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I guess with the influx of new users to the Fediverse, we're doing introductions now, so here's mine:
I'm a #FreeSoftware and #OpenCulture enthusiast and developer. I'm also an #ExMormon who's trying to create safe spaces for those who are recovering from high-demand control groups.
#introduction
I'm a #FreeSoftware and #OpenCulture enthusiast and developer. I'm also an #ExMormon who's trying to create safe spaces for those who are recovering from high-demand control groups.
#introduction
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So this whole #Friendica #SelfHosting experiment has been a smashing success. This will be the last post I boost from my legacy accounts, and I'll be checking them with less frequency. If you've not followed the new account, now would be a good time.
I want to extend a special thanks to opencube and fosstodon for giving me my first taste of the #fediverse.
I want to extend a special thanks to opencube and fosstodon for giving me my first taste of the #fediverse.
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Okay, I've made some progress getting my #PeerTube instance up and running, but I'm running into some kind of database migration issue and I'm done beating my head against a wall for today.
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I give up. I tried to start over, and this time I can't get yarn to install the software because of a wrong version of node. I was able to get around that with nvm last time, but not this time for some reason.
I guess I'll have to wait for a version of PeerTube that supports the current version of node.
I guess I'll have to wait for a version of PeerTube that supports the current version of node.
Trying to set up a #PeerTube instance. First problem I had was that the version of #node in the #Debian repositories was too old. After figuring out how to install the current version, I'm now faced with the problem of it being too recent.
error eslint-plugin-jsdoc@38.0.6: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version "^12 || ^14 || ^16 || ^17". Got "18.7.0"On top of it all, I'm using a reverse proxy over a wireguard VPS because I have an 8TB drive I want to take advantage of for the file storage.
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So, it turns out that the nginx configuration that comes with PeerTube, despite using a reverse proxy to port 9000 on localhost, still requires read/write access to the data directory. That doesn't complicate things at all.
@silverwizard Considering it. The only catch is that sshfs locks up the system for a non-trivial amount of time when the connection is lost. Also, up 'till this point, I've had it set up so that my local machines can SSH into the VPS, but not the other way around.
The workaruond I was thinking of was setting up an nginx reverse proxy at both ends.
The workaruond I was thinking of was setting up an nginx reverse proxy at both ends.
oh hell yeah. Sweat, too. And your exhalation when you wear a mask.
@Jeena I've recently upgraded my internet and am considering running a private PeerTube instance for family and friends. How much bandwidth do you find yours uses?
But I have very little users so very seldom there would be more than one user at a time using the site to watch something. And if they watched the same video then they would help each other because of p2p.
Well, we survived another tornado warning for the region, though a severe weather warning persists.
We seem to have had a fair amount of extreme weather lately.
We seem to have had a fair amount of extreme weather lately.
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Another recipe that required the use of the oven that we haven't yet bothered to have fixed. They turned out quite nicely on the stove top.
#FediFood
Breaded Chicken Tenders with Roasted Potatoes and Smoky Garlic Aioli
Another recipe that required the use of the oven that we haven't yet bothered to have fixed. They turned out quite nicely on the stove top.
#FediFood
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Spanako-Pizzas with Puff Pastry and Tomato-Cucumber Salad
Another one that I loved and @Katy Lamothe hated.
#FediFood
Tomato and Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwiches with Goat Cheese and Tomato Soup
A fancy take on a time-honoured classic. It was delicious, but a lot of work for grilled cheese and tomato soup.
#FediFood
Creamy Black Bean Curry with Steamed Rice
Another vegetarian dish. Considering @Katy Lamothe's "no plain rice" rule, we've had a lot of meals with plain rice. No regrets.
#FediFood
Beef Meatballs and Fresh Veggie Pasta with Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto Sauce
One of the advantages of no longer being allergic to nuts is that I no longer need to fear pesto. I had no idea what I was missing.
#FediFood
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Just saw a commercial for some sort of VR baseball game, where some sensor was strapped to an actual baseball bat. Am I the only person who thinks that blindly swinginging around a baseball bat with a VR headset on might be a bad idea?
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I feel like I wouldn't want the potential dangers of a real bat swing when I'm not gonna feel it hit a ball anyway
I will feel it hit a light fixture maybe
I will feel it hit a light fixture maybe
Thinking about getting my #AmateurRadio license. I found a site that had some pretty good study information and I was really happy until I unexpectedly hit a paywall. Granted, that seems to be the norm with these sites, but disclosing that up front might've been nice.
Apparently, there is no fee for the test in Canada, so they make their money on the study materials instead.
Apparently, there is no fee for the test in Canada, so they make their money on the study materials instead.
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I used Hamstudy for my exams in the US:
https://hamstudy.org/
It was free all the way through, and it looks like they have the Canadian question banks as well. They don’t have much content beyond the question and brief explanations, but I used it to pass all three US exams in one go.
https://hamstudy.org/
It was free all the way through, and it looks like they have the Canadian question banks as well. They don’t have much content beyond the question and brief explanations, but I used it to pass all three US exams in one go.
