@mmasnick
So you're saying that the us version of free speech, with its corporate takeover of media and the grievous polarization of the populace, is preferable to the EU way?
So you're saying that the us version of free speech, with its corporate takeover of media and the grievous polarization of the populace, is preferable to the EU way?
@eevee when it came out, its Javascript engine was a lot faster than those of the other browsers that existed at the time, and they also pioneered the idea of running each tab in its own process, and they ran massive marketing around that.
Of course, they lost that edge by now (no pun intended).
Of course, they lost that edge by now (no pun intended).
@jpmens @partim I had a glance at the activitypub spec the other day, and it allows you to specify multiple versions of the content (each with their own mime type) IIRC. So yeah, you can enter markdown, and the server can convert it to html, and you can still edit the markdown because it's *right there*.
At the dog park
I took my chihuahua and a friend's husky to the dog park. There was a woman who had just arrived at the park who was staring at me with big eyes and a wide open mouth as I walked towards her and the garbage can carrying my chihuahua on one side and on the other side holding a doggy sac filled with a pile of 💩 larger than my dog's head. The lady finally blurts out "You've got to be kidding me!". It then dawns on me that she doesn't realise I've been cleaning up after the husky who has long since run off to play 🤣 😂 🤣
The US of A just gets insaner and insaner.
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/richneck-elementary-school-shooting-newport-news-virginia/
6 years old.
'not an accidental shooting'
W. T. F.
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/richneck-elementary-school-shooting-newport-news-virginia/
6 years old.
'not an accidental shooting'
W. T. F.
@xahteiwi difficult to say. It was a very small one, and what it added to my monthly bill didn't really rise above the normal monthly noise in price fluctuations.
I can say though that after correcting for the difference between my expected and actual monthly traffic, the outcome of the Amazon cost calculator (link in the blog post) was pretty much on point. I don't expect it will be more than my projections.
I can say though that after correcting for the difference between my expected and actual monthly traffic, the outcome of the Amazon cost calculator (link in the blog post) was pretty much on point. I don't expect it will be more than my projections.
@xahteiwi also, I have a lot of experience with bacula from my previous consulting, and I have done a full restore of customer data once or twice with it. I have no reason to doubt its ability to work well.
@xahteiwi not a full one, because of the expected cost of that, but I have done a partial one and that worked perfectly.
@xahteiwi I run bacula to an Amazon storage gateway VM, which provides a virtual tape library that I can write to. It ends up putting the virtual tapes in Amazon Glacier deep archive. Monthly cost for about 3T of raw data is less than 0.5USD; typical monthly cost is about 3-5USD (traffic is the main cost)
I calculated that an actual full recovery would cost me about 400-500 USD, which is significant but acceptable as a last resort scenario
Full story on https://grep.be/blog/en/computer/Backing_up_my_home_server_with_Bacula_and_Amazon_Storage_Gateway/ and https://grep.be/blog/en/computer/Different_types_of_Backups/
I calculated that an actual full recovery would cost me about 400-500 USD, which is significant but acceptable as a last resort scenario
Full story on https://grep.be/blog/en/computer/Backing_up_my_home_server_with_Bacula_and_Amazon_Storage_Gateway/ and https://grep.be/blog/en/computer/Different_types_of_Backups/
A plea to journalists covering the Fediverse:
If you want to pitch a story and the only people you can think of to talk to are Gargron and the Journa Host admin, please don't.
Instead, use the time you saved to learn more about how this network functions, who the people behind ActivityPub are (and what that even is), who the people keeping instances running are, who the people moderating instances are; you can even get your hands dirty by digging through the Mastodon GitHub issue queue and learning why exactly some design decisions ended up the way they did, it's all right there!
Mastodon is not off-brand Twitter. You do this entire community a massive disservice by painting it as such, and you do our profession a disservice by expressing a complete lack of curiosity about this community before you report on it.
Thank you.
@grigs it probably means they can send push notifications more easily, which means you would interact with them more, which means they get more money out of you. So it is in fact better, it's just that it's better for *them*, not for you...
@bikejourno only if they exist in isolation. If they are part of a larger effort of making cycling safe (e.g., dedicated and segregated bike lanes, absolute priority for bikes at crossings, etc etc) then it can be a good part of the strategy.
#TFW you wrote this and someone sends you a link to the gitlab CI tutorial with a "you should use this, it's amazing" 😃 like, I know dude.
@purpleidea
Well, except if the service is a password vault, in which case they should encrypt the plain text password to the user's key and store the encrypted password 😉
@mark
Well, except if the service is a password vault, in which case they should encrypt the plain text password to the user's key and store the encrypted password 😉
@mark