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1. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 14:15:44 EDT Brian Ó

   https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/red-hat-warns-of-backdoor-in-xz-tools-used-by-most-linux-distros/

   #linux #xz #backdoor #security
2. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 13:19:20 EDT Brian Ó

   I've been plugging away at #Returnal since January of last year (with a long-ish Hiatus to play through Baldur's Gate 3 twice), but today I finally beat it. I only died 260 times!

   #games #videogames #playstation #ps5
3. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 08:38:33 EDT lnxw48a1
   In the 20 years or so that I've been travelling for work, I have had to scan receipts. First of all, there was often a deluge of paperwork and receipts, and there's no way I could carry those around and keep track of them. They had to be scanned, though they originally had to be on paper, so I could fax them in.
   
   After a while, $EMPLOYER stopped requiring receipts to be faxed and allowed us to upload .pdf and .tiff documents ... so paper became a special case and even more burdensome.
   
   And of course, I've used the submit receipts and delete local copies method because even dealing with electronic receipts across personal and employer computers is too much hassle.
   
   Now, however, every company wants to do electronic receipts and "pull" type billing (where they hit your card or bank account periodically without any action on your part, and if they make an error, you have to depend upon them agreeing and sending excess funds back ... while any related overdraft or overlimit fees would remain your responsibility). They also all want you to submit an e-mail address and a cell phone number so they can spam you with unneeded and unwanted notifications.
   
   This happened just as I no longer had access to a receipt scanner (or any other scanner ... I've long used the "tape receipts to a sheet of paper" method and a regular scanner), so going fully back to paper hasn't been a viable option either.
   • lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 08:49:39 EDT lnxw48a1

     in reply to

     • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
     One might say that my relationship with various methods of receiving bills and receipts is "complicated".
     
     And that's not counting the ones where you have to log into their site every month to download an encrypted file and copy the individual file's passcode. Nobody has time to securely store a file-by-file passcode. Either give it to me unencrypted or use a single passcode that applies to every file.
     
     (This topic came to mind because of @clacke's discussion of storing his receipts in #DeltaChat (which AFAIK is just a chat-like interface atop e-mail ... so I guess all that would also be available in his inbox).
   • lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 08:50:44 EDT lnxw48a1

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     unbalanced parentheses
4. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 01:38:35 EDT lnxw48a1

   • Federati Networks
   There's about one month left on the hosting here. At this point, I don't have funds to renew it, so it is probably time to start an orderly shutdown.
   
   !fnetworks
   • lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 01:50:01 EDT lnxw48a1

     in reply to
     I'm in the market for a GS instance to move my presence there. Also for a Friendica instance that isn't Libranet.de (intolerably buggy, and since I've hosted ~F instances in the past, I know it wasn't anywhere near this bad in the past).
     
     While I'm at it, I'd like to set up new secondary accounts on a couple of Misskey instances.
     
     In all cases, I desire an easy ToS and less power-mad administrator ... but not so easy or hands-off that racists and a$$holes congregate there.
   • lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 08:43:07 EDT lnxw48a1

     in reply to

     • musicman
     • GeniusMusing
     @musicman @geniusmusing
5. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 08:24:12 EDT lnxw48a1
   My mom sent me an SMS to remind me that I came home one day and excitedly shared "'Yellow River' by IP Freely" (I believe it was something in MAD Magazine). I was laughing so hard that I could barely say it. For months afterward, whenever I thought of it (or read that issue of MAD, purchased because of it), I laughed like some sort of maniac.
   
   That was shared by a girl in my class named Cynthia. She seemed to be almost twice my height and more than twice my weight. The next year I changed schools and I don't think I ever saw her again. But she used to share lots of funny things (which often seemed to be sourced from MAD).
6. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 08:09:13 EDT Michael Vogel
   Auf geht's.
   https://pirati.ca/photo/13766655526606af3aa6228028205603-0.jpeg
7. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 06:21:33 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   The most important photos from a non-nostalgic viewpoint are my receipts, and those I have all stored in DeltaChat. They're back in the phone now.
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   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 06:16:54 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to
     Making use of the Easter holidays to have the time to set up all the bank apps, authenticators and other things. Accidental spring cleaning might be good for me after five years, there's probably a lot of things I'm not installing.
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 06:19:54 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • Delta Chat

     I was planning to export @Delta Chat data from my backup phone, copy to some computer, copy to my reset phone, import ... but now it's as easy as just scanning a QR Code and the two phones will transfer account settings and keys over the LAN. Awesome!