HamStudy.org: Cutting edge amateur radio study tools
Free ham radio flash cards, practice tests, and question pools as well as introduction to ham radio and explanations for questions.hamstudy.org
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Just spent several hours at the hospital only to be sent hone with a "we're not really sure what the problem is, but we're reasonably sure it's not life threatening."
Good to know, but...
Good to know, but...
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@glyn It was asctually my wife who was in distress, but we're both doing okay today.
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Get better soon! Sadly I know such events, not really mind calming... though it has a slightly positive sound in it. So, put it on the good side 😉
I wish #vosk would give me some idea of how far along it was. Perhaps there's a flag I just don't know about. I'd check the man page, but I'm lazy.
So, I'm pretty sure my new #ISP is traffic shaping me. I've changed the way my SSH tunnels are set up to minimize the impact of this, and it seems to be helping, but I am not impressed.
In their defense, it may actually be Rogers doing the monkeying with my packets, since they own the physical lines.
#NetNeutrality
In their defense, it may actually be Rogers doing the monkeying with my packets, since they own the physical lines.
#NetNeutrality
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Been really keeping an eye on the garden. It seems to be recovering.
#garden
Day 43
Been really keeping an eye on the garden. It seems to be recovering.
#garden
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Day 59
The heat's really been taking a toll. Lost one of the pepper plants, and the peas aren't looking good. I'm trying to step up the watering to compensate, but we'll see how that goes.
On the plus side, the remaining two pepper plants seem to be thriving.
#garden
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Once again, we weren't feeling the potato wedges this meal was supposed to come with, so we made mashed potatoes instead. The sauce was the star of the show. It added a nice zip without being too spicy for @Katy Lamothe.
#FediFood
Cornmeal-Crusted Chicken Tenders with Smoky Ranch and Mashed Potatoes
Once again, we weren't feeling the potato wedges this meal was supposed to come with, so we made mashed potatoes instead. The sauce was the star of the show. It added a nice zip without being too spicy for @Katy Lamothe.
#FediFood
Harissa-Spiced Chickpea Salad with Creamy Honey-Mustard Dressing
We made a fatal mistake, we forgot to pick the meals in this most recent meal kit batch until after the deadline so they chose for us. This is the meal that @Katy Lamothe was the most apprehensive of. We omitted the potatoes, because putting potatoes in a non potato salad was just a bridge too far.
#FediFood
Cheesy Bacon and Mushroom Flatbread Pizzas with Creamy Garlic Aioli
We actually followed the recipe on this one pretty closely, except that we were supposed to drizzle this with honey. We didn't do that, but it still turned out amazing.
#FediFood
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New England-Style Fish Chowder
We've made this one before, but thought it was worth another go. Every bit as delicious as I remember.
#FediFood
Linguine Beef Ragu with Parmesan Cheese
Three meal kits in one day because we've been lazy about cooking them and needed to catch up. I'm not normally excited about spaghetti-type dishes, but this was next level.
#FediFood
Linguine in a Blush Sauce with Pan-Seared Tomatoes
Another vegetatian dish. I know the last recipe was linguine too, but this was sufficienly different to keep it interesting anyways.
#FediFood
BBQ-Spiced Chicken Dinner with Warm and Tangy Potato Salad
Best potato salad I've ever had. We decided to make the chicken into a chicken sandwich. It was a good call.
#FediFood
Garlicky Spaghetti and Beef Meatballs with Homemade Sugo Sauce
I don't know what sugo sauce is, but it's delicious.
#FediFood
Carnitas-Style Pork Tacos with Chili Crema
We made a lunch of these because we're having to play catch-up again. Given the portion size, it was a good call. We got the recipe slightly wrong, but they came out well anyways.
#FediFood
Okay Heinz, we need to talk. You've got to calm down with the portmanteaus.
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That one was in the news. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/mayochup-cree-translation-1.5144737
@Matthew Skala That's amazing. In Utah, they call it fry sauce. I guess they should probably have gone with that instead.
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There's a new resident at #VictoriaPark, a baby swan. This is the best photo I was able to get with my phone. It's got a decent camera as far as phones go, but I had to push the zoom to the limit to get this one.
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Perhaps today I'll choose not to be a lazy sack of crap and swap out that router that's been giving me issues. #procrastination
So... I tried replacing my old dying router with a slightly less old one that I had lying around. Problem is that I can't configure it because its admin page is only served over HTTPS using an old no longer supported version of TLS.
I was direct connected with an Ethernet cable. I promise that nobody was MITM-ing me. Perhaps I'll have to break down and buy a new router. For now, it's back to the old one.
I was direct connected with an Ethernet cable. I promise that nobody was MITM-ing me. Perhaps I'll have to break down and buy a new router. For now, it's back to the old one.
