I just started my Fediverse relay service which is a powerful way to support smaller instances, especially single-user setups, by boosting their visibility and enabling them to connect more easily with the wider network.

You can find more information at:
https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

The instance is reachable on IPv4 and IPv6.

#fediverse #opensource #relay #devops #mastodon #pleroma #gotosocial #ipv6

Just feeling nostalgic I suppose.

The #fediverse has a problem, and I’m going to be very unhelpful in not having an idea how to fix it.

Once an instance gets popular, it’s processing, storage and traffic costs get prohibitive for the people running it.

I regularly see reports of #mastodon instances shutting down because the admins can no longer afford the hosting costs. This will only be worse when #pixelfed and #loops spin up.

New artwork for the office! #AI

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Framed concert from MAD magazine, or "M-AI-D" in this case with caption 'Giving AI the middle fingers" and an image of a hand with six fingers giving the middle fingers.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/01/10/mark-zuckerberg-joe-rogan-apple-innovation/

#technology #apple #meta

(By the way, your post turned into quality “content” for me, at least. Sorry… couldn’t help it.)

Is #snac2 a suitable fedi server for a single-person, daily-driver instance, accessed via mastodon apps, interacting with the wider fediverse?

I /think/ I've mostly seen it deployed as a more write-centric service (for info bots/etc) ... but I could be mistaken.#snac #Fediverse #hosting #selfhosting

"Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic — and this we know it is, for certain — then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature."

Serbian-American inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla died #OTD in 1943.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

Books by Nikola Tesla at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5067

#books #science #technology

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Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) thinking. Tesla is seated in a dimly lit study or laboratory. He wears a dark, tailored suit, complete with a high-collared white shirt and a neatly tied bowtie, reflecting his elegant style. His slender frame and sharp features are illuminated by soft, focused light, emphasizing his high cheekbones, deep-set eyes, and slightly furrowed brow.

$19,266.09

That number is the cost per prescription receipt totaled and there could be subsidies or some other price-breaks that the state may get. Next I’ll see if can find out approximately how much the rest of my healthcare costs. It’s gotta be at least a similar number.

Ok, so Threads flipped the switch that allows folks within the Threads system to follow people who are posting elsewhere in the fediverse (like Mastodon, Pixelfed, miscellaneous nerdy #ActivityPub server). Here’s where to find me (if it actually works) @jrollans@mastodon.social and @jrollans@jrollans.com

Have a feeling that second one won’t work, we shall see…

The only way to make sure you don’t contribute to things like this is to not participate in public internet social media services.

https://www.404media.co/someone-made-a-dataset-of-one-million-bluesky-posts-for-machine-learning-research/

To everyone when they see horrible privacy news about Microsoft replying with:

"I don't care, I use Linux"

Sure, you do. But does your medical clinic do? Does your therapist do? Does your family member typing a personal email to you in Word before sending it do too?

This is a systemic problem.

You cannot protect your own data only by using Linux yourself. You must also demand stronger regulations and enforcement to obligate organizations around to protect your data as well.

#Privacy #Microsoft

#snac #snac2 #bluesky #bridge

Today is the 100th anniversary of Edwin Hubble discovering that those fuzzy clouds were actually other galaxies! #lookup #space #Astronomy

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New York Times from Sunday, November 23, 1924. A headline reads: Finds spiral nebula are stellar systems, Dr. Hubbell Confirms View That They Are 'Island Universes' Similar to Our Own.

Added a new user option to collapse top level threads by default.

Added a new disable_block_notifications boolean field to server.json to disable the notifications of Block activities.

Added a new strict_public_timelines boolean field to server.json to only show an account's posts and boosts (no trees) in public timelines.

Fixed repeated images in posts from some implementations (those that include an image both as an attachment and as an <img> tag inside the post content).

Added a small HTML/CSS tweak to improve post previews from some implementations (contributed by nyanide).

Notifications for EmojiReact activities now show the emoji.

