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Pippin 1 year ago friendica

Absolutely need this so much.

cheetah_spottycat

2024-05-15 19:50:04

https://vxtwitter.com/Rekin3DFurry/status/1785700746580627893

cheetah_spottycat 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

https://vxtwitter.com/Rekin3DFurry/status/1785700746580627893

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Neil Brown 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

What better to go with my computer from 1994 than a guide to the Internet (I think it genuinely is more than the web!) from 1993?!

I mean, sod it, I might as well open a computer museum at this point.

Or at least buy a display case.

Photo of the front cover of a book called "The Whole Internet".

It has a sub-title of "User's guide & catalog".

There is a prominent graphic - a line drawing of a person with a beard, seemingly by a window, looking intently at a globe.

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Bunny Mickley 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

The question of "what is web 1, web 2, and web 3 anyhow" came up in a chat with friends yesterday. Here's the answer I gave in case any one else is curious:

• Web 1: Old school HTML only. Pages do not have any functionality themselves. They must refresh for each interaction.

• Web 2: The concept that web pages could leverage XMLHttpRequest to update themselves via JavaScript without a full refresh. (First seen in 2000) We call this a Single Page App (SPA) today.

• Web 3: The silly idea that JavaScript could be loaded from a blockchain and bypass a "web server" completely. This was a bad idea and should feel bad.

Web 2.0 changed the web completely. Almost all (maybe even all) of the modern web is built on it. If you're using Mastodon via a web browser, you're using it right now. Same with Discord, Slack, YouTube, any mail service, and really basically all modern web services that we enjoy today.

We don't need to talk about Web 3.0. It was a bad idea from the start. 😅

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Twig 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

I miss the days when my browser was just an HTML viewer.

the leah formerly known as mae :mxw: :nc_fl_pl: 1 year ago • iceshrimp (AP)

every time i post "meow", the application running this fedi server has to make approximately 660 HTTP requests. i have way too much power

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Garrodor 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Help! Kodiak caught me …

Illustration of a cartoon bear lying on snow with an animated heart above its head, interacting with a smaller, affectionate polar bear character. The background suggests a snowy environment with rocks.

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Preston B. Bear 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

YEY!
er, I mean "Oh no!" 🐻 😊

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st justin :debian: 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

If you create an app that doesn't allow pasting into the password field, you only encourage people to use simple passwords. I don't like having to open my password manager so I can look at the password to type it in manually.

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Paco Panda 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

I'm not done sharing pictures I did at Texas Furry Fiesta back in March.
This was part of an art trade with the awesome Scruff , who I got to see him again at FWA, yay! :D

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Pippin 1 year ago friendica

Cute as a button! (I don't know why buttons are cute, but apparently…!)

Michael 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Students at a London university, LSE, have not only occupied it – protesting against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza – but have also produced a huge report. It details the university’s complicity in not only war crimes but also the climate crisis.

https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2024/05/15/lse-israel-protests/

LSE protests, occupation, demands, and damning report over Israel

LSE students have not only occupied it with protests against Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza - but have also produced a huge report

^{The Canary}

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Keeya 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Paws done

Part of a fursuit commission of a charr character. Next part will be... interesting. The head

(Please ignore my terrible t-shirt for crafting stuff but it's one where random paint and glue is less likely to ruin something :D)

#Fursuit #Sewing

#fursuit #sewing

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Pippin 1 year ago friendica

I had a PGP key back in the 1990s when I was a Debian developer. (I probably still have the private key.) I remember meeting folks, checking IDs and signing keys. After stopping doing Debian stuff I've never really used it again. Would be nice to generate a new key sometime (the old one was probably 1024 bit RSA) and get signed and signing again. But… time, energy, etc.

Sharkie 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Hey, same! Except I know for a fact my key is lost to time. I miss the debian key signing parties.

I helped with the Debian booth at the first LWE so very long ago.

There was such hope back then.

Pippin 1 year ago friendica

@Sharkie Oh wow, I helped with the Debian stand at the Linux expos in London in the early 2000s. Took my PC, CD burner and printer, burned Debian CDs and printed matching labels for them to order. (This was back when 2x speed burners were "not the fastest but still pretty normal".) I had a script which would verify the burned disk against the image file, extract the label info, merge it into some postscript I'd written and squirt it out the printer. Assured the integrity of the disks and matchingness of the labels. :]

@Sharkie

Sharkie 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Pretty sure I remember your name from around The Project back then, but .. it's been a really long time now.

