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

790 following, 702 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.

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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.

                                  CC: @WiteWulf@cyberplace.social

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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.

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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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                                                                                        [?]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.

                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]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?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Chuck Munson »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @chuck@breadandroses.cloud

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @sophie 2000 was the year before I started freelancing, but at the time I was managing part of a science association's website and running personal and project websites on various servers. The association server was in house. I was hosting websites on university servers and servers being run by friends (and small indie ISPs).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Geocities, as I recall, was waning by 2000.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Coded websites using either Dreamweaver or Hotdog Pro (wonderful coding software from Australia).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]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!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                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!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Megawatt »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @Megawatt@infosec.exchange

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

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @Megawatt two cats in one box?? Schrödinger has gone too far this time!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Megawatt »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @Megawatt@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @alice Say hello to Leonardo and his brother da Vinci.

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

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @Christian_Freiherr_von_Wolff I got a new fridge once. Put the box in the living room and my cat was like "guess this is home now".

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

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @gulli I'm on board with ! They're so adorable 🥰

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

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @gulli perhaps we need a too 🤔

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          An absurdly adorable tan and white least weasel, with a fluffy little black tail-tip and oversized white paws.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Alt...An absurdly adorable tan and white least weasel, with a fluffy little black tail-tip and oversized white paws.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Gulli »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @gulli@mastodontech.de

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @alice
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Aaaaand
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            SOOOO FLUFFY

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Alt...black Pine Marten in a couch chasing its tail

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Gulli »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @gulli@mastodontech.de

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @alice
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Oh you ☺️

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              I welcome you to the club of fluffyness

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

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

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

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @Dave that's *why* you get sleepy... 🧛🏼

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

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @alice
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    And here I thought it was something to do with an early morning, work, and it being past 8pm already.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Gonna search for red dots spaced a concerning distance apart, now

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

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @Dave it's easier to just look for glitter to see if I've been around lately 😅

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

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @alice
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Well, there's concerningly little glitter (none) around here

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]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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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]RJ L. (he/him) »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @shoren18@mstdn.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @alice oompa loompa doompity doo

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]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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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Neil Brown boosted

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  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

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

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

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @sam mini CD-ROM no less :)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @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 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @mansr@society.oftrolls.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sam Can the cartridges be loaded with marmalade, or would that make it jam?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @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 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @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 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @Wen@mastodon.scot

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            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 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @ispreview@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              SpaceX Burnt Up 472 Starlink Broadband Satellites in Last 6 Months ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Starlink-satellites-in-orbit-around-the-earth

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]iamBullivant »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @bullivant@mastodon.ie

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              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 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @Robo105@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @bullivant Well in the UK you can't chant kill Israeli (which should be banned) but Israelis can kill Palestinians
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Mark »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @mark@waterford.international

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @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 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @inffy@mementomori.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Huomisen ajorupeama

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @inffy@mementomori.social I must take my kids there some time soon…

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Ars Technica »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @arstechnica@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        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 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @hedders@mas.to

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @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 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @mansr@society.oftrolls.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @Thebratdragon @arstechnica Probably created by Spotify to avoid paying anything at all.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]steve mookie kong »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @mookie@racingbunny.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                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 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  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...


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Screenshot of the default Google Group settings for team mode

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Screenshot of the default Google Group settings for public mode

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Mike Sheward »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @SecureOwl@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @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:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    mike-sheward.medium.com/securi

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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 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @ttscoff@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            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?

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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 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @ehler@musician.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @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.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]sashk 🇺🇦 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sashk@masto.nyc

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @ttscoff been using Mona before ivory showed up. Dislike somewhat Mona’s UI: confusing settings, same with the way it shows quoted posts. So since ivory been out been using it primarily. Checking Mona occasionally.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]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 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      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 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        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. 🙂

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Linkin Park on stage in a big stadium with lights, lasers and Emily Armstrong on the screens

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]rcr »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @rcr@mastodon.online

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @sam ..."vertically challenged"... like this way to phrase it 😄

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Must be huge to hear Linkin Park live!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

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

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              In snac on an ancient Raspberry Pi news, I switched from XFS to Btrfs and my memory pressure issues are now a thing of the past. As a bonus I can use snapshots for backups instead of taring up the many small files that snac generates (it has no traditional database).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              I tried tuning various parameters but after some reading came to the conclusion that lots of small files with very little RAM is about the worst case scenario for XFS.


