in front of him.

Good Morning #fediverse #tzag time for some black magic

Friday I talk the week through out loud, starting with the arithmetic of a primary that cost somebody sixty-five million dollars to lose.

It goes out on a server I own and pay for, first. Not a platform's room. Mine.

https://twp.ai/E5Eu75 · youtube.com/@WendyTheDruid · https://twp.ai/4huPix

What do you want me to actually chew on Friday? Come by and tell me. I listen.

#Fediverse #SelfHosting #Owncast #Politics #Democracy #Journalism #QueerNews #Community #Solidarity #Resist

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Live Politics - Mon & Fri @ 3PM: https://live.thistleandmoss.org / https://www.youtube.com/@WendyTheDruid Live Gaming Streams - Nightly at 830PM: https://live.thistleandmoss.org / https://www.youtube.com/@WendyTheDruid / https://twitch.tv/wendythedruid

AT PEACE! #mastodon #fediverse #photo #photos #photography #photooftheday #pictureperfect #photographie #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #wednesday #dogstodon #pet #pets

SEVEN SEAS #mastodon #fediverse #fediart #nature #naturephotography #photography #photo #photos #photographie #photooftheday #pictureperfect #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #dogsofpixelfed #dogsoffediverse #dogstodon #viral

It's so hard when you have depression and a migraine with a severe prodrome and anhedonia at the same time.

There was one day when I didn't think about death, but it seems that was a very short episode.

Before that, I found out that the insurance company won't pay my family if I decide to end my life, because they won't let me get life insurance due to my diagnoses already being in the database, and they specifically account for cases like this.

So I won't be able to pull off that trick. That upset me.

#MentalHealth #Health #Life #Depression #Migraine #Thoughts #Blog #Fediverse #Anhedonia

SNOW DOG AND THE SEVEN DWARVES!… FROM THE ARCHIVES! #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #DogsOfFedi #dogsofpixelfed #mastodon #fediverse #fediart #pictureoftheday #photo #photography #photos #viral #pets #pet

Nice!

Our Mastodon instance burningboard.net has almost 60% of total using the current generation of the Internet Protocol (IPv6) and only arround 40% still using the legacy-protocol from the 1980s (IPv4).

Measured on the PF firewall of our Mastodon webserver over the last 48 hours.

#mastodon #ipv6 #internet #sysadmin #mastoadmin #fediverse

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Terminal screenshot running a shell command pipeline (pfctl -si | awk) that calculates IPv4 vs IPv6 network traffic on a server. The terminal output displays IPv4 traffic at 160.68 GiB (41.1%) and IPv6 traffic at 230.46 GiB (58.9%).

Come join me and @Gina in Luxembourg this October!

#OSCL26 (Open Source Conference Luxembourg) has a brand new track devoted to “Decentralized Technologies for Digital Sovereignty”:

🔗: https://conference.opensource.lu

We are looking for speakers interested in discussing these topics:

• Federated technologies in the public sector
• Decentralized platforms for video, chat, communications, code, etc.
• Fediverse successes and challenges
• Self-hosted solutions for individuals and institutions
• Interoperability for resilience

Apply here:

🔗: https://pretalx.com/open-source-conference-luxembourg-2026/cfp

The conference takes place on Wednesday October 7th in Belval, Luxembourg.

Please share! 🚀​

#Fediverse #FediAdvocacy #conferences #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #TheFutureIsFederated #selfhosting #interoperability #DigitalSovereignty #activism

Typed reboot over SSH on Monday. The machine answered pings for the next fifteen hours and nothing else.

I was sure it was the hypervisor. It was not.

PID 1 was stuck in drm_modeset_lock, waiting on qxl, an emulated graphics card, on a headless server, for a monitor that has never been attached.

Known kernel bug. Bisected in a Debian report back in 2023, reverted upstream, then deliberately put back because the revert stopped test machines from booting at all. My kernel ships the version with the bug on purpose.

