sam

@sam@cablespaghetti.dev

Father of two, husband, lover of dogs but owner of many cats. Runner. Technology enthusiast. Metalhead. AuADHDer. Cloudy DevOps type person. Formerly known as @sam@running.cafe

791 following, 712 followers

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[?]sam »
@sam@cablespaghetti.dev

Time for another blog post, about hosting a fediverse instance on my ancient Raspberry Pi. Obviously I had to share it on the fediverse.

https://cablespaghetti.dev/hosting-a-fediverse-instance-on-an-original-raspberry-pi.html


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    [?]Natanael Copa »
    @ncopa@fosstodon.org

    @sam this was fun!
    I spotted a typo: `apk install acme.sh`
    Should be `apk add…`.

    I also wonder if the periodic script actually runs with the .sh suffix? If my memory serves me correctly you may need to drop the .sh suffix or it will now run.

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      [?]sam »
      @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

      Thanks. Fixed! And it wasn't initially because I didn't put the shebang at the top of the file, but the .sh seems to not be an issue. It is diligently running at 2am every day.

        [?]Mitch Rose »
        @mrose@universeodon.com

        @sam

        amazing! well done!

          [?]jamesb (MW1CGG) »
          @jamesb@fedi.duckduckpigeon.co.uk

          @sam
          Can I send my replies back via a UUCP gateway?

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          [?]sam »
          @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

          @jamesb@duckduckpigeon.co.uk @sam Not a clue. Maybe. 🤷 😆

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            [?]sam »
            @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

            If you’re reading this you have been successfully migrated as a follower to my stupidly underpowered Raspberry Pi hosted instance. Let’s see how it does with nearly 700 followers. 😆

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              [?]sam »
              @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

              @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk that boost did not help my load situation. 😆 I may have some work to do for this to be properly stable.

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                [?]Justine Smithies »
                @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

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                [?]sam »
                @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk It’s all fun! So far it is mostly not falling over. It takes a few minutes to get through sending my posts out to all the different servers though.

                  [?]Michael »
                  @mmeier@social.mei-home.net

                  @sam MUST - RESIST - URGE - TO - BOOST. 😁

                  Also, very inspired domain name for a Homelab. 😂

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                    [?]sam »
                    @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                    @mmeier@social.mei-home.net @sam Thanks! Feel free, after the initial wobble during transfer of my followers it’s doing ok. 🙂 I’ll write up how I pulled it off over the next few evenings.

                      [?]Mike :nixos: »
                      @codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org

                      Riddle me this.

                      What's got 4 doors, can hold 2 adults, 3 kids, and a weeks worth of luggage for a road trip, fits on a ferry boat, gets 40 something mpg and can still pull a u-turn in the middle of a city....

                      With 221,000 miles?

                      A 2010 Honda Fit, of course!

                      2010 Honda fit parked waterfront at the puget sound

                      Alt...2010 Honda fit parked waterfront at the puget sound

                      Hatchback of Honda fit stuffed with luggage

                      Alt...Hatchback of Honda fit stuffed with luggage

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                      [?]Stéphanie »
                      @stephanie@ottawa.place

                      @codemonkeymike I so wish they were still making it!!

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                        [?]Mike :nixos: »
                        @codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org

                        @stephanie I know. Blows me away they don't make it anymore. It seemed so successful

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                          [?]sam »
                          @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                          @codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org @stephanie@fosstodon.org We still get the Jazz as it is called in the UK. It’s an overpriced hybrid now, so who knows if the longevity will be the same but it still exists at least! https://www.honda.co.uk/cars/new/jazz-hybrid/overview.html

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                            [?]Mike :nixos: »
                            @codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org

                            @sam @stephanie stupid America. Can't handle small sensible cars

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                              [?]sam »
                              @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                              @codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org Despite being everywhere in the UK, many manufacturers have discontinued their small hatchbacks in favour of crossovers. The Ford Fiesta is dead for example, which is an incredibly stupid move given how well they sold. 🤷

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                                [?]Mike :nixos: »
                                @codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org

                                @sam I mean crossovers are fine, but they dont replace these fantastic hatchbacks...

                                Oh humans..

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                                  [?]Hugo Slabbert ⚠️ »
                                  @hugo@social.treehouse.systems

                                  @codemonkeymike we still have an '05 Toyota Echo hatchback. I love that little thing.

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                                    [?]Mike :nixos: »
                                    @codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org

                                    @hugo the Eco.. now theres a name I haven't heard in a while

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                                      [?]Hugo Slabbert ⚠️ »
                                      @hugo@social.treehouse.systems

                                      @codemonkeymike it comes back to you...

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                                        [?]Mike :nixos: »
                                        @codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org

                                        @hugo ahhhh i see what you did there

                                          [?]Mike Sax »
                                          @mikesax@mas.to

                                          @codemonkeymike Congratulations, Mike. All things considered, this is probably the most environmentally sound choice you could have made. It looks fabulous!

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                                            [?]Mike :nixos: »
                                            @codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org

                                            @mikesax thanks. Yeah it was just supposed to be a cheap second car. Cost $5k and done. It's been great

                                              [?]Ariel »
                                              @arichtman@eigenmagic.net

                                              Pen-pineapple-apple-pen

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                                              [?]Krista, Darth Moose Shark »
                                              @grrrr_shark@supervolcano.angryshark.eu

                                              @arichtman my daughter and I both just say NO to you, Ariel. NOOOOO.

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                                                [?]sam »
                                                @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                @arichtman@eigenmagic.net I haven’t watched the video in a couple of years but still randomly sing the song for no reason. This may be more an indication of my state of mind rather than the catchiness of the song through.

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                                                  [?]abadidea »
                                                  @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                  Odin says good morning

                                                  Odin the Newfie conked out on his side with his tongue lolling out on the floor

                                                  Alt...Odin the Newfie conked out on his side with his tongue lolling out on the floor

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                                                    [?]Rectus »
                                                    @rectus@peoplemaking.games

                                                    @0xabad1dea good morning odin!

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                                                      [?]sam »
                                                      @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                      @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Odin has the right idea this morning…

                                                        [?]Duckquil »
                                                        @duckquil@mstdn.social

                                                        @0xabad1dea good morning Odin!

                                                          [?]Nini »
                                                          @nini@oldbytes.space

                                                          @0xabad1dea Is Odin still popular over on RedNote?

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                                                            [?]abadidea »
                                                            @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                            @nini get an average of a few hundred views and several comments on each picture I post

                                                              [?]ZZ Bottom »
                                                              @fonecokid@c.im

                                                              @0xabad1dea ❤️ Happy Day😍

                                                                [?]Wylan »
                                                                @wylan@xoxo.zone

                                                                @0xabad1dea good morning Odin. This is about how I feel today too 😂

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                                                                  [?]George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 »
                                                                  @georgetakei@universeodon.com

                                                                  Boldly growing where no spore has grown before.

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                                                                  [?]sam »
                                                                  @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                  My youngest son (6) just pulled a “double your money” Facebook crypto scam on my eldest son (very nearly 8), except without the Facebook or the crypto.

                                                                  In some ways I am impressed. On the other hand I wish it didn’t take so long for him to admit it and give the money back…

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                                                                  [?]nixCraft 🐧 »
                                                                  @nixCraft@mastodon.social

                                                                  🤣 senior devs or sysadmins on the weekend be like …

                                                                  A "DO NOT DISTURB WE ARE DISTURBED ENOUGH ALREADY" sign in front of three cats peeking over it.

                                                                  Alt...A "DO NOT DISTURB WE ARE DISTURBED ENOUGH ALREADY" sign in front of three cats peeking over it.

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                                                                  [?]nixCraft 🐧 »
                                                                  @nixCraft@mastodon.social

                                                                  Go away or I will replace you with a very tiny shell script ...

