Notices by ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 5

@maloki Not that I know but would be a good list to have. Feel free to run any candidates by me if you like. It’s usually rather quick to suss that stuff out.

Have you heard about Silicon Valley’s unpaid research and development department? It’s called the EU.

https://ar.al/2019/06/22/have-you-heard-about-silicon-valleys-unpaid-research-and-development-department-its-called-the-eu/

Who should you thank for Facebook’s Libra?

• “One of the UK’s leading privacy researchers”
• University College London
• The DECODE project

And, if you’re an EU citizen who pays their taxes,

• You.

Surprised? Don’t be.

@valvin Woah, sorry – hope they don’t take your server down. It wasn’t a DDOS but it was responsible for ~82% of the requests on my server :)

Happy to chat to Scaleway if you need me to.

@amenthes Looks like some sort of crawler… going to improve the stats reporting to make it easier to deal with such things.

Just added an ephemeral statistics view to the next iteration of Indie Web Server and seeing a huge number of requests on my personal site from the IP address 51.15.51.99 (~14,000 out of 18,000 requests in total to the site over the last few hours)… looks like it’s owned by Scaleway… anyone know what this is?

@adamprocter Had a chat with Pia yesterday and I agree. They are trying to do the best they can within an imperfect system.

@rskikuli Noted. But it’s harder to change my name ;)

@nikola From evil Amazon, sadly.

@rskikuli https://ar.al/2019/02/13/on-the-general-architecture-of-the-peer-web/

https://ar.al/2019/03/04/small-technology/

:)

https://unwalled.garden

Love this. Very much in the spirit of what we’re working on.

That bottle though… 🥰

The Jinhao fountain pen looks impressive but cost not much more than the iroshizuku ink. I’ve read great things about how it writes (can’t wait to try it). The notebook’s my favourite (Leuchtturm 1917, dotted) and the glasses are a cheap pair I found off the shelf in Sweden.

Ready to do some writing :)

@ajroach42 Oh, that brings back memories. Mostly of dying. Over and over again.

@paulfree14 Nope. Will try to watch it when I get some time :)

Rerun cloud-init on multipass

https://ar.al/2019/06/15/rerun-cloud-init-on-multipass/

(Yes, this is niche.) ;)

@hans Or, I should say, to the fediverse :)