Notices by Alex (avolkov@mastodon.xyz), page 28

@dthompson It's easier said than done, but I really like gitlab approach of deploying their application (it runs on a very similar stack) -- using omnibus package that creates its own environment under its own directory.

https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/

I just discovered what connecting 15W light bar to a 12V 750mA power supply does to the power supply.

It works for a while, then really overheats, then gives up. Yeah, I should have done the math.

15/12.0
1.25

Ooops.😅

@staticsafe
Step #1 in setting up a CentOS machine -- disable SELinux

@frak Thank you. Good point, I wanted to say numerical analysis, but I think numerical libraries take care of parallelization on that case.

@larand I deactivated my account the other day. At first I wanted to import all data, but then I realized I using that as an excuse and I can always parse my twitter archive I already downloaded.

The account gets deleted 30 days after it is deactivates so I might log in if I realize I've forgotten something important.

I wrote a quick example of using ThreadPoolExecutor in Python 3

https://avolkov.github.io/simple-threading-in-python-3.html

@bgcarlisle Yay, that worked! Thank you.

Okay where did I see instructions on how to block domain? I've been sifting through federated timeline and in the last day or so I noticed many accounts on quitter.im demonstrating twitter behaviour -- newsbots and us opinion politics without CW.

What is the point of quitting twitter if it's going to be re-created all over again?

I know someone posted on how to block whole domain in settings, but I just can't find that option any more.

Today in #thesignal Bonobo - Surface.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXFACkeUW_I

I like this song so much that I own a double vinyl record of the album.

@scruss Now I know the correct angle of sharpening black and color pencils, but I only have mechanical pencils.

Every time I post something on facebook as an organization, I would paste the text then hover over 'POST' button then look at 'Promote' button right next to it -- facebook wants to have it as close to your field of vision as possible.

Then I think to myself -- "I'm not going to do your bidding, facebook" and close the window.

I'm cold. Who broke the thermostat? It's 29C outside and I'm freezing in the office. Even my Hacker Hoodie™ is not helping.

I found this handy tool for discovering and choosing instances -- https://instances.social/

@LuBellWoo @roseveleth I did something really small and I just started recording talks at our local geek hangouts. The channel doesn't have a lot of users at all but it's been interesting to watch how it's growing and mechanics of it without taking anything personally, so when I have my own idea I would understand how this works and manage my own expectation.

Today in #thesignal Shearwater - Prime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu1IOuPxZu4

@scruss Harmontown podcast is pretty incoherent with lots of improv

Fixing some system scripts I wrote 7 years ago. How this ever worked?

I'm bulk downloading all of my google photos using photobak tool -- https://github.com/mholt/photobak

All I need to do is install Go and authorized OAuth (Not OAuth2) access.

It's working pretty well, 17GB downloaded so far.
Download structure is a little weird, there's folder 'Auto Backup' and then it's all photos in created albums; that maybe due to quirks in google API.