Skip to main content

Posts

Stefano Marinelli @stefano

I promised it, so here it is. This is a recording of littleFedi running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W on NetBSD.

Everything is on the SD card, the database is SQLite, and caching is enabled.

Personally, I won't comment on responsiveness or anything else; I'll just say that when I use it (both via the web interface and with apps like MastoBlaster or IceCubes), I find it hard to believe what kind of hardware it's running on.

Users' sessions (by default, a maximum of 8 users but configurable) are kept "warm" with every interaction or federated activity for 15 minutes since the last login; after that, the server enters "low power mode" and simply processes incoming data without activating the (users' timelines, etc.) cache.

We don't need to get ripped off for more powerful hardware, which comes with outrageous costs these days.

We just need to optimize and build efficient software.

Abundance led to waste.

#littleFedi #NetBSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData #Optimize #ScreenCapture #Fediverse

Screen capture - using littleFedi hosted on a Raspberry PI Zero W running NetBSD from a SD Card.
10 10 8
Vadim Rutkovsky @vadim

Soundtrack: Liquid Liquid - Dig We Must

An elevated view overlooking an active urban construction site framed by two large yellow cranes on the left and right edges. In the foreground, a dark railing with yellow graffiti sits above stacks of bright yellow rectangular blocks and piles of dirt. The center of the image shows a deep excavation area containing scaffolding, wooden forms, and various metal structures behind a green fence. A cityscape with several buildings and a bridge is visible in the background under a cloudy sky. The two tall yellow cranes extend upwards toward the top of the frame.
An elevated view overlooking an active urban construction site framed by two large yellow cranes on the left and right edges. In the foreground, a dark railing with yellow graffiti sits above stacks of bright yellow rectangular blocks and piles of dirt. The center of the image shows a deep excavation area containing scaffolding, wooden forms, and various metal structures behind a green fence. A cityscape with several buildings and a bridge is visible in the background under a cloudy sky. The two tall yellow cranes extend upwards toward the top of the frame.
1 0 1
Dgar @dgar

(─‿‿─)
#Haiku

Vizzini from The Princess Bride is imparting his wisdom. THIS PIC IS A MEME BUT IT'S ALSO A HAIKU. INCONCEIVABLE!
Vizzini from The Princess Bride is imparting his wisdom. THIS PIC IS A MEME BUT IT'S ALSO A HAIKU. INCONCEIVABLE!
0 6 10
discontinuity @discontinuity

PSA: check the batteries in your old electronics before they cause a fire.

I discovered some puffy batteries in old feature phones stored in the back of the cupboard. I'm going to remove all the batteries from tech like this and bring them to the recycling - or get rid of the whole device if I don't need it anymore. Might be worthwhile for those of us packing for #EMFCamp to pair this errand with packing. That's why I was digging though the pile of old feature phones.

Nice that it's usually easy to just remove batteries from the feature phones I was looking at - no tools required. Some smartphones/laptops have the batteries glued in, which means it's much better to just get rid of the whole device :(

1 2 0
Michael Foster @michael

Here's what's going in my bag (and what's not) as I pack for "Black Holes & Day-Glo Symphonies" at #DWebCamp on Thursday:

🎨 Six cans of Day-Glo paint. Not allowed on the plane 😬 so a fresh order of graffiti paint is shipping to Alte Holle.

📋 Three flipcharts.

📣 A pink Day-Glo megaphone.

👕 Thirty t-shirts with a top secret design.

🔊 A Bose S1 Pro+.

👩‍🎤 A Lily Allen track.

🐬 A TikTok meme.

⚫ And one black hole. Potentially more hazardous than the spray cans?

Cont...

2 2 0
Kestral @kestral

Spending my day working on "Gooseventure: The Valued Goose Game" which is the text-based adventure game I'm developing for #EMFCamp. It'll be available online after the event as freeware, but the current aim is for it to be playable in the EMF arcade next week.

6 5 12
Robert Kingett @WeirdWriter

Can we retire from the expression “the kids are okay?” Because I am at my morning coffee shop and I just met and hated a 20-year-old cis het white guy, Let’s call him Brad, that believes emotions are an inefficiency that only inhabits stupid people and I tripped the bastard with my cane because he was explaining the optimum way a woman should sit at her Linux laptop computer so LLM systems can't malfunction when doing age verification because of her “bigger than average breasts.”

She bought me a drink after she saw me trip the bastard.

We're exchanging anime shows we like. I'm telling her I'm new to anime and that I'm a Romance writer.

“Good, she says, her voice dripping with that specific kind of relief that's refreshing, “we need more men taking Romance writing seriously.”

2 1 7
Field-FX @FieldFX

Demos needed! We're putting a demoshow for #emfcamp and we would like to hear from you! What demos in the past year or so have impressed you, and why? Our aim is to inspire, excite and entertain people who may not have seen a demo before. Don't delay, hit reply today! #demoscene

2 2 0

Boosts

Phil @Masterofsorrow

It’s just a pride flag on a lamppost isn’t it? Well, not quite….

A week or two I posted that Calderdale Council had recently been won by Reform (hard right) and one of the first things they did was to declare that only the Union Jack and St George’s Cross flags could be hung from council property. That declaration prompted some degree of guerilla Pride flagging with them mysteriously appearing on lampposts around both the Town Hall and Shibden Hall (home of that rather famous Lesbian - Ann Lister).