Pippin 1 year ago friendica

@Sharkie 😳 Oookay! (I haven't a clue what yours was though, so no idea if I remember it, sorry…)

@Sharkie

Pippin 1 year ago friendica

@Sharkie Also the fact that you casually mention that means my RL name is apparently much more findable than I intended. (Or you are just familiar with whois… which sadly RIPE won't let me sanitise, oh well.)

@Sharkie

Sharkie 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

I was controversial, because (being trans in a non-accepting time, and oh, also a dragon) I didn't want to give my real name. I went by Kysh back then, too.

Pippin 1 year ago friendica

@Sharkie Aaaah… I think I do remember now, yes. "Kysh" being around in fury after that probably means I remember the name less so from Debian. Also it was a long time ago and much of that time has just faded for me! 🤗

@Sharkie

Sharkie 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Same! I was also 16-22 during my debian years, so I was still trying to figure out how to pretend to be human. Furry was much more welcoming and accepting.

But I miss my #debian / #debian-devel days, and the bay area debian crew. Netgod, knghtbrd, all my peeps.

But yeah, it all blends together hard for me at this point. Dragons like me live lives in ten-year increments, and I'm on my fourth!

#debian

Pippin 1 year ago friendica

@Sharkie A decade does seem quite a convenient chapter length for life. *nod*

@Sharkie

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HankB 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

@sekka Thanks both for your contributions to Debian (regardless if you find time to help more.)

best,

@Sharkie

Sharkie 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

@HankB Honestly, I very much believe in the Debian project, and have for decades. It means a lot to me, despite the fact that I doubt anyone still involved has any idea who I am. It was a formative part of my life, but I gained a lot by it.

I think my most meaningful input into the project was back when Debian was considering adopting RPM as a secondary format, and I made the allusion that using redhat packages was like sharing underwear with a leper.

The comment was not well-received.

@HankB

HankB 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

@sekka "Unpopular opinion," huh? Everyone can't agree all the time.

@Sharkie

Sharkie 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

@HankB No, and Debian folks have (or at least used to have) the spiciest disagreements. (But the world was better for it!)

@HankB

Pippin 1 year ago friendica

@Sharkie @HankB That first paragraph matches my experience too. As for the second, I remember I experimentally added a couple of extra control files to my packages (which would be ignored if unused) because I thought of a good way to better measure whether there was space to install or not, and got called out and shouted down for it on the mailing list. Definitely didn't help me try out anything else again. There were people there very good at making people feel *very* "junior". *sigh*

@Sharkie @HankB

Trash Panda 1 year ago • misskey (AP)

Hey friends :)
I hope everything goes wonderfully for you all, remember to:
Stay hydrated
Backup your data
Backup your data
Backup your data
Yes, three times on a different device each!

But most importantly remember that you're not alone, that there's someone who cares about you and if you struggle you CAN reach out for help.
If you don't know who then look no further, I care about you and it would be my honor to help :)

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Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

PRESIDENTIAL GOALS: KENNEDY: THE MOON (LITERALLY) REAGAN: MORE MONEY FOR RICH PEOPLE CLINTON: ELIMINATE THE DEFICIT BUSH: MORE MONEY FOR RICH PEOPLE ОВАМА: UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE TRUMP: MORE MONEY FOR RICH PEOPLE BIDEN: INFRASTRUCTURE LAW THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT THE CHIPS AND SCIENCE ACT STUDENT DEBT REFORM MEDICARE DRUG NEGOTIATION

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Bob Payne 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

The 1.5C global heating target was always a dream, but its demise doesn’t signal doom for climate action https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/15/1-5-degree-global-heating-target-climate-action?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The 1.5C global heating target was always a dream, but its demise doesn’t signal doom for climate action

Missing a target doesn’t mean the sense of emergency should fade. What it must do is stop politicians dithering – and fast, says Bill McKibben

^{Bill McKibben (The Guardian)}

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Dave Fischer 2 years ago (Received 1 year ago) • mastodon (AP)