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Em-squared »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @emsquared@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @sam Thanks for sharing that. A good experience to note. I keep dithering.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Doug Belshaw »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @dajb@social.coop

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  This week, while I was in The Netherlands, we had an air source heat pump installed by Octopus Energy.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  They seem to have done an *excellent* job, and we no longer have a gas boiler or even a gas meter!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  So now, of course, I'm trying to work out if we can get solar and a couple of home batteries to increase our resilience - and eventually have close to zero bills... ⚡

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]an actual bus »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @renardboy@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @dajb hell yeah, that's awesome

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]sam »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @dajb@social.coop @slothrop@chaos.social That’s really cool, I hope to have this setup in a few years. It feels wrong to be dependent on gas in this day and age.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    On the resilience from home batteries and solar though, watch out. Most systems will turn off in the event of a power cut. It’s something about avoiding back-feeding to the grid. If you want this you need to specifically get a system with an “emergency mode” or something like that.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Rocketman »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @slothrop@chaos.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sam @dajb We’re renting a house, and it has 20+ year old oil heating 😭😭😭

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      I just paid 2k€ for half a tank full of dead dinosaur, and I hate everything about it

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Doug Belshaw »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sam @slothrop

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Thanks, I'll watch out for that! I don't really want to buy Tesla, but their Powerwalls seem pretty awesome.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Janet is prematurely obsolete »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @janet@weirder.earth

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @dajb @sam @slothrop Would love to have a heat pump but our property couldn’t accomodate one. And there are plenty of good alternatives to Tesla, in fact Octopus has their own preferred one. But yes the real rub for us is retrofiting the off-grid capability. My recent calculations had us breaking even at year 10-12, the natural lifecycle of the battery.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Doug Belshaw »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @dajb@social.coop

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @janet @sam @slothrop Yeah, same but for two batteries. We'd have paid for solar though, and batteries will be way cheaper by then...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]fedops 💙💛 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @fedops@fosstodon.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @dajb you don't seriously even entertain the thought of supporting a fascist now do you?
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Doug Belshaw »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @dajb@social.coop

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @fedops @sam @slothrop Nah, it's just that they do everything I need and Octopus Energy install them. I'm sure there's even better alternatives.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]C++ Wage Slave »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @CppGuy@infosec.space

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @dajb

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Congratulations on the new heat pump! A colleague of mine had install one for her earlier this year, and she's delighted with it. We went with because Octopus wasn't able to help us, but I'm convinced Octopus would've been better value if our house had been suitable.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  We're not yet ready to buy a battery — I want to go through a winter with the new heat pumps so that I know how much capacity to buy — but I've heard good things about . You might give them a look. They seem to be a bit more expensive than canned systems like , but a lot more flexible.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @CppGuy @dajb @fedops @sam @slothrop

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    my relatives have a Victron system feeding a battery bank (Pylontech, not sure if those are still made).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    A couple of weeks ago they lost grid power for around 1,5 hours. The Victron automatically isolated the solar/batteries from the DNO service cable to avoid backfeeding but kept the house on supply. It was daytime so most of the power demand was handled by solar, the battery reserve was barely touched. (there is a quite a high power demand in that house even during summer and yet it was possible to behave as normal for the entire duration of the power cut without even implementing load reduction measures).