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                                                                  [?]Thomas Thyberg »
                                                                  @thyberg@mastodonsweden.se

                                                                  @nixCraft I had that text on sticker from ThinkGeek.com some 25 years ago.
                                                                  But I think it said small instead of tiny :-)

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                                                                    [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: »
                                                                    @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                                                                    @thyberg @nixCraft

                                                                    I think I remember that one as well.

                                                                      [?]Janet Grootebroeder »
                                                                      @JanetGrBr@mastodon.social

                                                                      @nixCraft Horribly deformed cats. Humans are awful animals. :(

                                                                        [?]Feral Aunt Nessie :v_bi: »
                                                                        @farah@beige.party

                                                                        @nixCraft Not in info or tech, but still need that sign

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                                                                          [?]Hedders »
                                                                          @hedders@mas.to

                                                                          Would it be very childish of me to find this incredibly, incredibly funny?

                                                                          theregister.com/2025/06/25/hom

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                                                                          [?]sam »
                                                                          @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                          @hedders@mas.to Maybe I am childish too…

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                                                                            [?]sam »
                                                                            @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                            On the downside I am very warm, tired and my work day has been pretty hectic. On the upside I have just treated myself to a new keyboard.

                                                                            Mechboards.co.uk are having a Dutch auction for all the random stuff they need to get rid of. I scored a Keychron V6 Max for £80 which I’m pretty happy with!

                                                                            Here’s the link if you want to do some shopping yourself: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1ufXOf61idIShPMEnA9FUXJj0m7J4pmNiFCszuZkWLRE


                                                                            A full size keyboard with uk layout and mostly blue keys and a red escape key

                                                                            Alt...A full size keyboard with uk layout and mostly blue keys and a red escape key

                                                                              [?]Tats 🇬🇧🫖 »
                                                                              @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party

                                                                              Ooh YouTube are removing the monetization option from ai voiced videos. Heaven be praised.
                                                                              I don't use YouTube but I'm pleased to see a slight pushback against ai .

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                                                                              [?]Tats 🇬🇧🫖 »
                                                                              @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party

                                                                              :dancingcorgi: YouTube to demonetize AI-generated videos starting July 15 - Tech Startups

                                                                              Here’s a summary of the policy changes starting July 15:

                                                                              No AI-generated voiceovers
                                                                              No Low-effort slideshows
                                                                              No recycled or repurposed videos
                                                                              No mass-produced reaction content
                                                                              No copy-paste or minimally edited uploads
                                                                              If your channel leans on AI voiceovers, repurposed clips, or low-effort uploads, this update could hit your bottom line fast. YouTube is tightening the rules with one message in mind: real people, real content, or no payout.

                                                                              techstartups.com/2025/07/09/yo

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                                                                                [?]sam »
                                                                                @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party I’m slightly worried this will cause a wave of fake reports against perfectly legitimate channels but I’ll be interested to watch it unfold.

                                                                                  [?]Jonathan Schofield »
                                                                                  @urlyman@mastodon.social

                                                                                  @Tattooed_Mummy how does this square with, for example, them plugging Veo3 into Shorts? theverge.com/news/689474/youtu

                                                                                  Very confusing

                                                                                    [?]Ben Todd »
                                                                                    @monkeyben@mastodon.sdf.org

                                                                                    @Tattooed_Mummy

                                                                                    I thought big tech like Google loved AI slop! I guess they only like AI when they are using it to get rich quick.

                                                                                      [?]BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺 »
                                                                                      @BonehouseWasps@mastodon.social

                                                                                      @Tattooed_Mummy This is good. YT is drowning in AI generated content now and it's awful.

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                                                                                        [?]Tats 🇬🇧🫖 »
                                                                                        @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party

                                                                                        @BonehouseWasps it's awful. They even just make up entire 'true crime' now. My husband was telling me about one so I researched, it never happened.

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                                                                                          [?]BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺 »
                                                                                          @BonehouseWasps@mastodon.social

                                                                                          @Tattooed_Mummy Wow. Not heard of that one. I've seen lots of entirely made up music videos though, with both the music and visuals AI generated. Neither bears much scrutiny, of course. And the way VO mispronounces names - often several different ways in one vid, can be unintentionally hilarious.

                                                                                            [?]Baron Vonskinnback »
                                                                                            @Vonskinnback@mastodon.social

                                                                                            @Tattooed_Mummy YouTube clearly doesn't believe AI has any value but yet the owner of YouTube seems to be jamming Gemini in every open orifice it can find, seems a little like mixed messaging to me...

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                                                                                              [?]Tats 🇬🇧🫖 »
                                                                                              @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party

                                                                                              @Vonskinnback I'm hoping its the beginning of an awakening

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                                                                                                [?]Baron Vonskinnback »
                                                                                                @Vonskinnback@mastodon.social

                                                                                                @Tattooed_Mummy I doubt it, just money & techbros trying to have its cake and eat it...

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                                                                                                  [?]Baron Vonskinnback »
                                                                                                  @Vonskinnback@mastodon.social

                                                                                                  @Tattooed_Mummy they have too much invested in AI...

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                                                                                                    [?]Tats 🇬🇧🫖 »
                                                                                                    @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party

                                                                                                    @Vonskinnback how much money will they throw into the sinking ship before they realise they are just wasting more and more I wonder.

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                                                                                                      [?]Baron Vonskinnback »
                                                                                                      @Vonskinnback@mastodon.social

                                                                                                      @Tattooed_Mummy when the bubble goes it's going to take a lot of us with it, just like the.com bubble and the property/subprime mortgage bubble, not to mention the over leveraging of crypto assets within the American financial system, that also relies heavily on GPU powered processing, honestly I can't even imagine what would happen if AI crypto assets went down at the same time, but they are linked, so it is a conceivable risk...

                                                                                                        [?]bewilderbeast23 »
                                                                                                        @bewilderbeast23@mastodon.social

                                                                                                        @Tattooed_Mummy This is Google. I am suspicious. If anyone's thinking Kindness of their Hearts, they ARE mistaken.

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                                                                                                          [?]Tats 🇬🇧🫖 »
                                                                                                          @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party

                                                                                                          @bewilderbeast23 oh I don't think it's kindness. I'm just hoping they're starting to realise that people don't want AI. Therefore it won't pay

                                                                                                            [?]Currywurst »
                                                                                                            @Currywurst@nerdculture.de

                                                                                                            @Tattooed_Mummy
                                                                                                            Forget AI, can we just ban all mass-produced reaction content?

                                                                                                              [?]myrmepropagandist »
                                                                                                              @futurebird@sauropods.win

                                                                                                              @Tattooed_Mummy

                                                                                                              But will they stop running their ads on that "content" and stop surfacing it above "higher effort" content for the views?

                                                                                                                [?]John Maxwell »
                                                                                                                @jmax@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                @Tattooed_Mummy Good. Hope it's more than words. I also hope they don't use it as a way to squeeze real creators harder.

                                                                                                                  [?]myrmepropagandist »
                                                                                                                  @futurebird@sauropods.win

                                                                                                                  @Tattooed_Mummy

                                                                                                                  This means nothing if that content continues to be highlighted by the algorithm.

                                                                                                                  The problem is that it's eating up all the views and it is nonsense with no value.

                                                                                                                    [?]mcc »
                                                                                                                    @mcc@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                    @Tattooed_Mummy But they're also adding a feature to generate videos with AI! These are very mixed messages.

                                                                                                                      [?]Anca »
                                                                                                                      @anca@mastodon.xyz

                                                                                                                      @Tattooed_Mummy This is such great news! I was horrified to find my parents watching YouTubes that were basically AI slop.

                                                                                                                      But this will prevent Google from being able to monetize their own AI on the creation as well as the consumption side, so maybe they'll allow it once again if the numbers don't look good.