Have you considered grabbing a Vagrant VM image of Win10? I think it still includes IE11, and you can be almost certain that will still support TLS 1.0.
@Aaravchen :linux: :suspicious: I ended up just getting another router, actually.
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Today, I became the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.
Still don't know the question though.
Still don't know the question though.
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Microsoft's Github Copilot is disregarding Free Software licenses and will be happily selling parts of your GPL code against your will! Woo!
https://drewdevault.com/2022/06/23/Copilot-GPL-washing.html
As the author of this article says - free software should be dependant on free software architecture - I recommend https://codeberg.org as an open-source alternative to Github.
Sadly Github is no longer a platform that can be trusted.
CC: @codeberg
#FOSS #Github #Copilot #Microsoft #GPL #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Codeberg
https://drewdevault.com/2022/06/23/Copilot-GPL-washing.html
As the author of this article says - free software should be dependant on free software architecture - I recommend https://codeberg.org as an open-source alternative to Github.
Sadly Github is no longer a platform that can be trusted.
CC: @codeberg
#FOSS #Github #Copilot #Microsoft #GPL #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Codeberg
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Something a bit different today...
There's a really nice Fediverse admin on here called @stux who provides lots of free decentralised public services (public instances of Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed, Matrix, Nitter, Invidious, Searx etc).
Stux is spending hundreds of euros a month so that these services remain free and operational.
Apparently Stux has had a tough time finding work recently, but has their own small business which provides web hosting.
If you're looking for a small indie hosting provider, this might be a really good choice as the money raised will help keep the Fedi going too:
➡️ https://stuxhost.com
(I'm sorry to embarass you Stux, but I think you deserve a shout-out for the good work you do!)
There's a really nice Fediverse admin on here called @stux who provides lots of free decentralised public services (public instances of Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed, Matrix, Nitter, Invidious, Searx etc).
Stux is spending hundreds of euros a month so that these services remain free and operational.
Apparently Stux has had a tough time finding work recently, but has their own small business which provides web hosting.
If you're looking for a small indie hosting provider, this might be a really good choice as the money raised will help keep the Fedi going too:
➡️ https://stuxhost.com
(I'm sorry to embarass you Stux, but I think you deserve a shout-out for the good work you do!)
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Jonathan Lamothe started reading Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Jonathan Lamothe started reading "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"
https://bookwyrm.social/user/jlamothe/generatednote/217498
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So, I signed up for an account on SDF.org. I'd kind of known about them for a while, but wasn't interested because "I already use Linux, what do I need with a UNIX shell account?"
It's actually a pretty awesome community.
It's actually a pretty awesome community.
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There's an item that @Katy Lamothe wants to order online but it's always out of stock. I came up with what I thought was a clever idea to be notified when it becomes available.
I wrote a shell script that loads the order page with curl, performs a SHA256 hash, and then compares it to the last hash it received. If they're different, it sends me an email telling me there's been a change. The plan was to run this as a cron job every hour on the hour.
Turns out, every time I load the page, I get a different hash, making my script useless. I don't know if this was intentional, but I spent longer working on this solution than I'd like to admit.
Ah well. It was a fun project anyways.
I wrote a shell script that loads the order page with curl, performs a SHA256 hash, and then compares it to the last hash it received. If they're different, it sends me an email telling me there's been a change. The plan was to run this as a cron job every hour on the hour.
Turns out, every time I load the page, I get a different hash, making my script useless. I don't know if this was intentional, but I spent longer working on this solution than I'd like to admit.
Ah well. It was a fun project anyways.
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It's not at all like Under the Banner of Heaven, but Harold Bloom's American Religion is really interesting. As stated on the Wikipedia page, Bloom "concludes that in America there is a single, dominant religion of which many nominally distinct denominations are a part. Among these he identifies Mormonism, the Southern Baptist Convention, Pentecostalism, and Seventh-day Adventism. To a lesser extent however, he also includes nearly all "Christian" denominations in America, including mainline Protestantism and Roman Catholicism"
Jonathan Lamothe finished reading Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Jonathan Lamothe finished reading "Under the Banner of Heaven"
https://bookwyrm.social/user/jlamothe/generatednote/202263
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@Matthew Skala In one of your recent live streams, you mentioned an inexpensive microprocessor that was phasing out a lot of older analog components. Do you happen to remember what chip that was? I'd like to look at it more closely.
I think free third-party tools are easier to find for AVR microcontrollers, which cover a lot of the same ground application-wise.
@Matthew Skala Yeah, AVR was the other route I was looking into. That's probably the path I'll take. I don't even really have a specific application in mind. I'm just tinkering.
I keep seeing posts of people trying to post mastodon.social links to #Twitter and having them rejected. I kind of wonder if doing so might automatically flag one's Twitter account for review as well.
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Twitter is starting to block some instances of Mastodon... Spread the word!
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