This is the best photo of magnetic core memory I've ever taken. IBM, early 60s. Shot with a microscope lens mounted on a 35mm B&W digital camera. No post! (I got into the habit of never doing any post-processing while documenting historic artifacts for the museum. Photoshop not allowed!) #retrocomputing #photography #rcsri

I used this shot for the cover of my book of images from our museum:

https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Machines-Dave-Fischer/dp/B09X557N52

Amazon.com

^{www.amazon.com}

#photography #retrocomputing #rcsri

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Pippin 1 year ago friendica

Content warning: Help finding a CLI tool for a specific job

Oh well, I suppose I'll write all this again, having lost it last time!

Can you help? I'm looking for a tool to do something rather specific and not finding much.

What I want is: a client machine needs to be able to make a TCP connection to any of several IP addresses on a pool of servers (it doesn't necessarily know which server has the IP address at the time) and the server should give it a count of connections to a specific port on that specific IP address.

The reason is to add a safety check to my VM start scripts - I want them to be able to poke the server hosting each volume the VM will connect to, to check how many iSCSI connections are active before letting the VM use the volume. Each iSCSI volume already has its own dedicated IPv6 address so that I can migrate volumes around without client VMs having to know where to connect. Also, for various reasons I don't think SCSI locks will be suitable.

My thinking so far is that I install an inetd-alike, listen on a port, and run a shell script. The script checks the local IP address of its stdin socket, uses ss or similar to count connections to the iSCSI port on that IP address, and outputs the number. Mostly easy, except finding the local IP address.

rlinetd (https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/rlinetd/rlinetd.conf.5.en.html) has a substitution for the *remote* IP address, but not for the *local* address. xinetd (https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/xinetd/xinetd.conf.5.en.html) doesn't look like it has either, from a quick skim.

If I could find a command line tool able to check the socket on stdin and output the local IP address, that would be great. It's hard to search for, though; the results seem flooded with how to get the local machine's IP address ("hostname -i"), how to get a remote machine's IP address ("dig"), or how to open a TCP socket in C.

I'd rather not write my own little tool as it'd probably take me far too many hours of frustratedly scouring documentation trying to find the right syscalls/library functions to do it. It's conceptually simple, it's discovery that's likely to be the problem. I might try digging into the Python networking documentation if I can't find anything else.

So, can you suggest anything? A CLI tool to just spit out the local IP address of the socket on stdin would be great, but alternative ideas are also helpful.

Thank you. :)

Pippin 1 year ago friendica

Aha, looks like the problem I had posting this before was the BBcode links I was using for the man pages. Change to just writing the URL and letting Friendica convert it to a link itself and the problem goes away. 🤷‍♂️

Pippin 1 year ago • friendica

!Friendica Support Hi! Looks like I may have found a bug (using "Friendica 'Yellow Archangel' 2024.03 - 1557").

I try to post and get a blank page and the following in log/friendica.log. As far as I'm aware, I'm using the url tag correctly, but maybe not? Even if not, I'd hope for something more friendly than a blank page and a lost post! Thanks :)