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Doug Belshaw »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @dajb@social.coop

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @CppGuy @fedops @sam @slothrop Cheers, I'll check them out!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]fedops 💙💛 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @fedops@fosstodon.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sam it's specifically the synchronization on the grid frequency. Your system needs to support "island mode". There are many that do.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        On the autonomy aspect - do the math first. In our latitudes producing enough energy November - February means having a LOT of panel area. Especially if you plan to heat electrically.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Doug Belshaw »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @dajb@social.coop

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @fedops @sam @slothrop

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Thanks, yeah, that's whoe the battery storage comes in (storing both solar energy and cheap renewable energy from the grid)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]greem »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @greem@cyberplace.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @dajb we had one fitted two years ago, also by Octopus. The standard of work was superb.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            As expected, by itself it doesn't save us much financially compared to gas heating but it's using one third of the energy, which is pleasing.

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

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Good news, I fixed the radio in the retired police cruiser.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Bad news, the speakers appear to be disconnected.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Hopefully they just disconnected them, and didn't divert power to somewhere else.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              It's a good thing I know a teensy bit about electronicals, this car is going to be an adventure.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]sam »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @nuintari@bsd.cafe I shall follow this journey with interest. 🙂

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

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @sam I should also probably try to figure out how to disable the child safety locks on the back doors. It no longer has the convict cage, but the doors don't open from the inside no matter their locked state.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nuintari@bsd.cafe @sam It’s probably not the same as a normal car but have you checked for a little switch on the door below the latch, and only visible when the door is open? (I can’t think of a good way to explain this…)

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

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @sam Already looked, nope. Might need to remove the door trim panel to find it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Stefano Marinelli »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @nuintari yes, please, keep us informed with this journey! Looks like it will be interesting!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Bazzite »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @bazzite.gg@bsky.brid.gy @distrowatch@mastodon.social My boys (6 and 7) are both also Minecraft obsessed and run Bazzite. They have never known Windows gaming and hopefully never will. 😁

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Federico Hernandez »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          New Backyard Ultra world record by Phil Gore (AUS). 119 yards or 797.3km in 119 hours or 4days 23 hours. 😳🙌

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Colin »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @recollir 🤯🐐Phenomenal!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Johan »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @JvdB@mastodon.nl

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @recollir It's incredibly impressive. I read they had a line up of real good athletes there. Sensational, and so shortly after the 116 from Wrobel.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]moelholm🏃🏻‍♂️ »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @moelholm@fosstodon.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @recollir that’s insane - absolutely insane. What an inner drive - and what a robust body 🤠🫨

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]randomized »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @randomized@masto.bike

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @recollir
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  I hurt just reading the report

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Would anyone happen to know how to stop XFS using up to 100MB of memory on my 256MB RAM Raspberry Pi and causing apps to get OOMKilled? This isn’t cache, this is actual used RAM. Searching online is coming up blank. I’m happy to move to a different filesystem if necessary.


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]ticho »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sam Maybe set less and/or smaller log buffers? See "logbuf" and/or "logbsize" mount options in the xfs man page. The default logbuf value might be too much for a memory-constrained system.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]sam »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @ticho@mas.to @sam@mas.to Thanks I’ll look into that 👍

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Charlie O’Hara »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @awfulwoman@indieweb.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          My partner asked me to install Ubuntu on her machine. Went to install a .deb from Dropbox with her and hit this. Select app shows nothing. How is this still a thing??

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          An error informing the user that there is no app installed for Debian package" files.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Alt...An error informing the user that there is no app installed for Debian package" files.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Charlie O’Hara »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @awfulwoman@indieweb.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Sorry for slagging off an open-source project, but this is the kind of thing that infuriates me. All that dev effort spread across multiple different desktops and none of them tip top.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Charlie O’Hara »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @awfulwoman@indieweb.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              She's trying to install KeeWeb now, a tool she's used to. It's another deb, and once installed it just doesn't work. 😆

