Jonathan Rollans

@jrollans@jrollans.com

I can’t be certain if this is my main or my alt account, but you’re here and I’m here, so, hello!

I’m a and a lover of (most of my “hobby time” is spent working on various bits of server software with a recent heavy lean towards ).


This account resides on an instance of (an ActivityPub server software) running on .

Also, I’m a lifelong, massive, fan. I love it all, I don’t hate on any Trek, it’s all good. Especially the bad.




Mastodonhttps://mastodon.social/@jrollans
Vernissagehttps://vernissage.photos/@jrollans

Location: 39.5501° N,105.7821° W

[?]Joel Carnat ♑ 🤪 »
@joel@piou.foolbazar.eu

Anyone knows of an iOS App that works properly with ?

I tried IceCubes, Feditext and Ivory and they all display "garbage" (like in images are ok, but no text. and boosters are displayed as authors) in the global timeline.

PS: the Web interface works properly.

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    [?]Jonathan Rollans »
    @jrollans@jrollans.com

    Mona works best of all the ones I have tried. I would prefer to use Ivory, but it's definitely got some odd issues (like the boosts appearing incorrectly) that makes it difficult.

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      [?]Jonathan Rollans »
      @jrollans@jrollans.com

      Once upon a time I was on lead guitar in an instrumental surf / punk / rock / funk / (insert every other genre here) four-piece band. We only really played together in that iteration for about 3 years, but in my memory it felt like such a much larger part of my life.

      I guess I was only 23 when that particular era ended though. I need to start posting some these old tunes.

      I always loved the name of that band - Bus Hop - It was nonsensical and had no meaning; but it just worked for the sound.

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      [?]Jonathan Rollans »
      @jrollans@jrollans.com

      @BeAware@mementomori.social I’ve always loved the Elder Scrolls myself and in a way ESO was some of my favorite experiences in that world. Something about the game progression seemed to just fizzle out for me back when I was actively trying to play it. Maybe the story got slow or something? For the lost part, I’m a player for the story type gamer.

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        [?]Jonathan Rollans »
        @jrollans@jrollans.com

        I’ve got some sort of infection in the my ear canal that I’ve got to see a doctor about tomorrow. It’s making me feel like I’m spinning in circles even when I’m sitting perfectly still.

        [?]BeAware :fediverse: »
        @BeAware@mementomori.social

        I don't just want followers.

        I want people to talk about MMOs with.🎮🖥️

        Right now, specifically ESO because I just reactivated my subscription.👀😁

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          [?]Bezekium 🐕 🎮 🎵 🎓 ⚽ »
          @bezekium@nrw.social

          @BeAware how do you like the game compared to earlier? Have there been noticeable changes? This year's new content isn't there yet, is it? (bar the prologue)

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            [?]BeAware :fediverse: »
            @BeAware@mementomori.social

            @bezekium well...that's kinda why I asked to talk to ESO peeps. Because I hadn't actually started playing yet and wanted to know all the differences in the updates, but from what I understand, the content hasn't dropped yet.

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              [?]Bezekium 🐕 🎮 🎵 🎓 ⚽ »
              @bezekium@nrw.social

              @BeAware oh sorry, I thought you found out because I read you reactivated your ESO+ 😄😅

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                [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                @jrollans@jrollans.com

                @BeAware@mementomori.social @phillycodehound It’s like a course over-correction. Yes, AI can produce poor results, often even, but it can also be a useful tool. I use the hell out of it as an accessibility utility because of neurological issues I have. A very loud group of people immediately stick their fingers in their ears and start screaming about how awful it is without really having an understanding of what it really is.

                I just wish the it wasn’t called “AI”. Like when those “hoverboards” got popular a decade ago. They did not hover.

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                  [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                  @jrollans@jrollans.com

                  It’s been sunny and warm for the past two weeks and then tonight at 7 PM the wind started blowing and a snow storm rolled up on us. I’m really enjoying it though. I guess it’ll be the last gasp of winter for my area.

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                  [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                  @jrollans@jrollans.com

                  Why do I fight sleep? I’m tired, I could easily be asleep in moments, and yet I am still conscious.

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                  [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                  @jrollans@jrollans.com

                  @BeAware@mementomori.social that’s my mantra. Unfortunately.

