Notices by catdad 💃✨ (tcql@octodon.social), page 14

a grave mistake

"If I may play devil's advocate-" *aggressively defends existing shitty power structures*

Satan wouldn't like almost all of the "devil's advocates."

Instance admins: I'm considering building a media pool/admin alliance I'm tentatively calling "Jortage" (jean storage) because, why not. (Also the domain is available.)

I'd be willing to do initial setup and handle accounts, as well as write scripts to ease migration; the idea is we'd all pay for the server together, based on ability to pay, to the point of poorer instance admins getting to use it for free.

The approximate cost of a server with sufficient disk to self-host a future-proof shared media server and handle initial imports is $200/mo; I'm currently looking at a server with OVH in eastern Canada offering 8TB on RAID6/RAID10 with guaranteed gigabit symmetric, but am open to other suggestions. Other hosts I know of are on ColoCrossing or are far too expensive.

This would offer a viable alternative to Wasabi, S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, Azure Storage, Google Cloud Storage, et al for instance admins, with hopefully better uptime compared to Wasabi, and without being affiliated with Amazon, Google, or Microsoft. Mastodon additionally duplicates remote media, which costs everyone extra on these platforms, but on here it'd get deduplicated and be a non-issue.

If you're an instance admin and are interested, please reply to this post saying so and mention approximately how many US$ per month you could comfortably contribute ($0 is a valid answer). Also mention if you'd be willing to help with administrating the server. If you're not an instance admin, also feel free to mention how much you could contribute, if you want. I'm considering OpenCollective for managing collecting money and transparently paying server bills, but am obviously open to other suggestions.

can't follow anyone on:
- glitch.social
- anarchism.space
- chomp.life
and likely our messages aren't getting there right either

sundog from toot-lab solved this by purging the dns in his server which fixed resolving computerfairi.es

please help.

#mastoadmin

enbies be postin'

part of my responsibilities in tech projects is to make memes for the team, because i'm the best at it

“One recent afternoon I stood waiting at a restaurant for a to-go meal that I had ordered the old-fashioned way—by talking to a woman behind the counter and giving her paper money. As I waited for my lunch to be prepared, the man in front of me appeared astonished to receive his food. “How did the app know my order would be ready twenty minutes early?” he marveled, clutching his phone. “Because that was actually me,” the server said. “I sent you a message when it was done.”

Here was a small parable of labor and its erasure in the digital age. The app, in its eagerness to appear streamlined and just-in-time, had simply excised the relevant human party in this exchange. Hence the satisfied customer could fantasize that his food had materialized thanks to the digital interface, as though some all-seeing robot was supervising the human workers as they put together his organic rice bowl.“

—Astra Taylor (The Automation Charade)