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Charlie O’Hara »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @awfulwoman@indieweb.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Year of the Linux Desktop my arse.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Charlie O’Hara »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @awfulwoman@indieweb.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              I love Linux and open source in general. It just depresses we have zero chance of making a desktop that's non-nerd friendly. Your interface to the rest of the world has to be 100% usable and friendly, otherwise people bail immediately.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Charlie O’Hara »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @awfulwoman@indieweb.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              This should be a solved problem. But we can never agree on anything and make a "standard" interface that everyone can use. It's scratch-your-own itch and make yet another desktop/window manager/compositor/whatever.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Charlie O’Hara »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @awfulwoman@indieweb.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              ANYWAY.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @awfulwoman@indieweb.social I would argue that this is another example of Ubuntu no longer being the right choice for ease of use. I think I read something a while ago about this being a deliberate choice by Canonical to discourage people from installing random debs off the internet rather than a bug.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Anyway I point new users at Linux Mint rather than Ubuntu now, but obviously everyone has their different opinions which is probably part of the problem. 🤷

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Jan D »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @simulo@hci.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @awfulwoman Agree. In addition to "own itch" also: assuming that "more choice" is always great and that if you provide several half-baked solutions, someone(tm) will improve them.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Ab | Wishlist Oh No! UFO! »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @abban@mastodon.ie

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @simulo @awfulwoman I’m one of the nerds and I still prefer to use Apple stuff just because they give me a consistent UX. I don’t even bother to customise much, I’ll use it in the way they prescribe because then I don’t have to worry about it and can concentrate on the actual things I need to use a computer to do

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Charlie O’Hara »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @awfulwoman@indieweb.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @abban @simulo 💯 💯 💯 I don't want to be constantly fiddling with the tool that I'm using to build other things. It's procrastination on steroids.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Paul »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @pwaring@social.xk7.net

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @awfulwoman I used to love this aspect of Linux when I was a student and had time to mess around with stuff (like compiling Fluxbox from source because I didn't like the default window manager on the uni machines). Now I'm a grumpy old man and want things to Just Work.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Patrick H. Lauke »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @awfulwoman this makes me flash back to when OS X first appeared and all the BSD folks were going "oh, it's just built on FreeBSD". YEAH BUT IT ACTUALLY FUCKING WORKED IN A SENSIBLE WAY

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]ppk 🇪🇺 »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @ppk@front-end.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @awfulwoman The Year of the Linux Desktop is every single year from about 1997 to present, right?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Not sure about your arse.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]SteveJ »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @_steve@mastodon.world

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @awfulwoman which version of Ubuntu is this? On my 24.04 desktop a .deb package is associated with the Software Install application and seems to just work as expected.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Charlie O’Hara »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @awfulwoman@indieweb.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @_steve This is a 1 hour old 24.04 install.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]SteveJ »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @_steve@mastodon.world

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @awfulwoman I just downloaded the same Dropbox package you are trying and it works correctly for me. I don't recall doing anything to my Ubuntu installation to make .deb association with the installer app. This install is only 10 days old or so.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Charlie O’Hara »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @awfulwoman@indieweb.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @_steve So what's your expert opionin, Steve?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]SteveJ »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @_steve@mastodon.world

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @awfulwoman Right click a .deb package and choose Open With... then make whatever app your default choice.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    You are right that in this day and age it should just work. Could just be a fluke that it didn't on your install.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Oliver Calder :ubuntu: »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @oac@fosstodon.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @awfulwoman Yeah trying to install a lone .deb package is always a pain.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      If you're looking for a solution, there is a Dropbox flatpak from flathub. Which isn't enabled by default on Ubuntu, but once set up once, should be good to go. Definitely annoying, but then basically all software should be available from sort of repo.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      I basically refuse to install a .deb file manually. I wish websites would stop advertising them...

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]sam »
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        It’s a long shot but if I have any followers in Chennai, India with a few years of experience who are looking for a DevOps role using AWS, Terraform and Kubernetes please get in touch!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]sam »
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          We need regulation on stuff like NOT LINKING THE DRIVE TRAIN OF CARS TO THE INFOTAINMENT! Do these companies have even one infosec person working on their 100mph metal boxes? https://hackaday.social/users/hackaday/statuses/114742241359167235

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