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                    [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                    @jrollans@jrollans.com

                    We’ve got these intense windstorms where I’m at in Colorado and holy shit the pressure variations is giving me a terrible migraine.

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                    [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                    @jrollans@jrollans.com

                    I really miss 3D Touch on iOS and Apple Watch devices. I feel like Apple dropped it because it was used so little, but if they would’ve made it more discoverable to begin with it could’ve been the basis for so many interactions that ended up convoluted now.

                    [?]Paul Cantrell »
                    @inthehands@hachyderm.io

                    Holy shit.

                    Just wow, wow, holy shit:

                    Completely rewriting a multi-million line COBOL codebase that has life-or-death consequences for real people in the space of a few months, using gen AI?

                    I’ve been writing software for 40-some years, and I have to say: this may be, without exaggeration, the stupidest software-related idea I’ve ever heard from leadership.

                    wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-s

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                    [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                    @jrollans@jrollans.com

                    There are so many great projects out there now and I want to play with all of them, but I don’t even have time enough to really enjoy the other 500 hobby things I’ve got going on.

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                      [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                      @jrollans@jrollans.com

                      Somehow it’s after 2 AM and I’m still awake. Also, related; I have to get up at 6 AM.

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                      [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                      @jrollans@jrollans.com

                      I finally got working with and my this particular account. It’s strange, I think I’ve narrowed the crash down to an issue with the way ActivityPub relays work in snac2. If there is a single boosted post in my timeline when Ivory pulls the data, it crashes instantly.

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                        [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                        @jrollans@jrollans.com

                        @macmanx@social.lol @chockenberry I’ve started working on a connector for Tapestry that will login to my FreshRSS instance, pull the latest articles and then mark them as read on the server. So basically any time Tapestry pulls articles from FreshRSS the articles it gets will then be marked as read in any other RSS reader I use (like Fiery Feeds, Reeder, etc…), that way I don’t see duplicates.

                        Now I just have to continue unearthing my JavaScript abilities. They’ve been buried a very long time.

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                          [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                          @jrollans@jrollans.com

                          https://lemmy.world/post/25773031

                          I don’t drink coffee, but I completely empathize with this.

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                          [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                          @jrollans@jrollans.com

                          @BeAware@social.beaware.live @bazurk I use @ivory@tapbots.social for my actual Mastodon account, but @MonaApp@mastodon.social for my instance (Ivory logs into my snac instance now, but has major crashing issues if I do certain things, so still unusable).

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                            [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                            @jrollans@jrollans.com

                            Has there been a huge increase in the amount of food recalls because of contamination (like listeria, salmonella, and botulism) in the United States in the past year, or am I just far more aware of the recalls?

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                            [?]Craig Hockenberry »
                            @chockenberry@mastodon.social

                            Just submitted a bug report here:

                            apple.com/feedback/maps-ios-ip

                            You might want to do the same.

                            Feedback for Apple Maps with the following field filled in:

Subject: Gulf of Mexico
Feedback Type: Incorrect Business or Place Info
Details of Issue: It's not spelled correctly.
Comments: This is ultimately a test to see who will fall in line with the authoritarians of a fascist
movement. You've failed the test.
It seems like a small thing, and maybe it is, but what happens when these same authoritarians start asking for my personal data?
At some point, Apple is going to need to stand up to this bullshit. Sooner is better than later.

                            Alt...Feedback for Apple Maps with the following field filled in: Subject: Gulf of Mexico Feedback Type: Incorrect Business or Place Info Details of Issue: It's not spelled correctly. Comments: This is ultimately a test to see who will fall in line with the authoritarians of a fascist movement. You've failed the test. It seems like a small thing, and maybe it is, but what happens when these same authoritarians start asking for my personal data? At some point, Apple is going to need to stand up to this bullshit. Sooner is better than later.

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                            [?]Jonathan Rollans »
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                            https://lemmy.world/post/25481368

                            Getting the “real work” done…

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                            [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                            @jrollans@jrollans.com

                            It’s one of those nights where I really just don’t want to sleep, but it’s all I am able to do. I need a healthier relationship with sleep.