The fix is one line in /etc/modprobe.d. Working out that the deadlock was not OVH's doing took considerably longer than writing that line.

Their panel's reboot button did nothing at all, though. Still annoyed about that one.

https://www.dol.ch/en/blog/vps-incident

#Linux #Debian #Kernel #SysAdmin #VPS #Homelab #Blog #Fediverse

Good Morning #fediverse #tzag

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#DeskSetup #TechFinds #CuteStationery #DeskVacuum #Fediverse #Gadgets #WorkspaceHacks

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🐥 Yellow Duck Mini Desktop Vacuum: Cute Workspace Sidekick!

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The iBleem JK01 is an ultra-compact, cute cat-style thermal printer that fits right in your pocket! Using direct thermal technology, it prints without any messy or expensive ink cartridges or ribbons.

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• App: iBleem App (iOS & Android)

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#MiniPrinter #TechFinds #StudyHacks #LabelMaker #StationeryLove #Fediverse #Gadgets #iBleem

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🖨️ iBleem JK01 Portable Thermal Mini Printer: Pocket-Sized Photo & Label Maker

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#AutoTools #DIYRepair #CarMaintenance #Plumbing #Endoscope #TechFinds #Fediverse #GarageTools

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🛠️ XinFe Dual-Lens Endoscope Camera Review: Professional Inspection Tool

Ajatuksia fediversumin käytöstä sekä kysymyksiä!

Kun rupesin käyttämään mastoronttia ja nyt täällä sitten mementomorin kautta huutelen niin huomasin pitäväni tästä somesta.

En kuitenkaan nyt saarnaa kuorolle vaan kysyn mielipiteitä kaamealla anglismilla saatettuna:

-Omien tuuttausten uudelleen Boostaus? Onko ihan hyvä idea? jos vaikka jakaa pitkän aivopierunsa keskellä yötä tai aikaisin aamusta ja boostaa sitä sitten uudestaan vaikka seuraavana päivänä jotta saavuttaisi muitakin. Onko tämä turhaa touhua ja spämmintää vai ihan ok toimintaa tai jopa tarpeellista?

-Postauksista tykkääminen...se ei siis edistä postauksen näkyvyyttä? Tykkääminen on vain digitaalinen "kiva kun kerroit 👍 " sekä laittaa tuutin talteen itselleen. Ja tästä siis kysymys: Miksi tämä toiminto on olemassa? eikö pelkkä boostaus riittäisi?

Tämmöisiä tuli mieleen. Opastakaa ja kouluttakaa minua ilman ennakko odotuksia! Olettakaa vain että olen vähän tymä ja minulle pitää selittää asioita.

#fediverse #mastodon #mastodonsuomi #iamnewhere

PS: Miten ja mistä pääsen tukemaan Mementomori instanssia? @ry olisin valmis jopa maksamaan jotain näin hyvästä instanssista per kk.

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• Universal Compatibility: Works seamlessly with DOT 3, DOT 4, and DOT 5.1 fluids.
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#CarMaintenance #AutoTools #GarageLife #BrakeSafety #DIYCarRepair #TechFinds #Fediverse

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🚗 Brake Safety Starts with Precise Testing: Professional 1.4" LCD Brake Fluid Analyzer

Hey everyone,

@casey and @aseelfromgz had the honour of speaking to two families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Heba Deeb's family 🍉 (@asdgwett)
• Yazan_Ibn_Gaza (@YazanIbnGaza)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

Sometimes newer is not better. At least not for the things that matter to you.

I benchmarked two OVH VPS in the same Zurich location. My current 2025 model with a 500 Mbit network against the newer 2027 model with 1 Gbit. Same AMD EPYC Genoa cores, same provider, nearly identical sysbench CPU scores.

Then the surprises started.
The older box pushes 6,612 MiB/s in memory tests, the newer one 932 MiB/s. That is 7x.
Random 4K reads: 1.32 million IOPS against 832k.
And the old model is even about 1 EUR cheaper.