                                                                                                                        [?]disky »
                                                                                                                        @disky00@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                        @Tattooed_Mummy I use Youtube constantly and I never interact with AI content *unless* it's ads. I wish more people would only watch videos from their Subscriptions tab and not Recommended like most people seem to do. In fact, I turn off the tracking of my watch history so I can't even use the Recommended tab.

                                                                                                                        The next step is to heavily police the recommendations in the recommendations below a video. In addition to AI garbage there's a whole world of hate and fear content on Youtube to avoid.

                                                                                                                          [?]Tony Hoyle »
                                                                                                                          @tony@toot.hoyle.me.uk

                                                                                                                          @Tattooed_Mummy If true that's the first good update that youtube have done for a while.

                                                                                                                          Very late, but much needed.

                                                                                                                            [?]Gabriele Svelto »
                                                                                                                            @gabrielesvelto@mas.to

                                                                                                                            @Tattooed_Mummy interestingly one of the most common AI slop videos I've encountered are "instrumental" music, so no AI-generated voices. I wonder if they'll demonetize those too. I must have blocked a hundred different channels which kept popping into my suggestions

                                                                                                                              [?]Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉 »
                                                                                                                              @swelljoe@mas.to

                                                                                                                              @Tattooed_Mummy huge sigh of relief. YouTube has become almost unusable for a lot of stuff, because of all the AI garbage. I'm surprised they're willing to admit there's no good use of AI for YouTube videos, though, which is what this sounds like they're saying (and I agree).

                                                                                                                                [?]Jigme Datse »
                                                                                                                                @jigmedatse@social.jigmedatse.com

                                                                                                                                @Tattooed_Mummy If this is true... It may end up being the beginning of the end of AI. It won't go away, but people not making money that way, will mean they will stop doing it. I can't imagine a lot of "fun" comes from creating those videos. I could well be mistaken that it will make any impact.

                                                                                                                                  [?]Corvid Space Program »
                                                                                                                                  @portlygent@mastodo.neoliber.al

                                                                                                                                  @Tattooed_Mummy

                                                                                                                                  Alt...YES... HA HA HA... YES said the sickos looking through the window

                                                                                                                                    [?]Dansk404 »
                                                                                                                                    @crispyfloyd@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                    @Tattooed_Mummy Not a decision that I'd expect from a Google company. Huh. It'll be a decision taken with profits in mind, so I wonder if it's something to do with people using AI to produce large quantities of crap videos clogging up YouTube servers, or maybe they know from the stats that people don't watch or engage with AI driven content anywhere near as much as they do human content.

                                                                                                                                      [?]Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian: »
                                                                                                                                      @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems

                                                                                                                                      in our efforts to make the linux desktop more gay, i'm pleased to announce that we're probably moving wayback to freedesktop.org imminently

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                                                                                                                                      [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                      @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                      @ariadne@treehouse.systems I heard about this on the grapevine and am now reading your blog post. Thanks for the great work! I love the tone of the part about the X11 fork…what a bunch of clowns…

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                                                                                                                                        [?]Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian: »
                                                                                                                                        @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems

                                                                                                                                        we will not stop until the only background allowed for the X root window is the progress pride flag

                                                                                                                                        that... that is how serious we are about making the linux desktop gay

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                                                                                                                                        [?]Björn Lindström »
                                                                                                                                        @bkhl@social.sdfeu.org

                                                                                                                                        @ariadne I mean, it is a decent test card …

                                                                                                                                          [?]angelthorns »
                                                                                                                                          @angelthorns@social.treehouse.systems

                                                                                                                                          @ariadne Queer4Linux we're doing it!

                                                                                                                                            [?]MJ »
                                                                                                                                            @mj@social.treehouse.systems

                                                                                                                                            @ariadne
                                                                                                                                            Maybe let people choose between a desk top and a desk bottom.

                                                                                                                                              [?]bomberfish »
                                                                                                                                              @fish@wetdry.world

                                                                                                                                              @ariadne i just saw lunduke whining about this, god that man cannot understand the concept of sarcasm 😭

                                                                                                                                              anyway yeah the linux desktop is very much not gay enough and we need to fix that

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                                                                                                                                                [?]Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian: »
                                                                                                                                                @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems

                                                                                                                                                @fish lunduke must really hate himself living in one of the gayest metros in america

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                                                                                                                                                  [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                  @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                  This VPS issue has me very confused. Can any experts help me help out their support here? Intermittently I'm getting connection resets for all inbound TCP traffic but only for IPv6. It breaks HTTPS and SSH traffic, and seemingly comes and goes by itself. Outbound traffic and IPv4 seem unaffected. Does this sound like a routing issue on the provider end or something I've somehow screwed up in the OS?

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                                                                                                                                                    [?]greem »
                                                                                                                                                    @greem@cyberplace.social

                                                                                                                                                    @sam sounds like the theoretically unlikely* situation of two independent devices trying to use the same v6 address.

                                                                                                                                                    *Unlikely given the depth and breadth of the namespace, but...

                                                                                                                                                    Have you set a static address on this one?

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                                                                                                                                                      [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                      @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                      I have set a static address yes, but I was provided a /64 by the VPS provider for the node. Very interestingly since my last reply to the support request it has been perfect...I wonder if they accidentally gave the same prefix to two customers...

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                                                                                                                                                        [?]Gary Parker :party_porg: »
                                                                                                                                                        @WiteWulf@cyberplace.social

                                                                                                                                                        @sam @greem did I see you say you're on Hetzner? Because I've definitely seen that happen before on friends' VPSes with them.

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                                                                                                                                                          [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                          @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                          I'm on a small provider on an instance I got very cheap. Honestly it's otherwise very fast and IPv4 is reliable. Support are at least being responsive so maybe they'll be able to figure it out. Since my last reply the 45 minute long stretch of it working has ended and we're back to broken now.

                                                                                                                                                          CC: @greem@cyberplace.social

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                                                                                                                                                            [?]greem »
                                                                                                                                                            @greem@cyberplace.social

                                                                                                                                                            @sam
                                                                                                                                                            While it's in faulty state, can you run tcpdump to see if traffic is actually getting to it?

                                                                                                                                                            Via a v4 connection, obviously! Something like this:

                                                                                                                                                            tcpdump -n -i eth0 '(tcp and port 22) or icmp'

                                                                                                                                                            Make an SSH connection and see if the inbound SYN packet reaches the interface, or the interface itself responds with an RST or ICMP port/host unreachable.

                                                                                                                                                            No packets? Provider.
                                                                                                                                                            Packets and ICMP? Your problem!
                                                                                                                                                            @WiteWulf

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                                                                                                                                                              [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                              @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                              They gave me a new address allocation. It didn't help. Then I noticed in an outbound traceroute that traffic was going via a random IP...it turns out another customer in the same subnet was sending out IPv6 Router Advertisements! I have now changed my default gateway configuration to ::1 from :: and things seem fixed. I hope the host goes after the offending customer and asks for them to quit it but I suspect not.

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                                                                                                                                                                [?]greem »
                                                                                                                                                                @greem@cyberplace.social

                                                                                                                                                                @sam Pretty sure you'd be able to build yourself some firewall rules against that, but you have to be careful not to chop your VPS off at the knees 🪓

                                                                                                                                                                Good sleuthing though!

                                                                                                                                                                @WiteWulf

                                                                                                                                                                  [?]fraggLe! »
                                                                                                                                                                  @fwaggle@moodoo.org

                                                                                                                                                                  @sam @greem @WiteWulf If you don't need RAs (it sounds like you're manually seeing the route?) you can turn accepting them off with a sysctl.