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                            [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                            @jrollans@jrollans.com

                            @BeAware@social.beaware.live It’s pretty strange, generally the fediverse feels pretty accepting and open to new ideas, but when it comes to federation beyond ActivityPub (a by-design federated protocol, ha!), not so much.

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                              [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                              @jrollans@jrollans.com

                              @BeAware@social.beaware.live @reiver Bridgy Fed was originally supposed to be opt-out, but so many people on ActivityPub based networks went bonkers with the notion that it somehow infringed on their privacy. I mean, I understand some of the argument relating to the possible increase of malicious actors, but that will happen regardless of any bridges if there is ever any significant active user growth. I was super excited about the bridge until that happened. It really killed any meaningful potential it may have had.

                              I just can’t grasp the notion of maintaining privacy on a completely open network protocol.

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                                [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                @BeAware@social.beaware.live To be blunt, he was essentially bullied into abandoning the opt-out bridge concept. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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                                  [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                  @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                  I don’t listen to any sort of actual terrestrial radio broadcast these days (I do occasionally stream KEXP), but for some reason I’ve been daydreaming of firing up a pirate radio station and wondering if anyone would hear it. With my luck, probably the FCC.

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                                  [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                  @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                  @paul@oldfriends.live @jrollans Wow, yeah, I had no idea! It seems like a pretty obvious necessity to have a way to stop federation and send out the message that the account is no longer active or an AP entity. Honestly to me it feels just as important as having a way to start federating in the first place.

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                                    [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                    @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                    @toddsundsted@epiktistes.com That actually makes a lot of sense. It’s either that or something so asinine that it was a one-off (stupid) quip and ended in being actualized.

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                                      [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                      @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                      I absolutely loved my original Pebble watch! I'm super happy to see that they're going to attempt a comeback, because the world needs more tech built for the love of it and not for the return on investment.

                                      https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back

                                      http://repebble.com/

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                                      [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                      @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                      “Gulf of America”, seriously? What’s the fucking point man, I just can’t wrap my head around it. Is it a pride thing, where changing the name to that makes a person feel better or some shit?

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                                      [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                      @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                      @BeAware@social.beaware.live @jrollans I imagine so, there’s got to be a clean way to do it though, just got to find it. Thanks for the boost, I got some useful info!

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                                        [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                        @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                        @paul@oldfriends.live @BeAware@social.beaware.live @BeAware Yeah, that makes sense to me I think. I don’t think the instance I’m looking at taking down to swap out for something else has federated with a ton of other instances, so hopefully it wouldn’t take much time at all.

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                                          [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                          @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                          @toddsundsted@epiktistes.com Awesome, thanks for the info! That’s probably pretty helpful because what I’m thinking of doing is a Hubzilla to Gancio (federated calendar) switch. I’m thinking Gancio probably won’t know what to do with at least a bit of the traffic that’ll be coming at it.

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                                            [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                            @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                            @chkdsk@second.demae.party @jrollans That’s pretty much what I figured, most likely I’ll do a new subdomain in one case, but I’ve got another domain I’m probably going to experiment with and see what happens. Thanks for the input!

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                                              [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                              @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                              Hey, folks that know more than me about the protocol, I have a question:

                                              What kind of issues or concerns might I have if I shut down one kind of AP server software and then set up a different AP server on the domain previously occupied by the now decommissioned first AP server?

                                              (I don’t think the soon-to-be-shutdown server has a self-destruct.)


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                                                [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                This year I turn 45 years old, but I move about my house like a T-Rex more now than I ever did as a kid.

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                                                [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                I probably haven’t heard the song “Caribbean Queen” in at least a decade and just this morning I’ve heard it four times. This is unimportant, but odd.

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                                                [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                I’ve been getting more and more iMessage spam, but hey, we made it a decade before it started to become common!

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                                                [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                Sometimes I think having just means I spend an inordinate amount of time and energy trying to get my brain to stop producing gibberish.

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                                                  [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                  @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                  It is -9° F (22.78° C) and it’s actually not that bad outside, but there is absolutely no wind. Yet…

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                                                  [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                  @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                  @gyptazy@gyptazy.com Thanks for the service, it’s appreciated!