For a Mastodon instance, databases, and Docker workloads, memory and disk beat extra bandwidth every time. So the shiny new VPS gets demoted to reverse proxy and backup duty, and this instance stays exactly where it is.

Benchmark before you migrate.

#SelfHosting #Mastodon #Fediverse #VPS #OVH #Benchmarks #Homelab #Blog #MastoAdmin

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Screenshot of the OVH control panel showing two active VPS in the EU-WEST-LZ-ZRH location: vps-817e781a.vps.ovh.net labeled vps-2027-model2.LZ and zrh-1.dol.ch labeled vps-2025-model1.LZ. Both marked Active, the model names underlined in red

The numbers behind the previous post, for the curious.

Same fio and sysbench setup on both boxes, Debian 13, direct=1, libaio.

Random read 4K, the workload databases actually live on:
1.41M IOPS on the 2025 box against 822k on the 2027 one.

RAM bandwidth: 64,038 MiB/s against 11,906. That is 5.4x.

Single thread CPU: 4,504 against 4,147 events/sec. Same EPYC Genoa on paper.

And here is my favorite part. The old box ran all of this while carrying my entire production: Mastodon, Postgres, Valkey, a pile of Docker containers, 17 days of uptime.

The new box was empty and idle.

The loaded veteran still won almost everything.

#SelfHosting #VPS #Benchmarks #fio #sysbench #Homelab #MastoAdmin #Fediverse

Email from @OVHcloud this morning: the bandwidth on my VPS went from 400 Mbit to 1 Gbit. Same plan, same price, nothing for me to do.

This is the box running dol.social. The one I benchmarked last month, on the grounds that its memory and disk beat the newer 2027 model and the network gap did not matter enough to move.

The network gap is now gone too.

Correction while I am here: I said 500 Mbit in that thread. It was 400. The conclusion holds, my number did not.

#SelfHosting #VPS #OVH #Mastodon #Homelab #Fediverse #Blog #Thoughts

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Screenshot of an email from OVHcloud. The message says that to meet the performance needs of applications and services, the public bandwidth included in the VPS 2027 range has been increased, and that instances now benefit from up to double the throughput at no additional cost. Below is a table listing one VPS with its hostname partly greyed out, showing previous bandwidth of 400 Mbit per second and new bandwidth of 1000 Mbit per second.

Full disclosure on the cost of that free upgrade.

The reboot to pick it up hung at the hypervisor level and took the instance with it. Almost 15 hours of downtime, 41.91% uptime for the day, and nothing I could do from inside the box because there was no inside to get to.

Worth it. But this is the part of "simple restart" that the is mentioned in email.

Also a decent argument for the thing I keep saying: the box is disposable, the data is not.

#SelfHosting #VPS #OVH #Downtime #Homelab #Fediverse #Blog #Thoughts

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Screenshot of an uptime monitoring dashboard for the last 24 hours. On the left, uptime reads 41.91 percent and Apdex reads 0.4. A horizontal status bar is green at both ends with a long red section covering the middle. Below it, a bar chart per hour shows green bars at 1.0 for the first two hours, then a red 0.46, then a long run of red zeros from roughly 19h through 8h, a red 0.62 at 9h, and green 1.0 bars from 10h to 16h."

It's a little past Christmas in July but thought I would share Festive Christmas Snowman anyway. Have a good one. https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/festive-christmas-snowman-lisa-s-baker.html

#christmas #snowman #winter #festive #holiday #MerryChristmas #holly #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #buyintoart #artprints #canvasprints #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #creativeToots #red #green #jolly #holidaydecor

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Cheerful snowman wearing a black top hat with holly, a cozy green scarf, and a festive red shawl, set against a rustic red wood background with delicate snowflakes. This whimsical painterly Christmas artwork features classic holiday colors of red, green, white, and black, making it perfect for farmhouse Christmas décor, winter decorating, cabins, living rooms, entryways, kitchens, and seasonal holiday decorating.

I guess they weren't aware that the person you block gets notified of the block?