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                                                                                                                                                                    [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                    @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                    Alright I've got myself a 1GB RAM VPS for $12 for the year (a 4x increase over the Pi 😆). It's in London and everything for super low latency! I managed to get installed through some hackery and migrate my blog and instance to it.

                                                                                                                                                                    One slightly weird thing I had is that inbound traffic on both SSH and HTTPS was returning a "connection reset by peer" for a while. It seems to be working now, but if some IPv6 folks can check https://cablespaghetti.dev loads properly over v6 for them now, it would put my mind at rest.

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                                                                                                                                                                      [?]goetz »
                                                                                                                                                                      @goetz@ipv6.social

                                                                                                                                                                      @sam Works for me.

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                                                                                                                                                                        [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                        @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                        @goetz@ipv6.social @sam Great. Glad to be accessible to people to want to try and live that pure IPv6 life 😁

                                                                                                                                                                          [?]The Real Grunfink »
                                                                                                                                                                          @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                                                                                                                          Hi. I have an ipv6 only instance, and it's able to access your host with no hassle.

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                                                                                                                                                                            [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                            @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                            @grunfink@comam.es Thanks. I’ll just avoid touching it and maybe it’ll keep working. 😆 I think it’s something with routing on the VPS host side.

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                                                                                                                                                                              [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                              @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                              It is SO NICE having a responsive fedi server again that isn't constantly running out of resources. I learned a lot from getting the Pi to (mostly) work though and now 1GB of RAM feels like a huge luxury. I suppose I'll have to write a blog post on migrating to a VPS now...

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                                                                                                                                                                                [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                                @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                Crap, I’m getting resets on inbound (but not outbound) IPv6 traffic again. Something is very much not right with this box. I suppose I’m opening a support ticket…

                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Ashkan »
                                                                                                                                                                                  @ashkan@twitter.social

                                                                                                                                                                                  @sam
                                                                                                                                                                                  Are you telling me that your mastodon server was on a pi?

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                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                                    @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                    @ashkan@twitter.social No this is just the snac instance I set up as a bit of an experiment. I knew it was going to be a challenge. 😆

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                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                                      @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                      What a weekend! We’re getting some decorating done this week in the hope we can put the house on the market some time this month.

                                                                                                                                                                                      In preparation we’ve been doing a lot of cleaning and purging of junk. The number of bags of stuff that has come out of this house is truly spectacular! I wish I could say we’re finished but the work will continue next week.

                                                                                                                                                                                      I really need to start selling some computer stuff as well. If anyone in the UK happens to be after a AMD Ryzen 3900XT based workstation/gaming PC let me know…

                                                                                                                                                                                      sam boosted

                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Shouty person »
                                                                                                                                                                                      @clacksee@wandering.shop

                                                                                                                                                                                      If you’re a UK resident and/or a UK citizen, please make sure you sign this petition. It’s at almost 80k signatures and it’s got 3 weeks left to get to 100k.

                                                                                                                                                                                      ‘Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services’

                                                                                                                                                                                      petition.parliament.uk/petitio

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                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Madagascar_Sky »
                                                                                                                                                                                        @Madagascar_Sky@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                        @clacksee

                                                                                                                                                                                        I've boosted this toot. Will they do anything besides discuss this in the parliament?

                                                                                                                                                                                        p.s.: you'all will need more than 100,000 votes to counteract any invalid ones. From 14,000 to 40,000 extra votes.

                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Viral Obscurity »
                                                                                                                                                                                          @viralobscurity@mstdn.social

                                                                                                                                                                                          @clacksee signed a while ago but giving it a boost

                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Raven Luni »
                                                                                                                                                                                            @RavenLuni@furry.engineer

                                                                                                                                                                                            @clacksee Dont remember signing that one but it says I have (mentioning just in case its a problem and other people are getting the same message)

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                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Shouty person »
                                                                                                                                                                                              @clacksee@wandering.shop

                                                                                                                                                                                              @RavenLuni
                                                                                                                                                                                              It was the same for me.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Raven Luni »
                                                                                                                                                                                                @RavenLuni@furry.engineer

                                                                                                                                                                                                @clacksee possible problem with the site then - that would stop it getting signatures

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                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Shouty person »
                                                                                                                                                                                                  @clacksee@wandering.shop

                                                                                                                                                                                                  @RavenLuni
                                                                                                                                                                                                  No, just means I signed it at some point in the last five months.

                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Ra »
                                                                                                                                                                                                    @Ra@mstdn.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                    @clacksee Seems to work.
                                                                                                                                                                                                    Now at 78951 signatures

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Or " 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 , 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 0 signatures" as copy/paste would have it.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Shouty person »
                                                                                                                                                                                                      @clacksee@wandering.shop

                                                                                                                                                                                                      @Ra

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Alt...Bert or Ernie (I can’t recall which one’s which) is surprised GIF by MOODMAN

                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Scaea - Social »
                                                                                                                                                                                                        @scaea@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                        @clacksee I would sign if I could! Good luck getting those signatures
                                                                                                                                                                                                        🤞🙏🤞🙏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Nikhotmsk »
                                                                                                                                                                                                          @nikhotmsk@vmst.io

                                                                                                                                                                                                          @clacksee wait, did it mean anybody will be able to do a transition for free? Cool.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Shouty person »
                                                                                                                                                                                                            @clacksee@wandering.shop

                                                                                                                                                                                                            @nikhotmsk
                                                                                                                                                                                                            I mean, they can. The problem right now is that the wait list is multiple years long. This is just to ensure that the government doesn’t remove that right.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Rob\Viewdata UK »
                                                                                                                                                                                                              @robert@irrelevant.me.uk

                                                                                                                                                                                                              @clacksee
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Signed, making it 80,000 exactly. :-)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]mcc »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                @mcc@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                @clacksee Extremely sad that whoever made this petition felt they had to compromise by including "aged 18 and over", but I guess sometimes one step at a time is the correct approach.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Shouty person »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @clacksee@wandering.shop

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @mcc
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Yeah, one step at a time. I think this was set up in response to Streeting announcing kids couldn’t transition. So it’s very much, ‘Please don’t take the right from the rest of us.’ But yes, it should include kids.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]chestas »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @chestas@aus.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @clacksee

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Done, I still have dual citizenship

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      In unsurprising on a news. I am increasingly fed up of having to restart it when it crashes due to running out of memory. It happens quite often when I post and sometimes when I don’t. I think this is due to having more content on disk than when I first set it up.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      I may have to move it to slightly more powerful hardware for my own sanity…

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Nicd »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @nicd@masto.ahlcode.fi

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sam Is the entire OS dying or won't your init system handle the restarts?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @nicd@masto.ahlcode.fi The whole thing is just slow and unstable to be honest. The Alpine openrc init system doesn’t automatically restart it, I could rig up something but I’m just going to move it to something with a tiny bit more performance.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]witch_t *navi »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @navi@social.vlhl.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @sam @nicd

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            openrc can restart daemons, though it’s opt-in (for now), and snac’s init script doesn’t do it

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            removing command_background=yes and adding supervisor=supervise-daemon to /etc/init.d/snac would do it

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              My youngest son (6) came with me to volunteer at this morning. I was a bit apprehensive as he doesn’t have the longest attention span. However he quite happily cheered on and high fived runners for about an hour with no complaints. He then went off and ran round the field with a lady he felt needed help. I’m a very proud dad. 😁

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Small blonde boy running round a football field holding a lady’s hand

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Alt...Small blonde boy running round a football field holding a lady’s hand

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                My youngest son (6) came with me to volunteer at this morning. I was a bit apprehensive as he doesn’t have the longest attention span. However he quite happily cheered on and high fived runners for about an hour with no complaints. I’m a very proud dad. 😁

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Alt...Young boy in a hoody ringing and bell and high fiving runners on a football field

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  sam boosted

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Inspirational Skeletor💀 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @skeletor@mas.to