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                                                    [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                    @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                    I really miss the “old internet”. Meaning, the internet of two(!) decades ago. I wouldn’t want to revert to it, but imagine if we could have the simplicity of the Internet of Yesteryear mixed with the technology of today (and the bandwidth). I just find it so off-putting that my net connection is now 500 times faster than it was in 2003 and yet nothing loads any faster, hell, if you don’t block all the trackers and ads it loads slower!

                                                    Just feeling nostalgic I suppose.

                                                    [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                    @jrollans@pixelfed.social

                                                    A natural occurring #monochromatic world thanks to the #snow. I noticed something seemed odd about that particular snow storm, but didn’t realize until looking at the photo later on that it was because of the complete lack of color. #weather #photography #winter

                                                    This photo shows a snow-covered road lined with trees that are also covered in snow. It's a winter scene, likely in a rural or forested area.

                                                    Alt...This photo shows a snow-covered road lined with trees that are also covered in snow. It's a winter scene, likely in a rural or forested area.

                                                    Location: Las Animas

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                                                      [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                      @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                      @WiteWulf@cyberplace.social There are other ActivityPub servers that exist which barely use any resources at all. Honestly I think there are too many full-fledged Mastodon servers out there running that only have handfuls of users, or even a single user. Unfortunately ActivityPub does indeed use a lot of data and processing time when it’s an entire, replicating, software stack.

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                                                        [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                        @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                        I have to agree here, as far as I know hasn’t invented much of anything, but to be fair, doesn’t so much invent totally new products as they usually improve and iterate upon existing technologies. Apple does indeed keep their “walled garden” fairly well locked down, but in my opinion that’s why the garden is worth spending time in. I don’t have time to maintain a garden myself and Apple’s garden aligns with my sensibilities, it works for me that they (mostly) keep out the weeds.

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


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                                                          [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                          @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                          I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of someone running for President of the United States and winning in order to avoid jail time for a felony conviction. Are we sure we aren’t living in a Netflix show?

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                                                          [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                          @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                          Wow… the PCH from Malibu to Santa Monica is destroyed and 180,000 residents ordered to evacuate. These fires are awful.

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                                                          [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                          @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                          @paulthenerd@cupoftea.social I’ve had a growing disdain for the word “content” as well and I hadn’t really considered why it was bothering me, but now you’ve put into words what my brain hadn’t formulated yet. Now I really don’t like it.

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

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                                                            [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                            @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                            @jonathanmatthews@fosstodon.org I think it’s pretty much perfect! It’s super straightforward, rock solid, and uses so little resource-wise you could run it on anything. Works great with a lot of Mastodon clients (a few have issues, but some of those are due to client side code). It even supports migration of Mastodon accounts (to and from)!

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                                                              [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                              @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                              @cavyherd@wandering.shop Yes and it was fantastic! I was also especially fond of the 200th episode, cleverly titled “200”. It’s funny to think I never watched it while it was airing because I thought it looked too cheesy… now it’s one of my favorite aspects.

                                                              I watched the premiere of Travelers back when it first aired, not sure why I didn’t keep going, but I’ll give another go!

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                                                                [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                I have state Medicaid and I did some rough estimates on how much must be spent per year on my healthcare solely based on my medication. It’s a mind-boggling number.

                                                                $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.

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                                                                [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                The crazy thing is that if I were to still live in a state like Texas that doesn’t have an extended Medicaid program I would get none of that extremely expensive healthcare.

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                                                                  [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                  @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                  My partner and I just finished the entirety of the series (like all of it) and it was a really great ride. I’m actually really glad I never watched anything prior to and of course the original movie when it came out. There was a lot of cheese in places (especially in SG1), but I personally like cheese.

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                                                                    [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                    @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                    There were also some really great sci-fi concept episodes in all the different shows. Especially loved the time dilation because of black hole at the other end of the Stargate episode!

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                                                                      [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                      @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                      I really hate how much of a clunker the Steam app on macOS is. Its startlingly bad and it so laggy it feels like its only running at about 15 FPS just to scroll. I know its still running x86_64, but damn, its the only one that feels like that via Rosetta!

