What are people using as an alternative to Elasticsearch in their Mastodon instances? Looking for a way to reduce my bill without sacrificing search.
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IMHO they peaked with Dos 6.6
Even the graphics environment operating system GEOS under C64 in 8bits, works much more efficient than any Windows flavor
Morning world. Happy Friday, to all those that celebrate.
Today's mood: odd
The siege is over but the war goes on. ‘The Eye of Horus’ is an atmospheric World War Two thriller with settings that move from the Highlands of Scotland via Gibraltar to Malta.
This modern photograph shows the interior of the Xara Palace in Mdina, Malta. Today it is a luxury hotel but in 1943 it served as an RAF officers’ mess. It is visited in the book by Bob Sutherland as he and Monique get to know the island better.
Find out more on my website:
http://www.kenlussey.com/eoh/index.html
When I was in London recently I met an #IDLES friend and immediately spotted his dgg badge. They are gorgeous! All smooth and enamelly!
Postage through the merch site was going to be hideous to Sweden so he very kindly ordered another and sent it directly. Et voilà ! Shiny!
Meta's bot crawler is really stupid.
Although I blocked its user agent yesterday, returning a 403 Forbidden reply, it keeps on crawling my online copy of wikipedia 🤪
grep "meta-externalagent" access.log | grep " 403 " | wc -l
3816
Yesterday’s toot has brought in salty seadogs from all the world’s seas of baud (thanks @guamwatt) telling nostalgic tales of acoustic couplers, BBSs and dot matrix printers, and occasionally breaking off to mimic the cry of the dial-up modem.
I’m imagining the entire fleet tied haphazardly together, with little knots of people gesturing around old pieces of communications equipment scattered on decks and chart tables. Picture the Jaws “comparing scars” scene, only with old bits of plastic and a lot more acronyms.
What I’ve learned by building to last: https://alexwlchan.net/2025/building-to-last/?utm_source=mastodon
🔮 You can’t predict the future, but there are patterns in what lasts
💖 People skills sustain a career more than technical skills
🌱 Long-lasting systems cannot grow without bound; they need weeding
I had a lovely time speaking at Monki Gras yesterday, and I’ve just posted my notes and slides.
Has anyone here got any experience with 3M VHB adhesive tapes?
I'm trying to stick a solar panel (flat plastic back) to laser cut poplar plywood. Other adhesive tapes have quickly unstuck, some building sealants work OK but are messy and can still be pulled off, E6000 glue did work, but not available in UK.
https://www.3m.co.uk/3M/en_GB/vhb-tapes-uk/
Long shot, but do I know anyone who knows about cycling in Norway? Specifically, public transport with bikes?
As soon as DNS is propagated, https://fediverse.fans will redirect to the Internet Archive where I have made available free most of my music and my SF novella.
If you want the domain name, let me know.
Still ill, coughing enough last night to make me puke... Have I got whooping cough??
A quick look back on yesterday, my first #MonkiGras: A great slate of mind-expanding talks, from @geekygirldawn’s feudalism and power analysis of rug-pulling and forks to Michael Coté’s attempts to play Dungeons and Dragons with GenAI.
Live Stream for #SotB2025 in just over 24hrs
Online tickets still available:
https://2025.stateofthebrowser.com/tickets/
You'll be able to catch-up rewind and watch later.
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Climate activists protested outside Dodger Stadium before Opening Day, part of a campaign to get Dodgers owner Mark Walter to dump oil industry sponsor Phillips 66, owner of gas station chain 76. Video of the protest from @mrmarkpotts.com:…
I still remember this. One of the things that really challenged me, and my ideas about gender early on was Iggy Pop in a dress.
It wasn't so much him in the dress that did it, it was what he said about it.
I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.
Once I internalized that, I started recognizing it as a key to understanding bigotry.
bsky.app/profile/monsterologist.bsky.social/post/3llfpqjv5r22s
Post a photo of who your shoulder angel and shoulder demon would be. Not certain which is which, at this particular moment in time... [contains quote post or other embedded content]
@OddDev @tazgetroete find ich auch echt hart. Hätte ich von der Taz nicht erwartet...
The core "ideology" of political liberals for decades has basically been "let's do stuff that helps people." They've often fallen short in the application of it, but that's been the core belief.
