Notices by Becka Sutton (shutsumon@tootplanet.space), page 22

@selontheweb

Thinking about how dumb it is that the two major IM apps, which aim to be as clean and efficient as possible, are named Discord and Slack

"People who bemoan the lack of secret passages in modern homes and offices," a voice behind me said, "never think about the meaning of the word 'secret'."
The wall behind me is solid. At least, I was sure it is solid.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

#serverannounce

Thanks to @ajroach42 we found that our peertube instance https://peertube.mastodon.host lost some videos.. no idea how it happened but it seems like videos that were not transcoded ( because below the 480p minimum transcode resolution activated ) were lost. Not present anymore on disk, and I only keep 2 days of peertube data backups ( space issue, you can imagine why ).

The database though was still referencing those videos, so I ran a cleanup sanity check. It impacted 442 entries, that are now deleted from the DB.

Apparently it appeared on other instances too, so instance owners, you may want to check. We are currently suspecting an issue during an upgrade...

( Easy one liner to adapt to your pgsql creds and domain and min resolution supported, you also may want to remove the psql DELETE for just a sanity check ):

cd /var/www/peertube/storage/videos; psql -U peertube -p 5432 -h 127.0.0.1 -q -c "select url from video where url like 'YOURFULLURL/%';" peertube_prod | grep https | cut -d / -f 6 | while read -r uuid; do if [ ! -f $uuid-480.mp4 ]; then echo "File not found: $uuid"; psql -U peertube -p 6432 -h 127.0.0.1 -q -c "DELETE FROM video where url = 'YOURFULLURL/videos/watch/$uuid'" peertube_prod; fi; done

Nothing to worry about. *cough* Just official notice that armed forces reservists will be subject to being called into active service on Feb 10 2019 in support of a no-deal Brexit.

https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2019-01-17/HCWS1254/

wired ass idea, free for use by anyone who could use it:

gendered beauty products (razors, deodorants, shampoos even) suck for trans enbies. there's no good choice, only bad and worse.

@Are0h on here described the flavors available as "motor oil" and "pixie dust"

and i was struck by the synthesis - "pixie motors" - imagine a Tank Girl aesthetic shaving and shampoos and soaps brand. just "we're all people living in weirdo hellscapes and we don't wanna have Dank Butts"

like. dry shampoos even

Part Two of Tales of the First is up on my #Plume Account.

https://plume.mastodon.host/~/TalesOfTheFirstSuperheroesArentRealOrAtLeastTheyWerent/disaster-part-two

#FreeFiction #Superheroes

as a non-american, for my first few years of internet use, i was confused about why americans were so respectful of veterinarians

Part Two of Tales of the First is up on my #Plume Account.

https://plume.mastodon.host/~/TalesOfTheFirstSuperheroesArentRealOrAtLeastTheyWerent/disaster-part-two

#FreeFiction #Superheroes

Wanna have a bit of fun watching people get all confused while revealing society's inherent patriarchal bias?

Refer to your sewing machine as a 'power tool.'

I forget who it was on :tootplanet: who was looking for Scrivener but couldn't afford it... you might be interested in AtomicScribbler, which has nearly the same features (a bit simpler, which can be a blessing!) and recently went entirely free: https://www.atomicscribbler.com/

#writing #amwriting #writersofmastodon

the lesson to be learned from the y2k bug is that if you avert the disaster nobody will think you did anything