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                                                                      [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                      @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                      I feel like having commercially paid influencers on any social media platform as a positive is a hard argument to make, as one of the “unpaid” users of the platform. I might be a little unusual though, I view paid commercially funded content posters as exactly that, they literally are commercials. They’re just ads for things and I have skipped ads one way or another since the 1990s.

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                                                                      [?]Jonathan Rollans »
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                                                                      @jrollans@threads.net Well look at that! Seems like Threads does know about my little social media server.

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                                                                        [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                        @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                        Regardless of why became a holiday and the history behind it, I view it as a day to be with family and be thankful for having them. So happy Thanksgiving!

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                                                                          [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                          @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                          Of course the “firehose” is being used like this. The simple fact that it’s an enormous public fountain of information makes it a great target for training models. And in sure it’s being done with as well. No matter what people think, the Fediverse is being ingested into training models and all sorts of other things.

                                                                          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/

                                                                            [?]Em :official_verified: »
                                                                            @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange

                                                                            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.

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                                                                              [?]Jonathan Rollans »
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                                                                              The bridge has been working fairly well for me and I see other posts from time to time from folks on Bluesky that I don’t follow. However, I saw a day or two ago that the bridge had been temporarily paused due to the massive influx of new users. Not sure if it’s been fired up again yet!

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                                                                                [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                Some mornings are better than others… I’ve been having terrible migraines for over a week and this morning I only have the faintest ghost of one. Here’s hoping it stays that way or disappears entirely!

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                                                                                [?]Jonathan Rollans »
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                                                                                @stigatle@activitypub.stigatle.no Oh! I haven’t experienced any server crashes during my use of Mona. I’d love to build an iOS snac centric app, but time is far too short for me these days.

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                                                                                  I’ve been using Mona and it’s quick and most things work, that I use at least. Would love to use Ivory, but there seems to be some incompatibility that I can’t track down.

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                                                                                    [?]Jonathan Rollans »
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                                                                                    The frequency that I’m getting for the past two weeks is horrible. I’m really
                                                                                    Hoping to Botox injections start making an appreciable difference.

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                                                                                      [?]Jonathan Rollans »
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                                                                                      @pvanb@mastodon.social @chockenberry@mastodon.social I was just wondering about that as well!

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                                                                                        [?]Jonathan Rollans »
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                                                                                        Oh boy, about to have to help my dad “fix his TV” via FaceTime. Sounds like maybe he’s just got it set to the wrong input, which I hope is the case, because I am already burnt out and I don’t think I got any troubleshooting left in my body.

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                                                                                        [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                        @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                        Yup, wrong input, but the remote control for the TV is missing… so it involved lots of cussing and fumbling about with hard-to-reach buttons hidden on the back-side of the TV that had no clear labeling. In the end we got it working again.

                                                                                          [?]The Real Grunfink »
                                                                                          @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                                          I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.62 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

                                                                                          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 useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/donate

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

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                                                                                            [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                            @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                            I’ve gotten 46 text messages since 7:30 AM this morning (it’s 11:10 AM now) and every single one of them has been “vote republican” bullshit, but they’re all for North Carolina. I live in Colorado.

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                                                                                            [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                            @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                            Even if I were inclined to vote conservative, I don’t believe I could vote for any of these politicians amidst the overwhelming amount of spam I’ve been receiving for the past week. On principle alone, I find it reprehensible that they would resort to SMS bombing like this.

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                                                                                              [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                              @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                              I’ve let my programming skills languish for so many years now that I practically don’t remember anything of use anymore, but lately I’ve really been wanting to get back into it. I know I want to do something with , but I’m not sure what.

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                                                                                                [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                @chema@ctrvx.net @grunfink@comam.es I agree completely! I’ve been very satisfied with myself. Server software has gotten so incredibly bloated these days needing ridiculous amounts of resources, snac uses practically no resources and its development has been wonderful to watch take shape.

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                                                                                                  [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                  @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                  @BeAware@social.beaware.live We really do. ☹️

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                                                                                                    [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                    @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                    My medication that I take for migraines would cost $11,579.64 a year if it weren’t for the state funded health insurance that I have. That’s just bonkers…

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                                                                                                    [?]Cabel Sasser »
                                                                                                    @cabel@social.panic.com

                                                                                                    i just read the absolutely saddest twelve-word short story

                                                                                                    “The Church of Scientology has reportedly purchased the Jim Henson Studios Lot”

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                                                                                                    [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                    @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                    This weather is bonkers, yesterday it was 60° F and today it’s 90° F.