     #DeltaChat

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 06:56:02 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to

     It was a stroke of added misfortune that I fumbled my phone storage right during tax season, but my backups on Delta saved me from scanning the physical receipts all over again.

     Everything submitted to HR and now I can truly enjoy the long weekend.

8. Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 04:32:09 EDT Tobias

   • Friendica Admins
   • Michael Vogel

   Friendica config optimization for limited resources

   Hey everyone, and especially @Michael Vogel

   I'd like to compile a list of settings for Friendica to work on limited resources. Based on settings I'm using on my Raspi 4 but with the knowledge of all of you, as I'm almost certain that I missed some optimization possibilities.

   Personal user settings

   
   

   • Account settings -> Social Media -> General Social Media Settings -> Followed content scope: select "only conversations my follows started". This is obviously a personal choice, but only follow (and importing) the postings from the accounts I follow and not also the content they interact with reduces the amount of postings that are imported into the system. If they think a posting is important enough to share it, then you'll see it.

   
   

   Settings in the admin panel

   Activate the "fast lane" worker. This will keep one worker process dealing only with the delivery of content. Afterall we want to share postings with contacts in a social network, so this should not suffer from other tasks the worker has to perform.

   Limit public access

   If non-logged in users have less access to potentially resource hungry parts of Friendica. This includes "Community pages for visitors" (None), "Disallow public access to addons listed in the apps menu.", "Only local search".

   Discovery

   Discovering potential contacts is great, but will use resources. So

   
   

   • set "Discover followers/followings from contacts" to None and just to be sure deactivate "Discover contacts from other servers".
   • Also "Only update contacts/servers with local data" should limit the data-waste filling up the database.

   
   

   Remote content

   Delete it automatically, as long as it is not protected by the users of the node. The settings for this are

   
   

   • "Lifespan of remote items" and also
   • limit the "Maximum age of items in the search table".
   • The "Lifespan of raw conversation data" is kept for 90 days by default, but the description claims it is save to delete it after 14 days so, take the minimum save value.

   
   Don't forget to select "Clean database" and "Periodically optimize tables". The optimization will actually free the space the table is reserving on the storage (else the database will fill up the reserved space before claiming more).

   Relays

   Relay server are great to get content into your node, especially on small nodes (likely those with limited resources). Fill the global community page and have nice channel content based on them. But those postings will also eat the resources of the server quickly. So...

   
   

   • set the "Relay scope" to tags and define some tags your server should import. Also "Allow user tags" so that the user can set tags to follow from the relay. However
   • set the "Lifespan of unclaimed items" to 1 (or another low value) so that these posting will get deleted quickly again

   
   

   Display of content

   Limit the amount of postings and comments that are shown on one page.

   Settings in the config file

   
   

   • system -> fetch_perents = false this will prevent Friendica to fetch missing parent posts
   • system -> optimize_all_tables = true this will optimizes all tables instead of only tables like workerqueue or the cache, so when things in the database are deleted, more space is freed.

   
   What have I missed? I mean apart from optimizing the database settings and how the web server serves PHP content.

   !Friendica Admins
9. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Jan-2024 10:33:59 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   I put my winter clothes back in their drawer yesterday, so *of course* it suddenly became colder today and I took the nice warm fleece jacket right back out again.

   The forecast says by tomorrow morning it will be almost down to freezing. Crazy stuff.

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 04:33:43 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to

     It was literally freezing if you went up in the hills a few hundred meters above sea level. If the weather freaks out just a little bit more, maybe next Christmas we can get snow.

     hongkongfp.com/2024/01/23/hkfp…

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 01:21:39 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to
     Now postwinter is decidedly over and we're in solid presummer where the nights are slightly too warm to sleep comfortably with the window open, and it's time to diligently put all food in the fridge if the food isn't being actively served right now. No more leaving a box of cheese or a loaf of bread on the table for half an hour.
10. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 19:46:49 EDT Michael Vogel
    Mein "Spätstück", das meiste davon wird eingefroren. Karotten, Gurken, Paprika, Tomaten. Zusammen mit Knoblauch, Zwiebeln und veganen Speckwürfeln. Die Soße besteht aus Gemüsebrühe, Gewürzketchup und Erdnussbutter. Außerdem sind ein paar Käsereste drin.
    https://pirati.ca/photos/heluecht/image/19281157346606007f698cf905027484
    https://pirati.ca/photos/heluecht/image/741177714166060053da4a5014132772
    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 19:53:39 EDT Michael Vogel
      Ich schaue mal, was ich dazu machen werde. Das war das Gemüse, das ich aus der Firma gerettet habe.
11. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 17:18:47 EDT Brian Ó