Anyway, those got removed but not long afterwards 30 of these appeared in various locations around Calderdale. The local council were very quick to acknowledge receipt of complaints, declare that they would immediately be removed as they were illegally erected and steps would be taken to identify the folks putting them up and prosecute them for repayment of the costs for removing the flags. Unfortunately….

what they failed to check before getting all high and mighty was that all the flags have been erected on council approved advertising sites (in this case - designated lampposts) and by the council appointed firm for managing them. In turns out a local councillor set up a fundraiser and got enough money to get the flags made and hire the sites and relevant contractors.

As it stands at the moment, the council have no legal basis for their removal and because they were so high and mighty and publicly outraged when they thought it was guerilla flagging they’ve been exposed as having double standards for failing to have any other illegally erected flags immediately removed from their property.

I’m sure this is just the opening salvo in this particular battle but at the moment it’s LGBTQIA+ 1, hard right council that doesn’t know their own rules 0.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg542

A street view with cars and traffic cones. In a tall lamppost is the Pride flag with the words “Report Hate Crime” and a QR code on the bottom
A street view with cars and traffic cones. In a tall lamppost is the Pride flag with the words “Report Hate Crime” and a QR code on the bottom
0 7 3
morganth @morganth

So let me tell you about “Baby Sharking”. In #NYC, it is considered stunningly rude to play sound on your phone while you’re on a bus or subway. But sadly a few people do it anyway, and it’s also considered rude to confront them. So I have found a solution.

When someone is making phone noise (almost always scrolling TikTok) on the bus or subway, I stand next to them and blast “Baby Shark” on my phone. They can’t say anything, because they can’t very well say that I’m being any ruder than they are being. So 90% of the time they turn off the TikTok, put on headphones or leave. And then I immediately stop of course.

I encourage other New Yorkers to do this.

8 69 75
Jenetrix @Jenetrix
kid on a laptop: oh cool i found this cool ass rock band with 80s vibes. the collective works of the protomen: (wall of text). kid with the laptop: you are absolutely correct it is now my mission in life to destroy chatgpt
kid on a laptop: oh cool i found this cool ass rock band with 80s vibes. the collective works of the protomen: (wall of text). kid with the laptop: you are absolutely correct it is now my mission in life to destroy chatgpt
0 15 26
Heupferdchen @heupferdchen

Das Heupferdchen ist jetzt im Fediverse!
Was ist denn das Heupferdchen?
Ihr kennt doch sicherlich das Seepferdchen-Abzeichen, welches erste Fähigkeiten beim Schwimmen bescheinigt?
Das Heupferdchen-Zertifikat überträgt dieses Prinzip in die Bereiche #Natur, #Biodiversität und #Artenkenntnis.
Kinder, Jugendliche aber auch ältere Interessierte können ihr Artenwissen unter Beweis stellen und sich auszeichnen lassen.
Jetzt informieren auf unserer Website:
www.heupferdchen-zertifikat.de

0 2 1
Mike @schmidtsoftware

Hallo zusammen,

ich bin neu auf dieser Plattform und nutze den Hashtag #NeuHier für eine kurze Vorstellung.

Seit über 30 Jahren bin ich in der IT tätig, aktuell als #DevOps Engineer und #SoftwareArchitect. Privat bin ich Fan von #RetroHardware – bei Technik gilt für mich generell das Motto: lieber #reparieren als neu kaufen.

Abseits der Arbeit stehen die Familie, sowie meine Hündin Cara und die zwei Katzen Maunzi und Lilli im Mittelpunkt.

Ich suche hier den fachlichen Austausch zu Tech-Themen und Bastelprojekten. Wer ähnliche Interessen hat, kann mir gerne folgen.

#Introduction #Tech #SoftwareArchitecture #RetroComputing #RightToRepair #Nachhaltigkeit

0 19 28
Sanktionsfrei @Sanktionsfrei

3,85 € pro Tag für Frühstück, Pausenbrot, Mittagessen und Abendbrot. Die Bundesregierung erwartet, dass Kinder damit satt werden und erfolgreich lernen können.

🔎Wer damit ein Schulkind durch den Tag bekommt, kann sich gerne in den Kommentaren melden...

✨Wir verschenken 150 Euro Schulbonus und ihr könnt euch noch bis zum 10.07. anmelden. Sagt es euren Freund*innen und erzählt es auf dem Spielplatz weiter: sanktionsfrei.de/schulbonus

Wer hungrig in die Schule geht, kann keine Leistung bringen. Schulkindern in der Grundsicherung stehen im Regelsatz 3,85 € pro Tag für alle Mahlzeiten zur Verfügung.
Wer hungrig in die Schule geht, kann keine Leistung bringen. Schulkindern in der Grundsicherung stehen im Regelsatz 3,85 € pro Tag für alle Mahlzeiten zur Verfügung.
0 106 48
Grandasse @Grandasse_

Vous voyez les moments où vous vous couchez super tard parce qu'il fait encore trop chaud pour dormir ?

Ben si on était pas passé à l'heure d'été on aurait pas ce problème.

On a pas besoin de profiter du soleil si tard, on a besoin de frais pour dormir.

0 10 21
Tubemeister @Tubemeister

@nspugh @CoedCadw I grew up in the 80s, 25 degrees C was considered a good summer day and we used to get all bent out of shape if it got to 30 degrees C.

You get 25 in April now, 30 is routine a couple of times a year, and now we get to deal with 40.