2024-05-15T17:28:23Z app [NOTICE]: Invalid url {"url":"https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/rlinetd/rlinetd.conf.5.en.html"} - {"file":"Diaspora.php","line":1155,"function":"fetchByURL","request-id":"6644f0b72bd97","stack":"Diaspora::fetchByURL (4107), Item::fetchByLink (262), Media::addActivity (240), Media::fetchAdditionalData (109), Media::insert (690), Media::insertFromRelevantUrl (1196), Item::insert (200), item_insert (79), item_post (96), LegacyModule::runModuleFunction (80), LegacyModule::post (233), BaseModule::run (711), App::runFrontend (55)","uid":"980d6f","process_id":5490}
2024-05-15T17:28:23Z app [ERROR]: Uncaught Exception TypeError: "Argument 2 passed to Friendica\Util\ParseUrl::parseParts() must be of the type array, string given, called in /web/src/Util/ParseUrl.php on line 460" at /web/src/Util/ParseUrl.php line 700 {"exception":"TypeError: Argument 2 passed to Friendica\\Util\\ParseUrl::parseParts() must be of the type array, string given, called in /web/src/Util/ParseUrl.php on line 460 and defined in /web/src/Util/ParseUrl.php:700\nStack trace:\n#0 /web/src/Util/ParseUrl.php(460): Friendica\\Util\\ParseUrl::parseParts()\n#1 /web/src/Util/ParseUrl.php(134): Friendica\\Util\\ParseUrl::getSiteinfo()\n#2 /web/src/Model/Post/Media.php(368): Friendica\\Util\\ParseUrl::getSiteinfoCached()\n#3 /web/src/Model/Post/Media.php(248): Friendica\\Model\\Post\\Media::addPage()\n#4 /web/src/Model/Post/Media.php(109): Friendica\\Model\\Post\\Media::fetchAdditionalData()\n#5 /web/src/Model/Post/Media.php(690): Friendica\\Model\\Post\\Media::insert()\n#6 /web/src/Model/Item.php(1196): Friendica\\Model\\Post\\Media::insertFromRelevantUrl()\n#7 /web/mod/item.php(200): Friendica\\Model\\Item::insert()\n#8 /web/mod/item.php(79): item_insert()\n#9 /web/src/LegacyModule.php(96): item_post()\n#10 /web/src/LegacyModule.php(80): Friendica\\LegacyModule->runModuleFunction()\n#11 /web/src/BaseModule.php(233): Friendica\\LegacyModule->post()\n#12 /web/src/App.php(711): Friendica\\BaseModule->run()\n#13 /web/index.php(55): Friendica\\App->runFrontend()\n#14 {main}"} - {"file":null,"line":null,"function":null,"request-id":"6644f0b72bd97","stack":"ErrorHandler::handleException (128), ErrorHandler::Friendica\\Core\\Logger\\Handler\\{closure}","uid":"980d6f","process_id":5490}

!Friendica Support

Pippin 1 year ago friendica

Oh jeebus. Friendica seems to keep failing when I post (longer stuff, I think) and I lose everything I've written. Must must must remember to select-all and copy before clicking the button. -.-

nano!ナノ 1 year ago • akkoma (AP)

this is Gemini Advanced, the bullshit google was hyping up at todays i/o

it doesnt. fucking. work. as far as i can tell, this ai shit will *never* fucking work. it's not real intelligence, it's just spitting words out at me that vaguely make sense.

me, asking google gemini to give me all of the text on the first garfield comic, release on june 19th 1978. it confidently tells me that garfield says "i hate mondays" in the first panel. jon says "big deal! i hate mondays too" on the second panel. and garfield says "you hate mondays? ha! wait'll you see what i do to them!" in the 3rd panel. this implies garfield and jon had a live back and forth, something that explicitly does not happen in the garfield comics by design, and also literally all of this dialogue is incorrect and never happened

the actual comic strip, in which jon says, in the first panel "hi there, i'm jon arbuckle. i'm a cartoonist and this is my cat garfield". garfield, in the 2nd panel, thinks "hi there, i'm garfield, i'm cat, and this is my cartoonist jon". jon says, in the 3rd panel, "our only thought is to entertain you" garfield responds with "feed me"

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Matt Gray 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Vent, trans healthcare

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Matt Gray 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

This is a vent. I don’t want to have a conversation about it.

DO NOT REPLY TO
THIS POST
DONOTREPLY.CARDS v1.3

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olligobber 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

💛🤍💜🖤

Gingerpupgraham 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Do not ban transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards - Petitions, for UK citizens only but please share.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/661601

Petition: Do not ban transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards

The Health Secretary has said that transgender hospital patients in England may be banned from being treated in female- and male-only wards. We believe that this segregation is discriminatory, dangerous, and violates the Equality Act of 2010.

^{Petitions - UK Government and Parliament}

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Avon DeRussate 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

It is high time that people started taking responsibility for the own data again. Yes I know DDS cassettes are expensive and fiddly, and CDs are like so last century. But we cannot rely on these corporations.

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Avon DeRussate 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

@patterfloof That works too. Or just a removable HDD. I still back up locally and store off site for my domestic back-up (yes I am THAT hard core) and never trusted "Cloud Storage" for anything I was not prepared to show my mother.

@patter