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Rest is a radical act of self love in a world that glorifies exhaustion.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Rest is a radical act of self love in a world that glorifies exhaustion.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Sophie »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @sophie@social.lol

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Folks who had websites in the year 2000, how/where were you building websites then? Someone I know is writing a book and the protagonist (non-techie type) builds a website. I was thinking Geocities/Angelfire/Tripod, but maybe that's more late-90s? (I def had a GeoCities site, but I can't remember if it was in 2000)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Chris Ferdinandi ⚓️ »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @cferdinandi@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @sophie geoCities, or more likely, a myspace page with customized CSS/HTML.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Anybody's King (Scrummy) »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @scrummy@jawns.club

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @sophie I had a GeoCities site in the 90s. In the 2000s, my ISP (Comcast) offered free space for a personal website, so I had it hosted there. I want to say that ended in the mid 2010s, but TBH I just can’t remember.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Dave Letorey »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @dletorey@front-end.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sophie I was teaching computers to teenagers in 2000 and we did a mix of HTML, CSS & MS Frontpage

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Sophie »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sophie@social.lol

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @dletorey Where did they host their websites? Did *you* have a website?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Dave Letorey »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @dletorey@front-end.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @sophie alas most they did not, just on the floppy disks they used.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          But the great ones got added to the a gallery on the schools website.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Dave Letorey »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @dletorey@front-end.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @sophie My first hosted website was 2006, but it has not collected by wayback machine ;'(

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Matthew Martin »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @mistersql@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @sophie That was peak Myspace. That was probably the last time the most popular social media platform expected or allowed people direct access to the HTML.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Sophie »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @sophie@social.lol

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @mistersql In 2000? Myspace didn't launch til 2003

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Matthew Martin »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @mistersql@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @sophie Ah, thought you meant the decade. 2000 exactly, final days of FrontPage. Lots of tiny webhosters that let you upload html to an ftp site.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Sophie »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @sophie@social.lol

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @mistersql good old Frontpage

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Chris Smith »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @chris22smith@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sophie I clearly remember making a geocities site in 1999. I think I got MS FrontPage in 2000, possibly 2001 though. I would say that some people were still using notepad, typing in code from books at this point.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Sophie »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sophie@social.lol

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @chris22smith I was definitely typing in code from books!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Larry Sheradon »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @glowland@vis.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @sophie Local ISP offered hosting under tilde dirs, so put text-edited html there for a while. Think I got my own domain around then and quite possibly ran the site off a linux box at home? Geocities was definitely still a thing tho

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Ethan Marcotte »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @sophie mine was basically all static html, hand-rolled like some feral woodland creature

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Sophie »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @sophie@social.lol

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @beep In notepad, I trust?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Christopher Kirk-Nielsen »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @chriskirknielsen@front-end.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @sophie Same as Ethan, though when I discovered PHP and includes it felt like magic. 🤯

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Originally in Notepad, monochrome...but Notepad++ came along with syntax highlighting! This was 2003/2004 for me I think, if that helps!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Ethan Marcotte »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @sophie allaire homesite, yes my knees just cracked when i typed that

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Andrija Petrovic »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @andrija@floss.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @sophie @beep May '98, me with notepad + my colleague with Photoshop 4 = first web site for the company we worked for back then. Once I showed it can work and there's no black magic in web design, I got back to Borland C++ Builder 3 and some video programming that was my real job and the crew quickly dove into Macromedia.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Toni »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @toni@social.lol

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sophie definitely built my first website using Microsoft Front Page and Tripod.com in maybe even as late as 2001 :D So Tripod definitely tracks.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Richard Bairwell »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @rbairwell@mastodon.org.uk

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sophie Text editor (!Edit on my RISC PC at the time) and then upload it via FTP to my ISP's provided free 100Mb web space.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Stuart Langridge »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @sil@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @sophie My ISP was Albatross, in Norwich, and they gave customers a bit of webspace. As for writing it... hand authored, angle bracket by angle bracket, in whichever text editor I was using at the time (either BBEdit if I had the old Mac IIci then, or FTE if my machine was Linux; can't remember) and then uploaded either by command line FTP or with Fetch. But I was a techie type even back then, so I suspect this isn't necessarily normal :)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @sil@mastodon.social @sophie@social.lol I remember using Frontpage, Dreamweaver and at some point when I was becoming more 1337 but not enough to be on Linux yet Notepad. However now you’ve got me on a nostalgia trip and I’m trying to see if my BT Internet web space got archived…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-btinternet?sort=-date

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]naz »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @nazhamid@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @sophie Geocities and Livejournal in 2000, plus work for first clients on basic hosting, but prior in 98/99 was handcoded HTML on my university server.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Zeppelin Blanc »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @xobb@mstdn.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @sophie Macromedia HomeSite

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Matt Wilcox »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @mattwilcox@mstdn.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @sophie Demo version of macromedia dreamweaver. From the front cover CD of a magazine.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Ben Daubney :prami: »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @bendaubney@social.lol

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @sophie Built in MS Publisher, published on Freeserve

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Joe Hart 🏳️‍🌈 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @joehart@social.lol

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sophie Some Microsoft Front Page definitely, then an early version of dreamweaver. Before eventually just using notepad to edit stuff.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Oliver Drotbohm »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @odrotbohm@chaos.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sophie Frontpage and Tripod.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Exellent »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @Exellent@chaos.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @sophie I had one on beepworld.com but that must have bean really early 2000s

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Luc Pestille »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @LucPestille@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @sophie Geocities aside pre-2000, some dude I knew from IRC (EfNet?) had a web server and gave me some space in return for some (fledgling) design/dev work - I've had the same domain since June 2000 (25 years!). Homesite / PhotoShop / FTP were the weapons of choice.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]fLaMEd »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @flamed@social.lol

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @sophie by 1999/2000 I had moved on from writing table layouts in notepad on Geocities/Anglefore/Fortunecities etc to subdomains on cPanel shared hosting or my own domain on cPanel shared hosting and writing table layouts with rounded corner gifs in CuteHTML, transferring files with CuteFTP. CPanel hosting opened up the world of server side includes and eventually php includes 🙌

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Sounds like a sweeet project!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Erwin Wessels »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @htwj@mastodon.coffee

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @sophie hand-built using Joe, the Linux command line editor. Running on Apache on my own machine. Dynamic stuff was Perl as CGIs (programs you hooked into the web server that received the request and output the html, which got sent back to the browser.)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Dr Alice Violett »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @alicemcalicepants@ohai.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @sophie I had a Geocities site in 2002, as did some of my classmates. Angelfire and Lycos were still in use too IIRC 😊

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Sara Joy :happy_pepper: »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @sarajw@front-end.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @sophie back then the ISPs had hosting, my first website was a subdomain on clara.net :)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Greg »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @greg@aus.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sophie Static site generator that was a bunch of hand written Ruby scripts, and a LiveJournal to post emo poetry to.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Cecilia | MeraOrd »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @meraord@mastodonsweden.se

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sophie Geocities in the 90s, then hosted my own at some local web- and mailhosting company.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Sven »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @HeNeArXn@chaos.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @sophie Free ISP webspace, handwritten HTML or maybe Netscape/Mozilla Composer.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Katie Fenn »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @katiefenn@front-end.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @sophie Geocities, both using the web portal and FTP.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            I was working on a project in sixth form in ~2001 to create a website for AS-Level Computing. Geocities’ portal stopped working for some reason, so I learned to use FTP on the Windows 2000 command line.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            I watched the VNC server switch on, and the head of IT spying on me. He came down to the library to ask me what I was doing 😄

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Fredrik Björeman »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @bjoreman@toot.cafe