It's funny because I have to send someone a message like that because the Morel Orels who wrote Snac don't believe in allowing you to block people, since muting them is much more polite and totally not sneaky at all. But everyone else pretty much can do a straight out Block.

Honestly I think you should be able to supply a helpful message explaining your Block, in whatever creative curse words people want to use.

#fediverse #meta #fediblock

Implementing your own #Fediverse #ActivityPub server sounds like a good idea until you see the mush of half-implemented protocols that #Mastodon actually is. #ActivityStreams Link type? Profile? Tombstone? Whomst?

Why is there a webfinger endpoint? I don't want skeletal twinks fingering my web!?

And also an RSA key pair? Publicly being this embarrassing should be proof enough, nobody would dare pretend to be *this*!

Greifautomaten sind in Taiwan Kulturgueter. Im Umkreis von 5 Minuten habe ich locker 10 solcher Laeden, in denen eine ganze Reihe dieser Dinger steht. Hier einer, an dem man sich Koffer(!) angeln kann!

Moin #Fediverse & euch einen gesunden Start in diesen Dienstag. Alles wird gut!

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Eine Reihe gelber, bunt beleuchteter Greifautomaten („Lucky Catch“) in einer Spielhalle. Anstelle von Plüschtieren enthalten die Automaten ungewöhnliche Preise wie kleine Koffer und Pappkartons. Im Hintergrund stehen weitere rosa beleuchtete Spielautomaten auf einem glänzenden Fliesenboden.

Found a non-functional github project that was last updated 2 years ago which changes your mastodon profile depending on what your listenbrainz "Currently listening" is outputting...I fixed it up to work in a docker container with refresh.

Its been adding my listenbrainz currently listening, which is scrobbled from my local plex/jellyfin music libraries.

Pretty cool! Feels very myspace lol

Might put this out in the next week so others can use it.

@ListenBrainz
@jellyfin
@plex

#docker #music #mastodon #selfhosted #fediverse #plex #jellyfin

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updated profile screenshot

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Terminal script printing updates songs

ATENCIÓN ⚠️ Mis servicios web dejarán de estar disponibles pronto.

A partir del primero de diciembre de 2026 mis servicios web basados en software libre dejarán de funcionar. Los servicios que se verán afectados por esto son los siguientes:

• SearXNG (https://search.autumn64.xyz/)
• Redlib (https://redlib.autumn64.xyz/)
• Lingva (https://translate.autumn64.xyz/)

Después del 1ro de diciembre estos sitios serán dados de baja permanentemente y no se podrán utilizar más, ni prestarán servicio. Mi página web seguirá estando activa y no será dada de baja.

Esta es una decisión muy difícil para mí, pero algunas de las situaciones que me han llevado a tomarla son:

• La falta de apoyo por parte de la comunidad.
• Por el momento soy incapaz de sufragar el gasto de mantener un servidor o una VPS para estos servicios.
• Mis actividades profesionales me dejan muy poco tiempo libre, lo que me impide darle un mantenimiento adecuado a mis servicios.
• Hay cientos de instancias de los mismos servicios de personas que hacen un mucho mejor trabajo que yo y que pueden darle la dedicación que se merece.

Agradezco muchísimo todo el apoyo que he recibido por parte de ustedes en estos 2 años de trabajo y difusión. ¡Muchas gracias!

#autumn64 #softwarelibre #software_libre #foss #fediverse #mastodon

"The S is for surveillance": fighting KOSA and bad internet bills in the ATmosphere and the fediverses

https://thenexusofprivacy.net/the-s-in-kosa-is-for-surveillance/

The first post in this series was at a fairly high level.  Now, let's shift from theory to practice.

Thanks to Anthony Moser for the framing help!

@general @fediverse

#KOSA #ageVerification #fediverse #USpol

The main Mastodon app stopped working on my phone, so I tried out Flare instead. Pretty cool -> https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.dimension.flare/

#mastodon #fediverse #misskey #bluesky #twitter #x #flare #fdroid #android