    Someone with no public posts and a suspect profile pic has been like-bombing my posts. Is this happening to anyone else?
12. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 15:26:03 EDT Michael Vogel
    Der Karfreitag des Jahres 1998 brachte den Frieden nach Nordirland. Vier Jahre zuvor veröffentlichten die "Cranberries" ihr bekanntestes Lied - "Zombie", dass über diesen Konflikt handelt. Mir kommen beim Zuhören immer Tränen.
    The Cranberries - Zombie (Official Music Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts
    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 15:54:24 EDT Michael Vogel

      • Hypolite Petovan

      Yeah, but at least Hamburg is not so strict like the catholic regions. Here it is limited to 24 hours starting from 5:00 AM tomorrow. In other regions it is the whole Friday and Saturday.

      BTW: I should watch "Life of Brian" tomorrow.

13. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 10:53:40 EDT Hypolite Petovan

    • Isaac Kuo
    @Isaac Kuo You win this one, Isaac.
14. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 20:19:49 EDT Hypolite Petovan

    None of our apartment building floor neighbors have ever seemed interested in being more than passing acquaintances, except this woman living with her partner and their 3-year old daughter we’ve seen growing since she was a newborn.

    However, a few months ago, she reported to my partner that her partner hit her once at the height of a heated argument. Within days, she moved out with her daughter to a place she wouldn’t disclose to us so that we couldn’t accidentally tell her now ex-partner who stayed behind.

    We thought he would move out once the lease was up, and he did, to the next door on the same floor. So we keep bumping into each other in or out the elevator, and it’ll now be awkward until either of us move out of the building.

    And now our random encounters will always remind me how unfair that his mistake ended up costing his ex-partner a ton and us a friend, while he gets to carry on with his life seemingly unperturbed.

    • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 15:26:02 EDT Hypolite Petovan
      @A Sweet Gentleman In this case, it looks like it's a 1st offense. Our ex-neighbor didn't hide they were having arguments with her partner, but this was the first time it escalated this way. I believe she did the right thing, which was also the hard thing.
15. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 08:30:29 EDT Hypolite Petovan

    Did you know that for your largest foodstuff record attempt to be recognized by the Guinness Book, it needs to be completely eaten on the spot?

    No waste. 😌

    • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 23:21:32 EDT Hypolite Petovan
      @𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮 :mikupat: We aren't talking about quantities, we are talking about size, the largest omelet/pizza/paella, etc...
16. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 19:21:19 EDT Hypolite Petovan

    It looks like a cat has me now. Used to have @clayote

    https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/photos/hypolite/image/13350640636604a9709fd84695481802
17. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 00:36:29 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    How is anyone expecting to sell shitty non-federating Mastodon instance truth.social to the stockmarket for billions of dollars? It doesn't have a business model, it is not cash flow positive.

    Is it a classic pump and dump scheme with market cap shenanigans like these DWAC people created their company, issued themselves 50 million shares and then they bought a handful of them from each other for 40 dollars a piece?

    More fraud to pay for the previous fraud?

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    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 09:27:26 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      @Stephen Michael Kellat Ah, that does make a lot of sense.
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 09:31:00 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      I bought and sold Ericsson shares at a loss around the same time too. A few years later they were worth 10x what I bought them for. 😁
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 20:57:31 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • silverwizard
      @silverwizard @Stephen Michael Kellat I wonder how long this investment vehicle existed.
18. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 20:07:01 EDT Michael Vogel
    Ist das komplette Gedankenlosigkeit oder bösartiger Vorsatz?
    https://pirati.ca/photo/13492887856604b44a01565773105726-0.jpeg
    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 03:27:36 EDT Michael Vogel

      • Thomas Bensler
      Ein Bußgeld wegen falsch parken würde mir schon reichen.
19. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 01:34:53 EDT lnxw48a1
    I used to run a small, closed-registration TT-RSS instance, so I even though I'd already "got" RSS years earlier, that made it so much better.
    
    I'd run a (similarly small and closed-registration) Friendica instance, and used its built-in RSS functionality, but TT-RSS was just so much better for me.
    
    At the time, it even had a mobile client.
    
    I originally dropped it because the main developer stopped doing releases and recommended that people run it from git. To me, that was like being in perpetual beta, and I didn't want to do that.
20. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 20:07:24 EDT Brian Ó

    #humor #trish