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @sophie I too used the space provided by our ISP. I still have the page, iframes and all 😍
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              (I had it on Tripod as well, for some reason. Not sure which I considered the main.) Anyway, that’s what I used 1998-2002.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              bjoreman.com/old/index.htm

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]garrettc »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @garrettc@mastodon.org.uk

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @sophie Hand-rolled in emacs and possibly hosted on Demon, or maybe I’d sorted out an actual server at that point. I wish past me had actually made a note of these things.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Jens Oliver Meiert »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @j9t@mas.to

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @sophie, static HTML mishandled in Dreamweaver or HomeSite FTPed to shared hosting hooked up to a free domain from NameZero, or some such.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Robin Whittleton »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @robinwhittleton@front-end.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @sophie I bought a domain name and maybe 50mb space from a UK host in 1998, that I was still running in 2000. I hadn’t got to grips with any server side language, so I was just uploading HTML files I was writing in Notepad along with images I was making in Paint Shop Pro.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Moritz Glantz #a11y »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @MoritzGlantz@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sophie frontpage and free hosting.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]David Thomson »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @dwlt@mastodon.me.uk

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sophie geocities in the 90s, then with my isp (Demon), then self-hosting with 34sp by 2003 or so

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]arestelle »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @arestelle@dice.camp

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @sophie I started building in 2000 and it was mainly on Geocities. I also tried Angelfire and maybe Tripod more briefly but I didn't learn html right away so wysiwig was easier for me.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          A couple to several years later I'd learned enough html that I got away from Geocities and was always looking for free hosts that didn't force a giant banner ad. I remember using Awardspace, might've used HostRocket, and I think there were others I don't remember. Much later (2015?) I used Jolly Leaf for a bit.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Richard Cole ¯\_(🧔🏻)_/¯ »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @homeindorset@mastodonapp.uk

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @sophie Probably 3 or 4 years later, but using then (and still using now) Macromedia Dreamweaver MX. Although some of my pages (local startup homepages full of all my 'useful' websites) was written in Notepad++ using HTML and CSS (modified from on-line examples).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Jon Pearse »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @jonpearse@front-end.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @sophie ISP offered a massive 10MB hosting; everything coded in SimpleText.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Later migrated to PHP, BBEdit, and… probably F2S (c 2001)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]mike »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @mph@social.lol

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @sophie By then? By hand with light automation. My GeoCities site was ca. 1996/1997. By 2000 I was writing it in Emacs and using html-helper-mode. Found a snapshot of my old about page:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                web.archive.org/web/2001021018

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Greg Whitehead »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @grwster@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @sophie by hand, but less technical people were using Microsoft Frontpage or similar and ftping them to a hosting provider

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Gabriel N »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @wtrmt@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @sophie your ISP account usually provided space for a website and an email account.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Your username was used in the directory of your site. For instance cantv.net/user/~goliath

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    And your email would be goliath@cantv.net

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Derick Rethans »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @derickr@phpc.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sophie I've hosted my own with my own (crappy code) since 2002. I did run a little Web agency with some others, so had my own hosting.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Rob Bellinger »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @rbellinger@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sophie hand rolled html uploaded to members.aol.com!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Terence Eden »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @Edent@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @sophie mostly FrontPage Express and uploading via FTP.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I had some space on my university's server and then, later, on a shared space run by a friend.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Chris Poole »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @chrispoole@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @Edent @sophie Oh my god. Frontpage Express! I had blocked this from my memory. I was my school webmaster at the time and used this 😎

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Satu Elisa Schaeffer »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @satuelisa@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @sophie universities would actually allow all CS students to just have these domain.something/~username/ folders open to the world where we could place the HTML that we wrote on a text editor like emacs, vim and the like (and we’d barely bother with CSS) and nobody bothered to consider there was any reputational risk in that

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]berget »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @berget@mastodon.nu

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @sophie do you remember Angelina.com from 1994? So cat-gif-animation all over 😄

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]guenther »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @guenther@chaos.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @sophie

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  cc'ing @StefanMuenz, who wrote the most popular german language HTML tutorial/reference around that time

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Chris Packham »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @chrispackham@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @sophie I bought a domain and rented server space with a Moveable Type installation around 2001

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Ian »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @ian@mastodon.radio

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sophie I had a site on Tripod from about '98, then on Geocities from '00-02. Static HTML written in Notepad (admittedly I learned HTML mostly by "view source" and ripping off bits of other sites that I liked).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]René Seindal »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @seindal@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sophie

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        We edited the HTML in a text editor and uploaded the files with ftp.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Robert Pickering »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @robertpi@functional.cafe

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @sophie
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          My first website was hosted on the university's servers. They set it up so computer science students could create a directory in their home directory and add the html there.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]michaelaf6fb »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @michaelaf6fb@mastodon.radio

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @sophie Straight html, then .Net

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Mike Dank »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @Famicoman@mastodon.sdf.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @sophie Definitely angelfire and writing plain HTML in notepad. Would get HTML books from flea markets for cheap as reference.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]James Doc »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @jamesdoc@mas.to

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @sophie for me it was handcoded html in notepad and ftp'ed it to freeserve webspace that came with my dad's ISP. Might be a bit tech rather than non techie... Live journal was kicking off in '99 which might be more appropriate for the protagonist?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Thibault Le Cornec »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @tibimac@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @sophie In 2006 my very first website/blog was built with RapidWeaver on my Mac and hosted on Aquaray. As soon as Apple released iWeb I started using it for my website/blog.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Then I switched on Wordpress for the blog and homemade landing page for the website.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]McTwist »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @mctwist@social.accum.se

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @sophie Frontpage Express and then Macromedia DreamWeaver.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    I myself wrote in Notepad and then Notepad++.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]c.reider :queer_cat_nonbinary: »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @c_reider@sonomu.club

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sophie i got an HTML for dummies book and handcoded it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Jill Menning »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @jill@social.jmenning.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sophie I think around then I was using Dreamweaver and its amazing templating and FTP sync. It was a hair past my Geocities/Tripod phase but I was still on dial-up and using shared LAMP stack hosting.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]erAck »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @erAck@social.tchncs.de

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @sophie
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I used Vim v5.x to write plain HTML, but not a non-techie type..

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]ToddZ Ⓥ »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @toddz@social.linux.pizza

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @sophie I think GeoCities was the go-to for non-techies until MySpace came around in '03. Aspiring techies would have been coding up home pages in HoTMetaL or HotDog (...or - ugh - MS FrontPage.)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            (Circa 2000 I would have been moving from Macromedia Drumbeat & Dreamweaver to Allaire ColdFusion & HomeSite. Ahh, ColdFusion was the bees knees.)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]mobidic »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @mobidic@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @sophie
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              I used website builders like Dreamweaver, FrontPage, and early TYPO3 mainly as visual aids, but most work was hand-coded in HTML4. Layouts relied heavily on tables and frames. Video and interactive media were embedded using Flash (SWF) or Java applets. Full manual builds were the norm, since CMS tools were limited and dynamic content required custom back-end scripting—often with Perl. And honestly, we couldn’t care less about missing HTTPS or security in general back then!😎

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Ste Grainer »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @stegrainer@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @sophie I had several GeoCities sites in the mid-late 90s, as well as one hosted through my ISP (internet service provider) of the time, EarthLink.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                In the early 2000s, I had a personal site on my university student web server. I also started using shared hosting services to host my own domains. I know MediaTemple was one of the big ones, but the name BlueHost (or something like that?) also seems familiar.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Many of those sites were static, but I did use some cgi scripts for managing parts.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Tom Ryder »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @tejr@mastodon.sdf.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @sophie I wrote XHTML and CSS in EditPad, with images made in shareware Paint Shop Pro (I think).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Alan is @cogdog »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @cogdog@cosocial.ca