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                                                                                                    [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                    @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                    @BeAware@social.beaware.live @jrollans Ah, that’s it. Thanks for the reminder!

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                                                                                                      [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                      @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                      @loganer@mastodon.social It can be pretty fun to run servers like that, I’ve had a few different ActivityPub services over the past few years. There are a LOT of different servers these days.

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                                                                                                        [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                        @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                        @Turnimunt@mastodon.social I know I’ve seen a site that basically lists statistics for all the different ActivityPub servers, just can’t remember where it was. Maybe it would be possible to get a rough calculation based on info there?

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                                                                                                          [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                          @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                          I would be curious to see the amount of monthly active users federating via that are _not_ using as their server instance. Basically I want to know the number of folks that actively use the sans Mastodon statistics.

                                                                                                          Anyone got an idea?

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                                                                                                            [?]BasicAppleGuy »
                                                                                                            @BasicAppleGuy@mastodon.social

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

                                                                                                            basicappleguy.com

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                                                                                                            [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                            @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                            I feel like subscriptions of any kind should be partially opt-in after the fact. It should not be possible for a company to debit your account in perpetuity. There should be some law or regulation that requires companies that offer subscriptions to contact you for authorization every so often (like every three months or something).

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                                                                                                            [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                            @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                            For the first time since I moved here back in 2016 it has rained the _entire_ day. I miss days like this.

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                                                                                                            [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                            @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                            @BeAware@social.beaware.live @samsethi I’ve been using the 18.1 beta on my 15 Pro and while I see some potential with the Apple Intelligence stuff, it’s very rough around the edges, hell it’s rough around the middle! The beta itself it’s quite buggy, lots of heat issues and random crashes still. I’m hoping beta 4 helps in that regard.

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                                                                                                              [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                              @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                              Kinda feel like I’m gonna pop when it gets up there.

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                                                                                                              [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                              @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                              Lately I’ve been dealing with some elevated blood pressure and I gotta say, it’s really not pleasant. Apparently some folks can’t tell if their BP is high, I definitely can.

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                                                                                                              [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                              @jrollans@jrollans.com

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                                                                                                              [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                              @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                              It’s such a massive relief that the heat wave finally broke, I was starting to think that it would never cool down. I actually put on a hoodie today!

                                                                                                              [?]Jonathan Rollans :ivory_logo: »
                                                                                                              @jrollans@mastodon.social

                                                                                                              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.

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                                                                                                              [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                              @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                              I run deliveries for extra cash on occasion and I’m fairly certain something has gone wrong with the app as far as assigning deliveries. I live in a small town, but usually I’ll catch a few orders in an hour, but about a week ago the app will claim it’s “Very Busy” so I’ll log in and nothing. Sometimes for well over an hour! I’d love to know how their algorithm determines what driver to send orders to.

                                                                                                                [?]Jonathan Rollans :ivory_logo: »
                                                                                                                @jrollans@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                The new Vitals feature in the app is pretty neat. No new data really, but a straightforward way to visual data. When I got 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…

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                                                                                                                  [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                  @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                  I’m hearing some fantastic thunder right now! I wish there was a straightforward way to share audio recordings via . There probably is, but I am unaware of it…

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                                                                                                                    [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                    @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                    I thought of a useful idea for an open source project today and I’m wondering if I have the skills to make it so… it’s like Pi-hole, but for phone call blocking. A crowdsourced database of spam, scam, and otherwise phone numbers that an app can pull from to block said numbers. Not sure about Android, but iOS has an API for call blocking.

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                                                                                                                    [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                    @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                    I’m so very much over this heatwave… I moved to Colorado to escape the blistering heat of Texas and I had 7 years of relief from the scorch, but this summer feels just like “home”.

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                                                                                                                    [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                    @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                    There’s this fish & chips food truck that comes through town every month or so and damn it’s good stuff. Pretty sure my cholesterol would be through the roof if I had regular access to it.