New command-line action insert, to insert a post by its URL in a user's timeline.

Fixed bad processing/rendering of URLs with two or more @ symbols.

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/donate

#snacAnnounces

This release has been inspired by the song Subways Of Your Mind by #FEX.

If you were born before March 1994 then you're older than most people.

Anyone got an idea?

No ads. No trackers. No subscriptions. No Cost. Just wallpapers.

https://basicappleguy.com

https://lemmy.world/post/19608194

I just read a comment on a thread that said something to the effect of “I preferred the internet that wasn’t driven by profit focused influencers” and it made me realize that I loathe that profit-driven focus of social networks these days.

The new Vitals feature in the #iOS18 #Health app is pretty neat. No new data really, but a straightforward way to visual data. When I got #Covid a couple weeks ago I felt awful and there was no doubt that I was sick, but interestingly the day before I started feeling bad the Vitals app showed “Outliers” in my sensor data. High body temperature, fast respiration, rapid heart beat, etc…

I assume data centers are frequently decomissioning server hardware as new more efficient hardware comes out. who gets the old stuff?

anyone have any intel on this?

The thing that really gets me about this screen capture situation in the next version of macOS is that it lays bare the hubris of security folks.

I bet they rarely take screenshots - all their work is low-level internal mechanisms. What good is an image of a SHA hash going to do them?

Meanwhile there are hundreds of thousands of developers working with designers, clients, managers, and other folks who want to see the current state of their work.

We take a shit-ton of screenshots.

On Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1712350/Riven

On GOG: https://gog.com/en/game/riven

If you’ve never heard of this company or game and you like adventure games with well thought out puzzles, just get it!

Holy crap, the Riven remake DELIVERS.

On the one hand: it’s gorgeous, incredibly faithful to the original. So good. So grounded and sparkly and welcoming.

On the other hand: Cyan dared to make changes, with a lot of taste; sometimes big changes.
I use the “mindblown” emoji less than once a year, but after a discovery one hour into the game: 🤯

#riven #indiegames

And… it’s got PCVR support and I will finally realize a dream I had when I was a young teenager. I will go to the islands in VR!

https://cyan.com/2024/06/03/riven-launch-date/

I guess there’s one upside to my deteriorating memory function. Like seriously, I appreciate being able to experience the things I love, again, for the “first” time. Hopefully the old memory bank doesn’t get any worse.

This week has felt 12 days longer than 7 and it hasn’t even been 7 yet.

I of course will customize and upgrade it myself however.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/delta-game-emulator/id1048524688

#AppStore #Apple #Gaming #emulators

#StarTrek #FirstContactDay

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Season 2 Episode 10 GIF by Paramount+

Is there something already that runs yt-dlp on a server and outputs an rss feed / podcast of the results?

Support for custom Emojis has been added; they are no longer hardcoded, but read from the emojis.json file at the server base directory. Also, they are no longer limited to string substitutions, but images as external URLs are also supported (see snac(8) for more information).

Fixed a bug that caused some notifications to be lost when coming from a user in the same instance.

Added an additional check for blocked instances (sometimes, posts from blocked sites that were ancestors of legit posts were 'leaking' into the timeline).

On OpenBSD, if the disable_email_notifications server flag is set to true, unveil() is not called for the execution of the /usr/sbin/sendmail binary and pledge() doesn't set the exec promise.

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/grunfink

This release has been inspired by the album Eternal Embers by #Meltt.

#snacAnnounces

#StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery

I really miss the frequency of the rain storms where I grew up.

I'm running the following services myself, and your donations are increasingly important!

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https://fediverse.info
https://pubkit.net
https://loops.video

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Together we can achieve so much, your support helps us go even further ❤️

Does it work?

Worf: Just remember Rule of Aquisition No. 111: Treat people in your debt like family – exploit them.

Jadzia: You know the Rules of Aquisition?

Worf: I am a graduate of Starfleet Academy. I know many things.

#StarTrek #DeepSpaceNine