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @sophie did many sites 1993-2002 writing html in BBEdit text editor, uploading to server with good old Fetch for ftp (still use that). Lots of educators had Unix email which came with disk space what some call tilde spaces for the ~ before the username in a url

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Osvaldo »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @osvik@masto.pt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sophie In the 2000's I think it was Geocities, Tripod and ISPs. Netscape Comunicator had an html editor.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Ulrik »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @mrbase@phpc.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sophie Stones WebWriter, ftp and a ~ account at my ISP

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Oliver »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @omich@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @sophie building? Wasn’t ~2000 the years of Dreamweaver, GoLive and Frontpage? Then FTPing to a cheap hoster, who was responsible for domain and email services too…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Lippe »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @Lippe@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @sophie I registered my first domain around '98 through Strato, a shared hoster here in Germany. Back then they offered a whopping 1MB webspace in their smallest plan called "Webvisitenkarte" (~online business card). That was enough to upload some HTML/CSS and a few asset images. For larger images I used free hosting at purespace, which was a free tier of Puretec, which was affiliated with 1&1. I had accounts on geocities, tripod, and such, but never really used them because of that domain.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]paulcuth »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @paulcuth@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @sophie I had a Geocities site around 1996 (I still remember the neighbourhood/number!), but by 2000 I was all PHP outputting HTML and Inlined CSS 😬 uploaded via FTP. No version control whatsoever.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]mathew »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @mathew@universeodon.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @sophie ISPs typically let you have a web site by uploading it to the public_html directory in your home directory. It would then appear at someisp.com/~username/
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                I wrote in raw HTML.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Reed »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @reedpiernock@higheredweb.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @sophie another raised hand for Homesite here! I used the snippets feature often when I was coding static HTML, and it was helpful when I started learning PHP.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  I had access to Dreamweaver but often switched to the HTML editor instead of the WYSIWYG editor -- although it was good with "onion skins" if your boss said something needed to be "pixel-perfect" and you were building with tables.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  For my personal site, I moved from GeoCities to Dreamhost in the early aughts, and been there ever since.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]daphterthought »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @daphterthought@ohai.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @sophie I went though the Angelfire -> Tripod -> Icestorm pipeline to having a domain with Dreamhost in 99 or 2000 - can’t remember exactly when!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Chris Poole »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @chrispoole@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sophie I was hosting on my ISP’s space I think at the time: BlueYonder domain (Virgin Media in the UK, maybe Northwest Telecom at the time?). At some point I moved to the Mixed Grill plan from Textdrive (later acquired by Joyent) but I think that was a few years later.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      My first site was bright orange and blue: I still have the hex code for cornflower blue, 6495ed, burnt into my brain.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        sam boosted

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @alice@lgbtqia.space

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Good morning Fedi!!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Alt...A hand holds closed a small cardboard box. When the hand retreats, an adorable ferret pops up. It then reverses so looks like the ferret ducks back into the box and the top is closed.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @alice@lgbtqia.space

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        A two panel meme.

Top panel shows a distressed cat's face, and the text reads "Schrödinger puts you in a box".

Bottom panel shows the cat looking contemplative, and reads "on the other hand, it's a pretty good box".

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Alt...A two panel meme. Top panel shows a distressed cat's face, and the text reads "Schrödinger puts you in a box". Bottom panel shows the cat looking contemplative, and reads "on the other hand, it's a pretty good box".

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]spencercmd »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sebian@ioc.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @alice lots of room for activities! Even refreshments!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Chris Wolff :kappa: »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @Christian_Freiherr_von_Wolff@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @alice

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          My cat standing absolutely amazed by the sheer amount of cardboard surrounding her, or something.  Big box.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Alt...My cat standing absolutely amazed by the sheer amount of cardboard surrounding her, or something. Big box.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Pistolenkind »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @Pistolenkind@wien.rocks

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @alice

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Das "Mann mit seiner Freundin, dreht sich nach einer anderen Frau um" Meme. Aber auf den Kopf des Mannes ist eine Katze gefotoshoped, auf seine Freundin ein Kratzbaum, und auf die Frau, nach der er sich umsieht, eine Pappschachtel.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Alt...Das "Mann mit seiner Freundin, dreht sich nach einer anderen Frau um" Meme. Aber auf den Kopf des Mannes ist eine Katze gefotoshoped, auf seine Freundin ein Kratzbaum, und auf die Frau, nach der er sich umsieht, eine Pappschachtel.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Azalais »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @Azalais@sociale.network

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @alice It's the existential condition of so many people...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Bernie Disobeys Tyrants »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @BernieDoesIt@mstdn.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @alice "I deny the legitimacy of the box, but I actually fit inside it pretty well, more or less." is an actual thought I've thought.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nazo »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @alice I bet Schrodinger really and truly regretted using a cat in his random example back then. Probably heard no end of this stuff, lol.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Just a trash panda 🦝 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @trashpanda@m.alittlenook.net

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @alice My kin! Ferrets are so cute.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Edit: Weasels are also cute but are not ferrets, even if my little racoon eyes mistake them. Lol

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Bill »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @Sempf@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @alice Wait! Is @nuintari stopping by for a visit? Y'all have fun!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Gulli »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @gulli@mastodontech.de

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @alice it's ferret friday 🥳

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Dave :koeln: :verialt: »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @Dave@social.cologne

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @alice
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Hi Alice 👋
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          You wake up, I get sleepy

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Binks »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @Binks@cosocial.ca

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @alice
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Once you pop the fun don't stop!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Baron Henrik von Pömpöösi »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @henrik@eliitin-some.fi

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @alice

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              I think this needs pingpong effect. 😄

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]HTTP 1.1/418 Teapot »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @rmd1023@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @alice @catsalad Yay! I see a fun-looking ferret extrusion tube in the background, too!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]sam »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  I bought a printer for my wife, for her birthday. She’s into baking and there’s a company who makes edible ink for these cheap Pixma printers.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  It came with a driver CD-ROM! How retro is that! I have some old machines with optical drives, but I’m pretty sure that’s not the norm in 2025…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A Canon Pixma printer box with a black cd-rom on top

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]tig »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @sam mini CD-ROM no less :)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]sam »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @tig@mastodon.org.uk Big box, normal CD. That would be very retro. I remember my first MP3 player came with one of those. It was about 128MB (the MP3 player not the CD).

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Mans R »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sam Can the cartridges be loaded with marmalade, or would that make it jam?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @mansr@society.oftrolls.com Fine! You get a boost for that one. 🤣

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]The Psychotic Network Ferret » 🤖
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          ICE's current funding is < $3 billion USD.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          trump's "big beautiful bill" expands that to over $40 billion.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          A passage of this bill creates the American SS.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]sam »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @nuintari@bsd.cafe I follow a few European train people. For a short and wonderful moment I read this as Trump investing a huge amount of money in Inter City Express trains. The reality is so much more terrible. 😢

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Wen »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            For those who think that petitions might have some effect (if only discomfort)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            We, the undersigned, call on the UK Home Secretary to urgently proscribe the "Israel Defense Forces (IDF)" as a terrorist organisation, under the Terrorism Act 2000. We believe their actions meet this definition and that they pose a threat to the safety and security of innocent civilians.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Mark Jackson »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              SpaceX Burnt Up 472 Starlink Broadband Satellites in Last 6 Months ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]iamBullivant »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Bob Vylan statement released today. 👏

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Statement by Bob Vylan:
"Not the First. Not the Last.
Today, a good many people would have you believe a punk band is the number one threat to world peace. Last week it was a Palestine pressure group, the week before that it was another band.
We are not for the death of Jews, Arabs or any other race or group of people. We are for the dismantling of a violent military machine. A machine whose own soldiers were told to use ‘unnecessary lethal force' against innocent civilians waiting for aid. A machine that has destroyed much of Gaza.
We, like those in the spotlight before us, are not the story. We are a distraction from the story. And whatever sanctions we receive will be a distraction.
The government doesn't want us to ask why they remain silent in the face of this atrocity? To ask why they aren't doing more to stop the killing? To feed the starving?
The more time they talk about Bob Vylan, the less time they spend. Answering for their criminal inaction.
We are being targeted for speaking up. We are not the first. We will not be the last. And if you care for the sanctity of human life and freedom of speech, we urge you to speak up, too.
Free Palestine."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Robin Barton »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @bullivant Well in the UK you can't chant kill Israeli (which should be banned) but Israelis can kill Palestinians
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                I would which is morally worse? Hmmmm....