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                                                                                                                    [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                    @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                    has struck again! I’m very sick… woke up this morning with a fever and having bizarre hallucinations about try dig out some kind of gemstones from the dirt. Kinda sounds cool, but it was absolutely not. This has been my third experience with having Covid.

                                                                                                                      [?]Craig Hockenberry »
                                                                                                                      @chockenberry@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                      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.

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                                                                                                                      [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                      @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                      The last round of Botox injections I had for migraine prevention did not work very well at all. Which means I’m in the middle of a three month block of much higher migraine frequency.

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                                                                                                                      [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                      @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                      While picking up a family member from the airport, which is 230 miles from where we live, the car broke down. The alternator gave out and died just south of the airport after we picked up our passenger. It’s been quite a day. We’re all still waiting for help to arrive any then it’s still a 3.5 hour drive home.

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                                                                                                                      [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                      @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                      Not to mention I was stuck standing in the desert with the sun beating down on me and air quality that’s more wildfire smoke than O2.

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                                                                                                                        [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                        @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                        I’m so happy to see that the new Riven is getting accolades and fantastic reviews! I’ve been taking it really slow so the experience lasts as long as possible, but it really has been wonderful. The folks at Cyan have really outdone themselves (yet again)!

                                                                                                                        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!

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                                                                                                                        [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                        @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                        I’ve been using the iPhone Mirroring feature on the macOS and iOS betas quite a bit and I think it’s really useful, but I think I know what Apple is really planning with that feature. They’ll eventually bring it to visionOS and overlay it in augmented reality over your actual iPhone screen while wearing the Vision Pro.

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                                                                                                                        [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                        @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                        @aa@bsd.cafe @gyptazy@gyptazy.ch I run a snac instance as well and as far as storage usage it’s at about 250 MB right now after about 6 months of uptime.

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                                                                                                                          [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                          @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                          I live in a small town on the front range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, I probably don’t need to mention that we get a lot of tourists at times during the summer, but oh my there’s more than I’ve ever seen here! We have one actual grocery store and of course the Walmart… both are picked clean, it’s like the apocalypse happened on those shelves.

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                                                                                                                          [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                          @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                          I’ve always loved fireworks and being as we’re approaching American Independence Day it historically would be my favorite holiday of the year, but for the last decade I’ve had a four legged, grinning, dog creature and those same fireworks scare the hell out of her and her doggie friends. So these days I stay home and inside to be with a bunch of dogs, because they shouldn’t have to be afraid _and_ alone.

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                                                                                                                          [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                          @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                          @jrollans@threads.net this is a test.

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                                                                                                                            [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                            @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                            The remake of is everything and so much more than what I was expecting and wanting. It _looks_ exactly as it appears in my memory, but amazingly the game managed to stump me with a puzzle right off the start that is both the same puzzle, but different. It’s done in a way that feels original, but fresh.

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                                                                                                                              [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                              @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                              One more night of sleep and then the game will be released! Time repeats itself… I remember when I was 16 in 1997 and I had one more night of sleep before I could go to the local computer software store (remember those?) and buy the game when the original came out. I’m really looking forward to reliving the experience.

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                                                                                                                                [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                                @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                                The show we’ve been watching via Hulu (by way of Disney+) vanished from all streaming services late last night while we were watching it! It was crazy, we had decided to watch another episode as the current one was ending and then… poof! It was just gone.

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                                                                                                                                [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                                @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                                Holy shit, they’re finally going to let us change the damn flashlight and camera button on the lock screen in iOS!

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                                                                                                                                  [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                                  @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                                  The weather where I’m at in Colorado has been so similar to where I’m from in Texas lately and I hate it. The humidity level has been in the 40% range when it’s normally in the 10% area. It’s also been 90° F and that is also bizarre for this area this time of year.

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                                                                                                                                  [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                                  @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                                  @grunfink@comam.es don’t even worry about it, has been rock solid and a truly great piece of software engineering. It amazes me how stable it is! Thank you for building and continuing to develop it!

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                                                                                                                                    [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                                                                    @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                                                                    I think I want to organize my social media account into some sort of order. I have four “main” accounts and follow a lot of the same things with each one, but I’m thinking maybe I’ll make each one topic(s) specific. The problem for me would be remembering which one to use.

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