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@kevinctofel As a Beatles fan, if you haven't yet discovered the MonaLisa Twins, start with their original song Close To You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1fJszAffQw and then watch them live from...
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To paraphrase Peter Ustinov, one might opine that "Mastodon is a kind of Twitter run by the Swiss"
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Great article detailing the troubleshooting and tuning of an overwhelmed Mastodon instance: https://nora.codes/post/scaling-mastodon-in-the-face-of-an-exodus/
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CW OpinionFolks, unless it's a punchline or something that might trigger, you should at least try to express some sort of valid reason to hide only one or two lines of of text behind a CW
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For those who didn't know the original quote, it was a comparison of 1980s Toronto to New York City, which I think is (even in 2022) a compelling analogy of Mastodon to Twitter.Toronto is a diverse...
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For some reason I'm reminded of the ancient curse "May you live in interesting times"
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Enough of this positivity and building people up already, I'm off to the other site for a bit of good old stop energy and snarkiness. BRB
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@shanselman X Forwarding on WSL: I just tried ssh with -X to an ubuntu box from a WSL session and I was able to launch the pluma editor on the remote box with its fully interactive display window...
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@kevinctofel Did you know that X forwarding works on Chromebooks? If I ssh with -X from a ChromeOS Linux terminal into my ubuntu machine, I can run GUI apps on the remote machine and the window comes...
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Caller ID is useless for filtering spam calls, because it is set by the caller to whatever they want it to be. It was designed at a time when the systems assumed the information to be trustworthy. Such...
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This guy demonstrates an almost comically naive understanding of Kubernetes if he thinks that WASM can *replace* it. I don't know where to start......
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I do realize that he concludes by dismissing the premise of his clickbait headline and the tenor of the whole article. That doesn't absolve one from spouting claptrap right up to that point.
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RIP Terry Hall, much too young indeed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdu8VOWk3pg
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Self-hosting tipsToday I took care of a couple of self-hosting issues by using S3-compatible object storage to store my Mastodon media files and also to back up the VPS that runs it all....
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It has always annoyed me that SSL Self-Signed-Certificate messaging gives the impression that by accepting the SSC you will not have secure communications. The data will indeed be encrypted in...
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I've been using Elk as my Mastodon reader. What a tremendously well designed and beautiful piece of software. Smooth as silk.https://elk.zone#elk#software#mastodontips
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@deprogrammaticaipsumMy fave programming book is Classics in Software Engineering edited by Ed Yourdon. Full of seminal papers and treatises from people like Dijkstra, Kernighan, Wirth, Parnas, DeMarco...
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I am blown away by Zoom's audio filtering. I have a big red cowbell with a clapper and handle and no matter how loud or soft I rattle it, everybody at the other end of a zoom session is convinced I'm...
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I came up with a new word - Proofuction: A system that goes directly from proof-of-concept to production can be said to be in proofuction. #dev#poc#production
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