The Right built out more ideological lore, but the core belief was "we should rule."
And so.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:miczfsfixolk42l7343z3bpd/post/3llg2eoifs222
The internet of things is truly a wonder. 😝
Sometimes people think #FediForum is only for techies. That's a misunderstanding. If you look at the list of topics proposed so far, sure there are some highly technical ones. But there are many others, maybe more ... (cont'd)
Weren't we joking about making a 2-resistor array with optional cross-over to BOM-fix that pesky UART RX-TX mixup the other day?
Tadaa.
“Be your authentic self at work”
Absolutely not, I need this job
wasmVision 0.3.0 is out! We have some exiting new features for you such as MCP server support, and experimental GPU acceleration for vision models. Performance and stability improvements too. Go get it right now!
#wasm #computervision #opencv #golang #tinygo #rust #clang #mcp #cuda
https://github.com/wasmvision/wasmvision/releases/tag/v0.3.0
A page from my scrap journal with found ephemera, like bits of gig posters and spells found on lampposts.
#scrapbooking #junkjournal #grimoire #collage #artjournal #papercrafts #gluebook #handmade #diy #crafts #disabledartist #queerartist #riotgrrrl
#scrapbooking #junkjournal #grimoire #collage #artjournal #papercrafts #gluebook #handmade #diy #crafts #disabledartist #queerartist #riotgrrrl
Handgefärbt, handgestrickt, merino-weich in Größe 46/47
Jetzt im Shop
https://coleha.de/p/gr-46-47-handgestrickte-merino-socken-4-faedig
#coleha #atelierzitron #merino #wollsocken #stricksocken #strickenistmeinyoga #rechtswirdnurgestrickt #buntstatt #handgefärbt #handmade #madeingermany
@mindpersephone it's a really fun experience imo! And once you start wondering what you want to write down about stuff, you start getting more clear on what you want to watch and why. I will say I definitely do passive watching too. Especially on my phone where I can't edit my entries. Building an android app that can provide video and an editor will be huge when I get to it 🥹
re: migration scripts: absolutely! The editor has some limited structured support for it already and the core is built around a full source span preserving ast and there's building blocks to write not just "an" auto formatter, but one that will allow people to specify semantically aware formatting rules. Imagine a custom user rule that says "insert a newline preceding every Chapter key to create discrete blocks of tags associated with a chapter. This combined with preliminary work on extracting information based on queries over the layout of the data means you can express aggregations in really unique ways. The idea being that layout can imply user defined relational predicates! The overall goal being that the media-thing service can accept mutations via structured APIs and then amend the source files with new content that fits in precisely with the user's preferred formatting conventions.
re: sharing: I haven't yet started thinking about the user interface for it so I'll hand wave and say "something like but better than a gui merge tool blended with graphviz" - this is definitely complete bullshit but it sounds clever lol. My current focus is on figuring out some kind of formalism for the semantics of the underlying knowledge base that a given library encodes, and more significantly finding a reliable way to match a piece of media across libraries because for the moment I'm not interested in making it a file sharing service. I'm considering perceptual hashing and/or audio alignment techniques rather than straight hashing.
An idea just coming to me is that with the appropriate machinery it could surface human or simple deterministic automated descriptions of keys along with any similar relation types in your own libraries. This is very technical but perhaps there are clever ways to expose it intuitively.
Uh, sorry for the novel 😅
this is a test but dw about it :3
@ueeu my biggest fear about splitting with US with this boycott is that all transactions are handled by visa or MasterCard and PayPal also has a presence. We need a European alternative to take the place of this functionality
Turns out I joined fedi at a convenient time because today is #MusiciansDay
I make #experimental #soundscapes. And up to this point, nobody outside of a few close friends have heard any of it. It would mean a lot to me if you'd check it out.
ringagentumbra.bandcamp.com
Headphones / a good stereo is HIGHLY recommended. The stereo field is really important to my music.
There's two songs up at the moment. But I've got a third that is almost finished. Follow me for updates on that release!
#boycottusa #science #buyeuropean #buycanadian #maga
A new detention of a scientist. This time a woman who worked for Harvard Medical School. She was detained in Louisiana and may be deported to Russia, where her life may be in danger for having opposed war.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html