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Mark »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @Robo105 @bullivant Well I suppose you can’t just suspend the law just because Israel seems to be able to do whatever it likes.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Robin Barton »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @mark @bullivant True and much of it is driven by evangelical desire to have nuclear war in the middle east which will herald the second coming. Insane

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Juha Uotila »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Huomisen ajorupeama

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]sam »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @inffy@mementomori.social I must take my kids there some time soon…

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Ars Technica »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        A supposed band called The Velvet Sundown has released two albums of AI slop this month.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Hedders »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @arstechnica What a profound, fundamental insult to everything that makes us human. Disgusting people.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Eisregen »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @hedders @arstechnica you will see horrors beyond human comprehension but the worst part will be the things you won't even notice.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Estarriol, lucozade dragon »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @arstechnica surprised ai's fell for that given how little spotifies pays.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Mans R »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @Thebratdragon @arstechnica Probably created by Spotify to avoid paying anything at all.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]steve mookie kong »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Project Hail Mary trailer.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                If you’ve read the book, watch the trailer because it looks good!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                If you’ve haven’t read the book, do yourself a favor and skip the trailer because it spoils a key element of the story. I can’t believe they put that in the trailer.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The book is fantastic and well worth a read. The movie looks good from the trailer.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                youtu.be/m08TxIsFTRI

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]sam »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Fediverse, I have a rant I need to get off my chest. Groups in Google Workspace is a security nightmare and has been for years! Why has Google STILL not fixed the glaring problems!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  I've had admin powers at 5+ companies' Google Workspace/G Suite over the past decade or so. Every single one had groups which were misconfigured, often so anyone in the whole company could join without approval or see the message history at https://groups.google.com without being a member at all.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  This is because for any sensible configuration of Google Groups when using it for email groups you have to use the "Custom" permissions mode. The default Public mode doesn't allow external people to email the group, but does allow the whole company to see all the messages. The default Team mode, has the same problem of everyone being able to see all the messages.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Also let's not forget that dangerous little "Anyone in the organisation can join" toggle at the bottom which is on by default. So any random new starter can join your confidential company directors group and get all the emails sent to it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Giving Google the benefit of the doubt here, I think the reasoning might be that Google Groups is intended as a kind of company forum, not for private email groups. However that isn't how anyone uses it in my experience...


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Mike Sheward »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @sam agree this is absolutely crazy, it's been like it forever, i wrote about it a couple of years ago as part of a guide on securing Google Workspace:

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]sam »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @SecureOwl@infosec.exchange @Sam@infosec.exchange Thanks! I’ll have a read. I just don’t get why they haven’t changed the defaults after this many years…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]pL »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @pl@cosocial.ca

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sam it's simply because they sometimes neglect to annihilate the technology they merge with to give them an advantage. Google acquired Usenet archives in 2001, merged them with Groups, made Groups a "Usenet client" then pushed for Usenet obsolescence by having the new posts not use Usenet but using the same UI. Usenet was meant to be public, Groups was not. But you can't claim that if you use privacy by default.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]sam »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @pl@cosocial.ca @sam Sounds about right yes. Most people just want a simple mail group but instead of building something for that purpose they made an absolute mess of it. I understand that but I don’t understand why it hasn’t been fixed/replaced for so many years…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Brett Terpstra »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Ok, EVERYONE so far has been all in on Mona. I used Mona up until Ivory was available. So I'm curious what people find most compelling about Mona vs other clients?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @drdrang @rho @fahrni @sashk @benfsmith @jimmylittle

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]sam »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @ttscoff@hachyderm.io @drdrang @benfsmith@hachyderm.io @jimmylittle@hachyderm.io It works with snac (a stupidly lightweight server) and basically nothing else does. Otherwise I prefer Ivory a little more. There’s not much in it after I’ve tweaked some of the default settings for things like timeline display format though. Customisability is probably an advantage over Ivory…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Ehler »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @ttscoff I mostly run Ivory. Occasionally I’ll slip into Mona or Toot!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Rob Fahrni »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @ttscoff @drdrang @rho @sashk @benfsmith @jimmylittle I was an Ivory user, then started splitting time between Ivory and Mona, then eventually went all in on Mona. One of the things I really love about it is how customizable the UI look is. I know, silly little thing, but there are a number of custom built templates available to us and they’re amazing.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  It’s also fast, stable, and works the way I like.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Darren McGuicken »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @dmcgk@mastodon.ie

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @ttscoff Crazy amounts of customisation; no missing posts if you’re running more than 400 behind current.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]alwillis »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @alwillis@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @ttscoff @drdrang @rho @fahrni @sashk @benfsmith @jimmylittle

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      For casual use, Ivory is fine.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      But when I need all the features, I use Mona on macOS. You don't realize how much is missing from most clients until you use Mona.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Brett Terpstra »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @ttscoff@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @alwillis i don’t know what non-casual use of social media looks like.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]ko kāihe toku ingoa 🫏 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @donkey@mastodon.nz

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @ttscoff @drdrang @rho @fahrni @sashk @benfsmith @jimmylittle When twitter died, I was using the app which the Mona dev had made for that platform (can’t recall the name for it), so moved to Mona when that was available. I too, like the customisability of Mona but the main thing, for me, was a single purchase option rather than a subscription. If I was rich, I might run Ivory - it does look nice - but I’m not.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Jimmy »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @jimmylittle@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @ttscoff @drdrang @rho @fahrni @sashk @benfsmith I just never got into the Tapbots aesthetic. I had Tweetbot, Netbot, Calcbot, and Pastebot. They're all great apps, but they never worked the way I expected, so they never stuck with me. I think it's just the icons and interactions are all too cutesy for me. I still have Ivory on my phone now, but never use it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Chris Mackay 🇨🇦 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @tantramar@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @ttscoff @drdrang @rho @fahrni @sashk @benfsmith @jimmylittle Mona lets me choose fonts & colours. I paid for a year of Ivory — and loved Tweetbot/Calcbot/Weightbot/Convertbot (& still use Pastebot) — but Mona is less opinionated.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Dan V Peterson »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @danvpeterson@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @ttscoff customizability, letting me create a much more minimalistic UI

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]sam »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Thanks to whoever figured out that my server configuration with Lighttpd opened me up to filling up the in-memory root partition and crashing the machine by POSTing a large file. Free pen testing is always appreciated. 😆

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]sam »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    I’m on my way to see at Wembley Stadium this evening with my wife. As someone who really doesn’t care about football I’ve only ever been in the smaller (but still huge) Arena.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    This is going to be an experience!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]jamesb (MW1CGG) »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @jamesb@fedi.duckduckpigeon.co.uk

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sam
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      You absolute bastard. I may be more than slightly jealous.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]sam »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Linkin Park and Spiritbox were both absolutely fantastic last night. It was a bit of a festival feel with Wembley’s roof open and the distance of the “rear standing” from the stage, but we got a good spot for both bands and my vertically challenged wife could see pretty well for once. 🙂

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]rcr »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sam ..."vertically challenged"... like this way to phrase it 😄

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Must be huge to hear Linkin Park live!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @rcr@mastodon.online @sam Honestly they exceeded all expectations. 😁

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